People Who Grew up Filthy Rich, What Did You Think Was Normal Till Your Learned Otherwise?

redditors who grew up filthy rich what did you think was normal till you learned otherwise honestly it was the little things i knew we had nicer cars than average a bigger house went on more trips etc but i thought everyone's refrigerators had wood paneled cabinet doors for example we had a sub-zero built-in refrigerator and freezer the first time i saw a metal fridge i thought it was weird and i thought it was even weirder that the fridge and freezer were combined but then i got really jealous because you could put magnets on it i also thought everyone had a central vacuum system where you can sweep dirt into a little hole under the cabinets by the floor and it sucks it up we had these little holes all over in every room stuff like that probably a weird example but growing up all of our dishes were made of fine china waterford glassware etc and i just thought that's what plates and stuff were made of because we didn't have anything else then one time i went to a friend's house for dinner and we ate on colored plastic plates and non-matching plastic cups i just thought that was the weirdest thing ever and asked why we were eating with camping dishes i myself am not rich but i have an uncle who is very well off so one of my not rich aunts was complaining about her car acting up on her well my cousin from the rich family was listening and got really confused so he just asked her well why don't you just get rid of it and go buy another one this kid was probably 13 or so at the time and had no concept of not enough money he couldn't understand why you wouldn't just go get a new something if your old something didn't work i thought everyone got to eat dinner quite often with the president i always thought the president has dinner at random houses until i learned otherwise when i finally joined regular school i was homeschooled till i was age nine and no kid believed my dinner story dad was ambassador of kenya to saudi arabia kidnapping whenever we traveled there were guards i was trained in what to do if it happened we had insurance policies against it when i dated a middle-class suburbanite and talked about it she thought i was paranoid but that was a thing i remember my parents having a sit-down talk with me after a parent teacher meeting and letting me know that there was one student in our class that was feeling insecure because his family was the only one that didn't have a lake cottage or mountain home ah yes the best way to help a child get over his insecurities tell the rest of the children in his class about them my parents paid in full for my sixty thousand dollars a college tuition i was always grateful for that but it wasn't until the post-grad reality of my friends working to pay off their student loan debt while i was able to directly pursue my professional goals that i truly realize the advantage that i had from my parents wealth i had always known we were well off but it wasn't until after college that i truly appreciated that i guess i hope i can pay them back for that someday i would say rich in the area by comparison i think the moment it really sunken was during five stroke sixth grade around middle school i felt like i was getting too cool for little kid parties so i decided i wanted to go somewhere and do something fun my parents were super excited about this since it meant i was taking one stupid middle schooler with us on a mini trip instead of having 15 stupid middle schoolers in the house i decided on a trip to some festival which meant a ferry ride and then drive to a canadian city and have a big fancy meal the girl i picked had been my friend for years i had no idea her life was so different she lost her mind on the ferry it was so fun she had never seen canada before so we stopped and took her picture my parents realizing immediately that is was a huge deal for this girl bought her and i souvenirs which she later gave to her mom since her mom has never left the area my mom would not let her order the cheapest thing on the menu which i never realized is something poor children are trained to do i thought you could just pick whatever you wanted to eat she was the first person in her family to travel more than 30 miles from her house this was pre 9 11 when a family could just take a random child with no id and a permission slip from their parent into another country we are both adults now and occasionally run into each other she is married with four children and still talks about the time we rode a ferry and went to canada had she not brought it up i probably would have forgotten my mom used to take us to the mall and drop 500 in a day without thinking about it budgeting in general was a foreign concept until i racked up credit card debt that i couldn't pay off immediately i was pretty poor as a kid but lived in a wealthy city so most of my friends were quite well off one time my friend's dad took us to a comic book convention and he bought me a 25 book just because i was looking at it and seemed to like it it absolutely boggled my mind that someone would spend 25 on me for no occasion and without agonizing over the decision i spent my late teens and early twenties butlering for a very very wealthy not billionaires but not far-off family they had two school-age kids that i would drop off in the morning the older seven maybe eighty the time of the two was amazed to learn that i didn't have a holiday home to go to when i took time off i feel bad having said this while joining a friend on a road trip up into the mountains at his brother's house but there was slow as bull's internet at the house