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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP sounds very very cheap. This is just a way of making excuses to not buy something expensive. Being cheap is really a red flag for other issues. If I was the girlfriend, I would not marry someone with this line of thinking. It's a preview of bigger issues to come. [/quote]

OP here -- you sound ridiculously white. Only a WASP would use a term like 'cheap' as a pejorative rather than as a positive. I'm damn proud to be cheap, and so is my spouse.

In the multiethnic area I grew up in on the west coast, before I got assigned to this hardship post, as a kid in school with jews, mexicans, salvadorans, koreans, filipinos, vietnamese, chinese south asians... we'd actually have competitions to see who was the cheapest. Cheapness was a virtue. None of us were poor; the area ranged from working class to upper middle class. We just had superior values. Only the white kids wouldn't participate, because their parents didn't raise them right.

I pity the WASP saddies who see 'cheap' as a negative.[/quote]

OP, cheapness is not a virtue. Frugality and being responsible with money are virtues, but cheapness is more akin to miserliness. If you don't want to spend money on a big ring for your wife, then don't, but don't sit there pitying your friends who are buying engagement rings as if they're being coerced. [/quote]

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