I kind of had the opposite experience to you. We were poorish when I was a kid, and a lot of people assumed we had money because we lived on a farm. But the reality was my Dad farmed it on behalf of the owner, and was paid monthly for the trouble. My Mum always managed our income to the penny, especially when I was…

I learned to “put on airs” that helped open a few doors as I got older.

Thank you! Vacations (multiple) to Europe does not=poor.

The jokes on him, because barely anyone showed up to his party and I spent the day at the bookstore, which was like my favorite place as a child. My parents thought I’d be traumatized but I was more pissed off than anything else.

Just kind of meant it as a toss off, but it’s hilarious all these fairly well to do people bending over backwards to make someone who’s dad had a sweet government job, who spent vacations, that’s plural so multiple vacations, in Europe, who’s mother could afford to be an artist is just a regular old poor person. Like…

Yeah, but nobody thinks that they’re “rich rich.”

I totally remember that Cosby show episode:

It really hit me when we had to do class projects in 3rd grade and I did mine on the Titanic because the movie had just come out so it was easy to obtain magazines and information about it. I made a replica Titanic out of a empty plastic cat food container because that’s all there was around my house. At the time I…

Spoiler alert some people go to private college for free, or at least less than state college. As for the trips to Europe, that does cost money, unless it was somehow made cheaper by the dad’s job with the state.

I can’t remember when I first realized we were in the upper middle class (dad’s a prominent attorney, mom was in entertainment business), but I do remember my parents clearly teaching me that their money is THEIR money. I was being a snotty 13 year old and begging my mom for the latest trendy jeans - they were like…

When I was in the fifth grade and Joshua Winstead told everyone that his mother had made sure to invite everyone in our grade to his birthday except me because my family couldn’t possibly afford a good enough gift for her precious baby’s big day.

Yeah, but unless you’ve experienced it its hard to explain. You totally can go through life like that without actually realizing how rich you are. My mom makes better than a quarter million dollars a year and I went to a private school where mine was one of the poorest families. I look back on it and go, holy shit…

I don’t think this person was “poor,” but she probably wasn’t rich either. Going to private college doesn’t necessarily mean wealthy, maybe she got a scholarship or something. But, going on trips to Europe is likelier evidence of wealth. Even so, a lot of poor immigrants make regular trips to their home nations.…

Doesn’t really sound like a “money is strange” situation. Sounds more like a “you grew up quite rich, and around really rich people” situation.

When my father died and there was nothing to inherit -for anyone. Mom was a day to day substitute teacher. 10 years old.

I love Keanu and I wish he was in more movies I want to see. I will not watch John Wick because dog so sad.

During that period in the 90's when he was really getting raked over the coals for being a bad actor, he told an interviewer that he knew he wasn’t very good, but if studios wanted to pay him millions, it seemed stupid to turn them down. Also, he gave a huge percentage of his Matrix salary to the SFX and stunt crew…

Sally is a Hero!!!

I love that Amazon reduced the price of the kindle edition to 1.99.