We spend around 18K a month, where does it go?

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Anonymous wrote:My 2 cents - personal care is low; my highlights are $300/month add botox, fillers, skincare etc. Clothes $ super high; food about right. House cleaning about right. Cars high but I HATE spending $ on cars and cars in general.

Fascinating... hot mom?

More likely a self-proclaimed hot mom who actually resembles a Frankenstein-inspired science project gone awry...

PPs, please stop. $500 per month for self-care for a family of five IS low. Just look at how outrageously expensive a hairdresser in DC is. And yes, add to that botox, fillers, microderm abrasion, laser, etc. And you know what? Almost every woman (and man) with a decent income is doing it. The "science project gone awry" is seldom and a sign of bad workmanship. My husband is a dermatologist, so I know.

Yet, you can't spell microdermabrasion?

The pp spelt it exactly the same as you did.

You people need to get a hobby

They do have a hobby. Stressing out over people who make more money than them. It's very stressful to be a back of the packer

So true

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Anonymous wrote:My 2 cents - personal care is low; my highlights are $300/month add botox, fillers, skincare etc. Clothes $ super high; food about right. House cleaning about right. Cars high but I HATE spending $ on cars and cars in general.

Fascinating... hot mom?

More likely a self-proclaimed hot mom who actually resembles a Frankenstein-inspired science project gone awry...

PPs, please stop. $500 per month for self-care for a family of five IS low. Just look at how outrageously expensive a hairdresser in DC is. And yes, add to that botox, fillers, microderm abrasion, laser, etc. And you know what? Almost every woman (and man) with a decent income is doing it. The "science project gone awry" is seldom and a sign of bad workmanship. My husband is a dermatologist, so I know.

Yet, you can't spell microdermabrasion?

The pp spelt it exactly the same as you did.

It's ONE word, not two.

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Anonymous wrote:My 2 cents - personal care is low; my highlights are $300/month add botox, fillers, skincare etc. Clothes $ super high; food about right. House cleaning about right. Cars high but I HATE spending $ on cars and cars in general.

Fascinating... hot mom?

More likely a self-proclaimed hot mom who actually resembles a Frankenstein-inspired science project gone awry...

PPs, please stop. $500 per month for self-care for a family of five IS low. Just look at how outrageously expensive a hairdresser in DC is. And yes, add to that botox, fillers, microderm abrasion, laser, etc. And you know what? Almost every woman (and man) with a decent income is doing it. The "science project gone awry" is seldom and a sign of bad workmanship. My husband is a dermatologist, so I know.

Yet, you can't spell microdermabrasion?

The pp spelt it exactly the same as you did.

It's ONE word, not two.

Thank the Lord we all now know how to correctly spell that important word.

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Anonymous wrote:We jet about 47k/mo after taxes, 401k, health, HSA, and direct deposit for life insurance premiums.

I have zero desire, time, or need to penny pinch. This entire class conscious insecure board would be in an uproar if I posted our spending. I don't see anything wrong with your budget, as long as your investing and have a fall back plan if everything were to implode.

Hmm isn’t it strange how every time this thread loses traction a very rich person posts in defense of the OP?

Hmm how mysterious hmm. Who knew there were so many multimillionaires so desperate to defend their spending? Hmm.

Lol! Do you actually live in the DC area? So many wealthy people. Being wealthy here is not noteworthy, unique or special.

I'm the PP and I can assure you I'm not the OP.

Of COURSE! You are just a regular, run of the mill rich person responding 14 minutes after I questioned the legitimacy of this thread on Easter Sunday.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE!

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To the housekeeper PP: I have relatives in a different country where the culture is for the wealthy to never have to lift a finger. I totally get wanting to reduce your chore time and to keep time for things you want to do. A housekeeper can be a big part of that. But just be conscious of what you are modeling for your kids. I look at my cousins children and I don’t want my kids to turn out like them. Pick a couple of things you want the family to be responsible for and give your kids a part in making the family work.

Our monthly expenses are lower than yours. So you might dismiss me as hopelessly middle class. But just offering you a different perspective.

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My friend is married to someone from this culture and they cannot do anything -. I mean simple HH tasks. It's pathetic and causing them problems because the kids are watching this. They grow up thinking that some supposedly functioning adults are not even able to change a lightbulb.

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Anonymous wrote:My friend is married to someone from this culture and they cannot do anything -. I mean simple HH tasks. It's pathetic and causing them problems because the kids are watching this. They grow up thinking that some supposedly functioning adults are not even able to change a lightbulb.

Change a lightbulb? Darling, that’s peasant work. We idle rich sit around all day on our asses doing... something, surely?

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Anonymous wrote:My friend is married to someone from this culture and they cannot do anything -. I mean simple HH tasks. It's pathetic and causing them problems because the kids are watching this. They grow up thinking that some supposedly functioning adults are not even able to change a lightbulb.

Change a lightbulb? Darling, that’s peasant work. We idle rich sit around all day on our asses doing... something, surely?

You think I am joking but this person will serious not lift a finger to change a lightbulb. Not sure he has ever actually done it in all his years.

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Anonymous wrote:My friend is married to someone from this culture and they cannot do anything -. I mean simple HH tasks. It's pathetic and causing them problems because the kids are watching this. They grow up thinking that some supposedly functioning adults are not even able to change a lightbulb.

Change a lightbulb? Darling, that’s peasant work. We idle rich sit around all day on our asses doing... something, surely?

