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Topic: What cheap thing did your parents do when you were a kid?
Filmfreek Joined Sat 11/15/08 Posts: 2541	Sun 12/14/08 07:49 PM
wheat bread instead of hamburger buns clothes from the thrift store and hand-me-downs bunk beds i had a cheap lunch line card, and everyone else brought lunchboxes with goodies neighbors had a pool and we had to use the sprinkler

JustAGuy2112 Joined Sun 12/16/07 Posts: 18033	Sun 12/14/08 07:49 PM
HAH!!! Drive in movies. It wasn't my parents but.... 4 kids in the trunk and they made ME make a HUGE grocery bag of popcorn before we left. LMAO

littleredhen Joined Sat 01/12/08 Posts: 6837	Sun 12/14/08 07:54 PM
Now that I am grown up & realize how normal people live, I am too embarrassed to tell what it was like. I am very thrifty, but my Mom was a crazy tightwad.

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Sun 12/14/08 08:06 PM
HAH!!! Drive in movies. It wasn't my parents but.... 4 kids in the trunk and they made ME make a HUGE grocery bag of popcorn before we left. LMAO

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Sun 12/14/08 08:07 PM
Now that I am grown up & realize how normal people live, I am too embarrassed to tell what it was like. I am very thrifty, but my Mom was a crazy tightwad.

No1sLove Joined Wed 04/16/08 Posts: 10342	Sun 12/14/08 08:18 PM
Cheap? Well, IDK. We lived without a microwave, dishwasher, cable or air conditioner...even in the car. We had a washing machine, but no dryer, so we had to hang clothes on the line in the warm months and in the basement in cold months. My mother hand made all our clothes until we were past 6th grade, and then store bought clothes were bought at least one size too big so they could be hemmed and taken out to go one more round. We grew our own veggies in the back yard. We ate tons of beans, rice and taters with those veggies, saving meat dishes for two days of the week generally. My father repaired everything, so we didn't buy anything unless we didn't have one to begin with. We never bought books, but were the #1 best library customers. Other than some texts and a bible that was gifted to me at 10, I don't think I OWNed a book until long into adulthood. The reason I say IDK, is that we watched every penny in my house growing up because my parents chose to live house poor so we could move into a safe and friendly neighborhood with the best schools in the city at the time. So, cheap? I don't think so, cause it sure cost THEM a lot!

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Sun 12/14/08 08:50 PM
Cheap? Well, IDK. We lived without a microwave, dishwasher, cable or air conditioner...even in the car. We had a washing machine, but no dryer, so we had to hang clothes on the line in the warm months and in the basement in cold months. My mother hand made all our clothes until we were past 6th grade, and then store bought clothes were bought at least one size too big so they could be hemmed and taken out to go one more round. We grew our own veggies in the back yard. We ate tons of beans, rice and taters with those veggies, saving meat dishes for two days of the week generally. My father repaired everything, so we didn't buy anything unless we didn't have one to begin with. We never bought books, but were the #1 best library customers. Other than some texts and a bible that was gifted to me at 10, I don't think I OWNed a book until long into adulthood. The reason I say IDK, is that we watched every penny in my house growing up because my parents chose to live house poor so we could move into a safe and friendly neighborhood with the best schools in the city at the time. So, cheap? I don't think so, cause it sure cost THEM a lot!

heartbreaker123 Joined Mon 11/10/08 Posts: 1081	Sun 12/14/08 08:52 PM
drive in movie take r own food and could list a lot of stuff,so how much u want to know

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Mon 12/15/08 06:13 AM
drive in movie take r own food and could list a lot of stuff,so how much u want to know

Alzeimer Joined Thu 10/23/08 Posts: 2268	Mon 12/15/08 09:17 AM
Cheap no poor yes, your cheap when you can afford it and prefer the cheap alternative my parents (mum mostly) did all they could with what they had. I admire my mum for raising 4 kids on almost no income she did a lot of sacrifice for us and i will always be proud of her.

DragonFlyTat Joined Fri 08/29/08 Posts: 3759	Mon 12/15/08 09:25 AM
way to many painful memories to walk down this lane SORRY

Gypsy41 Joined Tue 05/15/07 Posts: 123359	Mon 12/15/08 09:40 AM
I think I was more cheap than my parents were. I dont think it being cheap as more for survival. I was a single mom making less than $12000 a year. I would use bread as hotdog buns,shop for clothing at thrift stores, make "welfare" Mcdonalds, lol. I find nothing wrong with it and it hurt no one. And even though I make alot more money now, I still am thrifty in alot of ways.