Get Premium
Dark mode theme is available exclusively for premium users. Learn more about the benefits of subscribing.
No fees, cancel anytime.
Dark Mode 
No fees, cancel anytime 
then open in external browser
and click "Open in External Browser" 
30 Things That Super Rich People Actually Spend Their Money On, As Shared By People Who’ve Worked For Them
The billionaire population boomed during the pandemic. On the 2021 Forbes list, which runs to April 6, their numbers rose nearly 700 to a record total of more than 2,700. Some super rich saw their fortunes reach unimaginable numbers, something that seemed virtually impossible to achieve in a lifetime. For example, for Tesla’s Elon Musk, that meant growing from $25bn to more than $150bn.
And while for 99% percent of the population such sums are beyond the imagination, we can at least get a glimpse at what the lives of the super rich are like thanks to this thread on r/AskReddit.
“People who cater to the super rich; What things have you seen?,” asked redditor NeighborhoodTrolley, sparking 18.3k comments and some seriously crazy stories. Below we collected the most insane responses from people who’ve seen it all with their eyes, and trust me, there’s a lot those eyes have seen.
This post may include affiliate links.
#1
Some extremely wealthy people I have been around have a more acute sense of their own time and mortality, leading to impatience. Like they understand how awesome their lives are and therefore how short they feel. I knew a guy whose vintage yacht broke down before summer so he bought another one strictly for that upcoming Summer. His reasoning was he likely had 20 full health summers left in his life and didn’t want to spend one of them without a boat considering he had the means to. Honestly can’t argue with that logic.
Anna Banana 4 years ago
Yeah, I don't hate the concept, and I think a lot of people work this way - just within their own means. I know I do, though I will never be able to afford a vintage yacht.
Load More Replies...
Sarah Schumm 4 years ago
That’s something you realize as you get moderately rich, too. It’s kind of the first thing. My brother was avoiding spending time with our uncle (his favorite) because he didn’t want to fix our uncle’s computer. I said “this is a problem that can be solved with money, let’s just buy him a new one!” My brother and I have high paying tech jobs, so a few hundred dollars is nothing compared to more time actually enjoying our aging uncle’s company rather than fixing his broken computer.
Jude 4 years ago
You and your brother used your money in a good way for someone you love. No one could ever fault you for that!
Load More Replies...
Treessimontrees 4 years ago
I dated a girl briefly in London. Her parents owned art galleries and were very wealthy from undetermined origins. They had three Rothko paintings in their house...($70m each...). They had houses in New York, Rome, London and a 20,000 acre ranch in Argentina. Everything was about using money to save time, which sort of makes sense if you have it. Her family always flew private and just couldn't fathom commercial flights as you sit around for an hour or two (which to them was a hideous waster of time). I was completely a fish out of water around this. I Googled her recently and she married one of the richest men in Brazil. Keeping the cash flowing!
Alicia Miller 4 years ago
Poor people are fully aware of their mortality too. $ doesn't make one realize this.
Yoga Kitty 4 years ago (edited)
To me, this sounds like a very stressful combination of FOMO and YOLO. I always thought having more money reduces stress because you do not have to worry about next week's food and rent, are free to do a job you really like and you can sometimes treat yourself to nice things without the fear that you might regret it later if something comes up unexpectedly that requires money. I do not want to be driven by my own efficiency or bucket list as described above; people need time for contemplation. Sometimes having to wait in line, doing chores or simply doing nothing is the perfect setting for that...
Tami 4 years ago (edited)
Perhaps the FOMO/YOLO lifestyle reflects an intuitive desire to experience a spiritual awakening. Always chasing after new experiences in the form of new possessions, places, and people could be a crude, frantic attempt to experience that enlightened state of mind where you realize each moment as fresh and new in a profound way. But of course it'd be hard to get there with the FOMO/YOLO method, too much temptation to give in to the ego's desires.
Load More Replies...
Randolph Croft 4 years ago
I know a guy, pretty rich, but not $B rich, who has 4 nice yachts. Not mega, but big, 30m-40m. One in the Med, one in the Carib, one in San Diego and one in Rio. All local crews, all maintained. He loves living on boats, and likes to travel. He said something like 'One big one would be cheaper, but it would have to constantly be at sea to get to each of those places and he'd be wasting time if he was on it while it crossed oceans. Plus, oceans are boring.
An Co 4 years ago
I do the same thing with shoes. If one breaks, I do not try to fix it, I just buy a new one. Probably the same percentage of my money as his. The only real difference is the total.
RELATED:
#2
I used to work for a billionaire Russian family as a tutor for their daughter. One day we’re in her room studying and suddenly she yells “daddy’s home!” and runs to the window. She’d heard a helicopter and knew is was about to land on the lawn.
Lenka Smetanová 4 years ago
well.. my daddy have a specific keys kombined from the keys form the entrance, apartment and basement, and two keychains one was flask opener and the other was iron logo of 'CSOB' bank... this keys make specific rattling sound I never failed to recognize, and I always know when my daddy's home... He have this keys for all of my life, so 27 years... Today, those key chains are attached to my keys. Daddy died earlier this year :'(
Anne 4 years ago
They are a relatively safe way of transportation, if you have the money, why not. She's just happy with dad :)
Eglė Bukauskaitė 3 years ago
ugh... everything related to the environment?
Load More Replies...
A Clarified Woman 4 years ago
No different than hearing the exhaust pipes of the man you love coming down the driveway in his beat the hell up work truck. She must have loved him enough that helicopters might always be special to her.
#3
Russian guy I sometimes work for, bought a nice house in a pretty nice area of the French Riviera (Mougins). He didn't even visit it before buying, and just judged he liked it on pictures. He paid 11 million euros for it.
But when he arrived, he though the view wasn't perfect because of another house that was on the way (to him...to me honestly it was barely there and didn't even mask the sea). So he sent his lawyer there to make an offer to the owners (4 million euros). But they declined...so he doubled the offer, and they declined again...So he doubled again, and this time they accepted to sell.
He had that house destroyed the very day he got the keys, and had an underground parking lot built instead, for the cars he "won't be using much here".
So basically the guy paid that distant house more than the one he's planning to spend his summers in, just to have it disappear because it kinda annoyed him. And when he told me the story, he was laughing the whole time.
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
The guy sounds like a jerk really. Could have changed the lives of a lot of people with the money he spent just to prove he could.
Load More Replies...
13 4 years ago
Jesus. I'm going to stop reading here. I feel murdervibes coming on. 16 million.... to tear down a house. How many lives lost to poverty in the meantime. If I did believe in heaven and hell then hell would be reserved for the 1% who find this kind of behavior acceptable.
Yoga Kitty 4 years ago
Unfortunately, money can't buy you empathy. Everybody is free to do with their own money whatever they please. If this person thinks this money was well spent, good for him. Tearing down the house and building the underground parking lot at least provided jobs for construction workers who will be able to feed and house their families and maybe adopt a puppy...
Load More Replies...
Stinky Malinky 4 years ago
Meanwhile I can’t afford the wheelchair I need. This planet is rotted.
Stephanie IV 4 years ago
Look to Ancient Rome if you want to know what’ll happen next. First power, then a grandiosity complex, then debauchery, then ruin.
