I grew up extremely poor to the point where I had to use the bathroom in either a bucket or a hole outside. Moved after I turned 19 through a program for youth and have an apartment, savings, and I'm going to school for a career in healthcare. It felt weird buying a laptop for classes now that the Pandemic pretty much changed everything. Just bought myself new clothes too since I've had the ones I have now since my late teens with the exception of my shoes.
I didn't really grow up poor, but my family always looked after money and only bought important things. Money was never really wasted, so I have today a similar mentality. If something is broken I try to fix instead of just buying something new. The pandemic now made it even more extreme for me, I don't really want to buy anything new right now. Who knows how long this pandemic is going to last.