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were you rich or poor growing up?
    #21904656 - 07/06/15 09:26 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

And be honest. Don't say you were poor because growing up rich isn't cool.

We were middle class.

We were the core.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: nastynaven]
    #21904674 - 07/06/15 09:32 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

what exactly defines rich and poor, your parents having money?


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? *DELETED* [Re: nastynaven]
    #21904677 - 07/06/15 09:32 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Sanguin3]
    #21904706 - 07/06/15 09:45 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Rich. Both parents were entrepreneurs (still are).

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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Patlal]
    #21904732 - 07/06/15 09:54 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

middle class

my mom is the cheapest fucking person ive ever met in my life tho. it drives me fuckin crazy


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Bassfreak]
    #21904745 - 07/06/15 09:57 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

I lived with my mother and sister, we were middle class but our mother was very very greedy, she would hardly even buy us new shoes or clothes, and complain when she did.
She was a bitch at that time, we ate low quality food because thats all she supplied us with. Alot of my childhood was growing up with my cousins staying at their house most of the day, low-middle class.

25% of the time I lived with my Dad, and he was so poor he had to often get boxes of food from the food supply of the city (idk what u call that).

Ive been in some poor/rough situations, but we always made it through, it could have been alot worse.

Now? Got a family business going, middle class, future? Possibly Rich nigas.

Started from the bottom :yeahthatsright::pedrophile:


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Bassfreak]
    #21904746 - 07/06/15 09:58 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

I had food, clothes shelter and a 3rd grade education. I think I as pretty well off


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Sanguin3] * 1
    #21904753 - 07/06/15 10:00 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Rich but my dad went full retard with his money. He spent millions on clothes and art...2 things that become absolutely worthless the second you buy them.

I didn't really reap the benefits of growing up with a rich parent. I got a car at 16 and went on a few vacations, but obviously he was the one with millions in his bank account.

He loved the power of having money. Other kids with rich dad's would get $20 a day or have some money in their pocket. I'd have to wait until he was around and beg (well, ask) for $5 to go to McDonald's. God forbid he give me $50 a week for spending and food money. No, I have to come beg like a dog for $5 to go eat fast food.

Anyways, he was such a moron with his millions he ended up slowly going broke over the course of 15 or so years. He had maybe 1.2 million in a trust fund that dwindling down to about 600K during the start of the Great Recession. He yanked it out and started investing money into scams. For example, he gave some dude on Craigslist $60,000 to be a ¨business partner" in some nursing home with the promise of getting $6,000 a month income. Such a retard. The guy he gave the money to drove a beat up van. Robbed blind.

He thought the scams that go to your email were real and invested thousands in everything that came to him.

He should have easily had $10 million just by doing some basic low risk investments like Microsoft, McDonald's, Walmart, etc.

But ya, he spent a huge chunk of his millions on clothes.

It's irritating to think about because I should be riding his coattails and be a millionaire trust fund baby right now, but because he was such a fool... 

He was a podiatrist (foot doctor) and probably made around 300 thousand or so a year, and that was in the 80s and 90s...

He was also a spoiled brat only child and while he was rich he convinced his parents that he was poor and robbed them blind too. They saved up a lot of money and after he was down to a couple hundred K he'd pull them into the scams too. He easily dwindled them out of 300 to 400,000 over the course of 5 or so years. They gave him money voluntarily but it was basically a con game he was playing with them. It's pretty disgusting.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Confucian] * 1
    #21904827 - 07/06/15 10:22 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Rich but my dad went full retard with his money. He spent millions on clothes and art...2 things that become absolutely worthless the second you buy them.

I didn't really reap the benefits of growing up with a rich parent. I got a car at 16 and went on a few vacations, but obviously he was the one with millions in his bank account.

He loved the power of having money. Other kids with rich dad's would get $20 a day or have some money in their pocket. I'd have to wait until he was around and beg (well, ask) for $5 to go to McDonald's. God forbid he give me $50 a week for spending and food money. No, I have to come beg like a dog for $5 to go eat fast food.

