Not me so much, but my kids
My children have just noticed we are in fact, quite poor compared to their friends.

My daughter acquired her first boyfriend and has now been exposed to the lifestyles of the employed and solvent. She reported in amazement they had "takeout EVERY night, mom! And his brother's going to move to France and his mom is always shopping! What would you buy if you shopped every day?" She can't imagine.

"Why aren't we rich?"

Because your mother stupidly became a nurse and your da grubs in the computer programming field, darling.

Edit: I will soon have to take a nursing job in Detroit. Things are that bad.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Tue 27 Jan 2009, 21:42, 6 replies)

takeout every night?
Cant buy class.

Wait till they're all obese/diabetic.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Tue 27 Jan 2009, 22:30, closed)

exactly
what I was thinking...
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 10:55, closed)

^ this
You'll have the last laugh on them. In the meantime, you've always got the retort:

"Because their mother's too dense to learn how to cook."

And shopping every day? Sounds like my idea of hell. But then I am male, so I get edgy enough as it is if I have to pick up bread or milk on the way home from work....
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 10:56, closed)

Ha-ha, TDub!
I think you and I laughed about Detroit on some ancient thread because you were appalled I was going there on holiday. I went back there again last August - that's three times now and I'm still alive.

If I make it for a fourth visit (my friend still lives there, so who knows?), I'll be sure to let you know :)
( thealternativefact, Tue 27 Jan 2009, 23:30, closed)

Make sure you take some spare cash
$100 or so should get you a few houses, if the news reports are to be believed.
( Ghoti Fingers, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 8:37, closed)

Detroit
Nursing blog, it sounds - interesting. lastblogstanding.blogspot.com/
(Benzyl, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 19:55, closed)