Rich Housewife - AMA

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Ask me anything.

Well considering it isn’t her who works in it, why would she?

Why do you think she should?

Do you ever worry about what you would do should the worst happen? Are you confident he wouldn’t leave you high and dry financially and claim you hadn’t contributed anything to the house/property?
Sorry, intrusive question but Mumsnet always insists people have a fck off fund/secret bank account partner doesn’t know about. Especially if you don’t work. Do you have one?

I thought this too. 600k isn’t rich ( well not in London) that’s nice and comfortable middle class, rich to me is when you are sitting on millions,

Equally a 4 bedroom Victorian terraced house with a not so big garden can easily start at 1.5mil in my high poverty/crime London borough.

Given your lucky position in life, do you ever feel you'd like to help people less well off than you?

If he really did her narrative would be convincing. She didn’t know enough to concoct a plausible scenario.

You've leaned into inventive hyperbole to make your point, but as other posters have pointed out, 600k, in London (usually), at certain levels and within certain areas/industries, in 2026 is not THAT exceptional.

Of course it's a lot of money and soars well above the average, but the people here saying it's not 'rich rich' have usually explained their point of reference.

So you know two people who made enough money to buy a £2.5 mil house and pay off the mortgage, but now earn so little they claim UC? How? Did they lose high paying jobs? They paid off the mortgage but didn't put anything in savings? Couldn't they remortgage and release equity to give themselves something to live off while they look for another job? Or rent out a room in their house or something?

And what's your point in relation to this thread anyway? It seems like a weird loophole to me, that someone can be eligible for UC despite being so asset rich. Surely they have other options.

Curious how many people, other than me, headed off to rightmove to see what £2-2.5 million buys in their neighbourhood?

Really interesting thread. I was on OPs side all the way until she mentioned voting for the Tories and then not answering the reform/greens question. Not giving to charity with such wealth is unacceptable IMO. Overall she has a great sense of humour that has come across on this thread, but sounds like a selfish twat who would probably walk past a homeless person without offering a quid. Sounds like she only wants to help out those that she deems worthy (her own family and friends) and not anyone else in genuine need.

I've noticed that many teachers struggle to spell these days. It's barely, nor bearly.....🤦🏻‍♀️
Sorry...I don't want to sound unkind but it's one of my bugbears.... hopefully it was just an accidental slip on your keyboard.
One of my DD's primary school teachers would always get your and you're mixed up!
High school teachers aren't on a too bad salary imo though 🤔 I'm an FE teacher and that really is crappy pay....

The thread is nearly full…

Who cares how much a house is in London?

10 million people who live in London?

To be fair the OP mentioned several times supporting just giving threads for people in need.

Absolutely this. My PIL have a 4 bedroom house in Herts, bought 50 years ago for about £30k. It's now worth £900k. That's just how it is, and my DH and his brother, if very blessed with the inheritance, will be lucky enough to benefit from their parents' good fortune.

We're not expecting anything but will be extremely grateful if we do get anything. I agree it is a shitty system and it's not fair for those who have no family inheritance to potentially pay for the next generation.

Really? Charitable donations deliver decent tax breaks apart from the obvious. If course the downside is that you can't use it as a club to beat the recipient with

That's his annual income ( top 1%) I not their 'savings pot'. Av. London Income P.A. is 50K, nationally 39K. The OPs DH takes home 29K PCM. Nonetheless it's a graceless flex she's doing here..

I doubt they all care.

Didn’t privately educate because wanted sons to rub shoulders with normal folk?

That’s the kind of thinking from someone who can’t afford private but convinces themselves that they wouldn’t privately educate anyway. No way do I think a family that hole themselves away in a Victorian manor (for bargain basement price!) would then want their children to go to state to mingle with normal folk. If you genuinely thought this… you wouldn’t completely separate yourself and kids off from any kind of local community by living in a rural Manor House

How do you diagnose normocalcaemic hyperparathyroidism?

🤣 you joker

On the PTH level presumably…

OP, I have enjoyed reading your posts, but the hostility it has attracted is most bizarre! Does this ever happen in real life? Your life sounds lovely - especially as you enjoy and treasure it so much.