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I grew up poor, not dirt poor, but poor, and I've never heard of this dissentient Jan 2015 #1
Ditto. nt Jamaal510 Jan 2015 #162
Cardboard inside, to cover the holes. braddy Jan 2015 #2
Not *on* our shoes unrepentant progress Jan 2015 #3
ha! ya beat me marym625 Jan 2015 #7
The thing that concerns me... jmowreader Jan 2015 #9
same here KT2000 Jan 2015 #15
We did the same thing... 3catwoman3 Jan 2015 #17
We did it too... MgtPA Jan 2015 #47
I was gonna say that too hfojvt Jan 2015 #28
Must be a NY thing MattBaggins Jan 2015 #48
That's exactly right. cilla4progress Jan 2015 #54
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
Same. joshcryer Jan 2015 #60
It made the boots much easier to get on and off, too. Mariana Jan 2015 #62
Yes that's how I remember it. BlueState Jan 2015 #93
That was certainly our motivation. Mariana Jan 2015 #128
So Like Ernst other lies, and they are doozies, this one was based in some truth NoJusticeNoPeace Jan 2015 #77
Same here. I think she's full of shit. we can do it Jan 2015 #96
If she wore bread bags as shoes on her feet to school, the school officials would have made a trip SummerSnow Jan 2015 #111
her skirts were made out of rocks and she was damn happy to have them dembotoz Jan 2015 #142
I wore them more to get my feet out of my snow boots easier. GoCubsGo Jan 2015 #154
Grew up on Long Island, NY phylny Jan 2015 #155
They went inside the shoe marym625 Jan 2015 #4
Yep. Except for the doctor's kids. unrepentant progress Jan 2015 #14
Well! marym625 Jan 2015 #25
Mine didn't even match Blue Owl Jan 2015 #5
lol dissentient Jan 2015 #13
hilarious!!! KT2000 Jan 2015 #20
hahaha! grasswire Jan 2015 #58
DUzy! pinboy3niner Jan 2015 #64
Now THAT made me laugh out loud. phylny Jan 2015 #156
After listening to her argle bargle I think she wore that bag on her head too long. kairos12 Jan 2015 #6
Agreed~! LiberalFighter Jan 2015 #70
We were poor and 6 kids but my parents managed to shod us with Cha Jan 2015 #8
Five, all in buster browns too, every august before school started. They lasted all school year. Dont call me Shirley Jan 2015 #85
My parents always made sure we had good shoes. Buster Browns here! we can do it Jan 2015 #97
We wore Buster Browns too. I remember my teacher told me my daddy is rich if he buys me BB... SummerSnow Jan 2015 #103
My dad was a diesel mechanic and brick layer. we can do it Jan 2015 #108
I call total BS. I wore plastic bags on the INSIDE of my boots sometimes Peregrine Took Jan 2015 #10
Someone must be a moron. LiberalFighter Jan 2015 #71
Thats what we did.. Inside the boots or shoes.. Peacetrain Jan 2015 #110
We had rubbers or wore hand-me-downs from last year LynneSin Jan 2015 #11
She can't be very old... 2naSalit Jan 2015 #24
I would also suspect that a family of farmers would bake their own bread LynneSin Jan 2015 #29
Agreed. 2naSalit Jan 2015 #34
My mother and grandmother did sewing. LiberalFighter Jan 2015 #73
I don't recall my mom's parents doing anything but baking bread LiberalFighter Jan 2015 #69
Cost efficient? Munificence Jan 2015 #84
My grandparents raised pigs on their farm LeftOfWest Jan 2015 #131
Broad Brush? Munificence Jan 2015 #151
Calm down. LeftOfWest Jan 2015 #152
You know Munificence Jan 2015 #157
Farmers you know are pretty dumb, then. n/t tabasco Jan 2015 #135
This. n/t. LeftOfWest Jan 2015 #145
So this Munificence Jan 2015 #165
Baking bread is really easy, with the right recipe. xmas74 Jan 2015 #164
Baking bread isn't nuclear science. Anybody can learn how to do it. ladyVet Jan 2015 #170
Too busy feeding and taking care of animals. hollowdweller Jan 2015 #88
I bake my own bread. xmas74 Jan 2015 #163
No Munificence Jan 2015 #173
she was born in 1970 hfojvt Jan 2015 #37
