You are half right PT.

As an adult, I’ve always been able to make ends meet sometimes they met easier than others, but I never got in over my head.

HOWEVER, as a kid we hit some hard times and we were poor. My dad never had to resort to poaching to put food on the table. He’d work some low level cruddy jobs and do what he had to do. And yes sometimes those boxes of food from the church helped out a lot. One of the things that really helped us out was trapping. Back in the day when fur prices were high, he could make a good bit of money trapping, and when times were tight, that money really helped.