When you were a kid, did you do the child version of ”Keeping up with the Jones”?

When you were a kid, did you do the child version of ”Keeping up with the Jones”?
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No. I was the token poor kid (very poor) in a rich neighbourhood so I kept very quiet about what I got for *********.
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