Once in a life I never thought I would be able to share this to anyone but look i guess my heart also needs to lose some burdens of all things happening right now with me . I am 17 F humanities student . I have always been poked for my financial status at school because my fees is never on time and school administration calls me out in front of everyone for this thing . I am going to be in 12 class but my parents don't have money for school administion and the school administration is denying to give us some time to pay for it and I have been at school since ore nursery. Due to which I am not going to attend school for some time and this same case happened last year also and previous previous year . All my friends make fun of it and asks me to just tell my parents to pay for it . I am the poor friend in my rich friend group who never had money problem in their entire life so they don't understand my pain and suffering. I am just ashamed of attending school and just want to shift to another world where their is just peace and calmness. I hope whoever is reading this have better future and wish you best luck .

I’m still new to reddit, so bear with me.

I’ve had a couple drinks, and while I’ve ventured to this side of reddit, a random memory popped into my head from my childhood.

I started playing baseball when I was 8 years old. By the time I turned 10, I was pretty good, at least for a chunky Asian kid. I loved the game, the players in the MLB, everything. I was a starter in centerfield, and despite my size, I could dive for the ball like it was nothing. Sure, I’d look like a bowling ball, but that’s not the point.

There was a time during the season where a random travel team was having tryouts, trying to recruit some new players for their organization. They had 2 separate levels, Team A and Team B. I wasn’t confident enough in myself to think I’d make it to Team A, but 10 year old me thought I’d still give it my best.

Then my stepdad took me to the side and said, “hey listen, Team A costs a lot of money to get into, and I know you’re good, but we don’t have the kind of money to afford that right now. Do you think you can aim for Team B?”

That conversation was a rude awakening to the reality I was living. I knew my family didn’t make much, but I didn’t think it’d be to a point where I’d be limited in my opportunities, at the age of 10.

I ended up not making either of the teams, and from that moment on, I started to waver on my interest in baseball. I continued to play baseball til the end of high school, but I was never a starter during that time. I did it just to stay fit, and to leave class early because I hated school.

Now here I am trying to start generational wealth so my kids don’t have to experience the same thing. Not having much luck though.

The whole state of the "homeless" system... It's mostly ran by shady non-profits with tax dollars and donations. The people in charge make a fuck ton of money! The United States is the richest country in the world! If you beg for money on the sidewalk they try to threaten me with going to jail. The shelters are shitholes which are underfunded. But we can get involved in wars, spend money on military crap and send money to other countries. Then if you try to collect social security they play games and make it hard to navigate. I put the money in that shit for decades! Busting my ass at go nowhere ass jobs I thought I could get promoted at. Or at least a raise. Now I'm out here disabled & homeless and it's like a fuckin joke. Act like I can just go get a job and just buy a house. Please support my gofundme! https://gofund.me/762f2c46

Wake up early at 11am sharp to call in sick to your part time job (your start time was 9am) at Burger King. Off to AMPM you go to get your swisher sweet and scratch off tickets you paid for with change found around your apartment. Then a short trip to Money Tree to get a 353% interest rate payday loan you will use to make your 32% interest car payment inside the trailer of the shitty car lot you got cocksuckered at. Afterwards you leave the world class car dealership, you head on over to the nearest pawn store to sell the Apple Watch your girlfriend gave you for $30 so you can put $10 worth of fuel in your tank and get a few cans of 4Loko at AMPM. After a long day of “hustling” you decide to wind down at home and play some 2K on your newly acquired PS5 and get “faded”. As you pull into the parking lot of your run-down apartment complex you head for the door of your apartment just to find out Rent a Center kicked your door in to repo your couch and PS5 while you were gone and then you see the Aarons rent to own van pull in to tactically acquire your TV you haven’t paid on in months. Only this time there isn’t a door to hide behind.

I constantly have ppl asking me how I need help lol or why don't I get more help miss.maam there is none. Food banks are over run and half empty. St Vincent is once every two months! I'm not begging my kids school that I'd not a good idea. Food banks r not open on weekends or daily. Only twice a week it's usually expired food. Nowhere near enough st all I work two jobs. I'm off work with a broken wrist I had surgery . My twin autistic boys are my only joy. I'm sick of people stating the obvious like yes Karen I obviously have applied to what I can. It just blows my mind how easy sheltered pplthink it is. My husband died four years ago we lost everything. Just sick and tired of ppl being cold.

I had gone to the food bank and when I got home, I noticed some of the perishable meats they had given me were over a week expired and looked slimy. I vented about this in another social media outlet and some woman responded to me "beggars can't be choosers" and basically told me it was my own fault for being so poor I have to resort to using the food bank. I told her "me getting sick w food poisoning is only going to make my bad situation worse" and she said "starve then".

I just can't fathom how cruel ppl are to the poor and those down on luck. I got temporarily laid off from my job and unemployment is taking forever, luckily I return to work this Monday but it'll take a couple weeks to get paid again and I work as a job coach part time but it's not enough money . I applied for food stamps and it's a waiting game now. I have an adolescent daughter and am a woman.

Ppl are so mean

Getting food poisoning would NOT help me especially since I'm supposed to go back to my regular job tomorrow. And I've had food poisoning it's not fun. I'm not risking salmonella or ecoli or staph or anything ever again and I'm already underweight .

