Tangled Up In Lace

Me and Mom

ellenbee:

duhdoydorothy:

ME: She tried to shame me!
MOM: The cashier? Oh no.
ME: How dare someone wearing Uggs try to make ME feel bad.
MOM: Do you remember the Schnuck’s shuffle?
ME: I remember getting groceries at Schnuck’s…
MOM: When you guys were little, me and my other mom friends had a little con. If you didn’t have grocery money, but you knew you were getting paid in a day or two, you would just pay with a check and the money would be there by the time it went through.
ME: …
MOM: So basically, you write a hot check. That’s what you should have done! Then you’d have groceries.

1. my mom used to do this all the time
2. only at aldi or shop ‘n save, because schnuck’s was always a little too fancy for us

My mom too! Also using your credit card on weekends, so you could max it out way over the limit since all the charges will go through on Monday.

Also we for sure did the move where you throw every can on the ground to get a discount (when Big Daddy came out in theaters I sobbed at that part and every one of my middle class friends were like @_@ at me)

Or my mom would bring a washable marker into the thrift store and mark the clothes we wanted and ask for 50% off 

(Post reblogged from ellenbee)

Notes

  1. aenaithia reblogged this from lazyfuckingfemme
  2. meridianarc reblogged this from lazyfuckingfemme
  3. snackalupagus said: There’s this one restaurant where I live that doesn’t take checks but they take ours b/c they’ve known my dad so long, and I’ve def. written a bad check there b/c the grocery store now scans your stupid check and I was hungry.
  4. lazyfuckingfemme reblogged this from handling-it and added:
    or saving stickers from clearance items to take into the store again and put on new items. my mom used to talk realtors...
  5. tinycreepshow reblogged this from tangledupinlace and added:
    Yuppppp, my childhood in a nutshell pretty much.
  6. theinvasionofkittysworld reblogged this from tangledupinlace
  7. handling-it reblogged this from tangledupinlace and added:
    or buy something really expensive on your debit the weekend before you gotta pay things, when you know you’re gonna...
  8. names-of-fire reblogged this from tangledupinlace and added:
    oh heyyyy this is my childhood! see also: writing checks at all the different chinese take out places until we couldn’t...
  9. hardfemmeforever reblogged this from ellenbee and added:
    My parents definitely did this. Except at Kroger, obvs.
  10. winged reblogged this from tangledupinlace and added:
    I was privileged enough as a child to avoid some of these things, but these days I’ve definitely written checks hoping...
  11. internetsnarkivist reblogged this from tangledupinlace and added:
    my mom used to do the hot check thing too, usually when playing the utility game where you decide which one’s gonna get...
  12. jaymuhlee said: A+
  13. shegetsby reblogged this from tangledupinlace and added:
    The worst part(s) of this is that there are kids who have no idea what it’s like to grow up poor. No idea how it feels...