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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up working poor, and I felt like I had to "come out" as such during grad school at GW in a race, class, and gender class.

Do you shop at WalMart? There wasn't one when I grew up.  My mom made most of our clothes, and let us pick out the patterns.

Do you eat fast food all the time? never. We never ate processed food either.  I didn't have white bread until college, only wheat. We ate a lot of sandwiches, and scrambled eggs, or casseroles.

How big is your home? The house I grew up in was 2 bedroom, then three bedroom for 3 kids. We always shared, until I turned the basement into a bedroom for myself.

What do you DO on weekends? We played outside.  Apparently this is now called free range??

Where do you go on vacations? Does driving an hour to grandparents count?  Once in a while we'd go to Chicago or Milwaukee.

Do you have very few clothes? Shoes? In Jr High it was trendy to borrow your friends clothing, so I did that a lot.

If you're too poor to go out, what do you do to get together with friends? I used to babysit and I had a job in high school to keep up with my classmates - their parents just thought I was really responsible

Do you have any friends who are well off? lots of them were.  I spent time at friends' beach houses, etc

What do you think is the qualifier that makes a person poor? When we were little we received WIC and discounted lunches at school. My parents didn't have college degrees (but both got them while I was in elementary school).

Do your kids know you're poor? I think I got that we had less money than my friends' families.

What do they do after school? I was in every club and sport - I was pretty popular, despite having no money.  Probs because I figured out how to fit in so no one would notice.

Do they get teased in school? Not really.

Now I'm a grown up with a house in DC, a graduate degree and a great job. But I"m always surprised when people find it odd that I know about class-jumping. 
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