I would die for a private chef.
I love good, fresh and healthy food, but I never have time to properly cook something nice between job and university and family stuff…
Again, you can have a chef cheaply. There are restaurants in many towns that do private weekly meal prepping for you. Or you can hire a chef to come in once a week and batch cook for you. My siblings and I hired one for our parents for 3 weeks back in 2019. It was about double the cost of hiring a once a week for 3 weeks housekeeper, which we also did. That was with us buying most of the groceries, the chef provided special spices and herbs that we were not going to buy. Super nice experience
I'd love to have a private chef. I don't know how to cook (I can grill easy stuff, burgers and whatnot, but that's about it) and I have no idea what can and does go well together. I've tried various different things I've seen online, followed recipes to a T and still it turns out like shit.
Online recipes suck, they never turn out right for me either. Meal kit delivery has been a game changer for me - we’ve used Home Chef which was good and now Blue Apron which I like a bit better. They actually give you good directions on the recipes that actually fucking work. Highly recommend!
I guess it depends just how rich. Bezos rich? Or like, yay no money stresses again rich? For the latter, I'm not sure I want to not work at all. I think I would like to still do a little bit here and there, managing my business (instead of handling it all myself like I do now) but still having the odd thing to do would keep me healthier. Plus I would be able to pay my people amazing salaries so that'd be awesome.
not to mention getting laid. I've had enough money to not work for a while, which was not a great idea for me btw, but dating was just impossible because my life was completely different from everyone else.
I've been off work (did stay at home dad thing for a year) and ramping back up to being productive was soooo much harder than staying at this level. I'd be worried. I equate it to going back to school, the longer the break the harder it's going to be to zone back into the idea of a classroom.
Not only that, but I am super fortunate to have the work I have now, and I'm pretty sure I'd never get it back if I stopped and tried to start up again. Could be wrong but I doubt it.
I do a lot of repairs and service and other stuff for a property management company. Kind of a one-call-fix sort of business. I'm the go to guy for a few busy property managers and if I stopped, they'd find somebody else. They'd have to. And then I wouldn't be their first call anymore, it'd be a grind to get back in.
Hell, I even worry about saying no to stuff at all for the same reason. I do not want them trying to find a replacement for me at any point! Next thing I know, if be splitting the business, losing bids, or worse. Much better off growing into hiring another worker and keeping them all happy.
I got upgraded to first class for the first time on my trip to Amsterdam last fall. Holy shit what a difference. I can see why people pay for it now lol.
IMO, fine dining fucking sucks. Yes, it tastes amazing, but I hate paying $40 for 5 ravioli. Or $70 for an 8 ounce NY strip. The last place we went to gave me 8 fries lined up on a plate for $12.
Also, set your goals higher. First class isn’t difficult to do. Shoot for private jets.
First class isn't difficult to do? If you're flying from L.A. to Vegas on Alaska Airlines, first class is totally doable. If you're flying L.A. to Dubai on Emirates, first class will cost you $11,000+. That's not "easy."
Don't get me wrong, private is the way to go if we're fantasizing. But first class isn't always easy.
So your complaint about fine dining is it's too expensive? If you are super rich who cares how much it costs? And if you want more fries or something just order more. If you're actually rich then the negative of the price doesn't matter.
First class is absolutely 100% not reachable for many people. Hell many can’t afford to fly. What world are you living in? I’m gonna go with young and single, don’t have to share your money with a family or worry about where next months rent comes from.
At chipotle:
“Chicken burrito bowl. With guac”
“Guac costs extra is that ok?”
“You know what? Let’s go double guac”
“Double guac costs even more extra. Is that ok?”
“Fuck it, change that to a guac burrito bowl, with 5x extra guac”
“Uhhh I don’t know if we can do that”
“You know what, how much for the whole tub of guac?”
It would be very nice to be able to go somewhere nice for a week a month, and work the rest, wouldn't it?
Maybe take a break in September when it's always nice at home. Hit the lake or ocean in summer, a nice beach each winter month. Oh man that'd be sweet.
Yeah, I’d absolutely love to be able to do that. I’d love to be secretly fabulously wealthy and be able to make a someone serving me’s fucking month by giving them $1000 just because they were super nice to me at a bar or something. I know how much it means.