13 4 years ago
Football is legal. Tell me it's normal to pay someon 30 million a year to kick around a f*****g ball. This world is doomed.
Load More Replies... 
To find out more about what it's like working for the super-rich, Bored Panda contacted a Redditor who worked for a billionaire Russian family and told us what it was like. It turns out the job was "pretty draining since you’re always expected to be on hand and ready to do whatever they need," they said. However, "the money is great so you can’t complain, but it can definitely be quite tiring to work for such demanding families."
#4
Family friends were having marital issues. Their marriage counselor figured out a lot of their problems were over cooking meals. The counselor reminded them that they are rich and can just cater all their meals, and it would be cheaper than getting a divorce. They listened to the counselor and now are happily married again.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
Time is the biggest commodity separating the rich and poor. Poor person - 2 hour get kids/self ready, 1 hour bus to work, 8.5 hour work, 1 hour bus to market,30 minutes market, 20 minutes bus home, 1 hour cook dinner, 1 hour clean leaves 10 minutes out of 16 hours to do whatever. When you have a nanny, cook, driver, and maid, you have 7.5 hours of whatever. Its much easier to learn a computer language, network with your banker friend, etc when you have time to do it.
Load More Replies...
Honu 4 years ago
Yep. Hiring a cleaning service is a boon to many marriages from what I've seen, and that's something that a lot of middle class folks can afford.
Load More Replies...
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago (edited)
This is the instance where money is literally buying happiness. Not only buying happiness making it cheaper for them in long run. So if you are one of those people who say money doesn't buy happiness I'll gladly take your money.
Something 4 years ago
"Money doesn't buy happiness" is advice for Mr. Banks from Mary Poppins, who works long hours at the bank and doesn't spend enough time with his children.
Load More Replies...
Stephanie Hewitt 4 years ago
I own a small maid business and have encountered more than several couples who have told me I literally saved their marriage becuase they argued about chores so much.
Violet Olivia 4 years ago
100% agree and having someone trusted to come to your home and help in that way is awesome. Mad respect for your business. Pre-Covid we had Jen. I loved her but she moved on to another job. Miss her terribly.
Load More Replies...
Paizleypie 4 years ago
If I were rich, one of the FIRST things I'd do is hire a chef . . . I can't stand my own cooking.
Mark Kelly 4 years ago
I would too. I don't mind cooking but just don't have the passion to make a complicated meal. I usually make past and stir fry, chili.
Load More Replies... A Clarified Woman 4 years ago
It really is easy to work things out when you both want it to work out, and you have options.
Full of Giggles 4 years ago (edited)
Or they could hire a private cook/chef like normal rich people.
Mark Kelly 4 years ago
Anyone with half a brain would have figured it out.
Load More Replies...
#5
I worked for a rich Chinese lady who told me and her CFO to hire 30 English teachers and start an NGO. We all flew out to a poor part of China and helped hundreds of gifted kids learn English so they could pass the foreign language portion of the gaokao (their SAT). We gave each of them thousands of dollars to pay for college tuition. Why did she do all this? To help her daughter studying in the US - the nominal head of the charity - with her college application. The organization was dissolved when she was accepted into Yale.
John L 4 years ago (edited)
I think it's cruel. I remember a story a friend told me. He used to work in an animal lab. One of the Dr's, took home a rabbit that had lived it's entire life in a small cage. He took it home, fed it and let it run around in his yard. Treated it like a pet.....for a week, then took it back to it's cage. Just because something good happens, doesn't mean the best intentions are meant.
Load More Replies...
Disha Nath-Sepoy 4 years ago
Same. Kept thinking wow, wow, wow and then the ending 😞😠
Load More Replies... Martha Meyer 4 years ago
That's so cynical it hurts! At least it benefiited some kids for a short while, but the good she could have continued to do and decided against... it's mind-boggling.
Adriaan Verhelle 4 years ago
I review graduate student applications every year, and I make it my mission to ignore any irrelevant extracurricular activities. I couldn't care less about your volunteering. I just want to know if you have the intellect to be innovative in your field, not whether mommy or daddy helped you get a good charity item on your resume. Poor kids don't have that option.
Vicky Zar 4 years ago
Yeah I never understood these "extracurricular" activities in the US. All you need to get into UNI here, are good grades or waiting semesters.
Load More Replies...
Nope 4 years ago
In case someone else needs the acronyms: A chief financial officer (CFO) is the senior manager responsible for overseeing the financial activities of an entire company. NGO: a non-profit organization that operates independently of any government, typically one whose purpose is to address a social or political issue.
Jaymi Leigh 4 years ago
Thank you I considered NGO a bit of an obscure thing to leave undefined. Maybe that's just me.
Load More Replies... Adriaan Verhelle 4 years ago
I feel like the original author is way more surprised than she should be. All charity has an ulterior motive, most of the time it is tax optimization. Do you think your local grocery stores asks you to donate $5 that you'll get back as a coupon because they are kind? No each one of those $5 they can use as a tax benefit. You would be better of donating yourself and using that tax benefit for yourself.
littlesaresare 4 years ago (edited)
Depends on the charity. There are a lot of small charities run out of someone's spare room (especially the small niche animal shelters) which are a huge financial burden for the owner. They're very different to the huge famous multibillion dollar charities.
Load More Replies...
Mike Inman 4 years ago
Smaller time, but I went to college with a guy from Singapore. Not only did his Dad send him to a relatively expensive University in the US with no scholarship, his brother came along to keep him company. Most of the time they were frugal or at least not flashy with their spending, but once in a while a new hobby would be too tempting and they would drop a year's tuition on new toys within a month.
Shane S 4 years ago
It’s crazy but there’s no real losers here. All those gifted kids got an education. And her daughter got into college
LadyManx 4 years ago
Well, yes, the kid who might have gotten in, who had equivalent grades but no fancy charity to put on admissions. That kid did not get in. Yale has already been spanked for allowing in fake athletes, so this is one more blow against their reputation. The girl was smart, so she could have gone to a lot of schools where she could have gone in on her brains, but her mom proved to her that it's more important to throw money around than to be an honorable human being.
Load More Replies...
#6
I used to petsit. I remember a rich person asking me to petsit their cat. There was a lot of TVs, in almost every room. The weirdest was the bathroom. Sorry, cat bathroom. There was a TV playing cat cartoons, an overly fancy litter box and paintings of cats.
Otter 4 years ago
I actually know a middle-class couple with a cat bathroom. There's the human bathroom for the two humans, and the cat bathroom for the five cats.
Gina Foxley 4 years ago
My cats have their own bathroom next to their own bedroom.
Load More Replies...
glowworm2 4 years ago
I don't see the problem here. The cat is spoiled rotten like they deserve to be.
Anna Banana 4 years ago
I don't think watching cartoons would be the highlight of any cat's life. Playing in cartons, on the other hand...
Load More Replies...
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
What ones we talking about? Felix? Tom & Jerry? Top Cat? Aristocats? Bubsy, if the owner hates his cat?
glowworm2 4 years ago
If the cat is an appropriate age, maybe the Fritz the Cat movies? 🤣
Load More Replies... Violet Olivia 4 years ago
Darn it. I didn’t realize my cats are supposed to have their own entire bathroom. Do you think they will forgive me if I rectify the situation immediately?
