Advice columnist Carolyn Hax: Suggest cost-free get-togethers of your own and beware blind spot.
Dear Carolyn
Adapted from a recent online discussion.
DEAR CAROLYN: My husband and I are very financially constrained, partly by choice (we want someone home with the kids). In order to make this work, we are SUPER frugal and have had at least one financial-adviser type look at us quizzically and ask how we live on so little money.
The problem is, we can’t seem to socialize with any of the people around us, because they all seem to have more money to spare.