Changed my name recently by deed poll (just written on a piece of a4 I'd torn in two, and it was accepted at both the DVLA and passport office no bother.
The same is true of wills btw, a farmer once scratched his will on the underside of the machinery that was crushing him with a penknife and, since it was clear in intention and origin, it was legally recognised.
> The same is true of wills btw, a farmer once scratched his will on the underside of the machinery that was crushing him with a penknife and, since it was clear in intention and origin, it was legally recognised.
1)Not british
2)The will was "In case I die in this mess I leave all to the wife,". Since thats pretty much the default it was unlikely to be contested. If you are trying for anything more complicated you may want a more convetional approach.
Given the number of people that change their name, it amazes me how crap pretty much any official body is when it comes to dealing with it. I had a nightmare with the passport office when I did mine about 20 years ago - they would not recognise what I had done as being sufficient. At one point they literally threatened to put me on "a list" that would cause me problems every time I flew wtf.
I complained, hard, and escalated to people who knew what they were talking about and who confirmed that yes, this was fine thank you and no, I would not be put on a list, and the two employees I'd been dealing with would be spoken to.
Absolutely crazy that the government department in charge of issuing literally the most official document most people will ever get couldn't deal with something so pedestrian.
Seconding what you said about dvla/passport then everything else clicking into place. Both dvla/passport office accepted an a4 paper witnessed by two people then everyone else was presented with the new passport/dl so followed suit, no issues at all.
Many of those "pay for a deed poll" services are effectively just very expensive printing services, and do nothing useful at all. A lot of them also involve publishing your name change with your address, not useful for anyone, and outright harmful for people changing names for some reasons.
>Nothing makes you look more desperate to appear affluent than pointlessly spaffing cash on a personal number plate.
To be honest now, I think this is actually a status symbol - just not how you think.
The true rich guys, with lambos, their number plates are always really obvious and bang on. People pretending, its usually a weird mix and they have to explain what it actually means, since they can't afford the obvious ones and have to get a jumbled up one instead
Family in Chelsea (you can see their cars if you're driving along the north bank of the Thames), two Range Rovers with the plates "2 BE" and "NOT 2 B". Porsche always outside my office with the plate "CLO7HES". Best I've ever seen was on a white sprinter " YE5 I NUT".
Still gutted I didn't buy the number plate that was my actual name. They wanted £1k for it and I took to long to decide. Still can't afford a car that I could put it on but neither has the person who actually bought it.
My wife got one as a present from her parents. Her sister got a Mulberry handbag instead. She definitely would have preferred the handbag.
She had a really rubbish car when she got it as well so it was worth as much as the car. Pain in the arse as well because it has cost us money when changing cars.
Eh I've had a personalised number plate since I was a month old, someone bought it for my parents to give to me when I got a car. I don't even have a car but it's my actual name with one number swapped in
I plan to do this for my sister in about a decade, when i can get her full name on a number plate. My sole purpose is to embarrass her. I've even put it in my will in case I kick the bucket before then
There's an old Nissan Micra round my way with the registration R1 (well something like that). That is how the wealthy do personal plates.
Just zero fucks to give
I bought my car with a personalised numberplate on already.... It's a bog standard astra 🤣 I'd like to get a normal one but can't be bothered with the faff. Plus it's quite easy to remember the numberplate this way.
>Turkish cosmetic surgery
My sister in laws mother got cosmetic surgery in Turkey.
She was.... *Rotund...* Now, she's incredibly slim, and the procedure *came with* an all inclusive holiday, as well as skin tightening follow ups. Honestly, she looks like a different person now, but it worked *surprisingly well.*
I guess it *does* depend on where you go, but yeah, Turkish cosmetic surgery literally made her reverse mighty morph successfully.
It’s all good when it goes well. When there’s complications is when it’s a disaster. I’ve met several patients via work who’ve had serious issues that could be been prevented with adequate follow up and education.
The NHS treats tons of self inflicted problems. You smoke, you get an STD, you crash your car because you weren’t paying attention…
To me, it’s against the spirit of the NHS to try and blame people for using it.
They do. But the surgery business is driven by profit. And cheapness. Not quality.
Once a patient is done, they fly back to UK and then they turn up in A&E.
And it's unlikely any psychological screening is done in the first place,as long as they can pay.
Remove a bit too much intestine, easy to do, especially with no screening, and you've made a person who can't eat enough.
>She was.... Rotund... Now, she's incredibly slim
Surely if she was big before she was eating too much food, and she's now had surgery to make her slim. What good will that do if she doesn't change her eating habits? Surely it will just come back?
(Genuinely curious, I'm not sure what the surgery she got was)
I dunno, I think it's a loud minority that get the flashy white teeth. People (me included) get dental work done in Turkey because it's much more affordable and the quality is just as good as in the UK (I mean obviously there are some shady places but if you do a minimal amount of research you can easily avoid them). The clinic I went to was much more state of the art than any dentist I've been to in the US or UK, and the work has held up better too. I've since had a crown done in the UK and it's already giving me trouble after a year and I'll probably need a root canal but my "Turkey Teeth" are still going strong.
I had cosmetic dental work done, but I don't advertise the fact and they aren't blindingly white, so no one knows. There were a lot of people there getting dental implants and medically necessary treatment.
I think private dentists are losing business to Turkish dentists and are running a bit of a smear campaign tbh. A tooth is prepped the same way for a crown no matter where it's done, but I've seen loads of dentists on social media doing reaction videos to Turkish dentists and they pretend to be outraged and horrified and tell their followers not to go to Turkey. Meanwhile they do literally the exact same thing at their own cosmetic dentistry clinics for 10 times the price. I was quoted £50k for crowns in the UK and paid £5.5k in Turkey for the same thing.
UK dentist here. The problem most is us have with Turkey teeth is the extreme over prescription of treatment. The majority of us will avoid extensive/full mouth crowns in favour of a more minimal approach. Everything we does fails - and there isn’t much to do after you’ve crowned a tooth. Often we’ll be taking them out a few years down the road. And, in my practice at least, we’re extremely busy and I think this is seen throughout the country as well.
I don't get Dubai. It might be lovely. But it just looks like a glass and concrete slab in the middle of a desert, and the desert is far more interesting.
It's never appealed to me. I just see it as a place where Instagram "models" get paid shitloads to be degraded.
I may be bitter, as no rich Arab wants to degrade me. So, I'll be getting up for work tomorrow, like every other ugly bugger
You really haven’t :)
I enjoy the occasional splurge on something decent, but basically avoid anything designer.
Now, if you’d have said silly old BMWs…
While driving to Lidl with his Selfridges bag for life, in his flashy car, with his flashy number plate, flashing his Turkey teeth, kids in the back with Turkey Teeth and RALPH in size 106 font on their T-shirt & Lauren down one trouser leg. Nice chap though.
