*♛♕ Puttin' on the ritz ♕♛*

[alice789]

Haha, so on the discussion of "Why do rich people dress like bums?"
We came to the conclusion that the behavior of throwing money away on depreciating assets such as cars and clothes is what seperates the millionaires from the rest of society.

"People with money who are not the asshole noveau riche, i.e., who are comfortable in their own skins, don't give one good goddamn what twerps like you or other shallow wannabes think.

They wear what they want when they want, and the old line rich do not generally ever put their money into cars -- they consider this vulgar -- but rather spend what money they spend on their estates, although also never in a showy, vulgar way.

Now, yacht salesman have LONG known this, and would never turn away a no socks wearing, courduroy pants guy, as they KNOW how the old line rich habitually dress.

Many, many noveau riche (I can't help but think of large swatches of New Jersey when I think of same) have more newly acquired money than taste, are still the same vulgar and insecure assholes they were before acquiring some money by being relentless assholes, and so NEED to impress other shallow asswipes with their bling -- which, apparently, is the only metric of supposed personal worth that these twerps understand."

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[pete_thomas]

This is an interesting topic.

I can't say if I'll end up changing if/when I stumble across wealth. I mean, I'm mostly broke now, and still give away every penny to my name to those who would use it better than I.

Yet I feel if I did have the cash, I'd probably splurge on a car. Not saying that I'd buy a new car every week or something -- it would most likely be something I'd keep forever, but it'll probably be nice. My house and clothing would both be pieces of me that would most likely stay the same. My house will be modest, and my clothing will still come from JCP. :P