Rich Housewife - AMA

[Iho]

Ask me anything.

This is just complete rubbish. If you have no mortgage and a 600k salary and are holidaying in centre parcs and going mid range skiing you are definitely doing something wrong! LOL at noy being able to buy a new car outright on 600K, what a load of twaddle.

It must be awful to have nothing else to talk about but your work.

Hmm, you do realise that your marriage certificate is a powerful, legally binding financial contract whereby, as a wife, you are legally entitled to 50% of everything?

Agree. I have a fascinating and fulfilling job but I rarely talk about it outside of work (not least because most of the really interesting stuff I do is highly confidential)

The jealousy oozing out of some posters and their need to put the OP down is really tragic. My favourites are the posters like @Eufyon who are desperately trying to show how the OP isn't really wealthy whilst at the same time trying to post to show that they really understand what wealthy means

🤣🤣 Jesus, the replies on this thread are so bitchy!

Agree it's actually really embarrassing!

I know, it’s scary and depressing to think that a lot of women must think like this IRL.

Thank you OP, this has been a fascinating thread. Well done you and your husband. If ever there was reason to keep quiet about having wealth it can be seen right here amongst some of the replies.
Some folk need to take a long hard look at themselves and their attitudes.

@Iho I want to hear more about your gardening. What's your favourite thing about your garden?
Had you always done gardening or how did you get into it? I want to learn as our garden is really boring at the moment but I don't know where to begin

What is the IOW??

The best thing about this is the fact that @TiggyTomCat made sure we all know how very very rich she is, before having a pop at the OP. Tragic

I’m in a similar position to the OP. Why on earth would I talk to my husband about cooking and cleaning?! It says a lot about people if they think the only interesting thing about them is their job! Surely you have more to talk about than work?? I actually used to have a very high powered, demanding job that consumed me and I was very boring then because that’s all I used to talk about when I came home! I think you’re going wrong in life if you can’t imagine getting any mental stimulation outside of your job.

Did you know there's a whole topic of MN dedicated to gardening.
www.mumsnet.com/talk/gardening
You can thank me later.😘

My dh and I have a no work talk rule and we've extended it to the dcs. There's more to life. Work bores are so dull.

This thread is peak MN.

OP, obviously if you're going to mention money, some people will be jealous and making snippy comments. Other people will think you're not particularly rich at all. What responses are you looking for here?

I’ve actually been loving this thread OP! And I think all the negative Nancy’s are just jealous! Which I am too but also v happy for you, you sound like you have a lovely life.

Is there anything you do/have that gives you a wee thrill every single day that you wouldn’t do/have if you were poorer?

Probably the same as all the other AMA threads!

It's the same with any AMA where someone has something desirable. The jealousy comes out and lots of 'why are you telling us about this?'.

Oh I don’t mind saying it- I am envious in many ways. I have earned very good money in the past- but always been the primary breadwinner. Which is bloody exhausting. I’ve always worked like a dog and would love love to rest without being responsible for meeting the bills.

I am quite sure I could rest happily for two years at least, just relaxing and spending money and catching up with housework and looking after my own health better and recapturing a sense of not having to move at hundreds of miles and hour. God Id love that.

im not totally sure I’d do it for ever though. Even without financial necessity, I have an ‘itchy’ part of me that sees problems in the world and am moved to do something about them. I think after a good bloody rest, I’d become some kind of creative philanthropist, funding cool stuff happening in the world and actively steering some of it.

sorry this is AMA, but your thread provoked that reflection. I guess related to that, my question would be: it sounds like you live life without longer term targets (a sense of trying to achieve/move towards something’)…..Basically stasis day to day. There is a focus on maintenance (whether house or health) rather than momentum. Do you never get that ‘itchy’ feeling I’m mentioning to push forward and achieve a longer term goal?

I agree. The OP's replies have all been so poised and polite, she is clearly happy and content. She doesn't feel any need to be spiteful or sneer at anyone, which is how happy people tend to behave IME.

Whereas, many of the other posters are demonstrating how unhappy they are through the sheer nastiness of their posts.

Happy for you OP. I hope you're having a marvellous life ❤️

It’s not impossible but it represents a lot of your take home pay on a salary of 600k, which is approximately 320k

On your figures, based on one holiday a year to Europe & one long haul, no one is spending 1/3 of their income on 4 trips on a private jet.

You make it sound like the OP achieves nothing. I know it’s very unfashionable but perhaps she has supported her husband and this has allowed his career to flourish. She has also raised her children in a home that is stable, having thought through choices in education, looking to give her children the opportunity to flourish. How dare you belittle all of this.
Woul you respect her more if she had had some career that involved her being remote from her husband and kids but earning a huge salary?

Did you envisage your life like this,
what makes you feel satisfaction,

would you return to work

Didnt read the full thread as felt ill by the few posts I read - nasty!