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[quote=Anonymous]To farm girl.  I grew up poor too, and think maybe it is easier than to be part of the grasping middle class trying to hang on.  It also helped that my parents had no desire for the trappings of middle or upper-middle class life.  My parents didn't tell me I couldn't have guess jeans because we couldn't afford them but because designer clothes (which they were to me) was a stupid waste of money (not that I didn't still want them, but it made the stumbling block to everything everyone else had my weird parents rather than just money).  If we had all the money in the world, we would still spent all or vacations visiting relatives or friends, not at ski resorts.  I'm sure my parents would have loved to go to Europe, but we would have been stuck in museums and bookstores and eating weird food, nothing I could have talked about with well traveled friends.

I worry more for my kids since we are more of the grasping middle-class than poor (and in an upper-middle class area).  I'm trying to find a hippie school for them hoping the parents will share our anti-materialism values even if they have much more money than we have.  But who knows how successful I'll be.[/quote]

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