Pay for kidnap insurance.

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I used to work in insurance and our company had pre-approved mercenaries on call to hire when someone got kidnapped. Rich people will also insure anything: legs, hair, other body parts. I’ve even heard about alien abduction insurance.

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Ive been a chef for 20 years. I've dealt with this a bit.  Buying out a restaurant for several days, in case they wanted to just "drop in" during their vacation with no wait times at all. We charged $50,000 per meal service they wanted to buyout. Made us $300k over 3 days. They never showed up, but went to our sister restaurant across the river... In miami: Bottle service is insane. We know this already, but you have no idea. Aside from paying $2,000 for a bottle of grey goose with mixers they will spend several thousand on Ace of Spades or Crystal and just throw $200,000 on the black card for one night of drinking.  This extends to champagne, not just for drinking, but for the act of spraying on each other but on the scantily clad girls pretending to like you for 25% guarateed tip. This includes a special champagne menu with an assortment of "spray packages". You can buy one bottle of DomP to drinkband spray around for $1,000 or you can order whole entire cases of Crystal JUST TO SPRAY ON EACHOTHER FOR $50,000 A CASE. Ive seen poolside bungalows order several cases for pool parties....

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There's a difference between being rich and being an idiot. These people are idiots.

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Girl in college was from an African country. Sweetest, nicest person. She asked to sit with me at breakfast one morning, fascinating conversation. Totally down to earth.

Spoke to Her roommate later who described her life basically as Prince Akeem's from Coming to America. She had pet Giraffe and Elephants, etc. I thought she was joking. She said she refers to home as "my father's country"

She then said let me tell you about last week. She decided she didn't want to bum rides and wanted a car. The roommate described listening to her call her father and ask for a car and her father telling get go to the Mercedes dealership in 2 days (Saturday) I'll arrange it. That weekend she drove her to the Mercedes dealership where the OWNER met this 19 yr old. He told her her father has arranged for one of every model they had, in every color they had. Whichever she didn't choose they were shipping to him (the car haulers were waiting in the lot to load them). She chose the silver S600.

They shipped 33 cars to her dad. Her ballpark math was somewhere around $1.5 to $2 million just for the purchase. This was the middle of America so getting 33 cars on international shipping vessel probably was a few bucks. All so she wouldn't have to worry or make any real decisions other than to choose and drive away.

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I would love to own every Mercedes model in every color available

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I do a lot of work for a ridiculously wealthy couple. One thing I saw that springs to mind is having a helicopter drop them off at the end of their driveway and having their car and driver waiting take them from the end of the gravel driveway to the house.
It’s probably a 35 second walk. It took them longer to get into the car than it would for an ordinary person to walk it.

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During Covid I worked as a Private Jet Charter Broker. We had a guy (a British member of the House of Lords no less) that explained that “sod the quarantine restrictions, I need to fly to Monaco every other week to ensure I keep my tax residency in Monaco and not in the U.K.”

I also had someone who I’d regularly fly between London and Baku, Azerbaijan ask if they could take a short stop off in Dubai (which is very much not on the way) to get their passports stamped to ensure they maintained their residency there. They also once showed up with well over half a tonne of luggage that they described as “oh just some stuff we picked up shopping” you won’t be surprised to hear that they were very confused when we advised them that 27 boxes and suitcases of stuff won’t fit on an aircraft that we’d repeatedly told them only had space for about 10-12 suitcases.

Finally, we had a Russian guy ask us to call his Caribbean Destination island airport and ask if they could ensure that his flight was not “randomly selected” for a Covid test as he didn’t have time to complete the quarantine if he had been positive. He didn’t care whether he had the virus, just that getting caught with it might f**k up his travel plans… in like July 2020.

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You can not serve as or become a member of the House of Lords if you claim residency in another country for tax purposes.

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Had a friends’ kids wonder “who are all these people on the plane?” because they’d never flown commercial before.

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Once a really rich girl went slumming with my brother when he lived in NYC. He offered to get her a taxi at one point, and she said, “No, I’ll just take my dad’s helicopter.”

Her dad’s. Helicopter.

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🎶 don’t wanna live like common people, don’t wanna do whatever common people do… 🎶

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Buying a multimillion dollar home nearby where they’re building a bigger multimillion dollar home so they can be nearby during construction.

Dozens of “spare” current tech devices in case they lose one, don’t want to pack one or it dies.

Buying a quarry so they can guarantee all of the stone in their home is the same.

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Some of these are really just commonsense. It's better to prevent an issue than to fix it - and if money is not for this purpose, what then?

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TLDR: Man imported an ancient monastery door to use on his ranch home

I worked on a ranch just south of Crested Butte, CO(if you aren't a billionaire, don't even think about looking at buying a home there).

The owner of the ranch bought the front door from a Tibetan monastery and flew it to the US to use as his front door on his main house. It was all ornamentaly hand carved, like 3000yrs old, approx 12' x 6' x 2', and weighed tons upon tons upon tons.