Gabrielle Daylano 4 years ago
I would do that too probably.. my cats would have their own rooms 😆
While working for the family, the Redditor said they learned that such powerful and wealthy parents are often quite absent. "The baby of the family would wake up in the night and not know whether to call for his nanny or his mum. Disciplining the kids was impossible because the parents were so rarely there to enforce consequences," they recounted.
#7
I live near a company that builds yachts. One day there was an odd looking yacht. A crew member explained to me that was a 'shadow-yacht'.
You see, when you get hyper rich and have multiple yachts. You wouldn't want to ruin the astetic of your nice yachts with jetski's and helicopters. Nor would you want your crew to sleep on the nice yacht. So you buy a shadow yacht to store your toys and to house your crew. This shadow yacht follows your fleet of nice yachts around.
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
A lot of wealthy men also use their shadow yachts to carry the women they want to cheat on their wives with. The wife stays on the main yacht, and the other women on the shadow yacht and they shuttle themselves back and forth between them as they please.... money doesn't buy class, folks.
otplus 4 years ago
Yes it does, at this point in my life i believe class is making only the mistakes that you can pay so no one else that matters knows.
Load More Replies... Randolph Croft 4 years ago
While I sort of hate this, yachts are essentially floating micro-economies. They drain money away like nothing else on Earth. Why it doesn't bother me as much as multiple mansions/etc is because the crews get paid, the docking fees go to the towns and cities, and there's a lot of well-paying jobs to make these things. I know some engineers who work for these companies. They're not rich, but they have nice homes and their kids are going to good schools. That's all I got.
Anna Banana 4 years ago
That's a good point, but on the other hand they use more fuel in a day than I do in a year...
Load More Replies... 
Momma Panda 4 years ago
Now I want to know what a shadow yacht looks like.. I imagine it's all black and cool looking
M O'Connell 4 years ago
So what you're saying is this rich person found the most expeditious way to make themselves a Commodore?
Michael Sanders 4 years ago
“Gonna be some sweet sounds Comin' down, on the nightshift I bet you're singing proud Oh, I bet you'll pull a crowd” -just a little Commodores humor
Load More Replies...
A Clarified Woman 4 years ago
Sounds like a pretty cool gig to work for. As long as the owners were gracious about the over abundance of wealth. If the rich would share through real generosity, we all would have a shot at living like this to a lot of different levels of degrees.
#8
I became personal friends with my boss and his wife; super nice people. The wife turned out to be an heiress and would buy me whatever I mentioned, like in passing during a conversation. I learned gifts were how she was raised to show love.
I’ve trained myself to only talk about things I already own, unless I find something useful she might like and suggest it for her.
NsG 4 years ago
"gifts were how she was raised to show love" is a very depressing sentence. There are times when you can feel pity for the poor little rich girl, and this may be one of them.
NoneYa41 4 years ago
in some cultures gifts are important aspects of showing love and appreciation. You shouldn't generalize.
Load More Replies...
Randolph Croft 4 years ago
As a high-functioning autistic, I understand the 'language of love' that gift-giving is. It's a little sad, but not tremendously so. I enjoy doing it, after all.
Dodo 4 years ago
It does depend though. For instance, I am overly generous with time and money because I don't feel people will like me otherwise. That's not healthy.
Load More Replies...
lara 4 years ago
For me, giving a gift is not about the price, it is the time. Anyone can walk into a store and throw down money and buy something. But HUNTING for the perfect gift that is "on sale' or whatever, is the epitome of gift giving. What you are doing is saying "I saw this and thought of you and it took a lot of my time because I consider you to be very important." Time is something you will never get back. Thus you have given a gift, time, that is exceptionally valuable and it is represented by the item.
The Deez 4 years ago
See, as a person who loves giving gifts to people, I would be so happy if I could afford to buy things that my friends mentioned in passing!
Ann Coffman 4 years ago
I love buying gifts for my family and friends. Otherwise I'd just end up with a houseful of stuff.
Load More Replies...
Cigdem Kanburoğlu 4 years ago
That woman is my idol. If I were that rich I would be a fairy god mother. Especially for children and poor families. "wHAT, YOU DO NOT HAVE A HOUSE, here is the key of your home" or "you want to have a college degree, here is the money" " that country does have not foof to eat? here tanks of food", "water for every village etc"
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
Why would you only talk about things you own? She likes giving gifts, you don't ask for it, she has the money, why not just let her? It's her choice and she enjoys it! I'm silent like this around my mom, because she keeps buying me gifts while she can barely afford to buy dinner, but in this case I'd talk about all the things I like :)
Victoria Kimball 4 years ago
So you purposely deprived her of any opportunity to express her love for you. If her love language had been Words of Affirmation (instead of Gifts), would you have hidden your good qualities and behavior from her?
Stephanie Hewitt 4 years ago
I have a client like this and have had to learn the same thing! I once mentioned I thought her leaning chair was neat, and she gifted me a $400 chair I had no use for. I felt so guilty selling itt that it's taking up space in my only storage closet in my small apartment
#9
A woman who owned a small private jet business told me one time someone paid them to fly their dog (by itself) to NY for about $45,000 for some training. No other passengers.
King Joffrey 4 years ago
I thought the same. Probably the nicest customer they've ever had on a private jet.
Load More Replies...
8Yorkies-and-57cats 4 years ago
I came here to say just that; this money would keep my shelter running for a year.
Load More Replies... 
Pilot Chick 4 years ago
I worked for a limo service where people used to try and get a chauffeur to pick up their dog that arrived unaccompanied on a private jet. I was so glad we were allowed to decline those types of requests.
Jupittance 4 years ago
And the stupidest part of it is, training a dog is at least half training the person who's going to interact with the dog. You both learn, or when the dog gets back, the human doesn't know how to command it.
J. Kasilo 4 years ago
We worry too much about 'greenhouse' gasses... https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/greenhouse-gases-good-or-bad/
Load More Replies...
M O'Connell 4 years ago
There's one dog with a private jet, while there's several billion cars in daily use.
Load More Replies...
Sandra Charlot 4 years ago
I would never do that! My dog would feel alone ... the owner should also rent a petsitter for the flight.
The person who worked for the billionaire family said that what makes their lives different from ours is that they can afford to be completely spontaneous. "They have an entire staff at their beck and call and no financial limitations so whatever crazy idea pops into their head is always possible. If they want to head off to the Maldives later on that day they can pay an assistant to book the flights and pack their bags, a driver to take them to the airport and a pilot to fly them there."
#10
I'm a driving instructor and one group rented the track to drive their supercars for the day. At the end of the day they all partnered up and got into the cars to leave. After they were gone we realized that they had forgotten their Lamborghini Aventador at the track.
Rembrandt Q. Einstein 4 years ago
That would be equivalent to me leaving my house and forgetting I have one.
