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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This is my mother in law to a tee, she buys second hand washing machines on craigslist for $100 - 200 they last about a year and she buys a new one. Always complaining about "planned obsolescence". I keep telling her "no one is selling a good used washing machine, they had problems with it and got a new one" Meanwhile she criticizes me for spending $700 on a washing machine we have had for 10 years now.

She has a saying "poor people have poor ways" which she thinks means that when your poor you work with what you have, I have told her it is an insult that means poor people are poor because of their actions and decisions.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Lol, considering I heard it all the time growing up in the 80s you might be a bit off on your assessment.

    I grew up in a middle class suburb where the it was used as an insult kinda like " poor people are poor because they are stupid"

    She grew up in the Ozarks and they used it more as a " we got ways to make do"

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