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Working Poor

left-of-center2012

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13. Been there

Reply to BlueDog22 (Original post)

Sat Feb 10, 2018, 01:57 PM

Feb 2018

When I got married in the 70's we lived paycheck to paycheck.

We’d go to the grocery store with a hand held calculator and add up each item we put in the shopping cart.
Often we had to take items back out before going to the cashier.
Ate a lot of rice, pasta, and beans.

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Have You Had Experience Being Working Poor? [View all] BlueDog22 Feb 2018 OP

Good for you for taking a risk and starting a business. I bet you learned a lot.🙂 MLAA Feb 2018 #1

Fuck yeah man! Glamrock Feb 2018 #2

Even worse if your parents are poor too or their apartment lease doesn't allow lunasun Feb 2018 #3

Expenses BlueDog22 Feb 2018 #5

Exactly -imagine no place or $$ to live and no car . Hard to keep a business going if you are poor lunasun Feb 2018 #7

Agree BlueDog22 Feb 2018 #8

Sort of. Aristus Feb 2018 #4

Been there, done that. Single working mother of four. Arkansas Granny Feb 2018 #6

I was a single mom of two young girls working 3 part time jobs AJT Feb 2018 #9

Had the exact same experience. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2018 #10

Sad to say, but we were lucky. Most of the aid is gone, from education to daycare to AJT Feb 2018 #12

Very hard three years Kilgore Feb 2018 #11

Been there left-of-center2012 Feb 2018 #13

About 10 years off and on BigmanPigman Feb 2018 #14

No, fortunately for me. Susan Calvin Feb 2018 #15