AIBU to think being poor dose not mean you can't be clean

[Mrbojangles1]

To think when people live like this it's about being dirty not POOr

I have seen doumentrys of people who live in mud huts who would not dare there place in that state

To clean ones home costs nothing whatever type of home you have

I am sick of people useing poverty as a excuse to be dirty buggers

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134196/Pictured-The-modern-day-poverty-Kentucky-people-live-running-water-electricity.html

And the lack of RUNNING WATER might not make it a bit harder to be sparkling flash clean?

Life looks tough for them.
Small space/ no running water etc. I think op you have no idea how tough things are for them.

Sorry my nan is from Jamaica and didn't have running water in her house until she was 10 Years old

Her home never looked liked this I have seen photos

With pots and pans every we're they would wash things in the stream and then carry them back to be put way also they didn't have a insid Toilet

my nan and her sister were always told they can call us poor but they will never say we are in kempt their Ouse was spotless

I agree with others. It's hard to judge someone when your situation is extremely different from there's.

Life seems hard for those people. And out of all the pictures in that article, only one man's home seems to be dirty. Some of the others are cluttered, some of the others a bit run down, but otherwise clean - and there is nothing wrong with living in a cluttered or non-brand new home.. Surely the logical conclusion is that that particular man might need some help or maybe has a hoarding problem, rather than that the entire community is dirty and using poverty as an excuse?

The thing is that many people chose to live like this. I feel sorry for the children as they have no choice. I work as a district nurse and have been in hundreds of houses and even the most intelligent people who are often professionals chose to live in absolute squalor. Money has nothing to do with it.

Agreed NAko more the first persons house the people lower down with the baby looks fine

Holdin baby whilest
Posting tryin to feeed and type

Did you look beyond the first few? Most of the pictures show places that are quite clean and nice looking. And no one seems to be saying it is dirty because they are poor (having known quite rich people with houses covered in animal shit, you can be dirty regardless of income), just showed examples of extremely old building in a very poor areas that also happened to be dirty. You can have both without one being linked to the other.

That's what I was saying its not becasue their poor their house is not clean

YANBU they are filthy dirty poor people who bring it all on themselves. The Daily Fail said so, so it must be true

^^ I agree with VonHerrBurton, this thread is an embarrassment.

you should read the road to wigan pier (george orwell)

very insightful, gives many reasons why people below the poverty line seem to either keep their house beautifully (only thing they can take pride in) or slip into this dirty, cluttered way of living

Do you think it's only poor people who can have unclean homes?

You have obviously lived a very sheltered life.

One of the riches people I know has a filthy house. I didn't like my DC eating there when they were tiny. However she is a lovely person and I would never judge someone by their home. Maybe you should try that.

or maybe they had just had a party and no time to tidy up? Yes, I think that's it

I would concentrate on feeding your baby. Then come back and thrill us with your acumen.

Oh oh oh I know! I get it and completely agree! I mean, you'd also think that just because they are poor they would have a basic grasp of spelling and grammar wouldn't you? My mum lived in a filthy Ouse which even had running water and everything but still I learnt to construct a sentence together. Being poor really is no excuse for sloppiness in this department, wouldn't you agree Mrbojangles1?

I agree with Flossie and have done a job that involves going into people's houses for social care / charity reasons.

But I can think of reasons that might suggest poorer famillies are MORE likely to have a messy house- but the main one is because the same issue can cause a struggle to cope and poverty: depression, MH, LD issues...... above threshoild for social input but below most people's definition of coping.

Not to mention people trying to hold down a part time job, raise a family and maybe care for a family member, and similar scenarios in all their permutations.

And also the simple reason that in my hugely relevant experience, those people who are poor are more likely to be picked up anyway, have an education or speak nively and youa r eunlikely to get services- as I have elarned to my cost as a carer whose every request for help is met by a wave of the SSD report saying 'Mum is educated and will cope'.

What can anyopne do anyway? Grandad lives in squalor; he is 91, Mum goes when she can to help, as does one of my Aunts and I try to when I am back home, but they can only do so much. Social workers are involved but as they say, unless he agrees to help (he has accepted 30 minutes of personal care but refuses anything else including sheltered housing) they are powerless.