What Are the Tell Tale Signs of 'New Money' People?

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Anonymous wrote:Old money people are always wearing those giant sombreros. New money people have terrible gas.

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Anonymous wrote:Well no hope for me. My nails are purple and I had pasta salad for dinner. 😟

No no, new money hates pasta salad because it might give them away as former LMC. Old money doesn’t care if someone eats pasta salad.

pasta salad is delicious, and none of this makes sense to me.

It makes sense to me. People who spend a lot of time worrying about things that might make them look downscale tend to be of lower SES status (in a relative sense). People who spend time thinking about whether an item or behavior makes them look the right or wrong class generally don't actually belong to the class they are aspiring to look like. People who are secure in their class just choose what they like and don't give it a second thought.

Most people in the US are new money. I'll give what I see to be a common separation of UMC vs rich. UMC people wear what they think looks like "luxury travel" while traveling, whereas rich people tend to dress a bit down for travel. This is true of both airport attire and then actual tourism outfits.

Idk what dressed down would be these days. Nobody wears fancy outfits to travel, but rich people look more pulled together. The chicest traveler I have seen in recent memory was Daphne Oz's dh: all in perfectly-tailored navy casual but great shirt and pants, looking like a million bucks.

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Anonymous wrote:Nails. Nouveau Riche have exotic shapes, polishes, weird "French" manicures with colors that are not shades of white/cream and pink/beige (depending onnrace). In any case nails should be filed oval/almond depending how they grow and fairly short. Buffed is excellent. Quite practical, too.

Makeup. Nouveau trophy women have elaborate contouring, several shades of blush/highlighter/shadow. DRAMATIC lipstick and eyes.

Controversial comparison but look at Lauren Sanchez and Princess of Wales pre-2023. Hard to think of equivalent US old money dressed up.

She's definitely not old money. Her mother was a flight attendant, her father a dispatcher. They made money running a party business.

The Royal family is also considered decidedly middle class (British sense) in comparison to the aristocracy who are the real old money in the UK.

This is actually the complete and utter opposite of the system in the UK. The Royals are at the top of the chain - they were the ones who made the nobility. All of the aristocrats are losing their money and have to spend exorbitant amounts to keep up their estates. But they are considered upper class because in Britain, it will never matter how much money you actually have, it matters what type of family you come from. The richest people in the country could be considered "middle class" because they're not aristocrats. And you can be house poor upper class aristocrats. The Royal Family have their money tied up in estates and jewels and duchies... it is the opposite of what's considered "middle class" there.

(This is not an agreement of the system, just an explanation.)

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Anonymous wrote:Nails. Nouveau Riche have exotic shapes, polishes, weird "French" manicures with colors that are not shades of white/cream and pink/beige (depending onnrace). In any case nails should be filed oval/almond depending how they grow and fairly short. Buffed is excellent. Quite practical, too.

Makeup. Nouveau trophy women have elaborate contouring, several shades of blush/highlighter/shadow. DRAMATIC lipstick and eyes.

Controversial comparison but look at Lauren Sanchez and Princess of Wales pre-2023. Hard to think of equivalent US old money dressed up.

She's definitely not old money. Her mother was a flight attendant, her father a dispatcher. They made money running a party business.

The Royal family is also considered decidedly middle class (British sense) in comparison to the aristocracy who are the real old money in the UK.

This is actually the complete and utter opposite of the system in the UK. The Royals are at the top of the chain - they were the ones who made the nobility. All of the aristocrats are losing their money and have to spend exorbitant amounts to keep up their estates. But they are considered upper class because in Britain, it will never matter how much money you actually have, it matters what type of family you come from. The richest people in the country could be considered "middle class" because they're not aristocrats. And you can be house poor upper class aristocrats. The Royal Family have their money tied up in estates and jewels and duchies... it is the opposite of what's considered "middle class" there.

(This is not an agreement of the system, just an explanation.)

What's funny is if you are of Euro descent, you're pretty much guaranteed you are an aristocrat. You're just an aristocrat whose ancestors had the bad fortune of being son #3, dd #6...Enough bad downmarrying through generations and next thing you know you are on some small farm somewhere cleaning a pig pen.

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Online clues:
Constantly posting travel photos experiences and meals on FB/Insta "what an AMAZING day we had zip lining in Costa Rica" "I'm in HEAVEN - enjoying tonights Sangria and Paella in PORTUGAL"
Posting about dream school full-freight acceptance to someplace expensive but mediocre "All the hard work paid off - Suzy is THRILLED to be joining the Tulane community"
Posting FB/insta photos at the lacrosse game where their Jimmy is benched with rich families they have met twice

Real Life Clues:

- Whole family dressed head to toe in trendy mall brands (Burberry, Golden Goose, Tory Burch, Aviator Nation, Crew, David Yurman, Louis Vuitton)
- Leased Mercedes or Lexus LX SUV
- Beautiful home adorned with Home Depot window treatments