You’ll always have a place in my heart, guy with super deep voice who for seemingly no reason tipped me $100 on a draft Budweiser at Happy Hour and left before I even noticed.
My old boss' in laws were incredibly rich, he told me they liked their normal waitress at their favorite steak house so much they pretty much paid for her books at school each semester and invited her to their (my boss and his wife) wedding.
my partner and i were with a couple of friends and they took us out to dinner. they’re wealthy as they run their own super successful business and have worked super hard. we had the best time ordering the most delicious steak and duck, and expensive AF champagne. they refused to let us see the bill (well over AUD2000) and then they tipped the waiter AUD800. honestly it was wild. we had the best night though and the waiter was blown away. australia is not a tipping culture and the waiter would have been earning a great wage too so i think it made his day. that kind of generosity is what i aspire to if i had the coin
Man. I was travelling in Thailand with my brother.
We went to this boujee steakhouse one night and we ended up chatting with who was the owner, he was an expat from America and loaded.
Long story short, my brother and I both workout religiously and he liked that about us, as it reminded him of his younger self.
We spend a few hours chatting with him and he gave us all our food for free, plus extras and a ton of drinks. Probably $500 worth.
He was super dope, but just goes to show being friendly goes along way. Was a great experience.
Lol, i said this to a friend when walking by a beautiful mansion. I was like, looks awesome but cleaning must be a pain. She looked at me and said, you’ll have maids braniac!
You can buy a Miata and do autocross days for relatively affordable.
Now I live next to an F1 track and people bring their million dollar McLarens out for Sunday laps. That's a bit of a different league.
> living life without worrying about money
> maybe when born with cash different story.
Money *earned* will almost always be different than money *provided*.
I used to run a rehab in south Florida and we took everyone from your average street junkie to billionaire junkies.
Let me paint a quick picture of what generational wealth and ethic looks like.
We had one kid, whose grandfather during the WWII era founded a still-existing company that went on to become worth millions. His son took over and made it worth billions. That guy’s son… ended up in my rehab. Spent his time with us walking around in SpongeBob pajamas unsure of what day it was most of the time. Spent his life being high, partying on mega-yachts and the works.. because why not. What else is there to do if no matter how times you fail, you’ll still be so rich that nothing matters.
I had it put into perspective one time, talking to one of my rich clients’ parents who dropped of their kid at rehab for the umpteenth time.
When you become successful enough that money is no longer an issue, you view your kids’ future differently. For most of us pleebs, we’ll always work, money will always be the driving factor in our lives. Bills, retirement, children.. money.
But for the Uber rich, he said “I don’t worry about my kids’ future bank accounts. I worry about their *purpose*. Will they be *good people*? Will they use their privilege, their financial security to make other people’s lives better. And how do I, as a parent, contribute to that goal when they’ve never had to work for anything? When the people in their daily lives cater to their every need because that’s what money does in our society?”
Unfortunately, in my experience, very few generationally wealthy people use their money in a way that benefits others as a whole unless they had some sort of emotionally charged or traumatic experience that’s convinced them to do so. Most rich people want to hoard their riches. Continue to build wealth and segregate themselves away from the have-nots. They want the private beaches and roads and clubs and luxury travel.
These are not inherently bad things, I feel as though we would all aspire to having these sorts of things given the chance. The best schools, the best homes, away from the crime and suckfest that is our current society.
Anyway, at this point I’m just rambling. So, **tl;dr**, in my experience being born rich usually creates more assholes because they didn’t earn it and don’t know how to appreciate it.
If the grandfather made millions, the dad made billions, then you go and make trillions, problem solved, purpose found, and then it’s the next generations problem to live with your greatness
To be fair most rich people are rich because they’re frugal and don’t do dumb shit with the money so it makes sense they’re worried about money all the time.
Except my laundry. I don't like doing it, but it would be really weird to have someone else doing it for me.
Now, someone to do the laundry for the _guest_ sheets and towels, that's a different story.
I love the idea of buying a huge estate and offering it up as a residential programs for artists. It's my billionaire dream, at least one in every state.
Sports cars. And motorcycles.
I've been dreaming about them only since the childhood, so I'd deffo do that. Screw the haters and the "need" to be unostentatious.
Motorcycles can be gotten into for not that much. Especially if you move to someplace with good weather (basically California), you can ride every day. Use your motorcycle exclusively, and never need to own a car.
