Growing up, I knew that it was bad to spend money and sinful to buy things at full price
Anything up to $19.99 was okay. Four shirts for $14.99 each? Sure. But one at $24.99? No. That was not a “good deal.” The shirt stayed on the rack.
My mother never needed nice things, and neither did her mother, nor, probably, her mother before her. Nice things were unimportant and frivolous. Besides, we didn’t deserve them. Growing up, I knew that it was bad to spend money and sinful to buy things at full price.
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