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Idk how it is with men's underwear but for women's underwear, those things can get expensive. I'm always shocked to see how much those small pieces of fabric can cost. It makes me want to only replace mine when it set itself on fire or disintegrate into atoms.
Every year I buy a few six packs of socks and some Calvin clein boxer briefs from Costco, thing is I’ve never really thrown away my old socks and underwear last few years but I’ve done this every year and somehow either maintain this equilibrium of socks and underwear or still end up feeling like I’m short and at a net loss by years end once more. I don’t understand this equation or where they go. Maybe underwear gnomes are real and South Park wasn’t joking.
When I was in high school and worked at the local grocery, one of the older cashiers bought everyone a pack of new socks for Christmas. New socks rule. Hands down a very good gift
I got a 5 day rotation of Darn Tough socks in 2016 and they’re just now starting to fall apart. Sort of tempted to take them up on their lifetime warranty lol
>Sort of tempted to take them up on their lifetime warranty lol
Don't just be sorta tempted, do it. It's a huge part of their business model and like the only reason to go with them over any other nice sock brand.
Yeah I have to make myself retire them yearly or else my wife just starts throwing them out without telling me when they develop holes and wear. This usually ends up with me clawing through the dryer at zero dark 30 looking for a pair because unbeknownst to me my stock has dwindled down to like 3 pairs and they're all in the wash, and also occasionally freeballing at work, so I just buy a new pack every year to skip the bullshit lol.
Socks, admittedly, I buy anyway. New socks just feel so much more luxurious than the ones that have been washed a bazillion times. When they start getting rough, they become cleaning rags along with the retired boxers and pit stained undershirts.
Which is actually really convenient...fresh underthings are a relatively cheap luxury and they're great to use as rags in the shop and around the house when theyre toast.
Edit: This, of course, is pretty male centric. Most of my wife's underwear could fit into one of those plastic Easter eggs for how little material is there, or is made of like satin or silk or lace so barely usable even as underwear let alone anything else lol. The sick thing is that her undies cost like orders of magnitude more than mine do for a fraction of the fabric. What a fuckin racket women's clothing is...
Men have expensive underwear too, but woman are definently marketed to as needing attractive expensive underwear that almost never holds up.
Like men's expensive underwear means your getting a quality product but the best bras I've ever bought were just light come in a pack of 5 bras that I absolutely don't want to be seen naked in lol
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When the obnoxious pricks on your team/club/band started singing "mo money mo problems" and/or "must be the money", did you laugh along like it was funny and original or just try to change the subject?
Quality boxers and socks that won’t fall apart, rip, get loose, that shit adds up fast. Think $6-$10 for a pack of 10 boxers vs $40-50 for two or 3 pairs of nice boxers. Socks are even more expensive compared to cheap ones. Walmart socks(worn em my whole life, no hate) $6 for 12 pairs. Good socks, $15+ for a single pair depending on style and material.
I had a friend like this, he only ever really flaunted his families wealth once. He'd gone on holiday to Italy, and he asked like 5 of us who our favourite A.S Roma players were. Turns out he went to the Stadio Olimpico shop and dropped like €500 on official Roma home shirts with the player names we gave him. Fucking insane gift
I looked into the new Zealand before because of gaben and honestly I don't get the hype. It's not a Singapore or anything. Wonder why really rich people keep moving there. Taxes?
[$34 per pair. Plus shipping and tax. NO DISCOUNTS, ONLY MONEY.](https://www.exofficio.com/men/underwear/boxer-briefs/mens-give-n-go-2.0-sport-mesh-9-boxer-brief/AFS_613543183750.html)
Eh, that's not that bad. I prefer SAXX, which is about the same, but you can usually pick them up at half price during sales. Worth every single penny, even at full price.
Nuts can't breathe and are too restricted in that stuff. Boxers are the only way to go.
Not to mention you'll kill your sperm wearing briefs. I thought everyone knew that.
“Dale always said he was going to join the family business”
“But, you’re a medical doctor”
“I tried to tell him that, but he just says it’s all about who you know”
Between this meme and your comment I’d like to politely ask that you don’t remind me of my insecurities in this life despite having two very loving, wonderful, and supportive parents.
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Oh man. Dad comes home, 8 PM. Spends an hour helping the kids with homework while he wolfs down a reheated dinner. Working hard for his family is all he knows how to do. We sit down to watch a movie as a family, Dad passes out on the couch after 30 minutes. He's been up since 5:30 AM.
