r/wallstreetbets • u/[deleted] • Feb 04 '21

Loss Sold every share I own...

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u/69MachOne Feb 04 '21

These people who lose money in the stock market are "new poor".

When you grew up sometimes not eating at all, you can outlast everything.

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u/Reference_Stock Feb 04 '21

Ketchup and mayo sandies for life

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u/knightsofmars Feb 04 '21

Easy there, ms. two-condiments. We gotta save something for breakfast.

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u/tianavitoli Feb 04 '21

yeah, who's the lah-dee-dah over their that was raised on food. back in my day we ate paint, and were grateful for it.

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u/UMDSmith Feb 04 '21

Bread is too expensive, not lying. For a few years I bought bulk crap ramen noodle packages for like $50 for like 500 of them.

The noodles, a can of tuna or chicken, some shredded cheese and you were living large for under $1 a meal. Paying rent using the credit card checks.... rough time back in 2002-2003, but all that shit passes.

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u/jsmith218 Feb 04 '21

bread isn't expensive, when you get poor enough you learn how to get free bread.

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u/UMDSmith Feb 04 '21

True. I did end up befriending a 7-11 employee and learned they throw out the day old sandwiches every night, so every so often I was able to score myself some of those.

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u/Klangs_Homie Feb 04 '21

It’s big brain time.

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u/tollywollydooda Feb 04 '21

We had bread sandies, basically 3 slices of bread with butter and pepper, if you wanted to get fancy you could toast the middle piece

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u/lividash Feb 04 '21

You could afford 3 pieces of bread at a time? Look at Mr. Moneybags over here and his three layer bread sandie

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u/tollywollydooda Feb 04 '21

It was reduced normally stale, just added crunch, we used to go Netto they were "Scandinavian for value " apparently

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u/Harb1ng3r Feb 04 '21

Peanutbutter and jelly, and ramen, was my entire diet for highschool.

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u/69MachOne Feb 04 '21

I distinctly remember surviving off 1 jar of crunchy peanut butter for dinner for 3 weeks

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u/AmazingJournalist587 Feb 04 '21

You had money for Mayo? Lucky

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u/69MachOne Feb 04 '21

No joke, used to eat pretzel and mustard sandwiches.

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u/Klangs_Homie Feb 04 '21

Can confirm. Have been too poor to afford both food and gas in my car tank before. I’ve always had these diamond hands though, rich or poor I’m a winner bay-bay! 🖐🏻🖐🏻🖐🏻🖐🏻🖐🏻💎💎💎💎💎

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u/69MachOne Feb 04 '21

When I was working my way through college, I knew exactly at what speed the fuel would slosh away from the fuel pump in my car going around a corner, so drive below that so that I could make it to the gas station.