I know a student that prints documents with a black background and white text.

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I mean printer ink is bloody expensive. This one could be the wealthiest of the lot!

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I've had 2 roommates who were obscenely rich. The first one was from a rich Russian family. As in, went to an elite boarding school with ambassador and actor kids and some elite equestrian program. Parents hired people to help her move into our apartment. She spent money so lavishly, it was incredible. Buying whatever caught her eye and losing interest. She had this incredible brand name clothing and shoe collection that took up the entirety of our shared closet space. It was great. I got to eat her food, she would buy alcohol to try it and I would finish it off. She'd let me borrow her clothes. She was really a nice girl, just obscenely rich. She eventually dropped out halfway cause she couldn't handle the stress of school (not being catered to by professors) so I got to live in a single the rest of the year (she was still paying for it and never bothered to find another sub!). Next roommate was rich girl heir to some prestigious hospital or medical group in China. She had a spending budget of like $500 a week, which she would spend on sneakers/shoes. Our apartment had a bi-weekly maid service organized by her parents to clean up for us. All her clothes were taken weekly to be steam cleaned. She also spent a sh*tton of money on alcohol that I was more than happy to finish off for her. They had set up some weekly food delivery with a gourmet hipster food company, and I basically never had to shop for food that year. I got to eat fancy pasta, cheeses, pâté, pastries, avocados all the time, and heirloom versions of vegetables. Also a lot of quinoa and weird grains. She was also a great roommate. Didn't have much in common and we fell out of touch when we graduated. But I did have 2 years of mooching off rich elites when I was in college. ETA: Both girls actually came from comparatively strict families. That's why they had limited money, the Chinese girl had a lot of equally super rich friends who would make fun of her for being poor and how her family was so strict and stuff. Also their parents made them get roommates to learn to be in touch and have as normal an experience as possible. Russian chick was the best roommate ever since she'd been having roommates in boarding school so she knew all the roommate etiquette. Chinese girl not so much, but she did make an effort and all her messes were cleaned up by the maid service anyways. Chinese girl ended up going to med school as was expected of her since she did have to eventually inherit the family business, so she wasn't one of those useless trust fund babies. The Russian chick, not so much, she got married to some other rich dude recently according to my FB, was not invited to her wedding.

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Why would people that rich need to share a flat?

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I used to be a nanny to celebrities and high profile New York financial families. Some highlights:


-The CEO and his model wife of a famous athleticwear company paid for an entire wardrobe for me to keep at their home because they didn't want "outside clothes" contaminating their house or infant. I was to take my street clothes into the bathroom near the entrance, take them off, change into my "house" clothing, and then only change back after I was finished with the baby for the day and was getting ready to leave. They also had a safe of cash that I was to use exclusively for my meals, drinks and take out food, and then leave the receipts in the safe.






-The famous fashion designer who paid for a wardrobe for me to wear in the house that was entirely black and white.......so I would match the home decor. Didn't matter what brands of clothing, but everything had to be pure black or white, no patterns or other colors. This included accessories, sneakers and socks.





-The family who flew me to Antigua from Manhattan for a long weekend to watch their three kids because the parents wanted to "relax." They had a private island compound near a famous male celebrity, and the island only was accessible by private plane or private yacht.






-The CEO of a international firm that was married with four children and each child had their own nanny (I was the nanny to the infant), and the couple paid for apartments in Paris and Manhattan for each of us nannies. The family spend 6 months in Paris and 6 months in New York every year.





-The 20-something year old gentleman from a millionaire family who owned a penthouse on Park Avenue, and I was hired to work as his housekeeper after he broke his leg in a skiing accident and needed help with daily upkeep and cleaning. When his clothes needed to be washed or the dishes cleaned, instead of me cleaning them, I was instructed to throw them away and take the credit cards and just buy new ones. I was yelled at because I didn't spend ENOUGH on the dishes.





-Working birthday parties for young children of the elite, I've seen entire hotels, stadiums, professional sports training facilities like equestrian and gymnastics places completely rented for an entire day just for a toddler party.





