Saying you're calling whatever specialty tradesmen to fix a problem with your house or car.

Miele and smeg appliances that look unused.

Your dad driving you to school in a Rolls Royce daily.

Knowing a lot about furniture, visual arts, and sailing.

Not being excited about astonishingly cool things. These people casually are like “man I’m so sorry I missed your birthday party. I was in Switzerland with my family for the holidays. 🙄”.

Made spaghetti with a friend, she didn't rinse out the pasta sauce jar to get the rest of the sauce out. She just tipped the jar upside down, shook it a bit, then threw it out.

I never let her live it down, damned near left half the sauce in the jar.

Very straight teeth due to orthodonture. Never asking how much anything costs, if they're going to be paying. Not realizing that other people are on a tight budget.

When I would go to their home and had $20's and $100's scattered around their room. The house was an obvious give away. But I barely had an allowance, worked a minimum wage job and had a car older than me. So that kind of financial security and taking it for granted struck me.

The air conditioner was going out on our house. We are not rich. Our rich friends said, "It's only ten thousand dollars. Just get a new one." Oh s**t, why didn't I think of that?

Not having anxiety about changing your thermostat when you're hot/cold.

When they say "you know, if you look at the prices and buy the larger one, it's cheaper overall." Like duh, I'm not an idiot. If I only have $20 and need laundry soap and toilet paper, I'm not gonna buy the largest bottle of laundry soap and not wipe my a*s for 2 weeks, I'm gonna get the smaller size of both because I need both. Not everyone has "buying in bulk" money.

Either that, or when I see a comment online of someone saying "if only poor people knew that the food they eat is bad for them!" Not everyone can afford to spend $50 every week on fresh fruits and vegetables. Yeah we can buy potatoes, carrots, onions, apples and bananas, but we can't always afford a $5 tiny-a*s box of blueberries, $4 for an individual avocado or any other high priced produce items + the gas to drive to the grocery store every week since you have 1 week max to eat most of the produce before it rots.

Luckily I'm no longer struggling at all, but there were times years ago when I asked to borrow money for groceries or get a ride to the food bank when we didn't have a car, only to be met with "just make a peanut butter sandwich. There's always something to eat!" BUT - you gotta HAVE bread and peanut butter to make the sandwich! It would have been totally fine to say "no, sorry I cant" but to make me feel like I'm entitled, stupid and just don't want to eat what I have at home when I don't HAVE anything at home, that's f****d up. Poor doesn't equal stupid, but ironically rich ignorance is bliss.

Your house has a name.

Asking why I haven’t travelled to Europe yet.

“My parents have a house on the lake, in addition to their house in the suburbs. But they’re not rich tho… they got the lake house for a good price a long time ago.”

—my ex

If your family could afford two houses, then yes.

Owning horses.

My best friend is rich and doesnt really realize it. Even after seeing my family struggle for years she still doesn't know the cost of money. When we were 18, we went to the mall and she bought about 300 bucks worth of clothes, makeup and food. When she was out of money, she pulled out her mom's debit card and withdrew some more because she saw something cute she wanted to get as well. I bought a coffee and a top and was already feeling guilty and she kept asking why I didn't treat myself. I love her to death but that's one of her biggest flaws.