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Well..duh.

I am mostly with you, but [b]access to parents’ Prime, Starbucks verges on spoiling[/b]. Lavish birthday parties are tacky and frivolous, in my opinion. A home in an expensive neighborhood is worth it.
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We are a donut-hole family and our kids got full merit rides.  We gave them access to our accounts and got them debit cards so that they could buy whatever they needed -clothes, groceries, supplies etc and were never stuck in some dangerous situation and could not call Uber etc.  They were away from home at college or at different cities for internships and we wanted to keep them well fed, safe, properly attired etc.  Thankfully, my kids are pampered but not spoilt.  Plus, giving them access to our account meant that we were actually monitoring what they were buying.

Lavish birthdays are very much in keeping with our culture and common in our immigrant social circle. And once the kids were in middle school they were not interested in huge celebrations anyways.

I like having a big, beautiful, tastefully decorated, new, spacious and comfortable house.  In our neck of the woods though the price of homes was determined by the prestige of the associated public schools.  Public schools were not a big motivator for me so we bought a house I loved in a neighborhood that I liked.  Thankfully, kids did well enough to go to public magnet schools so we also bypassed the private school cost. Any  exposure to regular public school that my kids got was not honestly not bad.  Since we are immigrants, diversity of all kinds is very acceptable to us.  My main driver has always been that the curriculum should be very strong and the classroom should not have disruptive elements so that my kids can learn.

As an UMC person whose upbringing was MC - my mentality and sensibilities is more MC than UC.   For example -  I will not spend money on a bunch of flowers, I will buy a flowering perennial that I can plant in my yard.    :lol: 
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