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We were upper middle class. My dad grew up poor and it was his goal to make good money for his family so we wouldn't go through what he did. My dad is a doctor so he made a good living, but every year varried, some were better then others. We never lived like we had a ton of money though. My parents bought a small house as their starter house and decided to stay because it was walking distance to good schools, neither of my parents are big shoppers, and we mostly spent money on taking vacations.

I grew up poor/lower middle class since my Mom didn't work and my Dad was supporting us and also paying alimony and child support to his ex wife. Even though he had a good job, they had to scrape by and my Mom made all of our clothes and we never went on vacation or out to eat at a restaurant.

Then when I was about 8 years old my Dad's career really picked up and we started doing much better. He became a partner at his firm and eventually branched off and opened his own business. They are now in the 1%!

So you could say that I come from an affluent family, but I know what it's like to be poor. The one thing I wish my parents did differently is hold off on spoiling me when they started to make it big. I definitely had money issues as a young adult because I had been spoiled and had to learn hard lessons about paying bills and saving money.

I don't know WHAT you consider me and DH since we make good money, but living in NYC I feel like we're below the poverty line, lol!! We will most likely grow in our careers over time and start doing better, but I doubt we will catapult into the 1% like my Dad did.

We started out poor and then moved to working class. I'm one of four children of a single mother who hasn't finished college. When we were younger my mom was on welfare and WIC. My mom got a better job and things started looking up when I was in junior high, and got much better once my mom picked up a part-time night job. I didn't realize we had been poor until I was older.

DH and I are middle class.

I don't know how the "classes" divide exactly but I think I probably was upper middle class. I went to private school through college. We traveled extensively overseas at least one international trip a year from as early as I can remember. They put all of us (3) kids through college and graduate school (if we chose). However, also my parents chose not to live in the largest house or drive the fanciest cars so that we could have the best education and the best experiences in life.

I always thought we were upper middle class. Turns out, in the grand scheme of things, my parents are on the pretty wealthy end of things. Not like 1% wealthy, but very well off. I never really knew that because, a)most of the people we knew were the same socioeconomic status as us, and b) my parents didn't spend like crazy. We had a nice home, nice cars, nice vacations, and very expensive schooling. But those were the only splurges. My mom didn't buy fancy clothes and my dad didn't have all kinds of expensive man toys. My dad was raised by immigrants and was born right after the depression and they were POOR so he never felt comfortable spending frivilously.

We were lower-middle class. We weren't poor but my parents struggled. By the time I was in high school, our family was comfortable.

Middle Class. Some times were better and some times were worse, but I don't think we ever moved out of that general area.

My parents struggled financially but it wasn't because we didn't have enough, it was just poor budgeting, in my opinion.

I grew up in a middle class family. My parents owned their own home, had 2 cars, we went on a vacation every year (usually to visit family, not outside of the US or a fancy vacation), my brother and I had private music lessons, we went out to eat about weekly, etc.

My parents are now working class – poor.

My husband and I, according to Wikipedia (lol) are Upper Middle Class/Professional Class, although I feel more middle range middle class. We definitely have a much higher household income than my parents had, but we also have greater monthly expenses.

I think we were middle class. I always had everything I needed and some of what I wanted.

I would say we were poor/lower middle class growing up. There were times when there was literally no food in the cupboard and my parents struggled every month to pay the mortgage. One year, my parents couldn't afford christmas presents, so one person from church gave them presents to give us. We did take trips, but my Dad was able to work while we traveled, and my Mom always packed food for like sandwiches instead of eating out. And we always drove, when it was cheap to drive! Lol.

After we moved from upstate NY to TX it got A LOT better. My Dad's business doing really great and I would say my parents are middle class now. They have newer used cars and live in a newly built house with a pool. But my Dad is 65 and still working and probably will keep working for a while.

DH and I are probably middle class-ish. We make just enough to pay bills, but we own a home, each have a car. We would have been alot better off, but with the recession, my DH"s job cut his pay by alot and we still haven't gotten it back up to what it was. So he had to buy food and stuff with his credit card for 6 months and made some other stupid decisions before I came along to stop him. He has gotten alot better now though!

We were poor/lower middle class growing up and I definitely remember always worrying about $ as a kid. By the time I was in high school and college, things picked up and we were middle class. My dad still works (he's 65) and my parents still worry about retirement.

Husband makes a good living so in terms of my immediate household, we're pretty comfortable. But I think it's very important to not give everything to your kids..make them work for it so they take responsibility for what they have.

When I was very young, we were probably lower middle class. My parents owned their home, but we rented out two of the four bedrooms. We often ate instant ramen or canned corned beef for meals (even leftovers of these items), but we always had food. My parents would take us to toy stores to play, then we would come home without buying anything. Life as I remember it wasn't *hard*, but it was definitely frugal.

By the time I was in middle school, my parents made enough to send my brother and I to private school and take us on nice family vacations, but they never bought themselves nice things or cars. Once we hit high school, I would say my parents were upper middle class, and they started spoiling us. Nice vacations, fancy presents, new cars. I think they felt that they were making up for our younger years, but in the end, I think my brothers and I had a hard time learning to budget our money and pay our own bills because of how easy we had it right before we became independent.

We were upper middle class - my dad is a doctor and my mom went back to work as an accountant mainly because she was bored. We didn't take crazy vacations every year but lived in a big house, had a second home in NYC, and my parents paid for my brother and I to go to private school.
What's interesting is that my father grew up poor and my mom didn't, yet my dad is the one who spends liberally while my mom is very tight in terms of money management. And my husband didn't grow up as comfortably as I did but he spends more freely while I'm much more careful about spending.