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Whereas an earlier generation ofGrosse Pointe ladies would have avoided discussing money altogether,changes wrought by the economic crisis have led today's moms to comparegrocery bills, exchange tips on how to save money and pool theirresources for activities for their kids, like this visit to the MetroBeach Metropark's nature center. Doug DuBois for TIME ### Under Siege  Kids play at Huchingson's house. Thefrugality in Grosse Pointe is but one example of the economic strugglesin the Detroit suburbs, where the grip on middle-class life has forsome families become tenuous. The losses of hundreds of thousands of jobsamong families without any real nest eggs have imposed painful andunfamiliar choices, like which bills to delay or stop paying, how to sign kids up for Medicaid and when to register for food assistance. For $35 a year, the Grosse Pointe Moms Club offers something that, for these families, is quite valuable: how to foster frugality without embarrassment. Doug DuBois for TIME ### Safety in Numbers  At social events like this visit to Metro Beach Metropark's nature center, members commiserate over the job market and sinking home values and share bargain-hunting tips. Only a decade old, the Grosse Pointe Moms Club has changed with the times. Open to women from the Pointes and the neighboring suburb of Harper Woods, it was founded as a chapter of an international support organization for at-home moms, and at first the members focused on book clubs, knitting circles and workshops about dealing with clutter. In2004 the club separated from the umbrella group, and today it includes anumber of newer transplants to Detroit. Doug DuBois for TIME ### Reinforcements  Club member Sandra Wiiki, seen above at her home in Harper Woods with her son Sam, worked from home as a designer for a company that supplies interior plastics to Ford until losing her job in March 2009\. She's been busy taking courses in digital-arts animation at a nearby community college, with assistance from the state-run worker-retraining program No Worker Left Behind. Doug DuBois for TIME ### New Arrivals  Member Diane Huchingson stands in front ofher Grosse Pointe Park home with her husband Chris and daughter Jolina. Thecouple were able to buy the house at a buyer-friendly price last yearbecause of the recession. Doug DuBois for TIME ### Waiting for Customers  Club member Pamela Anderson helps run a local flower shop that her husband Bruce, right, beside their son Corey, has owned for 31 years. They have been coping with a steep downturn in business since 2008, when they lost a lucrative corporate account with Chrysler. Doug DuBois for TIME ### In the Shade  Anderson and her son Corey sit on a bench atMetro Beach Metropark with another club member, April Zaidi, and herthree sons. Zaidi hosts the weekly kids' music and movement class. Shemakes maracas from plastic eggs and drums from emptyinfant-formula cans for the class, confident that, as a former glee-clubmember and drama-camp teacher, she could offer as much as any fancystudio. "I've seen people pay $10 for a half-hour class with a lot ofrules. Why should we do that when we can teach the kids for free in thebasement?" says Zaidi, who has dubbed herself Miss Frugal. She boughtthe furniture for their three-bedroom bungalow on Craigslist and keepsto a strict $140-a-week cash budget. "Everything we have is used, butwho cares? With three boys, everything looks used as soon as you get itinto the house anyway," she says. Doug DuBois for TIME ### Neighborhood  Kids cycle through a Grosse Pointe Farmsintersection not far from the Country Club of Detroit. "The immaculatelawns and beautiful homes are a sort of facade that covers a growingloss of certainty in the future," says Robin Boyle, a professor of urbanplanning at Wayne State University. Doug DuBois for TIME ### Friends in Deed  Laura Cubitt and Diane Huchingson flankclub president Gabriela Boddy during a morning get-together atHuchingson's house. While the moms spend plenty of time discussingtraditional subjects — rambunctious kids, traveling husbands,visiting relatives — their conversations also embrace a topic that anearlier generation of Grosse Pointe ladies would have carefully avoided:living with less money. "More than ever, part of your responsibility foryour family is being aware of your budget," says Boddy. Doug DuBois for TIME ### The Next Generation  Cubitt's daughter sits on a couch atHuchingson's house. The culture of the Moms Club symbolizes a new middleclass for whom privilege is less taken for granted and luxury is lessflaunted. Yes, comfortably rich women can still be seen pushing $1,000Bugaboo strollers past upscale stores in the Village, the downtownshopping district. But for these moms, there is more cachet in findingbargains. 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