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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this where the shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves clique can hang? Our expensively educated, brilliant parents had no money sense on epic, disastrous level. They couldn't  fling it away fast enough. [/quote]

Oh, I would be delighted to shoot the breeze about my parent's never-ending and increasingly less amusing mishaps, particularly with money.

[b]Once my mother was actually conned into a pyramid scheme, despite being way too educated to fall for something that stupid.[/b]

-OP[/quote]

Oh no, I'm sorry but that is tres nouveau riche. Not old money at all.

What was she selling -- Scentsy? Pampered Chef? Stella and Dot? No, that's too modern. Was it -- no, was it [i]Avon?[/i][/quote]

Oh, but my dear, that is the distinction!  We are neither old money nor new money, we are [i]new poor[/i].

And for the life of me I cannot remember what the heck it was she was trying to sell, I was just a kid then but I remember finding it incredibly stupid.[/quote]

OP, I'm sorry to break the news to you, but you are not newly poor. I'm sure your parents wanted you to think as much, but unless they were old money -- and you basically admitted they were not with the **cough**cough** "pyramid scheme" information you shared -- then you cannot be newly poor. You are simply poor, without the back story. Such a shame. And you seemed so ladylike and genteel too.[/quote]

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