Regarding clothing and museums--yes for me on those too. And what year it was, and if it happened to coincide with a month where the electric bill was really low. Cars, too.

I can kinda understand what the original exercise was getting at; not everyone has the same social-economic class, and some people need to see it for themselves to really understand it. But this meme is just, well... stupid.

I can see what they were trying to do, but the problem--and this could be totally me here--the base assumptions of a person's life and what constitutes privilege in it isn't the same anywhere. It's *random* in what it is choosing to emphasize. The car thing might not be applicable in a family who was in say, New York or Chicago or other cities wiht high traffic and an excellent public transit system; extra cell phones come free with plans and some families don't even use landlines. It feels--again, maybe just me--that the baseline assumptions aren't consistent with anyone.