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Father went to college
Father finished college
Mother went to college
Mother finished college
Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor
Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers
Lo, we are a clan of eggheads. My mother is the only one in my immediate family with only one degree and no graduate work. Poor Mom.

Had more than 50 books in your childhood home
Had more than 500 books in your childhood home
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

The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively. - I don't even know what this means. Maybe?
Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18 - Ahahaha... yeah, right!
Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs
Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs My scholarships and summer jobs paid for the majority of my university, with my parents helping a bit with rent and moving expenses.
Went to a private high school
Went to summer camp
Had a private tutor before you turned 18
Family vacations involved staying at hotels - motels, usually, and usually as we were going enroute from one relative's home to another. Canada is big, yo.

Your clothing was bought new before you turned 18. I did get the occasional hand-me-down from neighbours and friends, but I was the only girl so I got spared most of them.
Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them - Ahahaha!
There was original art in your house when you were a child - mostly that my mom did (she's an artist) so -- sort of?
Had a phone in your room before you turned 18. yes, and I paid the bill and connection fee myself. I started Uni when I was 17, after all, and it was in the days before cell phones.
You and your family lived in a single family house
Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home

You had your own room as a child
Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course -- Canadian here! No such thing... but I didn't have anything analogous. My parents pretty much thought we were all smart enough to study for ourselves. See above, re: eggheads.
Had your own TV in your room in High School Ha! I had a TV in my room in GRADE SIX. Of course, it was a 4" B&W number from Woolco (the former WalMart in Canada) and it cost a whopping $60 and was my biggest gift of the year, but yes. TV. Any subsequent TVs were bought by myself with money I had earned myself.
Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College

Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16
Went on a cruise with your family - after I was an adult already, as part of my parents' 30th wedding anniversary.
Went on more than one cruise with your family
Your parents took you to museums and/or art galleries as you grew up - I guess. Mostly the schools did. But we went to the science centre once or twice, so I guess that counts.
You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family. We weren't wealthy and I know now that our heating bills weren't easy to pay, but my mother grew up in a family that was always strapped for cash (5 kids and a 6th in permanent group home care) and hated money talk around kids as a result. The rule was that they didn't discuss money around children. I think the first time I heard my parents mention a bill in my presence, I was at least 13, and I was the baby of the family.

Hrm. I think this sets me exactly where I always have been -- middle class. Middle middle class as a child, moving maybe towards middle upper as my dad hit the peak of his career and my older siblings moved on? Of course, now I am a lowly starving artist and I'm lower middle all by myself. Yay!