My family was better off when I was a kid versus when my brothers were kids (over a decade age difference) versus when my parents were kids but I look back on a few things and wonderhttps://twitter.com/victoriabwrites/status/1219068778748751873 …
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Growing up, we’d have clothes be put on layaway, the gap was considered an expensive store, we ate basically only spaghetti and chicken with boiled broccoli and carrots with a few occasionally different meals
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Such as this sort of steak boiled in a tomato based sauce and stir fry with noodles (both were considered luxury meals).
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Fruit other than apples was a big deal. I frequently ate butter sandwiches for lunch. Instant ramen, KD, and McDonald’s were pretty common for food.
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But we didn’t ever have snacks. My mom would bake cookies for me but I remember thinking richer kids in school had fancy store bought cookies.
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My brothers had jobs by the time I was 5-7 so they had disposable income of their own, and bought game consoles and computers, etc. so we always had those.
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We were better off than a few others I knew but for the first 3-4 years of elementary school it felt like I was counted among the poorer kids.
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