we were going to and the connection dropped frequently i didn't have my car with me since i was on a road trip with someone else at the time this was also before personal wi-fi was a thing and my cell phone at the time was a state-of-the-art brick phone from nokia thus no hotspot me if there's any way i could borrow a car to hop into town for internet tomorrow that would be awesome friend well my brother uses his car every day and i'm using mine to go to that event we talked about me that's fine is it okay if i just use his extra car awkward silence until friend he just has that one car lol i drove a crappy 96 taurus in high school one day i drove my friends into town a well-off girl drove a new bmw i didn't know very well came along when we got out of the car she asked me if my car locks like she thought it was so crappy it didn't come with a lock growing up i thought apartment buildings were only for college students i didn't know families lived in them my family was not filthy rich i grew up in the san francisco bay area not out in the country my friend in high school was filthy rich and he would always wear suit jackets and fidora's one day he said i wanted to wear my other purple suit but the jacket was at my third house it was some gatsby level extravagance your friend was a solid argument that money can't buy good taste going on ski holiday every year living in germany where the alps are just a two hours drive away but still flying to western canada for skiing at whistler mountain but i like this snow i was trying to show a friend of mine that she's rich because her family has a team of maids and drivers seriously a driver for every member of the family she said she's not rich because everyone has maids and drivers i asked her do you think your maids and drivers have maids and drivers i think then it clicked that she might be rich john travolta told a cute story about his daughter once they had to fly commercial once and she was shocked incredulous and asked daddy who are all these people on our plane she thought everyone had their own 757 [Music] to never discuss the affordability of things within a family i thought it was totally taboo which isn't to say i got everything i wanted growing up i was an obsessively frugal kid but i was never denied something on the basis of we can't afford that i was pretty shocked in elementary school when my friend's mom told her they couldn't afford to buy something i guess in my mind it was impolite for parents to talk about money issues with kids and it hadn't yet dawned on me that sometimes that's unavoidable maybe the point where it gets a bit stranger is when things like affordability weren't even discussed when picking out colleges and living accommodations fortunately i got to go to a great school for pretty much free but i'm pretty sure they'd have put me through nyu and med school if i'd asked it was also interesting going apartment shopping with friends that were all still financially dependent on parents but we're definitely having what can we afford conversations in ways that just when coming up in my family i lived overseas for a year when i was in high school and attended an international school where though my family was decidedly middle class in the us and my dad was being paid several times more to work abroad than he had been at home i'm fairly certain my family were the least well-off in the entire school none of these kids ever seemed to realize how fabulously wealthy they were a few examples several boys from north korea i don't know exactly how high up in the political world of the dprk you need to be to be allowed to send your children abroad for an education but these kids showed up to school in brand new benzes for a start one friend of mine lived in a luxury high rise in the single richest enclave of the city where i lived his parents lived on the 16th for floor each floor was a single unit he lived on the 17th floor in his own unit he had his own live and maiden driver as well another friend's parents ran the largest import export company in the country he had two bodyguards and was driven around in his own armored bulletproof suv the windows were two inches thick and didn't roll down i attended his birthday party which was on his dad's 180 feet super yacht it was not uncommon for my friends to spend three day weekends in bali the maldives or wherever their vacation home s happen to be i'm still friends with several of them through social media and the most frequent post i see from several of them is after for the week then on to end those locations almost always being on three separate continents my family was broke as heck bid my mom was and still is a teacher at this really nice private school which was the only reason my brother and i could attend everyone's parents were doctors and lawyers you get the idea but why brother and i were being raised by a single mom who had just relocated we were living in a trailer park in the middle of nowhere for the cheap butt rent we didn't always know when the next meal was coming one day during lunch the kids notice that all i have is a peanut butter sandwich and a tiny bag of pretzels one dude says wow you must really not be hungry since i was sick and just as clueless to any other lifestyle as he was i just straight up told him we don't have any more food i had to explain it a couple of times before he realized lunch bro sheepishly asks if i would like some of his food that orange and baggy of cheetahs were the start of a now 20-year long friendship i thought until the start of high school that a 100 bottle of wine was cheap expensive ones rise several thousands after all at the end of the year