Anyways, he was such a moron with his millions he ended up slowly going broke over the course of 15 or so years. He had maybe 1.2 million in a trust fund that dwindling down to about 600K during the start of the Great Recession. He yanked it out and started investing money into scams. For example, he gave some dude on Craigslist $60,000 to be a ¨business partner" in some nursing home with the promise of getting $6,000 a month income. Such a retard. The guy he gave the money to drove a beat up van. Robbed blind.

He thought the scams that go to your email were real and invested thousands in everything that came to him.

He should have easily had $10 million just by doing some basic low risk investments like Microsoft, McDonald's, Walmart, etc.

But ya, he spent a huge chunk of his millions on clothes.

It's irritating to think about because I should be riding his coattails and be a millionaire trust fund baby right now, but because he was such a fool... 

He was a podiatrist (foot doctor) and probably made around 300 thousand or so a year, and that was in the 80s and 90s...

He was also a spoiled brat only child and while he was rich he convinced his parents that he was poor and robbed them blind too. They saved up a lot of money and after he was down to a couple hundred K he'd pull them into the scams too. He easily dwindled them out of 300 to 400,000 over the course of 5 or so years. They gave him money voluntarily but it was basically a con game he was playing with them. It's pretty disgusting.





this folks the the makings of the entitled class, a welfare queen


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #21904847 - 07/06/15 10:32 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

I was poor by American standards, or, King of an Empire by world historical standards.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Srirachi]
    #21904852 - 07/06/15 10:33 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Upper middle class. My parents made probably 300k plus combined.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Malcolm_Xtasy]
    #21904869 - 07/06/15 10:43 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Firmly middle class, my dad was a software engineer and my mom was a teacher/librarian.

It was a good upbringing, I'm very happy with it. No complaints. My parents are awesome.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: chopstick]
    #21904885 - 07/06/15 10:47 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

richest but poorest  :lol:


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: leafing]
    #21904898 - 07/06/15 10:53 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Between both parents they made somewhere in the 70-80K range annually. Granted that was with my Dad working three jobs at a time.

So I guess middle class. My parents were always able to provide my brothers and I with most things we wanted and everything we needed, and for that I am greatful.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: chopstick]
    #21904900 - 07/06/15 10:54 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Up until about age 10 pretty poor then my family opened a propane business and did very well but sold it about 7 years ago as I wasnt old enough to take over. Like Con's dad my grandparents ( who raised me ) spent the initial payment of $3 million in 5yrs and now live on the remaining payments made to them which is still comfortable.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Malcolm_Xtasy]
    #21904944 - 07/06/15 11:12 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Upper middle class. My parents made probably 300k plus combined.




thats def upper class shit dude


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Bassfreak]
    #21904949 - 07/06/15 11:13 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

:lol: yeah I just realized that. I guess I never really noticed since I've always had a job and made my own money growing up.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Malcolm_Xtasy]
    #21905146 - 07/06/15 12:32 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

okay well, it changed a lot throughout my childhood.

Ages 0-2 middle class, Dad worked with my granddad at a family owned mechanic business.

Ages 2-6 very lower class, Dad and Mom divorced, lived with my mom and was pretty much homeless. We'd crash at her friends or families houses. Always moving staying for anywhere from 2 weeks to a couple of months. Sometimes we lived in more rich neighborhoods, but we still had nearly nothing.

Ages 6-8 Middle class, lived with my mom's parents. They were abusive and I was forced to work on a ranch with a small farm all the time. I mean like 10 hour work days in the summer. Otherwise not allowed outside other than school. I was "okay" but generally hated it.

