Demographic poll... are you or have you ever been poor?

Question

Just genuinely curious. Poor being defined as struggling to or unable to pay your bills, groceries, etc. or having to rely on government assistance to survive.

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I grew up dirt poor. Like my mom didn’t eat dinner most nights to keep me fed. I got socks and underwear for Christmas from relatives because my mom couldn’t afford them through the year. We lived in a house with no air or heat(in Florida). I never went to the doctor because it was expensive, even the times I needed stitches. My mom dug her way out by the time I was in middle school by putting herself through school. Now I live comfortably as an adult due to my own education.

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I grew up poor, not like terribly poor, but occasional trips to the food pantry poor. 
I’ve worked my way solidly into the middle class, which I would have considered “rich” when I was little. I live in an apartment building with a pool! Only rich people have pools where they live! 😂

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My family didn’t have much growing up but I never knew. I was well taken care of. My grandparents raised me and we always had amazing home cooked meals, all necessities, small but nice home. My grandma never worked and my grandpa owned a small business. We never took trips or traveled at all, I didn’t get on a place until I was 23. They filed for bankruptcy when I was 10 which I didn’t know about at the time. We moved into an even nicer house somehow lol. My grandpa has always been good with money. They’ve never had much of it, but they spend wisely. My mom lived behind her means and racked up so much debt she’s filed for bankruptcy like 3 times. I’m not super great with money but I’m able to save. My husband and I are solid middle class. His family grew up the same, didn’t have much but you would’ve never known. I’m super thankful for how I was raised and we do the same for our kids!

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Grew up super poor. Went through foster care and went back to my family when I was 14 we were still poor and when I was 18 I moved out on my own and live a comfortable life paycheck to paycheck but I am in no way not poor anymore, but I’m also not dirt poor like before. Just living paycheck to paycheck

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I grew up very sheltered. I knew we struggled, but I didn't know how much. I remember once when I was 10 we almost lost the house. There were a few times that we didn't have electricity for a few days. Nearly everything we owned was hand-me-downs, but we always had food on the table and that's all that mattered.
Things are a little better now. We sometimes miss payments on our phone/internet bill, but that's not near as important as food and electricity. We can actually afford to spoil ourselves once every now and then, which is nice.
Once I can finally afford to have my own place, my goal in life is to not struggle paycheck to paycheck like we did when I was younger

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I did not grow up poor, thanks to my mother being phenomenal with money.  I did not naturally inherit that gene, so for nearly the first decade of being on my own, I lived as though I was poor, due to poor spending vs saving habits.

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There was a stage in our lives where my parents struggled financially. We were very well off until I was about 13, things went wrong for my dad when the company he worked for pulled out the country (my mom was a stay at home mom until the divorce with a big child support check afterwards). Things improved for my parents when I was about 18/19 again.

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I grew up in upper middle class. Then they pretty much done away with me when I decided I wanted to be with my husband,boyfriend at the time and he was poor although he worked hard was still very poor. In the 13 years we have been together we have went from extremely poor, to middle lower class and now to lower middle class. We both work now and that has helped but of course I lost my job due to covid.

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Grew up super poor and I still struggle but definitely less. 🤷‍♀️ I wouldnt consider myself poor now but that definition definitely includes me.

Demographic poll... are you or have you ever been poor?

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