15 Things That You Always Find in a Poor Person’s Home

Inside a Poor Home! A home is the summation of all that has happened in it!

Let's answer some questions:
What can you find in a poor person's home?
What's something you'll always find in a poor person's home?
What is it like inside a poor person's home?

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00:00 - Intro
00:25 - Glassware you’ve received with other purchases or got for free
01:05 - A warm spot
01:50 - Knock-offs
or generic products
02:31 - Everything is crammed
03:10 - A poster of a former big goal
04:27 - Diluted dishwasher soap
04:52 - Something that you borrowed and have yet to give back
05:21 - No towels match
05:44 - A drawer filled
with bills to be paid
06:57 - Roommates or extended family members
07:27 - Branded clothing or swag from your former workplaces
07:55 - Unfinished
Renovations & Mold
08:32 - “There's a trick to it” functionality
09:01 - More pets than
you’re supposed to have
09:27 - Never to be thrown out furniture & Folding chairs

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[alux]

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[OldCanadianguy]

I grew up poor. After decades of hard work and sacrifice I'm able to own my own home and live within my means. But I don't forget the tools which I learned when I was poor. I wash and reuse old Folgers plastic coffee containers and glass jars for bulk food storage. I save plastic shopping bags as well as twist ties and elastic bands. This is not being poor, this is being practical and not wasteful. Not all of my furniture is matching but I saved a lot of money that way.

[strictlys]

To be honest, this video makes me want to stop supporting this channel. How does one make fun of someone who's poor. If they're poor, or have certain items in their home, it's one thing. But to laugh, mock and make fun of them with this snobby attitude is something else. I always remembered this channel as people helping people. Suggestions, advice. But, now when I hear this females voice, I'll relate it to her laughing and putting people down. And I've been watching for years. Never thought she'd disrespect a group of people because of how they live.

[raz]

Growing up, I was taught not to waste anything. I didn’t grow up poor but my parents did. I still throw restaurant sauces in a drawer in case I run out of a condiment.

[onewomanandsomesongs]

I am very comfortably middle class, but I have a few of these things in my house…I’m frugal, that’s all. The narrator sounds kind of condescending, btw.

[catherinehenry]

I did not grow up poor at all, nor am I poor now. But I HATE to fill landfills even more than they already are. So, a lot of my sewing notions and nuts and bolts in the garage were cookies tins in another life. Many glass containers are used for storing leftovers (I like the pasta sauce jars with a screw top that can be used as measuring cups.) It really P...s me off when fast food eateries give me huge handfuls of napkins, so yes I use those as well. Not poor but trying to be not wasteful.

[kaitiscarlett]

Holy crap, this video oozes with stereotypes and poor-shaming, when in fact, many of these things are simply doing what you have to do (e.g., the heater setup). Others are things that nobody does (posters of a dream house? really?) and some are actually good things to do, like re-purposing biscuit tins and napkins that you get with takeaway. Do hoarders exist? Why sure. But not every person with a stash of catsup and taco sauce is one. How about You-Do-You.

[alizcsodaorszagbol]

I don't see any harm in repurposing cookie tins, jars, plastic bags instead of buying them, and why to heat the whole house if it is only starting to get cold in the autumn? Some of these are common sense frugal hacks. Even the promo clothes one can wear for gardening or when cleaning the house or even in bed. If you don't have to spend on these you have more money left to invest. However accumulating cheap stuff I was guilty of, I had tons of cheap clothes before which I changed, even to the other extremity, I genuinely got to hate shopping 😅 it is a torture when I have to buy new clothes and if I don't find what I need in 2-3 shops I give up and go home.

[mikikarh]

Even when I get rich I will keep a bag of bags! And if I get napkins from the outside, I will use them. 😂 Repurposing some things as tupper is not poor, it's not being wasteful

[chrisvandepolder]

Alot of these could go for people that are just frugal.

[victoriahicks]

This is basically an ad. For example, “Brand names are aspirational.” No, they are not. Many middle class and wealthy people have strong enough self esteem that they don’t NEED to waste money on brand names to show off to their friends. In fact, in my experience, poor people often are very concerned with brand names and uneducated people are more concerned about appearance than about reality.

[davidclaro]

Apparently, the author of this video hasn’t traveled around the world. I’m in Japan, and you can find many of these things in people’s homes in Japan. No, they aren’t poor. Many people prioritize their well earned money. Since growing up, they learned to take care of things and use their money towards things of good quality. Just a different culture.

