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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The word unintentional brings to mind old money.  The nouveau riche unless very classy push their wealth in your face - new expensive cars every year or two, rudeness and stinginess with waiters  and other employees, huge engagement rings, push presents.

It is not having antique silver or jewelry that makes it unintentional.  Of course, it was originally bought to show off and the current generation knows it is valuable, but they use the ugly antique solid silver stuff to make a peanut butter sandwich (maybe if they are WASPY enough the peanut butter is the store brand).  The antique silver is what is there and they use it because it works - quality lasts a long time.

[b]Unintentional might be the mom who donates a "pie a month" to the auction.  She makes them herself with her own hands (wearing a thin gold wedding ring and an antique Native American piece bought by a great great Aunt in the 1920s), BUT the pies are not available June through August.  No explanation given but it is because mom and the kids are at the beach for the summer in an ancestral cottage.[[/b]/quote]

You nailed it.  Though I'd add the the mom is a SAHM and graduated from a top 5 law school.[/quote]

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