‘Tailored bespoke clothing’: Regular folks share the ‘rich person things’ they’d adopt if they made it big

We love to think about what we’d do if we won the lottery. Often it comes down to pretty simple things: clothes, houses, travel. Most of us would just get nicer versions of things we already have. Okay, maybe I’d buy a flamethrower and a hyperrealistic oil painting of my cat, but mostly I’d just …
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‘Browse Zillow sorting from high to low’: Regular folks share what they’d do if they became billionaires overnight

It’s a fun thought exercise to do every now and then- what would you do if you won the lottery? Sure, you might have long-term plans of buying houses and ending world hunger, but what would be the very first thing you’d do? Here’s mine. If it happened right now, I would walk out of …
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‘Big mistake. HUGE!’: Customer has real-life Pretty Woman moment with retail Karen

I’ve always wanted to walk into a store and prove everyone wrong with my ability to purchase a wildly expensive item. So far, it’s yet to happen, but there’s always time. When I’m traveling, if I have some downtime, I like to wander into big, fancy designer stores just to look around and people-watch. I …
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The Weird, Unknown Jobs That Actually Pay Really Well

Everybody’s got a gig these days. Whether you’re a full-time working stiff or a freewheeling freelancer, you’ve found a niche and you’re filling it. Some niches are niche-er than others, though. Some jobs are obvious and straightforward. We know we need teachers, servers, doctors, and Memebase editors, but what about the jobs that are a …
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Redditors Share the Quiet Luxury Brands We’re Too Broke to Know About

The phrase «quiet luxury» has entered the lexicon in the past couple of years to signify a new kind of style for the uber-wealthy. Not just for the regular rich, but for the Jeff Bezos and Logan Roy type of rich. Apparently, for the 1% of the 1%, logos are out and unidentifiable, yet somehow …
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Redditors Condemn Infuriatingly Unrelatable Things That Rich People Say

Rich people: they’re just like us! Apart from the fact that they have access to an amount of money most of us can barely dream of, of course. While not all of those who are rich are horrible about it, they do have a tendency to be a little… out of touch. Problem is, most …
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People Consider The Most Out-of-Touch Sentiments Rich People Have Expressed to Them

Rich people, right? It’s pretty easy to discern who grew up with wealth with a quick conversation. Not to say that’s an inherently bad thing; some of my closest friends are complete trust fund babies. It’s just that there’s an inherent disconnect between those who grew up with and without money. One of the most …
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Redditors Discuss the Unrealistic Expectation of Earning $100k+

Money splits opinion in so many different ways, but one factor that most of us can agree on is that we would like to have more of it. Those on an average salary often feel like security they really want in life is just out of reach, and there are even rich people who feel …
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Twitter Reacts To Mega Rich Texas High School With a Food Court Cafeteria And College-Level Football Facilities

If you are not from Houston or Dallas-Fort Worth, you do not know the depth and breadth of Texas high school football. I don’t care if you’ve watched and read Friday Night Lights, it is even more intense than you can ever imagine. Public high schools in Texas spend millions of taxpayer dollars every year …
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People Discuss What It’s Like to Grow Up Poor

If you know, you know. Growing up without a lot of money is a pretty specific experience. Obviously, the degree to which you experienced financial woe is a sliding scale. No one person’s experience is the same as the next. The main things that I remember, at least from childhood, are things like utilizing the …
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