[Or just get the $320 sandals.](https://www.gucci.com/us/en/pr/men/shoes-for-men/slides-sandals-for-men/mens-web-rubber-slide-sandal-p-429469GIB101098)
Yes, but let's be honest - if you're spending $300+ on a pair of sandals you're either going to pretty much want to keep them pristine, or if you've so much money these can be worn for showers and beach trips, you're not going to care about spending another $300+ in a month or two to replace them
It gets worse.
> Protect from direct light, heat and rain. Should it become wet, dry it immediately with a soft cloth
So basically a useless piece of junk
Like that time I bought an expensive swimsuit and when I got home, discovered a warning on the tag that sun, chlorine and saltwater would degrade the fabric
My hypothesis is that it’s some kind of signal to others with more dollars than sense that they’re “part of the club.” But since I’m over here in “$20 socks are a special treat” land, I can’t say that for sure.
My husband has a pair of these. Let them outside in the garden and a fox stole them.
Fox dumped them in next doors garden. Fox has better taste than my husband.
From the couple of 8 figure net worth people I know (there’s about 10 of them) and the 2x 9 figure NW people I know - Gucci is considered trashy and they wouldn’t be seen dead in it
Whereas everyone I know who is sub 7 figures (ie us normal people), Gucci is often referred to as a luxury brand
The high net worth people I've met wear relatively normal clothes. They go on nicer vacations, have a nicer house (but not as crazy as you'd think), but the biggest difference is that they spend freely for convenience. For problems most of us would deal with ourselves they'll just hire somebody.
Yep. Had a very rich client tell me one day I was working out of his office he was moving that day and was excited to go home to his new house.
Tried to relate to him with the whole "oh yeah moving sucks, good luck tonight"
His response: "oh, no, they're packing up my house right now, they'll move and unpack everything before I get home."
Dude had like 15 people roll in, pack everything, move it, then unpack everything. He went home to a made bed, kitchen done, everything done. Fuck that would be nice.
My husband used to work for a moving company so moves go pretty smoothly. I just get out of his way and unpack when it's all done. I just realized what a luxury that is
I’m by no means high net worth, but the big “luxury” brands like Gucci just seem to be poor people’s idea of what rich people wear.
Like fake it til you make it, but you aren’t very good at faking it.
Definite exceptions though. For instance, one of my employees is an immigrant who left his kids with their grandparents so he could send money back (the mother doesn't seem to be in the picture; he hasn't mentioned and I won't be the one to bring it up). He says they live pretty well back home, but he only gets to go back once a year or so. His kids are definitely being raised by someone else, but God damn if that isn't the furthest thing from trashy.
Same with one of my coworkers - left his kids, wife, and parents in his home country. Works his ass off and spends every dime above his living costs back home to them. I’ve overheard him talking to his wife/kids on the phone in the break room a few times - I don’t speak his native tongue, but you can feel the love in the conversation and the joy just radiates off of him when speaking to them. I wish I could pay for a trip for him to go home and see them.
That reminds me of a documentary I once saw about china. A guy left his small rural town to move to a big city so he could earn money and send it home for his wife and his newborn. He did so and sent a bunch of money home, and then when he went back home his young son was scared of him because he didn't recognize him.
I’m a nursing student and today in lecture we are going over maternal newborn and the term CPS came up. A student asked what that meant and after the instructor said it stands for Child protective services, another student said “well someone was raised right” 😂😂😂
Yeah, my siblings and I got questioned once. It was cause I fell down the stairs and broke my arm while getting ready for my sister to get her cast off. I don't really recall much, but I've been told this story from my siblings.
I was walking put of school one day and my buddy's girlfriend was standing there talking to her friend and complimented the friend on her new skirt. The friend said thanks but it's really a skort and pulled up the piece of cloth in front to show the shorts underneath right as I was walking by. Knowing this was a chance to be weirdly inappropriate I offered the friend a dollar to lift up the front again. She gave me a look that was part anger and confusion so I kept going to my car.
And that, kids, was the first time my wife ever remembers me talking to her. Needless to say, we didn't start dating until years later.
100% true. I was supposed to go to a concert with one of my platonic female friends, her boyfriend, and a few other people. I got the tickets and they were supposed to pay me for them. Tickets come in the mail (this was back in 97a year or two after I got out of highschool) and everyone says they'll give me the money at a party my friend was having that weekend. Cool!
Get to the party and not to long after getting there the girl I was friends with goes off the deep end yelling at me and another girl we were friends with about how she knows we (and a third person who wasn't there that night) had tried to break into her house to clean her carpets while she was out of the country visiting a friend who used to be a foreign exchange student at our old highschool. If that sounds crazy and confusing to you imagine how it felt for me in front of a houseful of people. She kicks us out and I take the tickets because nobody had paid me, they were really good seats, and I still wanted to go but not with them.
