How do homeless people survive without the things we take for granted everyday?

Question

How do homeless people survive without the things we take for granted everyday?

Answer 1

they don't

Answer 2

Basically, people are like animals, we are adaptable creatures.

Answer 3

It's amazing how little you actually need to survive.  We sold our house and put everything into storage and then moved into a townhome.  We bought a starter apartment set for kitchen utensils.  Had no furniture and slept on the floor for 6 months.

Answer 4

They don't is very right in some cases. They do things  that would probably make the average person  sick. They eat things that would make a billy goat puke. But they learn the overcome and adapt. Check out the movie Day After Tomorrow. The homeless guy showed a  few tricks of the trade.

Funny thing...there are another group of people that can do pretty much the same things. But society don't outcast them.

They're called Navy Seals.

Answer 5

In the city I live in there are shelters for individuals for people to stay in for seven days out of the month for free they get a bed use of shower place to do laundry ,in the winter the city has a program that if the temperature reaches to low more places open for people to sleep someplace warm.

There are those that prefer living on the streets part of my job is outreach work so I talk to the homeless on a daily basis give them info they need on where to go for food or a bed for the night I check there health by asking them questions.

Some are alcoholics and addicts  those I encourage to seek treatment .

The ones I see on the streets some have mental issues some alcoholics some drug users,some trying to escape abusive relationships.

People of all ages from teens to people in there sixties and seventies.

Answer 6

We have too much stuff.  Think about it.  If you get rid of everything you don't really need to survive except for your actual house only when the weather is bad, you could survive homeless.