Do rising prices in your village have you baking your own bread? Cutting your own hair? Scattering your own straw across the floor of your hovel? Let the local lords of the land know they can't keep you down. 
Peasant Core may not be a choice, but it is a lifestyle that brings a certain rustic, salt-of-the-earth charm. Might as well embrace it! Now all your poor (pun intended) choices can be Peasant Core choices. 

Based on the tiny hand-painted signs in Azrai's Cottage At The End Of The Universe.