Are we driving a beater car? Does it place a shadow on MS DD?

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Anonymous wrote:If I've learned anything from DCUM it's that ACTUAL rich people drive beater cars and wear old clothes with holes in them. So maybe you are projecting a wealthier image by having your old car. Think about it.

Hey, I've learned that too! Only the nouveau riche have new cars!

Actually another thing I've learned on DCUM is that a neighborhood with million-dollar houses is just a regular old decent middle-of-the-road neighborhood.

I wouldn’t say I have a beater car, but a 6 year old SUV with a scraped up side (the side my DD exits on lol) and a very slightly messed up bumper. It never occurred to me to be embarrassed. But we are really wealthy so I’m not trying to prove anything to anyone. You don’t ant your daughter to be friends with superficial jerks anyway, right?

You are commenting about a 6 year old SUV. Get it fixed. My SUV is 16 years old.

I don’t want to fix it. I think it’s a hassle and a waste of money. And I don’t give f*#k what you think it looks like...

[Anonymous]

Same here, OP!

We live in Bethesda and drive 10 and 15 year old beaten up cheap Japanese cars. At my son’s high school, I parked next to a *student* driving a Tesla. The neighbors on our street have that type of car as well.

Oh well. When my son gets his license, we will buy a new cheap Japanese car with all the safety features.

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Anonymous wrote:fyi, pretty sure Steve Jobs drove a brand spanking new SL Mercedes hard-top convertible coupe which he traded in for a new one, once or twice a year. It is/was a $125,000 to $150,000 car.

Nope wife did. He did not. He also did not wear shoes, many times. Or buy his oldest child shoes, or have furniture in his house besides some lawn chairs in the den. He was a minimalist.

I will say his choice of boating vessels was quite impressive.LOL. Mega Yacht....

You're wrong. It's well documented Steve drove a brand new Mercedes SLs without a license plate.

https://www.cultofmac.com/126338/why-steve-jobs-mercedes-never-had-a-license-plate/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I've learned anything from DCUM it's that ACTUAL rich people drive beater cars and wear old clothes with holes in them. So maybe you are projecting a wealthier image by having your old car. Think about it.

Eh. This is one of those tropes that is super popular on the internet (not just DCUM) but just doesn’t happen in real life as much as People Online would like you to think. Kinda similar to the ‘ol “the pretty popular ones in high school become overweight druggies as adults and the unattractive nerds rule the world.”

+1. Broke people coping.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I've learned anything from DCUM it's that ACTUAL rich people drive beater cars and wear old clothes with holes in them. So maybe you are projecting a wealthier image by having your old car. Think about it.

Hey, I've learned that too! Only the nouveau riche have new cars!

Actually another thing I've learned on DCUM is that a neighborhood with million-dollar houses is just a regular old decent middle-of-the-road neighborhood.

I wouldn’t say I have a beater car, but a 6 year old SUV with a scraped up side (the side my DD exits on lol) and a very slightly messed up bumper. It never occurred to me to be embarrassed. But we are really wealthy so I’m not trying to prove anything to anyone. You don’t ant your daughter to be friends with superficial jerks anyway, right?

You are commenting about a 6 year old SUV. Get it fixed. My SUV is 16 years old.

I don’t want to fix it. I think it’s a hassle and a waste of money. And I don’t give f*#k what you think it looks like...

Then take better car of your cars.

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Anonymous wrote:No one cares what car you drive. If they do they are not worth your time.

Do you know what type of car Warren Buffett drives? Steve Jobs drove?

Why would you care?

Best way to the poor house is to drive a car one can not afford. Wealthy people who have real wealth know this.

You know some people make enough or inherit enough or get a car allowance from work to not worry about $500-900 a month for the car, right? It's a meaningless sum of money. Besides, life is way too short to drive a used junker 20-plus times every week. I can't even imagine using AAA for a tow or paying for car repair or worrying about tires and brakes. No thanks!

Some people don't care what they drive. I didn't. I kept mine for ever and just saved the money so I could pay cash for my next car. I don't drive very much.

[Anonymous]

Hate to break it to you, but $1m isn't a "tony" neighborhood. Not here. It's a completely ordinary MC neighborhood, filled with strivers like you from Cleveland or Minneapolis or Denver, who think think you're bigtime now that you're working in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:We have a 10 year old Toyota Camry, low mileage runs fine, looks terrible b/c when we lived in apartment garage parking resulted in dozens on dings and scrapes which we cover with touch up paint.

DD is in MS, and we live in a tony inside beltway neighborhood ($1M homes standard) and at car pickup we are in the oldest most beat up car by far.

DH says kids these days don’t care about cars and no one cares as long as car is clean for carpool is he right?

10 year old Camry is fine.

What matters more is how well you keep the car. If it is covered in dings and scratches, that tells people a lot more about your personality faults than driving a 10 year old economical car.

I've lived in apartments with tight parking spaces and always made the effort to avoid getting dinged. It happens, but never "dozens" of dings and scrapes. That sounds quite a bit more careless to me.

[Anonymous]

I have no idea about kids these days, but I was mortified as a kid, but my parents drove 15 year old cars. DH’s dad drove supper expensive cars, and he was mortified too. Can’t win.

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Anonymous wrote:Hate to break it to you, but $1m isn't a "tony" neighborhood. Not here. It's a completely ordinary MC neighborhood, filled with strivers like you from Cleveland or Minneapolis or Denver, who think think you're bigtime now that you're working in DC.

You didn't break it to her. It was discussed in page 1, Ms. Karen Come Lately.

[Anonymous]

I drove our 2006 beater to carpool at our private last year. No one said anything, but when we got a newer suv this year a LOT of people seemed to notice. DD didn't care either way, but I get the feeling that you may have. Keep driving the cheaper car so long as it runs.

[Anonymous]

Warren Buffet only Buys Cadillacs. He never drives they are for his limo driver.

He once said a full size Cadillac Limo is best car in world for folks who only sit in back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:fyi, pretty sure Steve Jobs drove a brand spanking new SL Mercedes hard-top convertible coupe which he traded in for a new one, once or twice a year. It is/was a $125,000 to $150,000 car.

He drove a new car ever 6 months, starting in the early 1980s.

[Anonymous]

No license plate?

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My car is not dinged up but i'm reluctant to buy brand new and have that new car dent anxiety again!