When I was a kid,we were so poor we couldn't afford toys,so my parents just cut the bottoms out of my pockets! How poor were you?
I had dinky cars and whatnot as a kid. But 95% of my time was spent playing with sticks, rocks, and climbing trees, running around down by our creek, etc. We were somewhat poor. But when you live in the country you don't seem to be bothered by it as much/notice it as much.
I used to go snow sliding with pieces of cardboard ...unless I was able to steal a garbage bag from somewhere
You made jokes? Eeeh,you were lucky! We were so poor we couldn't afford the words to make jokes,so we had to make do with 2nd-hand ones.
We were so poor that in the summer when our well would start to dry up we had to take showers under the hose in the side yard instead of taking baths.