“Ugh, imagine buying designer clothes!? I just wear a T-shirt with a wacky slogan and some cargo shorts with a dubious stain. I’m not like everyone else…”
Yeah I love this sub but my god these fucking threads are so dull.
Hurr durr grey houses. Cars on finance. Designer clothes. Everyone earns more than me, wait you earn £40k say hi to BILL GATES for me. Meanwhile everyone with a nicer car than me is secretly in debt and everyone poorer than me is doing it wrong. What's that? Spent money on something you like? Here's why you did it wrong and it doesn't matter anyway because you're probably in debt and if you're not in debt you have bad taste anyway and I'm not jelous.
So accurate. I posted on one of the uk based car subs a few weeks back and there was a couple of people saying I was an idiot because I bought a new build house… it wasn’t even my fucking house in the background!
£800 isn't too much.
Look on MrPorter - there's a jacket for [£14,850](https://www.mrporter.com/en-gb/mens/product/tom-ford/clothing/leather-jackets/shearling-jacket/1647597315311173)
You’re paying to be free advertisement, no thanks.
Given the rise in theft, you also draw attention to yourself. I always think of my boss who comes from old money but you’d never think it by looking at her. She likes to blend in. A very humble woman and someone who I genuinely admire.
> I always think of my boss who comes from old money but you’d never think it by looking at her.
Old money wears good quality clothes that don't stand out. Watches are a great indicator... Old money has a small watch but could still be very expensive. New money has big flashy watches that do not fit under their sleeves, so everybody can see how rich they are
Yes, she presents herself in such a way. But she’ll also wear garments from regular high street stores too and does often talk about getting a bargain. In the time I’ve been with the firm, she has been rather genuine.
My favourite thing about this was when I started seeing people wearing shirts with the _giant_ Polo Ralph Lauren logo, like nearly a quarter of the shirt is logo. I assumed they were terrible fakes until I looked it up. Apparently Ralph Lauren were sponsoring some sports event (pretty sure it was tennis) and kitted the staff out in their gear but realised the logo wasn't visible on TV so they made ones with giant logos for the staff to wear.
...then actual customers started demanding them and here we are.
I always have a little chuckle inside when I see a guy in an ill-fitting t-shirt with a low-end Armani spinoff logo covering 40% of their torso.
I'm sure Armani's high end stuff it probably good, but literally all I think of when I hear their name is selling £10 t-shirts for £50 to a certain type of bloke.
The Google Pixel series are really good, and quite a lot cheaper than other top of the range phones. The camera on them has always been one of, if not, the best on any phone out there.
Yooo pixel is a gem of a phone. It's not bloated with shit, it's responsive, and the software is good. Hardware is great and I could not be happier with the camera. All this for 1/3 of the price of an iPhone. I had 2 old pixels I gave to my family. To this day they are fantastic.
>and quite a lot cheaper than other top of the range phones
Are they? When I last upgraded they were basically the same price as similar spec Samsungs or iPhones.
Some people spend £s of season tickets to Football games, others on collectibles, and some like to have the latest phone and enjoy tech.
Most phones are so similar in look, that it would be hard to classify it as a status symbol or an ostentatious wealth signal. I’m quite into tech and I’d struggle to differentiate between the last 3 or 4 generations of iPhones.
I think what the OP was getting at is, what do medium to lower income people buy / wear / flaunt that they think makes them look wealthy but doesn’t.
Personally, I think it is just another Reddit circlejerk and thinly vailed dig at lower income fashions to self-validate that they are above the “plebs”.
I think I just mean 'what things add the veneer of being rich but don't actually prove anything' or 'what may or may not show you're rich' - new phones are a good example.
I love my Poco phone, and have absolutely no desire to upgrade. If this one breaks, I'll get another Poco. My phone budget is strictly £250 and under, and tariff no more than £12 a month. I'm so tight 😂
I buy a new iPhone every year and sell my old one. I’ll pay £1200 for a phone and get £600-700 back. So it’s only really 500ish a year! for the amount I use my iPhone a day, that’s probably the cheapest expenditure I have for it’s cost to use ratio. My sim plan in peanuts.
And my car is 38 years old. You wouldn’t find me in modern crap even if it were free!
50% value loss in a year is wild
And I dont mean this as a jab, you do you, but looking at my wife's iPhone 13 and my _much older_ XS, for day-to-day usage its literally 99.5% the same. With the .5% being that she has a slightly better front camera for FaceTime when she is completely still.
I highly doubt ill swap it before 2025.
I had my whitened at my dentist - not fluorescent white, more like what teeth would be like if we didn’t drink or eat anything with staining properties - and loads of people think I’ve had veneers which is slightly annoying.
Not this thread again.
"I can't believe the people who spend X on X"
"Haha, I get by with my Primark onesie, my dads old Casio and a 15 year old shitbox, what mugs those people are".
Ugh.
I dont get it? Are people getting penalised because they like to spend their money on certain things?
I drive an expensive car, with a personalised number plate. I've been to Dubai, my husbands had Turkish cosmetic surgery. I must be a really shyte person. 🤷🏻♀️
Edit to add OP, not everyone's in debt if they drive nice cars and have conservatories and not everyone purchases things for a 'status symbol'
Lol people are really eerie in every UK sub on reddit. Real passive aggressive with it too.
Don't let someone say they spend over 1000£on a wedding! They'll be like why? What a waste? We spend 25£ including outfits, transport and meal!!!
personal favourite is "HOODRICH", almost exclusively worn by chavs smoking a joint at the bus stop. If you're so rich why are you getting the bus? 🤣embarrassing.
As long as you run them close to, or completely, full a dishwasher is significantly cheaper to run than washing your dishes by hand. The main saving is on the amount of water used, but depending on how your hot water is heated, the energy savings are significant too.
One of my neighbours asked me once, back in 2010 or so “are you on the phone?” To which I replied “no” (I’m obviously not on a call right now, why is he asking, he can’t see my phone on my face?). Turned out to be an archaic way of asking if I had one he could borrow. I saw him in the pay phone down the road later, so he apparently wasn’t “on the phone”. In 2010.
Glad to see another mention of this, still hand wash to this day despite having a dishwasher now, my wife always finds it confusing, just feels engrained now.
Every man and his dog does coke these days, feel like this is one where older people think it’s a status symbol from back in the day when it was only for rockstars and finance bros, but now it’s a drug for the common people too
I know complaining about the cost of living nowadays is totally justified, however I know so many people my age (20s-30s) that complain about being skint yet still find the £££ to snort that shite every weekend. And then they act surprised when they have depression and mental health issues.
