Rich Housewife - AMA

[Iho]

Ask me anything.

Are you in love with your husband?

What sort of people do you mix with? Do you get any snobbery from more old-money / public school types?

Do you have a pension in your own name?

Are you very thin?

Thinking the same. It might not be private jet, full time housekeeper, salaried chauffeur or chef level of global super- rich but it's a heck of an income.

You have no idea what assets we have or will have. You seem angry for some reason.

It's a lot of money but it's not 'real housewives' type money like some posters are suggesting. No one is going to make a documentary about it.

My BIL/SIL have a £3M mortgage free home, and earn more than your DH and they certainly don't call themselves rich. Just well-off.

I can't think of a question as just find it a bit mundane, had you said you were worth £50M+, I'd have been intrigued!

I call BS on this. '2 Mercedes.'
Reminds me of Hyacinth Bucket.

Exactly

Hi, OP. My question is whether you feel a particular pressure to stay slim and very in shape? I mean, a lot of women feel a self-imposed pressure in this regard and others enjoy keeping slim and fit for health reasons and as part of self-care/self-esteem, but I've often wondered if wives of rich and successful men feel a greater "burden" in this regard. Are you always hungry? 😁

This question undoubtedly is more a reflection of my own insecurities and biases than of anything you have said!

I do my own housework. I don't get off on hoovering but I do enjoy sitting down to a clean and tidy home once it's done.

I tend to shop directly from the designer online.

Are there lots of other properties you own or a really significant investment portfolio or other wealth vehicle you haven't mentioned? Because that potentially changes the wealth bracket you sit in - and the whole conversation here.

Oh come on. 1.2million a year apparently and 1% of your income on a two week holiday is too much, get a grip.

Yes this is my idea of rich, buying all the plants without a thought... and having the time to plant them and watch then grow!

Katherine by Anya Seton.

But you’re not a rich housewife. You’ve just got a rich husband who supports you with his money. So really you’re just a housewife. Not a rich one.

Your BIL is out of touch then.

Anyone who claims to be a lowly barely comfortable middle class worker on over 600k a year is comical.

No one is saying it makes you the richest person in the world, but it’s far beyond comfortable.

Do you like those Catherine Cookson dramas, or would you prefer police procedurals?

Thanks for the thread OP.

Its rainy where I am too and have found the questions and answers interesting.

Mine is do you worry about your kids not being as successful as you and your DH ?

This is for me this is the biggest challenge with success i.e. how to pass that hunger and desire to succeed on. The Chinese have a saying “paddy field to paddy field in three generations”

I note you have said they have done well in exams but IME that is the easy bit …. climbing the corporate ladder or being an entrepreneur are hard work and require something else.

god can’t think of anything more morning than banging on to people I don’t work with about my job….

She's not, they're not even wealthy 😑

Yes mortgage free. We have no debts. Both sets of our parents are alive so there has been no inheritance.

Matthew 6: 19-21

Yes, the English have similar- something along the lines of:

1st generation starts it
2nd generation makes it
3rd generation spends it

And it's quite often correct, although often the various offspring have differing fortunes.

It's amusing isn't it. So many on here are contorting themselves so hard to demonstrate that a £600K salary isn't all that, that they're going to wake up with back ache in the morning.

Sounds to me that the OP is level headed, living a really lovely, very affluent lifestyle and enjoying a good marriage. And my God, on here, people will hate her for it.

We could afford to fly on private jets. We don't.
As in direct debits? No.
Nice food. The house. Plants. I like shoes and bags.
No. I don't really have a jewellery collection. I have my engagement ring, wedding band, eternity ring, a nice bracelet and necklace and some diamond earrings. Maybe worth £150k.
No, I'm size a size 12 brunette. I am white.
I don't feel a power imbalance.

I can understand that poster’s irritation. If you claim to be rich you need to be rich or people will just be bored and disappointed.

So, you don’t have much in savings, do you have an investment portfolio in which case how much?