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^

Disposable

You’d say that to your friend who scrimped and saved! Wow! I have no other words…

You're considerably wealthier than I am, then.

Is your 45 year old sister also working?
Yes, of course you can do it at 35, but in middle age it becomes very difficult to work full time and study at the same time.

Good for you, but many, many people that age just can NOT and it's quite normal.

I understand very well that it's not for telling the time

So why did you say "I've never paid more than 30 and it tells the time just fine"?

you were wrong when you said you have to pay thousands for a 'good' watch as millions of people wearing normal watches can testify.

You've literally just made a distinction between 'normal' and 'good' 😅

1. I understand that the people who buy expensive watches buy them for other reasons, but the point of a watch is still to tell the time. I also think some people buy cars to show off, but the point of a car is still to take you from a to b.
2. A normal watch is good. If it works and tells the time, it's a good watch.

You seem keen to project your failings onto others, then act like that's the norm for everyone 🤷🏻‍♂️

the point of a watch is still to tell the time

The fact that you still can't get your head around the point of spending money on a watch is astounding. Have you bumped your head?

Do you think that people sometimes buy things for pleasure, for themselves and not others?

Driving a nice car is something I really enjoy, it's not for others, it's for me

Yes she works two jobs currently and is also a single parent to two teenagers.
Well I can't comment on that part, although curious to know why you think it's so much easier at 35?

I mean, he’d be welcome to give it to me if he wanted to 😂. TBH, it was more the way he said it, like we’d all do a tinkly laugh and agree with him. When in actual fact we’re all in decent careers and still skint as fuck 🙈. I don’t know what you’d do with a spare 6 figures as I’ve never had that problem, so no one could answer that one.

Oh and now that I think about it, I was already annoyed and he and my aunt were rude to the waiting staff and moaned about the food! And made their usual comments about my brother (the groom) never being at work (he’s in the RAF literally defending the country for them and he works very hard thank you very much!).

About a decade ago whilst dating a very wealthy lad from an indecently wealthy family mostly living in the Bahamas we were at dinner with some of his circle and the conversation very seriously turned to a small island they knew that had just been listed for sale.

him: so are you considering it?
friend: potentially but but you know islands, so impractical, the privacy is great but getting deliveries in is such a nightmare. I rather like the convenience of mainland couriers.

@Thehonestbadger

That seems to be an entirely reasonable consideration.

Buy an island in haste and regret it at your leisure.

It was £800 at the time. That's it's current value (like with watches, I suppose, guitars don't really lose value) my point still stands, that, say, a £500 guitar isn't cheap, and a £100 entry level guitar isn't a bad guitar for being cheap.

You’re laughing it that post in your comment, it’s so shockingly insulting. Whatever happened to ‘be kind’?

We all have needs v wants. Some can afford it all. Some baulk at the cost.

For instance the cost of Taylor Swift tickets. The cost of the new iPhone. Both leave me open mouthed.

I remember when everyone raved over the Miele washing machine, the Dyson vacuum cleaner. Better cheaper technology has come along since then.

Betamax v VHS video recorder argument. Look at us now, we can stream on our phone.

Once upon a time we bought a bicycle two wheels and a frame. . Now we wear special clothes and research bikes to death. Part exing them when an improved model comes along.

It's all as batty today as it was back in the 80's

bully tactics!

Are you for real or just spectacularly offensive?

I’m back just to point something out.

So far, on this thread i started for fun which many have clearly enjoyed reading and contributing to, I (personally) have been called:

Poisonous.
Bossy.
Patrolling.
Controlling.
Hideously judgemental
And just now….accused of using ‘bully tactics’

I can see many other nasty jibes at others too.

Hope you’re proud of yourselves.

PS I am none of those things and none if my posts have been any of those things.

PPS that island post wins 🥇🥇🥇

@KaleQueen

Glad you're back! asked earlier but appreciate you couldn't read all posts - could you please share the original thread about watches?? I'm looking for some inspiration 😜

Are their some truly awful people in this group
who could not be kind of their life depended
on it?

When we say things as they are, we are bossy. Anyone else doing the same, is assertive. One thing I remember is that after O Levels, we used to go to Valletta, where I lived, and some of the students used to buy snacks and rubbish to show they had the money to do it. Those of us who said we would spoil lunch if we ate anything, sometimes because we didn't have spare money, were laughed at. This is 'being rich' for when we were young - extra money to spend. In any case, I would be sitting down having a hot lunch before they arrived home on the bus, or even if someone picked them up in a car.

the watch conversation is pretty pointless - most know you can get a cheap watch for a tenner or thousands and thousands of pounds - same disparity as lots of things like property, wine, jewellery, cars, holidays etc

people then have a bracket they buy in and perceptions of cheap and expensive depend on that. Its not a moral judgement just the bracket they're in

when i started a new job once at a time when money was tight - my boss was confused when I asked about early payment of my expenses. I started mid month so wouldn't get paid them for 6 weeks. Couldn't understand why booking lots of prime time train tickets to london for training courses might be problematic for a lone parent. Lovely man but just didn't get it because company was ultimately paying in the end for the tickets!

I think you're confused here.

Good is not a synonym for expensive. You keep using 'good' when you mean 'expensive'. A £30 watch which tells the time accurately is GOOD. A £40K watch is EXPENSIVE.