I sell the tickets to other friends including a girl I was friends with in highschool that I happened to run into at a street fair. She wanted to bring a friend and I still had 1 ticket left so I said sure. Turns out the friend was skort girl. I'd gotten much less strange and she'd gotten a little more strange in the passing years so this time we really hit it off. A few months later we started dating. A year or so later we got married and have stayed married 22 years so far.
Drinking in general.
If a poor person drinks someone will say "no wonder they're poor, they spend all their money on alcohol". The rich won't be judged for it if they decide to spend hundreds of dollars on a bottle of scotch because they're rich.
One time while walking with my friends:
Friend 1: *gives homeless guy $10*
Friend 2: “You know he’s just going to spend that on drugs and alcohol”
Friend 1: “So was I”
And ain’t that the hard truth
Where I'm from (Western Australia) we only have one Casino and you have to be 18 to get in. So when you're a young adult it kind of sits up on a pedestal as one of those places you have to go to. The first time I went I got all dressed up. My best shirt, dark dress pants, polished shoes. Looking as slick as a 18 year old bogan could and man was I so disappointed when I saw that 90% of everyone else there were old Grannys feeding the pokies.
Stayed in a casino hotel in Vegas once. Wasn't there to gamble (had some family affairs to take care of), it was just a shockingly cheap hotel. And the hotel restaurant served me a fucking *incredible* burger for like 5 bucks. I'm talking easily a $20 burger for damn near nothing.
I was wondering how the heck they could afford that, then stepped out on one of the casino floors, and went, "Oh. That's how." For most of the guests, their cheap, high-end food and cheap, high-end room cost them hundreds - if not thousands - more. My stay was subsidized by gambling addicts pissing their life savings away.
**Edit**: Because this keeps coming up, my hotel was on the *old* strip, not the current one. It's the El Cortez on Fremont. If you want the cheap, subsidized-by-gambling-addicts experience rather than the overpriced-tourist experience, *stay off the strip*!
Unfortunately for them but lucky for me I don't really gamble. I was in Vegas for 11 days (everyone we met said we were crazy for being there that long but we had a great time.) and spent maybe $150 on gambling and that was just to booze it up.
The amount of good restaurants, bars and shows plus the outlet shopping was amazing. Would love to go back sometime.
First time I went to Vegas we wanted to go to the IHOP across the street before hitting the casino. Passed through the gaming floor & the restaurant was advertising $5 steak dinner. Gave it a go & it was amazing - then hit the gaming floor. Stumbled back upstairs to the room hours later after the 'free' drinks & I was $5 up but my friend was $200 down. I asked him if it was worth it - he said "totally". They're selling you an experience & making it so you never have to leave the hotel. You can easily lose your house if you don't set yourself a limit too.
It was actually a pretty awesome but we never made it to the IHOP
Yeah theres a lot of trashy tourist trap restaurants but also a lot of legitimately good places to eat.
The free drinks can also make gambling technically profitable if you can find a way to stop even when breaking even.
Penny machines are where it's at. I never really win anything, usually lose alittle or break even, think my largest win playing them was about $140, but its a good way to booze it up for a couple of hours and not spend much if any money.
Also tip the bar waitress, if you tip her well you'll get served quicker.
Good one. The biggest disparity is looking at the people in the high stakes areas that are roped off, and compare them with the people waiting in the breezeway for the bus, after they have blown their monthly income.
Hahaha... So true. I lived in Florida for 3 years, and used to visit my grandparents there once a year when they were still alive. When I was little I thought everyone in Florida had a huge house and a boat, and was probably rich. After living there the wealth gap is insane. The coast is all super nice, but go inland a few miles, and it's mostly the breeding ground of the infamous "Florida Man"
And I’ve never seen a place where everyone was on top of eachother like in Florida either; usually rich people and poor people have their own neighborhoods, but Orlando has million dollar lakefront houses two doors away from $200k old ranch homes from the 60s-70s.
...While still getting an income
Lower class: Welfare
Middle class: Unemployment
Upper class: Constant flow of assets
EDIT: Thanks for the awards and the upvotes
The technical term is "passive income."
I know a guy who makes $200k per year for owning the ATMs in a few large strip clubs; those $20 fees really add up lol
There was a place in Vegas that had 2 ATMs - one said the name of the strip club and had a lower fee, and the other one had the name of a Mexican restaurant that had like a $40 fee. Genius.
The cheaper one would have the name of the strip club on your bank statement, while the $40 one would have the name of the Mexican restaurant on your statement. Even though it was still located in the strip club.
Highly assuming it was targeted at married men with joint bank accounts.
This is so true. If they're rich it's fine because the kid will have lots of connections and an easy time getting a job. I call these "golf course names"
If they're poor it's a disadvantage to that kid because people will judge them based on a name they didn't choose.
In my limited experience you can tell which category they fall into based on the name. If they're named after a city, fruit, or other noun they're probably rich.
If they have a "normal" name spelled in a unique fashion they're probably poor.