#11
I used to install directv in wealthy areas of an east coast city in the US. While I try to give customers options on where I install the satellite dish, I have to get a good line of sight for it to work properly, so sometimes the location options were limited. One rich lady’s house (gorgeous house right on the beach) I only found 2 good spots for the dish, it could either be on a pole in the middle of her backyard, or on the corner of the roof. She DEFINITELY did not want it in the middle of her yard. Only problem was that she had a metal roof and we use specific mounting hardware for that. We happened to be back ordered on that hardware for a few weeks out. When I informed her of this, she got visibly upset that she’d have to wait that long to get her cable up and going. I apologized many times and told her she’d need to reschedule a few weeks later and I leave. 3 days later I’m looking over my work orders for the day and I notice her name and address. I’m like…wow…I bet she thinks she’s getting a different installer who she can try to convince to give her a different answer. I was wrong. I pull up to the house…brand new shingle roof. I did the install on the roof.
Mike Inman 4 years ago
Someone like that needs a personal advisor to point out things like: solve the problem by getting the mounting hardware for the cable company rather than replacing the roof (or, accept a temporary mounting solution with a release of liability to the temp installer while waiting for the backordered hardware...)
John L 4 years ago
I doubt she would listen. When you have money like that, you don't take no for an answer...like she didn't.
Load More Replies...
Marilyn Russell 3 years ago
Well that’s just dumb. Metal roofs last forever. But I guess she doesn’t need to care about replacing shingles again in 10-15 years.
#12
When rich people want to buy a Jaguar in the UK they get assigned a special sales person who is incredibly knowledgeable, they meet in a special fancy office, and special arrangements can be made. This was my friend Chris job, he had access to things that a normal Jaguar sales person wouldn't have. Like he could ring up the manager of the factory for special requests level of access. Well a Saudi Price wanted to buy this new Jaguar that had been released, so they met up and spent a full day specing the Jaguar out. I believe the final price was something like 125k for the vehicle. Then came the decision for color, at the time the factory had 16 different color choices for this model. The Prince asked if he could sleep on it as it was getting late and almost time for dinner/prayer my friend Chris says of course and they set a time to meet the new morning. The next morning the Saudi price is like "I figured out an acceptable solution to my color dilemma" to which Chris goes "And what would that be?" the Saudi Prince goes "i'll order one of each color" And my friend Chris is like O well of course. They quote delivery time, Saudi prince was fine and asked for his options and was presented with ocean travel options to which the Prince said "what about air cargo?" Chris thinking maybe they'd do 1 or 2 by air cargo and the rest by boat, the Prince was like "No I want all 16 vehicles loaded on a plane, and flown to Saudi Arabia" So thats the story on how 16 of the same Jaguar with different colors ended up being flown to Saudi Arabia all in the total cost was around 2.5 million. Please note the prices should be £ not $
Marilyn Russell 3 years ago
The resources of any country should benefit all their people.
Load More Replies... RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
Yeah, makes me feel sick. There are some good billionaires out there who donate a lot of money and do good things. But there are soooo many who just like to spend their money on s**t they wont even use/visit/drive.
Load More Replies... 
Richard Portman 4 years ago
Take a look at Saudi. A really horrible place. They should be thinking about their future.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
You can spec a Jag to that price even on the company website, not exactly "special access"
Jimmy the potato 4 years ago
At first I thought they were talking about the animal and I was confused
For anyone who's setting up a career working for the super-rich, the person we spoke with said that having an iron clad contract in place is very important. "Be absolutely certain that you are entitled to everything you should be entitled to - don’t accept any vague promises about pay, holiday, notice periods, etc."
Having said that they added that you should also just have fun and enjoy the perks. "I was given a lift from Russia to the UK in a private plane because we both needed to be in London at the same time. You have access to crazy things through working with a super-wealthy family so make the most of it!"
#13
My great uncle was VERY well off.
He did not have a guest house. It was a guest mansion. Separate from his mansion. In case his kids dropped by. This does not include the olympic sized indoor pool. That was a separate building.
He bought a cannon. He used it to shoot the mountain behind his house. He shot brand new special bowling balls out of it. They cost 100 bucks per ball.
I'm not sure of the actual size of the pool. But it was definitely bigger than most community pools. But if you want to see the cannon in action, Nitro Circus came by and shot a car with it in one of their episodes. I didn't expect this comment to explode so I didn't mention the human slingshot. There have been a few viral videos made about it.
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
See, I can respect this. Is it way over the top and unnecessary? Sure. But the dude is still a kid at heart, and that I can get behind.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
It's better than the 50 yachts most rich people buy.
Load More Replies... Otter 4 years ago
I once went to the home of a local extremely rich person for a concert, and there were concerts there because he had a two-story pipe organ in a small concert hall. And a sherman tank in the garage. What the hell is the point of being rich, I ask you, if you can't buy weird stuff when you want weird stuff! It's your money!
Klaatu Verrata (Cough) 4 years ago
Literally the only reason I wish I was rich...so I could buy weird things.
Load More Replies... 
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
I don't swim and I am not rich so I am clueless on this topic. What's with indoor pools? Why is it considered luxuries compared to outside pools? Is owner afraid of getting drenched during rainy season swim? Or am I understanding this wrong.
2x4b523p 4 years ago
Not all places get use of outdoor swimming pool all year round. Where I live probably 2 months, and only if the pool water is heated. Indoor swimming pool can have both the air and water kept warm, plus you don't need to pick up leaves and dead bugs every day.
Load More Replies... Michael Sanders 4 years ago
Being able to shoot canon balls and people in the air are boss asss moves.
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
Was the slingshot on Bert's show? I can't remember the name if it but he's a funny comic that always takes his shirt off.
Lisa Schlosstein 4 years ago
Bert Kriecher lol.......I probably spelled good last name wrong lol...... Funny guy.
Load More Replies... #14
I live across the street from the trump towers in miami(yes, the one the ukrainians were arrested at) There are cameras all over the entrance. But there are times when people showing up dont want to be on camera(Mostly see it happen when a party BUS of strippers shows up). When the bus is coming down the street, 5-10 servants come out of the building, large black squares attached to long polls. They each put the large black squares up to completely block a camera. And then the bus deposits all the strippers and the servants go back inside.
Earl Grey 4 years ago
Or an underground tunnel from a fake storefront somewhere.
Load More Replies... chrissy goodman 4 years ago
my friends dad works for trump security. hes in contact with all trump properties they do this so there is no evidence of strippers being there. even tho the strippers are there for someone staying at trump tower it doesnt matter. security does everything they can to not tarnish the trump name. it doesnt make sense to me everything is visible from the front enterance theyd b less likely to b seen in the back or something. i asked my friends dad about it and he said he doesnt understand trumps logic either but orders r orders. not every guest is hidden only questionable ones like strippers and ppl like that
Dodo 4 years ago
Turning off the camera creates time distortions on the recording. I'd bet they're not actually black squares but photos of the road so the recording looks legit.
Load More Replies...
Ray Martin 4 years ago (edited)
Then why didn't you photograph it out of the window? I would have, and sent those pics to every news outlet I could think of.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Next thing you know they're gonna f*cking drop the strippers from a B-17.
Effin Fred 4 years ago
I know one of the plumbers who was hired in a team to replace all of the toilets and faucets in the WH that "needed to be done" before 45 took residence. 45 didn't want to use the same as 44. The best part was that the "residence" seats were custom made and were extra large.
#15
One wealthy guy I cook for wanted his house built so that his bedroom was right above the cow barn, with a retractable spot in the floor so he could fall asleep listening to (and smelling, I presume) the cows.