-A depressing one: Was interviewed for a nanny position for two sweet twin girls about eight years old. The previous nanny interviewed me, and I was puzzled and asked where the parents were. The parents lived in Europe, the twins lived in a mansion in New York. As the nanny I would have access to all bank accounts and credit cards, and basically raise them in the mansion and take them to school, appointments, sports, etc. I would have my own black AmEx (this was around 2004), and my own floor of the home. I would call the parents in Europe if there were any major issues. This is how the girls had been living for years. No idea if they ever saw their parents.


I have a lot more stories, but these are just what come to mind.




Edit: For anyone wondering, at the time I could make between $300-$500 cash under the table for a Fri night to Sun night shift, or anywhere from $500-$1000 under the table for a Mon-Fri shift. Holidays were extra and usually included trips or bonuses of some sort.

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My ex's dad's semi-daily driver was an Aston Martin Vanquish. They lived in a multimillion dollar home, rented entire homes/condos all around the world for multiple family vacations each year, and my ex's private high school tuition cost DOUBLE what my college tuition cost.

His parents paid out of pocket for he and his 2 siblings to go to very expensive colleges, he had multiple trust funds and investments...

And they were perfectly wonderful people, all of them. Very family-oriented, very kind, as generous as they were wealthy. They endowed scholarships, worked hard, gave great advice, gave to charity, and were always attempting to learn and observe the world around them and changing their views accordingly. Great family. Saddest part of the breakup for me was breaking up with the rest of the family tbh.

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My husband wrote a movie (long story) with a friend of his who is a full time writer in Hollywood. Friend went to the house of a famous producer to pitch their script. He called my husband and said, "they have a Picasso." Husband is like, "wow, very cool." Friend says, "The Picasso is in their parking garage." ETA: Yes, a movie IS a long story. And don't call me Shirley. ETA2: I am in the US. Had NO idea there is a small [bad] car called a Picasso. But TIL!

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Small bad car called Picasso, lol. My uncle is very proud of his Picasso. He bought it exactly because he is over 2m tall and this car is one of the few big enough to accomodate him.

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A guy at my high school used to get picked up every day in a vintage rolls royce. He lived 5 minutes down the road.

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The car was from the 20s and in impeccable condition, and apparently some rare model or something. It had gold detailing.

The guy lived 5 minutes down the road walking, so about 15 minutes away by car thanks to post-school traffic.

The family were known to be pricks. The guy who picked him up was his grandfather, who always carried one of those fancy gold-tipped canes.

The reason why I hated him was pure jealousy- I too would drive everywhere if I owned a car as beautiful as that.

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pretty sure the 5 minutes down the road was by car, the 15 by foot...?

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My junior year of college, I was the unofficial tutor of an English major. Her dad owned a chain of banks. She didn't want Dad to know that she was basically illiterate, but she had already filled out the paperwork to let Dad view her grades online. He was constantly on her to improve, but he would also be able to see tutoring logs, so she came up with our 'unofficial' arrangement. I tutored her- extensively. I basically taught to to read. And in exchange she bought me clothes and liquor and things that her Dad wouldn't notice on his card as being usual, but I could p**n them for cash if I needed.

*That's not the crazy part*.

For Christmas, she told her parents that her car was 'old'. It was a top of the line Mercedes, with a custom interior and it was less than twelve months old.

Her parents told her no, that there was nothing wrong with her car and she could keep it, "at least until she graduated." She was distraught that she might have to keep the, "peice of junk" for at least another four years, so she hatched a plan.

She refused to drive. If she *had* to be driven somewhere, she made one of her 'peasant' friends drive her and took pictures to show her parents how much she was suffering. Although I refused to give her a ride, she apparently staged photos with my beat to hell Ford that was two decades old and held together by duct tape and good luck. In the photos, she was doing that fake Instagram-crying where the mascara and eyeliner run perfectly together and it's clearly an art shot that in no way indicates that someone is upset. Yeah.

Her parents caved, and on Christmas morning the students that remained on campus were treated to the sight of a sleek Lamborghini with a huge red velvet bow delivered to her dorm. Campus security surrounded the whole affair to keep us poor people from touching it.

