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When poverty makes you hyper-aware of money in ways others cannot understand

I know exactly how much everything costs down to the penny and my friends complain about twenty dollar purchases like it is nothing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Economic survival requires a level of vigilance that becomes invisible to those who have never experienced scarcity.

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