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Working Poor

Stardust

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5. -you drive clunkers that gobble gas and require constant maintenance.

Reply to w0nderer (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 21, 2015, 01:12 AM

Oct 2015

-if you rely on public transportation, you plan your trips to stores that are close, but may be more expensive. You can only get what you can carry and smaller quantities are more expensive.

Being poor drags your soul down.

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