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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My family has been lucky to always be well off, and this is one of those things I could never ever bring up with anyone I know, but am secretly fascinated by poor people and wonder about so many aspects of their lives.

Do you shop at WalMart? No I had never been to a Walmart until I was an adult! 
Do you eat fast food all the time? We never ate fast food. We grew a lot of food in the garden and my mom was the ultimate coupon queen long before that was a thing! Twice a year we went out for breakfast - they had a $1.49 special. Other than that we didn't eat out. As a special treat on long trips (usually once a summer) we got bought cookies and that was a huge treat.
How big is your home? 
What do you DO on weekends? we played outside, rode our bikes, climbed trees, made up plays and stories. Once we were older we hung out at friends houses watching TV or playing games like capture the flag.
Where do you go on vacations? We went tent camping every summer.
Do you have very few clothes? Shoes? we wore pretty much all hand me downs from richer relatives! 
If you're too poor to go out, what do you do to get together with friends? same as on weekends. 
Do you have any friends who are well off? No as a kid I didn't. As a teen I had a few friends who I thought were unbelievably wealthy (i saw one of my friends get a $20 from her father when I was about 15 and I thought they were insanely rich). Who gets $20 bills just handed to them?!! 
What do you do for fun? We had tons of fun...I had a great childhood, very carefree and fun.
What do you think is the qualifier that makes a person poor? Hard to say. we were poor but had a great life, we weren't going hungry and the power was on. we didn't really know or care we were poor. Some people with far more than us might have felt much poorer - all about perspective.
Do your kids know you're poor? 
What do they do after school? 
Do they get teased in school?

I always watch movies about really poor people and this whole lifestyle just fascinates me. [/quote]

I grew up very poor but we were rural poor which I think is quite different than urban poor. Pretty much everyone around us was equally as poor so there wasn't really disparity between us and friends. [/quote]

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