29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged

Or living with it semi broken

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not if Apple and John Deere have anything to say about it. support Right To Repair!!!

I don't know why that's being downvoted, it's true. If you don't have much money you tend to buy cheaper appliances, which break and either can't be repaired or the repair is more than another appliance. Old appliances aren't like that but new ones are. Planned obsolescence is bad for the consumer and the planet

Yep, the screen of my 4-year old phone just died. The best repair quote I got was 120 euros. It cost me around 500 when it was new. It's just not worth it.

Or couldn't afford to buy all the time. Cooking for yourself is WAY cheaper, no point working a second job just so you can eat out and claim you "don't have time" to cool

When my schedule was crazy, I made liberal use of my crock pot, my bread machine, and the timer on my oven. I'd assemble meals before work and set all the timers so dinner would be ready when I walked in the door.

its called good parenting.

This was the case for me growing up in the UK in the 70s and 80s. We only went out for meals for special occasions and always got dressed up for it. Still don't go out for meals that often now - though when I'm working away, every meal is eaten out!

Jeroen, some people only eat two meals a day. I don't eat lunch, just a good breakfast and a moderate dinner, with infrequently a small snack in the late afternoon if I feel hungry. I do have coffee with breakfast which inhibits my appetite, but I get all the nutrition I need for the day from my two meals. I think, though, that most people do eat three meals a day.

What do you mean three? There are four meals in a day - breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper. :D

I don't get this attitude. Obviously this person has had a very materially-priveleged life, but that doesn't make their feelings meaningless.

But why?

no rich

I blame them. I had a friend in a similar situation. As her dad got older he didn’t have the money he used to as he wasn’t working. When she finally had to start working & supporting herself she was not prepared. Her dad still had to help pay her car insurance & phone, property taxes & some other bills. She went from using her dads credit card at Neumann Marcus, Bloomingdales, Nordstrom to barely being able to get new shoes every year

It's not at all fair, but you don't have to be super rich for this to work, just have parents with decent middle class credit. My mom put me on one of her cards when I was a teen, for emergencies. When I went to open my own accounts my credit report showed a credit history older than I was. Logically it doesn't make sense, but it counts toward your credit score. It definitely puts people who don't have that kind of parental support at an unfair disadvantage.

Anyone with good credit can do this. You can even add someone to the account & never even give them the card or card number. They can start building their credit & don’t have to spend a penny

isnt making life easier for your children one of the goals of being a good parent? If i had kids i would do the same exact thing. I did it with my husband while we were living abroad so that when we moved back to the states with his immigrant visa, he would have good credit and was able to buy a car on his own. I don't see the issue.

But it does mean you can eat more than once a day...

Me too. Because my parents wanted me to embrace my creativity, not because I was a rich kid.

Yeah my parents are dance teachers so like they were not wealthy, but I was still in a large amount of extracurricular activities.

We couldn’t afford any extra curricular activities. I remember my mom saying we couldn’t do gymnastics again because it was $20. My teeth are crooked because of bargain braces. Thankfully, I never broke a bone. When you’re a twin, your parents gotta pay twice.

same here

When I asked to quit, mom disheartened agreed, it was proving to be a waste of money after all. She was completely taken aback when I quoted her saying i could do horse back riding after piano. I think she was a little horrified by my manipulation, but she was true to her word. She had my dad talk to a nearby horse riding farm, and we worked out a deal where we provided that farm hay for my lessons and I in turn was to help on my family farm herding cows and the like. I really loved learning how to ride those few years and I thank anyone who read this far. It's an essay I know. But as you may have surmised I'm not exactly good with my words or telling stories after my upbringing. That is actually why I am here, each comment I make here is working towards me being better able to communicate with the people around me. I wish you imaginary person to have a wonderful day :)

There’s no way you’d become a professional dancer, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do it for the enjoyment and/or satisfaction it would bring.

Above ground is not the same

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yeah, pools are weird. an in-ground pool is definitely a sign of being well off, but an above-ground pool is all too often a sign of poor choices and people trying to live above their means. not always, of course, but it was that way in my neighborhood growing up.

Ducks and bears are much nicer than bodies in the pool!

The inflatable one may not be expensive itself.... but having a place to put it to use is. City life and backyard are no middle class ground here in Korea. You're either living in a luxurious place or one of those small and old homes that are tiny, but sometimes they do have a backyard. Middle class is in appartament buildings. As for Croatia, it depends. I grew up in the city centre, so the same would be true as for the above mentioned Korean example. But, outside of the centre, there are some nice, not too luxurious and not too poor homes with nice backyards and all. And, in a small city, they technically aren't even far from the centre, although they look like they are.

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