To think there must be dodgy financial activity going on with this couple?

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A couple that we know (but are not friends with as such) both seem to have a very extravagant lifestyle that is totally at odds with the jobs that they do.

The husband works as an assistant manager at a shop; not a superstore or anything like that, just a small branch of a chain store in the local town. The wife works two days a week as a hairdresser. They have four children aged between 16 and 2.

In the past five years they have:

Totally renovated their semi detached house to a very high standard. They have an instagram account about their home (not many followers, less than 200 so are not earning from that) and have tagged many high end products and tradesmen, such as a bespoke bed and 2k chandelier type light for the bedroom.

Taken multiple luxury foreign holidays per year; not budget holidays but five star holidays. And regular weekends away at Disney Paris, too.

They, and the kids always have very high end designer clothes; the woman wears dresses that cost £400+ when she goes on nights out, and on the holiday they are currently on she has posted on social media that she and her two daughters are all wearing matching swimsuits that cost £100+ each.

The woman has hair extensions, brow lamination, lash extensions, botox, fillers, nail extensions, and probably loads more stuff on a regular basis. All done at high end salons.

They have very regular expensive family days out and weekends away, such as travelling on the train first class to London to see a musical and then staying overnight in an expensive hotel.

In the past, I've known of a few other couples who live that kind of lifestyle and it's turned out that they are earning money drug dealing. This couple both absolutely do not have rich families; both of their families live in council housing. I feel like they probably have not had a lottery win as I feel that if they did, they'd buy a massive house, seeing as they like extravagance. I can't imagine a mortgage could be obtained or a house bought on drug money...

And yes, I know it's none of my business, but I'm curious.

AIBU to think they must surely be doing something illegal to have this lifestyle?

Yeah, drugs.

I'd be very curious too. Maybe they're in heaps of debt?

Dealing/minding etc drugs/guns.

I knew someone like that once. She was frauding the company we worked at. People assumed her family had won the lottery until the police appeared....

Spending an inheritance?

Possibly debt, but I honestly don't think they could get enough credit to actually finance the life they live long term, if that makes sense?

Just thought of another thing; Two or three times a year they have one of those floral frames made to go around their front door. They are bespoke and the type of thing that celebrities have and then advertise on instagram. They must cost at least 1k each

Small lottery win - not enough to move but enough to blow through it on stuff. Their choice.

@HangerLaneGyratorySystem I can't imagine either of them having an inheritance; both have parents that live in council homes. I think the man's parents have been on long term benefits.

Only fans?

Not necessarily. My friend has made thousands doing matched betting and forex trading online.

@Comedycook Beat me to it 😹

Debt.

Inheritance.

Clever use of offers, vouchers, deals, etc.

Clever "window dressing" for social media (e.g., getting brows done at a high end salon but having it done as a model for a student so it's cheap/free)

They have a legitimate income stream you don't know about such as working from home in their off-time, Only Fans, etc

They've won something that's enabled them to spend, someone I know won £120k and used it for things like this.

They saved a lot of money and are now spending it.

Ooo yes lottery win. Or camming.

You can still get an inheritance. FIL lives in a council house but has various insurance policies, shares, plans, etc. DH stands to inherit around £90k eventually.

Hmm yes maybe Forex trading or a monetary win of some kind then? Only thing with Forex trading is you need a huge amount of capital to make decent earnings from it, so where would that have come from initially?

Drugs
Dog/car breeding (I know someone who does this and makes ££££ not that I agree with it at all)
Inheritance
Lottery win
Only fans
Claim money from an accident
Fraud

Regarding inheritance; all of their parents are still very much alive.

Grandparents might have left them something too. Friend of mine lives in a HA property but granny was loaded, paid for them to go to boarding school, bought them cars at 18, etc but never gave them actual money until she died and they all got a chunk of what she left.

To be fair, I'm a SAHM and my partner works from home part time as an artist.
We live a somewhat "luxury" lifestyle because I inherited a huge sum of money in my 30's which we invested and now pays out, so we both "don't need to work".

I'm not dodgy on the slightest. I'm not on Onlyfans 😂 I'm just very lucky. I don't tell people I know about the inheritance because that would just be a bit boastful/vulgar.

I would stop being so jealous and judgemental of I were you.

Or maybe they're lucky In competitions?

My cousins won twice in the last 4 months a total of 15k and only bought 2 tickets each time she won!

Wow that's an awful lot of typing and investment in someone else's life OP, even looking at their Instagram account! 🤦‍♀️

Let it go. Some people have more money than others and they don't owe any explanations.

I'm sure they'd be amused if they had any clue of how much it's eating you up.

And grandparents and great grandparents? Aunts, uncles and cousins?

Or were they all council house dwellers too? 😂

If she owns a salon it can be a very lucrative business.

Drugs, lottery win, small inheritance, only fans. Could be any of the above.