I just sold the handbags I once kept for financial security

[Anonymous]

Tech stocks are discovered easily in a divorce. OP's cleverness was accruing expensive items her ex didn't notice. I have a new sense of why the rich buy all those expensive garments and accessories!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband didn't even notice them in the divorce. They were "beneath" his notice

I just sold like 10 of them for 70K cash, my ex's earlier professional partner flew up from Palm Beach with her husband to have me clean out my closet. They took boxes and sleepers.

Like actual cash in five thick envelopes full of 100s plus a fat check. No profits over time, but I did just sell them for within 20% of what I paid 20+ years ago.

Hermes kellys and birkins

I used to keep them for a financial anchor in the future, today has turned out to be the future.

Congratulations. You hid assets. You were the kind of person who felt the need to carry fancy bags and now you are the kind of person to act all proud on the internet of how you hid assets and now sold them for "thick envelopes full of 100s." Good luck with all that -- 70k ain't much of a "financial anchor."

The cash will put me into a new used car that I really need to get around that my ex doesn't know about.

I can walk into a dealership and tomorrow with a certified check for say 20K.

He thinks right now he is keeping me from having a new car. But he's wrong. I actually kept my own funds and he's just going to have no idea where they came from.

I'm cool on all other fronts.

Wow. Ok. Do you know how you sound? That you sound pretty pathetic? You think you sound clever or something. You don't. You sound like an idiot -- what kind of person is living a lifestyle that includes the $ to buy Birkin bags and hide them, but is then suddenly so down on their luck as a result of a split that they are kept from having a "new car" (a cheap one, I presume, given your "certified check for say 20k" brag) by their ex? And what kind of a person is getting all excited by how "he's just going to have no idea where [the money for the car] came from"? Are you mentally and emotionally stunted? For heaven's sake woman, move on with your life. Or perhaps I should say get a life.

I have a feeling there are quite a few "fronts" you are not "cool" on, lol.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Would the money have less value to you if it didn't come in "like actual cash in five thick envelopes full of 100s plus a fat check"? Or did you just think we're too dumb to understand what 70K means unless you help us visualize it?

I'll tell you what I told the Jewelry OP, who did the same thing. You would have been so much better off buying tech stocks 20 years ago at a different bank. You're not factoring in inflation here in your pricing.

Real money in modern society is not in clothes or jewels. We're not living in huts and wearing our family's entire fortune on our person.

I actually got excited by fat envelopes full of cash because I don't have a car to get to ATMs or banks anymore. I miss cash.

I was like CASH!! But then it's just like a check and now I have to uber to the bank tomorrow to deposit it.

I miss cash in terms of being able to give tips, mostly.

I would have been able to do better to buy tech stocks 20 years ago but I think we did that. Like I have a pile of 100 statements piling up all the time because we have investment accounts for all of our kids.

I just sold some stuff today that was in my closet and I wasn't paying attention to because you're right, you are very correct, stuff I had is just not relevant today.

I guess you can get mad at me for agreeing with you but ... I'm agreeing with you

Ya'll ... this ^^ is not real. We are just getting messed with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t buy it. You don’t some the kind of money it takes to acquire 10 Hermes bags without your husband noticing.

OP didn't say he didn't know, she said he overlooked the value of the bags. He might not have not that these things hold value.

[Anonymous]

You are all full of crap. That is not how one hides money & that is not the type of investment/asset purchase that one makes for secrecy and future liquidity needs. Amateurish at best, but, most likely, total bullcrap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t buy it. You don’t some the kind of money it takes to acquire 10 Hermes bags without your husband noticing.

OP didn't say he didn't know, she said he overlooked the value of the bags. He might not have not that these things hold value.

I understand, I’m just saying I don’t believe that. I promise I know what my wife’s Hermes bags are worth and I’d never ignore them in a divorce.

[Anonymous]

It would have made more financial sense just to get $200 of cash every week out of the bank and stash it in your underwear drawer.

[Anonymous]

Good for you!

[Anonymous]

I like the idea that I could buy my kids used cars by cleaning.out my useless closet

But I do.actually have to get am uber to a bank tomorrow to deposit.a.66k check

[Anonymous]

But if you had 10 birkins and they go for 30k then you sold 300,000 dollars worth of assets for 80k.

[Anonymous]

This is how Christina Ricci funded her divorce
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/02/christina-ricci-sold-parts-of-her-chanel-collection-in-2020-divorce.html

[Anonymous]

This is pretty much what the song “Diamknfd are a girls best friends” is about.

A kiss may be grand but it won’t pay the rental on your humble flat….
Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end
But pear shaped or square shape
These rocks won’t lose their shape
Diamonds are a girls best friend

Although in that case it’s the affair partner, not the wife. But the point still stands —

[Anonymous]

Should have sold them to Love Luxury

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband didn't even notice them in the divorce. They were "beneath" his notice

I just sold like 10 of them for 70K cash, my ex's earlier professional partner flew up from Palm Beach with her husband to have me clean out my closet. They took boxes and sleepers.

Like actual cash in five thick envelopes full of 100s plus a fat check. No profits over time, but I did just sell them for within 20% of what I paid 20+ years ago.

Hermes kellys and birkins

I used to keep them for a financial anchor in the future, today has turned out to be the future.

Are you the same poster who was bemoaning that you didn’t buy name-brand jewelry before your divorce?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is how Christina Ricci funded her divorce
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/02/christina-ricci-sold-parts-of-her-chanel-collection-in-2020-divorce.html

She must be terrible with her money.