Never had any money, but all her kids were married in the temple, served mission

Jan 13, 2022
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Nat Gas Man Truly Addicted User

and stayed active. She passed away in 2020 at the age of 99. All her friends and family died long before. And while she was the poorest of the family after my father was killed, she outlived all the rich, famous and in between.

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Nat Gas Man

Previous username: TXSmith
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Joined: Apr 28, 2010
Last login: Aug 23, 2023
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When did you first realize you weren’t part of the upper crust of society?

OU Cougar

1/13/22 9:38am

When my Dad told me I need to ration crackers. I could only have 3.

Mister P

1/13/22 9:41am

I always knew I was poor. My parent told us so and I had eyes. Growing up I thought anyone with a 2 story home or a

Slim

1/13/22 9:42am

Same story. It was easy to see that my friends had a lot more and nicer stuff.

OPINIONS

1/13/22 10:11am

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I'mYourHuckleberry

1/13/22 9:42am

Wow! You lived Little House on the Prairie season 2 episode 1.

JAGA97

1/13/22 9:43am

When my parents couldn't afford extra-curriculars like the other kids' parents.

byujdmba

1/13/22 9:44am

I was on that other side of the fence.. but my realization that people hate rich

cougfanz

1/13/22 9:44am

Thankful for Timpview. Every party I attended in high school would have been in a field by Utah Lake otherwise.

mokelembembe

1/13/22 10:00am

When our truck got repoed the day after Christmas.

JAGA97

1/13/22 9:45am

When we went to pick up a girl for a date and ended up having to push-start

Thrill

1/13/22 9:45am

We?

JuicyJam

1/13/22 9:47am

He and his Mom, obviously.

kccougar

1/13/22 9:48am

I didn’t have my license yet.

Thrill

1/13/22 9:49am

You had a station wagon with a clutch? Wow!

Big Daddy D

1/13/22 9:47am

I always wondered that about Karate Kid - is there such a vehicle?

Tricky

1/13/22 12:41pm

I'm sure that there is - without a doubt.

Eddie

1/13/22 1:16pm

According to one website, some people think that was a goof in the movie but

Tricky

1/13/22 3:34pm

RE: When we went to pick up a girl for a date and ended up having to push-start

Doctor Rosenrosen

1/13/22 9:48am

Totally have a clip of it here too..

VACOUGFAN

1/13/22 9:49am

Such a classic scene. Apparently the brick falling wasn't planned.

Bill Moore Esq

1/13/22 9:54am

Haha! Went to pick up my first date from Woodland Hills and we ran out of gas.

Wyomingite

1/13/22 4:22pm

They were also in the same tax bracket as you 🙂

BYUFootballisBack

1/13/22 4:32pm

Ha, no. I did get to go inside her house.

Wyomingite

1/13/22 4:37pm

Everyone in the US shares at least 1 tax bracket, taxes are tiered not flat

BYUFootballisBack

1/13/22 4:41pm

Pretty sure I always knew.

Eddie

1/13/22 9:49am

I did some work for a pilot that flies for Netjets. The stories he had about

N8Dawg

1/13/22 9:50am

That story helps one understand that being rich does not equal being smart.

Mitty

1/14/22 10:46am

If you are that rich, im sure they didn't even notice it

BYUFootballisBack

1/14/22 10:54am

He was some fund manager worth 200 million. I am sure he did not notice much.

N8Dawg

1/14/22 3:29pm

When our Christmas tree was tacked to the wall in the shape of a tree one year

Forest Green

1/13/22 9:50am

When I could only afford an 18" flat screen to mount to my living room wall.

Windward_Coug

1/13/22 9:50am

Multiple vasectomies and reversals can't be cheap

Ojiisan

1/13/22 10:00am

My parents were children of the depression so o knew from Day 1 nor did I care

BYU Grounds

1/13/22 9:51am

On a lighter note I knew when I got my twice handed down underwear LOL

BYU Grounds

1/13/22 9:52am

When more and more "Deseret" branded food made its way into our pantry

LBCougar

1/13/22 9:55am

Remember that weird powdered orange drink? What WAS that stuff?