NsG 4 years ago
That's definitely straying into eccentricity territory, but I wouldn't say it's as heinously arrogant as many of these other examples.
Sam Chilton 4 years ago
Unless it's a fetish, in which case, scrolling on..
Load More Replies...
rspanther 4 years ago
I wonder if he was a ranch hand before he got rich and wanted a reminder of when he wasn't rich?
Tassenküchlein168 4 years ago
Relatable! I love the sound cows (and chicken) make at night. When I was a kid my grandfather had cows and I loved to go to the barn at night being with the cows.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
If you're that rich you can afford the automated screed-and-wash boom that goes through the lanes in the barn. Those are fancy!
Load More Replies... 8Yorkies-and-57cats 4 years ago
I don't think this falls in the same category; my grandparents were farmers and had chickens and goats, so whenever my grandmother came to stay, she couldn't sleep because she missed the sounds of her animals. Maybe he just missed his childhood?
Archer Harris 4 years ago
Haha, I would definitely do that. I work at a farm milking cow and I actually enjoy the smell and the cows are so sweet. Except for the selected few…
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
I suspect he grew up in close proximity to cows...maybe on a farm or ranch. Could be it takes him back to a simpler time in his life.
#16
Hired someone to take his credit card and create for him (and pay for) a whole fake and very expensive trip to Europe so he could go to Mexico with his mistress during that same time. Was in the middle of a divorce and he didn’t want any evidence of his affair affecting the proceedings, so he had someone create a whole alibi.
Dave P 4 years ago
the two most common ways are either inherit like the Hiltons, or build up a set of goods and services people desire which brings in money like Sergey Brin or Bill Gates. Then there are those from corrupt countries like Russia and China where it is govt corruption and connections. The smallest group are those through illegal activities.
Load More Replies...
Kate Priestley 4 years ago
Does that mean one of his staff literally had to go on a free European holiday with his credit card? Tough gig!
Sebastian George 4 years ago
That's basically what happens at the end of Thomas Mann's "Confessions Of Felix Krull" when the Marquis of Venosta was sent on a 1-year trip by his father to make him forget his girlfriend, so he hires Krull to go on the trip in his name while he spends the time with his girl.
#17
Was invited to a Christmas Dinner while i lived in Seoul by an extremely wealthy Korean family. Very nice family but I think in hindsight they wanted to show their friends that they had foreign friends like me. Wife had everything catered and the home professionally decorated - it felt like we were in a department store. Multiple Christmas trees, a working train set, staff handing out appetizers on plates etc. It looked like she studied Christmas movies from the USA and copied everything.
Dinner is served on a comically long table with 2 huge oven roasted Turkeys and all of the trimmings - they looked perfect. I was later told that Koreans don't like turkey & were just for decoration - they would be thrown out later. We ate Korean food. The family said I could take a turkey home and that the caterer would drop it off with anything else I wanted.
K.Kobayashi 4 years ago
Americans waste a lot of food for decoration as well. Before kale became popular as health food, the largest buyer of kale in the US was Pizza Hut. They didn't serve it, they just used it to decorate the salad bar.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
I did not even know that kale was edible until 2007 during my first year of university when I encountered a very puzzled international student (I cannot remember where she was from) who didn't get why the greens between the tubs of salad-bar stuff weren't actually being served.
Load More Replies... A Clarified Woman 4 years ago
Man, they sure were hoping to impress somebody. Either you, or whoever you were the bait for.
Honu 4 years ago
I'm an American, and turkey is generally considered mandatory for our Thanksgiving holiday meal (late November), though less so for Christmas. I'm not a fan. At my house, we'll often do something else unless we have someone coming who insists on turkey. I've made some decent ones. I'll get a heritage breed bird. Brine it well. It's still not a thing I'd choose to spend that much time making if I didn't feel obligated.
KittyMommy 4 years ago
Same. I have a family member who insists on turkey for holidays. We've compromised and do a turkey for Thanksgiving and whatever we feel like for Christmas
Load More Replies... #18
I used to work for a company that modified aircraft for really rich people. I’m talking 747s, not gulfstreams.
This company had made several aircraft for this one customer, who I was told had purchased a new one solely because his spiritual advisor had told him that one of his current planes was bad luck. He still let his wife use it for her personal travel.
To me, one of the most exquisite features of these planes wasn’t the gold plated everything, or rare wood veneers, it was the silk carpet. That stuff cost over $1,000 per square foot and feels like walking on a bed of angel feathers harvested in the most inhumane way possible. Granted, these guys don’t deck out the whole plane, just their personal areas (the aft third is usually reserved for staff and such and is more like a fancy economy class), but yeah… silk carpet.
Robert Thompson 4 years ago
New favorite quote: "like walking on a bed of angel feathers harvested in the most inhumane way possible."
Earl Grey 4 years ago
Don’t the ultra-rich usually set up a dummy corporation for that sort of thing, to avoid taxes?
Load More Replies... Adriaan Verhelle 4 years ago
"harvested in the most inhumane way possible".... sure, they boil live insects. But then again, any human process harms bugs in one way or another.
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
The only person in know that buys 747s instead of luxury gulf streams is Trump
Scott Baysinger 4 years ago
Donald Trump has never owned a 747. His (dramatically smaller) 757 is presently in-op awaiting new engines. Turbofan engines are a MAJOR expense, even for him.
Load More Replies... Dan Buczynski 4 years ago
I'm not saying I hope it crashes into a mountain. I'm not even thinking that.
NsG 4 years ago
I think you're getting downvotes because the cabin crew are innocent and don't deserve to crash into a mountain even in you're totally not thinking it thought. If the cabin crew could be safely jettisoned just before the mountain....
Load More Replies...
#19
Hubby does IT for a bank & financial management firm that requires prospective clients to have something like 20 million to invest. When the company was still pretty small, the owner would host events at his house. The first Christmas party we went to, I was standing by the fireplace and admiring a large, beautiful painting. I looked closer to see if I could find the artist's signature. That was when I realized it was a Picasso.
Rod Egret 4 years ago
Picasso produced a lot and when I say a lot, it's a lot. You can find originals for less than 10K.
Mike Inman 4 years ago
Interesting tidbit from a local gallery that has art like this: you don't have to own the Picasso if you don't want to, you can trade it back to the gallery for Matisse, Rembrandt, VanGough, etc.as the mood strikes.
Load More Replies...
Lunar Bicycle 4 years ago
I made a delivery to a billionaire’s house once. The owner was out and the housekeeper was bored, so she gave me a tour of the house. After mentioning the owner possessed “several” Fabergé eggs, she casually waved at a blank spot on the library wall where the Rembrandt normally hung. It was in the safe while he was out of town. A sketch by Picasso was hanging in a corner in a guest bedroom, and was obscured by items on a dresser.
Adriaan Verhelle 4 years ago
Art is the easiest way to launder money. It's one of the very few things you can pay any amount of money for without raising any alarm with the IRS since its value is only determined by what people are willing to give for it. There is no "fair" reference value based on its production process. Pokemon cards might be the next best thing these days.
theswallowii 4 years ago (edited)
Picasso once drew a drawing on a Parisian restaurant napkin in order to pay his bill. The maitre d' humbly asked him to sign the drawing. Picasso then pompously said "I'm paying for the bill, not for the entire building!" xD
Marco Conti 4 years ago
We had a Picasso at our home. A small one and pretty obscure one, but Picasso made a lot of paintings and sketches. We were OK, but certainly not super rich. Not even plain rich.
