Are any Mners on here super rich?

[Felixss]

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.

Anyone who owns an island, for example?

Acquaintance of mine who has millions married into it and her husband inherited the business which he continues to develop. Younger kids board at a local very prestigious school. They have a statement house with fabulous art inside. 3 dining tables, amazing views, an expensive dog and designer Scandinavian furniture. The husband drives a lambo 4x4 and she has a very small runaround and rarely uses it because she is an avid advocate of cycling.

She doesn't work but is very involved in various community and council initiatives and frequently travels. Hair and skin no better than mine. Nice straight white teeth. Wears subtly expensive jewellery and the latest Apple Watch etc. Wears designer clothes but not too blingy.

I am from the countryside (but now live in a town) and people like her are many. Very different to landed rich who rarely display it in what they wear or own in terms of disposable stuff. They're more likely to be in a patchy barber jacket and wellies.

Superrich is all relative. We are rich. Asset rich. Multi millions but all non-liquid assets. No debts. And top 10% of income earners. I think super rich is anyone richer than us. (Most people think super rich is anyone richer than them tbh).

We do not have any staff. Dcs are privately schooled but that is largely because one is severely disabled and his school suits his needs. The other has a part bursary for reasons I don't need to go into. We do not have fancy cars (8 years old and 16 years old respectoively). Dh does have an expensive hobby. Our last holiday was to the Channel Islands. I shop for my clothes at Tesco and my food at Aldi. We turned off the hotwater in September 2022 because of COL but because we have an electric shower we all can wash.

I think we are privileged because we don't have to worry too much right now. That's a true privilege.

Extremely comfortable via DH’s work. I work 3 days a week for my MH. Spend the rest of my time doing family admin, I’m sadly an executor and and being able to pay bills on someone else’s behalf without worrying whether probate will come through swiftly, hop on a plane to the house etc. is a real blessing. Don’t have a cleaner etc. because I’m too disorganised to sort one but we can for e.g outsource laundry, pay for private medicine although most of the time don’t, eat out and pay someone to hang art etc.

Have changed user name so I don’t get trashed 🤣

Yes
In the millions
No we don’t have staff, not even a cleaner or gardener. Although we do get someone to pollard the limes every 3years and cut some others back.
But that’s it.
We are both from wc backgrounds. I’m Irish plastic. Mother was a cleaner and father a labourer on building sites. dh dad worked as a train driver.

We benefited from free Uni and getting into good schools. All comps not grammar.

We both studied architecture. It’s not a very high salary but with knowledge of the industry we ve been able to buy run down properties and seem to have an eye on what people like and then sell them on for a profit.
So we ve each had 2 jobs each ie our own business and working for others in practice.

We re quite stingy, so except for a nice holiday every other year ie Asia mainly, we don’t overspend on luxuries.

We do have membership to NT and SPAB
No big cars and only one.
Dont get nails done, tanning, gym membership, no sky etc

Our accountant once asked how we live. Tbh thought our spending habits were normal.

So we ve amassed quite a bit.

Yes, when browsing Rightmove it us notable that some of the madly expensive properties are very much taste free zones!

Rich people own houses. A villa is something you rent, you would never refer to your holiday place as a ‘villa’ (unless you’re a bit TOWIE)

I have a cleaner and I'm definitely not super rich. I wanted to know about the ones with live in housekeepers and private chefs 😂

I think you’d be very surprised by the amount of people who marry despite coming from very different economic backgrounds.

Why did I read this thread. I feel like I need a brain bath to rid myself of the hideous green eyed monster!

Well I will have you know I won the princely sum of £5 plus I got a lucky dip too this morning! I shall not yet be buying a Chanel handbag though....

I'm going to raise the minimum income level from 2 to 10 million they should surely start to have the housekeepers and spend money on mad stuff.

Yes, it’s a sea of Kelly Hoppen beige upon beige upon beige! I snoop around the Belgravia mansions on Rightmove and they almost all look the same and they are almost all beige and look like nobody has ever lived there.

@Workhardplayhardsaveforarainyday
What do you mean I'm irish plastic?

Plastic paddy?!

I'd just like to know if @onefinemess has managed to travel to the future in the Delorian?

Quite.

Yes.
My parents were born an pd grew up there into their 30s.
Came to uk and I was born

I'm wondering how the poster managed to see My Neighbour Totoro at the Barbican last week when it's not currently on?

Lost me at the word “fleet”.

Maybe not super rich but certainly wealthy. Unfortunately my passion is horses which seems to take up all my time and a disproportionate amount of money!

A typical day would be get up and out for 7 to bring in horses, feed etc. Then have my own breakfast and plan the day which generally consists of lessons, competitions or exercising them.

I do have someone who works on our yard to help with general yard duties and exercising and (most importantly) can drive the horsebox which I hate doing! I also have a PT.

Evenings are spent either going out for a meal, seeing friends or most likely getting an early night.

Having previously experienced living month-to-month and earning relatively low wages I do know how very lucky I am!