we decided to offer our retiring teacher a bottle of wine and he said don't buy a 100 bottle i made a joke about how picky he was and made a fool of myself reminds me of the movie meet the parents where the guy goes to the local grocery and tries to get some good champagne to impress his in-laws all they had was mum when he mentions to the cashier that he was looking for something more expensive well you could get a whole bunch of mums is the reply my eight-year-old came home from school last year and told me that not everyone had a tennis court in fact he said nobody but he had a tennis court in his class he was amazed that other kids played in the street instead of their own tennis court the tennis court is old and crappy but it makes a great play area paved and with a 10 feet fence around it i have many kids who have many friends it's nice to have a pen to keep them and during parties i think the term you're looking for is prison yard not tennis court this girl i knew was rejected from a law school because her diversity statement was written about her struggle of riding commercial to europe for the first time i was poor growing up and most of my friends were poor middle class there was this one dude who drove a crappy falling apart to beat a car he was always hustling to and from work trying to make a buck to afford repairs for his car we all thought he was lucky just to have a car one night after we had been friends for a while he invited a bunch of us over to his house even offered to pick us all up since no one else had our own wheels imagine our surprise when we rolled up into the ritziest neighborhood in our area dude lived in a freaking mansion indoor pool elevator the whole nine yards we were flammoxed someone said dude we had no idea you were rich his answer i'm not rich my parents are they worked very hard to get that way at first we felt bad for him freaking filthy rich parents and dude is working his butt off to afford a beta now i get it though just wanted to point out i grew up in a major east coast city with a good though sometimes annoying public transportation network having a car wasn't a necessity by any stretch but it did make life a bit easier having a car a 17 of any sort was definitely impressive in my circle it was one of the outer boroughs of nyc interesting to know so many other cities have annoying public transportation through the entirety of elementary school i will buy ice cream for my class on fridays at lunch the money came from flipping pokemon cards paper jewelry and of course mostly from my dear old dad it doesn't seem like much but we all came from a very poor rural town with one store and one school our playground at school was a stretch of course pavement it was like the 60s in the 90s my dad had just started up his own machine shop in town which employed 10 or so my slight business sense as a kid coupled with my dad's business since made us rich everyone would call us boss man which is probably where i began realizing that being a boss man wasn't the norm my dad taught me a lesson after he realized i was spending all my money on the other kids if you want to make a lasting impression let's really give something back and fix up that old playground my dad's machine shop then produced and installed an entire playground system for our school at no cost it was that day i knew what it meant to be a good man and that i wanted to be just like my dad and what's funny is that i wanted to be absolutely nothing like him once i hit the teenage years now i'm a grown man and a splitting image of my dad in the flesh as well as in character i appear to have gone off on a tangent i'll stop the story here my dad gets a stonewall look on his face as if his soul is squirming when people are more than gratuitous toward him i guess it makes him uncomfortable he's just unusually modest he's always been the you would have done the same a handshake and that's that kind of guy i want to show him this thread but i know he'll tear up and then i will too and then it's all aboard the crybaby train i can't believe this turned out as big as it has i'm glad i could tell you all a little about my dad and i thanks for reading and have a great day wherever you may be that was really cool of your dad and his company to do that and sounds like you learned the lesson he was going for when i found out my dad paid off a multi-million dollar mortgage in less than five years that's when i knew one was not like the others i grew up dirt poor and when i met my husband was dirt poor myself he came for an upper middle class family where everyone got college paid and they always had new things my husband has never been unemployed and doesn't understand how someone can be unemployed i remind him all of the time that when he met me i was unemployed yeah but you just had some crappy things happen to you that's all um yeah honey that's how it works complaints about airport security we never got around to owning a plane but most of our family friends who we would vacation with would share theirs with us basically you show up at the local airport and hop right on if we ever took a commercial jet we had a prepaid tar pre-check that let us zip through our own security line i never understood why people would say they planned on heading to the airport two hours before their flight comma we never got around to owning a plane sorry peasant this thread is reserved for the filthy rich only flip side growing up in the projects i thought that people that lived in trailer parks were rich because they had their own house among many other odd beliefs my mom never worked instead she stayed at home and raised each one of her four