I wouldn’t say I grew up in a lower class family, my friend and I never wanted for anything, however looking back, I have to wonder.
My fantastic friend and I lived in the West so it never actually got that cold however still, I have to question my parents’ choices for heating the house. My fantastic friend and I didn’t have central heating, or anything like that. My fantastic friend and I didn’t even have up-to-date space heater. My parents would use the oven to heat the house in the winter, and it was a common gas oven and they would turn it on to 350 degrees and leave it running for days, but they were constantly sure to crack a window open in the kitchen though to make sure my friend and I didn’t all die or carbon dioxide or something! And these were in the days before CO2 detectors were even invented. If the oven wasn’t enough to heat the entire house, they would use old fashioned space heaters that were basically coil wires behind a grill. The coil wires got red-hot and were rather effective, even though they were a fire hazard. I remember that my friend and I had to be careful walking around these space heaters because they got so sizzling that they would melt the glue under the tiles so the tiles would slip and transport if you walked on them near the heater, still, no one ever got hurt or lacked oxygen and the house never burned down and I actually don’t know if our heating was any strange than the way almost everyone else did it a few decades ago, but with central heating and space heaters now that turn themselves off if a piece of dust gets caught in them, I have to wonder how my friend and I all survived before.