I buy plasticware OR mostly take it for free from Trader Joe's to be honest. I buy paper bowls and use these for almost all my meals. I don't have a dishwasher and want as few dishes to wash as possible. Also, I live alone and totally drink directly from bottles. When I get takeout I don't put it on plates - I eat straight from the cartons.

I buy most of my jeans from Old Navy.

Anonymous wrote:I shop at WalMart and Aldi. I use bacon grease to cook some foods. I lived in a trailer as a child.

I have two friends who grew up in trailers as kids. One told me this quietly, off to the side, holding herself in such a way I could tell she was nervous sharing it with me. She's one of the classiest people I know, as is the other woman. And I don't normally use that word. I hope you don't consider yourself trashy for how you grew up.

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Anonymous wrote:95% of the clothes I buy for my kids come from thrift stores.
I drink a ton of diet soda.
I only wash our sheets and towels every four weeks.
Our house cleaner comes monthly, and we don't really clean in between
I only bathe my kids 2x per week.
I eat a lot of processed food
I like crappy chain "restaurants" like the Corner Bakery, Dominos, and Chipotle

Omg, definitely trashy

NP. I think buying kids’ clothes at thrift stores is smart. They grow like little weeds so there’s no point in spending a lot. I judge parents who slather their kids in labels head to toe, or make them wear twee items like smocked dresses and John-Johns.

I loved dressing my boys in John-Johns when they were little. Almost all of their clothes including the John-Johns were from the thrift store.

Anonymous wrote:We live in Mclean but I use my produce bags, plastic bags for waste can liners, I love to shop at thrift stores (for certain things), we have a lawn mower, rake, hedge trimmer and DH uses them. I could go on and on... beautiful trash.

Same. We enjoy doing chores together - even (GASP!) yardwork. I know the people in the new houses in the neighborhood are horrified - and maybe a little afraid that their spouses are asking "why don't you do (anything but be a layabout, basically)"?

Anonymous wrote:I drink Coke and like drugstore candy.

I sometimes pick at my skin.

I wear clothes even after they start to get holes and loose elastic. Generally I move them to "home only" but I've definitely been caught out of the house in a hole-y t-shirt or sweats when I just didn't bother to change.

I'm cheap -- I bargain shop for everything from food to travel to clothes. I clip coupons and use them. We are middle class (especially for the DMV, HHI of 130k) but I spend money like we hardly have any. Though I think saving religiously and being frugal/environmentally conscious are not actually trashy, but the response of many people around us to our spending habits indicates that others do not agree.

People are so weird about class markers like where you grocery shop or how new your car is. I think people in this area are very afraid of poverty. They work very hard to make sure you know they have money. I don't get it. Isn't simply having the money good enough?

+1

Ignorance, on their part, is bliss.

Anonymous wrote:95% of the clothes I buy for my kids come from thrift stores.
I drink a ton of diet soda.
I only wash our sheets and towels every four weeks.
Our house cleaner comes monthly, and we don't really clean in between
I only bathe my kids 2x per week.
I eat a lot of processed food
I like crappy chain "restaurants" like the Corner Bakery, Dominos, and Chipotle

Not even your bathrooms/toilets?!

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Anonymous wrote:There’s crabgrass in my lawn and I don’t care (I don’t want to use chemicals on it).

On the contrary, I consider people who use chemicals trashy. You know the ones always outside with the electric mowers (you can smell one neighbor's mower three houses away) and RoundUp so their yards are a sterile 1950's green carpet. And there's inevitably the Mosquito Joe sign....

+1
Agree. Get with the program, people - it is not 1975!

To add, I think the uneducated, petulant ones who use chemicals, etc have some point to prove about having been brought up trashy - they fool no one. NOW they want to have a weedless lawn, since they grew up in poverty - they have something "big" to prove. Actually you look stupid.

Anonymous wrote:I like Budweiser beer, Michelob for special occasions.

I like Coors Light!!

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Anonymous wrote:There’s crabgrass in my lawn and I don’t care (I don’t want to use chemicals on it).

On the contrary, I consider people who use chemicals trashy. You know the ones always outside with the electric mowers (you can smell one neighbor's mower three houses away) and RoundUp so their yards are a sterile 1950's green carpet. And there's inevitably the Mosquito Joe sign....

+1
Agree. Get with the program, people - it is not 1975!

Anonymous wrote:I don't mow my front lawn. I compost. I do my own yardwork. I walk everywhere. I wear a baseball cap outside.

That's the antithesis of trashy!

I swear too much.

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Anonymous wrote:[/b]Vacation in Wildwood, NJ[b]

Thanks for the memories pp! Senior summer trip with 6 friends to Wildwood NJ. The most beautiful man I’ve ever laid eyes on, laid eyes on me. We slept on the beach. I was 18. He was 23 and a PP&L Forman from Scranton, PA. My once in a lifetime Adonis. Fooled around, but no PIV. He mailed love letters for months. Drove to Scranton with a friend in a blizzard to see him. Perfect gentleman. Sighhhh

NP. Sooo…why didn’t you guys get together?

I lived in NY, and worked full time while in college full time. He tried. I still have his letters! Haven’t read them since I packed them. Our last hoorah was when my bf’s parent’s allowed us to use their Pocono house alone for the first time since we were 18, but her older sister chaperoned lol. Adonis met us there, and the older sister practically swallowed her own face when he walked through the door. I.DON’T. KNOW. WHY. I didn’t succumb to his spell, not just his looks but his heart was gold. He contacted me years later. He got married and had a son. I was truly happy for him. I only just thought of him now when pp posted Wildwood, NJ. Thanks for asking. This was a fun distraction. My heart’s beating a little fast rn.

Anonymous wrote:There’s crabgrass in my lawn and I don’t care (I don’t want to use chemicals on it).

Same.

I bite my nails. I’m trying to stop, but it’s really difficult.

Anonymous wrote:There’s crabgrass in my lawn and I don’t care (I don’t want to use chemicals on it).

On the contrary, I consider people who use chemicals trashy. You know the ones always outside with the electric mowers (you can smell one neighbor's mower three houses away) and RoundUp so their yards are a sterile 1950's green carpet. And there's inevitably the Mosquito Joe sign....