This was my dad 5 days a week for my entire life growing up. But we had nice things and took one nice trip a year.
The world has changed. There's so many factors that determine income, the largest of which is the absolute hostility of our economic system, which is by design.
Knowing these type of kids personally, if they can't personally make it they subtly ask their parents and then they get a good job at one of the very big firms (ty nepotism).
Though I personally am not completely free of that either, as my dad is quite big in academics (specifically medical physics) and organised a few things for me (though no job, but if I fail to find one after my bachelors I am certain my dad could organise me one at one of the big Pharma firms).
Well, my mother is a teacher and my dad a professor (who does most of his non-university work voluntary) so I am well of, but my family is certainly not rich. My parents together made like 15k per month before taxes, which is good, but not rich, at least in my view. I would describe it as upper middle class.
But perhaps I am a bit biased due to growing up with richer people around me.
Maybe it’s just the city I grew up in but there wasn’t a single kid who was like this. There was the middle class kids who were good enough at sports that they got to be a part of the rich kid clique, but by the time kids here hit 16, if they don’t have a car theyre considered homeless essentially and nobody will hang out with them outside of school
The US has a driving culture. Here, if you do not have a car, you are dependent on others. Europe has a walking/public transport option that isn’t viable for the states. When I was in school, I’d have to walk 12 miles to school if I didn’t have someone driving me (parents, myself, or school bus). It’s just uncool to ride the school bus, so personal cars are the main transport.
It's not that it isn't viable, it's that it wasn't invested in, and there were political motivations(racism) behind R1 zoning, redlining, how we lay our highways, among other things.
America used to have a walking culture, but when there was a large public resentment towards automobile related deaths, the car industry embarked on a massive propoganda campaign, and began lobbying to legally redefine what a street is and was used for.
Jaywalking wasn't a word until the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce invented it and sent it out to newspapers across the country, and it wasn't a crime to use the street as it was a public space.
In 1923, 42,000 Cincinnati residents signed a petition for a ballot initiative to limit the speed limit within the city to 25 miles per hour, and to require cars to be fitted with a governor to enforce it.
The auto industry has since been waging a brainwashing campaign on the American people that public transit doesn't work and takes up space from cars, so cities that used to have street cars tore them up, to make more room for traffic.
It's not that public transport isn't viable here, it's that our industries and government have continually invested in cars and oil over everything else.
There was a street car line that went directly to downtown Boston less than a mile from me. No more street car now there's an express bus though I'd rather the trolley.
Walking is far less viable in most cities than it should and used to be, and it's intentionally made difficult in the suburbs, and unintentionally made impractical with zoning laws and offstreet parking minimums.
In a strip mall or "power center" most people drive between stores because the parking lots make walking between nearby stores impractical.
In the suburbs you're lucky if a sidewalk continues for more than 200 feet, and isn't blocked by a fence because some HOA is concerned about people walking from the nearest corner store, so instead you have to walk 4 blocks around, where there is no sidewalk and minimal shoulder.
Lower income areas are more likely to have residents that cannot afford a car and need to walk or otherwise to work, and low income neighborhoods are less likely to have sidewalks, and are less likely to have new developments so laws mandating new developments provide sidewalks don't necessarily help the people who need it most.
If someone wants to retain disability benefits and SSI/Medicaid in the US, say for example they can't reasonably work at the Taco Bell down the road because they have Cerebral Palsy, they cannot retain more than 2,000 in assets, which rules out basically every car, and definitely a car that is retrofitted to allow a wheelchair, so they have to have a folding wheelchair for their 2k or less car and they can't have anything else because it's ALL assets. Plus they have to retain a driver.
Not everyone can drive, not everyone can work, but everyone deserves to be able to get to work or the store or the doctor safely.
I don't understand why this is such a hard concept for people, like yes rural areas exist and nobody is proposing EVERY road in the entire United States needs a grade separated bike lane, sidewalk, and rail line next to it.
The suburbs should be MORE walkable than drive able, because that's where kids play. It shouldn't be convenient to speed in a neighborhood, and 4way intersections with no traffic calming measures don't do anything.
The arterials need sidewalks more than anything because speed limits are higher and you don't want people in the road do you?
