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[quote=Anonymous]If you are middle class, then you bring your lunch to work, you mow your own lawn, you clean your own house.  You go on vacation for one week at the beach or the mountains. You spend your other vacation with family. You have two big spurge vacations for your children to remember when they are growing up- one to Disney and you stay at the value hotels if you stay on site.  Your children go to public school swim in local pools, join the scouts and play baseball- but not year round. Your children go to scout sleep away camp and maybe  a week at camp grandma.    You may go to church, synogogue or mosque, or not.  You drive american cars or honda and toyotas.  You save up and scrimp for things.  You go camping.  Your children get financial aid when they go to college.  They take a few AP classes, but no prep classes for SATs or CogAts.  In HS, your children do not have their own car.

You are upper middle class if you do the above, but out source a few things, like lawn care or have a every other week cleaner.  You get to take your kids to Europe once and they may get to go again in HS with a group.  When you go to disney you stay at the second tier hotels, if you stay on site.  You save up frequent flyer miles for trips.  You can pay for college if you save and you are likely to by the prepaid tuition play for state schools.  Your children take private music lessons, they may be on a travel sports team, they go to a few weeks of expensive science camps or art or theatre camps- but not the whole summer.  They are on the a summer swim team at a local private pool.  They are also in scouts. They take 6 AP classes and have tutors when they stumble.  In HS, your children drive a 10+ year old handme down car.  Your children may have learned to ski locally and ski once or twice each year- day trips each time.

You are in the wealthy class if you outsource most of the above, have nanny instead of SACC, take an expensive vacation every year, belong to a country club and/or have your children in private school.  Your children drive a newer car or perhaps you bought it specifically for them.  Your children have had a tutor most of their lives to get an edge. They take 8-12 APs. You may stay a month or more "at the beach" or "in the mountains" or in France in the summer.   Your children know how to ski and ski for winter break every year.  Your children have been to London, Paris and Hawaii.  They have been to NYC several times.  They have had a apple phone since 5th grade and unlimited texts and data (or enough).

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