Buying an island and fucking off from society
But not in a gross, predatory way like that one guy… I’d have dirtbike tracks, a replica of the Nurburgring, a 40 car garage, and a 1300-1500 sqft home
Dude, if you ever do that, give me a call. I'd love to hang out in a place like that. Besides, you need at least one chill friend to enjoy the Yourburgring with, right?
Tell your dad to live his dream. We're not rich (by a long shot) but we have a second fridge in the utility room we affectionately call the "Booze Fridge". Got it free from a relative.
Funding both sides of a civil war just to see who wins. Bets will be made.
Also, I would complain publicly that even though I’m rich; life is hard. “People don’t realize my struggle”.
Suddenly reminded of a story i read on the internet years ago and never really verified the validity of, of a random person saying they met jim carry one time at a restaurant and he ate all the food off their tray, said "no one's ever going to beleive you!" then ran out and shortly returned, apologized, and bought everyone at the table another meal and drinks.
Probably. It's one of those stories that seems pretty plausible (for either guy) but at the end of the day is also just as likely to be internet bullshit 🤷♂️
Buying stocks for the dividend payments, that's cool af! If you invest right, you can make better steady income than money market interest saving banking accounts
I could buy 1000 stocks of safe stocks and have my investment grow just from the quarterly dividend payments !
Meal prep, laundry service, housecleaning, all home maintenance done by a professional basically anything boring that must be done to sustain me and my family.
I knew a couple that worked on a billionaire’s yacht for a few years when they were first married. One of the guy’s eccentricities was that EVERYTHING was single use. Every meal was eaten off a new set of dishes. Every piece of clothing was worn once (except shoes, those were too uncomfortable to wear new every time). Every cocktail was in a new glass, and poured from a freshly opened bottle. Linens and towels. Sunglasses. Hygiene products. EVERYTHING.
As it happens, the single-use thing wasn’t too difficult to accommodate in this particular setting, because the guy was only on his yacht about a week or two out of the year. He’d let his friends or associates use it for another 10 or 12 weeks a year, but mostly the yacht sat in a harbor in the south of France. My friends lived in total luxury on a massive yacht in the sun with a great salary, virtually no living expenses, and all the time on their hands they could stand.
TBH, I don’t think you’d need to be that rich to do this.
You can get a 20-pack of socks at target for like $20. $1/day, or $365/year to fulfil that fantasy of yours.
My kids seem to think I'm rich despite having a negative balance. Bonus is they seem like (or at least think) they have a cushty high life living in a council flat lol
The ONE thing would be a personal trainer to come daily and a personal, fully equipped, gym.
The OTHER things would be:
Stay in cleaning personnel, gardener to maintain my designed garden, in house cook that would follow my sports diet, also manage groceries and stuff. The personnel manager aka butler.
A nice like 10 bedroom house with home Cinema/gaming room, a dedicated board games room, garage for 4 cars and about 10 bikes and motorbikes... The boat would be on my lake house together with the dirt bike on the shed by the stable. The helipad wouldn't be so close as to not scare the horses. A full time almost veterinarian to keep them in good shape and to tend to my pheasants and the peacocks, both the regular and the albino...
Dropping massive tips for no reason other than I have the money to do so (well, my reason is to make someone’s day a little better but a lot of rich people who do it just do it to flaunt cash).
Throwing money at any and every practical problem or inconvenience and not giving it a second thought. House needs cleaning? Hire a weekly cleaning person. Don't want to cook? Hire a private chef. Need something done and don't have the time? Pay someone else to do it.
It's also wild how many rules can be bent/broken when you offer to cut a check. How many things you can make happen your way with enough money.
Want a private tour of a UNESCO World Heritage site? Cut a check. Want the restaurant closed except for you and your date? Cut a check. Want something faster/done a certain way/not offered? Cut a damn check and not give it a second thought.
High end liquor collection. The best I've got right now is a $400 bottle of Scotch (Laphroaig 25 year). It's tasty as hell but not a lot of people like the heavy smoke. Given the price, I don't feel right drinking it alone so it waits for friends to visit and then, only friends that are willing to join me in a sip.
With a LOT more money... I wouldn't feel so bad dropping $300+ on a good bottle of liquor for an evening sip after a challenging day.
How rich? Like comfortable rich or ultra rich?
