Poverty

<p>It&#39;s impossible to really understand what it&#39;s like to grow up poor unless you&#39;ve experienced it firsthand. Someone recently <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cv6tjh/what_are_some_things_youd_only_know_by_growing_up/" target="_blank">asked Reddit</a>: &quot;What are some things you&rsquo;d only know by growing up poor?&quot; These 25 responses may be eye-opening or relatable, depending on your childhood.</p><h2>1.) Free Christmas trees.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ijustwanttobehonest/">ijustwanttobehonest</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Pre-cut Christmas trees are free on Christmas Eve. I remember the Christmas tree hunt on Christmas Eve was like our little family tradition. We would drive around in the evening looking for stores that still had trees sitting out front.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Nine times out of 10, when we would ask about the tree we were interested in, they would say &ldquo;just take it,&rdquo; glad to get rid of them by that point.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Every year we had a perfectly beautiful tree and it was exciting to find perfect trees for free and then stay up late decorating it with home-made glitter pine cones and candy canes.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2.) Bad checks.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/JaimesLeftHand/">JaimesLeftHand</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>If you send a bad check to the utilities company on a Friday you have power for the weekend</p> </blockquote><h2>3.) Stealing TP from gas stations.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Dillgillxp/">Dillgillxp</a>:</p><blockquote> <p><span style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Most gas station attendants will not stop a small child from stealing toilet paper from their bathrooms. Who knew? Edit- thanks for the silver this </span>isnt<span style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;"> something I had to do a lot but it happened from time to time, my mom took excellent care of me we just fell a bit short some times.</span></p> </blockquote><h2>4.) Creative food combos.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/OdinsBacon/">OdinsBacon</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>How good a buttered tortilla is.</p> </blockquote><h2>5.) Free power.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Sharcbait/">Sharcbait</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>IDK about in other states but in MN they can&#39;t shut your power off during the winter because of the danger of someone freezing to death in their house. So that was a good time to try to catch up on some other bills you are way behind on too.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6.) Being able to break the cycle.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/LucaBrazziSleeps/" style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">LucaBrazziSleeps</a><span style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">:</span></p><blockquote> <p>Government cheese, doing your laundry in a bathtub using only cold water bc the gas was shut off, trying to spend the night at your friends house bc they had food and a warm room, (thanks Nikki) loving going to school because you could at least eat there, trips to Goodwill for &quot;new&quot; clothes, showers at school because at least three water was warm.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Being made fun of because you smelled like kerosene, having lice and no one doing anything about it, going to school with bruises bc your parents took their shitty decisions out in you. I&#39;m so grateful to a handful of people that saw potential in me, I went to college, got a great job, and broke the cycle . Thanks Tom and Toni.</p> </blockquote><h2>7.) The importance of libraries.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AlexAnderRob/">AlexAnderRob</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Libraries can save your life.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>The first part of my childhood I would get home from school, usually to a vacant house. I really wouldn&rsquo;t know if I was even going to see either of my parents each night. No cell phones of course. But I was always afraid... nervous at least, of what would happen if they did decide to make an appearance.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I started walking to the library everyday after school and staying till they closed every night just to avoid the feeling of anxiety for a little longer. Eventually one of the librarians noticed and took a liking to me. I think she might have been through similar things in her life that she saw in me. Gradually we got to know each other. First I started noticing there were more books being added in the genres that I liked.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Then one day after the library closed, I walked over to McDonald&rsquo;s. I was a quarter or so short to buy a hamburger and she saw me asking people if they had any change. I saw her and was embarrassed and kinda hid from her. From that point on I think she decided that she was going to take me under her wing.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>For over a year she would come by my desk at the library and just drop off chips, granola bars, pop, whatever you know? Of course, I would tell her I didn&rsquo;t need it, when in reality I only knew where one meal would come from each day.