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Jul 18, 2024
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Probably true until 30 or more years ago. Now families smaller and 2 incomes
are more the norm. Bigger families than average, but on average much smaller than 30+ years ago.
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Last week I learned that for the first 10 years of my life, my family was below
Jeff Spicoli
Jul 18, 1:20pm
Freaking wealthy CBers
TNT
Jul 18, 1:22pm
Luxury
mbs6
Jul 18, 1:32pm
I didn't know that one can of Campbell's tomato soup wasn't meant to feed 7
VB2
Jul 18, 4:10pm
But we had love and we were happy
44C
Jul 18, 4:53pm
Are you my sibling?
BillyGoat
Jul 18, 1:22pm
I was just referring to powdered milk didn’t read the rest that stuff was gross
BillyGoat
Jul 18, 1:23pm
Not true. When TNT was on his mission
TNT
Jul 18, 1:24pm
Toughest 4 months of your life.
gangbusters
Jul 18, 1:27pm
Are you implying TNT was sent home?
TNT
Jul 18, 1:34pm
No. That he absconded.
gangbusters
Jul 18, 1:35pm
That sounds like an Honor Code violation
TNT
Jul 18, 1:37pm
Well we know it wasn't for Pon Farr participation.
Emmett Fitz-Hume
Jul 18, 1:42pm
Major kudos to your parents for not allowing the kids to feel the squeeze.
Roko's Basilisk
Jul 18, 1:24pm
We lived like that too, only we were more middle class. Turns out my parents
BlueFever
Jul 18, 1:29pm
We were well below the poverty line when I was a kid and we lost our home
cougarblue
Jul 18, 1:29pm
That was my wife's family. True story she shares: In Kindergarten she was asked
tevye
Jul 18, 1:30pm
Wouldn’t surprise me to learn most young lds families are living below the line.
MormonThug
Jul 18, 1:31pm
But they live in big homes and drive nice cars
TNT
Jul 18, 1:32pm
Homer Simpson has the solution -
Zoobieman
Jul 18, 1:56pm
Probably true until 30 or more years ago. Now families smaller and 2 incomes
NYC and Japan
Jul 18, 9:32pm
My family was exactly the same way. My youngest siblings grew up in a totally different home culture.
IAmSpartyCoug
Jul 18, 1:33pm
I remember eating boiled wheat for dinner pretty regularly. Also
Acorn
Jul 18, 1:44pm
We called that “wheat mush”. Ate it for breakfast.
Jeff Spicoli
Jul 18, 1:46pm
We called it "cracked wheat" and also ate it for breakfast.
IAmSpartyCoug
Jul 18, 1:54pm
Same. It was my job to grind it by hand the night before.
Gentleman Stan
Jul 18, 2:07pm
Grains = cooked wheat, ground = gruel
Himni
Jul 18, 2:28pm
I feel for your Dad....that is some hard living. He must have been a good man.
Cthack1
Jul 18, 3:15pm
For us kids, it wasn’t that bad. My mom taught us that
Acorn
Jul 18, 3:32pm
I remember your mom. Please tell her thank you for brightening everybody's day. The ASB wasn't an easy building to be in
IAmSpartyCoug
Jul 18, 4:19pm
Oats cooked in water: great. Rice cooked in water: great. Wheat? Gross.
Cougar Junkie
Jul 18, 4:11pm
Sounds like you had a great father
AZ Coug
Jul 18, 10:00pm
My parents called it whole wheat cereal to make it sound like it was normal 😂
7FootRussian
Jul 19, 12:00am
My grandpa gave grandma 3 choices to where my dad could be born
bald man
Jul 18, 1:47pm
Seriously one of the better threads on CB.
Division Bell
Jul 18, 1:51pm
We never went hungry or had to have powdered milk
NaturalNeuralNet
Jul 18, 1:52pm
I guess we were on the poor side growing up
Cougrrrs Roll
Jul 18, 1:56pm
I cut up my old garden hose into various sizes just in case they come in handy.
ochobeeguy
Jul 18, 2:25pm
We also fail to realize how much living standards have improved since then
Himni
Jul 18, 2:25pm
You might be my brother
Saxa
Jul 18, 2:16pm
I think I still don't like milk this day because of growing up with powdered.
ochobeeguy
Jul 18, 2:28pm
Bless your parents for never giving up and never letting you know you were poor. I am sure they are great people
BYU Grounds
Jul 18, 2:29pm
Well, it was well before the 70's but we lived in a house that had a coal/wood burning furnace for heat. It was down in
lightmann
Jul 18, 2:39pm
Really good people here on CB. Appreciate your stories and admire your
Bullrider
Jul 18, 2:45pm
What era did you grow up in? Were you still happy as a kid? I hope so, I wasn’t
Coug-Ida
Jul 18, 2:55pm
Realized when filling out FAFSA that my family lived below poverty my entire life.
Soupie
Jul 18, 3:20pm
LOL, I realized just the opposite. I didn't think we were poor but I realized we were upper middle class. My parents...
BYU Grounds
Jul 18, 3:34pm
I was in the same boat. Deseret was the primary brand of good we consumed.
BostonCougar
Jul 18, 3:34pm
Thanks for sharing. My parents argued about money all the time throughout my
Yucatan
Jul 18, 4:11pm
Same. I have many stories: only eating cereal for birthdays, duct-taping cleats.
Boring
Jul 18, 4:23pm
My experience growing up was a cousin to that: middle-class parents who were
Cougar Junkie
Jul 18, 4:34pm
We were anywhere from upper lower class to middle class, depending on my Dad’s
Forest Green
Jul 18, 5:07pm
My parents would do half powdered milk and half whole milk. They quit after several years and went straight powdered bc
BYU Grounds
Jul 18, 5:57pm
My family was very similar
NorthernCougar
Jul 18, 9:04pm
Where in W WA?
lightmann
Jul 19, 11:19am
RE: Where in W WA?
NorthernCougar
Jul 19, 3:59pm
I grew up 50 miles west of Centralia, Raymond. For us, hopping in the car and going to Centralia/Chehalis was a trip to
lightmann
Jul 20, 6:05pm
Yardbirds!
NorthernCougar
Jul 22, 9:26am
These comments resonate
Craner64
Jul 19, 2:12pm
Mr. vice president, is that you?
Incentivize
Jul 19, 2:51pm
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