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[quote=Anonymous]Honestly. I feel rich, haha. And I'm sure there are people who have WAY more scoffing at me, but whatever. I do. I feel rich.

It's probably because I've gone through quite a large HHI income change in my lifetime. As a kid, I remember lay-away, seeing my mom cry about money, and knowing the exact date of my her next paycheck. But we still had more than a lot of other families. And, like many posters, I also grew up on the 80s-90s Midwest: it was a unique cultural place, haha. Most of my high school classmates never took a vacation out of the state, and even the "rich families" still drove a Chrysler mini-van and went to Disney World twice in fifteen years.

I was unmarried in DC for most of my 20s, working in nonprofit jobs that didn't pay more than $65K. I had roommates, carefully budgeted, and definitely felt like it was a splurge to get a massage or a pedicure. But it was still okay.

Fast forward to my late 30s: our HHI is $650K. We're not Logan Roy on "Succession"-rich, but so what? We have a house that has almost doubled in worth since we bought it. Retirement accounts look great. We can comfortably save for kids' college and retirement.

Every day, I think about all the stress I don't have because of the money. When things break, I don't panic the way my parents did. I'm annoyed, but I don't worry. I don't think twice about buying a "dry clean only" piece of clothing. I buy the groceries I want (yes, even the fancy blue tortilla chips) and I even go to Whole Foods, haha (THAT is my Nebraska talking: feeling rich for going to Whole Foods). When my neck has been hurting for a couple weeks, I schedule a massage. If I really want red lipstick the holiday party season, I go to Sephora and not CVS. I get to look like a "good person" because I can pony up for charity now in ways I never could in the first decades of my life.

It's amazing. So yeah, I feel rich. I know I'm so damn lucky. [/quote]

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