The lives of affluent people are undoubtedly different from those of others. A lot of the things that are daily concerns for other mere mortals, like utilities and a 9-5 job, are probably foreign concepts to the rich. Naturally, their social status and financial position can also affect their behavior. Even here on Bored Panda, we have lots of’rich people' storiesthat people have shared.Yet this Redditor wanted to hear some more. Sohe askedfellow netizens, “What is the most rich thing you’ve seen wealthy people say/do casually?” From invitations to spontaneous trips to Dubai to living in French chateaus, the people ofr/AskRedditdelivered.Bored Pandagot in touch with the Redditor who posted this thread. u/CoolCoast7853 was kind enough to answer some questions for us. Read our conversation with the Redditor below!This post may includeaffiliate links.
The lives of affluent people are undoubtedly different from those of others. A lot of the things that are daily concerns for other mere mortals, like utilities and a 9-5 job, are probably foreign concepts to the rich. Naturally, their social status and financial position can also affect their behavior. Even here on Bored Panda, we have lots of’rich people' storiesthat people have shared.
Yet this Redditor wanted to hear some more. Sohe askedfellow netizens, “What is the most rich thing you’ve seen wealthy people say/do casually?” From invitations to spontaneous trips to Dubai to living in French chateaus, the people ofr/AskRedditdelivered.
Bored Pandagot in touch with the Redditor who posted this thread. u/CoolCoast7853 was kind enough to answer some questions for us. Read our conversation with the Redditor below!
This post may includeaffiliate links.
The inquisitive Redditor who posted this question on r/AskReddit says that the inspiration for this thread came from wanting to be aware of their own privilege. “I come from a well-off family, and I realized there are several parts of my life I find normal that others don’t,” the Redditor tells Bored Panda.“I wanted to break out of the bubble of my rich crowd of people and at least be a little self-aware of the struggles people go through, especially since I’m going abroad for college soon and will be interacting with people from contrasting backgrounds.““Of course, there are instances where some of my friends' experiences are surprising to me too; my parents are not billionaires, but there are people in my system [whose] parents are,” u/CoolCoast7853 admits.
The inquisitive Redditor who posted this question on r/AskReddit says that the inspiration for this thread came from wanting to be aware of their own privilege. “I come from a well-off family, and I realized there are several parts of my life I find normal that others don’t,” the Redditor tells Bored Panda.
“I wanted to break out of the bubble of my rich crowd of people and at least be a little self-aware of the struggles people go through, especially since I’m going abroad for college soon and will be interacting with people from contrasting backgrounds.”
“Of course, there are instances where some of my friends' experiences are surprising to me too; my parents are not billionaires, but there are people in my system [whose] parents are,” u/CoolCoast7853 admits.
So I work part time at a strip club and we have some very rich clientele. Some of them come in all the time and we get to know a lot about them, they get to know a lot about us. Well, one of our security guys died of a sudden massive heart attack. One of the rich clientele just called the funeral home and paid for everything.Like there was no second thought. We were all taking up a collection to help a bit and he just dropped the whole bill just like that! I mean I see a lot of really rich behavior… But that one was just so mind-blowing. .
When we call someone “rich,” do we usually mean it in monetary terms? Because a person’s social standing can also manifest itself in displays of privilege or entitlement. We were curious to know how u/CoolCoast7853 contextualizes the term “rich.” The Redditor says that not all rich people flaunt their wealth.“There are plenty of rich people [who] don’t have outwardly displays of wealth. That does not change their net worth, but it does display an extent of self-awareness towards the rest of society. I wanted to know about privileges that the wealthy believed [were] expected and standard but aren’t for the better half of the population,” the Redditor clarifies.
When we call someone “rich,” do we usually mean it in monetary terms? Because a person’s social standing can also manifest itself in displays of privilege or entitlement. We were curious to know how u/CoolCoast7853 contextualizes the term “rich.” The Redditor says that not all rich people flaunt their wealth.
“There are plenty of rich people [who] don’t have outwardly displays of wealth. That does not change their net worth, but it does display an extent of self-awareness towards the rest of society. I wanted to know about privileges that the wealthy believed [were] expected and standard but aren’t for the better half of the population,” the Redditor clarifies.
Someone once asked me where I summer 😭😭 never felt so poor than saying um… here ?Using summer as a VERB, is a sign we are not in the same tax bracket.