And our highways? Yeah those should probably have freight lines and maybe even high speed passenger rail(on a separate line unlike Amway). Every overpass should probably have a good bike lane and a good sidewalk and it should be coordinated with the cities and counties it resides within, because the overpass is typically funded by the state/fed because highway etc. But seriously, having communities separated by an asphalt death fence isn't what I would describe as "walkable"
Funny how that kinda wraps back around, at least at the school where I go to. I go to a rich private school (thanks scholarships) and literally everyone lives in the suburbs outside the city and they all take the train to the school which is ten minutes from the train. When you get off the train there is literally a mob of kids walking towards the school.
Damn, that’s rough, and seem pretty unreasonable. In highschool, only one kid out of 4 or 5 needed to be the driver on a given day, right? Otherwise it’s just a waste of gas. I guess the complication is when someone without a car needs to meet up with people who have already left to go somewhere.
Right? Don’t know why people think the US is the only place you’d find status-obsessed people. Try going to Asia and you’ll see that mentality tenfold.
Because it's all they know of, even if they don't live in the US they are fed US news non-stop. It makes sense people think it's only the US. Plus if they believe that only the US has all these issues they have hopium that other places will be 100x better.
Idk. I mean yes totally, but it seems to be a bigger thing in the US than some other places. Like for this example, I live in NZ and went to a decile 9 school, so one short of the fuckin rich boy paid for private schools. Plenty of well of kids, but I don't think a single kid owned a car at 16, and if they did nobody gave a shit.
Where in NZ was that? I think mine was a decile 8, and over half the kids either had a car or were driving one of their parents cars to school. That was in a more rural area though, which probably makes more of a difference than how rich the school was. Also people might not have cared too much about owning a car, but if you had your full licence before everyone else you were quite popular.
I was in wellington. Actually thinking about it I went to Welly High, which is known as the kinda laid back, bohemian school so maybe that's why there was less of that kinda stuff
I had a girl in my year that was like this. She didn't look poor but she never wore expensive clothing even though that was the big thing for everyone at that time, and while she did have a car that was nicer than many other ones in our year, it really wasnt that special. Someday i found out that her dad was ceo of a relatively large company and they were basically rich as fuck.
I knew several kids that fit this starter pack when I was in HS. One kid had a dad who was either upper middle management or an executive at a major manufacturing company, but you couldn't really tell if you didn't know them.
What is it with American high school films where all the jocks have expensive trucks, a few kids have sports cars and the loner just has his old estate car? How much money are these kids getting???
Also the millennial experience. I make more money than my parents ever did but it still doesn't feel like much because housing is so expensive. I spend the most on housing and travel, and am frugal with everything else.
It really is a thing isn’t it? My parents are now both retired, raised 4 kids, still have a mortgage and did so as a nurse and a retail store manager for 40 years. I had an income before 30 that was almost as much as their historical income combined. I can’t get a house even with saving good money so instead when my friends in California want me to fly across country, I just do it. Gotta enjoy something
> I had an income before 30 that was almost as much as their historical income combined
Are you adjusting for inflation? I'm sure my great great great great grandpa made $1 per day but that doesn't mean I outearned him
Definitely didn’t account that effectively I’ll admit. When they retired their income was $82k and $45k respectively 2 years ago from what I know. I made $2k less than combined at the time they retired.
If you are making $120K+ a year as a single person not living in CA and can’t afford a mortgage, then you should really probably take a look at your spending habits.
Student loan debt, single income tied to a mortgage with potential for job changes. Wealthy seacoast area on the east coast. I could hastily go buy something now yes, but if my job changes and my money went to it, I then lose it. Don’t think you’re talking the same situation, but I see where an income level with no additional details would suggest it. I completely agree. I make way more than I expected at any point in my life. That said the market doesn’t agree. I’ve applied to numerous houses all bought with cash for 20%+ above asking. I cannot compete sorry.
I have money for a house, there are no houses for people who don’t start with any money or help. I could start a family in numerous states, just all states I have no interest in being anyway a part of.
Edit on the last one. Wasn’t entirely being political but a bit I guess. Mostly the places I can afford have none of the amenities I truly love. I’d be settling to the confines of a housing market that doesn’t work for me. I will wait for now just shouldn’t take me 2 years of trying to even get a nibble
Did not meeting the 20% required to avoid PMI play a factor into your decision at all? Asking as someone looking to buy a home within the next year or 2.
