I have a form of this in other areas. Growing up we didn't have a ton of money and batteries were expensive. We never had batteries to replace depleted ones, so once a toy was out of batteries, it was done. We just played without those features. Now, having kids, I'm so conscience of batteries. I have a tester and check each battery when "dead" and put them in a separate box if I think they have enough juice for a lower power item. We have the money to just replace batteries when we need to... I just need to conserve them.
The other area is colour ink. Printing in colour as a kid was a big deal. I think think I'm going to get in trouble at work when I print in colour... like the massive organization I work for is going to care about 5 pages of full colour document.
Ya now I have the money to buy whatever batteries I need (thank you Amazon Basics) but as a kid we definitely didn't have the money to afford batteries. We didn't even buy paper towels, just used tea towels (as we called them). This also created an aversion to over using paper towels in my adult years. This isn't meant as some "whoa is me", but just a comment on how pricing and costs growing up can affect you for a very long time.
The other area is colour ink. Printing in colour as a kid was a big deal. I think think I'm going to get in trouble at work when I print in colour... like the massive organization I work for is going to care about 5 pages of full colour document.