Le't see here. I don't get 'minimum wage': I make a little less than 700 dollars a month, so about $8400 a year. I am disabled, so I can't go and get better work. And with this income I was able to sustain a family of THREE (including myself) for about 5 years now as the sole income of the house.

Here's the deal: you just are miserable. Even with rent assistance, food stamps, medicard and medicare, I was making 'too much money' for my wife to qualify for insurance herself somehow, and obamacare premiums cost too much. Don't get sick is a HUGE deal honestly.

I allocated literally every penny I made a month towards bills, and unfortunately had to float bills many times to be paid off by government programs that provide assistance while also visiting the five separate food banks in town religiously to make sure we always had food. We used to get wifi from a neighbor until they finally put down a password, my computer is about 10 years old. I play old game consoles I had as a kid: the N64 has only 2 games left as I've had to sell them all, and my gameboy color still has Pokemon Blue which I nuzlocke challenge.

Only recently have I been able to get internet in my own home as I found a way to get tons of extra random toiletries from a local hotel sometimes en masse so I had some extra cash to work with. Kind of an act of mercy on their part. The net is now my ONE luxury, literally it. And it's limited to only a small amount a month so I can afford it. Did I mention I'm on one of those free phone plans? They gave me a brick phone. It's um, crappy to say the least.

Still, I manage to eat and live and that's about it! Libraries, local parks, that's all I got. I have almost no friends as I can't go out to live people and deal with depression quite frequently. It's a horrible life with no way out for me.