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>When I would ask her where it came from, she would just say it was extras from the break room, even though I could hear her in there putting coin after coin into the vending machine. Eventually she would just bring dinner every night to the library and we would sit down in the break room with each other and eat.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I finally opened up to her about my family/living issues and had her to talk to. Even though I was still pretty guarded, this was a huge relief. THEN, after I had been there almost 2 years, it was the week before school started, and I headed into the library. Before I left she told me to meet her outside after close.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I did, we walked to her car, and she pulled out a brand new school backpack, and inside was a new outfit, binder, and shoes (my first Nikes). That&rsquo;s when I broke down, and my walls crumbled. She was a single lady working off a librarians income, but she still made room for me.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>For 3 years she supported me as much as she could, and she was more of a friend than I had ever experienced up until that point in my life. She is the number 1 reason I got out of that house and life. She was with me at all my adoption hearings, and made sure I was put with a nice family.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>She was at my graduation, and my wedding. She saw me grow up and succeed in life after coming from the bottom. She saw her work and love pay off. I went to her funeral this summer and it felt like I had lost my mother, but I couldn&rsquo;t stop reflecting on how much she changed my life through her sacrifice.</p> <p>Truly an amazing person, and I still donate to the library every year.</p> </blockquote><h2>8.) Food stamps.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/howsmallarewe/">howsmallarewe</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Food stamp paper change. When I was a kid , if you used food stamps they would give back the change in food stamp form. My Mom was too &quot;proud&quot; to publicly use them so she would make up a reason to leave &amp; I would have to pay using them - I was 11 or so. She did it every time...I had to learn to keep my head up.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9.) Pizza nights.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SuddenTerrible_Haiku/">SuddenTerrible_Haiku</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Pizza nights are the best birthday present you could ever fucking get.</p> <p>A whole pizza, ordered exactly how you like it, and you get to have more than one slice.</p> </blockquote><h2>10.) Your parents&#39; sacrifices.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/spoilt_milk/">spoilt_milk</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>That sometimes your parents sacrifice everything they have, including their sanity just to see you happy. And you only learn later in life the soul crushing existence of poverty. Then you wonder how they managed to do so much with so little.</p> </blockquote><h2>11.) Hunger.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/HailPaco/">HailPaco</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>What hunger really is. I remember waiting for my dad&#39;s payday for the grocery shopping trip and being absolutely ravenous when the food got there.</p> </blockquote><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/WeAreTheVoid141/">WeAreTheVoid141</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>The feeling of not eating for a day or some times days.</p> </blockquote><h2>12.) No asking for stuff.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Being_grateful/">Being_grateful</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Not to ask their parents for stuff.</p> </blockquote><h2>13.) Government cheese.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Violet_Plum_Tea/">Violet_Plum_Tea</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>How to cook with the government surplus cheese.</p> </blockquote><h2>14.) Yellow notice.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TRIGMILLION/">TRIGMILLION</a>:</p><blockquote> <p><span style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">When you get home and see a yellow notice hanging off your door you&#39;re fucked. It&#39;s always on a Friday to so you&#39;re out of luck until Monday.</span></p> </blockquote><h2>15.) Outdated technology.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/garbageboystinkman69/">garbageboystinkman69</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>When I started college, one of my professors asked if anyone in our class remembered how you changed a channel on the TV before remote controls. I was the only person in the room who remembered turning dials and adjusting rabbit ears despite being one of the youngest students in the class, because my family had a TV from the 70s until 1995.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Same sort of thing with computers, phones, etc. If we had it at all, we got something much later than anyone else (after it got cheaper) and bought used. I got my first computer in 1999. It had Windows 3.1 and that was what I used until I was able to use my financial aid to get a new PC tower for college</p> </blockquote><h2>16.) How to kill a cockroach with kitchen supplies.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/FIGHTSONG_/" style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">FIGHTSONG_</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Cockroaches are killed by baking soda.</p> </blockquote><h2>17.) The Nesquik diet.