Money, Money, Money!

Today in class we split up into groups of 4/5 and played monopoly, but it wasn't your average board game rules. In my group the 5 of us each rolled the dice for a social class and decided fairly. I got the lower middle class status. We each started out with an amount of money and i started out with about $675 in my pocket. At first it seemed as a pretty decent amount of money to have and as the game started playing out I found myself in difficult situations, deciding to buy something, in order to gain more money, or deciding to pass on it. I decided to be a good spender and not buy everything i landed on that was up for grabs, except the electric company, which ended up being a mistake. I mean I stayed at a good amount I just lost about 5 or 6 bucks, but still I could of made more. And now looking back if that was my real life I would have to obviously spend more for food, clothing, housing, etc. With having about $600 in your pocket a month for all your daily needs I have a feeling that wouldn't last me a month. Especially with my life style being raised as an upper middle class, $600 is certainly not enough for the other 3 people in my family including myself. Although I have been raised as an upper middle class, my parents and grandparents were not. They had all came from Poland with barely anything in their pockets with just the minimum clothes, some food, and money. With the lack of money they had to find a living place for my grandparents and my mom and aunt and save enough for my mom and aunt to have a decent education. As for my dad he was born and raised in Poland in a poor community with a house that they had to share with another family living upstairs, so basically an apartment. Leaving Poland and coming to America was a pretty good choice for them. My parents and grandparents had to build their way up from the lower class to, what we are now, the upper middle class. Not too shabby if I do say so myself.