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07-03-2022 10:14 AM
I saw this on Facebook and thought it was a good question for my forum friends....
07-03-2022 10:17 AM
I grew up in a multi-family building in NYC. I thought anyone with a single family home was rich... and dancing lessons. All my friends took dancing lessons, but my mom said they were too expensive.
07-03-2022 10:18 AM
Good question. I probably thought if a family owned more than one car, they were rich.
07-03-2022 10:19 AM
The thought about wealth, as a child, never crossed my mind.
07-03-2022 10:23 AM
I thought people who had carpeting were rich! We had all wood floors. Now that I think about that, boy was I wrong. Our floors were beautiful .
07-03-2022 10:35 AM
The families not constantly on the move collecting welfare and living in shacks you would be jailed for keeping a dog in now.. Those of us with a house (not that we all owned them) were the wealthy.
07-03-2022 10:42 AM
Anyone that had a bathroom in their house was rich.
07-03-2022 10:55 AM
As they say, hindsight is 20/20. As a child I used to think that the girls with new store bought dresses were so lucky, hence rich. Where as I had to wear dresses my mother sewed herself. Looking back, my clothes were probably 10 times nicer & well made than their "fancy K-Mart" ware. Not to mention the time, effort & love my mom put in to them.
Same thing for eating out. It was a rare occasion that we ate out & that included fast food. I used to think those that got to get their food from a drive thru window were some how richer than us, but looking back that wasn't the case at all. My mom would cook us great meals & I didn't even appreciate it then. Unfortunately, it is/was too late for me to let her know.
07-03-2022 11:17 AM
I never gave it a thought. My parents certainly weren't wealthy but we didn't want for anything.
I remember my Mom talking about when she was young her Mom baked all their bread. They thought it was such a treat when they got store-bought sliced bread. Crazy.
07-03-2022 11:30 AM - edited 07-03-2022 11:31 AM
If you lived in a building in NYC that had an intercom and elevator, I just knew you were rich! Until I moved in one.
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