If your poor how do you manage to make ends meet?Or do you lack a lot of what you need to survive?

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Answer 1

you just do whatever you can do. my family was lucky enough to have a house in the country...not that it was much of a house. it was large, but falling apart with no running water.

as for survival. you do whatever you can. we hunted a lot. and often out of season. for our food. durring fishing season we had to catch our limit every day. and if we thought we could get away with it, we would sneak back out later and try to double up on teh catch...
we planted a garden. and used half of the produce from it for the seeds for the next year.

any area of land that could be planted with something was planted to maximize our crop output and seed cache for next year. and any animal that ran through the yard was likely going to be on the dinner table sooner or later.

as for how they do it in the cities. i have no idea. i figure that we were lucky being able to use what money we had to keep the house and land in our name. and hunting and fishing for food.

we also used to raid a good-will cloths dump. not far from our house (about 20 minutes) there was a dump that goodwill used to get rid of unsold cloths. we knew when the trucks came. so we would wait there to raid the newly dumped cloths. they were good, if you could get to them the first day. after a night the rats got to many of them though. or rain and mud and crap like that.

Answer 2

I spent time in a third world country where the middle class families lived in something less than an American garage. The floor was cement. The seating in the main room unfolded into beds. And a family of 4 or 5 and maybe a grandparent as well would live in that size house. BUT it was impeccably clean, the family was tight knit and took pride in how smart their kids were at school, and they were gracious hosts, even if all they could do was offer a glass of water. They did not seem poor to me, they seemed rich. Americans look too much at "stuff" and not enough at strength of character. You don't really need that much to survive.

Answer 3

I work with homeless people. I am always amazed how they can survive for so long with nothing. They beg and steal and eat from garbage cans. They learn to sleep anywhere. Some of them get so used to living "in the wild" that they can't get used to living in a house again. You can always find what you need to survive. It's the luxuries that you do without. Some homeless learn a circuit and go city to city using every free service they can until they use it up, then off to the next one. For the working poor, they live paycheck to paycheck. You eat a lot of the same things over and over. You live for the little things. Being poor sucks, but it is possible to be happy.

Answer 4

the poor do not disappear. The Bible says the poor will always be with us, and it's up to those of us who are able to help them. To whom much is given, much is required. The key to surviving is to GIVE. Give away all you can. God will multiply it back to you in a cup that runs over. Even giving away clothes you cannot wear to Goodwill is a good example. If you have an income give away 10% of it, preferably to a church [the tithe is mine, sayeth the Lord]. You WILL be blessed. Try it.