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/03throwaway03/">03throwaway03</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>You can live on &quot;strawberry powder Nesquik&quot; and water for three days</p> </blockquote><h2>18.) The &quot;Head Start&quot; program.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Sally_twodicks/">Sally_twodicks</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I truly had no idea until I was in my junior year of high school taking Child Development that Head Start was a program created for children from homes of low income. I simply thought it was a place for me to get a &quot;head start&quot; as a kid.</p> <p>I still remember my teacher saying verbatim, &quot;No honey, your family was just poor.&quot; in front of the whole class.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>19.) Camping as a way of life.</h2><p> </p><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/heyitsvonage/">heyitsvonage</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Camping is only fun when you&rsquo;ve never had to do it out of necessity.</p> </blockquote><h2>20.) A little chicken goes a long way.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Flahdagal/">Flahdagal</a>:</p><blockquote> <p><span style="font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">My mom could somehow cook two chickens on a Sunday and feed six people all week. Towards the end it was more just corn chowder cooked in chicken stock, but it was dinner.</span></p> <p>Also we kept a garden; you didn&#39;t work the garden, you didn&#39;t eat. Sit down on a summer evening? Better have a bowl in your lap and be shelling, stringing, or shucking something. Feed the hulls to the neighbor&#39;s pig because she&#39;ll save a ham for us.</p> </blockquote><h2>21.) Pawn shops, need vs. want, and re-using bath water.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Poot33w33t/">Poot33w33t</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>-what it&rsquo;s like to be told &ldquo;you think you&rsquo;re just better than us&rdquo; because my mom valued education and prioritized it so we could do better for ourselves</p> <p>-going into pawn shops to find the things your aunt stole from you and pawned to get drug money</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>-knowing which family members you had to hide medicine, your purses, and other valuables from when they would visit</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>-the embarrassment of whipping out the Monopoly money food stamps</p> <p>-the taste of government peanut butter</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>-what it&rsquo;s like to use the same bath water as your siblings because running a new tub of water is a waste</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>-the excitement of a trip to &ldquo;the day old bread store&rdquo;</p> <p>-the ubiquitousness of the concept of &ldquo;need&rdquo; vs &ldquo;want&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>-what it&rsquo;s like to sit at the dinner table emptying piggy banks to help your mom pay bills</p> <p>-holding your mom quietly the (amazingly few) times she&rsquo;d break down crying at the end of the day</p> </blockquote><h2>22.) Not ignoring shiny objects.</h2><p> </p><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Obi-Anunoby/">Obi-Anunoby</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Anything shiny on the ground might be a coin.</p> </blockquote><h2>23.) Always ordering the cheapest menu item.</h2><p> </p><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ramos1969/">ramos1969</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Knowing the cheapest thing on the menu at every restaurant, for when your friends&rsquo; family invites you out to dinner. Even though you&rsquo;re not paying, you&rsquo;re programmed to only select the cheapest thing. My friend&rsquo;s mom said &ldquo;you sure like hot dogs. That&rsquo;s all you order no matter where we go to eat.&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>24.) No extracurriculars.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MonochromePassenger/">MonochromePassenger</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Not being able to do extracurriculars. I wanted to be in orchestra and I wanted to play soccer but we couldn&#39;t afford it so I was told no. Couldn&#39;t afford the uniforms or the gas to get me to practice, and definitely couldn&#39;t afford a violin.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I ended up moving to a largely upper middle class area for college. First boyfriend was rich. He played 9 instruments and played soccer and went skiing since age 6.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>He voiced that he thought I was lazy and untalented for not having done at least a sport or learned something like guitar. I explained that we couldn&#39;t afford it but that didn&#39;t seem to register. He tried to give me his old violin at one point so I could learn and his mother pretty much ripped it out of my hands.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>25.) Disappointed burglars.</h2><p>Via <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/doc_moses/">doc_moses</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>When someone breaks into your house but doesnt take anything. Happened once. Still think its funny.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

25 people share the things you only understand if you grew up poor.

