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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I recently skimmed the Paul Fussell book. 'Skimmed' because I have a toddler and work full time.  I was raised  'High Prole,' according to his scheme, which is a LMC strata.

Granted, Class was written 30 years ago, and high prole is now the entire tech industry, having come into its own. The part that amused me most was where Fussell observed that high proles are really into ideas whereas the true upper class hate ideas because they can only mean trouble. It was all ideas all the time at our house, strange foods, museum memberships, hippy summer camps, foreign films, science fairs, friend that couldn't really speak English because parents were on postdocs from abroad, and early adopting all tech stuff. As children we regularly attended lecture series, the symphony and various avant garde dance troupes. Education was highly valued and you were expected to be superior, which we were because, hey - high prole.

Nonetheless we are definitely prole. [/quote]

I love your upbringing, PP. This is what I'm trying to give my children, first and foremost: curiosity, love of learning and interest in ideas.
We are also proles, by your definition, and proud of it.

As for OP's original question, my in-laws are very "lower middle class" in their mindsets, however, they are pretty comfortable financially, more comfortable than DH and I will ever be. All my MIL talks about is coupons, discounts, and savings. Luckily, they live 5 hours away, so I don't get to enjoy her company that often..but when I do, it's hard to keep my mouth shut. Here's an example: my SIL (who really took after her mother in a lot of ways) is undergoing chemo for a pretty advanced form of cancer, so, whenever MIL calls, we always discuss SIL's current condition. Yesterday SIL says: "You know, Mary's lost a lot weight recently, close to 25 pounds". I said something along the lines of: "Chemo's side effects are awful, but, hopefully, they will go away with time", and MIL jumps in: "Exactly! That's why Mary says, she's not going to buy herself any new clothes, since she'll be putting all that weight back on! But right now she's walking around with her pants falling off of her, she has to borrow belts from her husband. But she's determined not to waste any money".

Please. A pair of cheap jeans is 20 dollars at Marshall's, and you don't have to 'borrow' anyone's belts. There's only one explanation I can offer to this bizarre behavior: these people value 'saving money' over pretty much anything else in the world. And this is pretty sad.[/quote]

The fact that you would have anything other than compassion for a SIL with cancer suggests that you have no class, so we don't need to mess around with the LMC and UMC crap.

Please confirm this was tongue-in-cheek satire of UMC class obsession.  Then we can all have a glass of wine.

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