Ages 8-18 Middle class, Lived with my dad's parents and my dad. Did a bunch of cool stuff with my dad, went to mom's every other weekend. I had a general amount of stuff, not too much to brag about but wasn't lower class. Very happy during this period in my life.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Achillita]
    #21905236 - 07/06/15 01:13 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

my parents were poor when  i was born.  They were in their early 20's.  my mom had the lowest paying job at the phone company, my dad was running a fledgling awning business.  Parents divorced.  Dad stayed poor, for the most part. (mostly his own fault, i love the guy, but he didn't pay child support for a few years. the state is pretty punitive about that kinda shit, and so is my mom) Mom remarried and gradually become wealthier. We moved to a nice area with very wealthy people and a good school district.  Most of my classmates parents had much more money than mine.  I took a good amount of teasing in gradeschool for my thrift store clothes, and my hand-me-down bike, etc. but i really wasn't poor at all. by the time i was in highschool, my mother and her husband probably had a combined income of $120,000 or so.  I never considered us rich, because of the comparison to the other kids i knew from school, but i never was denied anything those other kids had. (except for a pager.  my mom said that only drug dealers need pagers)


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #21905521 - 07/06/15 02:38 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Quote:

Confucian said:
Rich but my dad went full retard with his money. He spent millions on clothes and art...2 things that become absolutely worthless the second you buy them.

I didn't really reap the benefits of growing up with a rich parent. I got a car at 16 and went on a few vacations, but obviously he was the one with millions in his bank account.

He loved the power of having money. Other kids with rich dad's would get $20 a day or have some money in their pocket. I'd have to wait until he was around and beg (well, ask) for $5 to go to McDonald's. God forbid he give me $50 a week for spending and food money. No, I have to come beg like a dog for $5 to go eat fast food.

Anyways, he was such a moron with his millions he ended up slowly going broke over the course of 15 or so years. He had maybe 1.2 million in a trust fund that dwindling down to about 600K during the start of the Great Recession. He yanked it out and started investing money into scams. For example, he gave some dude on Craigslist $60,000 to be a ¨business partner" in some nursing home with the promise of getting $6,000 a month income. Such a retard. The guy he gave the money to drove a beat up van. Robbed blind.

He thought the scams that go to your email were real and invested thousands in everything that came to him.

He should have easily had $10 million just by doing some basic low risk investments like Microsoft, McDonald's, Walmart, etc.

But ya, he spent a huge chunk of his millions on clothes.

It's irritating to think about because I should be riding his coattails and be a millionaire trust fund baby right now, but because he was such a fool... 

He was a podiatrist (foot doctor) and probably made around 300 thousand or so a year, and that was in the 80s and 90s...

He was also a spoiled brat only child and while he was rich he convinced his parents that he was poor and robbed them blind too. They saved up a lot of money and after he was down to a couple hundred K he'd pull them into the scams too. He easily dwindled them out of 300 to 400,000 over the course of 5 or so years. They gave him money voluntarily but it was basically a con game he was playing with them. It's pretty disgusting.





this folks the the makings of the entitled class, a welfare queen




Learn to have some perspective, and use your small brain to try to relate to another person's life.

If your dad had it made, with millions in the bank (eventually lost), a million-dollar plaza (lost), a million dollar home (lost), conned his own parents out of $100s of thousands of dollars (cash), you'd probably be a little irritated that he was a fool also.

I know your brain isn't functioning that great, but how does someone that had to beg for $3 to go to McDonald's while his father was a multi-millionaire the making of a welfare queen...This was also decades ago so your prediction has failed miserably.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: nastynaven]
    #21905688 - 07/06/15 03:18 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Middle to upper middle class I'd say. Considering my family is large and my parents had to take care of 4 kids. We all had plenty growing up. I could get new clothes and shoes when I wanted or needed. I never really asked for much.. I do remember my mom refusing to buy me this gokart once that was like only 300$.. She was so against it that I finally saved up like 3/4 of the money. She was mainly against it because she didn't want me to get ran over or ticketed driving it around. If that was anything else she would have likely bought it. If you think about how much kids actually cost it's a fucking shit ton. I remember reading that to raise a kid from birth to 18 it costs like a million dollars. Now add in them helping with college student loans..shit..lol


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Gorlax]
    #21905697 - 07/06/15 03:21 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Poor then and poor now.

Rich in whats important though


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Confucian]
    #21905815 - 07/06/15 03:51 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Rich but my dad went full retard with his money. He spent millions on clothes and art...2 things that become absolutely worthless the second you buy them.