[rawendreality]

sooo not true. I am upper class and I buy generic brands, always save all that condiment stuff and even have them organized in crates in my refrigerator. I dilute all of my soap, got the trick from my Mother In Law who is worth 100+ million. It is irritating when you get too much soap and you have to stand there and run water for a long time. My Mother in law and I always keep all bags. Most of this is NOT

[deedeewinfrey]

I'm of native American descent, and we barely had any garbage. We never wasted anything. Its a way of life.

[sonyamatheson]

Our area banned single use plastic, so having a bag of bags means you are rich. 😀 You haven’t had to use all your bags yet for rubbish. 😀

[rogerbec]

I consider this a slap on poor people. You don't know their past. My poor mother in law, may she rest in peace, used to brew coffee from the previous day's used ground. She'd tell us the depression of 1929 had left her scarred forever.

[louwvalue]

That cookie container took me back, wasn't aware storing non cookie related items in them was a world wide thing.

[jonathankattner]

I always say, if there's beer in the refrigerator, you're doing ok.... as opposed to keeping track of how long until you can visit the food pantry...

[awitnessjehovah]

My late husband was a successful doctor. He happily went dumpster diving if he saw a nice piece of furniture sticking up.
I have 1 towel. I hate to clean. I live in an unfinished basement while my adult kids live upstairs (by my choice- I like the extra space). I keep a chihuahua and my cockatiel down here with me. In the winter, I bring in the bunny- using a dog play pen as her Winter home. A wild brown rat winters down here too- coming in through a hole in the wall that was once the outlet for the dryer vent.
I consider myself financially insecure. I was married 20 years. His estate got almost everything (which I didn't fight and I'm glad I didn't and they look out for me) but they bought me this house and I get a monthly trust for 4 more years. I never let bills go to collections. I'm unwise with my money but I'm happy.
MORE sauce please. Tomorrow isn't guaranteed. I hoard resources for rainy days.

[Laurtew]

I'm going to have to disagree on some of these, Alux. I refuse to throw out something that can be reused just to keep from looking poor. The ugly shirts from my husband's former employer make excellent garden shirts. We have a small farm and my goal is zero waste, so we use boxes as weed barriers and those annoying plastic air pillows cut up to tie plants up. Someone gave us 100 ceramic blocks and I could have said no and let them pay to have them hauled to a landfill, but I used them to build raised bed gardens and chicken runs and now they have a new life.

Can I just buy what I need for my farm? Yes, but how is that good for the planet? If I can run my farm at zero waste, that is better than trying to look like I have money.

I grew up rich. My father owned his own business and made about $400k per year in the 80s. What he taught me was that people who have real money are not wasteful. People who throw out things that are useful just to get better stuff are people who want to look rich. If you are worried that people will think you look poor for having the branded shirt from your old employer while you go out and buy clothes to get dirty in, are you really rich? If I really can't use it or I know I won't, I donate it, but throwing things out or getting rid of them just to keep from looking poor is wasteful.

We have the money to choose how we want to spend it and we don't want to waste it on things like plastic storage containers and building materials for the farm. Isn't that what really having money means? You have the luxury of choosing where you spend your money, not having it dictated by your circumstances? I get to build a life that makes me happy. I get to live in the woods and have a farm and make choices that are good for me and the planet. *That* is what having money lets me do and I honestly don't care if the ugly, old shirt I'm wearing to walk my dog makes people think I'm poor. I know I'm not. (I'd never wear it to the store or a restaurant. I have nice clothes that are event-appropriate. What I wear to the store is not what I wear to the theatre. What I wear to go the museum is not what I wear to go to a fundraiser for the museum. I'm also not ashamed to purchase second hand vintage clothing as long as it's nice and has a lot of life in it. I've gotten barely worn designer clothing for Walmart prices, supported a local charity by buying from their store, saved a nice piece of clothing from a landfill, and then I have more money to spend elsewhere.)

But, I do agree about buying cheap things. You are going to spend the money anyway, whether you are buying 20 pairs of cheap $3 shoes over the course of 5 years or one really good pair of $80 shoes that last 10 years. (I have a pair of Reebok shoes from the 80s that I still wear.) It comes down to where do you want your money to go. I try to shop with small businesses. I get my skincare from a small goat farm run by a former chemist who worked for a brand name beauty company. I get my shoes from a small company in Sweden that makes them from recycled plastic bottles. They are waterproof and have a 15 year warranty. Yes, they are $100 a pair, but it's better than paying $3 every 6 months to support companies that buy cheap goods made with slave labour.

I understand where you were going with this video, but it feels like you generalised and missed the mark with some of these.