Deprived childhood
Evidently I had a deprived childhood. I never realized it before but it was what it was. If I was a kid this would be numero uno on my Christmas list.
This $120,000 Mini Aston Martin Lets Kids Live The Super Spy Life
The Little Car Company's replica of the Aston Martin DB5 features a smoke screen and hidden Gatling guns.
45 mph, smoke screen, gatling guns and all for a measly 120 grand! Bob
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I was 'deprived' but I certainly didn't have much that was 'required' and I worked for that.
My Grandsons were a bit peeved when I sold my 2001 Jeep Cherokee instead of gifting it to one of them. For one thing, I couldn't give something to one w/o giving similar to the other and I didn't feel either had put in the sweat equity to receive a vehicle.
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all i got was a potato and some plastic pieces
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I still have my favorite lump of coal I got in 1947.
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coal and taters, ma always said not to play with your dinner............ you guys were lucky
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My prize is the erector set Grandma bought me one young Christmas. She later mentioned she regretted that since I took everything apart in her home.
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My grandma gave me a shiny silver half dollar for my 6th birthday. It was real silver even as that was all there was back then. I lost it in a snow bank as I was getting out of my dads car in our gravel driveway. I found it again when I was around 11 or 12 out in the yard while I was raking leaves!
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Brookwood: 30933649394843/comments/30933634258459
My grandma gave me a shiny silver half dollar for my 6th birthday. It was real silver even as that was all there was back then. I lost it in a snow bank as I was getting out of my dads car in our gravel driveway. I found it again when I was around 11 or 12 out in the yard while I was raking leaves!
When I was a kid I would get real silver dollars every year for Christmas. I had between 30 and 40 of them stashed in a box in my dresser. When I went away to college mom decided that they weren't earning any interest just sitting there so she put them in the bank at a whopping 4% interest. Fast forward a few years and the Hunt bros drove the price of silver up to near $40 an ounce. She had forgot she had deposited them and asked if I was going to cash them in? I reminded her what she had done and then just smiled and said that in 10 years they had probably doubled in the bank. I never said anything else. Bob
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" I had a deprived childhood"................ my mother was a little 'slip' of a woman, maybe a 32 A ............does that count? 😘
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We had full bellies,clean clothes ,roof over our heads and parents that loved us . We didn't have fancy toys and such but a house filled with love and a God made up for it .
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pulsarnc: 30933649394843/comments/30933620993307
We had full bellies,clean clothes ,roof over our heads and parents that loved us . We didn't have fancy toys and such but a house filled with love and a God made up for it .
Yep, same.
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We were so poor, my dad would go buy groceries and not have a drop of liquor in the house.
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As a young teen, I had a sleepover at a friend's house. Went home the next day and my mom had packed up, took my brothers and disappeared. Gone. Even emptied my bank savings account. No clue where she went,
NO vette, NO MG, No Ferrari, not even a bug. Does that count as deprived????
But grandma owned the house, so I had a place to stay. (she lived elsewhere) No food, no money, too young to get a "real" job. Lots of bills, electric, gas, water, etc. Fun times.
Accidentally saw my mom a few years later. Just happened to be shopping at the same grocery store. Found out she went to Montana with some guy, then came back to Colorado after a few years. Had a good relationship with her from then, until she passed in 91.
R.I.P. Mom
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pickenup: 30933649394843/comments/30933623103771
As a young teen, I had a sleepover at a friend's house. Went home the next day and my mom had packed up, took my brothers and disappeared. Gone. Even emptied my bank savings account. No clue where she went,
NO vette, NO MG, No Ferrari, not even a bug. Does that count as deprived????
But grandma owned the house, so I had a place to stay. (she lived elsewhere) No food, no money, too young to get a "real" job. Lots of bills, electric, gas, water, etc. Fun times.
Accidentally saw my mom a few years later. Just happened to be shopping at the same grocery store. Found out she went to Montana with some guy, then came back to Colorado after a few years. Had a good relationship with her from then, until she passed in 91.
R.I.P. Mom
WOW
that would be a tough pill to swallow and making up years later your a better man than I could have been .
glad you got it worked out and did get to spend time with her .
we were poor as could be , but mom and dad stuck together scratched out a living for us , I guess at least we had a family , little else but hearing your story in that sense I was a lucky one
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