I'm only 22 but when I was a kid my parents bought some land in the country. Now we have a "city house" and a "country house". I've had friends and boyfriends who considered our city house in the country. The house in the country is a story in itself since my dad built it himself. When we first got the place we slept in a camper, then an old jobsite trailer that he put a double bed and homemade bunk beds. My dad would wake up in the middle of the night and by the moonlight watch "Rudy the rat" (a field mouse) run around my head. Then in order to bathe we had a 50 gallon drum we filled with well water and stood in. Then we had an outdoor shower. Now they've got running water and almost a real house, everything except closets and central air. But my dad still insists when the land is paid off he's going to apply with the state to have a portion of the land claimed as a cemetary because he wants to be burried in his truck, under the persimmon tree, next to the dog.
When I was in high school my older brother drove an old international pickup. He used baling wire to attach an old deer skull to the front of his truck and then ran extra lights into the eyesockets so when he used his blinkers they would blink in the eyesockets. I was so proud!
What if you and your entire family go in together and purchase hogs and kill and process them yourself every winter. 
It's like a family renuion. Every one of the brothers and sister buys ever how many they need for all their family and everyone comes out and helps. The men fry the cracklings and sit around and eat them while the women wrap the meat!!! My finace's family does this every year. I stay away during that weekend!
Oh and for Prom one year, a bunch of us got together and rode to the prom on a wagon!! Hay ride to the prom!! 
We were the only ones with a ride like that!!!
My farther noodles, anyone ever heard of that? Frog giggin is also a very popular past time.
I have a great-aunt that I am related to from both sides! She is my mother's aunt, and she married a distant cousin or something on my dad's side.
hmm, I have two small pigs named bacon and pork chop... which is exactly what they will be. 
I am looking to buy a cow at an auction in two weeks and he will be named steak.
If there is something broken, I see no problem with duct tape. My hose to my windshield wiper fluid is duct taped because I just haven't gotten around to having it fixed. My 2 year old's diapers get duct taped so she can't take them off and pee on the floor.
I'm always "fixin" to do something.
We have an old tractor tire filled with sand for a sand box. Recycling never killed anyone.
I wear bibbed overalls when I bake. I prefer them to aprons. They're carhartt's from the farm supply store.
This list could go on. Lots of people say I'm a redneck just because of these few things but I beg to differ. People buy animals to butcher all the time. I maintain my car as best as possible until able to fix it and at least it has a muffler. The tractor tire would have been thrown in a landfill cluttering up our earth but I found use for it. And bibbed overalls are just plain comfy and are meant to keep one clean. 
I had a very rural upbringing in central Florida. I moved to the Bahamas for a job in 1983 and I didn't even own a pair of shorts! Just blue jeans and boots. Everyone looked at me like I was from another planet 
! The folks I worked with couldn't wait to get me out of my "redneck" outfit and into some shorts and sandals 
. Now I have 3 kids and they're total island kids , but they know all the words to the country songs on the radio 
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I have a great-aunt that I am related to from both sides! She is my mother's aunt, and she married a distant cousin or something on my dad's side.
I have got you beat! My mom's sister was married to my dad's brother and 2 of my mom's brothers are married to my dad's 1st cousins who are sisters. I think they went to family reunions to meet someone to marry. I have double first cousins!! My dd said that we don't have a family tree, we have a blackberry bush!!!!LOL
Okay, now I feel like singing that old song..you know it, sing along.
"I'm my own grandpa, I'm my own grandpa.
May be funny I know but it really is sooooo.
I'm my own grandpa."
just feeling a bit silly.
You win, Patticake!
But one of my cousins got 2 14 year old girls pregnant and they dropped out. And one side of my family says "I reckon" and "over yonder" regularly. I'm pretty sure that the character on King of the Hill that you can understand about evety 5th word out of his mouth (Boomhauer?) is based on my Uncle Bennie.
What's wrong with "over yunder and I reckon"I say that all the timeLOL!!!!
I have a great-aunt that I am related to from both sides! She is my mother's aunt, and she married a distant cousin or something on my dad's side.
I have got you beat! My mom's sister was married to my dad's brother and 2 of my mom's brothers are married to my dad's 1st cousins who are sisters.
