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People share all the little secrets you can only learn from being poor (not worth it).

People share all the little secrets you can only learn from being poor (not worth it).

There are certain things you can only learn from a period of poverty. They range from tricks to stretch a dollar (or a bottle of barbeque sauce) to ineffable feelings of gratitude or desperation. Needless to say, every person who shared one of those little secrets over on Ask Reddit would instantly trade it for a cash advance. Nonetheless, they're giving out their secrets for free.

'What are things the poor people know that the rich don't?'

1. From DarkMatterSoup:

The excitement of finding a dollar on the ground

2. From EzekielMN:

The feeling of watching all your friends go on a field trip without you because your parents couldn't afford it.

3. From MisterMarcus:

The exact price of everything.

You could probably raise the price multiple times on an everyday item and a rich person wouldn't even notice. A poor person would notice when something's 5-10c more expensive than before.

4. From texbinky:

How to get all the peanut butter out of the jar

5. From Zach20032000:

What to do if you'll ever find yourself in a month without money. Everybody can lose money and become poor, but it feels a bit more 'safe' if you already went through it and know how to survive with as few as possible

6. From ElizabethEC:

When your parents are lying to you saying they're full when they're not so you can have the last bite.

7. From BillFukngMurray:

How expensive it is to be poor

8. From Aabacuss:

Being homeless. There is nothing like it. To me, it means that every single person you know has given up on you. Parents, siblings, friends… everyone. Homelessness taught me I have no one. Maybe more importantly, it taught me to have others backs even when they don’t want it.

9. From Delicious-Praline-11:

1,001 ways to prepare a potato

10. From sexycupcakemwa:

Dollar stores are life savers

11. From kwunschel316:

The sheer joy when once a year as a kid, you could have an outfit that hadn't already been worn by at least 3 other kids before you. This includes underwear.

12. From Das_da_z:

How to sell and buy food stamps.

13. From emmiblakk:

that you can stretch shampoo almost infinitely with copious amounts of water

14. From munch_the_gunch:

How long it takes for the power company to shut your lights off if you're late on the bill

15. From jadayne:

The price of one banana.

I mean, what could it cost? Ten dollars?

16. From Otherwise-Luck-8841:

that if you add water to an empty A1 bottle, it makes more steak sauce with no taste difference

17. From Penn_Blink:

Eating cheaply is unhealthy and makes you fat while eating without worrying about cost is much healthier.

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