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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not shocked at what I spend money on, but that I can easily afford every day expenses: new clothes, shoes, field trips, lunch money, etc.  I honestly don't even budget for it; [b]if my kids need something they get it.  They do not have to find odd jobs, save and scrap to buy school clothes or sports uniform items.[/b]

I am so happy to be able to send my son to Peru with his Spanish Club.  I so badly wanted to travel with my high school friends, but it was simply too expensive.[/quote]

Do you worry about what that will do to them though, in terms of learning to provide for themselves?  Or are you pretty much setting them up for life financially, so if they aren't able to support themselves, they have a nice little safety net? [/quote]

Not that PP, but buying kids what they need is very different than making sure they know how to provide for themselves as an adult. My parents did not always supply my needs. I had three pairs of shoes all of HS. I often walked 90 min or more to save the bus fare. So when it rained or snowed, I had to wrap trash bags around my feet. This caused me a lot of anxiety and distracted me from school work.[/quote]

Yeah, same here. Sometimes I get angry at the mental energy I used to spend on stupid decisions all because of being poor.

My parents gave me lunch money at the beginning of the week and I remember saving it so that I could buy some necessities later. I remember planning out my underwear so that I would have something that I hadn’t outgrown on PE days. I cried when I started getting boobs and realized how expensive bras were. I used toilet paper instead of pads during my period. Spending money on necessities that nobody would see felt wasteful, just like skipping spending on food felt normal.

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