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    "title": "Middle Class Poverty: Selling Off the Geek Symbols",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2005/04/22/middle-class-poverty-selling-off-the-geek-symbols/",
    "datePublished": "2005-04-22",
    "dateModified": "2005-04-22",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "Well, the sell-off of my geek gadgets and books is almost complete. The extra BEFSX41 went in the mail yesterday, and the Treo 90 is going in the mail in…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# Middle Class Poverty: Selling Off the Geek Symbols

Well, the sell-off of my geek gadgets and books is almost complete. The extra [BEFSX41](http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=23&prid=433) went in the mail yesterday, and the [Treo 90](http://www.palmone.com/us/support/treo/treo90/) is going in the mail in a few minutes. The iPod Shuffle (1GB) is on eBay [right now](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5769477739&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1).
All of this to pay the bills.
Poverty in the middle-class is hell. I hate it.
[Atrios on the AMC](http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_04_24_atrios_archive.html#111480330879484493). And on [the definition of "high-income"](http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_04_24_atrios_archive.html#111479857396922304).