Signs someone grew up rich

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Anonymous wrote:My MIL can’t drive because she grew up with a chauffeur and can’t cook because she had a chef. The first time she changed one of my kid’s diapers she wiped the poop with a towel because she didn’t know about wipes thanks to nannies. I have many more stories. Anyway her father squandered the entire fortune and now she’s middle class.

this is the stuff movies are made of

Statistically speaking, generational wealth doesn't usually go past 2-3 generations for various reasons. I remember reading that in an article somewhere.

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Plastic surgery if a woman

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Anonymous wrote:Good teeth
Good schools
Do rich people sports-- tennis, golf, sailing, lacrosse, crew, squash, fencing, horseback riding
Went to summer camp in Maine or something similar
Took exciting vacations
Have a summer house

I grew up sailing and camped in Maine, but that’s because I grew up in Maine and a sunfish counts as sailing

Our kids are great sailors because sailing camp is practically free on the navy base.college friends always thought they were rich. Lol.

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My sister and I were shocked to get to college and learn that some people took out loans to pay for school. I also had no idea you could buy a car without just writing a check for the purchase price.

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I went to a very rich HS and I think the HS car is a good indicator. We had one kid who drove a DeTomaso Pantera to HS once.

If you don’t know car you are most likely poor.

Anyhow a week later drove a Ford Model T and the next week Jaguar V12 convertible. I started taking to him.

Kid full of pimples and glasses. He goes want to go McDonalds and play pinball and video games after school.

Hey I don’t own a car and broke I am all in. We go to McDonalds and back to his house. Was a maid and no one else go to basement and rows and rows of pinball machines and video games. Literally a massive amount.

He was just a pimple faced skinny redhead kid with glasses and a B student at best. What Dad let’s a 17 year old drive a Pantera to school. Many years later a car dealer friend got one briefly. I asked him how fast it goes. He said all I know I got it to 130mph once on an empty road and almost shit in my pants I was so scared and I hit the brake as it was still accelerating. And this dad let a 17 year old drive it.

Dad was stupid rich.

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Anonymous wrote:My MIL can’t drive because she grew up with a chauffeur and can’t cook because she had a chef. The first time she changed one of my kid’s diapers she wiped the poop with a towel because she didn’t know about wipes thanks to nannies. I have many more stories. Anyway her father squandered the entire fortune and now she’s middle class.

this is the stuff movies are made of

Statistically speaking, generational wealth doesn't usually go past 2-3 generations for various reasons. I remember reading that in an article somewhere.

My nephew is unemployed between jobs lives in a dumpy rent stabilized walk up with a roommate in Manhattan literally on a street named after a rich relative from 1700s. No clue where money went

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I used to work for a liberal arts college's development office and someone responded to an annual giving mailer by writing something like "Sure I'll give! All you have to do to get my money is contact Navient!" One of my coworkers and I were like...what on earth is Navient? Our boss laughed at us and said it was obvious how privileged we both were.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a very rich HS and I think the HS car is a good indicator. We had one kid who drove a DeTomaso Pantera to HS once.

If you don’t know car you are most likely poor.

Anyhow a week later drove a Ford Model T and the next week Jaguar V12 convertible. I started taking to him.

Kid full of pimples and glasses. He goes want to go McDonalds and play pinball and video games after school.

Hey I don’t own a car and broke I am all in. We go to McDonalds and back to his house. Was a maid and no one else go to basement and rows and rows of pinball machines and video games. Literally a massive amount.

He was just a pimple faced skinny redhead kid with glasses and a B student at best. What Dad let’s a 17 year old drive a Pantera to school. Many years later a car dealer friend got one briefly. I asked him how fast it goes. He said all I know I got it to 130mph once on an empty road and almost shit in my pants I was so scared and I hit the brake as it was still accelerating. And this dad let a 17 year old drive it.

Dad was stupid rich.

What language is this post in?

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Anonymous wrote:They lack a fundamental understanding of how the world works for the rest of us.

TRUTH. The first year I was at really rich person school, no one understood the concept of summer jobs in high school. Not even working while in school — just MC style summer jobs. 🙄

There was a clique of very wealthy students at Yale that would always laugh about how they had no idea what the price of basic commodities like gas or milk or eggs……so obnoxious and condescending.

Hmmm. My first year college DC probably does not know price of eggs or milk. And is not rich.

