Reply #25: More lower middle class.

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I know my mom got WIC when my brother was a baby. My parents were very good at being thrifty, so we never needed food stamps. We chopped wood every year for the wood stove (lived in Maine). We bought stuff on sale or stuff from thrift shops, yard sales, and stuff out of the Uncle Henry's (a book full of advertisments for used items). I never thought we were poor growing up, even though I knew of many families who had much more than we did. We never went hungry (ok, I went hungry quite a few times because I was a picky eater). I knew of some kids from larger families that actually had to skip meals because their parents couldn't afford to feed them.