What qualifies as 'Old money'?

[Anonymous]

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People in D.C. wouldn't know old money if it hit them off the head. Maybe it should.

Here's a news flash. You are talking about yourself. You can cling to your birthplace, but if you bought a house and are raising your kids here in DC, that exotic place you grew up is your parents' home. You became DC somewhere between when you got new plates for your car and when you signed your first mortgage, but definitely by the time you delivered a baby in a DC area hospital. This is plain old, boring, provincial you. The New York library card you still have in your wallet is a nice keepsake, though.

Why would it even be a badge of honor to recognize old money? How is it an insult that this town is oblivious to old money? In my book, that's progress.

Nope. This poster understands, as I do, that everyone here going on about "DC people" are talking about themselves. They're just so busy thinking they're better than everyone else that lives here, that they don't realize it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coming from one of the oldest families in Europe, with a title and land that dates back more than a thousand years, I find this discussion of the american definition of Old Money very interesting.

Really? I always find it so entertaining (and so very American) to talk about Europe as if it were a country in and of itself, rather than a continent. Do enlighten us, would you?

[Anonymous]

To all the people who are debating this stupid topic...who really gives a fuck? Old money can be saved and spent just as easily as New money. You're not any better or worse because your family has had money for several generations.

And to the fucking losers who are using this as an excuse to bash the D.C. area...what is your problem? This is not about D.C. It's about rich snobs, which can be found anywhere. Go Fuck yourselves.

My New Year's resolution is to bash every rich snob that posts on DCUM asking stupid questions like this.

[Anonymous]

New perspective here: We are "new money." First in each of our families to graduate college, much less graduate school. Hard working and ethical. We both worked since we were 13. I worked full time from 15 on. I got straight As, went to school on scholarship and worked my ass off. We both made very good incomes in DC. My husband now makes over 1m a year and I am a SAHM. We NEVER forget were we came from, nor do we hide it. We are proud of it. We were taught hard work, thrift, money does not equal entitlement, nor happiness, etc.

We live in a nice home, drive nice, but relatively modest cars, save a ton, send our children to private schools, belong to a CC, but are very low key about everything. We value ethics, kindness, and an honest day's work more than logos and status. This applies across classes. We work on our spiritual life, our health, and spending time appreciating and preserving our great planet. We love people of all races, creeds, etc. Life is good and we are blessed to experience it without the worries our parents had. We hope our children will be contributors to society, good spouses/partners, parents, friends, and love whatever it is they choose to call God.

"New money" is not necessarily crass and without values. . ..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New perspective here: We are "new money." First in each of our families to graduate college, much less graduate school. Hard working and ethical. We both worked since we were 13. I worked full time from 15 on. I got straight As, went to school on scholarship and worked my ass off. We both made very good incomes in DC. My husband now makes over 1m a year and I am a SAHM. We NEVER forget were we came from, nor do we hide it. We are proud of it. We were taught hard work, thrift, money does not equal entitlement, nor happiness, etc.

We live in a nice home, drive nice, but relatively modest cars, save a ton, send our children to private schools, belong to a CC, but are very low key about everything. We value ethics, kindness, and an honest day's work more than logos and status. This applies across classes. We work on our spiritual life, our health, and spending time appreciating and preserving our great planet. We love people of all races, creeds, etc. Life is good and we are blessed to experience it without the worries our parents had. We hope our children will be contributors to society, good spouses/partners, parents, friends, and love whatever it is they choose to call God.

"New money" is not necessarily crass and without values. . ..

I think this can be why new money should be more of a good thing- what can be so bad about money that you worked yourself to accumulate??? Having a hard time understanding why money that is given is better than money that is earned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coming from one of the oldest families in Europe, with a title and land that dates back more than a thousand years, I find this discussion of the american definition of Old Money very interesting.

Really? I always find it so entertaining (and so very American) to talk about Europe as if it were a country in and of itself, rather than a continent. Do enlighten us, would you?

Because who cares, apart from skeptics like you? But while I'm waiting for the ball to drop...
Bergerac (fief), Gascogne (region), France (country). Coat of arms: "d'azur à 3 léopards d'or, onglés de gueules, et couronnés d'or". Sorry, not sure how to translate heraldic language in english.

By the way, you can imagine how the filthy lucre which interests us all frittered away in a thousand years... there is nothing left

Happy New Year!

[Anonymous]

Happy New Year to all those with money they wish to spend non-crassly, who wish to make sure others without money know that there can be good solid people out there with money, dammit, who drive sensible cars and who, despite their country club memberships , are low-key. I feel I can go to sleep now, knowing that there are a good stock of rich people in DC who will spend their money nonconspicuously and whose private-school educated children will know the value of the money that they have, which is a lot.

[Anonymous]

Heard second hand. Bill Crosby once said the first rich kids he ever met were his own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Heard second hand. Bill Crosby once said the first rich kids he ever met were his own.

Cute. Weird to note that you heard it second hand, though. I don't know anyone would assume you were in the room when he said it!

[Anonymous]

"And to the fucking losers who are using this as an excuse to bash the D.C. area...what is your problem? This is not about D.C. It's about rich snobs, which can be found anywhere. Go Fuck yourselves."

It's funny to me that D.C.'ers take issue with anyone pointing out how hostile the topic of money makes D.C.'ers. How exactly does one fuck oneself? Because you certainly could not pay for that reaction just anywhere!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
"And to the fucking losers who are using this as an excuse to bash the D.C. area...what is your problem? This is not about D.C. It's about rich snobs, which can be found anywhere. Go Fuck yourselves."

It's funny to me that D.C.'ers take issue with anyone pointing out how hostile the topic of money makes D.C.'ers. How exactly does one fuck oneself? Because you certainly could not pay for that reaction just anywhere!

Seriously, that's your question? When someone says they don't give a shit, do you say "gracious me, I hope not!"? Did you just walk off the set of Little House on the Prairie?

[Anonymous]

Hardly. You have NO idea. But you just keep talking, so we'll know what we already think.

[Anonymous]

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Hardly. You have NO idea. But you just keep talking, so we'll know what we already think.

Yes, you are amazing. You could ruin us all with a single phone call. A whole rainforest was plowed to panel the walls of your library. We know, we know. You don't have to go fuck yourself because you have people to do that for you.

[Anonymous]

Yuck. You people are not nice. What in heavens name is wrong with you?

[Anonymous]

Competition for limited resources brings out the nasty in people.