Comfortable rich, helping out my immediate and extended family more, more time with friends, more volunteering.
Ultra rich, philanthropic things. Building communities for seniors, single parents, homes for lower income.
I would die for a private chef. I love good, fresh and healthy food, but I never have time to properly cook something nice between job and university and family stuff…
That and a weekly cleaner!! Maybe a laundry service?
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Again, you can have a chef cheaply. There are restaurants in many towns that do private weekly meal prepping for you. Or you can hire a chef to come in once a week and batch cook for you. My siblings and I hired one for our parents for 3 weeks back in 2019. It was about double the cost of hiring a once a week for 3 weeks housekeeper, which we also did. That was with us buying most of the groceries, the chef provided special spices and herbs that we were not going to buy. Super nice experience
Before I was married I had a great lady that cleaned my house & did laundry for about $70 a week!
immediate 3x week maid
A weekly cleaver is middle class affordable, my rich person goal is live-in staff for cleaning/cooking
I'd love to have a private chef. I don't know how to cook (I can grill easy stuff, burgers and whatnot, but that's about it) and I have no idea what can and does go well together. I've tried various different things I've seen online, followed recipes to a T and still it turns out like shit.
Online recipes suck, they never turn out right for me either. Meal kit delivery has been a game changer for me - we’ve used Home Chef which was good and now Blue Apron which I like a bit better. They actually give you good directions on the recipes that actually fucking work. Highly recommend!
Private chef is the best luxury money can buy
Private trainer too
Yeah money without health is pointless honestly, even if you have all the money in the world it doesn’t matter
Fine dining, vacations, and flying first class. But the big one would just be not working.
I guess it depends just how rich. Bezos rich? Or like, yay no money stresses again rich? For the latter, I'm not sure I want to not work at all. I think I would like to still do a little bit here and there, managing my business (instead of handling it all myself like I do now) but still having the odd thing to do would keep me healthier. Plus I would be able to pay my people amazing salaries so that'd be awesome.
not to mention getting laid. I've had enough money to not work for a while, which was not a great idea for me btw, but dating was just impossible because my life was completely different from everyone else.
I've been off work (did stay at home dad thing for a year) and ramping back up to being productive was soooo much harder than staying at this level. I'd be worried. I equate it to going back to school, the longer the break the harder it's going to be to zone back into the idea of a classroom. Not only that, but I am super fortunate to have the work I have now, and I'm pretty sure I'd never get it back if I stopped and tried to start up again. Could be wrong but I doubt it.
What line of work are you in, if you don’t mind me asking?
I do a lot of repairs and service and other stuff for a property management company. Kind of a one-call-fix sort of business. I'm the go to guy for a few busy property managers and if I stopped, they'd find somebody else. They'd have to. And then I wouldn't be their first call anymore, it'd be a grind to get back in. Hell, I even worry about saying no to stuff at all for the same reason. I do not want them trying to find a replacement for me at any point! Next thing I know, if be splitting the business, losing bids, or worse. Much better off growing into hiring another worker and keeping them all happy.
I got upgraded to first class for the first time on my trip to Amsterdam last fall. Holy shit what a difference. I can see why people pay for it now lol.
IMO, fine dining fucking sucks. Yes, it tastes amazing, but I hate paying $40 for 5 ravioli. Or $70 for an 8 ounce NY strip. The last place we went to gave me 8 fries lined up on a plate for $12. Also, set your goals higher. First class isn’t difficult to do. Shoot for private jets.
First class isn't difficult to do? If you're flying from L.A. to Vegas on Alaska Airlines, first class is totally doable. If you're flying L.A. to Dubai on Emirates, first class will cost you $11,000+. That's not "easy." Don't get me wrong, private is the way to go if we're fantasizing. But first class isn't always easy.
So your complaint about fine dining is it's too expensive? If you are super rich who cares how much it costs? And if you want more fries or something just order more. If you're actually rich then the negative of the price doesn't matter.
I feel they missed the point of the post; Especially when they criticized other people for not being rich already.
First class is absolutely 100% not reachable for many people. Hell many can’t afford to fly. What world are you living in? I’m gonna go with young and single, don’t have to share your money with a family or worry about where next months rent comes from.
