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Forty-two · Guru

Yeah, that kind of rich

Riding in the WY Wind · ~Ride Free~ ~ Live Free~ (M)

wow, I have none.....whew 250 THOUSAND! wow~

Forty-two · Guru

Riding that's what I thought!!! I think that is half of what I paid for my second home and I know there are many homes in lower COL areas where that would be a stand alone home, not even a condo!

Riding in the WY Wind · ~Ride Free~ ~ Live Free~ (M)

it is just Crazy, I mean I think I am really glad *I* am not crazy rich, I would think that *things* would not be appreciated when you have so dang much! but as I do not know from first hand experience and never will

I will live though these stores

OpheliaDev1 · Guru

Even if I were "that kind of rich" having a busload of shopping bags doesn't sound fun.

And many kinds, being "that kind of rich" meaning spending money that way ends up being "that kind of poor" meaning you have mountains of stuff and you're about to loose your home to foreclosure.

Forty-two · Guru

OD you are missing the point... the bus story is about winning the lottery-it was a commercial here in NYC. I just used it to reference to explain rich and That Kind of Rich (TKOR) this woman I met at the bar.. The point is do you know anyone that kind of crazy rich and can you share the story.

Another example is I know this guy a guy who skis in Aspen and stays at the best places. I know a guy who is TTKOR who rent a helicopter to do helicopter skiing where you rent a helicopter and they drop you from the copter and you ski down a hill in exotic places. Yeah he was TKOR!

OpheliaDev1 · Guru

I know a couple who are money-wise TKOR, but not spending wise, usually. But every so often, they are! They are very into hunting, and the husband paid $30,000 for a custom-made rifle and flew to England so they could measure him for this rifle. But he wouldn't pop for 1st class tickets, and since he's a tall guy, he was very uncomfortable!

EmmDee · Guru

I feel like I have had TKOR feeling about someone before but I can't think of who it was. Clearly they didn't leave a lasting impression on me. The $250,000 scotch is mind boggling though. I can't even imagine wth would make it worth that much.

Forty-two · Guru

MD it was some such about it being buried in the snow and someone finding it and it going up for auction.

OpheliaDev1 · Guru

Mark Twain - "I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world."

Balloon Animal · Guru

You would think Ruth Chris only has rich people eating there, but you would be wrong. I know this is not specifically Ruth Chris but you said similar to it. Our city has a Ruth Chris and while I have never been there, my ex BFF went there a lot. And their credit is in the toilet, her husband was unemployed for years and years and then a grad student and college student. They either went there and her MIL paid for them to eat there or they went with their MIL and FIL and they got the bill. My ex BFF literally grew up living in a virtual shack her parents were so poor. The place has since been condemned.

So just because a restaurant is fancy does not mean only rich or well off people eat there. You never know with stuff like this.

Balloon Animal · Guru

Riding in the WY Wind wrote:
it is just Crazy, I mean I think I am really glad *I* am not crazy rich, I would think that *things* would not be appreciated when you have so dang much! but as I do not know from first hand experience and never will I will live though these stores

+1

I don't want that much money. I say it all the time if I won the lottery and won some crazy amount like 300 million dollars, I would not really know what to do with it. I would not ncessarily even move from our modest 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house. I would fix it up super nice with new furniture and everything nice, but not really want to move. I would maybe buy like one new car or maybe 2 but just decent cars. Nothing like a Lambourghini or something. Just like a super nice mini van and maybe a Lexus or something.

I would help out friends and family some. Maybe hire a full time tutor to go to school with Robot and help him. Go on a lot of vacations probably. DH would quit working. Buy nicer clothes and maybe eat out more but probably the same places we eat now. I would still eat at Taco bell drive through LOL. I might buy some jewerly. But I would end up with probably only using like at most 10 million of it and be done spending it.

I think spending money on extravagant things just to spend it on extravagant things is silly and maybe a little sinful. I would be donating a **** ton to charity because I don't need diamond encrusted tampons. The tampax works just fine thank you very much. ;)

OpheliaDev1 · Guru

Diamond-encrusted tampons?! *clamps legs together*

But I think I, like you, would spend the money on experiences rather than things. Who wants to keep up with all that stuff?

