I always wonder in these impoverished young single person suddenly has to go broke and live in abject, precarious poverty to accommodate monsters and supernatural beings - how, exactly, did they all get by BEFORE they enslaved the human through their exreme kindness? I realize it's to show character - but some of that character seems to be over-the-top impractical.
So, A: There's no poverty here. Mahoro lives in a house in Tokyo. This girl is clearly f---ing rich, it's just that she has to spend a lot on living expenses. Even so, she didn't think twice about taking in Nene. She does fuss over money, but that seems more like a personality trait than a product of circumstances. (Otherwise, she would've swallowed her pride and sold the "WeeU") I assume her family is well off and she spends her substantial allowance on feeding the ayakashi. Whether she needs to is ambiguous? Yukime suggested they don't need to eat, being ghosts, but Kii and Kuuko immediately objected. I suspect that's more about them liking to eat than needing to. It'd be a bit odd for Yukime to not know at this point that she needs to eat. That said, if they do need food, it's not like it'd be hard for them to sneak what they need here and there, since anything they pick up appears to vanish from existence instantly.
B: As for what they did before Mahoro, they explicitly address this. Before Mahoro, her grandmother took care of the place. Before her grandmother moved in, the ayakashi were hiding in the empty house. Kii was the zashiki-warashi for the house, so she was already there, and Kuuko and Yuuki met when Kuuko was the god of Yuuki's villiage. They have presumably been wandering the country together as ayakashi for a couple centuries, and know how to take care of themselves.
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