#5. You Develop a Taste for Shitty Food
#4. Extra Money Has to Be Spent Right Goddamn Now!
#3. You Want to Go Overboard on Gift-Giving
#2. You Become an Obsessive Bean-Counter
#1. You Only Spend with the Short Term in Mind
Interesting/Funny take on why poor people grow up with certain habits. Go read the entire post on:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-develop-growing-up-poor/
It's actually pretty funny and insightful.
Can you think of more?
#6 Spending more on cheap alternatives than what you would have spent getting what you wanted.
Folks who buy a crappy car for $10,000 and then, slowly, dump another $20,000 into it over the next several years adding ridiculous accessories like spinning rims, stereos that can be heard hundreds of miles away, and racing tires. Eventually what they end up with is a car that they can resell for about $12,000 despite having dumped $30,000 into it.