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01-28-2024, 3:48pm | #1 | ||||||
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Anyone grow up dirt poor?
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No, we had lots of dirt when I was growing up
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Not dirt poor but not a lot....but we didn't realize it so we were good
If I had to do it again,wouldn't change anything. |
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What is the Jewish definition of dirt poor?
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did you hear about the new Jewish sports car?
It stops on a dime... then bends down and picks it up. |
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Not poor, not rich.
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Didn't have a pot to piss in. Which was good because we had indoor plumbing and there wasn't a tannery nearby.
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Comfortably middle class.
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My adoptive parents (whom I haven't spoken with in 25 years) scraped by. We didn't have paper towels in the kitchen, we had rags. We were not "poor", but we never had any money.
Not sure any of my siblings ever broke out of that financial pattern, but thankfully I did. |
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There are several versions for the genesis of the phrase, but my favorite was that people were poor enough to provide urine to tanneries (and explosive makers) for money. The pot is what they needed to exist in this piss poor society. If you didn't have a pot, you are so poor you can't even carry your piss for sale.
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My friend in HS was Jewish. She said her grandmother INSISTED that she promise never to own a German car. Very nice girl, went to Stanford and ended up marrying a guy from a very well off family there.
I know she accepted a German taxpayer funded trip to visit Germany back then, I guess part of the collective forced guilt/reparations programs forced on Germany after the war. Not sure how grandma felt about that, as I never met her, although the parents were nice. |
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Poorer than anyone I knew, single mom, five kids, no family car, NO GOV AID!!
Never bothered any of us, we negated once we were old enough to work. |
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Maybe not quite "dirt" poor.
7 of us lived in a double-wide trailer. I slept on the pull out couch. The other three bedrooms were Mom/Dad, Two Bros, Two sisters. We had a dog and cat also. I only remember good times during this period before shipping off to the Army then College. |
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