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[quote=Anonymous]I know plenty of blue collar workers - plumbers, electrticians, landscapers- who are house proud and have great furniture. Some may have a few pieces that are second hand that has been refinished and reupholstered beautifully.

It is not a class thing but a personality thing. Your DH is scared of being poor and does not want to spend the money.  I know plenty of white collar and  upper middle class people  who live like refugees.  I was once invited to a colleague's (DH's)  apartment for their child's birthday party. They both were in IT and one was working in a very prestigious organization as a programmer.  A box cake was baked and presented on an upside down aluminium foil container, perched on a cardboard box table lined with a shower liner!! The apartment was dirty, smelly and crawling with tiny cockroaches and all the furniture was picked up from the curbside.  I was shocked and disgusted. When a cockroach started to crawl on the birthday boy, I had had enough and cut the visit short saying that we had to be somewhere else. My DH was worried about what the hosts would think. But at that point I knew that I would be very happy of I never associated with the hosts again.

The people immigrants like us and were from the same culture, race, SES, education level as us - so please do not accuse me of being a troll, even though this seems like a fantastic story.  
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