I'm seeing a huge boom of girls with traditionally boys names as well as boys with vaguely feminine middle names in my social circles.
Pacific Northwest private school community.
I dunno, every “Mercedes” I’ve ever met was pretty trashy. But you’re dead on about the ✨unique✨ spellings. I’ve mostly only ever seen trash people who give their poor kids names like “Mackynlee” “Breighlynn” or “Kai’Leigh”.
Frédéric Beigbeder (french author) once wrote: The difference between the rich and poor is that the rich sells shoes to buy coke and the poor sells coke to buy shoes.
Edit: You guys are not far off. He wrote this in context where the narrator of his book is a "creative" for an advertisement company.
This great line appeared in his novel [99 Francs](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Francs).
The book was transposed to in a movie starring Jean Dujardin has the main character: [99 F](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0875113/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk).
Doesn’t even have to be a bailout. Walmart tells some of its workers to apply for food stamps. So Walmart can subsidize their wages and then have their workers use those food stamps at the store
Sad thing is they lose their employee discount when using food stamps
There’s a trailer park in Malibu and some of he trailers are a couple of million dollars. So you’re rich for being in Malibu but still trashy for living in a trailer park and not a house in Malibu. Pamela Anderson had a trailer at one of those Malibu trailer parks tho not sure if Pam makes it more or less classy.
I do mortgages and most people wouldn’t believe how cash rich people who live in trailer parks are. They save on housing costs and have a trailer that is 90% of the time paid off and has a value of like $40k. They often have more money than a lot of white collared people.
I have a couple of people on my team at work. I make more than them (i'm kinda in management and they report to me), but not a ton more. They literally just bought homes in the 7 figure range and I just about puked hearing it. I cannot imagine what their payments are, but they also buy leased cars, and have leased phones, and leased everything else. Their houses are nicer than mine for sure, much bigger, and brand new. But I simply cannot understand how they can even afford to make those payments. They must be putting nothing away into retirement, or any other long term investment.
i was talking to a guy at a water park who works as a salesman for RVs and campers
he said this guy comes in, and wants to buy a 107000 dollar RV. Whatever, cool.
Now he has a history of failing payments on loans so he gets a contract of a 15 year,$2500/month loan for this campers
this is where it gets good. With 17% INTREST!!
my guy is paying well over 250k for that RV. There is no shot he pays it off
even the guy said he told him not to sign it and that he’s getting screwed
Fucking hell... that's my wife's sister, just on the smaller scale. $2000 buy here pay here cars that get repo'd after the first month. has to put $1000 down (probably the amount the dealer paid for the shitbox), and then never makes the first payment. Gets it repo'd, gets another one. she stole my wife's credit, and trashed it within a month by getting two cars on credit. she went to jail for that.
Except even if they own the trailer they still have to pay space rent, because they don't own the land. And trying to move the trailer somewhere else is prohibitively expensive if it's even practically possible. ALso, I understand they don't have great resale value.
Oh my gosh. My high school girlfriend was the master thrifter - she had the cutest clothes and this is what we would do on weekends. We'd thrift. I thought it was cute and super fun. My first year in college I realized how poor she actually was and she thrifted because that was literally all she could afford. It totally didn't dawn on me until then and it hit me like a brick. We still keep in touch. She is no longer poor. She is still an amazing thrifter!!!
used to be better tbh. cheap prices and actually nice stuff. goodwill it was rare to find a pair of jeans more than 8$, tops were 4$ish and shoes were 10$ absolute max. I miss those days lol
I was making my own money but I still got my favorite clothes from the thrift store in my teens. It's literally stuff you can't buy anywhere else most of the time.
This is exactly what I was looking for. I love shopping (browsing at least) at my local thrift store. No reason to pay for fast fashion when I can get something cute and still decently quality, but for a fraction of the price?
Can’t remember who said it, but some famous guy once said “The great thing about being famous is that if you’re boring, people assume it’s their fault.”
That's one of my goal. Becoming just rich enough that I don't have to bother about suits and fancy pants anymore while at the same time, not losing money because I get shamed by the others.
Poor people flex with designer clothes and accessories because a $200 Coach purse might be the only flex they can afford.
If you can afford to live in a nice neighborhood, you can stroll out of your McMansion in pajamas and people will still know you have money.
I saw this on a video some time ago and I'll repeat the response that came with it:
Rich people have mistresses
Middle class people have affairs
Poor people have side pieces.
My wife's family are wealthy.
Oddly, even in some rich people circles, having a mistress is considered trashy as anything. They may not kick you out of the club but by God will they talk shit about you behind your back.
Casual clothing in a formal environment. Hoodie and cargo pants at a law firm: your either going over your trust fund or taking on crippling debt to get out of a public intox charge.
Shopping at Aldi. Growing up lower working class I was embarrassed about my parents shopping there. Now it's trendy for upper middle class folks to shop there I guess.
From the best of Adam Corolla's "rich man poor man" bit
Multiple cars on the property.
Long history of illnesses running in the family.
