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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find the focus on dcurbanmom on these status symbols crazy.  Why do you care what brand of shoes I wear and the purse I buy or whether I drive a luxury car or if I belong to a CC?  We are middle income based on warped private school standards less than 250k per year but close to it. I could make my kids take put loans for college to buy that luxury car and belong to that CC ( we've saved 200k for college)... or keep a high mortgage balance and buy all of this crap to fit in with the parents. What bugs me the most are the wannabees who have no assets (one paycheck away from not being able to pay their mortgage):but flaunt their non-existant wealth and look down on us. [/quote]

Except that you didn't buy all these things. They did all you did and still have money left over for their status symbols. Have some tolerance and curb your jealousy. They have twice the income that you do. It seems normal to them. Do you buy all of your clothes at a thrift store just because it is cheap? Neither do they. They just have a higher price point. Sorry.[/quote]

Ever read millionaire next door.

We know a family 10 years older than us who completed a 100k upgrade to her home, expensive car, very showy....a few years later was talking about a mortgage mod because couldn't afford monthly payment.

Second family filed for bankruptcy.

A third snobby family girl is always complaining family has no money but very starus conscience luxury cars, vacations and probably cc member.

Another family ent through bankruptcy due to overspending.[/quote]

Which town? Not DC.[/quote]

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