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Felixss · 2023-04-21T10:09:17+00:00

I don't mean upper middle at least a few million. What's life like what staff do you have? What's your daily routine like?How do you earn your money investments etc. Being nosey.

MK85 · 23/04/2023 13:52

@SchoolTripDrama onefineness is talking crap

MK85 · 23/04/2023 13:57

@Millie22 you realise the user you have quoted has posted other threads on mumsnet that contradict what she has just said. So no , not really believable at all

Bouledeneige · 23/04/2023 14:28

Not billionaire ville but a friend of mine re-married and now enjoys a very rich lifestyle. Her husband is a property developer and they live in a house in London which is now on the market for £15 million (though she doesn't think it will get that). It has an indoor pool, gym and yoga studio, a garage with lift. They have a live in housekeeper and a driver and a lot of cars including a Bentley plus a white gin palace type yacht. They also have houses in Spain and Switzerland and an apartment in Miami. She was always a shopaholic so I guess it's worked out well. She's now had a bit of work done and has a permanent tan. Previous husband was also very rich and in property. 3 kids were all sent away to boarding school. I don't see her now as we live such different lives.

AliceOlive · 23/04/2023 14:41

Millie22 · 23/04/2023 13:50

@AliceOlive Ah, how strange, that she will invest her time to invent a believable story to mock someone else’s post😳. I cannot find humour in that. My point and concerns are that it triggers unacceptable snobbish remarks by others instead.

I agree with you on that point.

But one of the comments wasn’t snobbery, it was her both saying she grew up in a council house and that she inherited multiple cottages from her own parents. It didn’t fit with the story.

I find the skepticism on MN so curious. I think it just usually comes from lack of experience/exposure. I could tell a few myself that the skeptics would dismiss, but I’m not going to bother.

Turtletumy · 23/04/2023 17:30

I too am mega wealthy,
I was an orphan but I escaped and went to London as I was unhappy and hungry
Whilst there I joined a gang led by an old man.
Luckily I was rescued by Mr Brownlow and he was loaded.
When he popped his clogs I inherited all his money.
I spend most of my day drinking Gin and smoking kippers.

blueshoes · 23/04/2023 18:30

Abcdefgh1234 · 23/04/2023 00:14

My aunt used to be super rich. She was a partner of a royal family in asia. Cant say the country i’m afraid due to privacy. But its a religious royal family. Which is having a partner outside marriage its a big no. But you dont know behind a closed door.

very rich. Go everywhere with her own private jet. Living in a mansion. Have a big pent house in mayfair as she likes to go to uk. But her life was shit. Have to be secretive about everything, basically life as a mistress because she only a partner and the prince cant marry normal people, need to be same background. First fee years she living her ‘pretty woman’ life. I remember she went to jakarta and closed chanel shop just because she wants to shop only with our family. She bought lots lots of diamonds, bag and other luxury stuff. And after awhile its just became stuff. She got depression. She living that life for 10 years and got son with the prince. Her son cant be royal family but he got money from his daddy. Meanwhile my aunt decided to broke off the relationship as the prince got other younger partner.

now my aunt married with normal man. Still have comfotable live but no where near what she used to be. She said she is much happier now. And she always says money isn’t mean happiness. It does make your life easier but not happier. Because when you have a lot its just becoming more and more useless. Being comfortable much more nicer than ultra mega rich. Because being comfortable means you still have some desire to do and to achieve something, you still have your passion. But being ultra mega rich you dont have your desire anymore because you just can get it now. You will kill your passion because you can have everything you want. And it will become meaningless.

i always remember her sayings, but still i play euromillions and wants to experience it myself 😂😂

I get this. Being the mistress of a rich man who cannot acknowledge her existence must be like a bird in a gilded cage. You can buy anything you want but <shudder> it is still a prison.

Freedom is priceless.

StepAwayFromTheBiscuitJar · 23/04/2023 21:47

I can understand money becoming boring and eventually just viewing expensive things as 'stuff', but it's still not exactly the same predicament as not being able to afford to have the heating on.

Notamum12345577 · 24/04/2023 15:57

If you grew up council house poor, how did your parents leave you cottages (plural) in Devon?

AndyandTeddyarewavinggoodbye · 24/04/2023 16:53

Notamum12345577 · 24/04/2023 15:57

If you grew up council house poor, how did your parents leave you cottages (plural) in Devon?

They didn't.

It's a made up post.

onefinemess · 21/04/2023 13:16
Of course its Bullshit!
What kind of responses do people think they'll get on these threads!

Loveyou3000 · 24/04/2023 18:44

I'm not wealthy and my family are just about comfortable but I grew up in a very affluent village, obviously there are 'normal' houses like ours, and a small row of social housing but a few families there were eye wateringly wealthy, I was friends with some of the children and as a teen I babysat for some of the families too. A very famous author lived there until he passed away, really pretty place but not much to do!

Honestly they were all quite normal, houses were huge, nice cars (not flashy like Lambos, though, more classic Landrovers), the girls I was friends with would go into town with me and we'd still all traipse around New Look and Primark and Claire's 😁 I was surprised they were on the same pocket money as me for the most part.

