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Always appreciate it when you localise posts by English peeps(story 16, though 'littlewoods' also have it away
Pronuncing it as"mum" saying and 99p ($0.99 on screen) … catches me each time
This is why i wish we'd declare war on the wealthy whites
10:25 There is a special place in hell for that 7/11 manager.
Channel name is "Am I the genius?" The answer is a resounding "No." Poor people ARE normal people.
Scratch offs
Want to be rich? It starts with the toilet! Use bidets instead of toilet paper… Most religion prescribed it for cleanliness, most cultures readily lived near running water so they could wash.
Kitchen towels are a necessity, but you can do away with the TP, cause it's where the rich companies suck money from the poor!
Some of these are just common sense
why r u so loud
12:14 is especially true for insulin. My mother buys insulin from Wal-mart meant for house-pets.
Going down the old rsl buying 1 chips and gravy between 3 people and taking advantage of the free bread rolls.
For me, it's not about what I buy, but why I buy it. All that "camping" gear can make a pretty affordable living situation
That tire shop manager is a saint
I once ate an old can of pumpkin pie filling because it’s all I had .
This just made me scared for my future (I'm 11 btw)
why we should go back to trading what we need with what we dont need:
My dad told of coming to Chicago during the depression. He had 10 cents. Found a landlady who would trust him for the rent. Got a job gutting chickens. Spent 10 cents on a box of oatmeal, lived on that for a week. got paid, settled with his landlady, bought another box of oatmeal.
I now live in the Denver area. I have been in a few ethnic restaurants in sketchy areas. "Street people" would come in, ask for a cup of ice water, pay 25 cents, and leave. Some of those restaurants would sell 20 paper cups of water an hour.
I as a child had no idea but we lived off those loans. We drove a car into the ground. Going to the food bank was the best day of the week.
My favorite was a full hello kitty bedding set my mom put on layaway for my birthday. It had the sheets the comforter pillowcases everything! 😊
We always had what we needed❤
A bit of a hard listen since ive been in a gew of these. I vowed id burn in hell before my son ever has to see that side of life.
Normal people what kind of bullshit is that I didn't have Jack schitt growing up but I guarantee you I was normal then I'm normal now
Story 9: I have been poor. However, most of the things the OP talks about here are definitely avoidable. When you're poor, you find every way possible to SAVE money, not spend it. I have never had a problem getting a bank account. One of the big banks refused to open one for me once. I scolded them because it was unreal to me that they didn't want to take my money (it's not like I asked for a loan), and then I just went to a smaller bank, which was happy to open an account for me. A person could also join a credit union to get an account.
People with children have FAR more options than those of us without. I couldn't even get food stamps when I was poor. There are all kinds of grants and programs available for single women with children, but not for those without.
There are plenty of places where you can buy a fairly decent used car simply with proof of income. And there's always the bus. Cabs, indeed. I would (and have) walked before I would take a cab or an Uber. Part of the time I was poor, I worked in the food service industry, and my manager often drove me home when my car was in the shop. One could argue that such a job would have seen me as extremely replaceable, but my work ethic made me valuable to my manager. So yes, if you're lazy or do the bare minimum at your job, you ARE "as replaceable as a number 2 pencil." However, if you take pride in your work and go the extra mile, you might be surprised at how valuable you really are to your employer.
One of the oldest principles on this planet is that a person's community – family, neighbors, etc. – should help each other. It is NOT the government's responsibility to take care of people. Indeed, that is giving too much power to the government. The problem with society today is that far too many people care only about their own little world, with the mentality that, "if it doesn't affect me, I don't care." While it's human nature to feel that way, a little more empathy on the part of EVERY human being would make this world a better place.
16:08 I think they're talking about Chicken Tournadoes and I don't know what they're talking about. My mother used to by those things like once a month and it was my favourite food. About 100 grams of chicken breast with a piece of bacon or two wrapped around the edges. We usually had it with those pre made potatoes and some frozen vedgies. That shit was expensive so it was a delight when we got to have them.
lottery tickets
bro what the froingle is that background footage 💀
Crack and meth. I remember my freind that had a bit of money (in the family) drove his life into the ground. He started to smoke a straight pipe with a metal brillo pad stuck in the end. Not sure what it was, but he was very protective of it.
Scavenging food in a tourist area is an easy way to eat for free
"Bad credit" and "Being poor" are not directly related. Theyre both symptoms of your choices
This is full of stories where it doesn't seem to be the poor person part. The overwhelming majority is showing how broken our system is. See what happens when greed is top priority over kindness?
Growing up poor your dinner was free samples or nothing. Once we got a box of MRE and that was dinner for awhile.
Wait what? Your credit can be so bad you can't get checking?
Ouch that 7 – 11
Story hit home.
Fortunately I’ve got friends at a couple 7-11 locations
but knowing what I know from them ( and heard about other places ) stores pitching stuff and
Doing so with spite pisses me off to no end,
It’s stupid and downright shameful!
I applaud businesses that actually try to avoid waste
Same this reminds me of my childhood going weeks without electric or hot water having to borrow money for rent and stealing to get food in the house I'm so glad I'm not in that situation anymore
Just an advice for the future, don't be the one wording your sentence as if poor people were abnormal. They are just as normal as anybody else, they just have less money/ other financial status. Could be better worded as "stuff that poor people buy that OTHERS don't"
I don't see this as a problem of the channel tho, that's what oop used, i'm just commenting so everyone can keep that in mind
I use powdered milk regularly, mostly because I am lactose intolerant and buying even just a small container of milk is a waste. You can make as small a quantity as 1 cup of the powdered stuff
I agree the bootstraps system doesn't work in what we have today, but almost everything we add to "help" poor people ends up hurting them worse, but because the marketing is good and they don't have the time to fact check they keep voting in people that push bad policy
I ate my discounted work meal ($2), usually a breakfast sandwich. And 99 cent banquet pot pies. Lasted about a year and a half.
After watching this I realise some of my extended family was poor
If you're buying carrots or bananas or something that can be loose. Get the lose option and pay for it separately. I've got a carrot for 4p before.
Poor credit score does NOT prevent you from getting a checking account. Also, low credit score is a direct consequence of poor decision-making (or criminal fraud, which can be fixed). That dude just loves wallowing in his own misery.
Is the title implying that poor people aren’t normal?