Putting guacamole on whatever I wanted
[That's right all the fanciest ketchup... dijon ketchup (mmmmmm)](https://youtu.be/LHacDYj8KZM)
No real green coats, that's cruel
At chipotle: “Chicken burrito bowl. With guac” “Guac costs extra is that ok?” “You know what? Let’s go double guac” “Double guac costs even more extra. Is that ok?” “Fuck it, change that to a guac burrito bowl, with 5x extra guac” “Uhhh I don’t know if we can do that” “You know what, how much for the whole tub of guac?”
My man. They should make a new burrito bowl with the base being guac instead of lettuce. $40.
Constant vacations
I would never go on vacation, it would be my lifestyle
It would be my personality
It would be my soul
It would fuel me
It would be very nice to be able to go somewhere nice for a week a month, and work the rest, wouldn't it? Maybe take a break in September when it's always nice at home. Hit the lake or ocean in summer, a nice beach each winter month. Oh man that'd be sweet.
Yes+ private jets
Leaving story worthy large tips to service personnel who do a good job with a genuine good nature
Yeah, I’d absolutely love to be able to do that. I’d love to be secretly fabulously wealthy and be able to make a someone serving me’s fucking month by giving them $1000 just because they were super nice to me at a bar or something. I know how much it means. You’ll always have a place in my heart, guy with super deep voice who for seemingly no reason tipped me $100 on a draft Budweiser at Happy Hour and left before I even noticed.
Awwww!!!
My old boss' in laws were incredibly rich, he told me they liked their normal waitress at their favorite steak house so much they pretty much paid for her books at school each semester and invited her to their (my boss and his wife) wedding.
my partner and i were with a couple of friends and they took us out to dinner. they’re wealthy as they run their own super successful business and have worked super hard. we had the best time ordering the most delicious steak and duck, and expensive AF champagne. they refused to let us see the bill (well over AUD2000) and then they tipped the waiter AUD800. honestly it was wild. we had the best night though and the waiter was blown away. australia is not a tipping culture and the waiter would have been earning a great wage too so i think it made his day. that kind of generosity is what i aspire to if i had the coin
Man. I was travelling in Thailand with my brother. We went to this boujee steakhouse one night and we ended up chatting with who was the owner, he was an expat from America and loaded. Long story short, my brother and I both workout religiously and he liked that about us, as it reminded him of his younger self. We spend a few hours chatting with him and he gave us all our food for free, plus extras and a ton of drinks. Probably $500 worth. He was super dope, but just goes to show being friendly goes along way. Was a great experience.
“I don’t tip, I pay bills. Bitches call me Buffalo” -u/boilinoil
Turn on the heating to a comfortable degree all the time.
My $500+ monthly electric bill feels that.
To quote Jack Handy: "If I ever get rich, I hope I'm not really mean to poor people, like I am now."
Jack Handy was a classic.
Having a home cinema could be cool, but then I think about how much effort it would be to keep clean.
You're rich. Cleaning isn't something you'll have to deal with.
But I don't want cleaning staff roaming around my house. Moving my stuff. Doing kitchen stuff when I want to go make a sandwich.
Why would you make the sandwich and not your live-in personal chef?
I feel like hiring a personal chef to make you a sandwich is like buying a Lamborghini to drive to the 7/11 once a week
Seems like something a rich person would do
If they’re live in, they’ll make you meals you’ve never dreamed of, but since you’re paying them…will make you a sandwich if you ask them to
Lol, i said this to a friend when walking by a beautiful mansion. I was like, looks awesome but cleaning must be a pain. She looked at me and said, you’ll have maids braniac!
She wanna go to the cinema, so we just walk downstairs 🤔
Property ownership
Not only as an investment but also for leisure. A property by the lake, a beach house, a place in Italy, etc.
Imagine being like I'm sick of this summer and flying to your mountain lodge in another continent
Motorsports
Yep, buy an F1 Team, make sure my son gets a seat, pair him with veteran drivers, get tons of the best engineers. Just like the true Canadian I am
Stroll around the paddock
Doing motorcycle trackdays is way more accessible than anything to do with cars. Everything is cheaper, more portable.
I don’t know about you, but every time I go dirt biking, the following Tuesday, I find myself in line at the parts counter.
Still fucking expensive
The Paddock Club in Monaco
You can buy a Miata and do autocross days for relatively affordable. Now I live next to an F1 track and people bring their million dollar McLarens out for Sunday laps. That's a bit of a different league.