Not even the cost of the door itself, but the shipping alone must have been astronomical. And this was just his front door on his main house. There must have been over 10 buildings on the property. I've seen/worked on many billionaire mansions all over CO, and this dude's ranch is the nicest I've ever seen.

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CO? What’s the full form? Where is it?

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I think a theme I'm seeing is "spending exorbitant amounts of money to avoid small inconveniences".

My boss would get his assistant to book flights. Then call every restaurant for reservations, then ask all his friends which restaurant is best, then cancel all reservations but the one he chose, then cancel the flights and book them closer to his reservation, then book multiple hotels, then ask his friends which hotel was best, then cancel all hotels except the one he chose. Then cancel and re book flights to be closer to his reservations. And he would book an extra day at the hotel so when he arrived he could go immediately to his room instead of waiting for check in time.

He would spend thousands of extra dollars every time he went on a trip to avoid the minor inconvenience of having to A) be organized and B) wait for anything during his trip.

Oh and C) he would pay his assistant 100 grand a year and not trust her to do something like "book me a trip to Berlin at the best hotel and best restaurant, make sure I don't have to wait around for anything"

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They call boutique stores ahead of time to say they are coming in on date x . The boutique high end store pulls every super expensive items complete with accessories on a rolling rack to have ready .
I worked in a a high end store back in the day .
If it was on sale - they pulled the sale tag off and literally tried to get rid of all the expensive items - think layering to up sell.

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Have lobsters flown from Maine to Japan on a private jet to impress a client.

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Have a person on staff for the express purpose of communicating to the rest of their staff. Cause you clearly can't expect them to be talking to all these people directly.

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Asked my boss what he's doing for Christmas break...
-family coming over for presents
-in-laws coming over for presents
-movie night
-friend is driving our small yacht w our private chef to our island in the Bahamas for the week and were flying private to meet them...
I bet they deny my raise when i ask too :/

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Tailored clothes. I'm not just talking suits and fancier items. But tailored casual wear. Perfectly fitting t-shirts and jeans.

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If I could afford it I would have everything tailored. I have weird proportions for retail clothes. I don’t mind most of the time as I prefer baggy comfortable clothes, but when I have to look a bit more polished the clothes never feel right.

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Most of my rich friends growing up always had stocked and organized fridges. Someone did all the shopping and kept everything organized.

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I live outside of a major city. I am from a not-wealthy area bordering on a wealthy area but my parents sent me to private school so I have friends from both places. I offhandedly mentioned to a wealthier friend the other day that I saw a condo on sale for $2 million in one of the richer towns. I said that if I were in the market for a $2 million property here, I’d be looking for a house, not an apartment. She explained that they weren’t for sale with full-time living in mind - they are mostly used as pied-à-terres by mega-rich people who bounce back and forth between the city and further out in the suburbs and don’t want to have to rush home/beat traffic/deal with trains, or for people who dock their yachts nearby.

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My friend paid the fee to be able to have a personal escort for his family at Disney World that walks your group to the front of all the lines. I think that it was like $7500 a day.

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A member of my family has done this. Said it was awesome. He is wealthy, I am not. He is the most generous person ever.

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Not ultra rich but I shared a apartment with some people in college, one of the roommates we had never came out of his room and his parents paid for an Indian granny to come every week and cook him a weeks worth of fresh food (and let me tell you, every time she came over all the rest of us were drooling and also kinda pissed because she took over the small kitchen for a few hours). He still ordered food delivery every single day, sometimes twice or three times a day and always had the best electronics. He never came out of his room, never talked to us and didn’t seem to go to class frequently. I definitely thought that kids family must be rich and trying to teach him how to “slum it” in a shared space

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My friend was head of housekeeping for a rich family. Before traveling she would have to bring any clothing and suitcases to the dry cleaners where everything was freshly pressed, folded and tissue paper placed in between each item. Even the underwear.

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Charter a private jet to take the family on vacation. More of a rich than ultra-rich, who can have personal jets. Once you've ponied up first class for parents, kids, and nannies, you're close enough to the cost of a smaller charter. You pick your own travel times, skip the airport security mess, don't have to wait in airport lounges, and can usually have your limousine drive up to the jet to drop/pick up your luggage.

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Idk if it is well known but most customer service lines have a special line for rich people/celebrities. Just about every customer service line I have ever worked has a whole "VIP" department. I guarantee you they don't get the slightest push back, the company will kill itself to make them happy. Also they get better service.

When I worked at Directv, one of the VIPs called me. They had 27 tvs. I'm talking outside tvs, tvs in every shitter, shower tvs. With literally every channel, ppv included. Directv was pretty much paying them to have the service.

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I remember working for Comcast in my early 20s. Our center dealt with the Chicago market. People would look up Michael Jordon's account for fun just to see what ppv he was watching that day

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I know a rich guy who was telling me about the trouble he had with his jeweler... Guy had a personal jeweler to make him expensive watches...