I didn't really reap the benefits of growing up with a rich parent. I got a car at 16 and went on a few vacations, but obviously he was the one with millions in his bank account.

He loved the power of having money. Other kids with rich dad's would get $20 a day or have some money in their pocket. I'd have to wait until he was around and beg (well, ask) for $5 to go to McDonald's. God forbid he give me $50 a week for spending and food money. No, I have to come beg like a dog for $5 to go eat fast food.

Anyways, he was such a moron with his millions he ended up slowly going broke over the course of 15 or so years. He had maybe 1.2 million in a trust fund that dwindling down to about 600K during the start of the Great Recession. He yanked it out and started investing money into scams. For example, he gave some dude on Craigslist $60,000 to be a ¨business partner" in some nursing home with the promise of getting $6,000 a month income. Such a retard. The guy he gave the money to drove a beat up van. Robbed blind.

He thought the scams that go to your email were real and invested thousands in everything that came to him.

He should have easily had $10 million just by doing some basic low risk investments like Microsoft, McDonald's, Walmart, etc.

But ya, he spent a huge chunk of his millions on clothes.

It's irritating to think about because I should be riding his coattails and be a millionaire trust fund baby right now, but because he was such a fool... 

He was a podiatrist (foot doctor) and probably made around 300 thousand or so a year, and that was in the 80s and 90s...

He was also a spoiled brat only child and while he was rich he convinced his parents that he was poor and robbed them blind too. They saved up a lot of money and after he was down to a couple hundred K he'd pull them into the scams too. He easily dwindled them out of 300 to 400,000 over the course of 5 or so years. They gave him money voluntarily but it was basically a con game he was playing with them. It's pretty disgusting.




Damn man, that's sad as hell. You could be sitting on a beach in the South Pacific, drinking umbrella drinks & toking some killer weed everyday, all day...having a trust fund.
I'd be pissed at the old man, but I'm probably older than him. I grew up in the 1950s/60s & started off middle-class. My dad invented something & became rich. He was smart with his $$$.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: squidhead]
    #21905918 - 07/06/15 04:18 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

My best friend's dad made probably upwards of millions selling real estate before the crash. He was legit ballin. He had his face and ads on several grocery store carts and you would just randomly see him it was funny cause I knew him well. He would always take us on vacations and pay for everything. My parents would feel bad and ask if I should pay and he refused. Granted we watched him almost all the time while his dad did his shenanigans.

He had a nice ass boat. 3 jaguars. and a million dollar house. Then the housing market crashed and he had a hard time. It was crazy seeing him sell his boat and shit. He still has the million dollar house and 2 jaguars but that was after some wrangling. He isn't stupid and is still a good business man. He actually still sells homes but no where near what he was before 2008.. Must suck ass being up and up then some dumb shit happens not even in your control..

I know a lot of rich people and you wouldn't even know unless they told you or their kids drive new cars. My friend has the biggest pool in the united states lol he was on the travel channel.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Gorlax]
    #21905984 - 07/06/15 04:36 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)




For most my childhood, poor. My parents divorced early, our mother took care of my brother and me on just welfare. We had very little.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Gorlax]
    #21905995 - 07/06/15 04:38 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

always been a poor boy, my folks kept things together tho, not too fancy but well of enough to be middle class. me myself i'vd e never had much monies.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Gorlax]
    #21906038 - 07/06/15 04:46 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

We were about average I'd say. I live in a 2 story home and always had food but there were many times when I couldn't have things others would have but that's not exactly terrible. After I grew up a bit I realized although I wasn't rich I sure wasn't AS poor as most of my friends. For a long time it was only my mom who worked full time minimum wage and we were still better off then most of my friends living 4 miles away. It got so bad with my mom working all the time I had a school project of drawing the people in my home and I didn't draw my mom because she wasn't ever home. That hurt my mom bad and when I was old enough to understand how fucked up that was it hurt me that I wouldn't put my own mother in a "family portrait". Since then for that and many other reasons I split all my moms responsibilities so she doesn't have to constantly work as much.

