What were your "wow we're poor" or "wow we are well off" moments when you were a kid?

Oh dear! See, we have the opposite situation (the inverse to what you just said). See, we live in a private rent house which has had hardly any repairs done to it (because our landlord is too greedy and useless to sign anything) and we have moldiness too. My sister is asthmatic so thanks to the mold in her bedroom, she's had 3 chest infections in about 3 months. My sister has not had it easy. Maybe she's not a child but it's a bit wrong when she has asthma problems and chest infections because of her bedroom, has an extractor fan nearly fall on her head and nearly have her sibling (me) become hospitalised by having our dining room door fall off its hinge a minute after I left the dining table. If I'd sat there an extra minute I'd be concussed. And it smashed a crack in the table (it's glass). We had no loft insulation, (that's one thing the landlord did repair), our main fuse box that powered the whole house didn't meet standard/legal requirements and didn't even have enough amps to work the shower, (power cuts!), there's the £60 a week thing I mentioned before and our house has been infested with ants and flies and it's been burgled (we live in a street with druggies too). Yet our landlord has the nerve to ask us to stay as tenants. **** him! He only wants our money.

But the new house is more spacious, clean, adequate and nice, it's owned by the council, it's in a friendly neighbourhood (we've spoke to the neighbours already!), in a lower-crime-rate-area, and it's only an extra 14 miles to college by car anyway and the town centre is massive, laden with shops, has stuff going on and is nicer than here, so we're sorted. My (ex) bf is on about moving there too because he's from there and I was obviously excited, but we're not together anymore so I guess I'll just "see him around" and be cool-headed about it. Meh. But everything else is great! We'll be saving at least £100 a month, (and the rest), and we'll be safer and happier.

Well I'm glad it worked out for you.

I can't afford new shoes and saw my dad's bank account with 100 quid in. Never had a "we're well off moment", been poor since I was 14.

I'm sorry I know the feeling, we had some weeks where we had to choose between food and bills. It sucks.

I remember I had a job as an apprentice, my sister asked me to buy her new tights as she was ashamed to ask our dad because we both knew he has no money.

Plus my dad and mum asking their friends to borrow money to help fix the family car. My parents jobs literally depend on the family car.

It's a tough world we live in not everyone can be well off

Its this country. I hate it, I question why so many foreigners come here or why even my mum came here.

For me there were a few things that made it plainly obvious we were struggling financially top ones would probably be.

- When my mum had to work Christmas eve and Christmas day when we were kids because she couldn't afford not to take the shifts.

-When my packed lunches were bread and butter (before they started offering us free school lunches).

-Most of my clothes were second hand or hand me downs, own clothes days at school were just a recipe for bullying.

-When a pack of biscuits or crisps was a major treat

- the look of confusion and pity on friends faces when they asked me what I got for Christmas or birthdays, that one was probably one the worst.

-hearing my mum cry at night on the phone about money, that's when I realised mainly and stopped asking for things.

-never using the heating

Despite all that I had a great childhood my mum always took great care of us and despite being poor we hardly ever felt it as children.

Although my family definitely wouldn't be considered 'rich', we'd be considered 'well-off' as money has never really been a problem. I've always though myself really lucky in this sense and despite having the money to do stuff like go one holiday each year and I've always been extremely grateful

For me there were a few things that made it plainly obvious we were struggling financially top ones would probably be.

- When my mum had to work Christmas eve and Christmas day when we were kids because she couldn't afford not to take the shifts.

-When my packed lunches were bread and butter (before they started offering us free school lunches).

-Most of my clothes were second hand or hand me downs, own clothes days at school were just a recipe for bullying.

-When a pack of biscuits or crisps was a major treat

- the look of confusion and pity on friends faces when they asked me what I got for Christmas or birthdays, that one was probably one the worst.

-hearing my mum cry at night on the phone about money, that's when I realised mainly and stopped asking for things.

-never using the heating

Despite all that I had a great childhood my mum always took great care of us and despite being poor we hardly ever felt it as children.

I distinctly remember in primary school, having such poor lunches that one of my friends got concerned and brought me crisps- there were long periods of time where I had only one sandwich for lunch. I can't really think of anything else- got a slide up phone at 11, never been out of the UK or been on a plane, but I've been to Bath a few times to visit my Auntie.

I also wasn't in the best school in yr 7/8 but thankfully was able to move to a great comprehensive the next town along, and I'm hopefully going to go to a awesome 6th form in September, so I count myself lucky. (I originally moved to Wales at 7 from England after my mum's job at a company went bust, although she's now got a really good job in the NHS now ) Other than that, I've got it better than many others, so I'm counting my blessings