29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged

Kids from well-off families have a huge head start against their peers. As serial entrepreneur, investor, and consultant Bernie Klinder put it, they are born on 3rd base, and making a home run is fairly easy.

Brand new BMWs for their sweet 16, fully-paid college degrees, and houses for wedding presents. Even if they fail at life, the bank of dad can bail them out, providing enough to get by.

On Friday, Reddit user u/TacticalTuna2 decided to find out more about the way wealthy parents raise their boys and girls, so they asked: "People who grew up rich, what's something you thought was normal?" And their call was answered.

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29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged If I broke something, it was just a funny joke about how clumsy I am, and it got replaced immediately. I've had so many phones, computers, and cameras that I can't even count, so I only realized as an adult that people don't just throw away their broken or used stuff, but actually fix it.

sayhummus , Ashkan Forouzani Report

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134points

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Serial pacifist 3 years ago

Yes, fixing is a thing.

50points

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29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged Eating out every single day. My parents are super well off, but work a ton, and neither had time to cook. So at least one, if not both meals were delivered to the house every day, sometimes from really fancy restaurants. I always thought that home-cooked food and family dinners on TV were fake. I only realized it was abnormal when my friend came over. She said she liked the pasta at this local Italian restaurant, so I went on my phone and ordered her some on DoorDash (we were about 15 at the time), and she was in complete shock that I was allowed to do that.

Glittering-Return171 , Dan Gold Report

Final score:

123points

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Aleksandra 3 years ago

My whole family was always working super hard but we almost never went out to a restaurant. They'd always find time to cook at home. I think it's because they don't trust the food outside of home 😅

33points

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29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged By the time I was 23 I’d had 5 cars. When I got my second brand new car in about 18 months I learned that some people can never afford a brand new car in their life. I honestly had no idea. When a friend was saying she needed to get a credit card so she could buy a car I genuinely didn’t understand why. Credit scores weren’t a thing I was aware of. I’d been on my parents AmEx account since I was about 12 which gave me perfect credit right out of the gate. I realize that now, but even then I don’t think I really knew what a credit score was until I was in my 30’s.

When I was a teenager in the 90’s my mom would hand me $50’s & $100’s because I asked for money.

Having a passport & going to countries other than Canada or Mexico.

Having a Nordstrom card with my name on it when I was 11 because my mom hated school clothes shopping.

Nearly 40 and had never paid my own rent. Never bought my own car. Never paid my own insurance. Never even paid for my own gas.

I worked. Hard. Made good money. My parents paid for everything. I racked up tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt and my parents had to bail me out. Multiple times.

This is embarrassing…I have way to many of these. Even with all of that they did instill a good work ethic in me. So there’s that.

Sad_Poet_3429 , Lars Kienle Report

Final score:

118points

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John Smith 3 years ago

Poor you...

42points

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29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged I thought participating in multiple extracurricular activities was a normal thing. Now when I think about how much my parents spent on my swimming, piano, skating, ballet, soccer...wow

thesecrwns , Jordan Whitfield Report

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105points

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Kika González 3 years ago

My parents were not wealthy but I was in at least two activities at any given time

30points

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29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged Having a pool. Everyone always wanted to come over to use it. Doesn't everyone else have a pool? Oh...

PM_ME__PREDICTIONS , Conner Baker Report

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96points

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

We had an above ground pool and we were very FAR from being well off.

11points

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29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged I always thought my family wasn't very well off because it seemed everyone else at my school had two houses (their primary residence plus a beach house or ski house) and we only had one.

MattinglyDineen , R ARCHITECTURE Report

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95points

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actaully...nevermind 3 years ago

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33points

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29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged We had a maid. I didn't realize everyone else didn't.

Inquisitive-Diver99 , Volha Flaxeco Report

Final score:

89points

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Jon Steensen 3 years ago (edited)

Well someone has to be that maid, and maids don't have maids as they would spend more time working to pay them than doing the cleaning work in their own homes themself. A bit of logic could quickly disprove that.

26points

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29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged 1. Being able to go to college/school without thinking about cost.

2. Being able to choose " Whatever " major I wanted, without thinking about if that major would lead to a paying career that would help support my parents and myself after I graduated.

Defiant_Nothing7684 , Austin Distel Report

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85points

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Mohammad Ammar 3 years ago

The second one is painful.

32points

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29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged Vacations, big time. Getting a new car every three to six years. Being unable to understand why people wanted to raise taxes. Country clubs and $50,000-plus weddings. Being able to afford maids, accountants, and being in contact with a lawyer constantly. Blindly accepting capitalism with fervent spirit

Upstairs_Cow , Tim Mossholder Report

Final score:

84points

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Miss Cris 3 years ago

You got it!

13points

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#10

29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged I had a friend growing up that if there was something he wanted or felt that he needed to have he would call the store place the purchase and bill it to the family account or go online and buy it using his parents credit card he had and didn't need to ask permission or even tell them he did it and hey were okay with it. I thought he was kidding when he told me this or was lying until he proved it by buying us new $1500 matching dirt bikes.

faj210210 , Emil Kalibradov Report

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69points

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actaully...nevermind 3 years ago

HEY AT LEAST HE'S A GOOD FRIEND

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#11

29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged Clothes, never wore them more than twice. Gave them to charity and just bought more. Shoes too, I had more shoes than I could ever need.

