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[quote=Anonymous]To me the qualifier for poor is that we have gotten government assistance, and to be honest, still need help from others to provide food, clothing, shelter for the family.  I am definitely poor now.

Do you shop at WalMart? - no. I'm poor, but I still have ethics. I do sometimes (twice a year maybe) go to Target
Do you eat fast food all the time?  we never eat fast food. the food quality is shit.
How big is your home?  - tiny. One bedroom apartment in a building owned by a slumlord - it used to be a residential hotel. 
What do you DO on weekends?  I work at my 2nd job, run errands, and get organized for the upcoming week
Where do you go on vacations?  We don't go on vacations. Occasionally one of the people who own a house I clean will ask me to house-sit while they go on vacation.  That feels like a vacation because there is a bathtub. 
Do you have very few clothes? Shoes?  Yes. I have two pairs of jeans. I buy them (one regular wash, one dark wash) at Old Navy with a coupon when they have big sales - day after Christmas) 2 pairs of shoes - we buy almost all clothes at GoodWill. Thank you so much for donating there.
If you're too poor to go out, what do you do to get together with friends?  Barely ever have time to get together with friends, but meet at the nearby park, go for a walk somewhere pretty, have people over 
Do you have any friends who are well off? I have a few friends who are better off than I am so to me they seem "rich" but they wouldn't say they're rich
What do you do for fun?  teach my DD to cook, play with her - we don't get enough time together
What do you think is the qualifier that makes a person poor?  - answered above
Do your kids know you're poor? - yes, she knows. she's in elementary school but she knew before kindergarten
What do they do after school? - the school has an after-care program. she goes to that until i pick her up after work
Do they get teased in school? - she doesn't get teased, but in 1st grade a girl asked if she ice skates and when my DD said no the girl said, "My mommy says it's because you're poor." My dd replied "Well your mommy shouldn't have said that." It breaks my heart every time I think of that.

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