You haven't felt the struggle until you've taken the baking soda from the kitchen to brush your teeth with until payday. Extra points if it was a refrigerator deodorizer.

[–] Sprokes@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

I was watching the show Good Times about the struggle of poor black family. But after some episodes I felt it wasn't realistic and the family isn't really poor.

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 3 points 9 months ago

My family used to do that, but mostly because they were penny pinchers. Like we had money to buy toothpaste, they just wanted to save it for some nebulous reason. They also paradoxically used up a fuck ton of toothpaste every brush and that's why they ran out so often. I just used a pea-worth and managed to stretch it out