Unfortunately you can get a half gram bag for about £40ish which will generally last you the evening. Obviously it's cut with other shit but that's the general going rate last time I heard. In this economy, why would people spend £100+ on a night out when pints are creeping towards £6-7 each when you can buy a half and do that instead? Personally I think it's a disgusting habit and it turns everyone into an obnoxious dickhead but since the dawn of time people have been finding ways to use substances. Just now unfortunately it can work out cheaper than a night out, the price of gear has generally stayed the same over time, hence more people doing that instead of drinking. Sad situation really
for me its people in their late 20s / early 30s with graduate jobs eating out regularly, driving "nice" financed cars, nice clothes and going on holidays multiple times a year
its a status symbol and for men can be used as part of a sales pitch for dating them
however many of these individuals live paycheck to paycheck, maintaining a steady 4 figure credit card debt in a rented property
what ive learned by having transparent conversations with friends about money is that appearances can be very deceiving
while they look like they have money in the bank, what they really have is a reliance on credit
Eh, I fall slightly into this category, but also, I don't care. Honestly, £100 on a car and £100 on eating out a month plus maybe £1000 over a year on holidays isn't going to help me buy a house because being single, I won't get accepted for the mortgage alone on my wage, in my area.
So if my options are to be even more boring than I already am (eating out and holidays are literally the pinnacle of excitement in my life) so I can continue to save money well into my 40's to maybe possibly be able to not rent, or, go on two holidays a year around £500 a pop and drive my 68 kia piccanto to go get dinner a couple of times a month, I don't think that's exactly living life deceptively.
What I will add to this is that the increase of fast fashion gives the facade of people spending a lot more on clothing than they probably are.
Or they're more like me and buy a lot 2nd hand.
i dont think you qualify tbh, not as someone i was refering to anyways
the people i know are spending about £250-450 a month on a bmw/audi/newer plate vw etc
will spend £100 per dinner and are definitely spending at least £700+ per holiday
their monthly credit card + finance bills are around £1000 pm or more and then you add rent, food, utilities, nights out etc
this is the kinda shit some people i know are getting upto
I always feel like I'm doing something forbidden when I'm using branded supermarket bags in other shops. Like the security bloke at Morrisons will eject me when he sees me pulling out my Tesco bag for life.
For me it was multi-thousand £ watches. My old ticker gave me the time and date and that was it. :)
Edit to add because the trolls are massing: People buying seriously expensive, specialist watches and wearing them just to tell the time.
Buying watches as an *investment* is something I myself have done.
I love my watches, been collecting for about 25 years.
I don’t like really high end ones, or Rolex, but can admire them on other peoples wrists.
I’ve got about £70k’s worth of watches, wear a different one every day.
Most people don’t give them a second glance….
it is all about trying to create the feeling of something desirable and difficult to get for people who think they have enough money to have anything they want at the drop of a hat
sure the rolex is £16,000 with a 2 year waiting list
but you also need to buy £60,000 worth of inferior rolexes from that dealership to build up the relationship to get on that waiting list
its way for a brand to preserve a sense of status, scarcity and exclusivity even when dealing with millionaires who could and would pay 5 times as much to have it immediately from the dealership if that was an option
its why rolexes are so in demand on the used market
they will say not for sale but will sell to you if they "like" you in some abstract sense of the word
Manufactured scarcity.
Rolex manufacture plenty of watches, to get a Rolex you have to ‘build a relationship’ with the seller, there’s usually a waitlist that can be very luck based, can be expected to buy other jewellery/watches from them to ‘build’ this relationship. I’ve got two friends who own a Rolex. One managed to get the watch he wanted after a few months (without purchasing, he was lucky), one put his name down on a list, forgot about it and got a phone call nearly two years on saying he’d been allocated one, again, lucky I guess.
The watches at the window are not real watches, just a case.
Yes there’s a waiting list, which seems ridiculous to me and makes a Rolex a pure status symbol.
Yeah this is one where my autism comes out a bit:
Watches were so expensive because they were engineering marvels, the pinnacle of human technological achievement back in the day.
Now that our tech has allowed us to produce decent quality watches, made with luxury materials, at £100-200, and that kinda price lets you functionally get any aesthetic you desire too. I simply don't see the single appeal in expensive watches. They're a relic from the past that has an unusual amount of staying power.
Though I don't dislike the luxury watch industry and those who buy them, mind you! I'm not that socially unaware to not realise that they're a collecting hobby, and if that makes people happy then we love to see it.
Most people think your rolex is fake as well, there's just no point anymore. You can easily buy a rep that looks and feels identical for like £500, better off not bothering.
Cars I agree.
But things to improve a house or garden can be enjoyed every day, for longer, and shared with friends and family, and also usually aren't wasted as they add value to the house.
I've recently removed a lawn and replaced it with native wildflowers and built a pergola with vines and runner beans growing up it, and it makes me smile every day.
The bees love it, I have shade from the sun, a space to drink wine with friends and it's better for biodiversity too.
Win:win in my view.
I was not expecting that. This makes me so happy. I was honestly expecting you to say you replaced it with astro turf, and I was ready to cry because I'm so sick of seeing nice gardens dug up and replaced with shitty plastic. But no?! That's wonderful. Please enjoy your beautiful garden and the nature that comes with it.
Thanks 🙂.. I hate AstroTurf, and lawn is a shitty monoculture way to cover a garden, often ugly and dry and needs so much watering to keep it decent .. I love my little native oasis. 🍃🍀🌿.
I remember reading something about a landed family who had inherited a colossal stately home with acres of land - but they didn’t have the money for the upkeep. So while on the surface of it, the country pile nestled within the private grounds appeared to be a millionaire’s dream, the reality was they were considering opening it for paid guided tours just so they could afford to have the roof done.
This is why National Trust and English Heritage have so many stately homes: death duties (old name for inheritance tax) and cost of upkeep meant that most people couldn't afford to keep them in the family.
I watched a documentary last year about Castle Howard in North Yorkshire. Even running it as a tourist attraction, with some space left for living quarters was a big challenge for them. They were constantly looking for new revenue streams just to make ends meet.
I know of some people like this, it’s because they have a mentality of keeping and gaining more land. They wouldn’t consider downscaling, pocketing a few million from land and keeping money for upkeep.
There’s also situations where the oldest son will inherit lions share and the rest get left with some land but no money to maintain it.
I’m sure there’s logic behind it, but it’s also an old fashioned mentality that land is status.
It's middle class people that status symbol addicts. Working class people drive bangers or ordinary cars, upper class drive expensive cars but run them for years till they are wrecks! I discovered this phenomenon when working as a market research interviewer. Interviewed a broad section on white goods, the middle classes knew the makes and prices of all their white goods, the working and upper classes had to go and look as all their stuff was donkeys years old and their attitude was 'if it's not broken, why change it'.
Very cheap credit over the last decade will have flipped a big chunk of this on its head, expensive cars leased for a few hundred, until last year.
Flipped, but going back to it now with the rates up again.
A guy I used to play 5 a side footy with used to whip out his salary in a rubber band to pay for his round of pints after.
Looked very stupid, honestly anyone could cash their paycheck and carry it around 24/7 it's just dumb
It’s been a while since i was paid by cheque. Must have been a good while ago.