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Anonymous wrote:Online clues:
Constantly posting travel photos experiences and meals on FB/Insta "what an AMAZING day we had zip lining in Costa Rica" "I'm in HEAVEN - enjoying tonights Sangria and Paella in PORTUGAL"
Posting about dream school full-freight acceptance to someplace expensive but mediocre "All the hard work paid off - Suzy is THRILLED to be joining the Tulane community"
Posting FB/insta photos at the lacrosse game where their Jimmy is benched with rich families they have met twice

Real Life Clues:

- Whole family dressed head to toe in trendy mall brands (Burberry, Golden Goose, Tory Burch, Aviator Nation, Crew, David Yurman, Louis Vuitton)
- Leased Mercedes or Lexus LX SUV
- Beautiful home adorned with Home Depot window treatments

You sound insufferable but how exactly can you look at a car and know it’s leased? Are you one of those people who just can’t imagine buying a car that’s more expensive than the one you have?

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me, please.

There is no such thing as new money people. There are people with money and those without.

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Anonymous wrote:Being really negative and weird about stuff that UMC/UC don’t give a single shit about, like pasta salad

Wait, what's wrong with pasta salad?

Some people think it’s low class.

I despise pasta salad. Look at me. I am effortlessly high class. And I never even knew it.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people, including posters here, tend to assume some sort of superiority in old money. In truth, a lot of old money people are cash poor, living on their trust funds, dependent on grandparents' money so their kids can go to the same private schools they did, and carrying and air of superiority because of handed-down club memberships while having nothing of their own in the way of accomplishments to show for all the privilege that was handed to them. They tend to group together and look down on people who actually earned their money. I'm not in favor of ostentatious wealth. There are tacky people everywhere, and money can't buy class. But the obsession with the "whispering" of old money is tiresome.

+10000
Americans are so obsessed with old money that they don’t even know why. A bunch of pathetic losers.

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Anonymous wrote:Online clues:
Constantly posting travel photos experiences and meals on FB/Insta "what an AMAZING day we had zip lining in Costa Rica" "I'm in HEAVEN - enjoying tonights Sangria and Paella in PORTUGAL"
Posting about dream school full-freight acceptance to someplace expensive but mediocre "All the hard work paid off - Suzy is THRILLED to be joining the Tulane community"
Posting FB/insta photos at the lacrosse game where their Jimmy is benched with rich families they have met twice

Real Life Clues:

- Whole family dressed head to toe in trendy mall brands (Burberry, Golden Goose, Tory Burch, Aviator Nation, Crew, David Yurman, Louis Vuitton)
- Leased Mercedes or Lexus LX SUV
- Beautiful home adorned with Home Depot window treatments

You sound insufferable but how exactly can you look at a car and know it’s leased? Are you one of those people who just can’t imagine buying a car that’s more expensive than the one you have?

DP here. IME leasers are MORE than happy to tell you all about it and try to convince you that its somehow saving them money.

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Anonymous wrote:Being really negative and weird about stuff that UMC/UC don’t give a single shit about, like pasta salad

Wait, what's wrong with pasta salad?

Some people think it’s low class.

I despise pasta salad. Look at me. I am effortlessly high class. And I never even knew it.

Try reading the top comment again

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Anonymous wrote:Online clues:
Constantly posting travel photos experiences and meals on FB/Insta "what an AMAZING day we had zip lining in Costa Rica" "I'm in HEAVEN - enjoying tonights Sangria and Paella in PORTUGAL"
Posting about dream school full-freight acceptance to someplace expensive but mediocre "All the hard work paid off - Suzy is THRILLED to be joining the Tulane community"
Posting FB/insta photos at the lacrosse game where their Jimmy is benched with rich families they have met twice

Real Life Clues:

- Whole family dressed head to toe in trendy mall brands (Burberry, Golden Goose, Tory Burch, Aviator Nation, Crew, David Yurman, Louis Vuitton)
- Leased Mercedes or Lexus LX SUV
- Beautiful home adorned with Home Depot window treatments

I actually thought this was spot on. Well done!

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Anonymous wrote:Talking about money. At all ever.
This is not a topic ever brought up by individuals from old line families. Unless it’s behind closed doors with your financial advisor or the most trusted people in your family. It’s considered extremely gauche.

Dressing flashy. Wearing lots of expensive or expensive looking jewelry. Old line families dress very plainly and conservatively. They’re clothes and shoes and jewelry might be very expensive, but you never know - they invest in specific pieces to last.

Old line people listen more than they talk.
New money people talk more than they listen.
They want other people to know about their money and run their mouth constantly about it. Old line people don’t want anyone to know about their wealth, and they purposely don’t want it known.

Shit. I’m totally new money, but I’m not even very rich! I just like talking stocks and investing, and have done well by saving and taking smart risks on my very meh salary. I think women not talking money has held us back. Also if you don’t wear your jewelry, what good is having it? I inherited lots of gold jewelry and wear it because it reminds me of my mom and is cultural. I’ll wear it with whatever. It’s my baseline. I’m not into expensive shoes or bags or labels, so I got you there.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me, please.

This question.

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Posting about old money vs new money on DCUM.