After I left home, it was a real shock to have long showers. © DontCareTo / Reddit
We stopped on the way to the game to eat, but of course, I didn’t have enough money to eat.
I just told everyone that I wasn’t hungry. It was fine; I was just happy to be going along.
I kept waiting to give her the money for the ticket, but she ended up never taking it from me, even though I offered a few times. © aswoff / Reddit
My mom also used to cry during nights because we didn’t have any money.
Then, my mom didn’t eat much for a few months because she wanted to buy me an Atari, so I could be a programmer.
I’m now a successful programmer. © Unknown user / Reddit
Turns out, they couldn’t afford to feed my sister and me dinner, so we’d pop in on some close friends that had enough. © beegeemeegee / Reddit
I had just gotten a new pair of glasses when I bent over, and one of the lenses fell out and shattered.
I was too terrified to tell my parents, and a friend of mine suggested that I remove the other lens and just wear the frames until we figured out how to get them repaired.
I was blind as a bat without my glasses, extremely nearsighted, but out went the other lens, and I went around in a world of blur for about a week.
Another friend came to see me, and in front of my mother, poked her fingers through my glasses frames and asked where my lenses were!
My mom was shocked and told me that I didn’t have to do that, and we went and got new glasses for me that day. Crazy! © ShermanOakz / Reddit
I didn’t know about this, but it was really upsetting to find out as a kid just how bad things were.
I couldn’t buy all of the $1 items other kids got at school during book fairs or extra items for lunch.
I’m really grateful for everything my mom has done for me now, though, and I try to do as much as I can to support her. © LtWolf926 / Reddit
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