11 Things Most People Wouldn’t Understand – Unless They Grew up Poor

Most crusaders of the “wealth isn’t everything” movement are testaments that there are things some folks would never understand as they grew up in better living conditions.

According to an online forum, here are some things you will only relate to if you grew up poor.

You barely notice if you’re poor when everyone around is poor. What’s there to notice when the people around you have the same meals, attend the same schools, and play in the rain with you? 

Sometimes, You Don’t Notice It

There are only a few things you can afford when you’re poor, and it also applies to food. The portions are so tiny they couldn’t feed a rat!

Never Enough To Eat

Some even learned how to transform a cloth from rags to something fashionable with a needle and a thread — desperate times, desperate measures, eh?

Second-Hand Clothes

In school, everyone knew how poor you were by the color of the lunch tickets the school gave, a contributor writes. 

Lunch Tickets

Health is wealth, but enjoying one without the other is hard. And when “wealth” is absent, you can only afford to visit the doctor when it’s something really serious. Life-and-death serious. 

No Visiting The Doctor

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