cheap parents growin up

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i felt lucky myself because i was a only child........ but i would hear stories from my friends growin up about how stingy their parents(or maybe one parent) was in their household.... do you have any stories to share?l
 
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My mother wasn't cheap she just didn't have it. My father didn't want me to go to prison but at the same time. He was a if you want it that bad go and get it how you live type of nigga. So I if I chose crime as how I got what I wanted. I also had to accept the consequences that come with that cause ain't no snitches allowed in the house.
 
Lol. This is hilarious.

Cheap? Niggas ain’t have the luxury of DECIDING to be cheap. My mom worked two jobs and made the shit happen for me and my sister. I wouldn’t have ever dreamed of saying to myself ‘Why won’t she buy me so and so? She so cheap!’. Na. I knew what time it was. Niggas was tryna keep the lights on.
 
There's a difference between being cheap and not having it.

In the beginning working two jobs to keep shit running while still making sure we had everything we needed and not asking my dad for a damn thing

my momma was a hustler in every sense of the word.
 
Shit was tight coming up..I grew up on a budget.

Only child, mother always worked. We always had. Shit was just never top of the line.

I wore hand me downs or shit from salvation army. We had name brand cereal, but my toys and videogames never came in the real boxes.

Like essentials were always there. Always. Never went hungry, cold, in the dark... None of that. Mom's never had "friends" to take care of shit like a lot of the homies did..... We were always blessed.

But I never been a fly nigga or had the latest anything. That was never my life.
 
Same deal as a lot of folks here. parent(s) trying their damnedest to make ends meet.

It kinda goes both ways tho. Some kids expect too much.

If humble conditions is all a kid has known since infancy they'll likely become conditioned to that. We accepted it. When holidays came 'round we got our little money to buy things we normally couldn't just ask for. It made it sweeter in a way.
 
My dad was always weird to me because growing up he always wanted to stunt but was always crying broke at the same time. I think he just might have been a stereotypical military dude blowing his money on dumb shit except there weren't chargers and challengers back then
 
Not cheap. Just broke. I'm not cheap with my kids though. I splurge like a muthafucka on them and I love it. My mom does too and we love that shit. She loves giving them things she couldn't get us when we were little.

One of my favorite things as an adult is spoiling my kids. As a kid who knows what the other end of that spectrum looks like I don't ever want my kids to have to feel that.
 
Now I'm cheap, but when it comes to my daughter I tend to go out my way for her, within reason.

The older I get the less I enjoy spending money. Seeing money leave my bank out just don't sit right with me. Unless it's food. No limits on good food
 
my father made way more money than my mother working growing up............... for the nicer things i wanted he would make it happen quick.... my mother was the cheap one in the family ......... i understand she worked hard too but she seemed real bothered by the money my father made as opposed to her.......... my mother was so cheap she could squeeze a quarter till the eagle screamed.
 
My parents were always cheap towards me cause my older brother and sister finessed them out if everything so when I was coming up the answer was always no. I just dealt with it for the most part and would just rock my older bros shit whenever I could dnatch something unnoticed. But they bought me some payless shoes for back to school in grade 8. Went in and mfs werent even clowning but I knew them shits was wack and they could afford better and that was the straw that broke the camel's back. I vowed not to go to school until they got ne something name brand. I got my tv privileges took, wasn't allowed to touch no video games or my comics but I held out 2 weeks until they compromised and got me some filas. Cause I was deadass never going back to school in those shoes. Filas were trash themselves but they was brand name at least so I was happy.

In hindsight they were just adulting and bought me cheap shit cause I was out growing everything by the month but that shit was wack in the moment. As soon as I was legally able to work the next summer at 14 I started working and haven't been without a job or hustle more than 2 months since. Wasn't making much but enough that I didn't have to beg for shit. It was always 2-3 weeks away.

Funny tho. Cause I'll be damned if I spend over $100 on some shoes now. My $70-90 under armour and Reebok shoe game is serious. Lol. And all I wear is black hanes tees, and hoodies, with jeans or sweats. My wardrobe almost exclusively all from amazon and half the time I tell em I ain't even get the delivery.

I got a couple suits, button ups and dress shoes just incase but it's been a couple yrs since I've had any reason to put those on. And they probably too big now cause I lost weight.

Funny how life work.
 
I thought my parents were cheap, and they kind of were, but really I just had wealthy friends as a kid. Like the neighbor kid's dad was a doctor and I wondered why they always had more and way nicer shit.
 
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