What Are the Tell Tale Signs of 'New Money' People?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Talking about money. At all ever.
This is not a topic ever brought up by individuals from old line families. Unless it’s behind closed doors with your financial advisor or the most trusted people in your family. It’s considered extremely gauche.

Dressing flashy. Wearing lots of expensive or expensive looking jewelry. Old line families dress very plainly and conservatively. They’re clothes and shoes and jewelry might be very expensive, but you never know - they invest in specific pieces to last.

Old line people listen more than they talk.
New money people talk more than they listen.
They want other people to know about their money and run their mouth constantly about it. Old line people don’t want anyone to know about their wealth, and they purposely don’t want it known.

Accurate.

Ha. No. They only real distinguishing feature is old money did nothing for their money and new made their own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Talking about money. At all ever.
This is not a topic ever brought up by individuals from old line families. Unless it’s behind closed doors with your financial advisor or the most trusted people in your family. It’s considered extremely gauche.

Dressing flashy. Wearing lots of expensive or expensive looking jewelry. Old line families dress very plainly and conservatively. They’re clothes and shoes and jewelry might be very expensive, but you never know - they invest in specific pieces to last.

Old line people listen more than they talk.
New money people talk more than they listen.
They want other people to know about their money and run their mouth constantly about it. Old line people don’t want anyone to know about their wealth, and they purposely don’t want it known.

That is because old money did not earn their inherited money and they know that. Also know they probably could have not made it on their own starting from scratch. So they need to stay quiet or someone will call them out.

They also got it from exploiting workers like railroads, cotton, sugar, etc.

No one likes to talk about this.

[Anonymous]

I can’t answer this question but I do know OP needs to stop being such a bootlicker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The purse/handbag. Dead giveaway if it’s an $$$$ label. Old money doesn’t flaunt.

So old money wears purses from Walmart?

There are plenty of options beyond the $$$$ label bags and Walmart/Target. I buy handmade from Artisans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The purse/handbag. Dead giveaway if it’s an $$$$ label. Old money doesn’t flaunt.

So old money wears purses from Walmart?

There are plenty of options beyond the $$$$ label bags and Walmart/Target. I buy handmade from Artisans.

Like from craft shows?

[Anonymous]

The real fly in the ointment here is the demise of primogeniture.

If everyone has three kids, there are 81 great great grandchildren. Even if you start with a big pile, that’s tough to maintain.

Didn’t you guys watch Downton Abbey? It’s hard! Once they had to pay actual wages, the whole thing kind of collapsed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The purse/handbag. Dead giveaway if it’s an $$$$ label. Old money doesn’t flaunt.

So old money wears purses from Walmart?

There are plenty of options beyond the $$$$ label bags and Walmart/Target. I buy handmade from Artisans.

Like from craft shows?

No, “Artisans.” It looks like a tent city behind the Walmart, but it’s actually a guild of craftspeople founded by my Grandpapa. They make all of our family’s handbags, and they throw bottles of pee at anyone new money who comes by to keep them away. Of course it’s not actually pee, it’s Australian wine. Just as good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being really negative and weird about stuff that UMC/UC don’t give a single shit about, like pasta salad

What? People who don’t like pasta salad are new money? I love DCUM. Keep it coming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being really negative and weird about stuff that UMC/UC don’t give a single shit about, like pasta salad

What? People who don’t like pasta salad are new money? I love DCUM. Keep it coming.

IYKYK

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They own/live in a "modern farmhouse" house. The classic colonial rules the day.

No, they don’t live in a classic colonial. They live in a genuine Victorian or old stone federal house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nails. Nouveau Riche have exotic shapes, polishes, weird "French" manicures with colors that are not shades of white/cream and pink/beige (depending onnrace). In any case nails should be filed oval/almond depending how they grow and fairly short. Buffed is excellent. Quite practical, too.

Makeup. Nouveau trophy women have elaborate contouring, several shades of blush/highlighter/shadow. DRAMATIC lipstick and eyes.

Controversial comparison but look at Lauren Sanchez and Princess of Wales pre-2023. Hard to think of equivalent US old money dressed up.

Agree about the nails. But there was that NPR piece last year about how simple oval nails are markers of white supremacy and somehow not available to poc. YMMV obviously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Talking about money. At all ever.
This is not a topic ever brought up by individuals from old line families. Unless it’s behind closed doors with your financial advisor or the most trusted people in your family. It’s considered extremely gauche.

Dressing flashy. Wearing lots of expensive or expensive looking jewelry. Old line families dress very plainly and conservatively. They’re clothes and shoes and jewelry might be very expensive, but you never know - they invest in specific pieces to last.

Old line people listen more than they talk.
New money people talk more than they listen.
They want other people to know about their money and run their mouth constantly about it. Old line people don’t want anyone to know about their wealth, and they purposely don’t want it known.

That is because old money did not earn their inherited money and they know that. Also know they probably could have not made it on their own starting from scratch. So they need to stay quiet or someone will call them out.

They also got it from exploiting workers like railroads, cotton, sugar, etc.

No one likes to talk about this.

It was legal exploitation and it was SO long ago. Who remembers what happend back then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Talking about money. At all ever.
This is not a topic ever brought up by individuals from old line families. Unless it’s behind closed doors with your financial advisor or the most trusted people in your family. It’s considered extremely gauche.

Dressing flashy. Wearing lots of expensive or expensive looking jewelry. Old line families dress very plainly and conservatively. They’re clothes and shoes and jewelry might be very expensive, but you never know - they invest in specific pieces to last.

Old line people listen more than they talk.
New money people talk more than they listen.
They want other people to know about their money and run their mouth constantly about it. Old line people don’t want anyone to know about their wealth, and they purposely don’t want it known.

That is because old money did not earn their inherited money and they know that. Also know they probably could have not made it on their own starting from scratch. So they need to stay quiet or someone will call them out.

No no, inheriting money is the whole point and being a gentleman/lady of leisure was the ideal. Did you watch The Gilded Age where the old families aren’t impressed by the industrialist? Do you remember all those Jane Austen books where everybody mocks people “in trade,” until like Elizabeth Bennett’s aunt and uncle it turns out they’re the sanest people in the room?

The same people looked down on buying your own furniture (instead of inheriting it) and fish forks (because fish forks arrived during the Victorian era, so if you had them it meant you bought your own silverware). And now some of us have rooms of antique brown furniture our kids don’t want.

[Anonymous]

New money: always talking about grinding, hustling, starting something new, investing, account types for tax advantages. In summary making money

Old money: mostly talks about spending money. If the smart earner didn’t set up a trust they’d probably piss through it all in less time than it took to make

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The purse/handbag. Dead giveaway if it’s an $$$$ label. Old money doesn’t flaunt.

So old money wears purses from Walmart?

There are plenty of options beyond the $$$$ label bags and Walmart/Target. I buy handmade from Artisans.

Like from craft shows?

At first, that is how I found a few, but now I have their websites and order from there.