K.Kobayashi 4 years ago
John Lennon once got drunk at a party in the Playboy Mansion and stubbed out a cigarette on a painting on the wall. It was an original Matisse. Hefner wasn't mad, he figure it probably increased its value.
LSR 4 years ago
"hubby does IT"...so, you do anything? Or are you an "empowered woman / warrior / angel of light" who just lives off a man?
barnaby staniland 4 years ago
Maybe they do a job which isn't related to the story. Honestly, your comment makes no sense
Load More Replies... #20
I went to a New England prep school for high school on a full ride sports scholarship. There were a decent amount of foreign national students - mainly from Asia, that came from EXTREMELY wealthy families. One of those students parents bought him a brand new BMW 5 series - fully loaded, when he got his license our Junior year. When we graduated a year later, he was going back to Korea and obviously couldn’t take the car, so he gave it to his best friend…kid got an $80k car at 17 years old, just for being good friends with the right guy! I’ll never forget that.
Kay blue 4 years ago
I can't imagine how much it would cost to insure that car in the UK, especially with a new 17 year old driver.
Miss Cris 4 years ago
They can just sell the car and, if wanted, buy a normal one.
Load More Replies...
kay s. 4 years ago
my husband was great friends with kids of foreign dignitaries in college. when they all went home after graduation, they left the best (and most expensive) sporting gear, furniture, tech (speakers, sound boards, mics, etc), and some clothes behind for him to "have or donate." it was wild times. no cars, though.
Alexis Draskinis 4 years ago
I almost wonder if its the one in the town next to me. Taft is a pretty prestigious high school. They do boarding & get a ton on people from every where.
#21
My partner once helped build a $350,000 PERGOLA. Built from I wanna say something like mahogany imported from Fiji because they couldn’t source solid beams from anywhere else? And we’re in the middle of the Midwest. It was then PAINTED because the color didn’t suit the homeowner.
I still sometimes think about the fact that our beautiful historic home that we’re lucky enough to own was still over $100k cheaper than this person’s glorified outside stick fort.
buttonpusher 4 years ago
Uuuuugh my old technology/woodworking professor would gag at the thought of painting mahogany. I'll take the beautiful historic home, thank you.
Treessimontrees 4 years ago
Not to contradict the post - but I've heard of people buying rosewood from Madagascar (which looks like mahogany and is expensive).
Nicole Weymann 4 years ago
Upvote for "glorified outside stick fort" 😂 (and a pained bonus facepalm for *painting mahogany* 🤦♀️)
Margot J. Piasecka 4 years ago
Well actually I like the idea these people spend and pay as much as possible and keep the coins rolling 💡😊💡
#22
I work at a restaurant in a small but very wealthy town and during the year of 2020 people were leaving $2,020 tips for a long while..
Deja Katz 4 years ago
Tips for what? The rest of the world was under lockdown for the majority of 2020.
#23
A friend from high school worked a few years as a deck hand on yachts in the Mediterranean and he said he once jumped in to get a customer's bag and got tipped €4000.
Bart 4 years ago
I used to work as 2nd on the yacht of a Australian business man and once had to buy him a BMW GS1200 (motorbike). When I drove it back to the yacht to put it on board he was on deck and saw me arriving. Noticed I enjoyed the ride and promptly send me back for a second one so we could ride together after. Great times...
Bored bunny 4 years ago
I would too, even though I can only do doggy paddle
Load More Replies... #24
Have been working for the super rich for sometime.
Craziest thing I've seen - brand new 90 metre multimillion pound (GBP) yacht was built in Netherlands. Maiden voyage to Antibes in France. Owner came onboard and left after a few hours. Next week we get sent to Genoa Italy, where all the bathrooms onboard were ripped out and upgraded.
That doesn't sound like a big deal but I'm talking about brand new marble sinks, showers, floors and lobbies all crowbarred out chucked in skips. Tonnes of brand new polished marble binned.
New marble colours and patterns arrived in the weeks following.
There's feed me money, there's f**k you money and there's "it's not even a thought money."
Manny_Flawz 4 years ago
We can't do that, because it might lead to the dreaded "socialism" *SMH*
Load More Replies...
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Ctrl + Shift + C, Type "adddna", Select, Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + V.
Load More Replies...
Margot J. Piasecka 4 years ago
Well, just imagine how many super rich people in the US practically do not pay any taxes at all because that weird systems keeps hard working people poor. Now imagine how different life could be if average Americans would pay less, the super rich would pay same percentage of taxes ☺️😬☺️😍
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
I'm working my way to f u money. Got about another 30 years till retirement lol.
Erika 4 years ago
And all those items were made of materials that had to be mined, shaped, and shipped with a large energy cost at each step, all now wasted. At the very least pull them out whole and resell them for use elsewhere -- or buy a yacht with a half-ton of stone you *like* in the first place. Mindless waste is no good foundation of an economy.
Load More Replies...
#25
My dad's client bought a whole block of houses to build theirs. It is so wide that they installed a moving walkway like the ones at airports.
buttonpusher 4 years ago
Oh yes like that Neuschwanstein castle and love your days out like a crazy recluse. That's my dream. That and like 50 cats.
Load More Replies...
Brian Brown 4 years ago
Living like this, i could not imagine Heaven could be any better for people like this...
Grant Barke 4 years ago
They are not going to Heaven, they sold their souls for riches now.
Load More Replies... #26
My dad works in shipping and has a lot of friends who have worked on super yachts. In the 90s one of his mates got a call up to bring the yacht of a particular Australian media tycoon billionaire (not that one) from Sydney to New York, with instructions to be anchored in a particular bay at an exact time with a lunch spread for 50 people ready. So they got there and set up the food. The guy never showed up. Turns out he was having a rich dude party in a building overlooking the harbour and wanted to be able to point down and say “that’s my boat”. He wanted the lunch just in case he decided to take his rich friends down to his yacht, but he didn’t feel like it that day, so all the food got wasted and they sailed back to Aus without seeing him.
asdf 4 years ago
The...the FOOD. Was wasted. They could've gave em to people that can't afford food, yet they wasted the food?
Ray Martin 4 years ago
You have to understand, to people like that (and I use the term loosely) the trivial problems of lesser beings are of no concern to them. #tax_the_rich
Load More Replies...
Randolph Croft 4 years ago
Being wasteful is totally different than being rich and spending lots of money. Anyone can be wasteful. But I despise it more the bigger it gets. All that fuel wasted, the food, screw that guy.
Bruce Robb 4 years ago
Yeah, the fuel from Australia to NYC and back is definitely many times more than the cost of the food. Though it's not as if you could do anything with the spent fuel the way that could have been done with all of the food.
Load More Replies... 
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
And they say rich people have no soul! Personally, I think most of the crap they buy is just ridiculous...I guess it's compensation for not having a soul, but seriously, if you had this kind of money, would you spend it on this ridiculous crap? I'd rather give it away. I would pour all my passion into a cause... feeding the hungry, curing a disease, saving animals . . . and screw the self aggrandizing merch.