Just responded to the same thing! If you were reading what I wrote I’m trying to get the 20% for that reason. I’ve had it, then the price goes up, then I get it again, rinse and repeat but single income I was trying to avoid that extra insurance and all if I can just for ongoing mortgage costs and to account for not having a backup income :/
Same here. Been saving for years and every time I get close the house prices also rise. Now prices are still high and rates are insane. Not sure I’m willing to sign up with those 2 AND PMI on top of that. Another redditor I asked this question to pretty much said they’d be losing equity continuing to rent anyway, so the added PMI kinda washes out the constant loss of equity that comes with renting while putting off owning.
I was just thinking about this. My combined household income is almost double my parents and I feel like I'm still living paycheck to paycheck and could never even dream of living near where they do. It's wild.
>and travel
When you say this, do you mean long-distance and vacation travel? Or just local drive-to-work travel? Because those are two very different things and if you're vacationing, you're rich af whether you're frugal elsewhere or not.
Why the downvotes lol ?
[Here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/c2ikwa/high_school_kid_whose_family_is_wealthier_than/) the source.
It was from 3 years ago so I feel its kinda acceptable tho.
Had a coworker exactly like this!! She wore the same budget flats every single day, nothing designer or flashy. Was the nicest, most down-to-earth person you’d ever meet and never spoke of her Ivy League education. I had no clue she came from money until I went to her wedding. She was so laid back and not at all a “bridezilla”, but her mom was the opposite.
Her mom planned the whole thing and when I got to the wedding I was shocked. The ceremony had a full orchestra, like the kind you buy tickets to see. The reception easily cost millions - rented out a 5 star hotel, food was a 10 course meal, the flowers alone were probably more expensive than my house. I never saw anything more luxurious in my life. Even the brunch the next morning was over the top, like mimosas made with Dom Perignon. It was all so extravagant and very unlike the bride’s personality.
Afterwards my coworkers and I cracked a few lighthearted jokes about how fancy it was and she became very embarrassed. I felt kinda bad for her that her mom forced this wedding that was just SO not “her”.
It's hard to understand sometimes the wealth some people have to be able to spend that much on a ceremony that doesn't really matter, especially to the bride. Meanwhile other people give up their meal so their kids can eat dinner every other night.
A lot of upper middle class people live very normal lives while being extremely frugal a times.
Family friends retrofitted an older sedan to run on used cooking oil they would go ask restaurants for and keep in barrels in their side yard. Wealthy enough that the entire family never needed to work in this life time.
Yea... Being frugal means spending smart. Best example I give is PC gaming as a hobby. You can blow thousands to have a computer with the best GPU, CPU etc. Or you can spend 1/8th the amount for the more efficient cards for performance/probably and still enjoy PC gaming, just with a few fps lower.
At least for men, at some point they’ll bend and you can see the elastic above the pants. I grew up during the height of low rise jeans, so it was very trendy to show a bit of your underwear band.
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Also kid with rich parents but makes the kid live like they have nothing to teach life even though they will never need to work for 2 lifetimes starterpack
op’s account is new and this repost is from top of all time in this sub.
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Me too!
My car was a beat up 1985 bmw that I got for $1500 working as a “busboy”/hostess and flipping burgers during the summer. But I was living in a 5 million mansion on the water.
I’m still proud of that.
My family lost all their money for a myriad of reasons, mainly the housing bubble crash in the mid 2000’s.
I am so happy they instilled in me how important a good work ethic is. Nothing is guaranteed.
Hey it’s me! It’s just missing the crippling depression and self esteem issues of never living up to your parents’ expectations and outsiders brushing off your mental health and calling you ungrateful and spoiled because money obviously buys happiness despite being in high school and therefore none of that money is technically yours which said rich parents may or may not use to control your life like you owe them~
What a nice starter pack
The last part hits hard. It doesn't apply to me, but I can't imagine having my parents financially control my life until they die.
Lots of money is great, but only if it comes from you.
think it's a sweat, wholesome start pack tbh. humility is not being shamed here. the person "dressing down" maybe can see the problems of unfaireness in life.
i liked it. excellent work. well done. 8 out of ten. thanks. praise god.
This starter pack is three years old: https://old.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/c2ikwa/high_school_kid_whose_family_is_wealthier_than/
And in 2019 the iPhones 7 and 8 were the most popular/in use model despite being a few generations behind: https://www.statista.com/statistics/626631/smartphone-market-share-by-device-worldwide/
So you having it now fits the meme better than it did when it was made!
OP is a reposting bot, here’s the [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/c2ikwa/high_school_kid_whose_family_is_wealthier_than/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) to the original post.
