Reply #27: shouldn't comfortable be between Lower and Middle Class?

[Lenore]

In any event since you have had no real responses, that answer your question, before the time I hit "reply", I thought I would give it a try.

As a child I grew up "poor". My father was a minister in a small hick town of Montana and we lived on 10% of the tithes given to the church. Them must have been some similarly poor sob's because his wage was often not enough to keep electricity, to our home, the year round.

When I think about "poor" I think of how my daddy would hunt deer and bear for our winter meet supply and while we cut up the meet on the big solid kitchen table, my mom melted down the fat from the bear to make "lard" which was stored in empty donated coffee cans stacked up in the pantry... this was our cooking and baking grease for the winter. Not being able to afford Krisco is "poor" in my book.

I could similarly detail aspects of each of your classifications, from "poor", where I started out, to now almost fitting into the "upper middle class" (all Glory to God) category. Amazing what marrying up can do for ones social standing LOLOL. (My husband, his family would be considered firmly in the Upper Middle Class, country clubs and all, but since he married down.. socially speaking... it all evens out to be a comfortable middle class type of lifestyle).

One thing I can say about growing up in dire poverty is that it has truly given me an appreciation for the nicer things in life. In addition, all those years of poverty really taught me how to shop frugally and make ends meet on the fewest of pennies. Now that I am in a position that I could make purchases on a daily basis, I love doing so at Goodwill and Craigslist.org

I don't know if this helped answer your ?? but I do hope it gives you a little input into a few of your categories, as you have requested.:)