I think they went to family reunions to meet someone to marry. I have double first cousins!! My dd said that we don't have a family tree, we have a blackberry bush!!!!LOL
That sounds like my mom's parents. My grandma married my grandpa who's brother and sister were married to my grandma's 1st cousins who are brother and sister. So my great aunt and uncle are distant cousins to me too.
My family is truly redneck. We live in West Virginia. We do where shoes (sometimes) if you were wondering. My DH and I with our 6 and 4 year old live on my family farm. My mom and Dad live on the farm and my sister lives on the farm, my grandparents lived their to until they passed in the last two years, and my dads brother lives on the farm also. We have 300 acres so we don't live on top of one another. My kids love playing in the mud, peeing in the yard, 4-wheeler riding and so forth. My hubby bought our 6 year old boy a gun for his first christmas. He was 5 months old. We say over yonder, Ya'll, britches, my dads lunch box he takes to work is his dinner bucket. My husband and I own a race track, and we love going to our county fair to watch truck pull, mud bogs and demolition derby.
Frog giggin is popular, and shooting the ground hogs. Them pesky varmets make holes in our hay fields. 
The list can go on and on.
Tonya
Well, my husband calls me redneck all the time. He is from PA and I am from South Louisiana.
I guess my redneck evidence is that kids in my family were helped in their potty training by peeing off the back porch!
Hmm, how bout the fact that every time my DH takes the dog for a walk, he has to pee outside with him!
or duct tape being a necessary item in the sewing box (hey, if I dont have time to sew a hem, nobody sees the tape inside the cuff! )
or my kids having to get a bath with the garden hose before they come in the house
or the rebel flag being the only decorating palet available anywhere
or the beer refrigerator out on the side of the house, chained & padlocked to keep the teenagers out
or a 'Dukes Of Hazard' marathon being a great reason for a neighborhood block party
or my 21 and 18 yr olds not worried about getting their drivers license, because they can ride their 4 wheelers anywhere they want to go
or me only owning 2 pairs of shoes (gym shoes and heels) because I don't wear any unless there's snow on the ground
and don't even get me started about the way we talk - out of towners need a translator! LMAO!
I live in rural KY, and I wouldn't trade it for the world! 
Down where I grew up in GA there was an annual festival called "The Big Pig Jig".
My family has gas passing contests...on the porch on the couch! LOL J/K!!!!!!!! I don't really have a couch on the FP it's really just a love seat! Just joking again...lol.... My husband when he is feeling a little frisky says "wanna play bear?"
My inlaws had a gun rack over their bed also LOL
Every other car in our town sounds like it has a bad cold EVEN the Jaquars!!!
Having a pig roast and a hay ride isn't red neck!
My kids make fun of me because I pee'd in the yard. We were in the pool and I had to go! I didn't want to traipse thru the house all dripping wet and peel off a wet bathing suit, so I got out of the pool, stood in the yard, pee'd, then got back in the pool. (what? what?
) Geesh, they didn't want me to pee in the pool, did they?Since I had foot surgery, I can't go barefooted (grass feels like needles), so I have to wear at least a sock on my left foot. They hate it when I go to the mailbox wearing one house slipper or one sock. ("The other foot is fine .... what? what?") Besides, my socks last twice as long since I only wear them one at a time!
OMG Indydebi, I just spit my tea all over the place here.
I am LMAO at this because - here's one of my redneck moments - when I was a kid we had an embarrassing wooden sign my dad put out in the yard every summer that read "PLEASE DON'T PEE IN OUR POOL, WE DON'T SWIM IN YOUR TOILET" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So ya did good peein' in the yard in my book, LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grandmaa was full-blooded Cherokee from GA and she also kept a spitcan by the ironing board, plus I grew up thinking everyone had a relative that drank moonshine - thought that jug was standard in everyone's house...
One of my relatives used to set his drink on fire and watch it a bit before blowing it out and drinking it, then used to disappear for a few days at a time to go talk with "them" (dunno who "them" were, LOL...)
My uncle had a beer can collection and another uncle was on one of those lists that you can get on to be called by the local PD whenever there's a deer that got hit by a car so you can go and claim the meat... yeah..... and people just can't understand why I've been vegetarian my whole life!!!! 
All this and I'm married to a guy from India who is even more redneck than most of the guys here - all he needs is a dog and a pickup and we're good to go - brews his own beer, gets excited about anything with a motor and thinks the Pumkin' Chunkin' is the greatest invention of man.
someone HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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