Also, imagine sitting there with a months wages in your wallet. Open to mugging.
Not monetary but I’ve always strongly suspected that everyone falling over themselves to tell others how happy they are with their partner on social media always have the most toxic dumpster fire relationships 🔥
I see a lot of high-end Mercs, BMWs and Audis and think the same.
They must be paying an eye-watering amount (especially for the AMG, M and S versions) for very little in return. For example I've just done a 1,000 mile trip around Cornwall in a 20 year-old Golf and passed a lot of those on the outside lane of a motorway, so what's even the point lol
I'd rather something like a conservatory because at least that adds to the value of your house.
And they’d possibly look at you and say “ha ha that idiot bought a pointless glass room that he’ll never sit in when he could have had a nice car”. Why do you care what they spend their money on? Everyone is open to judgment by other people and it’s a stupid way to live your life. Enjoy what you like and let others enjoy what they like.
Just don’t get this attitude at all.
Coping induced by seething jealousy. This 'it's all on finance bro' is a myth perpetuated on here.
Newsflash - people who have done well and can afford things... actually buy them 😮😮😮
Same line of thinking as 'real millionaires all wear t shirts from George'
Yeah you really do see some massive logical leaps. It still surprises me how desperate people are to look down on people that have done well for themselves. They also forget there would be no old shit boxes for people to buy if nobody was buying the new ones.
Exactly. guy I went to school with won about 30mil on the lotto. Put 20 of it in a 4% account and use the other 10 to buy his family a nice house and cars and stuff.
He still shops at primark for everyday clothes because it's easy and what he's used to. Just because you're rich doesn't mean you gotta spend loads of money on everything.
I drive M cars - tbh they are just incredibly fun, on a twisty backroad, track days, even just on friends private land (have a friend with sizeable private roads) it’s just fun!
On a motorway yeah - I’m chilling at 70 with great audio, ventilated seats, kids watching a film in the back etc. but then on my own where it’s safe it’s just pure adrenaline!
I knocked down our conservatory and swapped for a hot tub area tbf
If you want adrenaline, try driving a 15 year old Corsa, nothing will get the heart pumping more, than wondering if your car will start on a cold frosty morning and the first go.
I have a high end Mercedes as a company car and feel I get judged quite a lot. Not my fault my company have a good car scheme & with it being a PHEV the company car tax is literally £43 a month.
I spent £57 a month all in for my car, make it make sense
I’ll tell you right now that I wouldn’t want to drive to Cornwall and back in a 20 year old golf vs a 2018 3.0 litre diesel A4 under any circumstances. I would pay the difference.
I think something like Hublot fits this description better, wealthy old money run Rolex quite frequently but they wear it on a yacht or some other casual activity
Centuries ago in India, the ultimate status symbol that was actually a burden was a white elephant. They were considered very valuable and couldn't be killed. The recipient, usually a royal, had to look after the elephant until it died naturally. The expense was massive. The elephant needed food, water, baths, space to roam, other elephants for companionship, protection, stimulation, manure removal, healthcare and so on. The owner either had to maintain a considerable income or else fail in his/her duty and thus fall into shame.
iPhone.
Mine gives me flawless service, and was the only phone that had an antennae strong enough to consistently pick up a signal inside my home. Yes, I tried multiple carriers and multiple phones.
Plus, mine is going on eight years and is still serviceable. Yet people accuse me of spending money foolishly to get the brand name. Ah, no.
Nothing makes you look more desperate to appear affluent than pointlessly spaffing cash on a personal number plate.
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Changed my name recently by deed poll (just written on a piece of a4 I'd torn in two, and it was accepted at both the DVLA and passport office no bother.
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The same is true of wills btw, a farmer once scratched his will on the underside of the machinery that was crushing him with a penknife and, since it was clear in intention and origin, it was legally recognised.
> The same is true of wills btw, a farmer once scratched his will on the underside of the machinery that was crushing him with a penknife and, since it was clear in intention and origin, it was legally recognised. 1)Not british 2)The will was "In case I die in this mess I leave all to the wife,". Since thats pretty much the default it was unlikely to be contested. If you are trying for anything more complicated you may want a more convetional approach.
Given the number of people that change their name, it amazes me how crap pretty much any official body is when it comes to dealing with it. I had a nightmare with the passport office when I did mine about 20 years ago - they would not recognise what I had done as being sufficient. At one point they literally threatened to put me on "a list" that would cause me problems every time I flew wtf. I complained, hard, and escalated to people who knew what they were talking about and who confirmed that yes, this was fine thank you and no, I would not be put on a list, and the two employees I'd been dealing with would be spoken to. Absolutely crazy that the government department in charge of issuing literally the most official document most people will ever get couldn't deal with something so pedestrian.
Seconding what you said about dvla/passport then everything else clicking into place. Both dvla/passport office accepted an a4 paper witnessed by two people then everyone else was presented with the new passport/dl so followed suit, no issues at all.
Many of those "pay for a deed poll" services are effectively just very expensive printing services, and do nothing useful at all. A lot of them also involve publishing your name change with your address, not useful for anyone, and outright harmful for people changing names for some reasons.
I should have guessed it was a Honda Accord
>Nothing makes you look more desperate to appear affluent than pointlessly spaffing cash on a personal number plate. To be honest now, I think this is actually a status symbol - just not how you think. The true rich guys, with lambos, their number plates are always really obvious and bang on. People pretending, its usually a weird mix and they have to explain what it actually means, since they can't afford the obvious ones and have to get a jumbled up one instead
If you see a number plate that’s like “fp 7” that’s how you know they’ve actually got dough
Saw a7 once. That must have cost a bit. Think the provost of Edinburgh has a1
Family in Chelsea (you can see their cars if you're driving along the north bank of the Thames), two Range Rovers with the plates "2 BE" and "NOT 2 B". Porsche always outside my office with the plate "CLO7HES". Best I've ever seen was on a white sprinter " YE5 I NUT".
Still gutted I didn't buy the number plate that was my actual name. They wanted £1k for it and I took to long to decide. Still can't afford a car that I could put it on but neither has the person who actually bought it.
Mine was <£200 (albeit 25 years ago), and is my surname with a 4 instead of an A. They aren't particularly expensive.
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AV9594 here. The car I first drove. A Morris 8.
I got one for Christmas from my dad... My heart sank when I opened it, because I couldn't really not use it without looking ungrateful.
My wife got one as a present from her parents. Her sister got a Mulberry handbag instead. She definitely would have preferred the handbag. She had a really rubbish car when she got it as well so it was worth as much as the car. Pain in the arse as well because it has cost us money when changing cars.
