Anonymous
Post 10/19/2020 17:37     Subject: Re:Signs you are a YUPPIE

Anonymous wrote:Maybe OP meant preppy... but I am not even sure if that is a thing anymore these days


I would argue OP and the Whole Foods/Apple PP are still "preppy" but in an almost self-parodying and try-hard kind of way way.
Anonymous
Post 10/19/2020 17:32     Subject: Re:Signs you are a YUPPIE

Maybe OP meant preppy... but I am not even sure if that is a thing anymore these days
Anonymous
Post 10/19/2020 17:29     Subject: Signs you are a YUPPIE

Aren't all the yuppies now in their 70s? And are probably now neither young, nor urban, nor professionals?
Anonymous
Post 10/19/2020 17:29     Subject: Signs you are a YUPPIE

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I can admit we’re yuppies:

- Starbucks latte every morning

- Shop at WF, especially for fish and cheese

- Spent $100K on renovations to our house

- Completely networked Apple devices, including two Home Pods, three iPads, and WiFi-enabled lights and fans that we can control from our phones

- Bar cart on our main level that DH uses to make old fashions

- Nespresso machine

- Subscriptions to the NYTimes and The Economist


you guys sounds pretty basic


It’s almost embarrassing.
Anonymous
Post 10/19/2020 17:28     Subject: Signs you are a YUPPIE

Anonymous wrote:Is the term still Yuppie? That’s so late 80s/early 90s


I think people don’t even really know what it originally meant. It just seems to mean well off these days.
Anonymous
Post 10/19/2020 17:27     Subject: Signs you are a YUPPIE

Old-fashioneds.
Anonymous
Post 10/19/2020 17:25     Subject: Signs you are a YUPPIE

Anonymous wrote:I can admit we’re yuppies:

- Starbucks latte every morning

- Shop at WF, especially for fish and cheese

- Spent $100K on renovations to our house

- Completely networked Apple devices, including two Home Pods, three iPads, and WiFi-enabled lights and fans that we can control from our phones

- Bar cart on our main level that DH uses to make old fashions

- Nespresso machine

- Subscriptions to the NYTimes and The Economist


you guys sounds pretty basic
Anonymous
Post 10/19/2020 17:19     Subject: Signs you are a YUPPIE

Is the term still Yuppie? That’s so late 80s/early 90s
Anonymous
Post 10/19/2020 17:17     Subject: Signs you are a YUPPIE

I can admit we’re yuppies:

- Starbucks latte every morning

- Shop at WF, especially for fish and cheese

- Spent $100K on renovations to our house

- Completely networked Apple devices, including two Home Pods, three iPads, and WiFi-enabled lights and fans that we can control from our phones

- Bar cart on our main level that DH uses to make old fashions

- Nespresso machine

- Subscriptions to the NYTimes and The Economist
Anonymous
Post 10/19/2020 17:15     Subject: Signs you are a YUPPIE

Anonymous wrote:Just for fun!

I'll start:

- Shop exclusively at WF
- Drink G&T
- Have a special organic dog food delivery subscription
- Patagonia Fleece
- 3k per month 1 bedroom on 14th Street
- Read the New Yorker


Fleece is so 2000. It's now a puffy.
Anonymous
Post 10/19/2020 17:14     Subject: Signs you are a YUPPIE

Anonymous wrote:no idea what WF is, so glad I'm not one- I guess


WF= Whole Foods

GT= gin and tonic.??
Anonymous
Post 10/19/2020 17:10     Subject: Re:Signs you are a YUPPIE

Just hired packers for a recent move.
Anonymous
Post 10/19/2020 17:03     Subject: Re:Signs you are a YUPPIE

Rode the orange line to work (pre-covid)
Anonymous
Post 10/19/2020 17:02     Subject: Signs you are a YUPPIE

no idea what WF is, so glad I'm not one- I guess
Anonymous
Post 10/19/2020 16:59     Subject: Signs you are a YUPPIE

Just for fun!

I'll start:

- Shop exclusively at WF
- Drink G&T
- Have a special organic dog food delivery subscription
- Patagonia Fleece
- 3k per month 1 bedroom on 14th Street
- Read the New Yorker