My experience was pretty similar, except the kicker is that my friend's family, who were off and on welfare and food stamps and who got evicted from their house and then moved from apartment to apartment, always had the current gen console and had a nice TV. His mom always bitched about the "rich people" at our school and church, but that family always had more and cooler toys than anyone else. I learned pretty young that having or not having shit isn't always because you're poor or rich, but because of how responsible you are and what your priorities are. Obviously there are poorer people in the world than that family, but still.