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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Same as a PP.  Once you've been poor, you get it.  I'm not talking about "grad student on a tight stipend" poor.  I'm talking about walk around with painful cavities in your teeth poor.  It leaves a searing imprint.[/quote]

+1.

I'll never forget a good friend of mine from law school was talking to me a few months ago.  I had mentioned that, depending on the costs of an unforeseen house repair, I might be scaling back our summer vacation plans.  He grew up well off.  He LITERALLY could not comprehend the idea of scaling back a vacation, or once money is spent in one category, you had to take it out of a different budget category.  LITERALLY THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY.  Meanwhile, I grew up poor and the concept of having an "aw, fuck it" attitude to finances makes me think he is crazy...especially since I have a child whose security I need to look out for.  [/quote]

I wouldn't scale back a vacation  under ethos circumstances either.[/quote]

Where would the money come from though?  Just put it on credit?  Withdraw from savings?  Stop saving for retirement?  I do a zero based budget....the money has to come from somewhere. [/quote]

A zero based budget?
I wouldn't want to live like that. WTF? Do you enjoy your life at all? I cant wrap my head around this. I will never let money dominate me like this. Do you ever have fun?[/quote]

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