What were your "wow we're poor" or "wow we are well off" moments when you were a kid?

When I was at uni I had to travel from Henley on themes. Waiting for the bus, some girls thought I was foreign. I'm from Sheffield, I literally couldn't understand what they were saying. They taught me to talk "properly", not the lazy way like in Yorkshire. By the time I had picked the accent up, everyone at university thought I was from Oxford.

Now I'm back in Sheffield, even though it has been a year, people have no idea that I'm from Sheffield, and think I'm stuck up because I "Sound Posh". I've not noticed the difference, and I have no idea what I sound like.

Most of the people don't mind. But some clearly do. It's rather annoying, as I've even left a job over. But I didn't like the job much.

I don't have as much money as I did. My spending was around £2,400 per week. Clearly it couldn't be sustained, but it wasn't debt. I just had no idea how to manage my money.

Now I don't have much. But I will build up something, as I'm going to start saving.

I've cut down my expenses to just food, a gym membership, rent and the internet.

I don't buy clothes anymore, I have quite a few but I'm still growing, which is going to be a problem.

I don't socialise anymore. I'm quite adapted to being on my own. It saves money, and as I've learned there's not much benefit in having lots of friends. I still talk to a couple from uni. I don't talk to old freinds from secondary school often.

When I'm in the work place I only talk to them during working hours, and leaving buildings.

I don't drink anymore, no do I go out. Infact I don't talk to the people I usually go out with, as far as deleting them from Facebook. Therefore I won't be tempted to go out. In fact I made a new Facebook and deleted my old one. It now looks more professional and doesn't look like I go out every night. I see it more of an extension of my LinkedIn.

I now have hobbies which aren't expensive, no do they require other people. it allows me to waste time, but it also allows me to actually achieve something.

I don't plan on getting married, as it just seems a dumb expensive idea. A divorce seems guaranteed.

I have a schedule, which I keep too. I'm very methodical. I don't plan on saving a huge amount of money, but a realistic one. If I didn't plan ahead I won't be able to save money. When I've saved enough I will put it into assets. I don't plan on sharing it with anyone. I see it more of a retirement fund. Nothing saved nothing gained.

That's a pretty sad existence tbh.

When the teacher asked in primary school what we did over the holidays and I realised that I was the only one who had never been out of london lol. It was only when I got older I realised that it was because we couldn't afford it.

Well I live in tottenham lets just leave it at that.

North European are yes, for now. China is dependent on USA and Europe for approximately 30% of its GDP. Structural changes and regualtion are making it more domesticlly independent. Furthermore China is growing at such a pace that it won't be long until it overtakes the US, whose economy is doing pretty awful currently. Plus if Japan does anyworse (if that is even possible) it will get destroyed, if rates move even a few percent Abe is in big trouble. Then it won't be long until Ireland and the UK are getting crushed (in terms of debt to GDP ratio). I think we should stop we are sidetracking the thread.

There's always someone who has more than you, there's always someone who has less. Because of that, I never had either poor or rich moments when I was growing up There's depressed rich people who are alone, happy poor ones with big families. What more can I say

That being said my family gets $150-200thousand a month just for being Seminole Indian

Ahh bad times, I remember one year on my birthday the milkman left a bottle of orange juice along with the milk and I was super happy because I thought the milkman knew my birthday and it was a real treat :') i was a bit stupid.

I didn't actually realise I was well off until I was 16 and started mixing with people from different backgrounds and realised not everyone had what I had

Both my parents were teachers. My dad a head of 6th form and my mum head of department languages teacher.
We lived in a detatched 4 bedroom, reasonably large house with a front and back garden, a driveway and a garage.

When I first saw where of a guy who moved to the same school as me in year 6 lived. A 2 bedroom flat with filthy walls, carpets, cracked window and moudly net curtains. Not to mention 4 kids and 2 adults shared that 2 bedroom flat.

That was when I first realised properly just how well off my family are. Also, how, while at school all the other kids seemed equal to me but away from school some of them were coping with unfortunate and even unhealthy conditions. Felt a lot of admiration for that kid and his family.




$150-200k A MONTH? You sureeeeeee?

This! I realised that entirely when i shifted from private to state school. Obviously duh. But you get wrapped in a bubble, so you cant see the real world.

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When I needed about a grand for a school trip and my Dad just wrote a cheque on the spot then gave it to me to take in the next day.

They were usually very careful about not making us take stuff like that for granted, but I think he was just in a hurry that time so didn't bother.

Seeing the holiday ones, one that I only realised later, I went to a primary in quite an underprivileged area (it's apparently 67% free school meals kids currently) and I remember one time when going round the class (Year 2 or something) having everyone else say Scarborough, Blackpool etc. then saying 'Provence at the start and then Rhodes for a week at the end'

DON'T HATE. We own several Casinos and hotels in Florida and profit is annually almost a billion dollars. As there are very few Seminoles the profit gets split between all of us.