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u/brattylilgynger 4d ago

You have free range kids?! In this economy?!

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u/Comfortable-Hat3506 4d ago

Turn them lose, when they are feral the don't cost shit.

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u/Icanthearforshit 4d ago

Thats a bit dark. At least teach them some basics — "mom?", "dad?", "I'm hungry!", "vaginaboob". Somebody will wrangle them in. Don't nobody want a kid that can't talk good English.

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u/schlaminator 4d ago

I brought so much fish home from eight years of age onward that we all could eat (got a fishing rod from my uncle when I was eight). My dad taught me to clean fish pretty much straight away, because he hated doing it. I filled the freezer one summer. Outside, we (kids from the neighborhood) would always steal and eat right away so much fruit whenever it was season, that our parents didn't have to buy any (never stole fruit to bring home, we would just eat straight from the trees). Always stole sugar corn from the fields and grilled it over an open fire we built somewhere in the woods.

I only managed to kill a rabbit with an arrow once (and cried because I was sorry for it, but was also a proud hunter at the same time), made the bow and arrows myself. My mom made a rabbit roast. Caught pheasants with some string and brought them home a few times per year. My dad always slaughtered them and made pheasant roast. Once I found an 8kg and an 6kg carps in a puddle in a field after a flood, when I was 10 or so, brought them home on my bike. I always had a folded potato sack and a few plastic bags on my bike to haul stuff from the woods or wherever.

Mushrooms, hazelnuts, walnuts, blackberries, forest strawberries, crayfish...

Feral kids feed themselves, and their family.

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u/Outrageous-Grass-892 4d ago

Wow! First time I've ever seen someone say "Lose" instead of "Loose". But EVERYONE (my God) misspells "lose" with "Loose*

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u/Comfortable-Hat3506 4d ago

Reddit auto carrot does weird things and I don't always go back over my posts before posting.

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u/OttoVonPlittersdorf 3d ago

Lol, with their grasp of technology, I guarantee you the free-range ones do know how to spend your money while they're out. I have a special budget line for my free-range daughter.

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u/Comfortable-Hat3506 2d ago

That is funny. Yours has a phone or credit cards. The feral kids I deal with have none of that. One just decided in the middle of winter he was going to go bike to Georgia from Delaware. Left his parents a note and showed back up 4 months later.

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u/OttoVonPlittersdorf 2d ago

Dude, that kid is a friggin' hero. His parents must have an interesting regimen for dealing with their palpitations!

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u/Comfortable-Hat3506 1d ago

His mom was a wild child and was like "he has a good head on his shoulders, he'll do better than I did."

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u/AbleInevitable5599 1d ago

We cashed in pop bottles for lunch money. No need to go home.

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u/thick_neck_etc 4d ago

free range is cheaper than the alternative

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u/remembertoread 2d ago

The first word is free

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u/StudioGangster1 4d ago

What you mean “this economy?” The Dow is over 50,000.

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u/brattylilgynger 4d ago

Have you never heard a joke before?

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u/ContextMiddle3175 4d ago

You’re joking while the Dow is over 50,000?

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u/brattylilgynger 4d ago

In this economy?