To wish people would stop bragging about how well off they are?

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It keeps happening...often by stealth. The worst culprits are those women who boast about their partner's promotion. ..well that's lovely dear but what about YOUR achievements?
Am I bitter and jealous? Yes as I sm struggling but next time anyone boasts about money im going to have a hissy fit. I might just say 'well im luvung off the tax payer and my unheritance' which is kind of true. Not proud of it...im dying to get a better paid job myself.

Living....inheritance. sorry typos.

Err well no boasting stealth or otherwise from me.
Nowt to boast about unfortunately....

I'd comment, but the butler is ringing the dinner gong.

Where do you encounter these women op?

MN may ot be the place for you then, superstar! Some people make it their life's work. Always the same people too.

I don't have any friends like this but my DB told me at the weekend about his awfully crass boss who kept sighing and moaning to himself during a meeting last week. When my DB asked him what was wrong he moaned "Oh, I'm in such a state.....I just don't know what to do with this spare 20 million, if I give it to the kids they'll be even more spoilt"!!!!!

Vtec jazz...brilliant!

If this about the husbands job interview thread, he has an interview is all, not a promotion yet

Well it can be just as tiresome to hear how skint people are in a whine sort of way. A public forum has people from all walks of life and some posts or comments are simply statements of fact. It would be very boring if everyone was the same.

I'm having dinner with my best friend tonight. Her DH has just been promoted, she's just got a new car and her dd went up to Cambridge last month whilst my ds decided to defer uni for a year. I'm really pleaased for her and share her pride in her nearest and dearest. I'd be ashamed if I didn't. Envy is one of the deadly sins.

I was at a Halloween party last Saturday, listening to people brag about how much money they make. I struggle sometimes and they have brand-new cars and big f-off TVs. ARGH!

Maybe you need to surround yourself with some different people.

Mind you...I did have a stealth biast about my inheritance! ;-) not much of it though...wanted to put it towards a deposit on a house but was not enough.

No not about threads on here...about real life people sadly.

Why is it so dreadful to post happy stuff for a change?
If I read a post about someone being excited about a promotion, I'd think that's nice, not how very dare she.

I don't see what is wrong with being pleased for your partner if they get a promotion. It is not anti feminist. I would expect men are equally pleased for their partners when they get promotions. Why should people not tell their friends the good things that happen? Why does telling someone your partner got promoted translate into boasting about money? Reading everything that people twist into something horrible on mumsnet would make you afraid to open your mouth. It seems some people see bad in everything everybody says.

Someone else being rich/promoted/whatever doesn't impact me at all. I'm skint most of the time but I'm still happy to hear when my friends are doing well. I assume you will tell people if you get a better paid job? It's natural to want to share good news.

I've never come across this....one acquaintance did tell me her DH was well paid. Maybe they are saving it all, or maybe her idea of well paid is different from mine.

DH's boss comes out with some corkers...he's definitely not stealth boasting, just boasting. Or complaining - complaining that his brand new Aston Martin doesn't have heated seats. DH finds it funny.

I think it's really sad that normal conversation is seen as boasting by jealous people. Why can't you just be happy for your friends, assuming these people are friends.

If my DH got a promotion I'd be proud of him, and if I mentioned it to someone else I'd think they were quite pathetic if they automatically assumed I was boasting. I'd rather listen to people, who were happy and proud of their loved ones, even if there was a small element of boasting, than people who were negative and felt sorry for themselves all the time.

I totally agree Katie
I love hearing good news and am genuinely pleased for people when things go well & they always are for me too
It's a nice way to be I think

Actually, I never hear people brag about how well-off they are in real life - only on MN. And only a select few here. I feel sorry for them.

People who think they are something special because of their unearned (by them) wealth are rather sad and pathetic and should be pitied. The real worry is that the government (and opposition) are full of these types.

It's ok to piss and moan about how skint you are but not comment if you're having a decent year/doing ok financially? You should just stfu and not talk about your life.

I have only consistently come across this in rl from one person, who I considered a friend for a while. But now I've realised she is always incredibly smug and pleased with herself and I just dropped her don't see her any more. But that is one in hundreds, and I have many friends who have far more money than her too, tee hee.

I've never heard anyone brag about their wealth, you mut know some very crass people.