VA: The Biggest Tragedy of the Welfare System
Jun 8th, 2007
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Original post: The Biggest Tragedy of the Welfare System
Well said V.
I was raised (along with two sisters) by a single parent on unpredictable child support plus the income from grading papers and tutoring. Mom often made our clothes and, as you predicted, it made us somewhat of dweebs :-P. We also raised a lot of our own vegetables in our garden during the summers. That is one of the best things we did really, healthy home grown veggies that you can take pride in are worth having even if you can afford to get them at the store. The bulk of our remaining food came from surplus stores and coops at massively reduced prices. I don’t think I saw a name brand breakfast cereal at home until I was a teenager. Hell, we made our own granola.
The point here is that our household income was tiny compared to the cost of our mortgage, but we always had food and clothes. Thanks for the reminders of how hard my mom worked to care for us when we were tiny.