Almost a schwinn. Lol love it!!

Are you assuming we were on welfare??? We weren't. I'm voting down your comment. A phone and computers are still luxuries. Life IS hard. Nobody owes you a thing.

Mussels... Oysters... Abalone... Scallops... even Crab... If it comes in a shell, you can count on me being there!!

Short story - My family has always lived near the water - from my Grandfather forward (until my generation) SF Bay, before that, Eureka... Anyway, every so often, my dad would go down to the wharf (before it was the huge tourist trap it became), and pick up a huge variety of shellfish, and make this amazing Cioppino... the funny thing is, back then, it was good, cheap food. Now, IF you find it in a restaurant, it's not only pricey, but not as good as the homemade stew dad made. (Yes, I still have the family recipe... and no, you can't have it! --grins--)

We used to get by on nothing, because that's just how things were. If it couldn't be done on the cheap, then it just wasn't done. I still remember the "big lifetime vacation" we took - a road trip to Disneyland back in the 60's - in the old station wagon. Good times.

Um... sounds kind of like a shell game...

Lets Shrug:
Sounds a lot like my childhood. We never discussed being poor, we just took advantage of what we had and thought that was OK. Later in life, we could say "I've had worse, and called it good." I had a bike that was put together from multiple other bikes. It worked fine, and I peddled my butt all over the city on it. I had more fun with that almost-a-Schwinn than I did with a 10 speed later in life.

Poor people are fat because the worst food is the cheapest. I can remember when a phone was a luxury and if you had one, you had to explain why to get welfare. Now, Internet is the same. So much is done on-line, that you need a computer and Internet. But, many people who are poor don't have one. It is a real disability to those who do not have one. Makes life much harder.

Please define "POOR". I know personally numerous people who live with income "below the US poverty line" that have MORE stuff than some people I know who earn 180k/year as a couple, the couples I know earning the 180k are miserable while the others are quite content and happy.

Define Poor. Poor in money well that is totally a perspective thing. Poor in happiness, again that is based on personal perspective. Anytime people say poor, I demand they give me a specific definition of what "poor" is, and by what perspective.

In the United States even the proclaimed "poorest" have one common health issue. Obesity. These same obese "poor" also have air-conditioned homes, cell phones, cable tv, usually big screen TV's, cars and more "stuff than I do as a "working person.

Poor in other countries means your mal-nourished, no roof over your head, and on the verge of starving to death.

So please define for me poor, in very specific terms when looking at poverty on a GLOBAL scale.

I use that saying all the time. I like to throw in irony: My brother and I will be sitting in cheap lawn chairs at the side of a mountail lake, baiting our hooks for trout and I'll let out, "I wonder what the poor people are doing today!"...(Well, we're fishing for trout in the mountains...)

It's a great saying, by the way.

LOL! Fusilli in Italy!!

$5Au just returned from a weekend at Disney's Hilton Head Resort and noted that the poor people on the island seemed happier than the rich snobs.

I had to sign on to answer this. the world is ending. everyone knows I am perpetually signed in....great story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkivn_3z...
run for your life from any man that tells you money is evil
I am looking forward to meeting your dad. in the meantime....and yum, MUSSELS I like them with baby green beans garnished on the top and extra garlic bread on the side....
when force is the standard the pickpocket wins over you. you against them and them against you...so many great important concepts here.....

Bad mussels in Brussels. That there is a book title.

Lol... okay... here's the story.
My dad grew up poor... his dad was a mechanic in his own garage behind their tiny house (the garage was bigger than the house).. my grandpa was well known and was always busy because did good work and never charged much (the depression and all)... whenever the family was having a good time doing something that cost nothing or next to nothing he would smile and say "I wonder what the poor people are doing?" And then my dad said it to us all the time... when we were at the family cabin with no indoor plumbing or electricity playing board games or when we were floating around our above ground pool he scored for 50 bucks and had for 20 years... stuff like that. Fun on the cheap in my family always sparks someone saying that. My husband said it tonight at dinner... it was a holiday splurge for us. My grandpa also used to say "business is good. What I don't make in profit I make up for in volume." Busy and broke. Remind me sometime to tell you about their trip to Indiana...their attempted trip to Indiana.

this is my favorite meal. what's the reference to poor people??