She came to the door, yawning and stretching dramatically like she had just been woken up (with perfect curls and makeup ffs) and takes one step out the door towards her gift. Then shreiks like she's been shot straight through, whirls around, slams the door behind her, and screams into her phone loud enough for the crowd to hear, "It's the *wrong color!*"

On New Years, her new car arrived, in the *proper* color.

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I was invited to a graduation party, hosted by a very wealthy couple whose daughter had just graduated from Yale. Her father came out, in front of the guests, displaying Rolex and Cartier watches and asking which one of the two expensive watches the group thought would be 'the more appropriate for the occasion.' Everyone just looked at each other, silently, not quite sure what to say

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That screams nouveau riche.

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I had a friend whose sibling married someone in the british aristocracy. i was at their house and needed to pee, so my friend indicated towards the correct door. i went into the bathroom, and i swear to god, i got *lost* trying to find the toilet.

but it was okay, because there were a lot of old dutch masters oil still lifes to look at in there.

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Please don't pee on the Vermeer, that's what Rambrandts are for.

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This girl in high school had to fill up her $100,000 Mercedes for the first time, so she decided to fill it up with diesel. Couple weeks later she had a replacement Mercedes

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Diesel nozzle is bigger and do not fit in gasoline powered cars fuel inlet....

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A guy who moved 300 miles away just so he could buy a plane to fly to work every day.

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Too much time on his hands, money to burn and no eco-warrior

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David Tepper, billionaire hedge fund manager that moved out of New Jersey. Doing this caused New Jersey to have redo their entire state budget.

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I mean when you rely that much on one persons taxes.....

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They had a black swan and an albino peacock.

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Black Swan is a common species in Australia where all native swans are black. Very common as a tame "pet" throughout the world.

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My coworker comes from a lot of money. I have $200 to my name and I listen to the kid complain about how poor he is that he only has $37K in the bank.
This guy got stopped by a skin lotion vendor in the mall and in order to "make him go away", he bought $3,500 worth of skin product from this vendor and just put it on his "dads card".
Guy, you suck.

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I had a roommate in the dorms who grabbed a roll of paper towels and used the whole thing still rolled up to sop up a spilled beer. That still pisses me off.

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My first ever roommate, a spoilt rich girl who didn’t even know how to cook instant noodles, used bundles of A4 sheets (printer paper) to clean up water spills, wipe stuff, etc.

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My dad's boss was the billionaire CEO of a Fortune 500 company. We were invited to his private July 4th party at his home in Corona del Mar, where Robin Williams was hired to entertain, and he had his own fireworks barge anchored in the water just beyond the house. The fireworks alone cost more than $300K - wouldn't be surprised if the whole party cost half a million dollars.

P.S. - Robin Williams' private comedy shows were NOT family-friendly.

Edit: just thought of another one, second-hand story: Several years ago I worked with some folks from a large business jet company that were raving about their last job. A Saudi prince had just purchased a new jet for a cool $80M, and **spent another $80M in upgrades and interior finishes** alone. We're talking about rare wood furnishing throughout, exotic stone, handcrafted upholstery, and everything else is gold or gold plated, including a gold-plated Xbox integrated into the custom entertainment system The plane was painted this obnoxiously bright yellow color from nose to tail. The reason? It was a birthday gift for his 16-year old son, so that the color of his plane would match his Lamborghini.

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OP has obviously not seen Robin Williams' early stand up videos....

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When I was in elementary school, there was this extremely wealthy family that would throw parties and events to raise money for the school and various charity organizations. However, no one got invited to their house until the end of the year party, where everyone in the school (the school was not small either...) was invited for an evening of swimming, arcades, dancing, and food. The first year I was there, I was excluded from the event because the older son refused to give a select few an invitation (he was kind of a jerk). The second year, I outright refused. My brother somehow always lost his invitation and never went, that is, until he was in sixth grade.