It was from an 8-year old! My very wealthy friend got remarried and her son said he wouldn’t mind staying with me while they went on their honeymoon. As we took our seats on the plane, he looked so confused. He sheepishly asked, “Who are all these people on your plane?”. Oh, my little dude…
My friends bought a house in Palm Springs but the renovation was taking too long so they just bought a second house in Beverly Hills to live in during the renovations. They kept both.
As a person from a “well-off family,” u/CoolCoast7853 has a bit of a different perception of what “being rich” means. “I suppose I’ve spent more time than not around ‘rich people,’ but not adults as much as teenagers. At our age, you don’t invest in monetary assets or plan out huge expenditures, so I hadn’t experienced drastic displays of wealth, but from wealthy adults my parents know of, most seemed quite humble.““It is possible that this was just because of the crowd my parents chose to hang out with, however. My parents and their friends spend money, but they don’t waste it. I suppose a lot of the responses involved unnecessary expenditures that could have been put to better use,” the Redditor observes.
As a person from a “well-off family,” u/CoolCoast7853 has a bit of a different perception of what “being rich” means. “I suppose I’ve spent more time than not around ‘rich people,’ but not adults as much as teenagers. At our age, you don’t invest in monetary assets or plan out huge expenditures, so I hadn’t experienced drastic displays of wealth, but from wealthy adults my parents know of, most seemed quite humble.”
“It is possible that this was just because of the crowd my parents chose to hang out with, however. My parents and their friends spend money, but they don’t waste it. I suppose a lot of the responses involved unnecessary expenditures that could have been put to better use,” the Redditor observes.
I once stayed at a place that was $10,000 a night, amenities included. Luckily my health insurance paid 90% since I’d met my deductible.
Friendships can be harder when one friend makes less than the other. Remember that scene fromFriendsduring Ross' birthday dinner? Telling your friend that you don’t feel comfortable or simply can’t afford a fancy restaurant can be awkward and, in some cases, even humiliating. Friendship coach Danielle Bayard Jackson toldHuffPostthat this is a common problem she sees with her clients.
My soon-to-be mother in-law asked me and my fiance, her son, if we knew that some people don’t have reliable transportation to get to college, which causes them to miss class and/or show up late. Apparently, her most recent appointment as the chair of a teacher education program at a university has been very eye opening for her.
I know an almost billionaire who is very very sweet. He kept his oceanfront condo for his mother in law to stay at for like month a year, and went to it every day to feed the stray cats who lived around it. The place is paid off mind you but has high fees, a paid parking spot, utilities ect cost almost 20 grand a year.
Friend’s wealthy parents were going to give me a set of furniture for free—until I wound up moving cross country; couldn’t accept it.Before I was to take it, I asked for the manufacturer so I could take measurements for my house, to make it all fit.They responded, “oh, we’re not sure, it’s pretty old.” Here I thought it was maybe from the 70’s.Yes, it was from the 70s. The f****n 1870s, from France, and it was all handmade Louis XV pieces.When I showed my home decor-obsessed mother, she appraised it all. Some were north of $5000, just for a small hallway desk.We’re both upset about it to this day. .
They usually don’t come to her with this particular problem, but it does come up quite often. “It’s really important to feelconnected as friends, and one basic way we do that is to share experiences. But a lot of social activities we engage in are highly dependent on the funds that you have available,” she told HuffPost. “We might share common interests, but our access to those are different.”
Going to their apt in the city so they have a place to hang out in between shopping at stores. Their apt is only for that purpose.
Pay USPS to keep the local branch of their post office open (it had been selected to close) so they didn’t have to drive as far to go to the post office.
Not taking free expensive stuff given to them because they probably already have a lot and/or they think it’s something only poor people do. It’s ironic because all these brands try to give those they perceive as rich more free stuff that they don’t want or need.
Think that a banana costs $10.
That’s because it isn’t just about the money itself, Professor Mark Fenton-O’Creevy, a professor of organizational behavior at the Open University, toldThe Guardian. According to him, people who have money also have security, freedom, power, and status.
