- Below poverty line
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Middle middle
We always had enough but not afford too many luxury things
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middle middle class. i thought we had more money than we did. mom and dad were always very generous with me. lots of good christmas’s and birthdays. but now i realize we didn’t have as much money as i thought, growing up in a more affordable area of the country. i was lucky in that i was the last child, and mom and dad had advanced in their careers by the time i was out of high school. but i was still expected to pay my own way through college which was not something i was able to do, i couldn’t work and study at the same time and didn’t want to take on a bunch of student loans.
now mom and dad are upper middle class to rich in their retirement years, and when the market is doing well, they do well. almost $100,000 in investments gains on good years for them. i would say they have a million or so, but they won’t tell me how much money they have, they say i may inherit some along with my brother and sisters. i told them to give it all to the richest child so the money doesn’t get squandered but continues to grow. i will definitely not be the richest child.
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My mom and stepdad had a nice house and my mom helped me get a car, but I never had any money myself. It sort of felt like I was low class and they were high class. I never asked for much from them either. There wasn’t a whole lot of communication in my family.
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Lower-middle-middleclass.
I grew up in an upper middle class village, and I always felt like the poor kid. Wore handmedowns, didn’t have all the gadgets and toys the others had, didn’t get as much allowance, never went anywhere fun for vacation, etc.
I never starved or lacked anything, I was just never the one who had as much wealth as anyone else at my school.
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What a great idea and how generous of you!
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When I was born, my mother lived in a council flat (Government Accommodation), was single and living in poverty. She also grew up in poverty with 7 sisters supported by my grandad
By time I was about 10, my mother/step-father had good jobs and we lived in a nice house for a while.
I moved out a while ago. I live in a one bedroom flat, but seem to manage money quite well. Because I don’t spend much money on doing things, I can afford my bills
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Looking back, the first part of my childhood was pretty poor and disadvantaged.
Then in my teen years I moved to a better state, and my family was more just working class.
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Without my parents I am extremely poor, no bank account, no credit card and no money. I spend recklessly so my parents buy me stuff I need the most.
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I was upper middle class. We always had whatever we needed, and most of what we wanted. My parents went into a lot of debt to provide those things, though. If we had been living in our means, we would probably have been lower middle class. The rest of my family is rich, but my side of the family was always full of black sheep so we didn’t get the family money.
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I am guessing we were lower middle class since I received a neat university grant due to it, as well as grants in high school.
we always have been scraping by
things have been getting more tight recently and it is slowly concerning me…especially as my dad is now in his 70s and most income comes from him since he receives a pension from his homeland aswell as from uk.
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My dad and stepmom were financially stable and well living in a nice area in Australia.
My stepmom gave me heaps of barbie dolls.
My mum is morally against barbie dolls as she thinks it’s bad roll model for children.
My then single mum always put sex , men and boyfriends before me and was poor.
She could not afford wormer for me once so I had to go with worms for two weeks till she could afford medication.
Often the fridge was empty and had no food for me because she thought I was getting fed at school.
My mum used to borrow my pocket money because she couldn’t really afford to give me any.
We never went on holidays.
Not even once a year.
The other children most of them went twice a year because of the weather in Sweden.
In Sweden one area I lived they were snobby obsessed with brand labels and being rich and I was bullied for being ugly .
My mum drove two hours to work and two hours home.
She always worked although she never said it she suffered.she said nasty things like she wishes I was never born .
I think she had great difficulties.
By the time she had my brothers she was pretty rich with my then step dad with heated bathroom floor , holidays etc but my brothers got that and I didn’t.we were treated differently.
She isn’t as well off now I think.
I love her and appreciate her and understand she struggled and was poor.
Her car wouldn’t start and didn’t have heating in minus thirty degrees that’s bad.
Then driving a unreliable car like that every day.
My dad and stepmom I had were considered above average in wealth I think.
I think I have experienced being poor and I have experienced being somewhat rich child not multi millionaires or billionaires but rather well off.
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My father was a diplomat . Unlike many diplomats of the time he could best be described as being from a lower middle class background so he wasn’t filled to the coffers with family money . At home we were a fairly average middle class family . When I was 20/21 he got his 1st entry in -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who's_Who_(UK) .
That was on reaching the diplomatic equivalent of an army brigadier .
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I’ve since upgraded to upper middle class because of a big inheritance, my husband working, and his retirement. So we’re pretty good. I also have taken up programming jobs locally, thanks to a friend in computer repair. The last job I had was as a security guard, at a local family owned funeral home. I got laid off during the beginning of quarantine. I was still able to find a job after, so that was good.
My family in Mexico (Nuevo Leon) is mostly super rich. They have maids, nice gated communities, some are diplomats, some are professors, some are mayor’s, they have luxury cars, and some own clubs. Last time I was in Mexico, I stayed with cousins and they’re all super spoiled. The rich spoiled in MX are call Fresas (the equivalent of Preppy).
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My family on my mom’s side are all rich. They are all self made millionaires. They are business people. My mom was the only one who never made any riches. She was a lowly government social worker by trade and never made much money. My dad always spent more money than he made and my mom always had to pay off all of his bills. So, needless to say, I only inherited a modest sum when my mom died. A small amount when my dad died. And that was it.
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