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I it and buy whatever his heart desires[/b][/[/quote]

Because when your entire childhood is colored with memories of crying yourself to sleep from hunger, or only being allowed one shower a week because water was too expensive, when you are wearing clothes you found in the dumpster and swatting at rats as big as a cat in the kitchen with a broom, these things become your identity. The threads of poverty run deep in the tapestry of my life. My little boy has more food available to him than I had in a months time as a kid, he has heat and air conditioning, toys,electronics and experiences I never dreamed of. He is living the childhood I always wanted. I am a GOOD mom. Even if I have spoiled my son.[/quote]

I am you PP.  My husband, who grew up MC, cannot comprehend this feeling you and I share. He says I spoil our son and am reliving my childhood vicariously through him. I suppose he is right, but my son wants for nothing.

On a different note, I am afraid that I may be doing him some harm. He is eight, and one day as I was ordering take out at A drive through, a homeless man asked for something to eat. My eight year old son was angry tht I purchased this homeless man a meal.  I know I need to make som changes in this attititud before he grows up to think like so many self centered, entitled, compassionless, people haunting these threads.[/quote]

I'm a third poster who grew up this way, and like you, I was in Florida.  I struggle with spoiling my daughter just like you and the first PP.  She's still little and the things she really wants are so inexpensive, and I just can't help myself.  I know I have to get this under control.  I rarely buy anything for myself other than essentials.  I'm also like you in that I hoard toiletries too.  When I finish the last bottle of my stash, knowing every drop was used and none was wasted, I get the most incredible feeling of satisfaction.  I time it for big sales, then go and buy another 8 bottles.  When I see how much money I saved, again, immense satisfaction.[/quote]

You quoted me. I did not grow up in Florida. I actually gee up in SE DC. I did however earn a scholarship, grants, and student loan at attend FSU.  Go Seminoles.

Anyway, like you I try to use every drop. I cut the bottoms off of the lotion bottles, etc to get the the remains out of the tubes. [/quote]

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