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^

I'm friends on FB, with a colleague I worked with years ago. He has inherited the family business, and is clearly doing well for money. But OMG, the bragging on FB, is like nothing I have ever seen before. Constant photo's of his (expensive) watches, his Rolls, his holidays....pics of a private jet...and the most crass recently, was him posting a screen shot of the booking page for a holiday he had booked, for him and his wife, to somewhere in the Caribbean, deliberately showing the price : over £40k per person. Every single post is designed to show what money he has, and every time, I inwardly CRINGE.

By comparison, the very rich people I have known, have nothing to prove. They drive old cars, wear old clothes, and never mention money!

No, a £40 watch is cheap. And fine!

It's all relative is it not. A £400 watch is cheap to you. It isn't for many, many people.

I was in a conversation with some friends recently and one of them mentioned that their DD had just left for uni. The other friend was talking about how theirs would go the next year and it's a shame that they will leave with a debt from the tuition fees. The other friend said 'what debt? Oh gosh that's all taken care of we wouldn't dream of leaving that to her'.

There was a thread in (I think) style & beauty on here where the OP said she'd been given £1,500 by her DH to buy a luxury handbag, and which one should she buy?

Cue loads of posters piling in to tell her that unfortunately you can't get a really nice handbag for £1,500.

Or you secretly enjoy reading all about his lifestyle and judging his lack of class, otherwise you'd just hide his posts.

Was she working? Was she skint? Milliosn scrimp to pay for childcare and au pairs are cheaper than nursery.

I wonder if @Chateauneufdu and @Disappearedwife are the same people?

I am astounded at how little understanding they have of today's world.

A friend's husband works for the government overseas aid. He always travels first or business class because of back issues and bills them. No-one queries it.

Lol, does your £15kor even £500 watch noticeably tell the time more accurately than my watch from Argos 18 years ago that's still going strong and keeping accurate time.

Or is it you glance at the £15k one and it says it's 10:11 and 29 seconds, and you glance at my £15 one a d be told the same thing?

Convincing yourself that a £15k watch is somehow magically better at telling the time to someone observing it with human eyes.

You sound like a marketer's dream!!!

I could say exactly the same for you 😉

I don’t know why you’re being such a tool. Many people would put £400ish items on house insurance.

Clearly it’s subjective. £400 is a relatively expensive watch, and is already well into Swiss watch territory. It’s not a cheap watch to many many people.

£400k isn’t an expensive watch to some. Doesn’t make them correct, and they’d still sound like wankers for claiming that it’s not expensive.

If I had £400 going spare it would be going in my savings, not on a watch!!

This

My mum informing me of her premium bonds winnings each month. When she wins hundreds and when it's 'only' £50. One month she won enough to cover a holiday she was going on. Which she had been complaining about the cost of before casually dropping in how much she had won that month. Wish I had money in premium bonds making money!

Or the all-time fave...

Struggling to make ends meet? Well just get a better paid job then.

I always ask and never get an answer, if by some magic, everyone did get a better-paid job who is gonna care for the children and elderly while we all make our millions? Or empty our bins and clean our offices?

I mean, yes, watches with better movements inside them objectively keep time better than cheap ones.

Every watch looses time, but one with a tourbillion inside will keep it much better than a battery powered bit of tat.

Not that that's relevant, obviously. Nobody is spending thousands on a watch because they keep time better - If I wanted an accurate time I'd look at my phone. A Rolex or similar is a piece of jewelry, and even moreso an investment. They hold their value/appreciate massively.

I'm not a marketer's dream, just someone who works hard so they don't have to wear the same cheap watch for 20 years. Jealousy is a very ugly trait 🤷🏻‍♂️

Once upon a time, an upper crust Scot asked me if I did my own cleaning.

There was a thread recently where the OP was working a fulltime job but her unemployed husband refused to get work he considered beneath him after being made redundant. She was stressed about money and someone helpfully sugg3sted she get an extra job in a supermarket at the weekends.

I wouldn't waste your breath. Certain posters seem convinced that there's no difference between the two. I imagine they also believe there's no difference between solid wood furniture and their mdf flat packs.

not exactly wealthy, but a lot better off than we are, my friend said "you're so lucky you can wear cheap shoes"
no. it's a necessity. if she couldn't afford to always spend the best part of £100 on each pair of shoes she could do it too. she says her toes are too long to wear cheap shoes, like they don't come in different styles and sizes too,

this is why fines should be proportional to income. otherwise it's just the cost of parking where you shouldn't/speeding etc.

£400 is cheap for a watch

No a tenner from the market is cheap.

That is a key point - almost 40yrs ago my wealthy family member took me out to buy me a winter coat for my 30th birthday. It was £300 - so just over £1000 in today's money. It's still going strong, it's in my wardrobe now and will probably be worn this winter. It is my formal "funerals and going out to posh events" coat not my everyday Vinted SeaSalt bargain, but it has stood the test of time (with a few button changes through the years) - as have the expensive wellies he left at mine about 15yrs ago (and fit me perfectly so he said to keep them.).

If you can afford to buy quality up front then it lasts in a way cheaper version just don't. 🤷🏼‍♀️