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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find the focus on dcurbanmom on these status symbols crazy.  Why do you care what brand of shoes I wear and the purse I buy or whether I drive a luxury car or if I belong to a CC?  We are middle income based on warped private school standards less than 250k per year but close to it. I could make my kids take put loans for college to buy that luxury car and belong to that CC ( we've saved 200k for college)... or keep a high mortgage balance and buy all of this crap to fit in with the parents. What bugs me the most are the wannabees who have no assets (one paycheck away from not being able to pay their mortgage):but flaunt their non-existant wealth and look down on us. [/quote]

I'm just responding to the last part.  The wannabes drive me nuts too.  They have no equity in their house and no assets to speak of but drive fancy cars, wear $300 shoes, and carry $1,000 bags.  I think these people are just extremely insecure and feel a need to keep up with the Joneses.  I prefer financial stability and security over designer bags and kind of laugh to myself at people who waste money on luxuries they cannot afford - we all know who they are. [/quote]

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