What’s something that screams ‘I’m broke, but trying to look rich’

[Booyakashaa]

Saw thing on Instagram threads, mostly Americans, would love to see what MN’ers think

Just for fun

I think…anything Michael Kors

Totally agree.

Fake watches yes but some of the most wealthy folks I know are not above a shop in Aldi and have a thrifty attitude e.g will buy second hand clothes for their kids. Not the super-rich admittedly but folks who are easily in the top 5% or higher in both wealth and income terms.

Most really rich people shop for themselves unless they are genuinely too busy most of the time to do so, or are so famous that they have to have security guards with them whenever they go out. Surely most Mumsnetters know that Catherine, TPOW, likes to do her own shopping, at least sometimes?

100% people who start and participate in sneery threads about what other people may be wearing or owning and have existential crises about current social status markers.

Lip fillers

Designer names and labels plastered all over the outfit.

Branded goods. Having someone else's monogram on your clothes is common.

Anything obviously designer or trying to be designer. Why do they need to let the world know the label?

Personalised plates. Urgh.

Ostentatious or flash cars.

A very long time ago I worked (consecutively) for 2 families. 1 titled, semi aristocracy, the other an oil family. The titled family walked around in ancient (but good quality) clothes, drove a nondescript car. The oil family, predictably, were all flash and designer. Taught me a lot.

I take the same bags to every shop and shop in Aldi, Lidl, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Waitrose and independent food shops. Very insecure to worry about what others think of your shopping bag, or to comment on those of other shoppers.

This.

I love mine.

Louis Vuitton.

I have a couple of Coach handbags also. Thank you, outlet website. Many years later, they are still going strong and not falling apart at all. They will outlive me.

I also have a Coach watch, Coach sunglasses and a few other Coach pieces. Outlet shopping, especially online, is fabulous. No need to shop there now as I don't need anything else as everything has held up.

People who only eat food from M&S and constantly go on about it.

But it's not trying to look rich not to want coffee rings on your table.

It's a sign you haven't spent loads on your table - okay. Owning a cheaper table is not trying to look rich. Or are "poor" people meant to eat off the floor?

I am a scruffy person with a few designer outfits or accessories that are gifts from more fashionable people.

Am I a poor person trying to look rich when I wear them, or am I letting the side down by not wearing more austere clothing and sneering at these gifts? Who knows.

This is not a very sensible thread. Everything listed can be owned by rich and poor alike. So you're just judging whether people of a particular class or income bracket "should" own various things.

Yes! Wealth signalling.

What a lovely thread to wake up. What a delightful lovely bunch of people you are. Sneeringly grim. Ugh. Only skimmed it and it’s made me feel so sorry for every one of you who gets off on sneering at a family who feel proud of their Range Rover Evoque. Or god forbid, their coach handbag.
ps you can spot people like you a mile off too. Your inner ugliness will transcend and shine right through the veneer that you put on out there in the real world, believe me.

Are we supposed to admire the titled family for this?

They can be as scruffy as they like, of course. They'll still have that title to open doors for them.

what?! 🤣

It’s clearly just an excuse to be faintly spiteful about certain styles. Sooooooo typical of groups of women (or a particilar type of woman). Being very short of money I don’t find it “just for fun” but humour does evaporate when faced with real financial anxiety.

From an outsider, what a nasty thread.

Why is class so important in the UK?

As in the rest of the world, other people do not care what puffer jacket you wear or what handbag you use.

I'm embarrassed for some posters on here.

Mumsnet is the only place I know where all terraced houses are occupied by poors. Must spend a lot of time sneering at all those Kensington upstarts.

You are advertising that you have money, though, and you are gloating.

I doubt anyone is that interested in where you sit on the plane. I've travelled first class quite a lot - never paying for it but work related. Nobody has ever reacted like that. If you're getting looks at hatred at all, it'll be something else.