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PP here re: the kitchen cut.  We know nothing about hair, nor do we pretend to.  Yes, we have cut the hair crooked.  We just cut until it is straight.  We are saving money, not stupid.  Just like not all poor people are stupid, right?   Surely there are some that can do for themselves and figure things out, right?  You can't buy your way out of everything.

You can buy a good defense lawyer, but that's about it.  I suppose that is very different than the day to day.  But I feel that poor people have a very narrow perspective.  When I was poor, I thought money buys everything.  Then I grew up.

As for the private school idea.  The people I am thinking of afford a well to do suburb, own a house, have professional degrees, and feel they are poor because they can't keep up with the Joneses.  One of these "problems" is affording private school where the public school is well above average.  What they consider "problems", proves they have no idea.

I think some people get lost in the idea that if they don't have what the next guy has, they must be poor.  Or at least feel a huge divide.  What they do not realize is the divide is created by them and them only.

I grew up poor, so I know too well what it is to grow up with a non-working toilet, for example.  Or no food.  The basics.  Hardly the same as affording private school in an outstanding public school area.

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