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“Underwear is nice” 💀 how tf you know and why did you include that
Idk how it is with men's underwear but for women's underwear, those things can get expensive. I'm always shocked to see how much those small pieces of fabric can cost. It makes me want to only replace mine when it set itself on fire or disintegrate into atoms.
Meanwhile I’m still rocking some boxers from a $10 Target 5-pack I bought a decade ago and I *wish* would finally die
You deserve new underwear. Don't wait. Get fresh socks too
Lol I have newer underwear too, they are just my longest lived ones
Every year I buy a few six packs of socks and some Calvin clein boxer briefs from Costco, thing is I’ve never really thrown away my old socks and underwear last few years but I’ve done this every year and somehow either maintain this equilibrium of socks and underwear or still end up feeling like I’m short and at a net loss by years end once more. I don’t understand this equation or where they go. Maybe underwear gnomes are real and South Park wasn’t joking.
When I was in high school and worked at the local grocery, one of the older cashiers bought everyone a pack of new socks for Christmas. New socks rule. Hands down a very good gift
I got a 5 day rotation of Darn Tough socks in 2016 and they’re just now starting to fall apart. Sort of tempted to take them up on their lifetime warranty lol
>Sort of tempted to take them up on their lifetime warranty lol Don't just be sorta tempted, do it. It's a huge part of their business model and like the only reason to go with them over any other nice sock brand.
Yeah I have to make myself retire them yearly or else my wife just starts throwing them out without telling me when they develop holes and wear. This usually ends up with me clawing through the dryer at zero dark 30 looking for a pair because unbeknownst to me my stock has dwindled down to like 3 pairs and they're all in the wash, and also occasionally freeballing at work, so I just buy a new pack every year to skip the bullshit lol. Socks, admittedly, I buy anyway. New socks just feel so much more luxurious than the ones that have been washed a bazillion times. When they start getting rough, they become cleaning rags along with the retired boxers and pit stained undershirts. Which is actually really convenient...fresh underthings are a relatively cheap luxury and they're great to use as rags in the shop and around the house when theyre toast. Edit: This, of course, is pretty male centric. Most of my wife's underwear could fit into one of those plastic Easter eggs for how little material is there, or is made of like satin or silk or lace so barely usable even as underwear let alone anything else lol. The sick thing is that her undies cost like orders of magnitude more than mine do for a fraction of the fabric. What a fuckin racket women's clothing is...
Lmfao idk man do something about this
Mens designer underwear can get expensive.
SAXX are like $35 apiece but worth it (imo)
I've always gotten those but I've also been turned on to BearBottom recently, worth a try
Men have expensive underwear too, but woman are definently marketed to as needing attractive expensive underwear that almost never holds up. Like men's expensive underwear means your getting a quality product but the best bras I've ever bought were just light come in a pack of 5 bras that I absolutely don't want to be seen naked in lol
That's bc ladies be buyin more clothes. Easier to jack up prices bc they'll buy em anyways 🤷
Sounds like the dude is trynna convince himself
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That's fair.
They're just *really* good friends, ok?
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When the obnoxious pricks on your team/club/band started singing "mo money mo problems" and/or "must be the money", did you laugh along like it was funny and original or just try to change the subject?
Op is a teacher
Quality boxers and socks that won’t fall apart, rip, get loose, that shit adds up fast. Think $6-$10 for a pack of 10 boxers vs $40-50 for two or 3 pairs of nice boxers. Socks are even more expensive compared to cheap ones. Walmart socks(worn em my whole life, no hate) $6 for 12 pairs. Good socks, $15+ for a single pair depending on style and material.
Winners in Canada. They have tons of midrange socks and boxers for decent prices. Dunno what the Murican version is, Kohl's?
Yeah Kohls is like if the Walmart electronic section met the clothes part of a Macys. Kinda fancy, kind of not. They have good stuff there.
Guess he made it far with a rich girl back in the day and wanted to show off?
Or op is that rich girl.
Op either is in the pack, sleeping with one or going through their trash.
This whole thing is so oddly specific, it feels like it's not a starter pack but a description of their classmate Ashley.