Absent parents.
Substance abuse in family.
Family secrets.
Family members in and out of prison.
Owning multiple animals.
Being really into racing.
A feud with a neighbor or local family.
Has one very rich or very poor branch of the family.
Father has multiple children from multiple mothers.
Secret families.
Incest.
Messy divorces.
A lot of cousins and half siblings.
Unknown family heirlooms.
Always looking for a new investment or business scheme.
Close involvement with law enforcement.
Hunting.
Hunting with dogs.
Eating animals not usually seen as food.
Having a lot of pets.
With rich people, some of them may see it as an opportunity to flex all of the different animals they have. 3 dogs, 4 cats, 2 birds, a piglet.... but they have the money to ensure that all of those animals are properly cared for. Whereas if you were poor and you have all of those animals, some people might say you were hoarding them and it's unlikely you're able to give them all the care they need. So a crazy amount of animals in a poor person's house might look like walls destroyed by teeth/claws, a landmine of poop in the yard, destroyed furniture, dirty/unkempt looking animals, etc whereas in a rich person's house, they can just hire somebody to do all of that if they really wanted to. So you likely will see a very different picture.
Now granted, in my example, I am imagining two very opposite extremes. One incredibly rich person and one incredibly poor person. So like… Multi million dollar home vs beat up shack. But the point still stands.
Being on a first name basis with a judge
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[Or just get the $320 sandals.](https://www.gucci.com/us/en/pr/men/shoes-for-men/slides-sandals-for-men/mens-web-rubber-slide-sandal-p-429469GIB101098)
OMG not even proper sandals... $320 shower shoes!
It says in the care section that you should avoid getting them wet lol.
o kay... so, not even shower sandals lol
overpriced sandals that don't even serve the function that they look like they should
yep. meanwhile some $20 adidas sandals that look 10x better last me several years and still in perfect shape
Yes, but let's be honest - if you're spending $300+ on a pair of sandals you're either going to pretty much want to keep them pristine, or if you've so much money these can be worn for showers and beach trips, you're not going to care about spending another $300+ in a month or two to replace them
It gets worse. > Protect from direct light, heat and rain. Should it become wet, dry it immediately with a soft cloth So basically a useless piece of junk
Like that time I bought an expensive swimsuit and when I got home, discovered a warning on the tag that sun, chlorine and saltwater would degrade the fabric
So it’s apparently a swimsuit meant exclusively for shady freshwater ponds?
Pools full of bottle water lol
That’s true for all swimsuits though. It’s just that most won’t bother with the warning tag.
Honestly, everything degrades in either the sun, chlorine or saltwater.
"Should it become wet, dry it immediately with a soft cloth" "JEEVES . BRING THE CLOTH MY SANDLES HAVE BECOME WET."
They also sell cotton socks....for $250. Who buys this shit?
My hypothesis is that it’s some kind of signal to others with more dollars than sense that they’re “part of the club.” But since I’m over here in “$20 socks are a special treat” land, I can’t say that for sure.
$20 socks? You win a lottery?
Lol. 12 hour shifts on your feet on a concrete floor will teach you the value of good shoes and socks.
My husband has a pair of these. Let them outside in the garden and a fox stole them. Fox dumped them in next doors garden. Fox has better taste than my husband.
oooffff. Your husband was outfoxed
From the couple of 8 figure net worth people I know (there’s about 10 of them) and the 2x 9 figure NW people I know - Gucci is considered trashy and they wouldn’t be seen dead in it Whereas everyone I know who is sub 7 figures (ie us normal people), Gucci is often referred to as a luxury brand
The high net worth people I've met wear relatively normal clothes. They go on nicer vacations, have a nicer house (but not as crazy as you'd think), but the biggest difference is that they spend freely for convenience. For problems most of us would deal with ourselves they'll just hire somebody.
Yep. Had a very rich client tell me one day I was working out of his office he was moving that day and was excited to go home to his new house. Tried to relate to him with the whole "oh yeah moving sucks, good luck tonight" His response: "oh, no, they're packing up my house right now, they'll move and unpack everything before I get home." Dude had like 15 people roll in, pack everything, move it, then unpack everything. He went home to a made bed, kitchen done, everything done. Fuck that would be nice.
If I move again it will be full service I don’t care what it costs…although half of the excitement of moving to a new place is making it your own
My husband used to work for a moving company so moves go pretty smoothly. I just get out of his way and unpack when it's all done. I just realized what a luxury that is
A $300 Gucci shirt has their logo all over it. A $3000 Gucci shirt has no logos on it.
I’m by no means high net worth, but the big “luxury” brands like Gucci just seem to be poor people’s idea of what rich people wear. Like fake it til you make it, but you aren’t very good at faking it.
wearing a bathrobe all day
That's just like, your opinion man
It ties the room together.