It&#39;s impossible to really understand what it&#39;s like to grow up poor unless you&#39;ve experienced it firsthand. Someone recently asked Reddit: &quot;What are some things you&rsquo;d only know by growing up poor?&quot; These 25 responses may be eye-opening or relatable, depending on your childhood.1.) Free Christmas trees.Via ijustwanttobehonest: Pre-cut Christmas trees are free on Christmas Eve. I remember the Christmas tree hunt on Christmas Eve was like our little family tradition. We would drive around in the evening looking for stores that still had trees sitting out front.  Nine times out of 10, when we would ask about the tree we were interested in, they would say &ldquo;just take it,&rdquo; glad to get rid of them by that point.  Every year we had a perfectly beautiful tree and it was exciting to find perfect trees for free and then stay up late decorating it with home-made glitter pine cones and candy canes. 2.) Bad checks.Via JaimesLeftHand: If you send a bad check to the utilities company on a Friday you have power for the weekend 3.) Stealing TP from gas stations.Via Dillgillxp: Most gas station attendants will not stop a small child from stealing toilet paper from their bathrooms. Who knew? Edit- thanks for the silver this isnt something I had to do a lot but it happened from time to time, my mom took excellent care of me we just fell a bit short some times. 4.) Creative food combos.Via OdinsBacon: How good a buttered tortilla is. 5.) Free power.Via Sharcbait: IDK about in other states but in MN they can&#39;t shut your power off during the winter because of the danger of someone freezing to death in their house. So that was a good time to try to catch up on some other bills you are way behind on too. 6.) Being able to break the cycle.Via LucaBrazziSleeps: Government cheese, doing your laundry in a bathtub using only cold water bc the gas was shut off, trying to spend the night at your friends house bc they had food and a warm room, (thanks Nikki) loving going to school because you could at least eat there, trips to Goodwill for &quot;new&quot; clothes, showers at school because at least three water was warm.  Being made fun of because you smelled like kerosene, having lice and no one doing anything about it, going to school with bruises bc your parents took their shitty decisions out in you. I&#39;m so grateful to a handful of people that saw potential in me, I went to college, got a great job, and broke the cycle . Thanks Tom and Toni. 7.) The importance of libraries.Via AlexAnderRob: Libraries can save your life.  The first part of my childhood I would get home from school, usually to a vacant house. I really wouldn&rsquo;t know if I was even going to see either of my parents each night. No cell phones of course. But I was always afraid... nervous at least, of what would happen if they did decide to make an appearance.  I started walking to the library everyday after school and staying till they closed every night just to avoid the feeling of anxiety for a little longer. Eventually one of the librarians noticed and took a liking to me. I think she might have been through similar things in her life that she saw in me. Gradually we got to know each other. First I started noticing there were more books being added in the genres that I liked.  Then one day after the library closed, I walked over to McDonald&rsquo;s. I was a quarter or so short to buy a hamburger and she saw me asking people if they had any change. I saw her and was embarrassed and kinda hid from her. From that point on I think she decided that she was going to take me under her wing.  For over a year she would come by my desk at the library and just drop off chips, granola bars, pop, whatever you know? Of course, I would tell her I didn&rsquo;t need it, when in reality I only knew where one meal would come from each day.  When I would ask her where it came from, she would just say it was extras from the break room, even though I could hear her in there putting coin after coin into the vending machine. Eventually she would just bring dinner every night to the library and we would sit down in the break room with each other and eat.  I finally opened up to her about my family/living issues and had her to talk to. Even though I was still pretty guarded, this was a huge relief. THEN, after I had been there almost 2 years, it was the week before school started, and I headed into the library. Before I left she told me to meet her outside after close.  I did, we walked to her car, and she pulled out a brand new school backpack, and inside was a new outfit, binder, and shoes (my first Nikes). That&rsquo;s when I broke down, and my walls crumbled. She was a single lady working off a librarians income, but she still made room for me.  For 3 years she supported me as much as she could, and she was more of a friend than I had ever experienced up until that point in my life. She is the number 1 reason I got out of that house and life. She was with me at all my adoption hearings, and made sure I was put with a nice family.  She was at my graduation, and my wedding. She saw me grow up and succeed in life after coming from the bottom. She saw her work and love pay off. I went to her funeral this summer and it felt like I had lost my mother, but I couldn&rsquo;t stop reflecting on how much she changed my life through her sacrifice. Truly an amazing person, and I still donate to the library every year. 8.) Food stamps.Via howsmallarewe: Food stamp paper change. When I was a kid , if you used food stamps they would give back the change in food stamp form. My Mom was too &quot;proud&quot; to publicly use them so she would make up a reason to leave &amp; I would have to pay using them - I was 11 or so. She did it every time...I had to learn to keep my head up. 9.) Pizza nights.Via SuddenTerrible_Haiku: Pizza nights are the best birthday present you could ever fucking get. A whole pizza, ordered exactly how you like it, and you get to have more than one slice. 