Phil DavisA mention of comfort food hit hard. It's just a cheap can of corned beef hash, but it was a big deal when I was a kid. I look back on all the cheap eats (shout out to Nissin Top Ramen, all flavors) and I'm amazed and a little ashamed at how clueless I was about my parents' struggle to put food on the table.
Shantell PowellI dreamed that I was about to make a post about where I lived when I worked in the city: a white camper my dad built around 1979. The photos showed it set up out behind a shopping mall. It had no windows except on the door. It had a skylight sort of thing that could be cranked open for ventilation.
Inside was a tiny stove with two burners, a double bed in the part that sat atop the cab of the truck, and a bed over the table that folded up during meals. There was a toilet but no plumbing. In another photo was a bottle of Crown Royal next to the stove.
I woke up when my alarm went off. For a bit, I thought the dream was true. The camper was real. I lived in it for a while with my parents, sister, dog, and cat. The photos were not real. And I haven't seen that camper since I was nine or ten years old and we moved into a 31' travel trailer instead.
To this day, I get the horrors thinking about living in such a tiny place with my loud family. Cabin fever is real. There's no privacy inside tiny homes. I finally got my own bed and own bedroom with a door when I was almost fifteen years old. #dream #DreamLog #GrowingUpPoor
Yet Another Broken WorldI remember once having a can full of chicken drumsticks.
#governmentcheese #growinguppoor #betterthanyouwouldthink
#governmentcheese #growinguppoor #betterthanyouwouldthink
Rebecca Blaze 
Do sloppy joes have a different name if you didn't grow up poor?
...Do sloppy joes exist if you didn't grow up poor?
Why is this what I'm thinking about at 730am?
#sloppyjoes #sloppyjoe #manwich #morningthoughts #thursdaythoughts #thursday #showerthoughts #highdeas #foodforthought #thoughtsforfood #poverty #growinguppoor #growingupinpoverty #goodmorning #morning #morningall #fediverse #federated
PhoenixSerenityHow many other 70s born kids, who grew up poor, recognize this illegal thing I used to do with prerecorded #CassetteTapes ?
I'd did this with free tapes that people tried donating to Salvation Army thrift store - where one of my Uncles worked as a donations sorter for years in 80s-early 90s. They'd put these unwanted tapes w/no cases into bags for disposal. My Uncle got permission to take some of them & give to me to reuse.