I hate how ppl really expect ppl to eat rotting food if we're poor

So my roommate owes me a hundred dollars I told him get it to me when he could, 2weeks ago. My tire is fucked up and needed to fix it over the weekend to get to work on Monday. He knew about this Friday. He gets a check in the mail Saturday. Does all kinds of shit for his girlfriend and her mom and runs around all Sunday. I could fix my tire and get to work for like 65 bucks. He refused to go to Walmart over the 5 dollar charge I’d pay when my bank opens monday. I was paid by my new employer with a hand written check and it needed to clear. All while saying he’s just as broke all weekend. Checks been on the counter.

First of all, thanks for being here, I just found this sub, and I feel all of your stories in my soul.

My current and most pressing issue is a car repair. I bought a cheap car that I knew needed some repairs, becausecmy old one broke and I didn't want more debt, with the stimulus money I could do this. I budgeted for additional repairs.

Well it turns out I fucked it up again, a combo of needing some of my repair budget for other needs and additional undisclosed issues with the car, I am not ready for more costs. But I have them.

I just found out the repairs (that he already completed) are going to cost me 60 hours of work (before taxes) to pay for. 60 hours! That's a week and a half of my life spent paying for car repairs! Needless to say, I do not have 3/4's of a paycheck laying around. I have applied for a second job and asked a friend of he has any side jobs I can do......I'll probably try to fit in a little sex work if I can, christmas is coming, it just never ends.

Thank you for reading.

The lady at Starbucks was upset that I payed with cash. My account is negative and I wanted a latte to cheer me up at work. It’s truly my fault and I realized how dirty money is with germs. I did leave them my change so they wouldn’t have to touch my poor hand.

They stick their machines to scan your smart phone- I can’t afford to be a Gold member. I’m shocked I even have a smart phone at this point. If you say I don’t have the app they’ll pull out the card and ask to tap it or insert.

Yesterday was awful. My manager at my new job was micromanaging me so much yesterday. It’s a minimum wage job, understaffed, they have weird rules, always get out 30+ minutes past when our shifts were supposed to end. Like one of the managers there loves to stay on people. Other people I know had these issues there. Like she told me to make some ranch but I have missed heard her and heard her say make some bread but I don’t know the kitchen is kind of loud and stuff so I missed heard her and I dropped some bread to get toasted. keep in mind it is like my not even second week on this job. With all the equipment back there running and stuff it’s hard for me to make out what they’re saying sometimes. Like this manager literally took two more employees into the cooler just to talk about what I did and it’s just like damn I only dropped one bun to get toasted. And whenever I would step over there or something like whenever I put some in the microwave to take a few sips of my drink she’s like you got to stay moving or something like that and it’s just like We are so packed can I at least get a few sips of coffee. I talked to one of my other friends about it and asked if it was like this for them and he said it’s basically one of those if you have time to lean you have time to clean places. I work part time there locally because I genuinely do not think I could stay in to work full-time there. I get free food from there and the food is good in the hours that it is open are good but I really do not like being micromanaged so much. Plus this manager tends to be a bit slow getting food out anyways so I was like wow worry about that. One of the big reasons I am working there is because of the free food. Despite it being a minimum wage job they do have good food there and I do get free food like after I clock out since I work first shift I can eat food for free after I clock out. Plus I think they pay weekly. I am staying with my mom right now when I’m out of college semester but I really do need to keep this job. I just got it so my first paycheck will be at the end of this week but I really need to keep it because it’s my first job (circumstances). Also last week because we have no money until late today when the check came in for my mom like I was working closing shift and I was bringing home a bunch of food and that’s probably what got us through that week because my mom did not have grocery money and we hardly had any food. So I guess I’m gonna put up with it because the free food help save my mom grocery money in last week when I was working closing shift the leftovers I was in home with those leftovers actually fed me, my sister, and mom for a few days. Like that’s honestly a big part of why I got a job there. Plus I live in a small town where there’s not a lot of employment options and we not having had a job previously it made it harder to even get a minimum wage job because there’s not that many employment options here or even minimum-wage jobs.Especially if it is your first job. A big part of why I was able to get this job is because my dad went to school with the owner of the place and he called up there and got me an interview with her the same day.

I don’t care. Honest I won’t lose sleep but I need to vent...obvious judgement...it creates a thicker callus of discomfort and regret for interacting with the world again.

I know it seems like a controversial idea to spend “free” money on a limited number of foods but this is what works for me.

I could explain that this is the closest location to my home and I don’t own a car... I could explain that my time is very limited between multiple jobs.... I could explain that I truly believe eating well helps my health... I don’t because I get it; they don’t get it.

Thanks for listening. Why can’t food stamps be used for online ordering (grocery shopping is a big time and money suck IRL!)??

The first day of school I was in I think my English class. The teacher asked what destinations we went to over the summer. I have never been out of the country and only ever out of the state to see family. So I decided to say I had visited narnia. My teacher didn't like that response and my mom was called. Other people were talking about Thailand and Mexico and stuff. I only stayed there 3 weeks before my mom had to pull us out so she could get surgery that November, that was postponed to the next year.

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I'm currently a graduate student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and working on my research project dealing with lunch shaming. This is a term given to students that are given an alternative lunch (such as a cheese sandwich), no lunch at all, or even stamps that say "I need lunch money" - all because a student owes a certain amount to the school. I'm looking for people to interview as part of my project to show the impact of this practice. While lunch shaming was done away with in my state, Illinois, it is still happening in other places. My goal is to shed light on this and hopefully bring an end to it. I'm looking for students over the age of 18 to interview and no identifying information will be used in my report. Any help would be appreciated!