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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is an interesting thread, though some of the memories of frugality are really about the '70s more than SES.  I grew up in an affluent suburb of San Francisco in the '70s and my sisters and I all patched our jeans, made skirts out of jeans, and wore cut-offs.  We were doctors' daughters and traveled to Europe in the summer, but the '70s were about not looking and acting like you were a rich girl.  Think Patty Hearst; think Hall and Oates' "You're a Rich Girl".  The sartorial tip-off that you had money was owning a pair of Frye boots.  When I came east to go to college, my roommate, a college professor's daughter from the midwest, saw my boots and told everybody I was a debutante.          [/quote]

This. We ate Hamburger Helper, my mom made many of my clothes, cut-offs and cut-off skirts we're a fun project, patches all over the jeans, home haircuts for everyone, scotch tape and rubber bands on eyeglasses and [b]my parent sent 2 girls through Sidwell and 2 boys through St. Albans. Try doing that now--it can't be done. Period.[/b][/quote]

[b]Why can't it be done now?[/b] Social pressure?[/quote]

Tuitions at schools like these have risen at rates far, far greater than the rate of inflation.  Therefore in terms of percentage of household income, those tuitions are out of reach for people now in ways that they were not say, 40 years ago.

Along the same lines, I sometimes think of a family I knew growing up in our neighborhood.  The dad was a HS history teacher and the mom was a SAHM.  They lived modestly but comfortably, spent a week at the beach every summer.  They raisesd four children in a house that today would sell for about $800,000.  There is no way a family with that economic profile could buy that house today.  [/quote]

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