My dad had deep depression from getting scammed for 12million on a loan from my grand parents and around age 8 he shut down, stopped working because of legit injuries and depression but basically I was alone a lot or with my gma as a child.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Seriously_trippin]
    #21906073 - 07/06/15 04:56 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

My parents always dide pretty well. My dad worked two jobs a lot of the time and my mom always had one. They paid for their house pretty quick and there were multiple cars in the driveway. I was spoiled at times but in a lot of other ways I was far from it. After they divorced my dad didn't have it in him anymore than he had the time to work two jobs. He made the difference up with lots of weed, which always made for a nice Christmas. He didn't have a lot of money at that point really but he was an alcoholic so I can't say for sure. My mom on the other hand always did her best to never have to spend any more money than she did time on her kids. Her and 'the husband' probably made 150k+/yr and they were cheap as shit. Had to beg to get in to sports, never took me anywhere, had to eat michelinas while they went out to restaurants all the time, even buying take out for me was often too much.  Meanwhile she had so much jewelery she needed a safe and often looked like some kind of middle aged pimp. Yeah I'm bitter.


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    #21906102 - 07/06/15 05:03 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

up and down between poor but mostly middle class when i was young i lived in a kinda shitty trailer park and didnt have extra money but had food and clothes. around 12 we moved to a little bit larger place up in the forest got a nice car. parents split lived with my mom in the place in the woods. pretty nice place but not much else. parents got back together but my dad lost his job then my mom did. when i was like 16 my dad got another job i was middle class for like a year. got a job gradguated early and moved out at 17 now im middle class


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: stuckinwonderland]
    #21906368 - 07/06/15 06:13 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

poor. i had so much money i was literally tossing benjamins in the trash bin just cuz i had too much of it


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: zZZz]
    #21906525 - 07/06/15 06:42 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

first 5 years of my life, as far as I remember, very poor.
I remember sleeping hungry most nights, having to pay for home rents was a trouble.
it was only my mother saved us, teaching in different schools, working hard to raise us.
my dad was a complete bum, still is.
Now it's much better, again thanks to my mom.
home is ours, no rent, no trouble. a complete life she brought to us alone through these years.
this thread really made me think about my past and compare it to my present.
how much better we are now.
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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: nastynaven] * 1
    #21906575 - 07/06/15 06:54 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

I was in the top 10% richest in the planet while growing up and simultaneously I was under the US poverty my entire childhood.  Wealth and poverty truly are relative unless you are at the very bottom or top.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: nastynaven]
    #21906683 - 07/06/15 07:18 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

single mother struggled through the last years of her life and then died alone from breast cancer with nothing. me my mom and my sister lived in two bedroom apartments before ending up on the street.

we are both still trying to make it in a largely cold heartless unforgiving society that would rather great minds shrivel up and die if you cant afford college and dont want to be incriminated with loans.

where i live in the u.s. is borderline third world impoverished and theres no other way to describe it. i get very frustrated when im told americans are lucky. state to state there are huge differences in where money goes. most people are prisoners who just havent been unjustly imprisoned yet. but im sure glad so many rich people are on here. please lobby to make america more compassionate because the rest of us cant do shit.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: lordbojangles]
    #21907063 - 07/06/15 08:37 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Pretty much dead middle the whole time.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: nastynaven]
    #21907138 - 07/06/15 08:53 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

wouldnt say rich but had a lot of toys


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: DieCommie]
    #21907227 - 07/06/15 09:11 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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I was in the top 10% richest in the planet while growing up and simultaneously I was under the US poverty my entire childhood.  Wealth and poverty truly are relative unless you are at the very bottom or top.



