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^

That's what I thought. I don't work for her now - I often found it incredibly frustrating watching her but stuff for buying's sake while I was struggling to make ends meet! (And she refused to give me a pay rise!)

I'll put my hand up and say I didn't know expensive watches were shout investment. I thought it was just a status thing. Just another type of super expensive jewellery.

Now I'm realising it's probably a status thing up to a certain level of wealth, or in certain industries, and for the really wealthy it's primarily about investment.

Question: would my 500k diamond jewellery give me any return on investment, or is it just watches?

Please note, I don't own any such jewellery.

Watches are for status as well as investment. You can always tell the gaudy type by the watch they wear! Avoid those people like the plague.

All jewellery can be seen as an investment, the purchase price is immaterial to a lot of other factors such as who made it, how it was made, other distinctive characteristics etc.

If you focus on the purchase price, you’ll be poor.

All jewellery can be seen as an investment

Not the sort of jewellery I wear unfortunately!😁

@LondonPapa what a judgmental post, reverse snobbery at its finest

If I was avoiding anyone it would be you

A friend of Dh's can't invest in stocks and shares due to conflict of interest issues, so he invests in watches and has quite a few, some of his colleagues "invest" in boats, houses and art as a way around the conflict. I don't know if he actually wears these watches as I've never noticed/looked - that's how impressed I am.😂

Thinking about where to invest your pots of cash that you’ve ‘earned’ by moving other people’s money around…the boats vs watches debate = lovely example 🤩

Caught myself moaning about having to pay £500 to service my gold patek philippe watch.

...not the jewellery I make for fund-raising... that's not the point of it.

@30percent agree about the driving lessons. Makes the rush to complete reading schemes look pedestrian. It's not cheap to drive. But still the absolutes expectation they need to be driving preferably in their own car the second they turn 17 is something the wealthy accept as normal.

At least you caught yourself @Grannyinnwaiting and glad you checked your privilege ❤️ I hope you enjoy and treasure that watch. And also have a social conscience that allows you to do whatever you see fit to benefit those less fortunate ❤️

WTF? Everybody is older at 50 than they were at 35.

That's really not what I meant but okay.

I think some people read too much Jilly Cooper.

I dunno. If you live in a rural area and all your children's friends live in other villages and there are very few buses........well getting them driving as soon as humanly possible is vital. Both our DDs passed their driving test before they were seventeen and a half. God, the relief!

I can say yes to most of these... I'm not wealthy, just really irresponsible with a whacking case of ADHD 😂