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^

My sister has the heating on full while wondering around the house in a vest top in winter and her kids leave every light on in their massive house and she doesn't care. She's very lovely and works incredibly hard but just never needs to worry about bills.

£k is cheap. Her is my favourite watch of the moment and its 2.6m😱

https://www.patek.com/en/collection/grand-complications/5260-1455R-001

Nope, £7.50 is a cheap watch. That’s what I paid for the watch I had to buy for work, it works fine.

That’s pretty. I wonder how much it costs to get the battery replaced.

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They all got wealthy very quickly through marriage and inheritance. Rapid increase in spending power seems to have brought this out in them.

I can't imagine gloating (or complaining) about an inheritance. I'd rather never get it and keep my family here forever.

I have distanced myself from these people now. They aren't the friends I first met. Money does strange things to people.

I am so pleased you’ve cleared this up.

Having family / friends with holiday homes in glam locations that are available to stay in for free!

She sounds like a horrible person too!

I’ve just remembered my (wealthy) cousin once complaining as her husband was ‘cutting down the family budget’ due to cost of living crisis and fuel hikes so was no longer allowing her to heat the indoor pool. She was genuinely upset.
Same husband also ‘sold one of his pubs’ to free up some cash…:

With regard to the watch, it is all relative. When my children were tiny we booked a caravan holiday on the coast. The first day my sandal broke and the only way to repair it was with celotape . There was no money for replacements and I struggled to get around for the rest of the holiday.

Now I take for granted that I can replace anything immediately.

I hate it if I have to eat out.
For me nothing beats my proper home cooked healthy food, and the cost of one meal eating out is typically enough for me to eat for a week if I'm cooking for myself.

There is a difference between it being an expensive watch and being a cheap watch. £400 is not cheap for a watch at all, £20 is. £40000 for a watch is out of most people's range.

A £40k car is quite expensive, doesn't make it cheap just because there are cars available for hundreds of thousands.

I would never pay £50 for a handbag. Far too expensive. But I wouldn't laugh at someone who does. It's just not very nice.

Of course I realise this and already clearly stated it in some of my previous posts on this thread.
My DC are on minimum wage / zero hours contracts, and I understand how lucky I am to be able to afford many things that others cannot.

I think I made a booboo recently. I had my washing machine repaired, it cost about £240 and an acquaintance told me I was daft, paying so much, I could have bought a new one for that! My reply was that I only buy Miele white goods, not cheap ones, his arrogance at telling the 'little old widow woman' that she was daft played a part so maybe it wasn't that bad a comment!

Well to be fair you'd only need two, but you'd need a tiny viola and a tiny cello as well.

My $10 'Rolex' is still going strong, 10 years after the man in Tijuana said it had a lifetime guarantee!

i have a friend who shops at Aldi & Lidl and thinks I’m wildly extravagant for going to Waitrose & ( another upmarket food place not linking) . They eat Domino’s & Chinese takeaway at least once a week and go on long - haul holidays & cruises regularly .
we could never afford that (nor would we want to). The last time I flew long haul was 6 years ago for a family wedding.

Thought you meant a kitchen island for a minute there...

It's like the Lelli Kelly of watches. I'm sorry but someone would have to pay me £2.4 million if they wanted me to wear that. I'm quite happy sticking with my Samsung Galaxy watch. I wouldn't mind upgrading it to a newer version but I'll wait until the price of them secondhand comes down. I don't like to buy new, it's pointless when you can get something that looks new for a fraction of the price.

she's gone into town to buy her veg from the market and come back home to tell my father they are going on a 5 holiday

We did that once, we hadn't had a holiday, went to Asda and walking past a travel agent saw a holiday we then booked.
OH once went out for the Sunday paper and when he came back I told him that we were off to Greece on Tuesday, back in the days of Teletext and you could get a very unfancy week in Greece for about £125.
To be clear, we were both teaching full time and could luckily manage these things.

The funny thing is a £50 Tesco smartphone will do as accurate a job of telling the time than the most expensive Rolex. It will automatically adjust to daylight savings or timezone changes too.

You get even more at about 4.30 on Saturday afternoon, my parents used to go into town after the football match, getting there about 5pm and they would stock up for the week.

I would pretty much describe myself in this category. We aren't wealthy, but we are comfortable because we are old.

Our income is rather modest, but we don't have high outgoings. We bought our first house in 1980, so the mortgage was paid off years ago and don't have expensive habits or hobbies.