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JDPriestly

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63. I've writtent this several times tonight.

Wed Jan 21, 2015, 03:35 AM

Jan 2015

When I was in college in a snowy climate, I did not have good shoes. I could not afford them. So I wore plastic sacks (I don't remember whether they were bread bags but something similar) around my feet inside my shoes. I was working, but buying shoes was a bit too much. I often wore cloth tennis shoes in winter. The plastic helped keep my feet dry.

I don't think people should joke about the bread bags. It's really in poor taste and shows a lack of respect for poor people who make the most of what they have.

Joni Ernst may or may not have worn the bags. I really don't think this is what we should focus on. She opposes the Affordable Healthcare Act. That means she opposes a program that helps many, many poor people as well as very sick people. That's what we should be focusing on.

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Who among us wore bread bags on our shoes while growing up? [View all] jmowreader Jan 2015 OP

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