Fortunate, unfortunate

[boss]

Dad was in the Air Force so we moved a lot and Mom was stay at home until I was in junior high. I'm not sure how they did it, but my parents always provided for my brother and me. Now they are pretty well off and they still save my behind at least once a year.

I'm proud to say I have seen every member of my immediate family receive their bachelor's degree. My Dad failed out of Virginia and immediately went to Vietnam. He got his bachelors when I was 4 and his masters a few years later. My brother (3 years older) graduated from the Air Force Academy when I was a freshman in college. And my Mom (the smartest one in the whole family), finally finished her degree about 12 years ago.

[Wee67]

I'm still waiting for someone to say, "I was stinking rich!"

[Sideshow Spock]

I'm still waiting for someone to say, "I was stinking rich!"

Maybe Hal Steinbrenner will post..

[megozilla13]

My parents moved to the US from Cuba when I was five. We were as poor as poor could be by standards here but compared to Cuba where you had to stand on line for an hour for a loaf of bread we felt like millionaires. My mother was a stay at home mom and the most important thing to my father was stability and got a job for minimum wage in a factory where he worked for 35 years until he retired. Needless to say, we never had luxuries or all the clothes and toys we wanted but it was a good childhood none the less.

[DocDrako]

We weren't "comfortable" when I was a kid, but we did okay. I envied other family members my age who were better off than I was, but since we all played together anyways, it was okay. I never heard my parents talk about money because it wasn't something they brought up in front of us kids. At the store my mom would tell me whether or not I could pick something to buy and how much I could spend, and I got something more times than not.

It's funny that as a kid when my mom would tell me that she didn't have any money to spend on me I'd point out that she still had checks. I had no idea how checks worked.

Great Thread!