Anonymous #2 12w

we have a nice home - 2700 sq feet, 5 bedrooms. but this is what every other home in the area looks like so i thought it was normal 😬 they do invest a lot, and my grandparents (they’ve raised me, that’s who i’m talking about) both had 6 figure jobs. my grandma’s pension and grandpa’s (just passed in march) life insurance policy continue to support us. i knew they had good jobs but i had no idea they made that much.

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Anonymous OP 12w

grandpa was a beast with investing and saving so we are in really good shape if we continue to manage well

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Anonymous OP 12w

You didn’t ask but I feel I should return the favor: my grandfather owns a few companies. The bulk of our wealth however, I stg, is in precious metals. And it gets better: not gold, SILVER. You wouldn’t believe the amount of safes in this house that are packed w silver (and that’s not even close to the majority of it). I found out after I got my undergrad degree. Obviously hasn’t lessened my desire to become a surgeon

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Anonymous #2 12w

Why would that have anything to do with wanting to be a doctor

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Anonymous #2 12w

go grandparents!!! we have some lovely silver and gold pieces as well as a china closet with some fun things. and go you for wanting to be a surgeon! 🥰

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Anonymous #1 12w

i assume they mean they still have a desire to build their own wealth instead of relying on old family money

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Anonymous #1 12w

Motivation. Surgery isn’t exactly gumdrops and rainbows. Medicine in general is pretty hard to study. Prepping for the MCAT rn.

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Anonymous #2 12w

My grandpa was the same but then his partner embezzled and he lost it all and had to start from scratch so we are comfortable middle class

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Anonymous #6 12w

“ but every other house looks like that ” and they probably went to a school with other kids just like him and yea it’s easy believe what your parents tell you

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Anonymous #5 12w

But yea we live in 100 acres that he bought 69 years ago, Rest easy Big J

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Anonymous #6 12w

it’s not my fault i grew up sheltered. like i said, every house in my area is similarly sized to mine. our fifth bedroom is in the basement but most people have 4. i went to public school, but the kids there had similar upbringings. my grandma was always freaking out about my grandpa spending money and he always joked that my brother and i “were gonna send them to the poorhouse” so i constantly thought we were on the verge of going broke

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Anonymous #8 12w

i definitely appreciate it now. i just didn’t understand how good i had it. since poppy has passed i help grandma with a lot of the bills now, and keeping up with them monthly it’s insane how much it takes to keep things going. we pay $12k a year in property taxes??? which is 3x higher than it should be

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Anonymous OP 12w

yo most people DO NOT have four bedrooms

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Anonymous #9 12w

every house in MY AREA is similarly sized to MINE can ANY of you read

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Anonymous OP 12w

did you not leave your hometown until going to college? this whole post is just a brag which is fine but don’t act so naive

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Anonymous #9 12w

yes i had stability and leaving for college was my first time moving. that doesn’t mean im naive and of course im not upset that i am comfortable at a time when everything is shitty and uncertain. my family simply hid their finances until i was an adult and everyone in my circle lives similarly. it was the first time having access to less resources and it was awful.

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Anonymous OP 12w

and there are still nicer areas around here with bigger houses, so i thought mine was average compared to those

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Anonymous #11 12w

they’re 80. they’ve had it well since at least the 70s/80s.

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Anonymous #6 12w

Right like this post made me think OP lived in like a tiny apartment, didn’t have a lot of food, etc. I don’t think their parents tried to make OP think they didn’t have a lot of money I think OP just didn’t realize that to live the life they did meant their parents had a lot of money

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Anonymous #9 12w

Bro.. some people actually ARE naive. And they obviously were, and unlike so many privileged people, they're 1. Admitting that their naive/sheltered and 2. That they should've known better and 3. Are actively learning and working towards having a more realistic view of their own and others financial situations. I get that it might seem like theyre bragging but let's not hate on people for trying to be better, okay?

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Anonymous #6 12w

Fr 😭

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Anonymous #14 12w

It’d be controversial among the people who grew up knowing exactly how much their parents have, I feel like

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Anonymous #16 12w

not saying i’m like owed my parents paying my tuition, just shitty that I was forced to buy my own clothes and occasionally food off the only a $40 a month allowance I got for raising my six siblings and doing all the cleaning for a house with nine ppl when my mom really could have afforded to feed and clothe me like a normal parent.

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Anonymous #16 12w

and now I lowkey cannot stop spending money bc I went without for my whole childhood 😞

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Anonymous #16 11w

this is awful??? but i completely get this! i had mixed feelings at first bc although i was taken care of, there are so many things i went through and i realize now that i never had to, they allowed me to, and that’s upsetting.

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Anonymous #14 11w

because who wants to cosplay as poor lmao

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Anonymous #15 11w

i have a friend who’s parents did this. her and her sister graduated and they sold their house and moved to hilton head 😭

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Anonymous OP 11w

Ah, lemme guess: Montana.

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Anonymous #22 11w

ohio 🙃

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Anonymous #7 11w

No. Eat the rich.

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Anonymous #24 11w

our parents are not the 1%

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Anonymous OP 11w

They don’t have to be. You have excess while others starve, rot, and are not allowed access to further education or health services. Unless you guys help with charity or some other thing to help the less fortunate, you’re still thriving while others suffer.

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Anonymous OP 11w

I’m sorry I’m in a very bad mood, life is hard right now, and I might not be able to afford college for next year because of my family’s terrible financial status. Please ignore everything that I’m saying nobody few eyes to be yelled at or condemned for having a good life

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Anonymous #24 11w

i’m really sorry and i do understand. college was the hardest time for me bc it was my first time really going without. this doesn’t matter, but we are black in a really nice neighborhood - socially it makes a difference in how we are perceived so no one can believe we have what we do. my grandparents worked INCREDIBLY hard for MANY years to maintain what we have now. they were broke when they got married, they went without, my grandpa started working when he was 10.

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Anonymous OP 11w

they know what it is to work hard and start at the bottom and i respect them for it.

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