What purchase made you realise that you're finally out of poverty?

My parents always struggled when I was a kid. No school trips, no holidays, no branded food. No pocket money. We got new toys on birthdays and Christmas and that was it. If something broke, ft couldn't be fixed ourselves, we went without, unless they could get one from someone for cheap/free. Sometimes a month would be really bad, and my parents would have to borrow from our piggy banks. We were never without food, but our parents stressed all the time how expensive everything was, and how if we left the lights on, for example, we might loose the house and go homeless. When my dad got a job on the railway when I was 8, money started improving, but they didn't trust it, so it took a while for it to start feeling like they had some money. I remember being so scared when I saw Walkers crisps in the house, because I'd always been taught how expensive and unnecessary it was to buy brands, and worried we'd run out of money and be homeless. Over time it felt more and more like we were okay, but still didn't do stuff like holidays, school trips, instruments, after-school clubs etc. It was still too expensive. When I was 15, my parents sat us down and announced that we were going to be getting pocket money. £20 a month! That was HUGE. I was lucky if I got £100 for my birthday so this was life-changing! It was then that I realised my parents were doing okay, and we weren't going to be homeless. Two decades later, my dad injured his foot and can't work anymore. He's losing his house, maybe his foot, and fighting with PIP to get money and housing so he and my mum won't go homeless. It sucks to see them having fought that hard out of poverty just for it all to go to shit at 62.