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How to Cope with "Everybody Else Gets" When It's TRUE!

My 10- and 13-year-old children attend a small parochial school and most of the families there are pretty much middle-class. Both complain that everyone else in their classes have cell phones, big-screen TVs, have been to Disney, and other things that we don't need and can't afford right now. And from my conversations with other parents, it seems that the kids aren't exaggerating. We are not poor, nor particularly "cheap", we have a nice home and have taken some nice if not elaborate vacations. I don't know how the other families, who...