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Rich people things that legitimately rich people don't do?

  • 05-01-2014 11:50PM
    #1
    BetterThanThou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭BetterThanThou


    By that I mean things that poor/average people do that are considered things mostly rich people do, but rich people don't tend to do them.
    One I think would be buy Rolex watches, rich people don't tend to do that, whereas many poor/average people buy them to seem rich.


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Pay for drinks?


  • #3
    highly1111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 968 ✭✭✭highly1111


    Talk about money


  • #4
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,822 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Carry wads of cash.


  • #5
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Is it not the more money you have the more free stuff you get ...


  • #6
    BNMC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭BNMC


    Question makes no sense.


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  • #7
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Buy fancy clobber and spray themselves with expensive aftershave/perfumes. Most of the really wealthy people I know dress like they are off to shoot some pheasant and smell musty.


  • #8
    marketty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭marketty


    An expensive new car every year


  • #9
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Eat fish eggs on crackers.


  • #10
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,950 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Stockpile ferrero rocher.


  • #11
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    Spend money.


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  • #12
    Littlehorny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    The few genuinely rich wealthy people that i have met have been very unflashy is there is such a word.


  • #13
    FizzleSticks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


    This post has been deleted.


  • #14
    Tommy Dillon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 216 ✭✭Tommy Dillon


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHo2pXO_XAI&feature=share&list=PLAEF2450B6DA06972


  • #15
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Pay tax (relatively speaking)


  • #16
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    Sky King wrote: »
    Pay tax (relatively speaking)

    ??

    Poor people pay no tax.

    Rich people pay the most (relatively and actually)


  • #17
    MyPeopleDrankTheSoup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭MyPeopleDrankTheSoup


    buy $1000 bottles of vodka in VIP sections of nightclubs


  • #18
    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    Work.


  • #19
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    BNMC wrote: »
    Question makes no sense.

    That's harsh it just makes very very little sense.


  • #20
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Look down on low paid workers

    I never worked in retail but I spent years in hotels. Met many millionaires and they were the soundest people you could meet. Used to money and they are comfortable in who they are

    The worst were the middle aged, well to do, middle class women. Just loved to sneer at you behind the counter :(


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What about things the illegitimately rich do?


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  • #22
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    Go to events in a pink stretched limo.

    Beat their staff.


    (Rather, we just have them sleep outside).


  • #23
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    The worst were the middle aged, well to do, middle class women. Just loved to sneer at you behind the counter :(

    Never have I agreed with a post so much. *Mashes thanks button*


  • #24
    jobeenfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,454 ✭✭✭jobeenfitz


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    ??

    Poor people pay no tax.

    Rich people pay the most (relatively and actually)

    Do poor people not pay VAT? (value added tax)


  • #25
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    jobeenfitz wrote: »
    Do poor people not pay VAT? (value added tax)

    Yeah! And excise on all the packs of johnny blue and cans of stella?


  • #26
    Napper Hawkins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,903 ✭✭✭Napper Hawkins


    Look down on people with less.


  • #27
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭hfallada


    Rich people dont buy new cars. They will be drive a 1993 Volvo with no shame. I have a neighbour who earns well over €250k a year and spent a day last month trying to find decent second hand tires with thread in scrap yards, as his tires on his 93 volvo failed the NCT.


  • #28
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    hfallada wrote: »
    Rich people dont buy new cars. They will be drive a 1993 Volvo with no shame. I have a neighbour who earns well over €250k a year and spent a day last month trying to find decent second hand tires with thread in scrap yards, as his tires on his 93 volvo failed the NCT.

    Ah for **** sake!

    Decent tyres aren't some wastefully extravagant luxury - they're the only point of contact between your 100KPH one tonne vehicle and a wet road.

    There's a difference between been comfortable with yourself enough to be seen buying lower cost stuff and being an out and out fking cheapskate!


  • #29
    prince of peasants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭prince of peasants


    Join protest groups like 'Occupy Dame Street'.


  • #30
    Arrow.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Arrow.


    I know someone who is very wealthy and they don't carry on like the faux-rich middle class Irish.

    It's quite funny, they're all up to their eyeballs in debt, but hey, they've the house and a Range Rover....wow. :rolleyes:

    Simply, they don't have that heir of arrogance and delusion of grandeur about them.


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  • #31
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    The few genuinely wealthy people Ive met or know are actually sound enough. But good LORD they are tighter than a ducks arse!! I remember trying to keep a straight face ase a fella told me of his inconvenience one week day having to drive to his renting house (vacant at the time) in order take a bulb out because one of his own had blown!


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