Good-Long-5064 , Amanda Vick Report

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65points

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I I 3 years ago

what a waste , yes you gave them to charity but fck me , more money than sense

70points

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#12

29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged having multiple types of cheese in the fridge at all times.

I was shocked at how expensive cheese was when I moved out lol.

thesecrwns Report

Final score:

64points

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Serial pacifist 3 years ago

I think this is cultural. Where I am at, people regularly eat various cheeses that are considered a luxury and are quite expensive in some other parts of the world. It is the same all around. Some foods that are extravagant to us are part of a common diet in those 'far away' places they originate from.

41points

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#13

29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged We had steak for dinner four or five days a week — so much that my brother and I got so sick of it. I didn’t understand the draw of steakhouses and only having steak on a special occasion.

AllDogsGoToReddit , Chad Montano Report

Final score:

63points

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Cosmetica Solist 3 years ago

It may be 'luxurious', but that sounds really unhealthy

73points

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#14

29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged I thought everyone owned a washing machine and was able to vacation every year.

joebidenthedictator , engin akyurt Report

Final score:

63points

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S. Tor Storm 3 years ago

I guess I'm living in a rich country, cuz basically everyone here owns a washing machine. But yeah, norway is rich so.

61points

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#15

29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged Vacations every year. Having more than one house. Buying whatever.

MandoInThaBando , Stephen Leonardi Report

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61points

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Maria 3 years ago

YOY? VOV?

33points

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#16

29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged Getting a house when you're old enough, just because...

Kennyvee98 , J. Remus Report

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61points

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Miss Cris 3 years ago (edited)

In my country, most people can't life alone or with a partner before 30. I'm not saying buying a house nor buying a small apartment, just not sharing one.

13points

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#26

29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged Ski Trips.

Stephh075 , Alain Wong Report

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33points

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brukernavn340 3 years ago

In Norway, ski trips are not only for rich people (except if you go abroad to ski).

15points

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#27

29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged Often having additions put on the house. My dad's ideology was that if he was going to stay in the house for the rest of his life, might as well make it bigger

Skrrattaa , Ярослав Алексеенко Report

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32points

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Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago

An actual rich person would just have bought a bigger home rather than suffer the works in progess in this franken-house.

11points

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#28

29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged Having 2 fridges! I thought that was a thing everyone had

rw0016 , Brett Jordan Report

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29points

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Caroline 3 years ago (edited)

We have two, but we got the second one from my grandfather when he sold his house. We have it in the basement and it's only full of soda cans, hehe ^^' (edit: they last for months)

21points

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#29

29 Rich People Share What Things Were Normal To Them Until They Realized They Were So Privileged Having designs painted on your walls

ommyLolaT , Mika Baumeister Report

Final score:

15points

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Monday 3 years ago

Not necessarily a rich thing, could also be a sign of an artist in the family.

38points

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What do you think ?

Chich 3 years ago

And people are opposed to taxing the rich?! No-one needs That much disposable income or to be just handed money like it comes by the barrelful.

28points

But if they decide to tax the rich then they'll have to pay high taxes when they finally get rich one day.....is the logic a lot of them seem to work under.

17points

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tuzdayschild 3 years ago

Only the rich ore opposed to taxing the rich.

4points

Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

The problem is that if you tax the rich too much, they either try even harder to avoid those extra taxes (easy with a high paid accountant), or they leave and go somewhere else. Considering most the taxes *already* come from the rich, having them emigrate is not going to help the tax situation. It's a vicious circle without the rich volunteering to pay their taxes properly and donate to charities that help the poor, and also closing the tax loopholes being exploited by money-grubbing accountants

3points

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Tiny Dynamine 3 years ago

The rich and powerful are against it, so they're not going to tax themselves because they don't have a decent bone in their bodies.

-2points

ʏᴏᴜʀᴅᴀɪʟʏᴅᴏsᴇᴏғᴄʀᴀᴢʏ 3 years ago

some of these aren’t just “rich parents”, they’re bad parenting and spoiled kids.

25points

Troux 3 years ago

That's a very broad brush to call them all bad parents. Are all lower-middle class kids in developed countries raised fully aware that they are lucky to have clean clothes, medical care, air conditioning, TV, video games and a car, while many people in the world don't? Privilege is relative, and the discussion is still relatively new as we are becoming more connected.

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago (edited)

Although a lot of this shocks me, some of it still gives me a reality check. I had my own room. I had food, medical, and a roof. And I don't have to worry about looking after my parents financially (they aren't well off per se, but part of that vanishing middle class I guess. They certainly couldn't afford to support me as an adult). In fact they are way better off than i am but i prefer knowing i provide everything for me and mine, even tho i can't buy a house and rent instead etc. (House prices have gone crazy and the standard 'measure of success' used to be home ownership which is near impossible even for dual income no kid professionals) I feel like I squandered a lot of the privileges I have been given in life though. My sister had those same privileges but used them and has done incredible things

16points

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