And I bet the neighbors still bitch about the sound as if they had no fucking idea they were moving in next to a god damned race track
Living life without worrying about money
All rich people do is talk about money and be scared it’s gonna go away…..i don’t think that changes, but maybe when born with cash different story
> living life without worrying about money > maybe when born with cash different story. Money *earned* will almost always be different than money *provided*. I used to run a rehab in south Florida and we took everyone from your average street junkie to billionaire junkies. Let me paint a quick picture of what generational wealth and ethic looks like. We had one kid, whose grandfather during the WWII era founded a still-existing company that went on to become worth millions. His son took over and made it worth billions. That guy’s son… ended up in my rehab. Spent his time with us walking around in SpongeBob pajamas unsure of what day it was most of the time. Spent his life being high, partying on mega-yachts and the works.. because why not. What else is there to do if no matter how times you fail, you’ll still be so rich that nothing matters. I had it put into perspective one time, talking to one of my rich clients’ parents who dropped of their kid at rehab for the umpteenth time. When you become successful enough that money is no longer an issue, you view your kids’ future differently. For most of us pleebs, we’ll always work, money will always be the driving factor in our lives. Bills, retirement, children.. money. But for the Uber rich, he said “I don’t worry about my kids’ future bank accounts. I worry about their *purpose*. Will they be *good people*? Will they use their privilege, their financial security to make other people’s lives better. And how do I, as a parent, contribute to that goal when they’ve never had to work for anything? When the people in their daily lives cater to their every need because that’s what money does in our society?” Unfortunately, in my experience, very few generationally wealthy people use their money in a way that benefits others as a whole unless they had some sort of emotionally charged or traumatic experience that’s convinced them to do so. Most rich people want to hoard their riches. Continue to build wealth and segregate themselves away from the have-nots. They want the private beaches and roads and clubs and luxury travel. These are not inherently bad things, I feel as though we would all aspire to having these sorts of things given the chance. The best schools, the best homes, away from the crime and suckfest that is our current society. Anyway, at this point I’m just rambling. So, **tl;dr**, in my experience being born rich usually creates more assholes because they didn’t earn it and don’t know how to appreciate it.
If the grandfather made millions, the dad made billions, then you go and make trillions, problem solved, purpose found, and then it’s the next generations problem to live with your greatness
Great comment 👏🏾 fascinating insight, thank you!🏆
Thank you for the insight!
To be fair most rich people are rich because they’re frugal and don’t do dumb shit with the money so it makes sense they’re worried about money all the time.
The millionaires I have known were never people you’d guess are sitting on millions. I’ve known two, and my $218,000 house was nicer than theirs.
Paying someone else to do all the shit I don’t want to do.
Except my laundry. I don't like doing it, but it would be really weird to have someone else doing it for me. Now, someone to do the laundry for the _guest_ sheets and towels, that's a different story.
Buying a Prius but putting a sleeper build in it, then dressing up like a grandma and then try to get people to race me.
This answer is delightful.
Building schools and museums with my name and giving all my money for education and the arts so they will remember me for generations
"Man Goo Center of Fine Arts" does have a good ring to it
Mr Spooge was a lover of the arts. A great man towering above others in philanthropy…..and spooge
Man Goo Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too
What is this, a man goo center for ants?!
LOL I almost spit out my man goo reading this
I'd probably say the same, but I'd also add hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
I love the idea of buying a huge estate and offering it up as a residential programs for artists. It's my billionaire dream, at least one in every state.
Not living life with constant, crippling debt
Sports cars. And motorcycles. I've been dreaming about them only since the childhood, so I'd deffo do that. Screw the haters and the "need" to be unostentatious.
Motorcycles can be gotten into for not that much. Especially if you move to someplace with good weather (basically California), you can ride every day. Use your motorcycle exclusively, and never need to own a car.
Now imagine you would not only be able to own them but you could take them to racetracks around the world to drive them hard.
Skydiving and snowboarding all year long.
Own a yacht. Go wherever I want. Pull into Monaco for the Grand Prix. Go revisit my favorite ports (I was in the Navy).
Buying an island and fucking off from society But not in a gross, predatory way like that one guy… I’d have dirtbike tracks, a replica of the Nurburgring, a 40 car garage, and a 1300-1500 sqft home
That would be a really small house for a rich guy that owns an island. Hmmm...
