I don't get the whole bread bag thing....

[trumad]

Did you have to be poor to use bread bags to keep your feet warm? It kind of sounds like a good idea---keep your feet dry, keep them warm.

I can easily see middle class people doing the same thing.

The again I'm a Floridian who wears Sandals.

[Avalux]

1. Doesn't really keep them warm, but will keep them dry I guess.

But you may end up in the hospital because you slipped and fell. As someone else pointed out, the bags go on the inside, at least from what I know. Old bread bags can be used for a lot of things.

[Brickbat]

2. Has nothing to do with warmth or keeping them dry. Putting bags on your feet makes it easier

to put the boots on, especially over shoes.

[HappyMe]

7. If your boots were leaky, it kept your feet warm and dry too.

I hated those red galoshes that we had to wear. There was always some malfunction with the zipper. My dad had the ones with the metal clasps.

[sammytko]

10. Exactly - some did this for chem warfare overboots

But it wasn't breadbags, but plastic grocery sacks. Helped slide the heavy combat boot into the chem boot.

But I never had a problem, so never did this.

[DetlefK]

3. People used to stuff newspapers in their shoes to stay warm.

Just because poor people use that trick, that doesn't mean you using the trick makes you poor.

[unrepentant progress]

4. Bags go over socks, inside boots, rubber bands around ankles.

It wasn't about being poor, or at least wasn't where I grew up, but about keeping your feet dry while playing or working outside in the snow.

[trumad]

6. That's what I thought

When I was in the military we used every trick we could think of to keep our feet dry. We knew once the feet were wet, all bets were off.

[Igel]

14. That's what came to mind for my childhood, too.

Parents each got a new car every 5 years on clockwork. Paid off 20 year mortgage in 10 years.

Both had decent jobs. Most of my friends' families had one breadwinner working a job like either of my parents. (Most moms were stay-at-home. Mine was too terrified of being an unemployed single mother again to stop working when she got re-married.)


This was back in the days when my parents had a draw full of breadbags, some re-used a dozen times. Don't even know if "storage bags" were for sale in the grocery stores back then. Reduce, reuse, recycle--with "recycle" not available, they certainly reduced and reused.



In a pinch, for really short-term use in cases where I outgrew my boots and there was an unexpected snowfall to play in, there'd be just breadbags over my Keds (and inside, as well, for when the exterior breadbags gave up the ghost).

[tridim]

5. Eat white bread, develop type 2 diabetes, wear bag to keep diabetic feet warm. nt

[Sunlei]

8. one tiny leak in 'waterproof' boots sucks!! in very cold places. I've always learned to use

plastic bags in between double socks as extra insurance against wetfeet

[djean111]

9. I think she misspoke, is all. And - bread bags over socks and under shoes or boots are a good

idea.
I spent 6 1/2 years, as a child, in a place called The Southern Home for Destitute Children. Forbidding place, took up the entire city block on 1700 South Broad St in Philly. Gone now, and there is a library there. Anyway, harsh life, and then even more harsh when my father regained custody, he was very poor, and hit a lot, and, even though I live in Florida now, my little toes still turn into white unfeeling wads when my feet get cold, from not having proper shoes to wear in the snow.
So - the jeering makes me very uncomfortable. Reminds me a bit of being a kid from The Home, when I attended Drexel Elementary School. Grew to wear being from The Home as a badge of honor. Oh, and back then, bread came in waxed paper wrappers, and we used the wrappers to sit on when we slid down the rusted sliding board.

All that being said, Ernst's politics are horrid, and she does not mean well for the poor.

[trumad]

11. Misspoke...

My point is---it's not a poor thing at all.

[djean111]

12. It may just a fantastic and logical convenience for some, and it may be the only difference between

cold, wet feet and dry feet for others.
This is not the important takeaway from her speech and her politics. She is awful.

[liberal N proud]

17. She was making it a poor thing, indicating that she pulled herself up by the breadsak aka:bootstraps

She didn't misspeak at all.

It is the age old republican projecting image bullshit.

[LeftinOH]

13. We did it all the time during the winter...and we weren't poor

bread bags go over stocking feet, then the feet go into the boots. Feet stay warmer and the socks don't get wet from boot leakage or snow getting in through the top of the boots.

My siblings and I did this - and so did lots of other kids during those long midwestern winters.

**It's not a poverty thing, it's a dressing-for-winter hack**

[Jefferson23]

15. Would you agree the most important thing is that we learned she was poor and that she

supports Iowans having a minimum wage of 7.25 an hour and spreads lies regarding why
she won't support an increase?

"I think $7.25 is appropriate for Iowa, but that's up for our state legislators to decide, and I'm willing to have those discussions at the state level."[33] In response to a report by the Congressional Budget Office report which projected that increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour would cost 500,000 jobs, but would lift 900,000 people out of poverty, Ernst stated that "government and government-mandated wage increases are not the solution—especially when doing so comes at the expense of the jobs of hard working Americans."[34]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Ernst

She was poor and others will stay that way..she is good with that.

[Stellar]

16. Republic0ns, looking to run on sympathy for poor people in 2016.

Mitt wants to help the 47% that he put down in 2012.

[CoffeeCat]

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[nruthie]

19. My family was so poor..

That we couldn't afford luxuries like store-bought bread. My Mother baked our bread, so we had no plastic bags in the first place. How I envied the little rich kids with their perfect Wonder bread sandwiches! My feet were always cold and wet in those horrible galoshes with the metal clasps.