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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mainly feel the guilt when I spend money on food & drinks.  I always said when I was growing up poor that I wouldn't skimp on nice shoes & clothes when I could afford it.  I don't and I feel zero guilt there.  However, it's been a process to train myself not to fret over the restaurant prices too much.  Mainly because in the back of my mind I'm still thinking "$15 for ONE cheeseburger bought us food for a week when I was a kid!"

I posted in the other thread today that I still can't bring myself to order soda in a restaurant.  I always order water or have a cocktail/wine (which again, guilt!).

It also shocks me how every kid gets braces now.  I mean, my niece just got stage one at age 8!  That was really unheard of when I was growing up as you usually got them in middle school.  And, only the rich kids got braces.  Everyone I grew up with who was poor and had crooked teeth got adult braces once they had some money!  I was lucky enough to have perfectly straight top teeth and only slightly crooked bottom teeth.

Another thing that was hard to get used to was how much vacations cost.  It's still hard to wrap my mind around paying $2000+ for a few days at the beach when growing up we had to scrounge and hustle to make our $800 monthly rent.  [/quote]

Same thing with us and vacations.

I haven’t added it up but even just ball parking it, we’ll spend 50k on vacations this year.

That’s actually a splurge I don’t feel bad about - I want to see the world and I want my kids to see it too.

However, they’re not coming from a childhood like mine that will give them the perspective of how fortunate they really are.

They think it’s totally normal to go to Europe, the Caribbean, skiing out West every year...

Kind of a shame. My kid actually asked me if we are poor the other day, lol. (We make over 700k)

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My kids think it’s totalky normal to travel like this too. I’m pretty sure 2/3 of their private school class took at least a 7 day trip to Europe this summer if not 2-3 full weeks.

[b]We make that kind of money (750k) and we’re the poor ones because we don’t have a second or third home, a house in the water, a boat, etc.[/quote][/b]

well, why don't you? with that kind of money you should. [/quote]

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