As a kid I felt my family was “poor”. My uncles and aunts had bigger and nicer houses/cars than my parents. My cousins had really cool toys and they rarely got

As a kid I felt my family was “poor”. My uncles and aunts had bigger and nicer houses/cars than my parents. My cousins had really cool toys and they rarely got a no when they wanted an expensive candy. My foolish child mind saw all that and thought we were “poor”. What I didn’t know was that my parents had bigger salaries than their relatives. They just didn’t give a damn about expensive stuff. Later in life the same relatives struggled really bad when their incomes decreased, and they weren’t able to afford the lifestyle they were used to. My family in the other hand never really went through economic struggle (at least it was not apparent to me and my siblings) even when my father lost his job and took him 6 months to get a new one. My parents now live in a really nice house but they still have the ugliest and oldest cars ever lol. But that always reminds me to not fall for expensive stuff just because I can afford it.