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How frugal habits become identity anchors

My salary is more than my parents ever made combined but I still wash ziplock bags and they think I'm being ridiculous, not understanding that old habits feel like honoring where I came from.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Maintaining practices from economic necessity can serve as psychological links to your authentic self and family history.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Social mobility and identity shift?”

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