The casual things that wealthy people take for granted

[KaleQueen]

Inspired by a thread that’s gone totally off topic….where someone suggested a £400 watch was cheap.

What’s the most casual (even accidental) brag you’ve ever heard a wealthy person say?

I can start as I know someone who celebrated a big birthday recently and is an absolutely lovely person but during their party (in the wonderful house) they said “oh! Here comes the string quartet. I had completely forgotten about them!”

^www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5174898-to-feel-slightly-suspicious-of-dp?page=35&reply=138771616^

Right?? If you have a phone you just don't need one. So anything over zero pounds is expensive in a way. If it's jewellery effectively then have at it but jewellery prices are weird anyway.

Anyone else enjoying the thread but losing the will to read when another mention of a 400 pound watch comes up 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ make it stop

On the watch thing. £500 isn’t expensive for some watches but is a luxury. If you have that amount of money to buy something inessential than you’re doing pretty well.

When I used to work in Private Equity they used to clear out the cupboards and under peoples desks periodically and the things they had just left were crazy. I was once gifted (once nobody came forward to collect it) a cast iron cooking pot, still in its box. When I had a look at the price it was £200.

I'm not rich but I went to college with rich people. Some super-rich, although that's a minority anywhere I guess. I was a state school kid on a bursary.

The thing that really stuck in my mind was the way they didn't have to think about money. That must be so liberating. I'm not materialistic. I don't want a lot of things. But the sheer mental space freed up by not having to think about it. Go in a shop and pick out what you want. Order what you want off a menu. Not having to check your account constantly at the month draws to a close. The way money sort of eases everything, every process. Like right now - I'm in the middle of changing broadband supplier. The new internet didn't activate when it should have (I'm writing this from a hotspot). So now I'm rearranging budget to see how cheap I can get hotspot access, for how long, how will that affect the other bills coming out of the same account...

....if I was rich I'd just grab one of those powerful plug-and-play 5g internet things and use it simultaneously whilst Vodafone sort their shit out. And if I end up paying double for a while, it wouldn't matter.

Then there's things like - my newish little rescue cat has multiple allergies. If I were rich I could afford an experiment - I'd get a freezer just for her and feed her only pure meat with the correct vitamins added, from one of those natural food companies. And if it didn't work out - never mind, onto the next trial.

Train didn't turn up? Never mind, grab an uber. Hell, a taxi. Just all the things that make life easier and all the freaking mental space it would free up.

This turned into a if I were rich post 😆

It is all relative. We all take lots of things for granted. Everybody on this thread will be super rich compared to lots of people in the world.

I don’t understand spending £40k on a watch. I’d want it to let me time travel for that money.

And for a lot of people £20 - 30 is a cheap watch and paying more than £100 for a watch is just unaffordable.

I agree. If people are used to being wealthy, it's just the status quo and they don't boast.

Brilliant 😂I’m here from the other thread

Where’s that? At one time, Amherst in Loughborough was or perhaps still is popular with students from China so I imagine a fair few schools attract international students.

From Tag/ Cartier / Rolex, yes £400 is cheap. But there are designer watches (boss, Burberry) and mid range watchmaker watches (citizen) that go for way under £400.

And your overuse of emoji’s is too much.

’ we manage to save around 2k per month between us for holidays etc’

sheepishly looking at my savings of £2.67

Ooo this is a good one

Is it? I mean, we'd see it as a waste of money, but it's her money. It's not stopping anyone else from seeing it assuming it's not totally sold out (unlikely). Maybe she values the option of being able to choose whether she feels up to it on the day? Maybe she values her money supporting the arts?

Thing is at a certain level of income you can just stop worrying about the things that make life really difficult for lower income families. My tumble dyer broke this week and it struck me that 1) we could just replace it but also 2) we have a heated dryer as an alternative and can afford to put the heating on to make sure we can dry via radiators if necessary in the interim. Many families couldn’t afford to do that or shell out for an appliance in the first place.

The watch debate is a bit silly really. Objectively there are watches at £10 and watches at 40k plus. For me a cheap watch is a £10 one. A £400 watch is going to be middle of the road and you’re probably looking at a more luxury purchase from £1-2k up and beyond into the tens of thousands.

Yes I agree. I was pondering how to word this but you’ve nailed it.
wealth is different for each person, I’d panic if a white good broke- I’d struggle to replace it. But your pov is different. I love threads like these it inspires me to try harder to make more money 😂

Can I ask what you do for work please?

I give yp

Thanks gif sharing this, how interesting!
I’ve just done it we’re in bottom 40%

Are string quartets intrinsically posh? Or was it forgetting about the string quartet? I had a string quartet for my wedding reception which was in the near dark ages.

Speaking to one of my wealthy book club friends about whether or not to go full time at work…”well Ricky does the money actually matter? I mean do you actually need it?”.

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Hmm, I remember seeing a feature on the news last year. People were being interviewed in their homes about CoL. Most of them complaining about the cost of gas/electricity were standing there wearing vests and shorts in the middle of winter. It's hardly surprising their heating costs are so high, put some fecking clothes on.

An old boss paid the guys who worked for us weekly but would purposely wait until late in the day to transfer their money, purely because he knew most of them worked pay cheque to pay cheque and would be desperate for their money by Friday morning.
He was of course loaded. Horrible controlling C@&T. He claimed it would teach them “self control”.

Horrifically judgemental