Hahaha!!!! It's so true!!! Being poor has qualified us as the crunchiest of crunchy! All organic? I can't afford food. I grow my own. Can't afford lawn equipment or weed spray, I have to weed by hand! No gas, 20 year old car is broken down again anyways, so we have all the time to pull weeds and smash bugs. Can't afford eggs, catch some stray chickens in back ally and use them for free eggs and bonus free fertilizer. Chicken gets old, husband butchers it and yay we have meat for a week. Repeat a day long hell that is trapping more feral chickens. Although the kids love that part. I hate when people come out about how killing animals is so inhumane. If my family didn't get to hunt a couple times a year, my kids would probably be anemic and wasting from lack of good source of iron and complete protein.
Can't afford cleaning.chemicals, make.own using vinegar and baking soda or salt or even lemons. Hell, i've even turned my pee into ammonia.
Yup. Crunchy is glorified poor-thays-not-poor. My husband is pissed that we carry this stigma of crunchy over us now. He's had the same flannel jacket for 20 years and called a redneck loser to boot at his job for it, now over last two years every guy he works with has a studded, dry cleaner pressed name brand version of his ratty flannel, and he is offended to.say the least.
My kids love to dig in dirt with spoons... we can't afford a TV or cable. We scrounge to keep our Internet up, and that's as good as its gonna get.
Have hhad crunchy mom's come over and lament "oh how do you do it???" And I want to skull punch them and respond with "bc that's as good as it gets around here!"
Don't qualify for assistance, but I must add we have love and happiness. We have ac/heat when we need it, electricity and a sturdy home that we actuallu own. Our children survive on handmedowns and my well off parents give the kids new nice shoes and nicer clothes through the seasons. They gift our kids museum memberships or other heftier priced items for "my" birthday and christmas gifts. My dad always scolds me for being poor, while he pays out the ass to hhave the same exact lifestyle I have, and he's also quite bitter and constantly stressed from keeping up with jones.
BTW crunchy moms, your apples are sprayed with antibiotics...yep...the organic $5/lb ones!
Sorry, your comment so struck a chord with me!