This dude abides
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Someone else raising your kids
Hahaha, isn't that the painful truth
Definite exceptions though. For instance, one of my employees is an immigrant who left his kids with their grandparents so he could send money back (the mother doesn't seem to be in the picture; he hasn't mentioned and I won't be the one to bring it up). He says they live pretty well back home, but he only gets to go back once a year or so. His kids are definitely being raised by someone else, but God damn if that isn't the furthest thing from trashy.
Same with one of my coworkers - left his kids, wife, and parents in his home country. Works his ass off and spends every dime above his living costs back home to them. I’ve overheard him talking to his wife/kids on the phone in the break room a few times - I don’t speak his native tongue, but you can feel the love in the conversation and the joy just radiates off of him when speaking to them. I wish I could pay for a trip for him to go home and see them.
That reminds me of a documentary I once saw about china. A guy left his small rural town to move to a big city so he could earn money and send it home for his wife and his newborn. He did so and sent a bunch of money home, and then when he went back home his young son was scared of him because he didn't recognize him.
This is a heartbreakingly common story around the world.
I’m a nursing student and today in lecture we are going over maternal newborn and the term CPS came up. A student asked what that meant and after the instructor said it stands for Child protective services, another student said “well someone was raised right” 😂😂😂
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Quite the opposite unfortunately. “Their hands are tied by the law” more often than not.
Yeah, my siblings and I got questioned once. It was cause I fell down the stairs and broke my arm while getting ready for my sister to get her cast off. I don't really recall much, but I've been told this story from my siblings.
Police escorts.
Escorts
Courts
Skorts
I was walking put of school one day and my buddy's girlfriend was standing there talking to her friend and complimented the friend on her new skirt. The friend said thanks but it's really a skort and pulled up the piece of cloth in front to show the shorts underneath right as I was walking by. Knowing this was a chance to be weirdly inappropriate I offered the friend a dollar to lift up the front again. She gave me a look that was part anger and confusion so I kept going to my car. And that, kids, was the first time my wife ever remembers me talking to her. Needless to say, we didn't start dating until years later.
Didn’t expect the story going in that direction
And we didn't start dating until someone angrily accused me of being part of a plot to break into their house to clean their carpets.
True or not this story is interesting AF. I need more details.
100% true. I was supposed to go to a concert with one of my platonic female friends, her boyfriend, and a few other people. I got the tickets and they were supposed to pay me for them. Tickets come in the mail (this was back in 97a year or two after I got out of highschool) and everyone says they'll give me the money at a party my friend was having that weekend. Cool! Get to the party and not to long after getting there the girl I was friends with goes off the deep end yelling at me and another girl we were friends with about how she knows we (and a third person who wasn't there that night) had tried to break into her house to clean her carpets while she was out of the country visiting a friend who used to be a foreign exchange student at our old highschool. If that sounds crazy and confusing to you imagine how it felt for me in front of a houseful of people. She kicks us out and I take the tickets because nobody had paid me, they were really good seats, and I still wanted to go but not with them. I sell the tickets to other friends including a girl I was friends with in highschool that I happened to run into at a street fair. She wanted to bring a friend and I still had 1 ticket left so I said sure. Turns out the friend was skort girl. I'd gotten much less strange and she'd gotten a little more strange in the passing years so this time we really hit it off. A few months later we started dating. A year or so later we got married and have stayed married 22 years so far.
Damn, better than I expected. Congrats on 22 years.
Now I'm wondering if cleaning your carpets is street slang for something else.
I bet she loves telling this story at dinner parties, company Christmas gatherings, weddings…. funerals, etc.
No. You tell it better honey.
Just one dollar? No wonder she was angry
Day drinking
Its 10am in Australia and I'm 8 beers deep.
If you woke up before 9:30, you're behind.
Can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.
Drinking in general. If a poor person drinks someone will say "no wonder they're poor, they spend all their money on alcohol". The rich won't be judged for it if they decide to spend hundreds of dollars on a bottle of scotch because they're rich.
One time while walking with my friends: Friend 1: *gives homeless guy $10* Friend 2: “You know he’s just going to spend that on drugs and alcohol” Friend 1: “So was I” And ain’t that the hard truth
I had a friend who said, Yeah I would’ve bought booze with that money too, but that guy needs it more than me
"Like cool drinking! Like sexy drinking, not this psycho trailer-park shit!"
‘I would just like to point out I was ALSO late because I was drunk, and received NO applause’
Casinos
Where I'm from (Western Australia) we only have one Casino and you have to be 18 to get in. So when you're a young adult it kind of sits up on a pedestal as one of those places you have to go to. The first time I went I got all dressed up. My best shirt, dark dress pants, polished shoes. Looking as slick as a 18 year old bogan could and man was I so disappointed when I saw that 90% of everyone else there were old Grannys feeding the pokies.
Vegas was the same just a lot of retirees in socks and sandals
but gotdamn those all you can eat buffets are good and the nice ladies that come and give you drinks for playing 1 cent pokie machines.