My work involves advising people who have wealth of £10m+. Generally has been created from building up a business which has been sold, or has become large and they take a very decent salary/dividends from it which have enabled them to diversify their wealth into other investments.

One family, dad, son and daughter, probably have a collective wealth upwards of £500m, if not a lot more. The dad has a £XXm house in Oxfordshire and liked to pootle around in a Fiat 500 until he upgraded to an Audi TT. He lives on his own but has a housekeeper. Spends most of his time 'administering' the family trusts (holds c.£150m) and rubs shoulders with Oxford's finest to get early dibs on investment in start up companies (one such investment was about £8m and became £80m about 7 years later).

Son and daughter live in London, both get c.£1m each from trusts left behind from the maternal side. They also get a few hundred thousand from the main family trust, at times with lump sums if needed (both recently got about £3m for their homes). One is attempting to set up his own business (very much loss making, seems more to be having fun under the guise of networking) and the other works part time since having kids. Both are married to fairly comfortable partners but nothing close to their levels of wealth.

Dad is a bit of a grump, son and daughter are absolutely lovely.

In my experience, those who are super wealthy (£50m plus) are lovely, down to earth people. You wouldn't know they are wealthy and they don't show it off on purpose (such as obvious designer labels). Those that are within the bracket up to £10m tend to be quite penny pinchy, boastful about wealth and perceived status. I wonder if this stems from insecurity as while a few million is a lot, realistically it isn't enough to support a flashy lifestyle for very long.

My job very much feels like I'm working in a bubble most of the time. I am decently paid for what I do but very much poor in comparison to my clients.

One of my clients is one of the wealthiest people in a certain region (billionaire). He is very handsome too and lovely to deal with. Unfortunately, he is married to a very pretty heiress. He looks very polished, but you would not be able to tell he's a billionaire though. And I had to pay for a taxi for him 😂

Not “super rich” I’d say but my dad has a company worth around £5 million so I grew up with money.

I didn’t go to private school, nor did my siblings but my parents paid for our University fees and expenses plus our first cars and insurance we also had help buying houses.

We didn’t ever go on any crazy holidays it was mainly summers in my mums native country, we had a house there (It was in Asia) plus a house in Europe. The house I grew up in was 6 bedrooms.

My dads prised possession is his Range Rover for some reason and my mum has a Mercedes. They have a third car that’s a 7 seater for when needed (it’s another range).

I guess the most surreal part was the fact that I had unlimited access to money from around the age of 13, my dads card which he gave me the numbers for so if I wanted something I brought it ( within reason of course I wasn’t buying cars or anything but clothes and shoes, entertainment like toys and books, makeup etc) I think the most expensive things I brought were tech like my computer which was about 1500 and the odd piece of jewellery.
Even to this day I still have the numbers to one of his cards, I don’t use it anymore but it’s still there.

That was my childhood, very privileged, and I guess the most privileged part is although I’m an adult with a job who supports herself if I ever need help I have my parents who are more then willing to always help and I’m very lucky to have that especially in the current climate.

We don’t have chefs on the payroll but if we have more than 2 people coming over for dinner, we normally hire a chef to cater
Either one of the local ones (who will bring a helper who acts as a waiter) or one from the YHungry app, who are mostly restaurant chefs doing private homes as a side hustle
If it’s a special occasion, we might get our wine guy to come as well to do the wine for the evening.

It started sort of our of necessity after covid when it was impossible to get restaurant reservations, but we quite like not having to actually leave the house..! A sign of getting old, I think

Other mad shit people spend money on is things like boxes at concerts, Ascot, the opera. We have a friend who has their own box at the o2, and invites people to go and see whatever is on. Sometimes they also hire a boat to get there so we don’t have to slum it on the tube or in a cab..!

We are pretty rich - several million in retirement savings and investments and an annual income in the top 1 percent. We weren't always but both started out with decent professional jobs and no debt. Both worked but dh ended up in jobs where he got significant bonuses/share allocations. We saved and invested that money. We still save a lot.

We own two homes - one here and one in our country of origin. We drive a mid-range hybrid vehicle. Our children each have a car - mid range 2015ish cars, nothing fancy. Dh buys decent suits and shirts. My clothes are same as I always wore. I have some very nice rings. We paid for our children to go to private school and university so they had no debt on graduation. We give up to 70k in charitable donations every year. Mostly to a homeless shelter where we also volunteer. We don't worry about what we spend but there are still things I won't spend on. Our children know we are wealthy and they are very lucky but they don't spend their way around the world. They all have had jobs through university. We did give them each a second hand car when they got to the point of needing a car.

We go on nice holidays but not super luxurious and we rarely travel business class - I would for very long haul and we do occasionally cash in airmiles. Only one of our children has ever travelled business class and that was in an emergency and it was the only seat we could get.

We are not the richest people we know by a long shot - our children's classmates and friends range from kids from ordinary families to kids from families with their own private jet. The wealthiest people we know are venture capitalists/finance people. Some of them are lovely. We know how lucky we are.