Topic: P*ss Poor... | |
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Back in the day, they used to use urine to tan hides. Some families would have to collect their urine in a pot & sell it to the tanneries to survive...hence the term "p*ss poor"...
If a family was too poor to own a pot, they "didn't have a pot to p*ss in"...could also be phrased as "$h!t outta luck"... What's the poorest you've ever been? |
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When I was little I wore my brothers hand me down clothes. We cooked a big pot of green beans to one piece of bologna and had it for dinner all week. We were too poor to be called poor. We were just plain po.
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Growing up.......
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Right now...is the poorest I've ever been. Embarrasingly poor to the extreme.....
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My Mother used to joke about when they were living on the Reservation...they were too poor to have a turkey for Thanksgiving...they had to carve theirs outta SPAM...
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I like spam. It's the other meat.......
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Grew up working class poor in the city housing projects of NYC, but that was nothong compared to my early twenties...
After I got out of the Navy and was drifting around the country for awhile I was so poor I used to sell my blood... |
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Wish we could have afforded Spam
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Wish we could have afforded Spam Sorry but I gotta laugh...reminds me of the old Monty Python skit: "We were so poor there were 27 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road!" "Ah! Luxury! At least you had a shoebox!" |
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...so poor that necessities are luxuries...if I can afford em'.
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I was so poor after the last down turn I had to sell the house in Aspen and trade in the Jag for a Honda.
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I was so poor after the last down turn I had to sell the house in Aspen and trade in the Jag for a Honda. |
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Last year I almost became homeless.
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Upside down swoosh on my shoes.....bluelight special.
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Ive lived in a shed behind someones house....
back in my meth days. I thought it was the "Taj mahal". |
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Wish we could have afforded Spam Sorry but I gotta laugh...reminds me of the old Monty Python skit: "We were so poor there were 27 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road!" "Ah! Luxury! At least you had a shoebox!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRxjqOcvxoE |
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Though I had electric I went 2 weeks with one functioning lightbulb. I watched birds eat worms outta' the ground and got jealous cuz' wild animals at were at least able to eat.....
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Wish we could have afforded Spam Sorry but I gotta laugh...reminds me of the old Monty Python skit: "We were so poor there were 27 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road!" "Ah! Luxury! At least you had a shoebox!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRxjqOcvxoE Thank you so much, Mitch! Too freakin' funny! |
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Though I had electric I went 2 weeks with one functioning lightbulb. I watched birds eat worms outta' the ground and got jealous cuz' wild animals at were at least able to eat..... |
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I've been lucky and always had a roof over my head and food to eat.
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