I look down on people who invest a lot of time and energy into status symbols that can just go away in the second.

This is opportunity costs from death, sex and money.

I realize that I'm never going to be a chazillionaire.

A series all about class, which we think about a lot.

They came straight off the pages of a J crew catalog

and need to talk about more.

So it has cost some friction in our relationship.

I'm Anna Sale. The first time Ernie Major wrote us an email was a few years ago when we did an episode about living alone.

I live in a single wide trailer in loyal California.

He emailed us again when we asked for stories about class.

I don't feel inferior to other people of higher class he wrote in fact sometimes I feel kind of sorry for them

Trapped in their web of expectations I decided to go visit Ernie and Vallejo. It's about a 30 minute drive from where I live now.

His trailer park is just off the highway. He told me to look for the lot with a couple of motorcycles parked outside.

Hi Ernie's dog Mindy greeted me as soon as I got out of the car.

Come on dogs.

Come on. We headed into his trailer and Ernie showed me around inside.

A very brief tour of the High Points.

If you step in there and look to you right,

you will see the latest addition. The washer

dryer? The washer dryer. Oh how long have you had that? Oh a couple months. It's life

changing isn't it? Yes, yeah. My mother-in-law said that a washer and a dryer

are what separates middle-class people from poor people.

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