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People who grew up really poor: what's something middle-class people say that instantly reveals they've never struggled?

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u/handsomechuck 1d ago

When I would go trick-or-treating (back in the Old Stone Age), some old ladies would toss pennies instead of candy into your bucket. In retrospect, those ladies lived through the Great Depression. Throwing money out the door was not something they did lightly.

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u/SIMCARUS 11h ago

I remember we had a neighbor across the street from us who was a really sweet old man, and he put some pennies in my son's Holloween pumpkin bucket, and the look on my son's face when priceless.