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my parents are so cheap but so luxurious its been so strange growing up w these nonsensical rules (examples in comments as i think of them)
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Anonymous 15h

we’d go on expensive vacations like world cruises, and my family would make everyone turn off calling on their phones so we wouldnt GOD FORBID accidentally accept a call (it costs 50 cents a minute)

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Anonymous 15h

i didnt even know disney sold food and ive been there so many times (we had passes cause we lived really close). we’d ALWAYS pack sandwhiches. at most we’d get the refillable soda cup and the whole family would split it and we’d use the same cup every time we go

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Anonymous 15h

somehow mcdonalds was a splurge?? like i was never allowed to go there, or really eat out at all. only pizza and sometimes chinese food. otherwise everything was cooked at home oh and NEVER name brand groceries. but somehow the organic more expensive variants were sometimes fine (like annies organic mac and cheese and those all natural fruit strips, neverrrr gushers tho no matter how much i begged)

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Anonymous 15h

we went to iceland and i could only get the cheapest ramen from the grocery stores, or eat the real icelandic food like puffin, whale and other mystery meets ALWAYS in stew cause most other groceries are imported into iceland and ofc even tho the trip was thousands of dollars, god forbid a meal cost $15

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Anonymous 15h

we were NOT poor at all btw. like my family is very well off this was all optional

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Anonymous 6h

In their defense Disneyland is literally built to suck out all the money they can from you

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14h

Genuinely so strange.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14h

Could it have been because they themselves grew up poor and then got out of poverty? Otherwise idk how this can be explained

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