If you have money (In the sense that your family is comfortable/rich), then it can be awkward shopping with friends who don't, or vice versa, amirite?

You think it's awkward for you?!?! Try being the one who doesn't have any money.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Trust me, I know. I have friends who are even richer... Like crazy bazillionare rich. They live in Manhattan and their parents have crazy jobs and they have houses all over the world. It's like, where I live, I'm rich. But then I hang out with those friends I'm instantly poor. Weird, huh?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But you're still rich. Stop trying to act like you fully understand.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You have a computer and internet. Shut up, you're not poor. And don't say you're at the library.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I didn't say I was poor.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Stop trying to act like you fully understand.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Im sorry, you can have a computer and internet and still be poor, sometimes my friend and her sisters have to eat dinner at my house because they can barely afford food or electricity.. but she stills have a computer, super old computer with internet.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yes, I understand that. However, this person is being a true hypocrite...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's not just a matter of who may be rich or poor but who's family is living comfortable and can afford to spend a great deal of money on something that wouldn't even be considerable for someone else.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I agree. Im middle class and living comfortably but my family doesnt have money to "splurge" as some do.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

same position as me! We pay the bills fine but we can't just go out and buy something for the heck of it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And then you get called poor when you accidentally mention it in public.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah... my friends have as much money as me, but my boyfriend's parents are super rich and sometimes it gets kinda awkward between us 'cause his ideas of "expensive" and "cheap" are way more different than mine..

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I feel bad :/ Like when me and my friends go shopping, they don't get as much, so I pay for their food or some things we get as friends so they don 't feel left out if I'm spending money and they're following behind not being able to.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's also awkward when it's evident you used to have more money, so if you ever mention how you're borderline poor they laugh in your face. Fine, we have a big-ish house and a pool, but that doesn't mean we're rich. It actually means we have more bills to struggle through aha.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If you have a big house and a pool, and you're somewhat struggling with the bills, fucking downsize. No sympathy.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thanks for your assumption, dear miss You Don't Know Me. "somewhat struggling"? Again, not only do you not know me, but you don't know my situation. If I wanted to write up a sob story on it for random people like you to read, I would've. Shockingly, I decided to just vaguely reference my financial situation to make the point I was trying to make. For all you know, I couldve been living in a box the past two years and was just remembering the good days... :'(

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You used present tense, so naturally I would take it that it's your current situation.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Where i live most the people are comfortable, and have some money, and get by fine. but there kids are a different story... no kids in my town get money for free and all the parents make them work for it...so most the time even the richest families kids dont have money to spend.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I have a friend who was complaining about her parents making her shop for clothes with her own money becuase they are saving up for a car for her. My parents won't buy me a car. I get my mom's old elantra. And I get all of my shopping money from my parents, so I asked my friend where she got her money and she says "oh, I have a few stocks."

by Anonymous 13 years ago

At least you're getting a car for free. I have to pay for mine haha

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It also awkward when you know they have less money than you but they feel the need to spend more to prove that they don't. I had one friend whose dad was laid off and such and she wanted me to go the Betsy Johnson store with her to get a new spring wardrobe. Any spending money I get is from my job which pays very well but I still won't even buy anything from there because of the outlandish prices. I just sort of stared at her, not really believing what she just said.

by Anonymous 13 years ago