Well, i feel poor lately. I bought 5 games, a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. And, my 401k went down the tank.

biggie i thought you were dead

one time i got mugged, and the only thing i had was my house key. I was drunk as fuck, and had to take three different buses home. I slept in the subway with the hobos

How did you deduce they were hobos? Were they carrying bindles?

Lol, Isn't that what u call poor people in the train station. I don't recall them being so stereotypical

The whole time before we moved he when I was 10.

We'd stitch my jeans together since we couldn't get new ones. My mom back then was a tailor, and a damn good one too.

We'd keep tabs of what money we spent, even the smallest thing had to be written down, so that we could cut costs.

We couldn't get any type of a computer, however old, because we couldn't afford it. Would have cost 3 monthly salaries to get one.

We'd never throw away food for absolutely any reason.

Also I hear times were much much worse back before I was old enough to remember a lot of things, back when I was under 5 and things.

I will admit though, I always had some sort of a present every christmas or birthday. My Famicom was a Christmas present actually.

Right now we're fine and apparently, going by statistics, we're in the top 10% of society in terms of earnings. Given that we're still struggling to get me through college, especially right now with the economy the way it is. All this is the reason why I can always sympathize with the ppor which really don't have any way out, and absolutely hate the poor who aren't even trying to get out of poverty but never stop bitching, whining, leeching SS, and begging. Call it social darwinism, but those people deserve to be poor and suffering, and hopefully they won't reproduce, and if they do hopefully their children will be different.

When I went to Boston University for a year, there were a few times when I had no food and no money and I just got drunk and ate out of dumpsters. I'd try to stick to pizza, because pizza places seriously stack all the boxes of pizza up in their dumpster. They're neatly stacked, clean, and if you get there at the right time, still warm. Some people forget to pick up their pizzas. You even have a choice of toppings. But sometimes I'd be so drunk I'd start eating weirder stuff, like chicken and bread.

Trader Joe's has the best dumpsters in the world. My sister met a guy who was dumpster-diving up and down the Pacific Coast from Canada to Chile, and he said the best dumpsters were in Pasadena, California, especially the Trader Joe's stores there.

I've never gone without electricity or water though, so I've been doing great.

@vlad, have you ever met one of these poor scumbags and talked to them for a while? I'm visualizing all the poor people being like Pauly Shore and just mooching of of everybody and weezing the juice everywhere and not giving a shit.

Right now. So many games coming out, and Christmas is coming which means gift buying.

If anyone wants to donate to this poor soul, just send me a PM.

I'll pay you back in backrubs.

when we first immigrated to the States.
remember buying stale bread and old candies.
I used to cut snickers in little pieces to see if there are any maggots in it.

Also, i remember the cockroaches. man did i kill a lot of cockroaches in my lifetime.

one particular battle I remember. praying insecticide on our kitchen ceiling (there was a tiny hole) and thousands of em came out. I sprayed and sprayed and it was raining cockroaches in out kitchen. some fell on me. That was sick.
The worse kind of cockroaches to battle - the albino ones. They fought hard for their lives - wouldn't die easy.

The poorest I've been... must've been when I realised my bank-account read that I was standing at around -950 euro... That was quite of a blow. All my automated bills just came on time... an expensive phonebill, driving lessons, college money and all the traveling costs. Lucky for me, a week after that my taxmoney got refunded which was well over 1000 euro.

I'm currently sitting at +2000 euro but with no job, and recently moving out and still paying for college that amount is quickly dwindling so I'm overthinking a studenloan for the upcomming months until May.