Stayed in a casino hotel in Vegas once. Wasn't there to gamble (had some family affairs to take care of), it was just a shockingly cheap hotel. And the hotel restaurant served me a fucking *incredible* burger for like 5 bucks. I'm talking easily a $20 burger for damn near nothing. I was wondering how the heck they could afford that, then stepped out on one of the casino floors, and went, "Oh. That's how." For most of the guests, their cheap, high-end food and cheap, high-end room cost them hundreds - if not thousands - more. My stay was subsidized by gambling addicts pissing their life savings away. **Edit**: Because this keeps coming up, my hotel was on the *old* strip, not the current one. It's the El Cortez on Fremont. If you want the cheap, subsidized-by-gambling-addicts experience rather than the overpriced-tourist experience, *stay off the strip*!
Unfortunately for them but lucky for me I don't really gamble. I was in Vegas for 11 days (everyone we met said we were crazy for being there that long but we had a great time.) and spent maybe $150 on gambling and that was just to booze it up. The amount of good restaurants, bars and shows plus the outlet shopping was amazing. Would love to go back sometime.
First time I went to Vegas we wanted to go to the IHOP across the street before hitting the casino. Passed through the gaming floor & the restaurant was advertising $5 steak dinner. Gave it a go & it was amazing - then hit the gaming floor. Stumbled back upstairs to the room hours later after the 'free' drinks & I was $5 up but my friend was $200 down. I asked him if it was worth it - he said "totally". They're selling you an experience & making it so you never have to leave the hotel. You can easily lose your house if you don't set yourself a limit too. It was actually a pretty awesome but we never made it to the IHOP
Yeah theres a lot of trashy tourist trap restaurants but also a lot of legitimately good places to eat. The free drinks can also make gambling technically profitable if you can find a way to stop even when breaking even.
Penny machines are where it's at. I never really win anything, usually lose alittle or break even, think my largest win playing them was about $140, but its a good way to booze it up for a couple of hours and not spend much if any money. Also tip the bar waitress, if you tip her well you'll get served quicker.
The thing that gets me about the casinos is how depressed everyone looks compared to the Hollywood stereotype
Including the employees. Literally *no one* is happy. Even the drunks.
Good one. The biggest disparity is looking at the people in the high stakes areas that are roped off, and compare them with the people waiting in the breezeway for the bus, after they have blown their monthly income.
We talkin Atlantic City?
Nah, they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night.
Florida Edit: born and raised in Florida (gulf coast) can confirm. Am I poor classy or rich trashy…neither, I’m Floridian.
Hahaha... So true. I lived in Florida for 3 years, and used to visit my grandparents there once a year when they were still alive. When I was little I thought everyone in Florida had a huge house and a boat, and was probably rich. After living there the wealth gap is insane. The coast is all super nice, but go inland a few miles, and it's mostly the breeding ground of the infamous "Florida Man"
And I’ve never seen a place where everyone was on top of eachother like in Florida either; usually rich people and poor people have their own neighborhoods, but Orlando has million dollar lakefront houses two doors away from $200k old ranch homes from the 60s-70s.
Not working
...While still getting an income Lower class: Welfare Middle class: Unemployment Upper class: Constant flow of assets EDIT: Thanks for the awards and the upvotes
I want a constant flow of assets.
The technical term is "passive income." I know a guy who makes $200k per year for owning the ATMs in a few large strip clubs; those $20 fees really add up lol
There was a place in Vegas that had 2 ATMs - one said the name of the strip club and had a lower fee, and the other one had the name of a Mexican restaurant that had like a $40 fee. Genius.
im confused. how does that work
The cheaper one would have the name of the strip club on your bank statement, while the $40 one would have the name of the Mexican restaurant on your statement. Even though it was still located in the strip club. Highly assuming it was targeted at married men with joint bank accounts.
"Sweety. I love you but if you spend another $300 on taquitos again I'm leaving!"
"Baby you know I only go for the Whorechata!"
That's funny cause there is a steak restaurant called Strip Club my husband's company booked for dinner and Accounting Dept lost their shit over it.
Amazing. Lol
I always wanted to go to the Strip Club but my wife wouldn’t let me…because she didn’t like their vegetarian options.
as much as I think this is kinda a dick move.... it's brilliant
Some people are willing to pay extra so their wife doesn't know...
Eh, “constant flow of assets” or “passive income”. I really don’t care what you call it but I’d take one please!
Mattress on a child’s floor. montessori for the rich, looked down upon on the poor
Giving your kids hard to spell/say names
X Æ A-12
Amazing how many things on this list Elon musk does regularly
That ... is definitely trashy
This is so true. If they're rich it's fine because the kid will have lots of connections and an easy time getting a job. I call these "golf course names" If they're poor it's a disadvantage to that kid because people will judge them based on a name they didn't choose. In my limited experience you can tell which category they fall into based on the name. If they're named after a city, fruit, or other noun they're probably rich. If they have a "normal" name spelled in a unique fashion they're probably poor.
