@Dutchess_III I don’t have some sort of stereotype that the poor are messy, unclean, and that you can tell someone is poor just by looking at them when you meet on the street. I don’t assume anything about someone’s financial situation. Some of the richest people in live in small houses, wear clothes that are not to impress, and drive average cars. That’s how I want to live. I would never be one of the richest people, I don’t consider myself rich at all, but I want to live modestly, and well below my means. I’ve been doing it for two years, living in a modest house, and not spending much money, and my husband is extremely unhappy doing it. It’s about to change. I worry that he, I guess it’s we, are about to make a financial mistake, but that’s another story.
I don’t question that you were frugile, and lived on what you had. I don’t think people on this Q are focused on the poor (low income) spending money they don’t have. The OP defined invisible poor as They live a quality life but have little money in bank accounts. To me quality life implied a middle class safe neighborhood, with plenty of clothes to wear, and never a worry about their next meal until the whole facade falls apart.
@stanleybmanly What’s your point with that besides that it’s a very sad statistic? Are you saying the children are invisible? Children live in poverty, because their parents are in poverty. A child living in a middle class neighborhood with $100 sneakers and their mom drops them off at school in a brand new car doesn’t know their parents are in hock up to their eyeballs, and everything can fall apart in a day.