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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]always a good fight on this forum

in this case, SUCH stupidity

Here's my story.  Read and learn.

As an only, we lived at the beach.  We had a condo on the ocean, and a home on the bay my father built. We traveled to Europe, up and down the East Coast, to Canada, to the island, and to California.  I attended private school.  For special events, we shopped at Saks.  I had my own condo at 24 and my own townhouse at 28.

As the mother of two, we rarely vacation, as private school tuition eats up quite a bit of change.  Our current home is nice - older - but it is in this condition  b/c my husband is handy.   So he renovated/updated parts of the house himself.  I work.  (My mother did but that's b/c we had a family business. So she could take off whenever she wanted!)  We are moving to an area with better public schools b/c we won't be able to afford private high for our kids.  I drive a car that's 7 years old, and when we buy our next one, it will be used.  Again, my husband, who's handy, does all the maintenance. With one, we could do more obviously. I don't, however, regret having a second, as it was our choice to do so.

But we do make sacrifices - some of us more than others.  And considering how I was raised, it's been a tad bit hard for me!

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Sucks for you, Princess.  I grew up the youngest of 3.  Middle Class.  I was taught the value of hard work---as was my DH who came from even more modest means.  We were taught 'brands', 'materialism', etc mean nothing.  They are just 'things'.  Now DH and I have extremely lucrative careers and more $ than we know what to do with--but we refuse to raise our kids in a manner that you describe.  Gifts are confined to Christmans and Birthdays.  Kids do chores.  Our only real extravangances are vacations and whole foods.  We purposely chose a strong public school district so as not to surround our kids with private school crowd.[/quote]

I thought her post was very helpful.  I think you are a bitch.[/quote]

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