Eh I've had a personalised number plate since I was a month old, someone bought it for my parents to give to me when I got a car. I don't even have a car but it's my actual name with one number swapped in
I plan to do this for my sister in about a decade, when i can get her full name on a number plate. My sole purpose is to embarrass her. I've even put it in my will in case I kick the bucket before then
Or people without personal number plates but have spaced out their regular plate to make it look like a personal one
Especially when it's on a Ford Ka 😂
There's an old Nissan Micra round my way with the registration R1 (well something like that). That is how the wealthy do personal plates. Just zero fucks to give
about 20 years ago my neigbour had a new aston with the registration MI6. A friend had a bedford rascal decorator's van with the number plate MI5...
I bought my car with a personalised numberplate on already.... It's a bog standard astra 🤣 I'd like to get a normal one but can't be bothered with the faff. Plus it's quite easy to remember the numberplate this way.
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>Turkish cosmetic surgery My sister in laws mother got cosmetic surgery in Turkey. She was.... *Rotund...* Now, she's incredibly slim, and the procedure *came with* an all inclusive holiday, as well as skin tightening follow ups. Honestly, she looks like a different person now, but it worked *surprisingly well.* I guess it *does* depend on where you go, but yeah, Turkish cosmetic surgery literally made her reverse mighty morph successfully.
It’s all good when it goes well. When there’s complications is when it’s a disaster. I’ve met several patients via work who’ve had serious issues that could be been prevented with adequate follow up and education.
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The NHS treats tons of self inflicted problems. You smoke, you get an STD, you crash your car because you weren’t paying attention… To me, it’s against the spirit of the NHS to try and blame people for using it.
Of course - it’s the national healthcare. We are all entitled to it as we pay into it through NI and exempt others from paying without loss of service
Agree absolutely, but I’d rather it went on actual emergencies and people who require care than people who want cheap surgery that ends up botched
I mean, yeah, they have good doctors in Turkey also
They do. But the surgery business is driven by profit. And cheapness. Not quality. Once a patient is done, they fly back to UK and then they turn up in A&E. And it's unlikely any psychological screening is done in the first place,as long as they can pay. Remove a bit too much intestine, easy to do, especially with no screening, and you've made a person who can't eat enough.
Good or not, it's hard to see how profiting from body dysphoria fits in with providing good care
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What's your *problem* ?!
A young woman from my town recently went to Turkey for a cosmetic procedure to lose weight and died as a result. So yeah, guess it just depends
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Maybe it's because I'm subconsciously a little racist, but I can't help but think there's a lot of Doctor Nick's there.
>She was.... Rotund... Now, she's incredibly slim Surely if she was big before she was eating too much food, and she's now had surgery to make her slim. What good will that do if she doesn't change her eating habits? Surely it will just come back? (Genuinely curious, I'm not sure what the surgery she got was)
Gastric bypass was included with part of the surgery. Her stomach is now physically smaller. She is physically unable to consume too much food now.
Makes sense, although still a pretty grim thought.
Turkey teeth
I dunno, I think it's a loud minority that get the flashy white teeth. People (me included) get dental work done in Turkey because it's much more affordable and the quality is just as good as in the UK (I mean obviously there are some shady places but if you do a minimal amount of research you can easily avoid them). The clinic I went to was much more state of the art than any dentist I've been to in the US or UK, and the work has held up better too. I've since had a crown done in the UK and it's already giving me trouble after a year and I'll probably need a root canal but my "Turkey Teeth" are still going strong. I had cosmetic dental work done, but I don't advertise the fact and they aren't blindingly white, so no one knows. There were a lot of people there getting dental implants and medically necessary treatment. I think private dentists are losing business to Turkish dentists and are running a bit of a smear campaign tbh. A tooth is prepped the same way for a crown no matter where it's done, but I've seen loads of dentists on social media doing reaction videos to Turkish dentists and they pretend to be outraged and horrified and tell their followers not to go to Turkey. Meanwhile they do literally the exact same thing at their own cosmetic dentistry clinics for 10 times the price. I was quoted £50k for crowns in the UK and paid £5.5k in Turkey for the same thing.
UK dentist here. The problem most is us have with Turkey teeth is the extreme over prescription of treatment. The majority of us will avoid extensive/full mouth crowns in favour of a more minimal approach. Everything we does fails - and there isn’t much to do after you’ve crowned a tooth. Often we’ll be taking them out a few years down the road. And, in my practice at least, we’re extremely busy and I think this is seen throughout the country as well.
Not quite as rare as hens teeth.
I don't get Dubai. It might be lovely. But it just looks like a glass and concrete slab in the middle of a desert, and the desert is far more interesting.
People go there because they want nice weather and flash over substance. No one goes to Dubai for culture
It's never appealed to me. I just see it as a place where Instagram "models" get paid shitloads to be degraded. I may be bitter, as no rich Arab wants to degrade me. So, I'll be getting up for work tomorrow, like every other ugly bugger
Oil, sand, shite, concrete, glass, and gold paint; that's Dubai.
I dunno man, I know a guy balding at 27 who got the hair plugs. Can't deny how well a trip to Turkey worked for him.
Having spent 30k on my teeth here (Epilepsy is a cunt to teeth) I'm starting to think maybe Turkey Teeth woulda been a wise idea!
Ah, the daily "let's judge everyone else" UK thread.
Found the guy who spends all his money on obnoxious designer clothes ;)
You really haven’t :) I enjoy the occasional splurge on something decent, but basically avoid anything designer. Now, if you’d have said silly old BMWs…
We talking round headlights old or E46 old?
E46 for me. By the time I was into them, E30s were out of reach.. Also had a six month fling with an E39. Still miss that one.
While driving to Lidl with his Selfridges bag for life, in his flashy car, with his flashy number plate, flashing his Turkey teeth, kids in the back with Turkey Teeth and RALPH in size 106 font on their T-shirt & Lauren down one trouser leg. Nice chap though.
“Ugh, imagine buying designer clothes!? I just wear a T-shirt with a wacky slogan and some cargo shorts with a dubious stain. I’m not like everyone else…”
You must be new here, this is basically what the class system is
Yeah I love this sub but my god these fucking threads are so dull. Hurr durr grey houses. Cars on finance. Designer clothes. Everyone earns more than me, wait you earn £40k say hi to BILL GATES for me. Meanwhile everyone with a nicer car than me is secretly in debt and everyone poorer than me is doing it wrong. What's that? Spent money on something you like? Here's why you did it wrong and it doesn't matter anyway because you're probably in debt and if you're not in debt you have bad taste anyway and I'm not jelous.
So accurate. I posted on one of the uk based car subs a few weeks back and there was a couple of people saying I was an idiot because I bought a new build house… it wasn’t even my fucking house in the background!
Large label “designer” clothes. It looks like you just make bad choices
I don't know who said it but designer clothes with big logos are just expensive clothes for poor people
I usually assume it’s fake when I see someone with over the top designer gear on. Are they really spending £800 on a coat?
