So, while she was struggling, her mom and dad threw lavish parties and invited hundreds of people. They ordered crates full of wine and barrels full of beer; that tells you just how lavish their parties were.
As the years wore on, her mom and dad just kept inheriting enormous amounts of money from their family members. Her mom also has tons of fur coats and a real tiara full of diamonds.
When it came time for her to go to college, she had to hold down a job in order to afford to go because her mom and dad gave her no help financially.
Her mom and dad did help her by giving her rent money, and then they did give her money to put down a deposit on a house to buy, and she was super thankful.
Then, when she got married, they gave her a bit of money for her wedding, which she also was thrilled to have.
It’s been decade since her wedding, and the gratitude for her mom and dad has left her heart completely.
She does know that despite the hardships she faced throughout her life, she still does come from a place of privilege, but she just has a hard time coming to terms with it all.
She currently has a daughter and spends all of her own money paying for her daughter’s school.
“I look at my childhood (mentally – my parents never took photos) and at my tiny home and think, wow, how great would it be to have no mortgage?” she wondered.
“How great would it be to afford a birthday party for my kid? How great would it be to take her abroad without saddling myself with huge, crippling debt?”
“And I look at my parents, proudly part of the SKI (Spending Kids’ Inheritance) Club, going on their cruises, downsizing their house to a mere 4-bed so they can enjoy the last dregs of generations of wealth. And listen to them telling me that all we have to do is eat out less (less than once every six months?), and maybe we wouldn’t have to worry about kitchen cupboard doors falling off.”