I used to work at a jeweler and the stories are endless. Clients would talk about how they just got back from a months long trip on a yacht or some exotic island. I’m just like cool I put in 60+ hours this week and have worked every day of the week lol. The st that I wouldn’t get at all is the watch guys. I had a client come in one time and ask for the cheapest watch we had, so he didn’t have to worry about it on his trip. He ended up going with a $800 watch (not the cheapest) and while I was checking him out, he said he was going to throw it away after the trip. I tried talking him out of it and just said return it afterwards , but then he seemed insulted. Other watch guys would pay $1k every year just to get a little scratch on their Rolex that only they notice buffed out. Id explain to them that they’re shaving precious metal off every time and ruining the integrity of the watch, but they dgaf because their egos are so massive. We’d hold private events and encourage clients to bring their friends and itd always turn into a dk swinging contest of who can spend more. Absolutely wild environment and I was absolutely burnt out after 2 years. Most money I ever made, but most miserable I’ve ever been.
My dad knows a billionaire who had a french chateau disassembled and reassembled in the US. He acted like it was just a normal as building a house. My dads been there a few time and said it’s an insane property with a huge man made lake and huge sprawling lawns. .
When being surprised that airlines will allow a larger-looking backpack in the overhead, he said “Oh, it’s been so long since I’ve flown commercially, I had no idea.“He said it in such a shy manner like he was embarrassed to say he flies privately. This is a 75 year old that looks like he’s a regular middle class Joe and gives off no hint that he’s extremely wealthy.
Otegha Uwagba, the author of We Need To Talk About Money, toldThe Cutthat it’s best that friends put their feelings out in the open. She advises to just suck it up and have thatawkwardconversation. Uwagba even suggests a possible script: “We are not in the same financial position and I don’t want our friendship to be based around what we can do with each other that involves spending money.”
I once saw Jeff Bezos pay $100,000 to get a guy off the stage at an auction event. The guy on stage wasn’t going to leave until he reached his goal, and Jeff was tired of listening to him. Bye Felicia. $$.
Most of my clients are multi-millionaires, and most of them do everything casually.Especially housing. They have zero concern of what stuff costs, and will approve nearly anything. I once set the alarm off at a clients ski house, and I called them to tell them its just me, i’d never talked to this particular client before andI told them to ignore it. They didn’t even ask me to verify who I was and at the time I had no reason to think it wasn’t just their second home. They were very appreciative of the phone call but said “which house was it?” which caught me off guard and I said “oh at the ski resort” they said “yeah, but which one?” i died inside. It was a 8-ish million dollar home and in the whole 2 years i’d worked for them at that point, they’d never even been here. I later learn their family has expensive homes at nearly every popular ski resort in north america.Another example is im currently doing a remodel. It is the THIRD full remodel in 10 years at this multi million dollar house/condo. They remodel the house everytime a new kid is born in the family. This is a half million dollar remodel to undue exactly what we did 4 years a go, which was 300k ish remodel. Other clients i’ve seen replace their full kitchen appliances every 3-5 years. They have to have the absolutely brand new stuff. They’re also super crazy and don’t want the stuff sold, they’re worried about the “PR” so i have to provide proof 30k in appliances were in fact scraped at the landfill.Our world is broken.tbf about 20% of them are really nice people, introduce themselves, even cook for me. They give great bonuses and are generally good humans, they’re happy to have someone they can trust, and they do trust, they let my friends stay at their million dollar Nth homes for free, but these people are almost exclusively the rare rich that are rich through labor. People who spent 40-50 years in law or medicine. Contractors who got lucky. The occasional crypt “bro” who was blue collar, gambled life savings and won. The ones that are cliche rich, the born intos, the fortune 500s. They’re a******s, and have called me “the help” more than once.
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I had a friend of mine casually ask if I wanted to go to Dubai for a week to do some skydiving training in a couple of weeks. My response was “no, I have to work for a living”. Blew my mind when they asked me like it was no biggie to duck out for a week and blow $15k.
My millionaire aunt scoffing at the idea that my single mother taking care of me and my younger brother couldn’t find a place to live because $3,000/month is “easily affordable.”Edit: $3,000/month being the average rent in the area.
