When I was a kid growing up my family never had any of the things that other kids at school would talk about. Cable or satellite TV, video game consoles, whatever toy was in vogue at the time.

But we went on a camping trip or vacation every other weekend through the summer, we got brand new cars every few years, or house was bigger and when I was just getting to middle school-ish years my parents bought a boat (not quite a yacht, but could be lived on) that we kept on the other side of the state because, to quote my dad "The beaches over here are just nicer."

It wasn't really an all at once thing, stuff just added up over the years as it became more and more apparent that we had more money and very different priorities than the majority of my peers.