59 Bizarre Luxuries And Everyday Habits That Come With Being Insanely Rich

I worked for a foreign born billionaire that hated paying US taxes even though he lived here. The IRS would follow him to the airport and watch him board his private jet and fly back to Europe for a day so he wouldn't be a legal resident. The tax laws are written by and for the wealthy.

House Managers that schedule all the cleaning of the rooms, laundry, order groceries and supplies and keep the staff running smoothly doing everything that needs to be done.

Not paying or carrying money.

When you own the restaurant and the hotel and the farms and the shops you don't pay. You just use your stuff.

Seasonal addresses. I worked in development for a large university (i.e. fundraising). Many rich people live in 2-4 mansions based on the weather season. Most just had two regular addresses, but some people had as many as four.

I am working with rich teenagers for the first time, and they all network like crazy. Poor kids don't realize that to get into college, get high school internships, get jobs, they should be cold emailing professors, authors, etc. just to 'connect' over a shared interest, or say something complimentary to them. The rich kids have 1 million ways that they get ahead in life, but this is one that is more accessible to poor kids if they only realized that if they cold email 20 university professors as freshman in high school, a couple may respond and really smooth their way as they grow up.

We were offered a service where the day or two before our vacation, a car would pick up our checked bags for us. We'd fly with just carry on and when we arrived at the hotel, our bags were there waiting for us. That seemed super convenient and something that would be worth something that most wouldnt think about.

Borrow against their assets to avoid paying taxes on gains.

I remember reading a comment on a (pretty much identical) thread where someone was saying they rebound entire private libraries worth of books because some people want the content of their shelves to fit the aesthetics of their homes. They said people pay hundred of thousands for this nonsensical service.

Concierge service from high end credit cards. My uncle has a centurion card ( the Amex black card) he wanted to goto the final four 3 days before it started. Made one phone call to Amex. They booked his flights, hotel, car service, tickets and dinners. He didn’t have to do a thing he just gets sent an email saying here’s everything.

Working with exponentially less effort to make exponentially more money. Poor people don’t even think it’s possible even if they hear it’s an option.

I’ve worked for people who have a house man who travels ahead of them to whatever home they’re going to. He makes sure their clothing is ready and laundered, beds are fresh, florals are fresh, prescriptions are filled, groceries are stocked, meals are prepped, gardener and housemaids are clicking along and cars are serviced. They have different staff, clothing and cars in each home, so they dont pack. Or carry luggage. They fly private in the jet they own.

Buy houses they don’t live in.

Little to no country borders. Customs barely exist when you fly private.

Live life without shame. Significantly easier to become and stay wealthy if you aren't distracted by how your actions impact others. Nearly impossible if you have a sense of empathy or concern for others. Obviously a range in between, but that's it at the extreme.

I don't think it's a conscious choice in any of us to be one or the other; it's all up to the genetic hand we were dealt and the environments and people who showed us what "normal" was as we grew from babies to adults.

Source: 30+ years working in IT for wealth management firms and observing billionaire behavior from a very short distance while having access to their balance sheets.

Buying everything under a "corporation" nothing in their names.

Never ask or consider the price, if it’s what you need you get it.

Being able to solve almost any inconvenience by throwing money at it. For most people, problems cost time. For rich people, they just have a price tag.

You can create a trust online to protect your assets from probate when you pass away. Your family/heirs don’t have to go to court to prove their ownership, can avoid unnecessary taxes/lawyer fees.

Never touch luggage, including packing or unpacking. Your clean clothes just appear, already put away, in your hotel room. At the end of your trip you don’t touch the dirty laundry, it just reappears, clean and nicely put away at your house.

Rich people get tutors for their kids. The tutors show up to the house and work 1:1, for whatever subjects the parents think would be cool to have a tutor in. Maybe the kid isn't doing well. Maybe doing just fine. Parents pay the tutors a modest brick of money for this.

Generally, "the less rich" you are, the less likely you are to know that there's even such a thing as tutors. (Or: maybe you know, but you somehow got the impression that tutors exist, but are just for remedial work.)

When I was in university, I worked as a tutor (paid and volunteer) for high school kids, in several subjects. It paid bills! And tutoring some subjects kept me them fresh in my mind. (If you walk away from linear algebra for ten years and come back, it'll just look like a scary ransom note made out of letters and numbers.)