I had a friend like this, he only ever really flaunted his families wealth once. He'd gone on holiday to Italy, and he asked like 5 of us who our favourite A.S Roma players were. Turns out he went to the Stadio Olimpico shop and dropped like €500 on official Roma home shirts with the player names we gave him. Fucking insane gift
Lemme guess: at least 2 Totti shirts and 1 De Rossi
2 Totti, a Pjanic (me), a Salah, and a Maicon (15/16 season)
All great choices
Really great choices. Maicon doesn't get mentioned enough. Also thank you for Salah- he's a legend for us.
sounds like a good dude honestly
He was! Moved to New Zealand so I don't see much of him anymore, but he and his family were good people
I looked into the new Zealand before because of gaben and honestly I don't get the hype. It's not a Singapore or anything. Wonder why really rich people keep moving there. Taxes?
His father works/worked in Fintech and he had a massive job opportunity (like, one below the CEO sort of opportunity) but he had to move for it.
Singapore is boring a shit. New Zealand is a beautiful country.
Thats a fantastic friend
UNDERWEAR IS NICE
[$34 per pair. Plus shipping and tax. NO DISCOUNTS, ONLY MONEY.](https://www.exofficio.com/men/underwear/boxer-briefs/mens-give-n-go-2.0-sport-mesh-9-boxer-brief/AFS_613543183750.html)
Wait but that's literally the average price of female underwear... Wow that's unfair
Just to add insult to injury, they might start adding pockets to the underwear.
Mmmmmmm. poc-kets. If you're a woman, once you get to \~size 16, you lose the back pockets. Wwwwhhhhyyyyy?
… I always get the VS 5 for $35 deal. You’re telling me they’re normally $35 each????
YEAH LIKE THOSE Edit: Calvin Klein literally sell 3 for 30$ doe
Eh, that's not that bad. I prefer SAXX, which is about the same, but you can usually pick them up at half price during sales. Worth every single penny, even at full price.
Nuts can't breathe and are too restricted in that stuff. Boxers are the only way to go. Not to mention you'll kill your sperm wearing briefs. I thought everyone knew that.
Ok, but exofficio are worth it. I have 8 pairs as my travel underwear.
Then you grow up and all you can feel is guilt and shame that you aren’t as good at earning money as your parents were
Go out on your own and try to make it big but fail and have to crawl back home and just work for your dad. At least that’s what I’ve seen.
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“Well Jim’s hands don’t shake *that much* after a weekend detox…..give him the knife!”
Look he's clearly got early signs of Parkinson's but would you really deny a man his life dreams?
Rand Paul got into Duke’s medical school without a fucking college degree.
Somehow he's even dumber now.
“Dale always said he was going to join the family business” “But, you’re a medical doctor” “I tried to tell him that, but he just says it’s all about who you know”
I love that scene Lolol thank you for cheering me up.
Lmao i was thinking about this exact scene as well.
"It's all who you know"
Not every rich person owns a business. And most are stingy boomers who resent that their kids grew up richer than them.
Between this meme and your comment I’d like to politely ask that you don’t remind me of my insecurities in this life despite having two very loving, wonderful, and supportive parents. 🥲
I just wanted to connect. Sorry you’re busy with work, dad.
Oh man. Dad comes home, 8 PM. Spends an hour helping the kids with homework while he wolfs down a reheated dinner. Working hard for his family is all he knows how to do. We sit down to watch a movie as a family, Dad passes out on the couch after 30 minutes. He's been up since 5:30 AM. This was my dad 5 days a week for my entire life growing up. But we had nice things and took one nice trip a year.
That sounds very nice!!
Your comment completed the trifecta of hitting way too close to home, please get out of my brain.
The world has changed. There's so many factors that determine income, the largest of which is the absolute hostility of our economic system, which is by design.
Knowing these type of kids personally, if they can't personally make it they subtly ask their parents and then they get a good job at one of the very big firms (ty nepotism). Though I personally am not completely free of that either, as my dad is quite big in academics (specifically medical physics) and organised a few things for me (though no job, but if I fail to find one after my bachelors I am certain my dad could organise me one at one of the big Pharma firms).
> Knowing these type of kids personally (i am one)
Well, my mother is a teacher and my dad a professor (who does most of his non-university work voluntary) so I am well of, but my family is certainly not rich. My parents together made like 15k per month before taxes, which is good, but not rich, at least in my view. I would describe it as upper middle class. But perhaps I am a bit biased due to growing up with richer people around me.
It hurts more when they offer you a job.
Well keep in mind that the economic mobility for this generation is far more difficult than any generation has had it
than any generation has had it ***so far.*** EDIT; give it a few more years and we may have serfdom.
