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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"New money?"  Seriously?[/quote]

You may not like what the OP has to say, but she has a point.  New money people are too caught up in houses, jewelry, cars and clothes. Old money people may have those things but at least they have the good sense not to flaunt them, they're not really that impressed by them and are more concerned with the greater community/world around them or things like arts, culture and travel.  [b]For an old swamp Yankee[/b] who was surrounded by people with Jimmy Choo shoes, Louis Vuitton bags and botoxed lips and foreheads at my child's "new money" school, there's a lot to be said for old money.[/quote]
Sorry, but I have to ask. What exactly is "an old swamp Yankee"?[/quote]

The actual definition refers to certain people from southern New England but we used the term a little differently and more loosely. The richest people in the town I grew up in were the quintessential old swamp Yankees.  They drove the oldest beat-up Volvos, they reused paper bags and collected rubber bands and the like but they had "royal" pedigrees and education and had priceless art on the walls of their modest Cape Cods or colonials.  Those of us of more modest means (like me) used it to signify people who wore old jeans and T-shirts and worn out sneakers. In other words, people who care more about substance than appearances.[/quote]
Thank you ! I had not heard that term before. [/quote]

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