You think I am joking but this person will serious not lift a finger to change a lightbulb. Not sure he has ever actually done it in all his years.

No, after reading this thread I don’t doubt you at all. What a pathetic way to go through life, though. I keep thinking of the book World War Z and imagining the pitiful designations these lazy bastards would receive 😉

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OP here.

When I was a kid my dad was horrified at how middle class Americans (he grew up pretty poor) didn’t how to take care of themselves. I’m not talking laundry and changing a lightbulb - I’m talking churning butter and butchering chickens. So I grew up solidly upper middle class, but I know how to butcher a chicken, and I’ve chopped off their heads and drained the blood and plucked the feathers and removed the guts and cooked them fresh. I can also certainly sew and mend and make felt wool from a sheared sheep.

How many Americans can say the same?

Anyway my point is twofold: first, just because I currently have a housekeeper and spend a lot on clothes doesn’t mean I wouldn’t survive world war Z. Second, it turns out butchering a chicken and felting wool are *not* necessary life skills in the 21st century, and I wouldn’t assume that the next generation needs to know, for example, how to change a light bulb (esp since led lightbulbs now last like ten years).

Food for thought!

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Anonymous wrote:OP here.

When I was a kid my dad was horrified at how middle class Americans (he grew up pretty poor) didn’t how to take care of themselves. I’m not talking laundry and changing a lightbulb - I’m talking churning butter and butchering chickens. So I grew up solidly upper middle class, but I know how to butcher a chicken, and I’ve chopped off their heads and drained the blood and plucked the feathers and removed the guts and cooked them fresh. I can also certainly sew and mend and make felt wool from a sheared sheep.

How many Americans can say the same?

Anyway my point is twofold: first, just because I currently have a housekeeper and spend a lot on clothes doesn’t mean I wouldn’t survive world war Z. Second, it turns out butchering a chicken and felting wool are *not* necessary life skills in the 21st century, and I wouldn’t assume that the next generation needs to know, for example, how to change a light bulb (esp since led lightbulbs now last like ten years).

Food for thought!

OMG OP you are like, SO superior in EVERY way!!! They should write songs about you!!!

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Anonymous wrote:My friend is married to someone from this culture and they cannot do anything -. I mean simple HH tasks. It's pathetic and causing them problems because the kids are watching this. They grow up thinking that some supposedly functioning adults are not even able to change a lightbulb.

My husband grew up this way abroad. They had a handyman who would put up their Christmas tree. To this day he protests putting up the Christmas tree.

For anyone interested, with your American credentials you can live OP’s exact lifestyle in almost any second or third world country or even possibly Dubai or somewhere like that. Gated fancy house, nanny, household help for anything. It’s totally doable if you truly think middle class life in America is a miserable “grind.”

Otherwise just get your husband to pull his weight already.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here.

When I was a kid my dad was horrified at how middle class Americans (he grew up pretty poor) didn’t how to take care of themselves. I’m not talking laundry and changing a lightbulb - I’m talking churning butter and butchering chickens. So I grew up solidly upper middle class, but I know how to butcher a chicken, and I’ve chopped off their heads and drained the blood and plucked the feathers and removed the guts and cooked them fresh. I can also certainly sew and mend and make felt wool from a sheared sheep.

How many Americans can say the same?

Anyway my point is twofold: first, just because I currently have a housekeeper and spend a lot on clothes doesn’t mean I wouldn’t survive world war Z. Second, it turns out butchering a chicken and felting wool are *not* necessary life skills in the 21st century, and I wouldn’t assume that the next generation needs to know, for example, how to change a light bulb (esp since led lightbulbs now last like ten years).

Food for thought!

OMG OP you are like, SO superior in EVERY way!!! They should write songs about you!!!

OP is simultaneously filthy rich and salt-of-the-earth. A true Easter miracle!

Or maybe... just a troll? Anybody?

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Anonymous wrote:My friend is married to someone from this culture and they cannot do anything -. I mean simple HH tasks. It's pathetic and causing them problems because the kids are watching this. They grow up thinking that some supposedly functioning adults are not even able to change a lightbulb.

My husband grew up this way abroad. They had a handyman who would put up their Christmas tree. To this day he protests putting up the Christmas tree.

For anyone interested, with your American credentials you can live OP’s exact lifestyle in almost any second or third world country or even possibly Dubai or somewhere like that. Gated fancy house, nanny, household help for anything. It’s totally doable if you truly think middle class life in America is a miserable “grind.”

Otherwise just get your husband to pull his weight already.

Lolololol!!!

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Anonymous wrote:To the housekeeper PP: I have relatives in a different country where the culture is for the wealthy to never have to lift a finger. I totally get wanting to reduce your chore time and to keep time for things you want to do. A housekeeper can be a big part of that. But just be conscious of what you are modeling for your kids. I look at my cousins children and I don’t want my kids to turn out like them. Pick a couple of things you want the family to be responsible for and give your kids a part in making the family work.

Our monthly expenses are lower than yours. So you might dismiss me as hopelessly middle class. But just offering you a different perspective.

We grew up in Mexico with a cook, housekeeper nanny, and gardener. We have a housekeeper here as well along with house cleaners. This is actually very normal all over Latin America. I'll leave to the morally superior toilet cleaning and grout scrubbing to you Americans. My children won't need to clean a toilet if they don't want to when they have their own families. Our parents afforded us the best education money could buy. The same is being given to our kids. No need to do menial tasks.

With all due respect I just don't think you can grasp how peiple.avove your social class live.