Never had it so good

[celeryman]

Further to the item on poverty earlier. I define poverty as when youve no shoes on your feet.or you cant afford a new needle for your gramaphone. Come on lets show them what poverty really means. Its when you havnt got a shilling for't gas meter .

[chadad]

Poverty meant shopping at the farthing shop. ( You took your own saucer )
You could purchase a farthings worth of jam, marge, bread ETC.
For our younger members, there were 960 farthings to the pound.
BTW. We were never allowed marge and jam on the same slice of bread.
And all bread was cut in " Door steps ", as it used less marge than two thinner slices.
If things should go bad then us Old-uns will cope.
But Gawd elp you young uns.

[joggerjayne]

i didnt have a starter with my takeaway tonight

[cazzz1975]

poverty means having to share half a raw onion for dinner

[dot.hawkes]

seriously, I think alot of modern day poverty is occurring when there are disfunctional families that are bad at managing money and organising their home life.

[dot.hawkes]

If i have a few potatoes, abit of cheese, half and onion and half a bag of flour and some margarine I can bake a cheese and onion pie, dinner plate size, and open a tin of 14p baked beans and feed 4 of us. it's filling and costs more in electric than it does in ingrediants, but it's worth it. (I'm lazy really and for me to bake it's a treat lol)

[terambulan]

Poverty was living in a nissan hut (only coal stove for heat) with icicles from roof to ground; iced windows. Keds (remember them) in Liverpool winter to walk to school in; sugar sandwich for lunch and being nicked by cop at 9y for stealing an apple & caned in front of class!

[imhotep]

We didn't have a main meal today.
We just had a couple of toasted teacakes,thats all for our evening meal.For lunch,I just had a small bowl of oats more cereal.

[sir.knobby]

well poverty means to me having to share a T bone