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More sad stories from H's childhood

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1.  When H was little they had to RENT a VCR to watch movies.  Because they couldn't afford one.

2.  Dinner might be a bag of popcorn and 4 apples, for an adult and 4 children.

The worst, imo:

3.  MIL would make plates of decorated sugar cookies at holiday time for neighbors, friends, teachers, etc.  The children? They *might* get one undecorated plain cookie.  Woo?
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  • baconsmombaconsmom member
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    edited December 2011
    My mother used to make several dozens of baked goods at a time, and give us the broken/undecorated/slightly burnt ones. 

    There was the famous year she made 60 dozen Christmas cookies, all rolled and cut out, and then hand-painted with colored sugars. We didn't get any of those. 
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  • zsazsa-stlzsazsa-stl member
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    edited December 2011

    I remember renting a VCR.  But when my parents finally bought one (probably around 1989) probably half the kids in my class still didn't have them at home.  I remember it made me feel like a rich kid.  Ahhh, the benefits of growing up amongst the rural poor.

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  • hmonkeyhmonkey member
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    edited December 2011
    mother never made cookies.  that's white people food, yo.
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  • NOLABridesmaidNOLABridesmaid member
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    edited December 2011
    If she's poor why is she baking cookies for people?
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  • loveshine1loveshine1 member
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    edited December 2011
    VCRs were very expensive at one point. I remember ruining one as a kid, and mom and dad were not pleased.

    I had no idea you could rent them.
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  • GBCKGBCK member
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    edited December 2011
    we rented them from the local library as a kid.

    (I will say, poor people bake yo.  It's the cheap way to give gifts.
    And I'm guilty of giving my own family the missshapen cookies.)
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  • zitiqueenzitiqueen member
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    edited December 2011
    Back in the day, VCRs easily ran $300-400.
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  • **O-Face****O-Face** member
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    edited December 2011
    Oh, MIL wants you to think she's a giving and loving person, all the while alienating and insulting her children. 
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  • dragonwagondragonwagon
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    edited December 2011
    when FI tells me stories from his childhood, it makes me cry. his family wasn't so much poor as it was broken. not enough time to type out every story, but the worst i heard so far was when I found out, after 7 years of being together, that at one point when he and his sister were kids, they had to sleep in the car because they didn't have a place to stay. Cry it was only for like 1 or 2 nights, but it hurts my heart just the same.
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  • tesskerrtesskerr member
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    edited December 2011
    We rented a vcr. It's no different than renting a game console IMO.

    My FI has an evil stepmother, who wouldn't let him sit next to his dad when he was little, as that was "her" spot. I could list a million terrible things she did (and does).

    I don't think being "poor" is that bad when you were growing up.
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  • **O-Face****O-Face** member
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    edited December 2011
    H is the ONLY Person *until now* that I'd heard of renting a vcr from.  I will tell he is no special snowflake.
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