Perhaps you missed the real point of my post.
What I was *trying* to say is that if working to put what little money you make in to buying groceries is one of your primary goals, worrying about having a larger house or a status-symbol car is probably the least of your worries.
Some people don't worry about fashion name clothes, expensive dinners out, and jet-setting vacations at the expense of putting their child/children in daycare.
Some people work to pay rent on a basic apartment, buy boxes of mac-n-cheese, and put gas in their beat up '85 Dodge to get to their low-wage job.
These are the people that, really, have no choice but to work.