05-08-2012, 05:08 PM
I was raised in a family of 9 kids, we never had much money, I'm glad that my parents didn't consider that a motivating factor at my birth and bury me in the back yard.
It wasn't always easy and as kids if we wanted extra we had to do things to get it, but none of that started until we were old enough to do it, kids needs are pretty simple if I remember right, a meal a bed and hug or two a week was sustaining and enough.
I didn't wear 100 dollar tennis shoes when I was 7 or 8 but I didn't care I had a pair of shoes to play in and a pair to wear to school.
of course we didn't have computer games or a TV in every room of the house either, and our washing machine was a maytage but it was outside and had rollers on top and we had a clothesline in the summer and a dryer in the winter never both at the same time.
It wasn't always easy and as kids if we wanted extra we had to do things to get it, but none of that started until we were old enough to do it, kids needs are pretty simple if I remember right, a meal a bed and hug or two a week was sustaining and enough.
I didn't wear 100 dollar tennis shoes when I was 7 or 8 but I didn't care I had a pair of shoes to play in and a pair to wear to school.
of course we didn't have computer games or a TV in every room of the house either, and our washing machine was a maytage but it was outside and had rollers on top and we had a clothesline in the summer and a dryer in the winter never both at the same time.
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