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I can write a lot on this and my personal experience, but I’ll just leave this one for now. I, while living alone in a house in partial construction (missing a
by sethammons 5y ago
I can write a lot on this and my personal experience, but I’ll just leave this one for now.
I, while living alone in a house in partial construction (missing a wall) in the Southern California mountains would get a ride from a friend or a neighbor to high school (20 minute drive into town). If I had some (about a dozen a bag, one bag a month), a single russet potato tossed in the toaster oven would be breakfast (no seasoning, grab and go). I was on free lunch at school, but I’d pocket an extra hamburger to sell at a reduced price in the lunch yard. That extra dollar would get me a can of soup that I heated on a wood burning stove for dinner.
For me, having to steal food to be able to buy different food that can store better is a being poor. I’ve got a thousand other stories growing up. But now I’m on track for an early and comfortable retirement; no complaints.