The night of the party, I opted to tag along for the drive out of curiosity in hopes of seeing the legendary house that these two boys resided in. The house was out in the foothills, near the wealthiest neighborhoods in my town. But it was not in these neighborhoods, and rather took up the space for a suburb all on its own. I first knew we had arrived when we drove under an entrance with the letters "(name) property) written out in large, iron letters. The next things we passed were a stable and some horses. After that, there were two BMX trails on either side the road, the names of the boys engraved on each one. Next was an olympic sized pool, a tennis court, a basketball court, and a baseball field off in the distance. The house itself was massive, as in it was a particularly large manor house. That was the end of what I saw.

My brother came home and told me the rest. Turns out, they had a gym, a platform for literally every popular sport in America, both indoors and out. There was a skateboarding rink, a small indoor roller rink, a movie theatre, a giant arcade room, two ballrooms (one sophisticated and the other one hip), a giant kitchen complete with a walk-in freezer, and a fair amount of help (including live-ins, they had their own houses on the property). And that was only the party center. Most of the house was off-limits.

I have no idea what the parents do for a living, but good god those things were like the kid version of Gatsby's parties.

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I'm a flight attendant on private jets. In 2013, I once had a passenger charter a flight to Japan after one of the world's largest tunas was caught, so that he could have some of it. He had already been planning to go to Japan that month but decided to leave early for the tuna. On our return leg he ordered $30K worth of food (mostly sushi) for our flight to Europe, he was the only passenger and never had a bite

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And most others are struggling to make ends meet... I'm not the only one who finds this unfair, am I?

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I work for a luxury home builder. Very big, very expensive houses. We are building a home for this guy & he calls freaking out at me because AT&T would only provide him with 9 DVRs when he needs 11. They would provide him with more, but he would need to open a second account to do so. I don't know why, I guess they had some kind of weird limit at the time. I'm the CTO of the homebuilder, so he expected me to get AT&T to change this policy so he could have a TV with DVR in every bathroom as well as the normal TV-viewing rooms. I obviously couldn't do this, so he cancelled his contract with us thru his lawyer & never spoke to us again. His deposit was non-refundable, in fact we had already spent most of the money on the initial part of the build. So he walked away from over $100,000 we wouldn't give him back without ever saying a word to us. It was no biggie to him I guess. It also made NO SENSE.

EDIT: For all those commenting, we offered him plenty of fancy elegant solutions before he ever called AT&T. We would have even paid for the second account, tho he could easily afford it. He was tin foil hat crazy scared of tech & would only accept DSL or cable modem (this was a long time ago too). We could have worked it out tho, but he just left instead. Also we found out after the fact that he walked from two other local builder contracts previously for equally bizarre reasons. He left contract money on the table each time. Didn't bother him. When you combine crazy rich with crazy crazy I guess these things don't bother you. Sorry for the edit, but I can't keep up with the amount of comments. Thanks for the interest in our crazy client!

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I have no idea what any of this means.

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I work in the parts department at a luxury car dealership.

We basically have two kinds of customers:

- people who ask for a quote on touch-up paint (~$55.00 after tax) and then say "Why is it so expensive?"

- people who want to just straight-up order carbon fiber exhaust tips (~$6500.00 after tax, not that they even ask the price) and just ask if they should pay then or when they pick them up.

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You can pick up a full stainless exhaust system for a Lamborghini for around 4k USD. 6500 for carbon exhaust tips is f*****g criminal.

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Met a girl who worked on a yacht and it was located in Monacco. I was able to board it for about an hour and get a tour. The owner was some Russian oligarch or something and the boat was worth $100 million. I wasn't allowed to walk around it freely but the thing was tricked out in a way I never thought possible. It wasn't even the biggest yacht in port either.

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its in Monaco, what were u expecting

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Young girl, about five years of age, was getting ready to go into New York City to visit her grandmother from the NJ suburbs. She was at her aunt's house and did not have a pair of shoes that she liked. She called their chauffeur, told him which pair of shoes she wanted. The dude got the shoes and drove some 20 miles to deliver them and she told him he got the wrong ones and he was an idiot. No one in the family thought this was inappropriate

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She learned that attitude from someone.

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I've been to Monaco. The harbor full of private yachts was awe inspiring.

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yeah - me too in the 70's. ursela andress & ringo hanging out. nice people. very expensive boats there.

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