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[quote=Anonymous]These are examples from own life. I'd say they were unintentional because my parents didn't do them to impress our neighbors or to show off. We didn't own luxury cars or have fancy brand name clothes or jewelry or go on extravagant 2 week vacations, so I grew up thinking we weren't as well off as most people. It wasn't until I was in college that I learned my parents had millions in the bank and that the following things made that obvious to other people in our town even if we kids remained pretty oblivious. I definitely think you could have all of the following as intentional status symbols. Like someone upthread said, there's a difference between old, faded beach stickers from Cape Cod on your ancient Volvo and a brand new OBX sticker on your Suburban.

--You own a boat and your entire family of five can sleep on it (not a yacht or anything show-offy, but you can afford to own it and store it at a marina year-round)
--You own a vacation home where you spend the entire summer (no renters, mom is there with the kids and dad visits on the weekends)--home is not fancy and doesn't have TV, but it's in a nice neighborhood and isn't a tiny cabin
--Your parents paid for private college--no loans or scholarships--and it was done as a matter of course with no consideration as to price when you picked a college

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