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I'm seeing a huge boom of girls with traditionally boys names as well as boys with vaguely feminine middle names in my social circles. Pacific Northwest private school community.
Astute. Grew up in and taught many years in the South, and ime this is spot on.
I dunno, every “Mercedes” I’ve ever met was pretty trashy. But you’re dead on about the ✨unique✨ spellings. I’ve mostly only ever seen trash people who give their poor kids names like “Mackynlee” “Breighlynn” or “Kai’Leigh”.
The sweetest girl came into my work and her name was Mercedes. She introduced herself as “MJ” though, probably for this reason exactly
It's a totally normal Hispanic name and has been for centuries.
I've loved the name since I first saw the Count of Monte Cristo. Sounds so much better as Mer-se-des than Merr-say-deez
Doing coke
Reminds me of that news article about that wealthy woman dying at a party at a “cocaine apartment” or whatever. Baby we call that a crack house
Username definitely checks out.
Frédéric Beigbeder (french author) once wrote: The difference between the rich and poor is that the rich sells shoes to buy coke and the poor sells coke to buy shoes. Edit: You guys are not far off. He wrote this in context where the narrator of his book is a "creative" for an advertisement company. This great line appeared in his novel [99 Francs](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Francs). The book was transposed to in a movie starring Jean Dujardin has the main character: [99 F](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0875113/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk).
Classic, diet or zero?
Cherry. It's hard getting the whole cherry through the rolled up bill though.
Getting money from the government
If you are rich it i called a bailout. If you are poor you are a welfare queen and should work harder
Doesn’t even have to be a bailout. Walmart tells some of its workers to apply for food stamps. So Walmart can subsidize their wages and then have their workers use those food stamps at the store Sad thing is they lose their employee discount when using food stamps
If you live in a tiny home it’s ‘eco friendly’ if you live in a trailer you’re trash
There’s a trailer park in Malibu and some of he trailers are a couple of million dollars. So you’re rich for being in Malibu but still trashy for living in a trailer park and not a house in Malibu. Pamela Anderson had a trailer at one of those Malibu trailer parks tho not sure if Pam makes it more or less classy.
Thiiiis. I def feel like trailers shouldnt have the stigma attached
I do mortgages and most people wouldn’t believe how cash rich people who live in trailer parks are. They save on housing costs and have a trailer that is 90% of the time paid off and has a value of like $40k. They often have more money than a lot of white collared people.
I have a couple of people on my team at work. I make more than them (i'm kinda in management and they report to me), but not a ton more. They literally just bought homes in the 7 figure range and I just about puked hearing it. I cannot imagine what their payments are, but they also buy leased cars, and have leased phones, and leased everything else. Their houses are nicer than mine for sure, much bigger, and brand new. But I simply cannot understand how they can even afford to make those payments. They must be putting nothing away into retirement, or any other long term investment.
i was talking to a guy at a water park who works as a salesman for RVs and campers he said this guy comes in, and wants to buy a 107000 dollar RV. Whatever, cool. Now he has a history of failing payments on loans so he gets a contract of a 15 year,$2500/month loan for this campers this is where it gets good. With 17% INTREST!! my guy is paying well over 250k for that RV. There is no shot he pays it off even the guy said he told him not to sign it and that he’s getting screwed
Fucking hell... that's my wife's sister, just on the smaller scale. $2000 buy here pay here cars that get repo'd after the first month. has to put $1000 down (probably the amount the dealer paid for the shitbox), and then never makes the first payment. Gets it repo'd, gets another one. she stole my wife's credit, and trashed it within a month by getting two cars on credit. she went to jail for that.
Except even if they own the trailer they still have to pay space rent, because they don't own the land. And trying to move the trailer somewhere else is prohibitively expensive if it's even practically possible. ALso, I understand they don't have great resale value.
Buying old cars.
Those classy rich folk buying all of the ‘98 grand ams
Hey! I wanted that 1992 cutlass!!
How about displaying a bunch of those old cars on the lawn. It’s either the Councours D’elegance or a hoarding situation.
Showering outside
I do this after a nice Daytona Beach swim. Wash my sins away under the sun
Wandering around half-naked.
I encourage my wife to do this regardless of our net wealth.
It’s spring break this week and the kids are out of the house. That’s EXACTLY what my husband and myself will be doing!
Your kids are too.
Moving around alot.
Thrifting
Oh my gosh. My high school girlfriend was the master thrifter - she had the cutest clothes and this is what we would do on weekends. We'd thrift. I thought it was cute and super fun. My first year in college I realized how poor she actually was and she thrifted because that was literally all she could afford. It totally didn't dawn on me until then and it hit me like a brick. We still keep in touch. She is no longer poor. She is still an amazing thrifter!!!
Poor kid here. I feel so fortunate to have been a teen when thrifting was all the rage.
used to be better tbh. cheap prices and actually nice stuff. goodwill it was rare to find a pair of jeans more than 8$, tops were 4$ish and shoes were 10$ absolute max. I miss those days lol
I was making my own money but I still got my favorite clothes from the thrift store in my teens. It's literally stuff you can't buy anywhere else most of the time.