You had duct tape when you were growing up? jmowreader Jan 2015 #44
Rubbers would fit anything but it would be easy to break. LiberalFighter Jan 2015 #72
breadbags would be useless in snow. too slick and liable to tear. ND-Dem Jan 2015 #12
Must be a Northern thang. yallerdawg Jan 2015 #16
I just watched the first couple minutes of her speech 2naSalit Jan 2015 #27
As a Yankee I never used breadbags as footwear LynneSin Jan 2015 #31
Indeed 2naSalit Jan 2015 #38
I never saw it either Skittles Jan 2015 #101
It's that yellow thing you got on after walking ten miles uphill in the snow jmowreader Jan 2015 #95
Hey, I know what snow is. yallerdawg Jan 2015 #109
We did. progressoid Jan 2015 #18
But no one actually saw your bread bags LynneSin Jan 2015 #32
Exactly how I picture it! yallerdawg Jan 2015 #40
They often stuck out of the top of the boots progressoid Jan 2015 #52
This idiot made it sound like every kid in Iowa walked around with bread bags on their feet. BlueJazz Jan 2015 #106
I sort of remember using them Beaverhausen Jan 2015 #50
Yup. I admit my mom did the bread bag trick over my shoes when TwilightGardener Jan 2015 #57
^this. surrealAmerican Jan 2015 #134
I agree Skittles Jan 2015 #19
I remember putting them *inside* our shoes in the snow to waterproof them. But... LeftyMom Jan 2015 #21
If you were that poor, Suich Jan 2015 #22
I wonder where farmers in Iowa would find the ingredients to make bread LynneSin Jan 2015 #33
Really? Munificence Jan 2015 #74
When I was on Surplus food, Suich Jan 2015 #75
You should be commended for doing it Munificence Jan 2015 #79
I had no choice. Suich Jan 2015 #126
You would be wrong about the motivation. LeftOfWest Jan 2015 #132
thank you SummerSnow Jan 2015 #113
It wasn't a "poor" thing. It was recycling. DawgHouse Jan 2015 #117
We were poor but it resulted in no bread making thankfully as my mother was not a baker. TheKentuckian Jan 2015 #123
When I was on surplus food in the 60's Suich Jan 2015 #125
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
My mamma baked our bread rbrnmw Jan 2015 #23
If it's the truth, you are mocking someone who has lived in poverty. 1000words Jan 2015 #26
I've known people who lived in poverty who didn't wear bread bags outside their shoes jmowreader Jan 2015 #51
Everyone's life experience is the same? 1000words Jan 2015 #53
True story. dilby Jan 2015 #30
Now that makes sense. Kind teacher, by the way. nt Hekate Jan 2015 #42
I think she meant socks oberliner Jan 2015 #35
We need to go by what she said jmowreader Jan 2015 #43
They hadn't invended bread bags when I was a kid Brother Buzz Jan 2015 #36
Rubbah slippahs in da pouring rain Hekate Jan 2015 #39
tissue paper Ramses Jan 2015 #41
Did they eat the bread first? world wide wally Jan 2015 #45
I was born in 82 and I did. Quackers Jan 2015 #46
I was middle class, wore bags in my shoes to play in the snow RedCappedBandit Jan 2015 #49
They didn't make their own bread? Not that poor then. Rex Jan 2015 #55
Seriously? Think of what you are saying. Munificence Jan 2015 #89
You have already stated that the farmers you know don't know how to make bread cheaper than tabasco Jan 2015 #137
Credibility, wow you are far too generous. Rex Jan 2015 #147
.Ok Munificence Jan 2015 #159
A dollar is a lot of money to a poor person, I guess you have no idea. Rex Jan 2015 #146
You know Rex I am gonna back up a bit here with you Munificence Jan 2015 #167
Once while camping. ThoughtCriminal Jan 2015 #56
I wore them on my feet Spirochete Jan 2015 #59
20 miles, one way to school. And when I got home I had to put it back on the bread. jtuck004 Jan 2015 #61
I've writtent this several times tonight. JDPriestly Jan 2015 #63
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 remember baggies. not bread bags. pansypoo53219 Jan 2015 #65