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I photograph luxury homes and architecture for a living. There’s a neighborhood I do a lot of work in called Silverleaf and it’s probably the most exclusive neighborhood in the valley. The bottom part of the neighborhood is your typical wealthy people’s homes. Doctors, lawyers, business owners, etc.. extremely nice houses but still attainable for anyone who wants to put in the effort to work those types of careers.As you drive towards the back of the neighborhood you start heading up a mountain that’s divided into two parts. Upper Canyon and The Summit. There are probably 100 houses up there. The houses start close to 15 million, but several are over 20-30. One of the builders I work with is developing a house he’s asking about 60 million for.I work Upper Canyon every month or two and even though all of the houses are owned, half or less are lived in. For some, it’s a vacation home they might visit for a few weeks or months of the year, and for others, it’s an investment and a place to park their money.I photographed a 15-million-dollar house there a few years ago. The owner was selling it because he bought a 29 million dollar house literally 2 or 3 lots up because he liked the views more. He’s a Canadian business owner and spends maybe a few months of the year in the valley if that.I’m used to it now but for a long time I couldn’t wrap my head around how much money some people have…..
Contactor here. lady did not like the shape of the pool at the new house.Gets the job to change the shape. Does the job. So I tell her we can guarantee the workmanship for 5 years, but not any longer. She says cool, we are only here for 3.
In 1994, I watched the CEO and founder of my employer, with an estimated net worth of at least $100 million, drop a twenty-dollar bill and other bills on the sidewalk. He glanced at it and then kept walking.
Had one of the outside salesmen drop in and we were talking about clothes for some reason. He said he donates his clothes to charity every year so he doesn’t buy the “very expensive shirts”… his shirts are $300 each. Then he tells me he does buy “decent” shoes though. He showed me a company online where most of the shoes cost more than my car. How do we work for the same company and live that differently?
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Went to a wedding as a +1 at a mansion in Greenwich Connecticut (the brides parents home). Her father was talking about the landscaping and how his wife liked a rock (which was about the size of a small car) that was at their other home outside of Denver, so they had the rock moved from Denver to Connecticut. Seriously, they moved a rock halfway across the country. A f*****g rock.
A guy I served at a bar paid me to let him keep drinking at the bar after close while he waited for his ride.
We used to summer in the Hamptons. From my SO at the time. I said, “We used to summer in a trailer park which was also our home.” .
Years ago I helped coordinate an event in the Cayman Islands for my job for the companies main clients. I worked closely with a small business that sets up events. Not only did they make my work infinitely easier, but they offered us discounts on several events. Really good people that would work around the clock to make sure everything was getting set up properly.On the island, right before we were going to one of the events, my boss’s wife tells my boss (and me indirectly, always got the feeling she did not like talking to me) that we need to get a discount on the upcoming event. She was not involved in the setting up process and didn’t even know any details or the costs involved. She just wanted the discount. It was a private catamaran tour which ended with swimming with the stingrays for a few hours and it was for about 20 people.I had to call the company and ask them for the discount while apologizing profusely. The boss’s wife wanted to knock $4,000 off the total. After a lot of conversation and back and fourth I got the discount. I was disgusted with the look on her face after I told her we got the discount. For the rest of the trip I stayed away from her, as I knew that she would continuously ask for me to fight for discounts, just because.When she passed, I looked her up and found out that not only was she rich, she was Texas oil baroness rich. Money edging towards the billions. $4,000.00 is nothing to that family, like finding pennies in your couch cushions. My boss and his wife had kids who felt neglected and the oldest would, without fail, destroy something expensive. I was in the room when a secretary told the wife that her son had destroyed another antique roadster (the boss collected them). She barely shrugged her shoulders.I think she just wanted the discount because she was such an empty person, maybe the power trip makes them feel something.
My friend asked me to help him take the curtains/drapes down in his hiuse because they block the sunlight.Baffled when i told him they can be opened.
My wife was invited to a spa week with a friend that cost $17K. Do we have the cash on hand, yes. Would we ever waste that kind of money on a spa week? No.The friend was so nonchalant about it, too. She’d just come back and was going again the next month.
As we are installing a wireless access point in their home theater:“My son crashed and totaled his Mercedes, will you guys be done in time before he gets back? We need to take him to get another one.”.
I worked a million dollar wedding once, they dumped 50,000$ worth of flowers in the trash after the ceremony. They didn’t even wait til the wedding was over or donate the flowers. I was walking to the portapotties they made the help use, passed the dumpsters and there they were. I thought it was an apt metaphor for the rich.
Have a literal bell to call the maids, also an intercom.
This isn’t as extreme as most of the stories in this thread, but my in-laws casually have Chicago Cubs season tickets and attend 70ish% of their home games. Not so crazy, except that we all live in Nashville. I come from a very poor family so the first time I learned that I was absolutely blown away.
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