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In reply to the discussion: Who among us wore bread bags on our shoes while growing up? [View all]Suich
(10,642 posts)22. If you were that poor,
you would not be buying bread that came in plastic bags. You would be making your own.
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Her mom probably put freeze bags on her feet so when she put her feet in her boots it was insulated.
SummerSnow
Jan 2015
#102
So Like Ernst other lies, and they are doozies, this one was based in some truth
NoJusticeNoPeace
Jan 2015
#77
If she wore bread bags as shoes on her feet to school, the school officials would have made a trip
SummerSnow
Jan 2015
#111
After listening to her argle bargle I think she wore that bag on her head too long.
kairos12
Jan 2015
#6
Five, all in buster browns too, every august before school started. They lasted all school year.
Dont call me Shirley
Jan 2015
#85
We wore Buster Browns too. I remember my teacher told me my daddy is rich if he buys me BB...
SummerSnow
Jan 2015
#103
I call total BS. I wore plastic bags on the INSIDE of my boots sometimes
Peregrine Took
Jan 2015
#10
It's that yellow thing you got on after walking ten miles uphill in the snow
jmowreader
Jan 2015
#95
This idiot made it sound like every kid in Iowa walked around with bread bags on their feet.
BlueJazz
Jan 2015
#106
I remember putting them *inside* our shoes in the snow to waterproof them. But...
LeftyMom
Jan 2015
#21
We were poor but it resulted in no bread making thankfully as my mother was not a baker.
TheKentuckian
Jan 2015
#123
I didn't say that no one bakes bread ever, I'm saying I don't know all of these poor or any bakers
TheKentuckian
Jan 2015
#166
I've known people who lived in poverty who didn't wear bread bags outside their shoes
jmowreader
Jan 2015
#51
You have already stated that the farmers you know don't know how to make bread cheaper than
tabasco
Jan 2015
#137
20 miles, one way to school. And when I got home I had to put it back on the bread.
jtuck004
Jan 2015
#61
But she's not saying what you are. She says she and all the other kids wore them outside their shoes
pnwmom
Jan 2015
#82
I don't know why people would wear the sacks outside their shoes since the point in the sacks is
JDPriestly
Jan 2015
#150
I wore plastic bags in my shoes when I was in college. I did not have good shoes. I worked
JDPriestly
Jan 2015
#66
Over your shoes? How long would they last walking around in a gritty winter street? n/t
pnwmom
Jan 2015
#76
While we laugh at this person, let us not forget what her agenda is for YOU
NoJusticeNoPeace
Jan 2015
#78
Lot's of us did such things, for me it was hand me down shoes that already had holes in the soles.
braddy
Jan 2015
#83
If she was wearing them over her shoes and walked 50 feet over gravel or pavement
tularetom
Jan 2015
#87
Definite bread bags in Chicago - but only on the inside to keep our socks dry.
CincyDem
Jan 2015
#107
I grew up on a farm, too, but there weren't such things as plastic bread bags...
countryjake
Jan 2015
#112
No, it wasn't much weather to dictate such a thing either though. We get snow but not often a lot
TheKentuckian
Jan 2015
#130
I used to put pieces of cardboard in my shoes when the soles whore through.
demosincebirth
Jan 2015
#133