How did your waspy old money ancestors show their thriftiness?
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Anonymous
| This thread is making me hate flashy, new money people less and you thrifty, old money people a lot more. |
Anonymous
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I met the guy who purchased the Ethel Kennedy house in McLean, Hickory House.
He said the house was maintained horribly and needed extensive work because it was crumbling. Maybe the Kennedys don’t fit the definition…but the house wasn’t “frugally” maintained as a way to preserve the family fortune…it was because they ran out of the money needed to maintain the house, however that was never the story told to the outside world. Many posts on this thread sound awfully similar. |
Anonymous
Ethel Kennedy was not a WASP in any sense. |
Anonymous
This. Catholics are not White |
Anonymous
The Irish, French, Bavarians, Poles would all like a word. |
Anonymous
No. Ethel Kennedy is white. But she is not Anglo Saxon not Protestant. I don’t understand why so many people are confused about this. She was an Irish Catholic. |
Anonymous
She also was clueless about budgeting and was frequently admonished by her FIL for exceeding the amount in her bank account for household spending. She famously said “But I still have checks left! How can I be out of money?” |
Anonymous
| Used to see her at Galleria in Chevy Chase. Seemed to drink a bit. |
Anonymous
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To be fair I think a lot of us would be onboard of not buying new things if they were of the same quality as old money.
If clothes used to last a generation, now lose form after first wash. |
Anonymous
Maybe that’s true of clothes, but this trend of ripping out perfectly hood kitchens and bathrooms and replacing perfectly good cars has absolutely nothing to do with quality or longevity. |
Anonymous
I agree. This thread is inspiring. I want to be like old wasps, live frugally and not waste. I’m terrified at the amount of things we consume. When I go to Costco and I see crates and crates of stuff I always think about it. |
Anonymous
It's not just an old wasp thing. My family is decidedly NOT UC, WASP or anything like that and we have always sought long term value. This is true of many cultures. Fetishizing the behaviors of multi-generation wealthy people is beyond odd. |
Anonymous
This! And I’m still like this. My husband wants to pay people for everything - taxes, legal advice, financial advice. So far, the only thing we’ve paid for is legal advice for our estate planning. Everything else I’m doing myself! Oh, and we buy cars in cash in Nov-Dec when the next year is coming out. Then we drive them for 10+ years. And never buy a status symbol car! My grandparents had Cadillacs, my parents Volvos, my generation Subarus - I’m looking hard at the EVs for next time. |
Anonymous
What a strange ignorant statement. Catholic is a religion - you should know that. People of many colors of the rainbow can believe something - that’s what a religion is - a belief system. Here’s another though so many Jewish people are also white! Gasp! |
Anonymous
Wow! You get quite an emotional response from strangers. |