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^

£400 is more than four weeks carers allowance, so yeah, it's expensive. working hard doesn't mean you're going to be well off. a lot of the people that work the hardest earn the least.

@10milliondollars definitely a very narrow view.

Never been worried about being mugged, how very odd

Yes, which is why they are so popular with all the crims!

The ‘hardest working’ people I know are cleaners, carers, the woman who works as a legal secretary during the day and in Tesco at night to afford her rent, the ones who open up shops at 7am, the labourers who leave the house at 6 each day to be on site at 7 building those new big houses that ‘strategic directors of absolute bollocks’ in the public sector can afford. The ones who work in a hole in the rain fixing pipes so your power shower in your en-suite still works. The bus drivers, the lowest paid nurses in a and e. Midwives….special care baby nurses, the childcare staff in that posh nursery you send your kids to. The lads on the bins. Hard work often doesn’t even pay enough to get by.

In the words of Alan Partridge..."Come to London, you'll either be mugged or not appreciated".

Mad thing is, you can get a 'superclone' fake Rolex now for around £1k. The movement inside and the materials aren't as good, but if it's on your wrist it would take a watch expert getting a really good look at it to know it was fugazi.

The hardest working people I know are unpaid carers

right, like expensive watches for the cost of a house aren't made of metal too....

@CrowleyKitten with that ethos no one would ever buy anything beyond the very cheapest of everything

@CrowleyKitten you only buy the very basic of everything? You don't ever pay more for something you like?

My middle class boss told me you literally have nothing to worry about when you rent like I do 🙄 Easy for her to say in her massive house, no worrying about shit landlords, landlords selling up, sky high rent Increases etc. She was also shocked when she asked me what age I plan to retire and I said 67, the retirement age for me. Not sure why she can't understand why I can't afford to retire early, unless she's going to give me thousands of pounds to do so 🤷🏻‍♀️

Work is something the wealthy take forgranted.
All the wealthy young people I know have lucrative jobs even if they aren't that bright. A combination of looking a certain way, bit of confidence and a lifetime of interesting experiences seems to set them up nicely.

I'm very familiar with it. but also, very familiar with the fact that just because the expensive boots are better value in the long term, you can't justify it when you have rent and bills to pay. it's just impossible.
THAT is the point of boots theory. not that you should save up for the expensive boots, but that for most people, that's not a possibility, because the money is needed for other things.
in the boots theory scenario, the choice isn't, save up for the good boots, or buy cheap boots.
it's buy cheap boots, or go without boots at all. your boots give out. you need boots, and need them now. saving for them isn't an option when the money is needed for more urgent things.

Again I wholeheartedly agree with those that have made the comments about people who get on in life as they have worked " hard ". The implications being that if you are in a minimum wage job that you don't work 'hard ".

There's literally zero people on this thread saying that people who work minimum wage/low paid/nursing jobs etc don't work hard.

Bunch of people talking about "the insinuation" though, when that's something they've come up with in their own head. Weird.

Being proud of your own hard work giving you a better life does not equal believing that people who struggle don't work hard.

I’m very happy for you, may you enjoy many more years feeling the same way.

Oh I will thanks ... might have to work on the looking cheap part though

what are they made of then? if not metal.
assuming everything under a certain amount is rubbish is very snobby. there are things I'm willing to spend more on, and things I'm not.
I've got a guitar worth well over £1,500. it wasn't that much when I bought it, but it was still expensive. I love it and it was worth it. HOWEVER. it doesn't mean my first guitar that cost a little over £100 is rubbish. it's not. it's a good little guitar, and while I prefer the one I saved up for for ages, I don't then think my cheap guitar isn't a good guitar. is it a cheap guitar? yes, definitely. but that doesn't make it a bad quality one. it does the job just fine.

Where did I say they weren't made of metal?

So you do actually understand that people will value things that others don't and where they are able will spend money on those things ?

There has been so much negative language aimed at people on here " snobby", "crass", " cheap"

Good quality food

No one has said that anything under a certain amount is rubbish, some people have argued that a £400 watch isn't expensive for them, that's a huge difference

I wouldn't spend £1500 on a guitar but I don't judge you for you spending your money on that

Posters on here saying you can't manage money well if you need a refund back quickly. So shortsighted.. most people live paycheck to paycheck

What a grotesque person you are.

You should get some salt and vinegar for that chip on your shoulder 😅

Nepotism will always exists, and some people will always be able to blag their way through life, but this is the minority.

I've never hired someone unintelligent for a high paying job, or given someone a promotion because of the way they look. Unless you're a model/TV presenter etc, this is fantasy land.

What I have come across is a lifetime of people stuck in dead end/entry level jobs who weren't willing or able to put the work in, who spend their time moaning about their face not fitting, or that everyone promoted ahead of them is a kiss-arse.

I remember taking an entry level job in my early 20s. Was promoted to department manager after three months. The person who trained me kicked off because they'd "been there for five years".

Yes love, you've been in an entry level job for five years...that's a you problem.

Absolute madness isn't it. Jobs involving caring are the lowest paid. Yet I know people just doing a little work on their laptop every day getting £5k a month. And that's their words

@CrowleyKitten so you saved up for a more expensive guitar you wanted - please consider that for some people saving to buy some more expensive but long-lasting clothing or shoes or coat that they really wanted would be as important to them as the guitar was to you. I have foot issues and the kind of shoes I need to wear were definitely beyond my monthly budget in years gone by. Winter coats are expensive and there were five of us, and so on. I really can't see why you're dismissing the idea that a monthly budget might include money set aside for clothing or shoes that are not bought immediately, especially when there are children to consider.

We have a couple of spare blazers, due to them being lost then found. We buy spares for £4 at the secondhand uniform shop. We are on a very low income so certainly not a boast.