I would buy a super-duper nice camera, pay somebody to teach me all the ins and outs of said super, duper camera, and then travel and take pictures of stuff.

Though I've always wanted to buy a historic building of some sort and restore it.

iluvsuomi1989 · Senior Member

I live in Greenwich, CT, 'nuff said.
The joke I make when people ask where I live is to respond, as follows: "I live in Greenwich, CT...(wait for it!)...the poor part"

Of course, by poor part, I mean I live in a one Bedroom apt., surrounded by million-plus homes (including the one I live in, which is a private home that has an apt. that I rent.) Down the road a piece from me are the mansions that sell for in excess of about $5 or $6 million; a mansion just recently sold for $11 million and there is one on the market for $22 million that I'm sure will be snapped right up. Just about everyone drives a BMW, a Mercedes or a Range Rover (and those are just the kids that go to the private schools!).

Yeah, it's fun being the poor person who lives in a town like this.

Forty-two · Guru

I would like to do a tour of a $22million house. It must be awesome

ana · Senior Member

All you people that don't know what to do with money can just give it to me! I would know how to spend it!

For that kind of money, I would buy an island, and build a vacation home with tonnes of guest houses and staff for my friends and family to visit, give cars to all my friends, pay off everyone's mortgage, setup a college fund for my nieces and nephews and a scholarship fund for women in India in my dad's name (since he has been doing that for almost 20 years), buy my parents a much nicer house with a live-in housekeeper, chauffeur and gardener, build a new house and decorate it to the teeth, go on an around the world vacation.

I would have a ball!

I know a few people with TKOM, but they are pretty wise with it and not flashy at all.

My boyfriend in HS had a full staff including a butler, and an indoor swimming pool. His house was fabulous. Too bad his mother hated me and he himself was not a very strong soul. I need a strong man.

RichardInTN · I believe in I.D.I.C.

I've run into a few TKOR people when I used to work at the campground. It's SCARY what some people can spend on a motor home. $1.25 MILLION was the most expensive one I recall... and I think that was a lottery winner too (because he liked showing it off... the motor home, that is, and would make sure anyone he showed knew EXACTLY how expensive it was)

As a personal friend, I knew one person that was TKOR... but he never spent his money like that. He COULD have... but he didn't. He and his wife drove Chevys and dressed in jeans and regular stuff like us "normal" people. they lived in a modest home (in a good neighborhood... but no mansion for this couple). If you have ever used any product with Aloe Vera in it... you have put money in his pocket (or that of his heirs if he's not still among us... he WAS pretty old when I knew him... and that was 20-odd years ago).

kinalikamom · Senior Member

Nope, I don't know anyone who is TKOR. Unless they are amazingly under the radar like Richard's friend. And, something tells me that I probably wouldn't be terribly comfortable around them if I did.

SwissMiss · Veteran Member

I have friends that are truly rich. Like owns his own private jet and I have photos of me sitting in his ****pit when we flew to Sweden type rich.

I have another friend whose dad died and he and his brother each inherited in the billions.

Sadly neither one is my husband :) I kid.... they are both great guys and you would never know it by talking to them.

SwissMiss · Veteran Member

why did it bleep out ****pit? That's not dirty word....

OpheliaDev1 · Guru

it always bleeps out c@ck.

OpheliaDev1 · Guru

Tee hee. c@ck

SwissMiss · Veteran Member

OpheliaDev1 wrote:
Tee hee. c@ck

One should not post while drinking. I almost typed I like ****!

And now I did. I need to read the rules around here, am I getting banned?!

RichardInTN · I believe in I.D.I.C.

LOL... naaah. the removal of "dirty words" (even when they are legitimate parts of perfectly clean words) is all done by the auto-censor that's built into the board... You won't get banned for typing the letter combinations of "cock" or "twat" or any of the other "dirty words"...

You'll just see words like cockpit and wristwatch look funny... (see: ****pit, wris****ch)

ETA: you can beat the "auto-censor" by italicizing ONE letter inside the "naughty words"...

