# How much money did you have growing up?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 9, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-did-you-have-growing-up/528207 "2010-02-09T00:03:06Z")\
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Very lower middle class - dad worked a civil service job. Mom didn’t work. But I remember times when my dad would pick up a night job for a while. At a few points it felt like we didn’t have money - powdered milk instead of the real thing, lots of bean soup, etc. But, our small town was fairly homogeneous in income level, so I wasn’t much exposed to people in better situations. Consequently, it never felt like we were wanting for anything.

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