Things that are unintentional status symbols.

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Mismatched silver (because it's all inherited)

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Anonymous wrote:Not being aware of how much things cost.

THIS.

That's silly. I know how much things cost. The point is I can afford them.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not being aware of how much things cost.

THIS.

That's silly. I know how much things cost. The point is I can afford them.

If you know how much they cost then you are dealing with the transactions which is not really what those people do. They have people who deal with purchasing things for them and they don't really deal with all that distasteful kind of stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:15:08, is this the first time you've ever thought about this question?

Yes, the first time I read completely moronic threads on DCUM is the first time I think about many of these ridiculously stupid issues. Most useful unintentional status symbol? Being wealthy enough not to give a s**t what anyone else thinks about what I own/don't own/do with my money.

lol. Being land rich and cash poor in DC makes you irritable, don't it?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:15:08, is this the first time you've ever thought about this question?

Yes, the first time I read completely moronic threads on DCUM is the first time I think about many of these ridiculously stupid issues. Most useful unintentional status symbol? Being wealthy enough not to give a s**t what anyone else thinks about what I own/don't own/do with my money.

lol. Being land rich and cash poor in DC makes you irritable, don't it?

Huh?

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Walking to get on the Metro to go to work at 10. Means you're a partner or otherwise management level. Also, skateboarding or scootering to work (when you're an adult) means- I am a highly paid, creative, offbeat and invaluable member of my work team at my very cool start up company job.

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Anonymous wrote:An immaculately kept 15-plus-year-old Mercedes or Audi. One buys nice things, but treats them well so they last a long time. If it doesn't have a CD player (let alone iPod/bluetooth connection), one must deal with it.

Going back to more mainstream unintentional status symbols:

... Genuine Hunter wellies (olive green, not leopard print or Georgetown Cupcake pink)
... Monogrammed cardstock stationery, and if you use it to thank a neighbor who handed down some old baby clothes to you
... If you google yourself and one of your first hits is your wedding announcement in the New York Times (no other paper counts)
... Ski or boat rack on your car roof
... High school ring not manufactured by Josten's (i.e., no large fake gem in the middle)

This is so stupid, I can barely stand to read it.

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Anonymous wrote:Walking to get on the Metro to go to work at 10. Means you're a partner or otherwise management level. Also, skateboarding or scootering to work (when you're an adult) means- I am a highly paid, creative, offbeat and invaluable member of my work team at my very cool start up company job.

Ha! We schedule our management meetings at 7.30 am!

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Anonymous wrote:Walking to get on the Metro to go to work at 10. Means you're a partner or otherwise management level. Also, skateboarding or scootering to work (when you're an adult) means- I am a highly paid, creative, offbeat and invaluable member of my work team at my very cool start up company job.

Metro does not belong in this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Old oil painting of a 19th century great great grandfather/senator hanging in the dining room, framed letter from George Washington to relative hanging in home office…

In the dining room in 2014? Pompous…grasping, etc…but having these things in a den or home office, very cool.

Are dining rooms pompous? And what if you have the painting but not a home office or den?

Dining rooms are so 20th century. My great-great grandfather had oil painted pastorals in the dining room and he was officer in Bismarck's army and was a very pompous man who was never sick or wrong a day in his life until he died, I'm told. On that day he was very sick and quite wrong, probably.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walking to get on the Metro to go to work at 10. Means you're a partner or otherwise management level. Also, skateboarding or scootering to work (when you're an adult) means- I am a highly paid, creative, offbeat and invaluable member of my work team at my very cool start up company job.

Metro does not belong in this thread.

go to work misses the point too

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Anonymous wrote:being extremely well traveled by the references you make about places in Europe or Asia or other international destinations.

I fit in very well with the private school/club crowd but when people start sharing stories about that "little hotel in Venice" or the pyramids or other exotic locations I really feel out of my element.

Ugh, I give up.

Why do you give up?

When rich, well traveled people talk about places they've been and compare notes with their 1%er friends they are oblivious that not everyone travels overseas.

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Have kids who are gluten-free (diagnosed by Mom rather than a doctor).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:being extremely well traveled by the references you make about places in Europe or Asia or other international destinations.

I fit in very well with the private school/club crowd but when people start sharing stories about that "little hotel in Venice" or the pyramids or other exotic locations I really feel out of my element.

Ugh, I give up.

Why do you give up?

When rich, well traveled people talk about places they've been and compare notes with their 1%er friends they are oblivious that not everyone travels overseas.

you don't need a huge bank account to travel the world. You just make travel a priority. We're not rolling but I've been to 4 continents. And I don't stay at the Ritz.

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Anonymous wrote:Men at their son's sports event at 2:30 on a Wednesday.

good one

My husband is one of those men. In his case, it just means that he's a federal employee who has tons and tons of annual leave

We have an entire agency that WAH full-time with mid-day flex available. He could just be one of us.