-- Edited by RichardInTN on Friday 2nd of May 2014 10:08:57 PM

SwissMiss · Veteran Member

RichardInTN wrote:
LOL... naaah. the removal of "dirty words" (even when they are legitimate parts of perfectly clean words) is all done by the auto-censor that's built into the board... You won't get banned for typing the letter combinations of "cock" or "twat" or any of the other "dirty words"...

You'll just see words like cockpit and wristwatch look funny... (see: ****pit, wris****ch)

ETA: you can beat the "auto-censor" by italicizing ONE letter inside the "naughty words"...

HAHA yours worked, and I was genuinely writing ****pit.

-- Edited by RichardInTN on Friday 2nd of May 2014 09:20:16 PM

RichardInTN · I believe in I.D.I.C.

SwissMiss wrote:
RichardInTN wrote:
LOL... naaah. the removal of "dirty words" (even when they are legitimate parts of perfectly clean words) is all done by the auto-censor that's built into the board... You won't get banned for typing the letter combinations of "cock" or "twat" or any of the other "dirty words"...

You'll just see words like cockpit and wristwatch look funny... (see: ****pit, wris****ch)

ETA: you can beat the "auto-censor" by italicizing ONE letter inside the "naughty words"...

-- Edited by RichardInTN on Friday 2nd of May 2014 09:20:16 PM
HAHA yours worked, and I was genuinely writing ****pit.

Mine worked because I cheated... LOL

Look closely at the "o" in "cockpit" and the "a" in "wristwatch"

ETA: I also typed out c-o-c-k-p-i-t and w-r-i-s-t-w-a-t-c-h... but when I DIDN'T italicize a letter... the auto-censor caught me.

-- Edited by RichardInTN on Friday 2nd of May 2014 11:27:06 PM

EmmDee · Guru

You know, I think I once dated a guy who's family was TKOR. I had kind of forgotten about him as he lacked personality yet so many thought I should have stayed with him for the money. Apparently my friends felt I was that shallow. His grandfather had invested heavily in Coca-Cola in the 70's and it paid off quite well for him. I could tell the difference between him and his brother vs when his parents really came into money. What a difference 5 years can make in how a kid is brought up when financial circumstances make a vast change. His parents were well off before his grandparents' inheritance but it took them to another level.

Aardvark · But my mom says I'm cool!

When I worked at the accounting firm, clients could sit down with me and write out any checks, sign any forms, etc., and I would mail everything for them. One client owed over four hundred THOUSAND to the IRS and never batted an eye when I gave him the amount. He just pulled out his checkbook and wrote in the number. Biggest check I ever saw!

genie · Veteran Member

My old company had a fair number of self-made TKOR. The parkade in our building was like a car show with the number of rare/luxury vehicles, the execs homes were all multi-million dollar estates, etc. My recognition for a job well done was frequently the keys to someone's vacation property for a weekend/week. The founder and his wife are now retired to an estate in the caribbean and spend most of the time travelling around on their yacht. They just came back into town to close on the last payment on the sale of the business (there was a 6 year payment schedule) and celebrated by renting out a popular bar (the whole thing) and having a open bar party with live music for former employees, clients and friends (probably 400 or so?).

founder and his wife together owned over 50% of a company that sold for hundreds of millions. The other founding members had smaller stakes, but are all millionaire many times over.

ana · Senior Member

Oh yes, there were a few millionaires I have worked for. My favourite boss would give me thier mulit-million dollar cottage in the Muskokas for a week every year. The same lake that had cottages owned by Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell, the Lindroses and the Eatons I believe.

RTL · Member

I do not know anyone personally who is TKOR and not sure if I would want to. If they were kind, caring, decent, humble souls who did not flaunt their wealth, I am sure I would want to know them. If they were the opposite, I would not wish to know people like that.

If I did have that kind of wealth, I would use it to help friends and those dear to me. Whether it be paying off a mortgage, paying off debts, buying a vehicle, paying for further education, etc., I would do that for them. I would also use the money to gift charities I believe in and that will benefit the most people. I could do a lot of good, and the thought of that is exciting!

I would not really change the way I live. No mansions, jets and fancy cars, etc. I would have a larger and more healthy grocery budget (real food, yes!), buy a fuel efficient car so I don't have to depend on the municipal bus, and buy a house so I won't have to pay rent. But that would be it for me.