55 Times Rich People Showed How Far From Reality They Are

When one of the execs at work said "I'm going to The Hamptons this weekend" in a Thurston Howell voice - and that's his voice.

I had a roommate in college who flew her horses from coast to coast each semester. She lived in San Francisco and we went to college in New York, and she had her horses flown to a stable in each city depending on where she was each semester.
She also ordered takeout steamed broccoli. Just literally delivery of steamed broccoli.
She didn’t know how to do laundry so she had everything dry cleaned including her sheets and socks.

They complain about money and their business not making enough and fears of poverty, all while having a housemaid a nanny , 2m dollar house in an affluent neighborhood, three 100k+ vehicles, a 250k+ rv.

They treat time as the most expensive thing they own.

Instead of saving money, they pay to remove inconvenience immediately, meals, travel, errands, or problems, without hesitation or guilt, because their default assumption is that time is never worth trading for money.

I have a billionaire friend. When I landed at the airport he said he’d send someone to get me. They picked me up in a helicopter.

BIL and his wife are both physicians a few years out of residency. She makes over $500k and he makes around $400k. They take the family out to fancy dinners about once a month and always spend more than a grand on wine alone. I can't fathom that kind of wasteful spending. I'd work for 10 years and retire with an upper middle class life. We try and get the family to come to our house for dinner so we can reciprocate but they always just say let's eat out and pick a restaurant we can't afford (we are both PhD scientists with high credentials but science in the public sector pays really bad nowadays). They pay for the dinners but boy I wish I could contribute sometimes.

They casually mentioned bringing their sailboat from Hawaii up to Seattle for the summer. I asked how long it takes to sail it.

They said they have it shipped each way for convenience.

Another tenant in the same building was having a kitchen remodel, so they decided to buy a home in the sf mission district to have someplace to go in the meantime.

If you know Seattle you might know the building.

After i said i couldnt afford to travel, rich person told me to get a job that’s only "fun money" ... i had 3 jobs at the time.

different rich person told me she didnt know there are people out there without insurance. "how do you go to the doctor?" that’s the neat part! you dont!

Cut down a bunch of old trees to build a personal par 4 golf course hole, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars levelling the ground to make it flat, and then literally played on it twice in five years. 

Also if you ever wonder why we have such bad inflation - the answer is here in this thread with hundreds of examples.

Don’t know how to checkout in a supermarket.

Watching my FIL drop a months worth of rent (4k) in one day, to fuel his boat.

I've got friends who make huge money.
They often invite me to come on holidays with them.
They treat a international holiday as if it's just like heading to the coast for a weekend.

When I told my friend my dream car was a G wagon and he told me to dream bigger…. Found out that was his first car in HS.

Standing on a dock with my secondhand kayak and overhearing a mega-yacht owner talking about the annoying problem the crew was having with her onboard dishwasher.

They have no problem asking for discounts for services. They never hesitate when it comes to buying themselves something to spend any amount of money. But when it comes to paying other people, they want you to do everything for less.

Friend had a new lambo, someone crashed into his at 20 MPH but it was a total with 400 miles on it, brand new. He acted like it didn’t matter and when I went to his house he had two new Ferraris and a Bentley. I asked him why and he said the dealership said if he wanted to buy the one special Ferrari he had to buy the others. I still don’t really understand it but he spent an extra 600K so he could get the one car he wanted.

The story started with - “Urgh, so I had to fly first class commercial…”

To a room full of normal people. Read the room 🙄.

They’re rich, but they get so much for free because they all do each other favors.

When I was in my early 20’s, my friend asked why I was buying a used car bc it was going to break down sooner than a new one.

I used to work in cabinetry and saw a woman fully renovate her kitchen every 3 years. I sold this same woman 3 kitchens. For one house, she wasn't flipping them, I saw the blueprints with my previous notes on them. .