Who here had the poorest upbringing?

[Brussels Slumdog]

We were so poor we emigrated to Darfur

[BrilloPad]

I was bought up with the rich life. Until my father died when I was 6. By 13 I was going on Lions club outings.

[Bagpuss]

Not poor not well off, half the family middle class, teachers, lawyers, and a novelist. Half working class. Therefore I know what cultlery to use but I burp at the dinner table (not really).

[bogeyman]

I was born to an extremely well-off family. I have been getting steadily poorer ever since.

It's a family tradition:

"decoctum est nostrum voluntas"

[EternalOptimist]

We had to eat left-overs four days a week, the other three days we had to starve

[thunderlizard]

"decoctum est nostrum voluntas"

[ASB]

We want to decline (or maybe waste)

[TimberWolf]

Who here had the poorest upbringing?

I'm just a poor boy, from a poor family. Is this the real life?

[EternalOptimist]

I used to get blisters from walking to school in my bare feet
But mother used to chide me 'You will be glad of them callouses when you need traction in the ice and snow, come winter time.'
Of course , she was right. In those days, it was a two mile hike uphill to get to school, then a two mile hike , uphill, to get back home

[thunderlizard]

We want to decline (or maybe waste)

Well I never:

dē-cŏquo , xi, ctum, 3, v. a.
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2. Absol.

a. Of personal subjects, to run through the property of one's self or others; to become a bankrupt: tenesne memoria, praetextatum te decoxisse? Cic. Phil. 2, 18 : qui primus hoc cognomen acceperit decoxit creditoribus suis, Plin. 33, 10, 47, § 133

& I didn't think you could use voluntas as that sort of "will", but apparently you can and Pliny does that too.

nulla dies nisi scholastica,

tl