If it's not prying to much,How does that work out? Sounds like my friend Tyler from 5th grade he was poor as dirt because he lived with his mom but his dad was close a millionaire just didn't care about his son. Same thing with my best friends .His dad made about half a million in 4 years. During that time he made his 15 year old for basically nothing. 3 bucks an hour I think with many months unpaid He eventually stopped paying him completely. It wasn't until he was about 21 that he was able to get a job on his own.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Seriously_trippin]
    #21907254 - 07/06/15 09:15 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Cuz if u live in america ur among the richest people on earth


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: CHeifM4sterDiezL]
    #21907291 - 07/06/15 09:18 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Cuz if u live in america ur among the richest people on earth



Oh yeah because there's no homeless or poor people in the U.S. :derp: Yeah right dude


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Seriously_trippin]
    #21907310 - 07/06/15 09:21 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Homeless n poor people in america get food water housing medical treatment the list goes on


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: zappaisgod]
    #21907323 - 07/06/15 09:24 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Pretty much dead middle the whole time.




Same pretty much. There were the good times and the bad. My uncle took me and my brother for summer vacation in Cape Cod for a good 10 years. That took a lot off my parents' spending.

I started a paper route when I was 5. By eight I was working under the table in a pet store cleaning tanks and setting up displays. Did that until 16 alon with the newspaper gig. I had 200 newspaper customers on weekdays and almost 300 on weekends. Made a ton of money off those two alone, and on top of here-and-there jobs when I had time (office store, another pet shop, tank raising my own fish to sell etc.)

Worked management in an office for years when I turned 18. Communications & Public Relations for a few more during that period. I'd go back to work at the office since Marketing/PR was by semester.

By age 20 I owned a new car I paid for, had 35k in the bank, paid for my own undergraduate degree, invested in gold/silver coins and stocks, got out at the right time, etc. When the car wreck happened and economy tanked, wife and I lost everything until about a year ago. Had to use rainy day funds and we were downright poor for years.

My parents now own a 300k+ home, boat, two new vehicles, a diversified portfolio, various investments and a few bank accounts.

We were raised to work hard and work for our own money. It worked well for them. They'd likely be broke with nothing had my brother and I never worked for our own stuff. I took odd jobs during downtime.

I worry about the younger generations with no work ethic leeching off their parents. I'm 32 and have been working 27 years already.


We would've been lower working class at best had my brother and I relied on our parents. They'd also have nothing now that they're retired.

It breaks my heart to see posts of people here getting their first job and they're over the drinking age. Economy-wise and work ethic.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Adden]
    #21907930 - 07/07/15 12:09 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

We were well off in a very wealthy town. (The guy who created that show Beverly Hills 90210 based it on his experiences going to the high school I went to.) I travelled a lot. Didn't have to worry about paying for school, etc. I don't think my parents were exceptionally wealthy, just responsible with their money.


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Re: were you rich or poor growing up? [Re: Confucian]
    #21907950 - 07/07/15 12:16 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Rich but my dad went full retard with his money. He spent millions on clothes and art...2 things that become absolutely worthless the second you buy them.

I didn't really reap the benefits of growing up with a rich parent. I got a car at 16 and went on a few vacations, but obviously he was the one with millions in his bank account.

He loved the power of having money. Other kids with rich dad's would get $20 a day or have some money in their pocket. I'd have to wait until he was around and beg (well, ask) for $5 to go to McDonald's. God forbid he give me $50 a week for spending and food money. No, I have to come beg like a dog for $5 to go eat fast food.

Anyways, he was such a moron with his millions he ended up slowly going broke over the course of 15 or so years. He had maybe 1.2 million in a trust fund that dwindling down to about 600K during the start of the Great Recession. He yanked it out and started investing money into scams. For example, he gave some dude on Craigslist $60,000 to be a ¨business partner" in some nursing home with the promise of getting $6,000 a month income. Such a retard. The guy he gave the money to drove a beat up van. Robbed blind.

He thought the scams that go to your email were real and invested thousands in everything that came to him.

He should have easily had $10 million just by doing some basic low risk investments like Microsoft, McDonald's, Walmart, etc.

But ya, he spent a huge chunk of his millions on clothes.

It's irritating to think about because I should be riding his coattails and be a millionaire trust fund baby right now, but because he was such a fool... 

He was a podiatrist (foot doctor) and probably made around 300 thousand or so a year, and that was in the 80s and 90s...

