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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG yes. My mother is the worst. She grew up middle to lower middle class and married up with my dad's career. She is so judgmental and snobby! She is obsessed with keeping up appearances and is just classless with the snooty things she says to people she deems "less than" her. My husband and I do fine, live below our means and save and invest and just because our jobs don't scream "I'm rich" she looks down on us and her own grandchildren. She is OBSESSED with money and status and does not value things like good character,  basic decency, kindness and even ethics! She briefly had a friend who was old money, but that woman was too classy, down to earth and normal to tolerate my mother's nonsense for too long.

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OP here. My SIL is exactly the same. She values the gilded and the shiny. She is impressed by jon titles and fancy clothes. My DH and I make good money but are less flashy. We spend on travel, good quality things, and enrichment activities such as education and museums.

She is the most rude and tacky person I know but it’s hysterical that she is deluded enough to think she is better than others. [/quote]

My mother is obsessed with the few family members who live in mansions. She once declined a holiday invite with us because she said "No I will be spending time with the classy side of the family." One of our kids has special needs and the other has medical issues so we spend money on that, not a home to impress. We also don't do private schools, etc, like the mansion folks. We invited her to be polite, but the comment was funny, so her and rude. The sad thing is she calls those relatives and practically invites herself.

Also, does your mom drop friends she thought was fancy when things no longer look good on paper....like word gets out the rich husband may have been fired by the board or they get a divorce?

Favorite topics for my mother are: how people decorate their mansions, luxury trips to Europe, who got fat, who may have had work done and who lost weight. So much depth! With age she becomes more and more of a characature of herself. Like she doesn't even try to pretend to be a decent person with decent values anymore.[/quote]

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