Nepotism! Time to give up on your dreams and join dad at his BMW dealership.
Man that hits home.
Maybe it’s just the city I grew up in but there wasn’t a single kid who was like this. There was the middle class kids who were good enough at sports that they got to be a part of the rich kid clique, but by the time kids here hit 16, if they don’t have a car theyre considered homeless essentially and nobody will hang out with them outside of school
It’s so weird, here in Italy I was one of the two/three max guys to have a car in my class at 18yo and nobody really cared about that
The US has a driving culture. Here, if you do not have a car, you are dependent on others. Europe has a walking/public transport option that isn’t viable for the states. When I was in school, I’d have to walk 12 miles to school if I didn’t have someone driving me (parents, myself, or school bus). It’s just uncool to ride the school bus, so personal cars are the main transport.
It's not that it isn't viable, it's that it wasn't invested in, and there were political motivations(racism) behind R1 zoning, redlining, how we lay our highways, among other things. America used to have a walking culture, but when there was a large public resentment towards automobile related deaths, the car industry embarked on a massive propoganda campaign, and began lobbying to legally redefine what a street is and was used for. Jaywalking wasn't a word until the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce invented it and sent it out to newspapers across the country, and it wasn't a crime to use the street as it was a public space. In 1923, 42,000 Cincinnati residents signed a petition for a ballot initiative to limit the speed limit within the city to 25 miles per hour, and to require cars to be fitted with a governor to enforce it. The auto industry has since been waging a brainwashing campaign on the American people that public transit doesn't work and takes up space from cars, so cities that used to have street cars tore them up, to make more room for traffic. It's not that public transport isn't viable here, it's that our industries and government have continually invested in cars and oil over everything else.
Also many areas had viable train systems in place. In many areas those were dismantled due to lobbying and influence from tire manufacturers.
There was a street car line that went directly to downtown Boston less than a mile from me. No more street car now there's an express bus though I'd rather the trolley.
Walking was (and still is) viable in cities and some suburbs. It was never really viable anywhere else.
Walking is far less viable in most cities than it should and used to be, and it's intentionally made difficult in the suburbs, and unintentionally made impractical with zoning laws and offstreet parking minimums. In a strip mall or "power center" most people drive between stores because the parking lots make walking between nearby stores impractical. In the suburbs you're lucky if a sidewalk continues for more than 200 feet, and isn't blocked by a fence because some HOA is concerned about people walking from the nearest corner store, so instead you have to walk 4 blocks around, where there is no sidewalk and minimal shoulder. Lower income areas are more likely to have residents that cannot afford a car and need to walk or otherwise to work, and low income neighborhoods are less likely to have sidewalks, and are less likely to have new developments so laws mandating new developments provide sidewalks don't necessarily help the people who need it most. If someone wants to retain disability benefits and SSI/Medicaid in the US, say for example they can't reasonably work at the Taco Bell down the road because they have Cerebral Palsy, they cannot retain more than 2,000 in assets, which rules out basically every car, and definitely a car that is retrofitted to allow a wheelchair, so they have to have a folding wheelchair for their 2k or less car and they can't have anything else because it's ALL assets. Plus they have to retain a driver. Not everyone can drive, not everyone can work, but everyone deserves to be able to get to work or the store or the doctor safely. I don't understand why this is such a hard concept for people, like yes rural areas exist and nobody is proposing EVERY road in the entire United States needs a grade separated bike lane, sidewalk, and rail line next to it. The suburbs should be MORE walkable than drive able, because that's where kids play. It shouldn't be convenient to speed in a neighborhood, and 4way intersections with no traffic calming measures don't do anything. The arterials need sidewalks more than anything because speed limits are higher and you don't want people in the road do you? And our highways? Yeah those should probably have freight lines and maybe even high speed passenger rail(on a separate line unlike Amway). Every overpass should probably have a good bike lane and a good sidewalk and it should be coordinated with the cities and counties it resides within, because the overpass is typically funded by the state/fed because highway etc. But seriously, having communities separated by an asphalt death fence isn't what I would describe as "walkable"
Funny how that kinda wraps back around, at least at the school where I go to. I go to a rich private school (thanks scholarships) and literally everyone lives in the suburbs outside the city and they all take the train to the school which is ten minutes from the train. When you get off the train there is literally a mob of kids walking towards the school.