Bruce Robb 4 years ago
The food should have gone to the employees and the closest homeless shelter.
Barbara Skolly 4 years ago
Probably also attends the celebrity save the earth party (cannot remember what its called) with Prince Harry et al each year telling us peons to use public transit
#27
Was a boyfriend of a girl from an obscenely rich family. The sister used to have the nanny (who was sleeping with the husband, but that's another story) fly to Paris in their G550 to buy the newest Hermès bag so she could show it off a few days before it went on sale in the US.
Otter 4 years ago
Spending time with people who'd be genuinely impressed by that, is my personal idea of Hell.
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
Probably more jealous than impressed, But yeah, still hell.
Load More Replies...
albernistuff 4sale 4 years ago
That's just obscenely decadent....not even something fun or for whimsy; just to display wealth for the sake of showing off...
Cigdem Kanburoğlu 4 years ago
Why and how does a bag make someone secure or insecure? Why being a walking advertisement (carrying a logo that belongs to someone else) is not paid but instead, they give money for it?
Squilmo 4 years ago
Not really. You're not wasting obscene amounts of fuel to get the iPhone.
Load More Replies... #28
I briefly worked with one of the top Saudi Arabian crown princes in the 80’s. He would buy out the top three floors of the best hotels (Four Seasons etc); two floors were for maids/help/security, top floor was for the Royal family… once it was only the prince and his three wives. Crazy s**t.
Rose the Cook 4 years ago
Once stayed at a hotel in Europe where this happened, entire floors for His Eminence's little horror of a son to play but he terrorised the entire hotel. Nobody was safe, a favorite stunt was dropping bags of water, or worse, over the balcony onto guests entering or leaving the hotel. Didn't matter if they were dignitaries visiting his father or just tourists staying in the budget class rooms.
Martha Higgins 4 years ago
This happened in Munich at the hotel by the Englishergarten. The whole entourage would spend the summer in air-conditioned comfort and the kids would raise hell in the halls, the doors would be open and the women would yell back and forth across the halls. A nightmare for the rest of the guests.
Load More Replies...
Shane S 4 years ago
Saudi Arabians have a right to be governed however they want, so if they are happy with an absolute monarchy, then whatever. However, it just grinds my gears that the royals rule the country with an iron fist but enjoy visiting and owning property in westernized liberal countries. You’ll oversee a rape victim being stoned as a wh*re in your country, but you’ll invite your str*ppers and prostitutes up to your Manhattan penthouse. Ugh. Sometimes, the bad guy wins…
#29
I know of someone that had a $100,000 toilet.
Lunar Bicycle 4 years ago
That’s because Louis Vuitton is tacky and ugly.
Load More Replies...
Tami 4 years ago
Specially-made for people with a heavy, potato-based diet.
Load More Replies...
#30
My wife's aunt and uncle were busy the entire day of their 25th anniversary and returned home at about 21:00. Decided that the kids needed a bit of fun and booked a private jet to Moscow( they live in paris) and spent a week there.
Money- gotta love it.
Pam Pallett 4 years ago (edited)
You can get 3 yr visas. If it wasn't their 1st trip, then it'd be already sorted.
Load More Replies...
Stoopham McFernybabes 4 years ago
What do kids do in Moscow? Particularly, what do kids do in Moscow that they can’t do in Paris?
#31
In high school I had a rich friend whose parents owned a pro sports team. I stayed at his house one night and we got up in the morning and he wanted to go get his hair cut for a concert we were going to that night. I was thinking cool I'll get my hair cut and we will go get some lunch. He drives to the airport and I'm confused. He says his barber is in Florida. At 16 we get on a private jet, fly to Florida, get our hair cut and fly back. It was crazy.
#32
My dad used to work for a private air field. They had a ton of people fly in but most of the more richer clients always flew in at night. I remember one time in high school, I had to do a "job shadow" thing and went to work with my dad. They had the owner of a California air port fly in for the weekend. My job was to stand outside with an umbrella. So I stood outside with the umbrella. His wife tipped me 20 dollars and said "the sandwich trays are real silver, have at it kid." After they got in their car, I asked my dad what she meant. Apparently, when some richer folks fly, they let the people who detail their planes have the platters and other serving items. I always wondered how we got so many weird serving trays.
Another time when I visited him at work I got to hold an albino kangaroo. Most adorable and softest animal I've ever touched.
#33
An acquaintance of mine was building a house for a married couple who hated each other, but the husband was far too wealthy to get divorced- they had separate elevators installed so they would never worry about ever having to see each other!
Serbob 4 years ago
Worked for a guy like that. Total douche. Said it would cost him too much to divorce his wife so they just lived separate lives. Each had affairs and would travel separately for their flings. They had homes in other countries that they would have their trysts in. He was sleeping with one of my coworkers as well. He didn't even try to hide it.
#34
I briefly worked as a consultant with a family office set up by an individual with a low 9-figure USD net worth.
a. Everyone in the family would travel by their own car to meetings, even if they travelled to and from the same place.
b. They employed separate concierges for each of the family members. They were all paid top dollar.
c. Shopping sprees that started in Milan and ended in Paris and cost a $100,000.
d. They had a closet in the family office 'for emergencies' and it was bigger than our living room.
f. The patriarch didn't like monsoons so they flew to the US to their other home during the monsoons in India.
e. They were surprisingly sensible about their cars and houses - they never bought new cars every year. No extravagant cars, either. Just sensible mid range Beemers or Mercedeses.
NsG 4 years ago
And carbon wasteful. Individual cars? Unless theyre midrange *electric* beemers their individual journeys are contributing a significant proportion of pollution.
Load More Replies...
#35
Rich broker I worked with got a divorce. His wife wanted 30k a month, per child, in child support. His lawyer convinced him it was a good deal and he should take it. He asked me if 30k a month was a lot of money. I told him that was more than I make in an entire year. He said, “f***, can’t believe I have such a s**tty lawyer”
Cool dude. Had to overnight him some pants because somehow he ended up in Scotland and it was cold and he couldn’t be bothered to go shopping.
He had a house in Santa Barbara that was given to his first ex wife that stopped paying taxes on it, basically an abandoned mansion. He sent his assistant there to check it out and there was a family of raccoons living in it.
He really liked Greys Anatomy and needed ice for his Diet Coke. Like really needed ice, so the office got a $1,000 ice machine just on the off chance he showed up to the office.
NsG 4 years ago
Not sure I understand the connection between Gray's Anatomy and needing ice for his drink...?
Randolph Croft 4 years ago
I think that last paragraph is 'color-filler' like 'Winston Churchill liked cigars.'
#36
I used to ‘work’ for an Arab billionaire’s son, a Daddy’s money guy, terrible garbage human being.
Once saw him spend $16 000 on a wallet, was a fancy one with little gold spikes on it and stuff. He had shoes with gold on them.
I remember one year for his birthday he received like 30+ cakes, big fancy cakes and he told us to leave them on the floor in the hallway outside his room.
We walked by those cakes every day for two weeks waiting for instruction, after the two weeks we were told to throw them away.