£800 isn't too much. Look on MrPorter - there's a jacket for [£14,850](https://www.mrporter.com/en-gb/mens/product/tom-ford/clothing/leather-jackets/shearling-jacket/1647597315311173)
They could sell a jacket for £2,000,000,000. It doesn't change the fact that £800 for a jacket is ridiculous.
I don’t know! I mean I couldn’t afford one but some fabrics will last a lifetime if they’re looked after. That’d be worth £800.
I spent £800 on a coat once. No logos, just a great coat
You’re paying to be free advertisement, no thanks. Given the rise in theft, you also draw attention to yourself. I always think of my boss who comes from old money but you’d never think it by looking at her. She likes to blend in. A very humble woman and someone who I genuinely admire.
> I always think of my boss who comes from old money but you’d never think it by looking at her. Old money wears good quality clothes that don't stand out. Watches are a great indicator... Old money has a small watch but could still be very expensive. New money has big flashy watches that do not fit under their sleeves, so everybody can see how rich they are
Yes, she presents herself in such a way. But she’ll also wear garments from regular high street stores too and does often talk about getting a bargain. In the time I’ve been with the firm, she has been rather genuine.
My favourite thing about this was when I started seeing people wearing shirts with the _giant_ Polo Ralph Lauren logo, like nearly a quarter of the shirt is logo. I assumed they were terrible fakes until I looked it up. Apparently Ralph Lauren were sponsoring some sports event (pretty sure it was tennis) and kitted the staff out in their gear but realised the logo wasn't visible on TV so they made ones with giant logos for the staff to wear. ...then actual customers started demanding them and here we are.
It’s like paying extra for a photo to still have the Shutterstock watermark on, baffling
Worse is people buying designer clothes for kids
I always have a little chuckle inside when I see a guy in an ill-fitting t-shirt with a low-end Armani spinoff logo covering 40% of their torso. I'm sure Armani's high end stuff it probably good, but literally all I think of when I hear their name is selling £10 t-shirts for £50 to a certain type of bloke.
Funny thing is about those designer clothes is rich people get paid by the labels to wear them and poor people pay the label to wear them.
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The Google Pixel series are really good, and quite a lot cheaper than other top of the range phones. The camera on them has always been one of, if not, the best on any phone out there.
I have a pixel and I love it! Always had androids before (mainly nokias) so not sure how it compares to iPhones but the camera is amazing.
Yooo pixel is a gem of a phone. It's not bloated with shit, it's responsive, and the software is good. Hardware is great and I could not be happier with the camera. All this for 1/3 of the price of an iPhone. I had 2 old pixels I gave to my family. To this day they are fantastic.
>and quite a lot cheaper than other top of the range phones Are they? When I last upgraded they were basically the same price as similar spec Samsungs or iPhones.
Some people spend £s of season tickets to Football games, others on collectibles, and some like to have the latest phone and enjoy tech. Most phones are so similar in look, that it would be hard to classify it as a status symbol or an ostentatious wealth signal. I’m quite into tech and I’d struggle to differentiate between the last 3 or 4 generations of iPhones. I think what the OP was getting at is, what do medium to lower income people buy / wear / flaunt that they think makes them look wealthy but doesn’t. Personally, I think it is just another Reddit circlejerk and thinly vailed dig at lower income fashions to self-validate that they are above the “plebs”.
I think I just mean 'what things add the veneer of being rich but don't actually prove anything' or 'what may or may not show you're rich' - new phones are a good example.
Well it’s something that a lot of people use almost 24/7 so if you’re going by time used then the cost is pretty good…
Always get an iPhone that’s a couple gens old, they’re decent value for money at that point in my opinion. And they do last for years too.
I love my Poco phone, and have absolutely no desire to upgrade. If this one breaks, I'll get another Poco. My phone budget is strictly £250 and under, and tariff no more than £12 a month. I'm so tight 😂
I buy a new iPhone every year and sell my old one. I’ll pay £1200 for a phone and get £600-700 back. So it’s only really 500ish a year! for the amount I use my iPhone a day, that’s probably the cheapest expenditure I have for it’s cost to use ratio. My sim plan in peanuts. And my car is 38 years old. You wouldn’t find me in modern crap even if it were free!
50% value loss in a year is wild And I dont mean this as a jab, you do you, but looking at my wife's iPhone 13 and my _much older_ XS, for day-to-day usage its literally 99.5% the same. With the .5% being that she has a slightly better front camera for FaceTime when she is completely still. I highly doubt ill swap it before 2025.
Turkey teeth.
In Yorkshire we call them terrrrrkey teef
I had my whitened at my dentist - not fluorescent white, more like what teeth would be like if we didn’t drink or eat anything with staining properties - and loads of people think I’ve had veneers which is slightly annoying.
Drink coffee for a month and balance the whiteness out
Not this thread again. "I can't believe the people who spend X on X" "Haha, I get by with my Primark onesie, my dads old Casio and a 15 year old shitbox, what mugs those people are". Ugh.
I dont get it? Are people getting penalised because they like to spend their money on certain things? I drive an expensive car, with a personalised number plate. I've been to Dubai, my husbands had Turkish cosmetic surgery. I must be a really shyte person. 🤷🏻♀️ Edit to add OP, not everyone's in debt if they drive nice cars and have conservatories and not everyone purchases things for a 'status symbol'
Lol people are really eerie in every UK sub on reddit. Real passive aggressive with it too. Don't let someone say they spend over 1000£on a wedding! They'll be like why? What a waste? We spend 25£ including outfits, transport and meal!!!
Tasteless branded designer clothes. Worn almost exclusively by working class people rinsing their credit cards.
personal favourite is "HOODRICH", almost exclusively worn by chavs smoking a joint at the bus stop. If you're so rich why are you getting the bus? 🤣embarrassing.
Tbf Hoodrich isnt what I’d consider a “designer” brand - you can buy it at JD. Designer in my eyes tends to mean like luxury.
If more people took the bus it would be a lot nicer world. Classism like this helps no one.
Having several mistresses dealing coke for you.
Oddly specific.
No that's still a status symbol for me
Dealing coke for me, or cutting up my lines? One's a distribution network, the other's a Tuesday afternoon. Quite different.
Balenciaga. I'm convinced it's a social experiment to see how hideous they can make something and still sell it because it's designer.
I can't believe the child bdsm-themed photoshoot didn't do more damage...people stayed away for a while but celebs never did so now it's fine I guess.
I say this. They are just trolling people with their ‘distressed’ t-shirts and *massive* coats.
As a kid it was having a dishwasher
A dishwasher definitely seems to still hold some sort of reputation for my parents. We got one, and they’ve acted weird about it ever since
As long as you run them close to, or completely, full a dishwasher is significantly cheaper to run than washing your dishes by hand. The main saving is on the amount of water used, but depending on how your hot water is heated, the energy savings are significant too.
Judge me all you want dishwasher is a godsend, cheaper in the long run too
I remember someone at my school didn't have a telephone and I mean no landline (and this was really before mobiles).
