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[quote=Anonymous]Simplistic question.

MIL/FIL: way more money to be sure. Pale carpets, lead crystal. Visits with young child always a headache. FIL grew up the son of a federal judge, private school, privileged.

My parents: much more casual. My dad (industrial electrician) tended to do stuff like rewind motors (the copper windings for electric motors) on the kitchen peninsula. He worked in a grimy environment. My mom always worked and both parents had rotating and/or otherwise non-9 to 5 schedules. She and my dad both grew up on farms (where, for example, you swept the kitchen 3x a day because dirt would inevitably make its way in via drafts and people in and out). My mom was aspirational but overloaded with responsibilities (yes, we kids did chores). Usually Saturday was housecleaning day but the place was messy in between Saturdays.

Poorer people often live in housing where it is really HARD to get it or keep it clean. I was in public housing for awhile, every window frame grew black mold in the winter. Also lived in apts in old converted houses where there were always at minimum some areas that you could not get clean.

A friend lived in a unit where kitchen drain was always leaking no matter how often she reported to maintenance. The kitchen cabinets also fell off the wall once (upper cabinets) because they had been screwed to drywall instead of studs. It was a split entry with the first floor at garden level. The sump pump failed causing the unit to flood, and it was up to her to get out the wet and the mildew.

Organizational traits a factor. My DH, despite growing up in this enviably immaculate and elegant home, was the person who draped his socks on living room furniture to air out and hated me organizing stuff and putting it away--he relied on visual memory so expected to find whatever in the random pile of stuff on top the stereo.

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