Momma Dubb 4 years ago
I don't think you would really want to know the answer to that.
Load More Replies... 
#37
I had a client that lived right outside NYC. They were "new money" in an area that was mostly old money. Hated their neighbors, but played nice face to face. Every time the neighbor's wife would buy something and try to show it off, they would buy a more expensive/rare version, or buy two of the same if that wasn't possible. The vast majority of it was displayed in the front room. Client's wife called it the f**k off room. They were a bit eclectic but were really nice people.
#38
My dad works as a marine pilot, usually moving cruise ships or freighters, but occasionally a super yacht will come through. Well, one time a Russian billionaire came through who collects super yachts… I believe he had somewhere in the ballpark of 5-8 of the largest yachts in the world. My dad said that for dinner, they would just casually grab bottles of wine in the $1000+ range, and the yacht also had two helicopters… one for the kids.
#39
My high school friend's parents were low rich, like, a few mil. He had a swimming pool on Long Island suspended in the deck OVER the ocean. Then, they had a boat slip with a boat, so you could jump out of the pool, and dive into the ocean. They had a state-of-the-art projection screen tv that was 10 feet tall (this was 1986) and they had super expensive art that didn't match. Imagine like a $500,000 painting of a clown, next to a $300,000 sculpture of a dog? It was just off. Still, I really liked his parents. I saw them oddly enough in the restaurant I was working at two cities away.
LOttawa 4 years ago
I like to swim but can't swim in lakes, rivers oceans etc...I'm scared of fish touching me (stupid I know). So, for me, that's what's wrong with the ocean 🤷🏻♀️😂
Load More Replies...
What do you think ?
LaGitanaTriste 4 years ago
Yeah, I stopped reading at #2. Wealth corrupts. Money is evil. I’ll just sit over here with no health insurance and rent my one bedroom for the rest of ever. Could be worse, there are humans sleeping on dirt and starving to death while I type this. But yeah, have a shadow yacht to make your other fleet look prettier.
Ben Smith 4 years ago
How on earth did you get upvotes? Money is evil? Lol. Spoken like a true lazy bump on a log.
Load More Replies...
A.M. Pierre 4 years ago (edited)
I worked for someone like this. More than any one purchase, I would say the biggest tell that he was rich was his unerring and unwavering belief that no matter what he wanted to do or what he wanted other people to do, he would always get his way. He would never ever EVER accept no as an answer, even for things that were physically impossible. "But I want it!!!" Yes, it sounds like what a toddler would say.
AnnaBanana 4 years ago
I still work for someone like this. He builds and flies scale model aircraft as a hobby and spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on it. Which is fine, except he nickels and dimes the staff to death and it really affects morale. He's asked me to commit two illegals acts in the past, both of which I refused. Didn't make him happy, but why should I risk my own reputation (and possibly liberty) because he can't follow the rules and won't take no for an answer!
Load More Replies... Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Many of them are also very generous. They can indulge their whims too.
Load More Replies... 
Shelby P 4 years ago
couldn't read the whole thing.. .it just pisses me off (yes I AM jealous)
Load More Replies...
Steve Wilson 4 years ago
Amazing how all of these people only care about self-indulgence when they have the chance to make the world a better place. And we worship them for it.
Dave 4 years ago
Frankly, this is one of the many reasons why I lost faith in humanity. The extreme wastefulness of ultra-rich in contrast to countless millions, royally f****d over by the said ultra-rich and politicians who they bought and paid for. (Bezos comes to mind). The worst are those born into wealth and I consider myself lucky to be out of the red after 5 years and I am happy to be just in the green for the first time in a very long time. Took some crazy budgeting and planning and I still managed to achieve a lot, including replacing my old piece of a s**t car with an AUDI.
lailyfnoor 4 years ago
Despite having more money makes people have more option in life, I hope there were more rich who spent MORE their money to make the world a better place
Zedrapazia 4 years ago
My godparents are extremely wealthy. One day, my godfather decided to have an artificial lake made into his giant garden, just because he felt like it. Later on, he inhabited it with endangered species, which is at least one good thing about it. They also have a house which is as big as a shopping mall, a hangar full of overpriced cars (like 25, from which only one, a yellow Ferrari, is regularly driven) and their dogs have a private chef. Some people just have too much money.
LaGitanaTriste 4 years ago
Yeah, I stopped reading at #2. Wealth corrupts. Money is evil. I’ll just sit over here with no health insurance and rent my one bedroom for the rest of ever. Could be worse, there are humans sleeping on dirt and starving to death while I type this. But yeah, have a shadow yacht to make your other fleet look prettier.
Ben Smith 4 years ago
How on earth did you get upvotes? Money is evil? Lol. Spoken like a true lazy bump on a log.
Load More Replies... A.M. Pierre 4 years ago (edited)
I worked for someone like this. More than any one purchase, I would say the biggest tell that he was rich was his unerring and unwavering belief that no matter what he wanted to do or what he wanted other people to do, he would always get his way. He would never ever EVER accept no as an answer, even for things that were physically impossible. "But I want it!!!" Yes, it sounds like what a toddler would say.
AnnaBanana 4 years ago
I still work for someone like this. He builds and flies scale model aircraft as a hobby and spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on it. Which is fine, except he nickels and dimes the staff to death and it really affects morale. He's asked me to commit two illegals acts in the past, both of which I refused. Didn't make him happy, but why should I risk my own reputation (and possibly liberty) because he can't follow the rules and won't take no for an answer!
Load More Replies... Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Many of them are also very generous. They can indulge their whims too.
Load More Replies... Shelby P 4 years ago
couldn't read the whole thing.. .it just pisses me off (yes I AM jealous)
Load More Replies... Steve Wilson 4 years ago
Amazing how all of these people only care about self-indulgence when they have the chance to make the world a better place. And we worship them for it.
Dave 4 years ago
Frankly, this is one of the many reasons why I lost faith in humanity. The extreme wastefulness of ultra-rich in contrast to countless millions, royally f****d over by the said ultra-rich and politicians who they bought and paid for. (Bezos comes to mind). The worst are those born into wealth and I consider myself lucky to be out of the red after 5 years and I am happy to be just in the green for the first time in a very long time. Took some crazy budgeting and planning and I still managed to achieve a lot, including replacing my old piece of a s**t car with an AUDI.
lailyfnoor 4 years ago
Despite having more money makes people have more option in life, I hope there were more rich who spent MORE their money to make the world a better place
Zedrapazia 4 years ago
My godparents are extremely wealthy. One day, my godfather decided to have an artificial lake made into his giant garden, just because he felt like it. Later on, he inhabited it with endangered species, which is at least one good thing about it. They also have a house which is as big as a shopping mall, a hangar full of overpriced cars (like 25, from which only one, a yellow Ferrari, is regularly driven) and their dogs have a private chef. Some people just have too much money.
You May Like 95 Dumb Things To Spend Money On, As Shared By People In This Online Thread 65 Things That Are Affordable To Most Although Many Think They Aren’t, As Shared By People In This Online Thread 77 Seemingly Harmless Things That Can Be Incredibly Dangerous, As Shared By People In This Online Thread
Aivaras Kaziukonis
Aivaras Kaziukonis
Neilas Šurkus
Related on Bored Panda
