Why are rich people, especially rich "soccer" moms so obsessed with...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even when I was broke, I took care of myself and my possessions. The car doesn’t have to be immaculate but yes, I keep it clean.

Do you have kids attending 3+ soccer games a day and eating 3 meals in the car?

[Anonymous]

I would just worry people would think I was a bad driver and not want to carpool with me. That's why I like to fix dents quickly.

[Anonymous]

I like to take my 2001 badly scratched up Home beater and park close to the soccer mom cars you describe😃

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even when I was broke, I took care of myself and my possessions. The car doesn’t have to be immaculate but yes, I keep it clean.

Do you have kids attending 3+ soccer games a day and eating 3 meals in the car?

I had two kids I was carting around everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Drive by a sketchy apartment complex or seedy neighborhood and you’ll see most lower class keep their cars in filthy and crummy beat up condition. Meticulously clean luxury cars and giant new SUVs is a rich Type A thing to signal their class and make it crystal clear they're not a member of the unwashed (no pun intended). And it’s also relatively expensive to keep a giant SUV freshly detailed. Figure at least $20-30 per deluxe cash wash, not including any wheels, interior and waxing, which can cost upwards of $150-200.

[Anonymous]

I feel like OP started this thread to justify having a pigsty of a car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you sure she was raised affluent? IMO, the people who are the most concerned about things like this are the ones who weren't raised wealthy and have something to "prove."

+100 new money/striver behavior

+200

[Anonymous]

Snobby, entitled and never told No. Karen…

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a competitive, showy SAHM thing. Who else has the time for that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Driving a spotless, freshly-detailed car.
2. Refusing to drive a car with any physical damage, no matter how minor.

Example. We had friends over last night and the husband was teasing his wife for refusing to drive her SUV until he got it fixed because it had a huge scratch on it. You can tell she was raised in an affluent setting, very hoity-toity. It's not just her though, I remember hearing similar from my well-to-do grandmother about "not being caught dead" in a dirty or damaged car. And in the lineup at my children's private school, the cars are generally sparkling clean with glossy tires, and have no damage.

Where does this come from? Like they have a perception that dirty and/or dinged up cars are seen as low class?

They have nothing better to focus on

[Anonymous]

I'm cool with driving around with dings and minor scratches, but I have a spot that's going to rust if I don't get it fixed. My 9-year old SUV with more red clay from the softball field in it than some of the fields is going to get a facelift soon because of that and I'm going to have them fix all of it. And the headlights.

[Anonymous]

Driving a damaged car is trashy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We combined make 400K and one kid plays on three different soccer teams, so I think we qualify.

My car so badly needs a vacuum I cringe every time I get in it (though can't find the time to do the vacuuming in light of other priorities). Also, a reflector is held on with duct tape because it's too much effort to figure out how to get it fixed.

Sorry, we are middle class around here. Np earning same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you go to work in a shirt that had a rip in it?

I don’t have a drawer full of cars!

[Anonymous]

Keeping one of your most valuable assets neat and clean seems pretty normal and logical.