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Anonymous wrote:Good teeth
Good schools
Do rich people sports-- tennis, golf, sailing, lacrosse, crew, squash, fencing, horseback riding
Went to summer camp in Maine or something similar
Took exciting vacations
Have a summer house

I grew up sailing and camped in Maine, but that’s because I grew up in Maine and a sunfish counts as sailing

Our kids are great sailors because sailing camp is practically free on the navy base.college friends always thought they were rich. Lol.

Yes. Sailing is a rich person's activity but the best sailor's I knew are the ones that worked at the yacht clubs.

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up with money and definitely lacked the understanding that everyone did not go to college or vote when they turned 18. I began to understand this when I was 17 in 2000 and had conversations with classmates who were eligible to vote but didn’t in the 2000 presidential election. I went to “elite” private schools through 10th grade when I rebelled and told my parents that I refused to go back to the school I was at because it was full of terrible bullies and drug addicts. I finally convinced them to let me attend a large public high school and it was extremely eye-opening.
I was raised to know how to behave in any social situation. I attended a state dinner in my mothers place and an inaugural ball when I was 14. I was raised to participate in volunteer work from a young age and my family is on the board of a number of organizations. In my 20s and early 30s I have been asked to participate in high level volunteer positions in elite institutions, which has lead to board service at several of them. I’m by far the youngest board member in those cases.
We had a nanny/housekeeper and a pt gardener when I was a child and both were treated like members of the family. I was taught to cook (by my mom, who had learned from her parent’s chef), and how to clean and do laundry properly. My parents definitely instilled a work ethic in me, I worked all through high school and college though I didn’t “need” to, and now I work although my husband’s the primary “breadwinner”. I’m also the principle parent for our children and make sure that I’m able to spend quality time with them daily.
I can ride a horse well, sail, pilot a plane (though haven’t in years), play tennis & squash, whip up a soufflé, speak 2 languages fluently in addition to English, set up a campsite, appraise art, navigate my way through any place and plan a dinner party to perfection.

The attitude underlying this post is the clearest sign someone grew up rich.

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Anonymous wrote:They waste food because they do not understand the true value of it. They have no idea what it costs, what it is like to be on a budget, what it is like to do without. So they have no respect.

I know middle class people like this too. And that’s why they are in debt.

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My college friend didn't give off wealthy vibes. He had a weird way of chewing his food - not exactly chomping, but could be distinctly heard. He wore these heavy-soled leather shoes for the occasions you needed to wear something more dressy than tennis shoes. They looked like something out of a thrift store sale bin. He was reasonably well mannered, but not to the extent that you'd expect. Turns out he was from extreme generational wealth and as WASP as they come, with all the requisite perks including a trust fund. Part of his thing was to wear worn out clothing, drive a basic car, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:They waste food because they do not understand the true value of it. They have no idea what it costs, what it is like to be on a budget, what it is like to do without. So they have no respect.

They leave stuff around because they are used to someone picking up after them. They are care.ess with belongings and don’t stress about lost items.

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Anonymous wrote:Clear, articulate speech with an expansive vocabulary.

Disagree. I think vocabulary and speech are a result of educated parents. Just look at the Trump kids. They have money but a father with limited vocabulary.

The Trump kids are extremely articulate and polished. You are blinded by hatred for Trump, but his kids are polished and successful.

Successful at what, exactly? Be specific.

The fact that you want to continue to debate on this issue shows how entrenched you are in your Trump hate.

Not gonna play.

Totally different NP. Ivanka is polished. DJTJ is NOT. Eric is hard to read because he speaks publicly much more rarely than his siblings. Tiffany and Baron basically never spoke publicly. The Trumps are just like the mafia rich principessas someone mentioned earlier. He got rich by being essentially part of a New York slum lord operation. He's always been rich, but he's never been nice, and has never been treated nicely by his family, and so he is like a forever child who has all the money in the world and just wants to buy everything. His children were not treated AS horribly as he was by their parents so have a little more mental maturity but all have his nastiness. Ivanka is widely reported to be a very mean person behind that extremely polished veneer. DJTJ is clearly a drug addict who knows how to pull it together, this is another varietal of rich person of course, as another PP said there are more than two.

I grew up rich, not Trump rich but probably DCUM rich. HHI like 500-600k and I will inherit probably a few million dollars when my mom dies. I am not sure what about me signifies that I am rich, but I always know when someone is currently rich but didn't grow up rich. Those people feel the need to constantly talk about what they have, how much it cost, are constantly dropping hints about their wealth into the conversation. I do also interact very well with all walks of life. I would NEVER be unkind to any service employee unless they were being like, blatantly and egregiously rude (like spitting in my coffee or yelling at me or something)