What are some signs that indicate you grew up poor?

Eating quickly.

2 biggest signs:

They don't know how to budget.

They buy all the latest fashion BS and fads.

They don't make use of the knife when dining. A normal person uses the knife as a backstop to help scoop food onto their fork. A poor either awkwardly stabs and scoops at food that continues to escape them, or puts their thumb right in their plate to push things onto their fork. A normal person uses the knife to cut food. A poor leaves the knife sitting idly and instead cuts even the toughest of food with the edge of their fork.

Getting disproportionately mad when someone on IG tags you and says “you’re move”

Big & Rich

Red dirt road

Only in America

Great Scott!

You're a cheapo and you never pay for anyone else's tab. You don't buy your kids anything nice. You like the dollarama.

use of utensils wrote:

They don't make use of the knife when dining. A normal person uses the knife as a backstop to help scoop food onto their fork. A poor either awkwardly stabs and scoops at food that continues to escape them, or puts their thumb right in their plate to push things onto their fork. A normal person uses the knife to cut food. A poor leaves the knife sitting idly and instead cuts even the toughest of food with the edge of their fork.

I like how you call them a normal or a poor.

JayJay wrote:

besides being poor

Asking the question about signs you grew up poor is a DEAD giveaway you grew up poor.

I would say really crooked or bad teeth. Children of moderate or higher wealth tend to get braces and other corrective dental procedures.

use of utensils wrote:

They don't make use of the knife when dining. A normal person uses the knife as a backstop to help scoop food onto their fork. A poor either awkwardly stabs and scoops at food that continues to escape them, or puts their thumb right in their plate to push things onto their fork.

I've yet to see anyone born in the US use a knife and fork properly. Fork in the left and knife in the right when cutting, then you switch hands to shovel food in your mouths with the fork in your right hand smh...

buzzcolorado wrote:

use of utensils wrote:

They don't make use of the knife when dining. A normal person uses the knife as a backstop to help scoop food onto their fork. A poor either awkwardly stabs and scoops at food that continues to escape them, or puts their thumb right in their plate to push things onto their fork.

I've yet to see anyone born in the US use a knife and fork properly. Fork in the left and knife in the right when cutting, then you switch hands to shovel food in your mouths with the fork in your right hand smh...

And why would this matter to you unless you are in essence a sheep who needs to conform to the ways of the herd?

Have a buddy who grew up very poor. He is very smart and is successful now. In college, he worked at a fast food restaurant and saved up all his money to take a girl from an upper middle class family on a date. He ordered steak because he’d never had it. He gave the waiter a blank look when he asked how he wanted it prepared. Thankfully the girl helped him out. She later married him too.

Moron#5 wrote:

buzzcolorado wrote:

I've yet to see anyone born in the US use a knife and fork properly. Fork in the left and knife in the right when cutting, then you switch hands to shovel food in your mouths with the fork in your right hand smh...

And why would this matter to you unless you are in essence a sheep who needs to conform to the ways of the herd?

Eating with a knife is 19th century tech. Maybe if you're in a restaurant and have to slice up a tough steak, it could still be relevant. And even restaurants mostly serve finger food (burgers, fries, pizza) or at worst fork-eating stuff. Part of their job is to make the food easy for you to eat.

People rich enough for eating with a knife to still be normal are generally also rich enough for hemophilia and other inbred afflictions to be normal.

When you still call yourself Joe from Scranton.

Being stingy about electric and heat/cooling

Saving food/leftovers

Wearing clothes as long as their still good and not caring if they’re out of style

I went to one etiquette class in my life and they taught us kids to hold with the knife and pull away with the fork, as opposed to holding down with the fork and sawing with the knife. Now I think of it every freaking time I use a knife and fork.

You used slices of bread for hot dog and hamburger buns.

99 bottles of bears on the wall wrote:

2 biggest signs:

They don't know how to budget.

They buy all the latest fashion BS and fads.

I learned how to budget because I had to.

And I don't buy any fashion BS and fads.

use of utensils wrote:

They don't make use of the knife when dining. A normal person uses the knife as a backstop to help scoop food onto their fork. A poor either awkwardly stabs and scoops at food that continues to escape them, or puts their thumb right in their plate to push things onto their fork. A normal person uses the knife to cut food. A poor leaves the knife sitting idly and instead cuts even the toughest of food with the edge of their fork.

maybe i shouldnt have read this thread while eating my steak with a fork