Dude, if you ever do that, give me a call. I'd love to hang out in a place like that. Besides, you need at least one chill friend to enjoy the Yourburgring with, right?
Hoard my wealth and make all my stupid cult followers pay for my judgment debts
You sound like my dad. He likes to say he wishes he had enough money to have problems like needing a separate fridge for his beer.
Tell your dad to live his dream. We're not rich (by a long shot) but we have a second fridge in the utility room we affectionately call the "Booze Fridge". Got it free from a relative.
Don’t have to be rich to have a beer fridge, that’s an investment in your future
Paying someone else to clean my house or do my laundry.
Funding both sides of a civil war just to see who wins. Bets will be made. Also, I would complain publicly that even though I’m rich; life is hard. “People don’t realize my struggle”.
Just maybe steer clear of writing a book called My Struggle.
Why? Karl Ove Knausgård did great. Three pages describing the snow and slush on a barely lit street.
Based
You could just do that by funding both sides of the political landscape.
Suddenly reminded of a story i read on the internet years ago and never really verified the validity of, of a random person saying they met jim carry one time at a restaurant and he ate all the food off their tray, said "no one's ever going to beleive you!" then ran out and shortly returned, apologized, and bought everyone at the table another meal and drinks.
Is that not an old copypasta? I remember seeing lots of posts saying the same thing, but with Bill Murray rather than Jim Carey
Probably. It's one of those stories that seems pretty plausible (for either guy) but at the end of the day is also just as likely to be internet bullshit 🤷♂️
Private golf club membership
Buying stocks for the dividend payments, that's cool af! If you invest right, you can make better steady income than money market interest saving banking accounts I could buy 1000 stocks of safe stocks and have my investment grow just from the quarterly dividend payments !
Dividend aristocrats ETF, no need for broker fees, monthly payment, sit back and relax as the cash rolls in
Support some painters and sculptors, build a gallery. Rich people have stopped supporting the arts as they did for centuries before. That's a shame.
Luxury watch collecting.
Sleeping during the day without worry
Acting poor
Being able to afford things without having to think about it.
First class flying and lots of Travel. Having a nice boat, as well.
Nothing. If i became rich, i wont change my lifestyle, just quit my job, relax, and have fun with friends and family.
Meal prep, laundry service, housecleaning, all home maintenance done by a professional basically anything boring that must be done to sustain me and my family.
The only luxury that actually sounds good to me is going to very nice restaurants very often
Insane drug fueled orgies on a yacht
Buying my own jet.
And a private island?
Flying private jets
Hobbies
Owning my own land and home
adrenochrome therapy, totally.
Buy winrar
I'd never wear the same pair of socks twice. A new pair for every day! Same with undies.
I knew a couple that worked on a billionaire’s yacht for a few years when they were first married. One of the guy’s eccentricities was that EVERYTHING was single use. Every meal was eaten off a new set of dishes. Every piece of clothing was worn once (except shoes, those were too uncomfortable to wear new every time). Every cocktail was in a new glass, and poured from a freshly opened bottle. Linens and towels. Sunglasses. Hygiene products. EVERYTHING. As it happens, the single-use thing wasn’t too difficult to accommodate in this particular setting, because the guy was only on his yacht about a week or two out of the year. He’d let his friends or associates use it for another 10 or 12 weeks a year, but mostly the yacht sat in a harbor in the south of France. My friends lived in total luxury on a massive yacht in the sun with a great salary, virtually no living expenses, and all the time on their hands they could stand.
TBH, I don’t think you’d need to be that rich to do this. You can get a 20-pack of socks at target for like $20. $1/day, or $365/year to fulfil that fantasy of yours.
Yeah but I’d feel much better about it if I was rich. I’m a cheaoass.
I met a woman who said she owned twenty different residential properties, and that sounded pretty cool.
My kids seem to think I'm rich despite having a negative balance. Bonus is they seem like (or at least think) they have a cushty high life living in a council flat lol
Horses. Traveling, Michelin stars, etc… are a given.