Also complained about how he bought a new car on a whim but forgot his 4 car garage was full of new cars... He lives in a mansion in North Miami. He also redecorates his house constantly. He has so much money he just does whatever he wants all the time, like spending 10k on hotel rooms.

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Paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for golf course memberships. I photograph luxury homes in the most exclusive golf course neighborhoods in my state. I know of one neighborhood where membership runs 400k+ and there’s a wait list of people wanting to join.

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I was reading a book recently written my money launderer. "Mr Clean". He smuggled umpteen millions of dollars - in secret pockets in his golf bag.

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Request off-menu or off-topic things. For example, calling down to the concierge at a hotel and say you want a romantic couples set-up down by the pool or handing your credit card to the usher at a theater and ask them to go buy and deliver you a cocktail. (Yes, I have seen both these things)

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My mum's boss buys a brand new top of the range car almost every year and gives the year old one to one of his kids or family members.

I jokingly asked for one. Truth is I doubt I could even afford the insurance let alone maintenence and fuel.

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Their vacation homes are stocked with regionally appropriate attire. Mountain clothes, beach clothes etc. They also keep luxury vehicles at these homes that most people could only dream of owning and using as a daily driver.

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They can make multiple high risk investments. If one in 30 makes it, then they are well in the black. I had a friend who started a successful business. He made some risky investments, one of which is currently paying out at $100K every year and is likely to double in the next 5-10 years. There were 20 or so that he lost almost all his investment, but in 3 years he has made all that money back. Now it is just profit.

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This. This is the conversation not taking place. This is the problem. Investment value dwarfing actual industrious-ness value. Capital gains tax should be withering.

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Buy 80 seats on commercial flight for their falcons.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BirdsArentReal/comments/1bl009w/a_saudi_prince_bought_airplane_seats_for_all_80/&ved=2ahUKEwiq-b_vxo2FAxUWF1kFHcrmA98QzLMHegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw39HLdSd_HGhhQjfAfz0DcF

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Dude should have just chartered his own private plane. And brought staff to clean up all of the bird droppings

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Eat out for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. My daughter has made friends with a particularly wealthy family and the mother and the father are pretty much useless human beings. The dad works and does nothing else, The mom goes to the gym and does nothing else. Nobody in the family cooks so they eat out for every meal.

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Back in the early '00s I used to work with family offices, some of which dealt with the UHNW market. Some of the simple things they bought which blew my mind were:

- Name cards from companies like Black Astrum, which could run from hundreds to thousands of dollars...per card

- Buy sections of the bookstore. Like literally, the guy pointed out one whole section and just said he wanted one of every book there shipped over.

Later I found out you can actually pay a bookstore to just ship over a whole library - just tell them you want to look like an expert on anthropology or something, and they'll outfit a floor to ceiling library of anthropology books for you.

- Buy jewellery by the tray. They would close the store when these people walked in, and the wife would point at a tray in the display case, and they'd buy it all.

- We once received a gift of apples from a UHNW client. They were fancy Japanese apples, which cost around US$220. Per apple. I got a box of four, along with 10 other people in the office.

(They were amazing)

- They ask for things for free and get it. You'd think that's cheap of them, but they really do; I know one woman who asked for a specific serial number for a limited edition watch, and she actually asked if she could just have it. She got it for free. Also they ask for free stuff like suites, a new phone (when he lost it at a hotel), free pedicure services, etc. and they get it. Probably because they spend so much and lend some celebrity status.

- I know a guy who, once in a while, goes through his employee list and pays off the school tuition or medical debts of a bunch of people. There is no regularity or reason to it, he just does it when he feels like it.

- Some of them have copies of magazines like Nomenus on their coffee tables. I didn't realise how much of a flex that was, until I realised Nomenus costs from $2,500 to $5,000+ per issue.

(Later though, I found out some rich people get copies for free as a branding move.)

- All those branded stores like Prada, Gucci, etc.? Many don't actually seem to care much. Some do but not the ones I met. Most of them have a tailor(s) they know by name, who makes bespoke pieces for them. I know some who didn't shop for clothes in a store for three or four years at a stretch.

Good times.

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I had to look up UNHW. "Ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNW) are people with a net worth of at least $30 million".

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I have a friend with a private ski lift.  Does that count?

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I know several families at my college that paid recent education graduates to teach their kids during the pandemic. Basically full-time tutors, but just for two to three kids.

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Ordering off menu. I have a friend who does this - clearly nice restaurants are up for this but I would never have thought of doing this until I saw it.

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Reminds me of when Bill Clinton went to Jamie Oliver's restaurant and his party insisted on ordering off menu because they were on the South Beach Diet

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Hunt humans for sport on an isolated island.

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A personal assistant.

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Collect vintage Fender, Gibson, and Martin guitars. The desired instruments go for over $100k. Some of these folks have millions of dollars invested.

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