sons in succession so there was a point when i was shocked to learn that other kids moms had jobs and didn't just play them watch them take them on excursions every day obligatory we were never rich but i feel like this qualifies also mom got her masters and had to go back to work so that we could pay the mortgage and have health insurance once dad's business took a crap at the beginning of the recession my boyfriend's family was pretty poor compared to mine so when we discuss our childhoods we notice some pretty glaring differences for example he was telling me recently about how they would leave the kitchen stove on and open in his house for the heat and winter no central heating air something i completely took for granted as a kid i think people start with not filthy rich because everyone looks up and sees people with more money than them rich and poor will always be relative so i can't help but start with saying that while my parents aren't filthy rich it never occurred to me that it wasn't that normal to have a fully owned house without any mortgage i thought renting was something only people in their 20s had to do i thought doctors and lawyers lived in the poor part of town you know the guard gated communities with golf courses in them i don't think i realized they weren't poor until i got to college ro this reminds me of when i used to live in santa barbara we were dirt poor college students living in heavily subsidized campus housing and i had a conversation with a man in his mid 60s who told me he really wanted to retire but he couldn't find anyone to take over his job because nobody in his line of work could afford to live in our area dude was a pediatric surgeon i wasn't the one who was filthy rich but i went to a fancy private school from 9th grade to 12th grade on scholarship there were tons of kids there who didn't know exactly how rich they were i remember one girl complaining about how her parents were buying a third house in florida but that it cost 1 million less than her main home which was around 4 6 million i have so many stories where the rich kids from my school didn't realize just how rich they were it was pretty sad only middle class but i realized i was globally rich when in the marines filipino folks were taking our trash to fix their roofs now i am internationally rich too i remember going to india and giving about 10 rupees roughly 10 pence or 15 cents to a homeless woman she was basically in chairs it's as if i saved her life or something that was a big wake-up call when my stepdad started college he went out to dinner with his friends when they got their bill and were getting ready to leave he was really confused he had never had a one-course meal he was under the impression the next three would be coming any moment discovering that other people's parents didn't have 100 plus properties in their investment portfolio we had quite a frugal lifestyle so i just assumed that most middle class had a few investment properties and that's where all the money went my mom was really into fashion so i used to get rid of old clothes pretty much every season and have new clothes almost constantly i realized this wasn't normal around middle school and high school when people talked about having their clothes for years at a time old habits are hard to break but i shop a lot less than she did at least we gave the old clothes to goodwill watching sportscenter runs all morning in college and complaining i was bored a poor kid finally schooled me on the fact everyone else had to work to put themselves through college and become indentured servants to pay off their student loans oh wow still not getting a job though serious question what kinds of jobs or circumstances allow people to make millions of dollars per year besides some cs and some stock investors we weren't insanely rich but upper middle class i never realized that other kids didn't get to travel as much as we did by the time i graduated high school i had been to 10 countries in countless states now as an adult working two jobs to keep my head above water i'm grateful for how lucky i really was this wasn't me but a filthy rich friend didn't know that filet mignon beef tacos was not the norm i grew up in a foreign country where by comparison we were rich coming back to the us as a young kid i learned pretty quickly having house staff was not the norm i stopped mentioning those things in conversations with other kids we had a house boy i mean what position is that even i grew up pretty isolated so i didn't realize that there were smart poor people who just weren't told they were smart every day of their lives it never occurred to me that people could be smart and not praised for it my family used to be pretty rich when i was really young never had to look at prices when shopping not anymore though everything is embroidered to a certain point from zebras to toasters everything appears to be embroidered when you don't know any better i can't think of any reason why but the patterns in the air just really mess with your perception see when you're rich and have all this extra money there isn't any reason to not get personalized everything so everything else seems like it was embroidered by someone or something getting best medical care and hundred dollar allowance every week i got paid more by my dad than i did with my first job i had a friend whose dad managed a bunch of budweiser factories and she sent me a picture of her new car which was a lamborghini i sent her a picture of my 1993 honda del sol and she then realized she was rich if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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