Friday, January 04, 2008

From Rich: childhood privileges meme

Bold all that apply to you.

Father went to college
Father finished college
Mother went to college
Mother finished college

Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor (all of the above)
Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers
Had more than 50 books in your childhood home
Had more than 500 books in your childhood home
(ranging from children's books to trashy novels to chem and physics and engineering and law, fiction, non-fiction, whatev)
Were read children's books by a parent
Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18
Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18
(ballet, when I was 5)
The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively
Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18 (i STILL don't have one...)
Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs (plus my scholarship)
Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs (was on scholarship)
Went to a private high school (de la salle lipa)
Went to summer camp
Had a private tutor before you turned 18
Family vacations involved staying at hotels (mostly other relatives' houses)
Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18 (would get some hand-me-downs from cousins, aunts, etc... )
Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them (I wish!)
There was original art in your house when you were a child (yeah, by myself and my brother, on the walls, floor, cabinet doors... my dad hated it, but my mom found it adorable that we were, uh, personalizing the house, and refused to have our scribbles painted over or covered with wallpaper.)
Had a phone in your room before you turned 18 (yeah, for like two days. i hid the house phone in my room and refused to admit it was there. hehe!)
You and your family lived in a single family house
Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home (and they still don't)
You had your own room as a child
Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course
Had your own TV in your room in High School
Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College
Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16 (still haven't)
Went on a cruise with your family
Went on more than one cruise with your family
Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up
You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family before age 18

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