Did you grow up in a poor or a wealthy family?

My family was on the poor side when it came to actual money, but it was RICH in live and love. And that suited us kids just fine. For "family" is more important to me than money is.

I grew up in a very poor family! You might not believe but I tasted wearing shoes when I was about to graduate in grade school. It is only by God's grace that I graduated in college and in post-graduate studies. It's a long story but it's my motivation to be different from my parents! I am establishing an online business that will be launched soon.

i also belong to a very humble and in an ordinary family and first of all i thaks to u who has started this discussion and we have to write and recall our childhood. our village is that where no light, and no other facility but our forefathers klept on studying and studying and now we are good to face the world thanks to study and our forefathers. Muhammad Atif atifshahzad1@yahoo.com

i guess,like you i grew up in a average family where you can say i was not lavished with costly gifts and as a result i think i became independant.i think it helped me later on.now i am married with 2 kids,comfortable but not wealthy

we was not considered poor nor wealthy. Somehow its in between but things doesnt come easy also. Sometimes you have to watch other kids belongings and feeling that you want something you can't. But eventually it made me strive rather than wait for "gracias". I guess eventually we should teach kids to work for something rather than give them immediate gratification. Through homeworks , rewards systems so that they will grow up feeling satisfied rather than spoonfed. I think that's how I felt when I was growing up.

I was raised in poor family. It is very difficult. We are seven in the family and all are girls. My father works as a driver and my mother stays at home. Remembering past really made me cry at times. I remember before when my father has temporarily off to work because logs are being banned and he has no logs to carry to truck to deliver, we have tried eating rice paired with salt. And also there was one time that because we have no money to buy for rice or for any food we used my our sister cereals which is also a grounded rice and have it cooked with lots of water so everybody can eat. During times we have money, we still have to budget, one fried fish should be divided into four equal parts so we can still have vian for the next meal, sometimes instead of meat to be mixed with vegetables, we use the fried fish. In spite of our being poor my father was able to send us all to school, that is why I admire my father so much.

Just like you I come from a middle-class family. That is, not much wealth but quite comfortable. I'm very thankful to God for a blessed life.

I didn't grow up in a poor or wealthy family. My dad made enough that my mom didn't have to work until all the kids started school. We didn't have any fancy things. We had good christmas. A big house with a big yard in a nice neighborhood. So I guess we were in the middle.

My mom was a single mother with seven kids. She worked as a waitress and didn't get any support from my dad who left the state right after the divorce to avoid paying (that was in the 70s before they started tracking men down for support), so yeah I guess we grew up poor. We didn't really know it though because we always had what we needed and never went hungry. It wasn't really a bad thing because it taught all of us kids to be independant and to realize if we really wanted something we would have to work to get it ourselves. As an adult I realize what my mother did was pretty amazing and I always try to make sure she knows that.

a poor family, since of course if you stay in one of the most remote areas of america it would be another story, but us living in a third world country, where you have to use all the resources around you. land for farming, water for fishing. we kids after school had to sell tomatoes to the local market just to prepare allowances for school for the next day, that if we do not work we cannot have money, and if we dont have money, we dont eat, or we have to walk a 4 kilometer distance to school. at home we need to do everything, everyone has to take all responsibility that is tasked for us. feed the hogs, the chickens, and to think these are not our herds or whatsoever you call them. they will be just taken by the owner in the time when they are big and ready to be slaughtered, and we get to be payed about 13bucks per animal slaughtered(if its fat and well rounded, only 8 bucks if defected) this is just a fragment of what we used to have, sad but true.

Amazing stories here, so far! We were poor but I didn't realize it. I thought everyone's dad worked two jobs and hunted for meat for the family. I thought everyone had mush for dinner sometimes. I'm glad I was raised like that, though. I'm very independent and can handle anything life throws my way.

My family grew up in the lower to middle class family situation .We lived within our means and not outside of them. We had food to eat, clothing and shoes to wearand a roof over our head and the bills were paid .To us that is all we needed for we had Our Mothers Love. To this day I still live the same way. As long as we have each other , food to eat even sometimes it isnt very much , clothes and shoes to wear and a roof over our head and our bills paid we are doing fine.For we are living with in our means and not outside of them.

i grow up on average family, i am not greedy but i always motivated to get more wealthy life. honestly everyday in my life i always thinking how come someone else could get better and wealthy life while we live on average. I never got advice or courage from my parents to be improve or better, usually they just taught me to look down and i am not agree with it. I believe faith is on our hand and we can change it as long as we fight for it.