Most did have properties in other countries and went abroad a lot. The kids were privately educated and then boarding school at secondary school, my best friend always had an au pair when we were young and they lived in the separate "granny annex" that was actually almost as big as our house. She was the only one that had a nanny. Most had cleaners and gardeners but that was about it. Generally speaking, the things they owned like clothes, bags and jewellery were not ostentatious - I think they weren't keen on being flashy/garish but it was all generational wealth so the furniture was all quite old. My best friend did have a load of American Girl dolls and all the accessories which I was insanely jealous of! Not sure what some of them did for work, one of the dad's I babysat for was a GP so had inherited a lot of their money, my friend's dad was something to do with Credit Suisse, most of the dads seemed to be away a lot though. One was in property and I'm not sure about the rest, you don't really care when you're young (not entirely sure what my own dad does even now!), or it was rude to ask. I will say they were all lovely families and I'm still in touch with a lot of them.

User1234456 · 24/04/2023 21:12

I’m not originally from the UK and back home my family was quite wealthy. I used to take private jets, drive a Porsche, go on shopping trips with my mum to Milan and spend 10/15k on a new wardrobe. We usually went on skiing holiday to Courchevel every winter, where we would party and drink Cristal. I own watches by Cartier and Vacheron Constantin, Graff jewellery. That was all in my teens.
I had existential crisis in my early 20s and moved to England. I refused to take any assistance or money from my family and fell in love and married a very ordinary man who knew nothing about me or my family.
Im in my late 30s and have not regretted my decision at all. Being a daughter of a rich man was horrible - I never knew who my friends were, if any boy I dated wanted me for my famous money and to add insult to the injury my family paid for me to get top grades at uni (I really believed I was clever - turns out that it was just bought).
although I miss being able to go travel and meet very interesting people (many celebrities etc), I’m in much better place mentally now. I realise how spoilt and out of touch with reality I was.

Stewball01 · 30/04/2023 00:31

When she started the cars. Then I thought a likely story. Utter bs. I stopped reading before the end.

User55567 · 27/02/2024 09:50

BigChesterDraws · 21/04/2023 13:27

But you have a job….when do you do your yoga and diamond shopping?

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4775030-how-bad-is-this

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And a cheap £2k engagement ring ! 😂

mummy2benny · 06/11/2025 02:41

I no longer work "officially", but my DH brings in just shy of £1m per annum (after tax) but topped up with some additional income of mine, it brings it to just over the full £1m...

Half of that goes straight to our investments & savings, then the rest is all lifestyle expenses, (which we break up into wants and needs).

Household takes half of what's left = £250k (mortgage, running costs & groceries etc)

Then £125k to all other must pay, reacuring costs (like school fees, memberships & subscriptions, cars, allowances etc)

£62.5k to discretionary spending and £62.5k to 4 overseas holidays throughout the year and 4 weekends away...

As you can see, we're very conservative and live way below our means, we could spend a lot more, (better house/more fun etc) but we just choose to be simple & wait for the proof of growth.

We're in a very fortunate position indeed, that's not taken for granted, but our goal is to sustain such an income standard passively (which we should be able to, after a decade or so), hence the rather heavy investment...

Hope this helps and the openness is appreciated xx

P.S. For those wondering, he's in finance, I was in law :)

Amy8 · 08/11/2025 13:53

What a stupid post - noone
will be honest or the fantasists will come out in full force - weird lot on here

Amy8 · 08/11/2025 13:53

mummy2benny · 06/11/2025 02:41

I no longer work "officially", but my DH brings in just shy of £1m per annum (after tax) but topped up with some additional income of mine, it brings it to just over the full £1m...

Half of that goes straight to our investments & savings, then the rest is all lifestyle expenses, (which we break up into wants and needs).

Household takes half of what's left = £250k (mortgage, running costs & groceries etc)

Then £125k to all other must pay, reacuring costs (like school fees, memberships & subscriptions, cars, allowances etc)

£62.5k to discretionary spending and £62.5k to 4 overseas holidays throughout the year and 4 weekends away...

As you can see, we're very conservative and live way below our means, we could spend a lot more, (better house/more fun etc) but we just choose to be simple & wait for the proof of growth.

We're in a very fortunate position indeed, that's not taken for granted, but our goal is to sustain such an income standard passively (which we should be able to, after a decade or so), hence the rather heavy investment...

Hope this helps and the openness is appreciated xx

P.S. For those wondering, he's in finance, I was in law :)

We weren’t wondering ! So show offy

PinkPanther57 · 08/11/2025 20:07

tescocreditcard · 21/04/2023 13:27

I sussed it when you said he was a super rich client at the solicitor you were doing admin for. Like a super rich person with family money would marry an admin clerk from their solicitors office who grew up on a council estate.+ 😀

If she was beautiful & smart. Def.

Whataninterestinglookingpotato · 08/11/2025 20:13

LemonBall · 21/04/2023 11:47

I'm rich by your "few million" criterion. We don't have any staff beyond our cleaner twice a week.

A few million is rich and if you don’t think it is then you and I move in very different circles 😂. We have an above average household income by the way and are not hard up by any means.