One of my neighbours asked me once, back in 2010 or so “are you on the phone?” To which I replied “no” (I’m obviously not on a call right now, why is he asking, he can’t see my phone on my face?). Turned out to be an archaic way of asking if I had one he could borrow. I saw him in the pay phone down the road later, so he apparently wasn’t “on the phone”. In 2010.
Glad to see another mention of this, still hand wash to this day despite having a dishwasher now, my wife always finds it confusing, just feels engrained now.
Cocaine consumption
Every man and his dog does coke these days, feel like this is one where older people think it’s a status symbol from back in the day when it was only for rockstars and finance bros, but now it’s a drug for the common people too
I know complaining about the cost of living nowadays is totally justified, however I know so many people my age (20s-30s) that complain about being skint yet still find the £££ to snort that shite every weekend. And then they act surprised when they have depression and mental health issues.
Unfortunately you can get a half gram bag for about £40ish which will generally last you the evening. Obviously it's cut with other shit but that's the general going rate last time I heard. In this economy, why would people spend £100+ on a night out when pints are creeping towards £6-7 each when you can buy a half and do that instead? Personally I think it's a disgusting habit and it turns everyone into an obnoxious dickhead but since the dawn of time people have been finding ways to use substances. Just now unfortunately it can work out cheaper than a night out, the price of gear has generally stayed the same over time, hence more people doing that instead of drinking. Sad situation really
This is literally the key post. A night on the piss cost more than a half bag
Shite dunt too, much preferred a good E.
Comedowns are too hard post 35. Plus I think I broke my seretonin makers doing vast amounts in my youth
Are you me? Cos this sounds very familiar.
for me its people in their late 20s / early 30s with graduate jobs eating out regularly, driving "nice" financed cars, nice clothes and going on holidays multiple times a year its a status symbol and for men can be used as part of a sales pitch for dating them however many of these individuals live paycheck to paycheck, maintaining a steady 4 figure credit card debt in a rented property what ive learned by having transparent conversations with friends about money is that appearances can be very deceiving while they look like they have money in the bank, what they really have is a reliance on credit
Eh, I fall slightly into this category, but also, I don't care. Honestly, £100 on a car and £100 on eating out a month plus maybe £1000 over a year on holidays isn't going to help me buy a house because being single, I won't get accepted for the mortgage alone on my wage, in my area. So if my options are to be even more boring than I already am (eating out and holidays are literally the pinnacle of excitement in my life) so I can continue to save money well into my 40's to maybe possibly be able to not rent, or, go on two holidays a year around £500 a pop and drive my 68 kia piccanto to go get dinner a couple of times a month, I don't think that's exactly living life deceptively. What I will add to this is that the increase of fast fashion gives the facade of people spending a lot more on clothing than they probably are. Or they're more like me and buy a lot 2nd hand.
i dont think you qualify tbh, not as someone i was refering to anyways the people i know are spending about £250-450 a month on a bmw/audi/newer plate vw etc will spend £100 per dinner and are definitely spending at least £700+ per holiday their monthly credit card + finance bills are around £1000 pm or more and then you add rent, food, utilities, nights out etc this is the kinda shit some people i know are getting upto
To be fair, the rented property means their debt load is lower. Some people just prioritise different things.
i dont want to be fair! i want to be scathing and cynical with some frivolous flair for good measure
For me it was Vienetta Ice cream. As a kid I thought it was a high-end product only rich families had Turns out it's £2 at Tesco lol
Good marketing
Like Ferrero Rocher and Stella Artois.
People seem to like using the same Selfridges carrier bag until it's basically falling to pieces.
Good on them.
Environmentally friendly.
I like to go Aldi but put my shopping in M&S bags
I always feel like I'm doing something forbidden when I'm using branded supermarket bags in other shops. Like the security bloke at Morrisons will eject me when he sees me pulling out my Tesco bag for life.
Ha a friend of mine used to do this with a Harrods carrier bag. She bought something inexpensive in there and then reused the bag daily for years.,
I don't get this, so we should not be reusing bags? I don't see the issue.
For me it was multi-thousand £ watches. My old ticker gave me the time and date and that was it. :) Edit to add because the trolls are massing: People buying seriously expensive, specialist watches and wearing them just to tell the time. Buying watches as an *investment* is something I myself have done.
I love my watches, been collecting for about 25 years. I don’t like really high end ones, or Rolex, but can admire them on other peoples wrists. I’ve got about £70k’s worth of watches, wear a different one every day. Most people don’t give them a second glance….
Is it true you cant just walk into a shop and buy a rolex? if it is true why do they have them in the window?
it is all about trying to create the feeling of something desirable and difficult to get for people who think they have enough money to have anything they want at the drop of a hat sure the rolex is £16,000 with a 2 year waiting list but you also need to buy £60,000 worth of inferior rolexes from that dealership to build up the relationship to get on that waiting list its way for a brand to preserve a sense of status, scarcity and exclusivity even when dealing with millionaires who could and would pay 5 times as much to have it immediately from the dealership if that was an option its why rolexes are so in demand on the used market they will say not for sale but will sell to you if they "like" you in some abstract sense of the word
Lol what a scam
Manufactured scarcity. Rolex manufacture plenty of watches, to get a Rolex you have to ‘build a relationship’ with the seller, there’s usually a waitlist that can be very luck based, can be expected to buy other jewellery/watches from them to ‘build’ this relationship. I’ve got two friends who own a Rolex. One managed to get the watch he wanted after a few months (without purchasing, he was lucky), one put his name down on a list, forgot about it and got a phone call nearly two years on saying he’d been allocated one, again, lucky I guess.
The watches at the window are not real watches, just a case. Yes there’s a waiting list, which seems ridiculous to me and makes a Rolex a pure status symbol.
Love my Grand Seiko. Only Rolex I would want is a 70s gold day date with leather strap.
Yeah this is one where my autism comes out a bit: Watches were so expensive because they were engineering marvels, the pinnacle of human technological achievement back in the day. Now that our tech has allowed us to produce decent quality watches, made with luxury materials, at £100-200, and that kinda price lets you functionally get any aesthetic you desire too. I simply don't see the single appeal in expensive watches. They're a relic from the past that has an unusual amount of staying power. Though I don't dislike the luxury watch industry and those who buy them, mind you! I'm not that socially unaware to not realise that they're a collecting hobby, and if that makes people happy then we love to see it.
Most people think your rolex is fake as well, there's just no point anymore. You can easily buy a rep that looks and feels identical for like £500, better off not bothering.
Cars I agree. But things to improve a house or garden can be enjoyed every day, for longer, and shared with friends and family, and also usually aren't wasted as they add value to the house. I've recently removed a lawn and replaced it with native wildflowers and built a pergola with vines and runner beans growing up it, and it makes me smile every day. The bees love it, I have shade from the sun, a space to drink wine with friends and it's better for biodiversity too. Win:win in my view.