Slim

1/13/22 9:56am

🙂 a church version of Tang...I think...

LBCougar

1/13/22 9:57am

Some of that food was legit, though. That granola...

Wyomingite

1/13/22 4:23pm

When. four of us lived in a one bedroom WWII hut at Ricks College

Nat Gas Man

1/13/22 9:56am

How did things turn out for her later?

CBaass

1/13/22 10:02am

Never had any money, but all her kids were married in the temple, served mission

Nat Gas Man

1/13/22 10:15am

RE: When. four of us lived in a one bedroom WWII hut at Ricks College

Mister P

1/13/22 10:45am

one trip to Monaco will make you feel that way no matter how much you got.

zephyr

1/13/22 9:57am

I was doing a tour of the inland waterway in Ft Lauderdale one day. then the

Nat Gas Man

1/13/22 10:00am

Haha - a few weeks ago we were in Miami and decided to drive through a really

crack

1/13/22 10:01am

When all my friends started getting their own cars for their 16th birthdays

TXJason

1/13/22 9:59am

This is the mindset it seems like a lot of CBers currently have, they think they

BYUFootballisBack

1/13/22 11:13am

A guy in my ward had a 7500 square foot house with a pool and tennis court.

Bill Moore Esq

1/13/22 10:00am

I always kind of new it.

SpanishFork12

1/13/22 10:00am

Grew up in a very small rural town.

Corn

1/13/22 10:02am

Sounds like Milford.

tacocat

1/13/22 10:48am

When we slaughtered and ate the rabbits we were raising.

crack

1/13/22 10:03am

same, lol!

The Pope

1/13/22 10:06am

RE: When we slaughtered and ate the rabbits we were raising.

CBaass

1/13/22 10:07am

You mean that’s where they went? They didn’t run off in the middle of the night

kotacoug

1/13/22 10:12am

When every few years we had a “DI” Christmas and half the toys didn’t

R.Nichols

1/13/22 10:08am

Board games for Christmas with missing crucial pieces to the game. My favorite!

CougarTailDevourer

1/13/22 10:13am

Colored tic tacs make great game pieces.

JAGA97

1/13/22 10:21am

My parents hardly had the time to come to my sporting events. I'd have to ask coaches and friends for rides. My parents

Vincent's Picks

1/13/22 10:20am

I always knew but one thing that sticks out was a high school teacher

bluelands

1/13/22 10:37am

When our pantry was full of church brand food and we got an anonymous jar of money on our doorstep during holidays

Jimo Dashen

1/13/22 10:56am

Early on when I realized my friends didn't use powdered milk on their cereal.

Mtbcoug

1/13/22 10:59am

When friends' families invited me to vacations to a beach rental or a cabin near

vagabonder

1/13/22 11:01am

Not to get too sentimental or emotional here

Ned Schneebly

1/13/22 11:06am

Man having kids, I can only imagine the pain that would cause me 🙁

BYUFootballisBack

1/13/22 11:21am

I haven’t stopped crying since writing the post above. It rips my heart apart

Ned Schneebly

1/13/22 12:12pm

Also, our only time a year to go out to dinner was when income tax returns came

LBCougar

1/13/22 11:08am

Our family car was a Studebaker. It was pretty obvious.

bob falfa

1/13/22 11:12am

Pretty obvious from my favorite movies.. Richie Rich, The First Kid, Blank Check

BYUFootballisBack

1/13/22 11:22am

Favorite movies as a kid, were all about the rich kid getting everything

BYUFootballisBack

1/13/22 11:23am

When my parents got in a fight about whether to do subsidized/free lunches.

jvquarterback

1/13/22 12:02pm

My Dad had that fight - but it was with me. It was a short fight.