I wore plastic bags in my shoes when I was in college. I did not have good shoes. I worked JDPriestly Jan 2015 #66
My grandmother had us wear them over our socks. CANDO Jan 2015 #67
We did. In a suburb outside of DC. DebJ Jan 2015 #68
Over your shoes? How long would they last walking around in a gritty winter street? n/t pnwmom Jan 2015 #76
Joni must have eaten a lot of azmom Jan 2015 #80
Day-old bread is a common additive to animal feed jmowreader Jan 2015 #129
not long at all.... but it didn't snow often at all, and it got me to school DebJ Jan 2015 #100
While we laugh at this person, let us not forget what her agenda is for YOU NoJusticeNoPeace Jan 2015 #78
Fuck her and her bread bags. azmom Jan 2015 #118
That's right! wendylaroux Jan 2015 #140
I think it was a Republican thing liberal N proud Jan 2015 #81
Hey! I really DID walk uphill both ways to school! jmowreader Jan 2015 #99
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
Didn't everyone? truebrit71 Jan 2015 #86
If she was wearing them over her shoes and walked 50 feet over gravel or pavement tularetom Jan 2015 #87
Nah, I walked several blocks in the rain when I was a kid DawgHouse Jan 2015 #119
Over the shoes pipi_k Jan 2015 #90
You see people, azmom Jan 2015 #91
black galoshes that covered our shoes WhiteTara Jan 2015 #92
Kids were taught mainstreetonce Jan 2015 #94
Definite bread bags in Chicago - but only on the inside to keep our socks dry. CincyDem Jan 2015 #107
In rainy Washington state Generic Other Jan 2015 #98
I did the same. DawgHouse Jan 2015 #121
I believe I read she grew up during the Reagan admin? riverbendviewgal Jan 2015 #104
My family was so poor we lived in an empty cardboard toilet Lint Head Jan 2015 #105
I grew up on a farm, too, but there weren't such things as plastic bread bags... countryjake Jan 2015 #112
And it was a Hog Farm. alphafemale Jan 2015 #136
Agree , and LynnTTT Jan 2015 #114
I just got wet feet. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jan 2015 #115
Yes, I wore them on occasion, over my shoes for rain. DawgHouse Jan 2015 #116
I did wendylaroux Jan 2015 #120
Our boots came from Kmart - TBF Jan 2015 #122
All my shoes were tennis shoes tularetom Jan 2015 #124
This guy KamaAina Jan 2015 #127
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
I don't remember wearing bread bags notadmblnd Jan 2015 #138
We used them when we went sledding or hooky bobbing AgingAmerican Jan 2015 #139
Only when I walked to school in 1 to 3 feet of snow LiberalEsto Jan 2015 #141
Hell to the yes!!! libodem Jan 2015 #143
We used them inside the shoes Bettie Jan 2015 #144
Overshoes weren't that expensive. moondust Jan 2015 #148
Bread bags?!? They were lucky! Zorra Jan 2015 #149
No but I did use to wear an onion on my belt CanonRay Jan 2015 #153
Originally from "Grandpa" of the Simpsons. Coventina Jan 2015 #158
Thanks, did not know that! CanonRay Jan 2015 #169
From the episode "Last Exit to Springfield". Coventina Jan 2015 #171
One pair of school shoes ellie Jan 2015 #160
We didn't have bread bags.... Champion Jack Jan 2015 #161
I do not think we were rich quaker bill Jan 2015 #168
Galoshes were too expensive for us. ladyVet Jan 2015 #172
This whole thread has made me feel much less abnormal. Butterbean Jan 2015 #174
inside the shoes or boots, when snow was heavy or they sprang a leak. Yep. bettyellen Jan 2015 #175
We didn't use them in Illinois. We would have laughed our ass off if we would had seen B Calm Jan 2015 #176
wonder what the brand name was for RED bags that riversedge Jan 2015 #177
LOL Faux pas Jan 2015 #178
I never heard of breadbags on shoes before Tuesday. ananda Jan 2015 #179
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