This year Molly started to notice a shift in the girls’ perception towards our standard of living. Even with the two of us out of work for most of 2011 our spending has changed very little compared to the previous year. When we cut our expenses back by 50% a few years ago they perceived us as a family who had money but chose not to spend it. There’s an interesting interview Molly did with the girls 2 years ago about their take on our cutting back on Molly On Money. In the interview they talk about their initial fears but in the end they were happy that we did cut back and paid off our debt.
Lately we’ve heard them make comments to the effect that we are ‘poor’ and cannot afford to have a nice things like so-and-so’s car. So let us repeat…how we spend our money now compared to when we had much larger incomes has not changed but somehow we’ve become ‘poor’. » » »