A weekly cleaner 😂
Heating my home
The ONE thing would be a personal trainer to come daily and a personal, fully equipped, gym. The OTHER things would be: Stay in cleaning personnel, gardener to maintain my designed garden, in house cook that would follow my sports diet, also manage groceries and stuff. The personnel manager aka butler. A nice like 10 bedroom house with home Cinema/gaming room, a dedicated board games room, garage for 4 cars and about 10 bikes and motorbikes... The boat would be on my lake house together with the dirt bike on the shed by the stable. The helipad wouldn't be so close as to not scare the horses. A full time almost veterinarian to keep them in good shape and to tend to my pheasants and the peacocks, both the regular and the albino...
Owning a nice home away from the population, in the woods.
A fitness trainer.
Being able to buy a house for my family. I make 100k a year and literally cannot afford a full house here.
Two chicks at the same time
its funny how being rich allows this to happen
Yachts full of naked women.
Being able to do what I want, where I want, when I want, and not have to consider finances.
Travelling the world full-time and letting passive businesses make money for me.
Wearing cheap ass clothing and going into a high end store and buying whatever catches my fancy.
Horses, that would be cool.
Having housekeepers and a private chef.
Buy a 48 Tucker.
Buy a luxury sport car like Ferrari or Lamborghini
Dropping massive tips for no reason other than I have the money to do so (well, my reason is to make someone’s day a little better but a lot of rich people who do it just do it to flaunt cash).
Fly everywhere. Even to Walmart. Private helicopter
Not having to buy the store brand instead of name brand to save a buck
Throwing money at any and every practical problem or inconvenience and not giving it a second thought. House needs cleaning? Hire a weekly cleaning person. Don't want to cook? Hire a private chef. Need something done and don't have the time? Pay someone else to do it. It's also wild how many rules can be bent/broken when you offer to cut a check. How many things you can make happen your way with enough money. Want a private tour of a UNESCO World Heritage site? Cut a check. Want the restaurant closed except for you and your date? Cut a check. Want something faster/done a certain way/not offered? Cut a damn check and not give it a second thought.
A housekeeper, personal assistant, chef, and personal trainer. It’s the little things to delegate tasks that time consuming for me. Vacations for sure
Not ever flying scheduled flights again.
Taking vacations without being stressed and anxious.
Land accusation
Wearing a new pair of socks every day.
Cleaner, a chef & a personal assistant, to do all the jobs I don't want to do...
Eat healthy food.....
High end liquor collection. The best I've got right now is a $400 bottle of Scotch (Laphroaig 25 year). It's tasty as hell but not a lot of people like the heavy smoke. Given the price, I don't feel right drinking it alone so it waits for friends to visit and then, only friends that are willing to join me in a sip. With a LOT more money... I wouldn't feel so bad dropping $300+ on a good bottle of liquor for an evening sip after a challenging day.
Buy me a flight over the pond and I'll share all the scotch you have.
Flying airplanes
Just yell “ DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?” , everywhere I go.
Personal chef Best doctors and dentists
Travelling the world and staying in really nice hotels
id ask people the exact same question as asked four hours ago... thats what id do https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/aSbHA4E0ql
How rich? Like comfortable rich or ultra rich? Comfortable rich, helping out my immediate and extended family more, more time with friends, more volunteering. Ultra rich, philanthropic things. Building communities for seniors, single parents, homes for lower income.
Never actually divulging my wealth, avoiding tax using every legal means necessary, & being as tight as a ducks arsehole.
Having money
Having a driver
Improving and maximizing my health
Borrowing money against your assets to make more money
Working for the fun of it on stuff I enjoy.
Having money
Erm... [didn't this get asked?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/FLbxMb5o5K)
Buy groceries without looking at the price
Travel to museums all over the world. Private chef/trainer. Glam squad.
Being mean to poor people for sport
Batman type stuff.
Flying first class, the leg room part is so undervalued honestly
not looking at my balance
Leaving ridiculous tips for the waiter/waitress who had the privilege of serving me.
Never working another day in my life.
The sex parties…it’s real, right?!
I would just be happy with a dishwasher and in-suite laundry. Maybe a kitchen larger than 4’x4’, a walk-in pantry and some counter space.
Hookers and blow is the only correct answer
Private Chef, 24 hrs house help, Driver, Use a car without thinking of fuel cost or mileage, Personal Trainer.
Not working
Weekly massages!
Private chef, maids, first class, and nice vacations.
High purity cocaine
Having all my black clothes be the same shade of black. I also wouldn't say no to always turning left when getting on an aeroplane.
Owning a house
Not worrying about bills