He was also a spoiled brat only child and while he was rich he convinced his parents that he was poor and robbed them blind too. They saved up a lot of money and after he was down to a couple hundred K he'd pull them into the scams too. He easily dwindled them out of 300 to 400,000 over the course of 5 or so years. They gave him money voluntarily but it was basically a con game he was playing with them. It's pretty disgusting.





this folks the the makings of the entitled class, a welfare queen




Learn to have some perspective, and use your small brain to try to relate to another person's life.

If your dad had it made, with millions in the bank (eventually lost), a million-dollar plaza (lost), a million dollar home (lost), conned his own parents out of $100s of thousands of dollars (cash), you'd probably be a little irritated that he was a fool also.

I know your brain isn't functioning that great, but how does someone that had to beg for $3 to go to McDonald's while his father was a multi-millionaire the making of a welfare queen...This was also decades ago so your prediction has failed miserably.




I have a bit of perspective

my father was the son of a wealthy family, he was angry just like you, he went
to some of the finest private schools and was kicked out of most of them, he
was lazy and didnt work because he knew he'd be seeing some money. he went
through the motions of working, he schooled as a hair stylist, he schooled as a
mechanic, he was damned good at both. he even had a job with the railroad but
he couldnt be bothered to show up. he went to prison for murder because he felt
he needed to be a hitman, he was released after 3 years because of a civil
rights violation, the warden wouldnt let him have a news paper from his home
town. while he was in prison he discovered heroin and his trust fund went to
that. millions pissed away, he had 'adopted' the son of a hooker that he had
married, she died from an OD, he almost died several times, a few times because
his dealer was apparently trying to kill him. when he finally died due to colon
cancer (doc said it was drug related) he and his son were living in an old
broken down RV in a campground in tennessee. he skipped around a lot because
child support enforcement was after him. $100/mo per kid for 3 kids but that's
$300/mo less he'd have for his habit

me, I worked from the time I was 12, I started as a busboy in a buffet
restaurant, nearly every thing I made went to support the family. I got out of
school and walked to work a mile away, I worked until 10pm when we closed. by
14 I was doing dishes in the kitchen and at 16 I went to a BBQ restaurant as a
dishwasher, I still worked full time and all my money still went to support the
family. yeah, my mom worked, she never missed a day unless it was
unpreventable. the thing is, even as a business owner you sometimes dont make
as much as your employees once the overhead is covered. mom applied for food
stamps, she was turned down. she drove a $400 car for 8 years and then after is
was totaled she managed to get a $900 car from the insurance money. every week
my $100 paycheck went to my mom, she smoked and drank coffee, no drugs, no
alcohol, they werent priorities when she had kids to raise and because money
was so tight, my $400 a month went to the rent or some of the other bills so we
could have things like porkchops or chicken on thursday to break up the
monotony of cabbage, beans, potatoes and rice


My mom bought my first car for me, I paid for it, I was delivered a 1974 ford
Pinto in white, it had 80k miles and I put another 100k on it before the engine
blew. it was my ride at the ripe old age of 17 when I went to work at a lead
mill, it was a union job, it paid good when we worked but it seemed we were on
strike more than we worked, the union believed they should get a larger cut of
the companies profits so we were forced to strike to demand new contracts. that
shit got old pretty fucking fast but for the first time I had a little of my
own cash to spend and could still cover the bills for the house.

I didnt get a chance to beg for $3 for McDonalds because that money wasnt
there, I had no fucking expectation of a $50/wk allowance and certainly
didnt feel entitled to some trust fund


I'm pretty sure I have a handle on shit, you're bitter because your daddy spent
your trust fund, mine did as well but it wasnt really his to spend, his mother
gave him money to stay away because she was terrified of him because he was
pissed that everything wasnt given to him in his life. he had to beg for what
he got when his parents insisted he work for it. after his father died his
mother gave him money to get out and more to stay gone and it didnt take long
for him and a lawyer to milk that estate dry

everything I have is shit that I worked for... do you think you can relate?


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