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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again. I agree with folks who talk about the anxiety. It has been a problem for me too and I had to get therapy before I could turn on the heat in the winter even though I'd been able to afford heat for years. (Therapy really helped, btw.) I certainly don't want that for my kids. But I agree with 10:46 who noticed that her friend's kid can't seem to entertain herself without a lesson or a video or whatever. The middle class kids in our family seem to be that way too. When I was a kid the answer to the "I'm bored" question was "use your imagination." I feel like it's helped me a lot - both having an imagination and the implicit lesson that I am responsible for my own happiness (and that you can have plenty of fun without having "stuff").[/quote]

I'm PP who mentioned the anxiety.  My significant other often teases me because I stress over spending any money.  We ordered a movie on cable the other night, and I thought it was sort of excessive.  And he said sarcastically, "don't worry, $8 isn't going to put us over the edge."  But it's definitely a carryover from childhood when my parents literally had to watch every dollar they spent.  It's very difficult to get out of that mindset and that anxiety around money.[/quote]

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