What’s classy for rich people but trashy for poor people?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Breast implants.

Always trashy. Cutting open your body to stuff sacs of silicone or saline into it is always tasteless, no matter how much money you have.

Always? Even after a mastectomy?

[Anonymous]

Upcycling and repurposing items

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Having “collections”

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This post is hilarious. My father had hunted, smoked, drank, collected, worked on cars, worked the family business with his brothers, boated, always paid in cash and had strong distrust of the government.

I thought he was a solid middle class man with poor man’s tastes/hobbies until he died and found out he was in fact actually very very rich. I miss him

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Anonymous wrote:Having “collections”

OMG yes. So funny.

[Anonymous]

Houses with very little furniture and open spaces.

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Anonymous wrote:This post is hilarious. My father had hunted, smoked, drank, collected, worked on cars, worked the family business with his brothers, boated, always paid in cash and had strong distrust of the government.

I thought he was a solid middle class man with poor man’s tastes/hobbies until he died and found out he was in fact actually very very rich. I miss him

I love this.

My mother was similar. She complained constantly about being poor.

"Didn't have two dimes to rub together." "Couldn't afford to go to the movies."

When she passed, she had over $50k cash sitting in her checking account, and seven figures + (several times over) in various investments.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This post is hilarious. My father had hunted, smoked, drank, collected, worked on cars, worked the family business with his brothers, boated, always paid in cash and had strong distrust of the government.

I thought he was a solid middle class man with poor man’s tastes/hobbies until he died and found out he was in fact actually very very rich. I miss him

I love this.

My mother was similar. She complained constantly about being poor.

"Didn't have two dimes to rub together." "Couldn't afford to go to the movies."

When she passed, she had over $50k cash sitting in her checking account, and seven figures + (several times over) in various investments.[/quote

I think there are a lot of people like this. Anyone who grew up in the Depression or had parents who did -- often think of themselves as being perpetually poor -- even when they become rich. Sounds like my parents and in-laws.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This post is hilarious. My father had hunted, smoked, drank, collected, worked on cars, worked the family business with his brothers, boated, always paid in cash and had strong distrust of the government.

I thought he was a solid middle class man with poor man’s tastes/hobbies until he died and found out he was in fact actually very very rich. I miss him

I love this.

My mother was similar. She complained constantly about being poor.

"Didn't have two dimes to rub together." "Couldn't afford to go to the movies."

When she passed, she had over $50k cash sitting in her checking account, and seven figures + (several times over) in various investments.

If I could count the times my father has said "We didn't have 2 nickels to rub together" (referring to when he & my mom were first married.... and for their first 10-15 years), I'd be quite wealthy.

They saved every penny of my mom's salary and lived off his. My mom's salary funded college and other savings/plans. We never took a family vacation, other than a day trip here or there. They started traveling when the youngest child was 30 years old.

He's now in his mid 80s and quite well off.

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Neglecting your children
Brewing your own alcohol
4WD vehicles
Passing down firearms
Went to the same high school as your parents

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When I met my husband, I thought his parents were poor. Neither of them had jobs, and they were separated, but not divorced, and both lived with different relatives and just kind of mooched off of them. I realized later that they were actually fairly wealthy, but had lost all of their money and the family business through poor decision making. My husband’s uncle had stepped in and saved the business, but kicked my IL’s out of managing it.
So, here’s my list. I don’t know if these are considered classy anywhere, but they are definitely things that my IL’s did that middle class people don’t do:

- effectively married/divorced, but don’t file the paperwork for financial reasons
- have open affairs that everyone knows about (even when still very married and living together)
- move in with relatives long term when you run out of money
- hold grudges that span multiple generations

[Anonymous]

Live in a falling down house with plants growing of it
Wearing a bathrobe outdoors
Smoking a pipe (different types)
Getting professional blow dries