Terry Collins

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My parents are the strict asian parents who never cared much about what I wanted to be/like, and so I emotionally shut off from them ages ago. It didn't hurt by

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Terry Collins

@bigladybug327971 · Jan 12, 2026

CMV: Advertisers have tricked us into thinking we are poor and failing at life.

All of the things like the affordability crisis and death of the middle class are all based on an inflated sense of middle class (MC) stemming from advertisers attempting to control our expectations. Advertisers dictate what MC means. They have a desire it increase the standard of MC because it will cause people to spend more money. The problem is this increase is entirely artificial.
**Housing costs** by square foot have barely gone up and the building codes explain the entirety of the small increase. People think the costs are so much higher because we went from 1000 square foot homes to 2600 square foot homes. We went from a 1 car garage to a 2 car garage. The unaffordability is caused by marketing encouraging us to by bigger and bigger homes.
**food price**s haven't been gone up they dropped by 82% over the last 100 years. However we order out and by pricier items, again caused by advertising......
**clothing prices** have dropped dramatically, we just choose to spend more.....
I'm running out of time so I will skip to the end. If calculate the required amount of money to live a middle class life in the city near me by advertisers standards you need to make $100,000 dolla

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Terry Collins

@bigladybug327971 · Jan 10, 2026

Hosting get-together

Looking for thoughts and ideas to make a get-together more fun. I’m hosting for 20 people. I’m baking a cake, doing some pasta, board games. If anyone has experience with these things let me know;)!

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