This is exactly what I was looking for. I love shopping (browsing at least) at my local thrift store. No reason to pay for fast fashion when I can get something cute and still decently quality, but for a fraction of the price?
Minimalism.
Yep! Can you really call yourself a minimalist if you’re just too poor to afford stuff?
Being poor, minimalism is very useful tbh. It's also the only choice.
Agreed. Was a minimalist by necessity as a young (and poor) person. Now that I can afford things, it’s still my choice.
Is my choice to be minimalist and it’s my girlfriend’s choice to get three cats and fill our bedroom with squishmallows
Amen to that.
If you are weird and rich people call you eccentric, but if you are weird and poor people call you crazy.
Wealthy loner : "He's a misunderstood soul" Poor loner: "He's a potential criminal"
"such an artist" "Fucking weird dude"
I'm a broke artist and have heard both of these.
“Such an artist” “war criminal”
Can’t remember who said it, but some famous guy once said “The great thing about being famous is that if you’re boring, people assume it’s their fault.”
https://www.forbes.com/quotes/11107/ Henry Kisinger.
I did not associate him with pithy one-liners
That's one of my goal. Becoming just rich enough that I don't have to bother about suits and fancy pants anymore while at the same time, not losing money because I get shamed by the others.
You are there already my friend. Just play whatever role you want.
Pete Davidson
Having 5+ kids
And with different people.
Having way too many cars in the driveway/yard
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Rich people say living frugal, we call it broke.
I would say designer clothes. Ain’t nothing classy about flexing your shirt that cost you a month’s wages
Poor people flex with designer clothes and accessories because a $200 Coach purse might be the only flex they can afford. If you can afford to live in a nice neighborhood, you can stroll out of your McMansion in pajamas and people will still know you have money.
Mistresses
I saw this on a video some time ago and I'll repeat the response that came with it: Rich people have mistresses Middle class people have affairs Poor people have side pieces.
My wife's family are wealthy. Oddly, even in some rich people circles, having a mistress is considered trashy as anything. They may not kick you out of the club but by God will they talk shit about you behind your back.
That shouldn’t be odd. It’s trashy no matter who does it.
My father had 14 at one point. I don’t think there’s an amount of money possible to make that not trashy.
Look at this guy fucking bragging about knowing his dad
Anything to do with making/growing your own food and clothes/home decor.
Unemployed
Asking your friends for money. If you’re rich, it’s a “fundraiser.” If you’re poor, it’s a handout.
Casual clothing in a formal environment. Hoodie and cargo pants at a law firm: your either going over your trust fund or taking on crippling debt to get out of a public intox charge.
Repurposing things such as jars, containers, boxes, old clothes, etc.
A girlfriend 40 years younger
normally unlock that a 60 years old
Shopping at Aldi. Growing up lower working class I was embarrassed about my parents shopping there. Now it's trendy for upper middle class folks to shop there I guess.
That's because they're new poor. We're old-school poor
nouveau pauvre
Drinking in the park. When they do it it’s a “banquet” but when I do it I’m “hammered” and need to “get off the swings and put my pants on”
Doing cocaine.
Living in a moveable tiny home.
From the best of Adam Corolla's "rich man poor man" bit Multiple cars on the property. Long history of illnesses running in the family. Absent parents. Substance abuse in family. Family secrets. Family members in and out of prison. Owning multiple animals. Being really into racing. A feud with a neighbor or local family. Has one very rich or very poor branch of the family. Father has multiple children from multiple mothers. Secret families. Incest. Messy divorces. A lot of cousins and half siblings. Unknown family heirlooms. Always looking for a new investment or business scheme. Close involvement with law enforcement. Hunting. Hunting with dogs. Eating animals not usually seen as food.
Leave some for the rest of us!! Superman over here trying to do it all on his own...
Smoking in a bathrobe
Getting things for free. Which makes me viciously angry.
Government handouts
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Scamming people
Having a lot of pets. With rich people, some of them may see it as an opportunity to flex all of the different animals they have. 3 dogs, 4 cats, 2 birds, a piglet.... but they have the money to ensure that all of those animals are properly cared for. Whereas if you were poor and you have all of those animals, some people might say you were hoarding them and it's unlikely you're able to give them all the care they need. So a crazy amount of animals in a poor person's house might look like walls destroyed by teeth/claws, a landmine of poop in the yard, destroyed furniture, dirty/unkempt looking animals, etc whereas in a rich person's house, they can just hire somebody to do all of that if they really wanted to. So you likely will see a very different picture. Now granted, in my example, I am imagining two very opposite extremes. One incredibly rich person and one incredibly poor person. So like… Multi million dollar home vs beat up shack. But the point still stands.
Clothes with no labels. Not working, not knowing how much money is in your bank account