One of the disadvantages of poverty is the amount of time that you have to spend just being poor. It’s like being poor is a full-time job in itself. Despite all the freedom that it seems to offer it constantly takes up all your time. You have to shop all the time for food because there is no place to store it. You have to take a bus to the store every other day even for small items—of course you don’t have a car as a poor person. It’s not the most economical way of buying things. Poverty is the most expensive lifestyle as well as the most time consuming.