30 Of The Most Interesting Things People Spotted Rich People Doing Casually

When being surprised that airlines will allow a larger-looking backpack in the overhead, he said "Oh, it's been so long since I've flown commercially, I had no idea." 

He said it in such a shy manner like he was embarrassed to say he flies privately. This is a 75 year old that looks like he's a regular middle class Joe and gives off no hint that he's extremely wealthy.

I once saw Jeff Bezos pay $100,000 to get a guy off the stage at an auction event. The guy on stage wasn’t going to leave until he reached his goal, and Jeff was tired of listening to him. Bye Felicia. $$.

Most of my clients are multi-millionaires, and most of them do *everything* casually.

Especially housing. They have zero concern of what stuff costs, and will approve nearly anything. I once set the alarm off at a clients ski house, and I called them to tell them its just me, i'd never talked to this particular client before andI told them to ignore it. They didn't even ask me to verify who I was and at the time I had no reason to think it wasn't *just* their second home. They were very appreciative of the phone call but said "which house was it?" which caught me off guard and I said "oh at the ski resort" they said "yeah, but which one?" i died inside. It was a 8-ish million dollar home and in the whole 2 years i'd worked for them at that point, they'd never even been here. I later learn their family has expensive homes at nearly every popular ski resort in north america.

Another example is im currently doing a remodel. It is the THIRD full remodel in 10 years at this multi million dollar house/condo. They remodel the house everytime a new kid is born in the family. This is a half million dollar remodel to undue exactly what we did 4 years a go, which was 300k ish remodel. Other clients i've seen replace their full kitchen appliances every 3-5 years. They have to have the absolutely brand new stuff. They're also super crazy and don't want the stuff sold, they're worried about the "PR" so i have to provide proof 30k in appliances were in fact scraped at the landfill.

Our world is broken.

**tbf** about 20% of them are really nice people, introduce themselves, even cook for me. They give great bonuses and are generally good humans, they're happy to have someone they can trust, and they do trust, they let my friends stay at their million dollar Nth homes for free, but these people are almost exclusively the rare rich that are rich through labor. People who spent 40-50 years in law or medicine. Contractors who got lucky. The occasional crypt "bro" who was blue collar, gambled life savings and won. The ones that are cliche rich, the born intos, the fortune 500s. They're a******s, and have called me "the help" more than once.

I had a friend of mine casually ask if I wanted to go to Dubai for a week to do some skydiving training in a couple of weeks. My response was "no, I have to work for a living". Blew my mind when they asked me like it was no biggie to duck out for a week and blow $15k.

My millionaire aunt scoffing at the idea that my single mother taking care of me and my younger brother couldn’t find a place to live because $3,000/month is “easily affordable.”

Edit: $3,000/month being the average rent in the area.

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I photograph luxury homes and architecture for a living. There’s a neighborhood I do a lot of work in called Silverleaf and it’s probably the most exclusive neighborhood in the valley. The bottom part of the neighborhood is your typical wealthy people's homes. Doctors, lawyers, business owners, etc.. extremely nice houses but still attainable for anyone who wants to put in the effort to work those types of careers.

As you drive towards the back of the neighborhood you start heading up a mountain that's divided into two parts. Upper Canyon and The Summit. There are probably 100 houses up there. The houses start close to 15 million, but several are over 20-30. One of the builders I work with is developing a house he’s asking about 60 million for.

I work Upper Canyon every month or two and even though all of the houses are owned, half or less are lived in. For some, it’s a vacation home they might visit for a few weeks or months of the year, and for others, it’s an investment and a place to park their money.

I photographed a 15-million-dollar house there a few years ago. The owner was selling it because he bought a 29 million dollar house literally 2 or 3 lots up because he liked the views more. He’s a Canadian business owner and spends maybe a few months of the year in the valley if that.

I’m used to it now but for a long time I couldn’t wrap my head around how much money some people have…..

Contactor here. lady did not like the shape of the pool at the new house.Gets the job to change the shape. Does the job. So I tell her we can guarantee the workmanship for 5 years, but not any longer. She says cool, we are only here for 3.

In 1994, I watched the CEO and founder of my employer, with an estimated net worth of at least $100 million, drop a twenty-dollar bill and other bills on the sidewalk. He glanced at it and then kept walking.

Had one of the outside salesmen drop in and we were talking about clothes for some reason. He said he donates his clothes to charity every year so he doesn't buy the "very expensive shirts"... his shirts are $300 each. Then he tells me he does buy "decent" shoes though. He showed me a company online where most of the shoes cost more than my car. How do we work for the same company and live that differently?