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craigslist, you can pick one up for a few hundred, I'm sure. With kids, that's what I would do.

• arenaninja 12y ago
  How would you arrange for transportation? When do you have time to look at craigslist if you're working 7 days a week, getting up at 5:30AM to take the bus to your job 1.5 hours away at a factory, and cleaning houses on weekends? What I'm trying to get at is that being poor is not enough to produce what's seen in this article. You need a combination of poverty, broken family unit, lack of education (just because the school is down the street doesn't mean your parents are going to let you attend!), even craigslist is something that you might never have heard of!
  • byEngineer 12y ago
    ok, then pick up one from the street for free, but talk to the folks at which house you are picking it up from. Tell them you are going to have for your kid, etc. Then, if you are working 7 days a week, getting up at 5:30am, and all that stuff - why the heck you need a sofa for $1,500? Safe and invest this $1,500 in your child's education for Goodness sake! This is what poor Jews have been doing in the US since before-ww2 and look how well it worked for them! And blunt jokes aside -- I would fill much more fulfilled putting this 1500 to my kids college fund/whatever then buying something I don't really need. Why are you poor? Because you are stupid. Why are you stupid? Because you are poor. No one will break the vicious circle for them. They have to do it.