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Maybe you knew from a young age that you were not well-off, or maybe you didn't. When did you realize that you were not middleclass?
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#1
Didn't know until I moved to the Mid-west and we were driving through a "nice" part of town admiring the houses with my siblings. Then my older sister goes, "You know, these are middle-class Americans, right?" Blew my mind. We never lacked anything growing-up. I always assumed we were middle-class. We were not.🤣
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#2
Second hand school uniform and my mum making all my clothes.
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3points
Julie Snelling (Submission author) 2 years ago
Just so you know in England it's compulsory to wear a school uniform it's not because I went to a posh school or anything.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
This is why I got angry with my old high school. We were a small school, with most families on the lower socio-economic end of the spectrum and first they cancelled second-hand uniform and book sales. Then a new principal came in and decided on a whole new uniform, including bringing in blazers, with a new, more expensive uniform company. There was a two year period where students could choose which uniform to wear. My sister was the only one of my siblings still at the school and she only had one year left. Me, knowing our financial situation, (though my sister knew as well) thought it was a given my sister would just wear the old one for her final year. Sister insisted on the new one, because she wanted to wear a blazer (which in itself was odd to me). In order to get it, mum had to apply to a charity that pays for uniforms for low income families.
#3
Unlabelled and dented canned food lottery, lightly expired food from the special expired food shop, food with labels in languages we didn't even recognise and back before Google translate you just had to open them up and see if you could work out what the blazes was in them. Going to friends' houses and finding out they had the actual branded stuff we'd seen in TV adverts.
Final score:
3points
#4
I realized we were low income as a child because going to other peoples homes they had things we could not buy. I did not grow up going to schools that required a uniform so we wore regular cloths. I wore hand me downs and second hand clothing from a thrift store while quite a few of my friends had new clothing. So, I learned rather early we were not "middle class".
Final score:
2points
#5
Many meals of cereal, boxed Mac and cheese, fried egg sandwiches, pb&j, boiled hot dogs. Now you have to be rich to buy eggs lol
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0points
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