Eddie

1/13/22 1:20pm

10¢ for bread and some ham when I was a kid. Dad provided just fine.

jvquarterback

1/13/22 1:59pm

I'm sure I could've taken lunch from home if I wanted.

Eddie

1/13/22 2:15pm

In grade school people wanted hot lunch, in JHS the cool kids packed lunch.

jvquarterback

1/13/22 3:33pm

Too bad you didn't go to my kid's schools. Lunch is free for all students. I don't know how they do it, but its all free

vegasnative

1/13/22 2:07pm

There are some schools that are able to base it on a high % of kids who...

Eddie

1/13/22 2:10pm

Canyons School District in Salt Lake is

tacocat

1/17/22 9:37pm

A lot of districts are using federal Covid relief money this year to do it.

Eddie

1/18/22 8:42am

If a high enough percentage of a school qualifies for free or reduced lunch the whole school gets free lunch under title

CDV

1/13/22 7:51pm

Anyone else grow up on powdered milk, or know what "TVP" is?

byujdmba

1/13/22 2:23pm

of course

Nat Gas Man

1/13/22 2:44pm

🙋‍♂️ had them both. TVP was so nasty we ended up using it for dog food poor dog

BYU Grounds

1/13/22 2:48pm

The worst was when the reconstituted milk was still room temp and w/ lumps.

byujdmba

1/13/22 4:03pm

we used to mix whole milk in with the powder but my 2 older brothers kept drink

BYU Grounds

1/13/22 4:25pm

Luckily our move to 2% came earlier. Also the move from margarine->butter. Yum!

byujdmba

1/13/22 6:22pm

I grew up on powdered milk. I dunno what TVL is…. I knew when kids wouldnt sleep

Cougarite

1/13/22 6:29pm

TVP=textured vegetable protein, used in the 70s as a storable meat substitute

byujdmba

1/13/22 6:41pm

Haha thanks. Luckily we didn’t have that. Has lots of liver & onions though😭

Cougarite

1/13/22 6:48pm

I actually have some in my long term food storage. I’ve snuck it into my kids

Nat Gas Man

1/14/22 8:04am

This reminds me of my favorite Monty Python sketch.

dangit

1/13/22 3:02pm

Ok, I could barely make it through that. So funny! I’d never seen it before

IntelCougar

1/13/22 11:16pm

When my wife taught at a school where the multi-millionaires were looked down

Emmett Fitz-Hume

1/13/22 4:56pm

Where? Beverly Hills?

Penske Material

1/13/22 5:31pm

could be Jackson Hole as well

Nat Gas Man

1/13/22 8:46pm

RE: When my wife taught at a school where the multi-millionaires were looked down

sethj250

1/13/22 9:05pm

When we lived in Italy. The best part was when they would come to school for PT

Emmett Fitz-Hume

1/14/22 5:13am

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juantoad

1/13/22 10:42pm

Tough years. I remember in N. Orem all the lawns going yellow as water got shut

OU Cougar

1/13/22 10:51pm

When I realized other kids had beds that were just beds & didn’t fold up to be the living room sofa by day.

Soupie

1/14/22 6:29am

When we became the go to household to be asked to watch the neighbors pets while

pinolero

1/14/22 10:49am

Middle school. Guess/Girbaud > Rustlers/Lee/Wrangler

Hyrum in Houston

1/14/22 12:27pm

I don’t really have a story like this…looking back I realized I had it pretty great…

JOPE

1/14/22 5:33pm

I was starting to wonder if anyone was gonna respond with a "positive" story, my

BYUFootballisBack

1/14/22 6:40pm

When the only shoes my parents could afford for us were Pro Wings from Payless.

SingleStrapBackpack

1/14/22 11:39pm

I got a pair of XJ 900s at Payless. I was walking on air I loved them so much.

pinolero

1/15/22 12:36pm

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