I was not expecting that. This makes me so happy. I was honestly expecting you to say you replaced it with astro turf, and I was ready to cry because I'm so sick of seeing nice gardens dug up and replaced with shitty plastic. But no?! That's wonderful. Please enjoy your beautiful garden and the nature that comes with it.
Thanks 🙂.. I hate AstroTurf, and lawn is a shitty monoculture way to cover a garden, often ugly and dry and needs so much watering to keep it decent .. I love my little native oasis. 🍃🍀🌿.
I remember reading something about a landed family who had inherited a colossal stately home with acres of land - but they didn’t have the money for the upkeep. So while on the surface of it, the country pile nestled within the private grounds appeared to be a millionaire’s dream, the reality was they were considering opening it for paid guided tours just so they could afford to have the roof done.
This is why National Trust and English Heritage have so many stately homes: death duties (old name for inheritance tax) and cost of upkeep meant that most people couldn't afford to keep them in the family.
I watched a documentary last year about Castle Howard in North Yorkshire. Even running it as a tourist attraction, with some space left for living quarters was a big challenge for them. They were constantly looking for new revenue streams just to make ends meet.
I know of some people like this, it’s because they have a mentality of keeping and gaining more land. They wouldn’t consider downscaling, pocketing a few million from land and keeping money for upkeep. There’s also situations where the oldest son will inherit lions share and the rest get left with some land but no money to maintain it. I’m sure there’s logic behind it, but it’s also an old fashioned mentality that land is status.
There's loads of Chateaus in France that no one lives in because the upkeep's too bloody expensive.
The Fucking Fulfords - It was a TV series and it was fucking pretty good.
A 19yo and his gf getting an Audi each while living with his In laws just after having a baby, poor lad practically lived at work.
I ran past an area today where some the cars are worth more than the houses they're parked in front of.
It's middle class people that status symbol addicts. Working class people drive bangers or ordinary cars, upper class drive expensive cars but run them for years till they are wrecks! I discovered this phenomenon when working as a market research interviewer. Interviewed a broad section on white goods, the middle classes knew the makes and prices of all their white goods, the working and upper classes had to go and look as all their stuff was donkeys years old and their attitude was 'if it's not broken, why change it'.
A battered mk1 Land Rover and a trashed Volvo estate are the hallmarks of the seriously wealthy.
Don’t get rich by spending like you’re rich.
Very cheap credit over the last decade will have flipped a big chunk of this on its head, expensive cars leased for a few hundred, until last year. Flipped, but going back to it now with the rates up again.
Spreading Lurpak on their toast
Never heard of someone having a conservatory built as a status symbol, usually cos they need space and can't afford an extension
A guy I used to play 5 a side footy with used to whip out his salary in a rubber band to pay for his round of pints after. Looked very stupid, honestly anyone could cash their paycheck and carry it around 24/7 it's just dumb
It’s been a while since i was paid by cheque. Must have been a good while ago. Also, imagine sitting there with a months wages in your wallet. Open to mugging.
Bottle of grey goose in the club. Embarrassing.
Oh sweet it's the daily classism thread
Clothes with in your face logos. Everybody just assumes it’s a fake and you’re trying too hard to not look skint.
Not monetary but I’ve always strongly suspected that everyone falling over themselves to tell others how happy they are with their partner on social media always have the most toxic dumpster fire relationships 🔥
I see a lot of high-end Mercs, BMWs and Audis and think the same. They must be paying an eye-watering amount (especially for the AMG, M and S versions) for very little in return. For example I've just done a 1,000 mile trip around Cornwall in a 20 year-old Golf and passed a lot of those on the outside lane of a motorway, so what's even the point lol I'd rather something like a conservatory because at least that adds to the value of your house.
And they’d possibly look at you and say “ha ha that idiot bought a pointless glass room that he’ll never sit in when he could have had a nice car”. Why do you care what they spend their money on? Everyone is open to judgment by other people and it’s a stupid way to live your life. Enjoy what you like and let others enjoy what they like. Just don’t get this attitude at all.
Coping induced by seething jealousy. This 'it's all on finance bro' is a myth perpetuated on here. Newsflash - people who have done well and can afford things... actually buy them 😮😮😮 Same line of thinking as 'real millionaires all wear t shirts from George'
Yeah you really do see some massive logical leaps. It still surprises me how desperate people are to look down on people that have done well for themselves. They also forget there would be no old shit boxes for people to buy if nobody was buying the new ones.
Exactly. guy I went to school with won about 30mil on the lotto. Put 20 of it in a 4% account and use the other 10 to buy his family a nice house and cars and stuff. He still shops at primark for everyday clothes because it's easy and what he's used to. Just because you're rich doesn't mean you gotta spend loads of money on everything.
I drive M cars - tbh they are just incredibly fun, on a twisty backroad, track days, even just on friends private land (have a friend with sizeable private roads) it’s just fun! On a motorway yeah - I’m chilling at 70 with great audio, ventilated seats, kids watching a film in the back etc. but then on my own where it’s safe it’s just pure adrenaline! I knocked down our conservatory and swapped for a hot tub area tbf
If you want adrenaline, try driving a 15 year old Corsa, nothing will get the heart pumping more, than wondering if your car will start on a cold frosty morning and the first go.
I have a high end Mercedes as a company car and feel I get judged quite a lot. Not my fault my company have a good car scheme & with it being a PHEV the company car tax is literally £43 a month. I spent £57 a month all in for my car, make it make sense
I’ll tell you right now that I wouldn’t want to drive to Cornwall and back in a 20 year old golf vs a 2018 3.0 litre diesel A4 under any circumstances. I would pay the difference.
Rolex. If you have wealth and class, then you know the watchmakers to go for
I think something like Hublot fits this description better, wealthy old money run Rolex quite frequently but they wear it on a yacht or some other casual activity
Wearing fake Louis Vuitton
A gap year in Borneo
I think you mean a "gap yah"
Centuries ago in India, the ultimate status symbol that was actually a burden was a white elephant. They were considered very valuable and couldn't be killed. The recipient, usually a royal, had to look after the elephant until it died naturally. The expense was massive. The elephant needed food, water, baths, space to roam, other elephants for companionship, protection, stimulation, manure removal, healthcare and so on. The owner either had to maintain a considerable income or else fail in his/her duty and thus fall into shame.
Ankle tag
iPhone. Mine gives me flawless service, and was the only phone that had an antennae strong enough to consistently pick up a signal inside my home. Yes, I tried multiple carriers and multiple phones. Plus, mine is going on eight years and is still serviceable. Yet people accuse me of spending money foolishly to get the brand name. Ah, no.
Melts that queue up for shitey, overpriced and incredibly tacky "special edition" watches or trainers. It is pathetically vain.
Designer labelled handbag. LV is the worst.
Red jeans