10.) Your parents&#39; sacrifices.Via spoilt_milk: That sometimes your parents sacrifice everything they have, including their sanity just to see you happy. And you only learn later in life the soul crushing existence of poverty. Then you wonder how they managed to do so much with so little. 11.) Hunger.Via HailPaco: What hunger really is. I remember waiting for my dad&#39;s payday for the grocery shopping trip and being absolutely ravenous when the food got there. Via WeAreTheVoid141: The feeling of not eating for a day or some times days. 12.) No asking for stuff.Via Being_grateful: Not to ask their parents for stuff. 13.) Government cheese.Via Violet_Plum_Tea: How to cook with the government surplus cheese. 14.) Yellow notice.Via TRIGMILLION: When you get home and see a yellow notice hanging off your door you&#39;re fucked. It&#39;s always on a Friday to so you&#39;re out of luck until Monday. 15.) Outdated technology.Via garbageboystinkman69: When I started college, one of my professors asked if anyone in our class remembered how you changed a channel on the TV before remote controls. I was the only person in the room who remembered turning dials and adjusting rabbit ears despite being one of the youngest students in the class, because my family had a TV from the 70s until 1995.  Same sort of thing with computers, phones, etc. If we had it at all, we got something much later than anyone else (after it got cheaper) and bought used. I got my first computer in 1999. It had Windows 3.1 and that was what I used until I was able to use my financial aid to get a new PC tower for college 16.) How to kill a cockroach with kitchen supplies.Via FIGHTSONG_: Cockroaches are killed by baking soda. 17.) The Nesquik diet.Via 03throwaway03: You can live on &quot;strawberry powder Nesquik&quot; and water for three days 18.) The &quot;Head Start&quot; program.Via Sally_twodicks: I truly had no idea until I was in my junior year of high school taking Child Development that Head Start was a program created for children from homes of low income. I simply thought it was a place for me to get a &quot;head start&quot; as a kid. I still remember my teacher saying verbatim, &quot;No honey, your family was just poor.&quot; in front of the whole class. 19.) Camping as a way of life. Via heyitsvonage: Camping is only fun when you&rsquo;ve never had to do it out of necessity. 20.) A little chicken goes a long way.Via Flahdagal: My mom could somehow cook two chickens on a Sunday and feed six people all week. Towards the end it was more just corn chowder cooked in chicken stock, but it was dinner. Also we kept a garden; you didn&#39;t work the garden, you didn&#39;t eat. Sit down on a summer evening? Better have a bowl in your lap and be shelling, stringing, or shucking something. Feed the hulls to the neighbor&#39;s pig because she&#39;ll save a ham for us. 21.) Pawn shops, need vs. want, and re-using bath water.Via Poot33w33t:  -what it&rsquo;s like to be told &ldquo;you think you&rsquo;re just better than us&rdquo; because my mom valued education and prioritized it so we could do better for ourselves -going into pawn shops to find the things your aunt stole from you and pawned to get drug money  -knowing which family members you had to hide medicine, your purses, and other valuables from when they would visit  -the embarrassment of whipping out the Monopoly money food stamps -the taste of government peanut butter  -what it&rsquo;s like to use the same bath water as your siblings because running a new tub of water is a waste  -the excitement of a trip to &ldquo;the day old bread store&rdquo; -the ubiquitousness of the concept of &ldquo;need&rdquo; vs &ldquo;want&rdquo;  -what it&rsquo;s like to sit at the dinner table emptying piggy banks to help your mom pay bills -holding your mom quietly the (amazingly few) times she&rsquo;d break down crying at the end of the day 22.) Not ignoring shiny objects. Via Obi-Anunoby: Anything shiny on the ground might be a coin. 23.) Always ordering the cheapest menu item. Via ramos1969: Knowing the cheapest thing on the menu at every restaurant, for when your friends&rsquo; family invites you out to dinner. Even though you&rsquo;re not paying, you&rsquo;re programmed to only select the cheapest thing. My friend&rsquo;s mom said &ldquo;you sure like hot dogs. That&rsquo;s all you order no matter where we go to eat.&rdquo; 24.) No extracurriculars.Via MonochromePassenger: Not being able to do extracurriculars. I wanted to be in orchestra and I wanted to play soccer but we couldn&#39;t afford it so I was told no. Couldn&#39;t afford the uniforms or the gas to get me to practice, and definitely couldn&#39;t afford a violin.  I ended up moving to a largely upper middle class area for college. First boyfriend was rich. He played 9 instruments and played soccer and went skiing since age 6.  He voiced that he thought I was lazy and untalented for not having done at least a sport or learned something like guitar. I explained that we couldn&#39;t afford it but that didn&#39;t seem to register. He tried to give me his old violin at one point so I could learn and his mother pretty much ripped it out of my hands. 25.) Disappointed burglars.Via doc_moses: When someone breaks into your house but doesnt take anything. Happened once. Still think its funny. 

It&#39;s impossible to really understand what it&#39;s like to grow up poor unless you&#39;ve experienced it firsthand. Someone recently asked Reddit: &quot;What are some things you&rsquo;d only know by growing up poor?&quot; These 25...