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How many benefactors do you have?

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WhereTheSpiritMeetsTheBones · 02/04/2025 07:38

Lighthearted.
Have you ever benefitted from a wealthy benefactor?

I know somebody who comes from a poor background, yet has many wealthy benefactors who subsidise her lifestyle. These people aren't family, and nothing nefarious, but it ranges from clothes and meals out to holidays, free furniture, subsidised rent, help with new cars or repairs. She even has expensive pets which have been purchased for her, and the costs of their upkeep are covered by someone else, which can cost several thousands of pounds. Whilst she claims to not have much, with all this help, I suspect she is far better off than most.

Sure, my post smacks of jealousy, but I'm wondering whether this is the case for anybody else? Anything I want i have to earn myself which i think is the case for the majority.

But am I missing out on some generous connections?

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unlimiteddilutingjuice · 02/04/2025 07:43

Haha No benefactors here.
I've only come across one person with a relationship like that in his life.
He was an artist and he has this rich guy who paid for the rent on his studio. And sometimes settled his debts, if they got out of hand.

PoppyBaxter · 02/04/2025 08:08

None for us.

I'll get a little bit of inheritance when mum dies, but I'm happy for it to all go on paying for care if ever she needs it, and would never factor it into my plans (and hopefully this won't be happening for another 15 years).

DH won't be getting a penny when his parents die. They are from a very comfortable background, but have made stupid decision after stupid decision and are now penniless, in debt (again) and talking about equity releasing their house.

We've never had a holiday paid for or anything of that nature, but we're the sort of people who would rather die than holiday with others, so that's fair.

Boligrafo · 02/04/2025 08:21

None at all in my life, alas! I do know a poet and novelist who was bought a house in London by a Holocaust survivor with some of his reparation funds, and a charming French ligger who has lived rent free in various boyfriends and ex-boyfriends’ houses for years, and was left a house by an elderly woman he’d worked as a carer for, though it’s so ruinous it’s uninhabitable and unsellable…

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