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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Try rolling up your sleeves and doing some actual work instead of outsourcing everything. No doubt you have a housecleaning service, lawn service, and pay contractors for even the simplest of home improvement tasks (e.g., putting on a new roof).[/quote]

I don't know about the new roof part, but agreed 100% for lawn service.  In my neighborhood, there are only 3 of us who mow our own lawns - a doctor, president of an investment company and me (management consultant).  The others like teachers, college support staff, etc. all pay landscaping companies.  The 3 of us also have the oldest cars.

Kind of weird to see the more definitely middle class people spending more on things they don't necessarily need to.

There seems to be some income zone where people spend more than they need to in order to appear wealthier than they are, and then a zone where people have higher incomes and stop spending on these things, since they don't need to have the illusion of prosperity.

I'd start with that: what are you spending money on to make yourself appear as if you're in a higher income bracket?[/quote]

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