File under the &quot;it&#x27;s expensive to be poor&quot;.<p>One observation from growing up poor, around lots of other poor people (but not something I noticed in people who I&#x27;d classify as falling into &quot;true&quot; poverty) is the crazy amount of money that gets spent on absolute bullshit in some desperate attempt to make the life-suck less awful.<p>I could list some examples, but the stereotype of poor people with expensive shoes or lots of cheap jewelry or whatever is often partially true.