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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Middle class values and middle class aren't necessarily the same thing as other posters pointed out. Probably the biggest reason I would define myself as middle class is because I grew up in a working class/lower middle class background.  I never had the security net of family help. I had to learn to live without designer anything and not depend on those things for my happiness, and I know how easily fortunes can change with job loss, medical issues, or divorce - things that have nothing to do with hard work/valuing education/making good choices.  I also respect and love my parents and for me there is a balance of doing better than my parents and honoring what they did that made that possible and yet not feeling like I am in a life so different that we have nothing in common.

I will admit though, my kids are middle/upper middle class. They take very nice summer vacations - a few involving planes.  We pay a decent amount for activities and nice summer camps. They are now in parachiol school and may go private for high school. They know we have put away money for college for them albeit for an in-state college.  We will likely contribute something to their weddings someday.  And these things are not at the expense of our retirement/financial stability. They have to use their own money for things but that is more that we want them to learn to manage money and it is something that isn't a necessity versus it being that we don't have the money.  The ultimate middle class symbol, they have an American Girl doll, though that was a gift from grandparents that we said okay.  Never in my childhood would I have had a doll that costs $100 and said doll costs as much to dress as a person. Did I want the Barbie Townhouse  as a kid (heck yeah, who wouldnt't).  No our Barbies lived in the more affordable camper trailer that I shared with siblings and we were thrilled we got that.  So while my kids won't have designer clothes, a lot of expensive toys, or an expensive car or a big house, they pretty much have all the experiences of middle/upper class childhood and feeling a financially secure childhood.  [/quote]

The only people who wear designer clothes are vapid poors who watch too much TV.[/quote]

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