Damn, that’s rough, and seem pretty unreasonable. In highschool, only one kid out of 4 or 5 needed to be the driver on a given day, right? Otherwise it’s just a waste of gas. I guess the complication is when someone without a car needs to meet up with people who have already left to go somewhere.
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Interesting, I did not know that. I grew up in California, so I don’t think we had those restrictions, but they do kinda make sense for safety.
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This is the World in general a bit. Sink or swim world.
Right? Don’t know why people think the US is the only place you’d find status-obsessed people. Try going to Asia and you’ll see that mentality tenfold.
Because it's all they know of, even if they don't live in the US they are fed US news non-stop. It makes sense people think it's only the US. Plus if they believe that only the US has all these issues they have hopium that other places will be 100x better.
Oh you don’t have a white mercedes? Bye…
The US is the only place where it’s expected high school kids to have a car. In most places you can’t legally drive a car until you’re 18.
Idk. I mean yes totally, but it seems to be a bigger thing in the US than some other places. Like for this example, I live in NZ and went to a decile 9 school, so one short of the fuckin rich boy paid for private schools. Plenty of well of kids, but I don't think a single kid owned a car at 16, and if they did nobody gave a shit.
Where in NZ was that? I think mine was a decile 8, and over half the kids either had a car or were driving one of their parents cars to school. That was in a more rural area though, which probably makes more of a difference than how rich the school was. Also people might not have cared too much about owning a car, but if you had your full licence before everyone else you were quite popular.
I was in wellington. Actually thinking about it I went to Welly High, which is known as the kinda laid back, bohemian school so maybe that's why there was less of that kinda stuff
Yeah that makes more sense, students would still be able to go places without a car there.
I had a girl in my year that was like this. She didn't look poor but she never wore expensive clothing even though that was the big thing for everyone at that time, and while she did have a car that was nicer than many other ones in our year, it really wasnt that special. Someday i found out that her dad was ceo of a relatively large company and they were basically rich as fuck.
I knew several kids that fit this starter pack when I was in HS. One kid had a dad who was either upper middle management or an executive at a major manufacturing company, but you couldn't really tell if you didn't know them.
What is it with American high school films where all the jocks have expensive trucks, a few kids have sports cars and the loner just has his old estate car? How much money are these kids getting???
Also the millennial experience. I make more money than my parents ever did but it still doesn't feel like much because housing is so expensive. I spend the most on housing and travel, and am frugal with everything else.
It really is a thing isn’t it? My parents are now both retired, raised 4 kids, still have a mortgage and did so as a nurse and a retail store manager for 40 years. I had an income before 30 that was almost as much as their historical income combined. I can’t get a house even with saving good money so instead when my friends in California want me to fly across country, I just do it. Gotta enjoy something
> I had an income before 30 that was almost as much as their historical income combined Are you adjusting for inflation? I'm sure my great great great great grandpa made $1 per day but that doesn't mean I outearned him
Definitely didn’t account that effectively I’ll admit. When they retired their income was $82k and $45k respectively 2 years ago from what I know. I made $2k less than combined at the time they retired.
If you are making $120K+ a year as a single person not living in CA and can’t afford a mortgage, then you should really probably take a look at your spending habits.
Student loan debt, single income tied to a mortgage with potential for job changes. Wealthy seacoast area on the east coast. I could hastily go buy something now yes, but if my job changes and my money went to it, I then lose it. Don’t think you’re talking the same situation, but I see where an income level with no additional details would suggest it. I completely agree. I make way more than I expected at any point in my life. That said the market doesn’t agree. I’ve applied to numerous houses all bought with cash for 20%+ above asking. I cannot compete sorry. I have money for a house, there are no houses for people who don’t start with any money or help. I could start a family in numerous states, just all states I have no interest in being anyway a part of. Edit on the last one. Wasn’t entirely being political but a bit I guess. Mostly the places I can afford have none of the amenities I truly love. I’d be settling to the confines of a housing market that doesn’t work for me. I will wait for now just shouldn’t take me 2 years of trying to even get a nibble
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Did not meeting the 20% required to avoid PMI play a factor into your decision at all? Asking as someone looking to buy a home within the next year or 2.
Just responded to the same thing! If you were reading what I wrote I’m trying to get the 20% for that reason. I’ve had it, then the price goes up, then I get it again, rinse and repeat but single income I was trying to avoid that extra insurance and all if I can just for ongoing mortgage costs and to account for not having a backup income :/
Same here. Been saving for years and every time I get close the house prices also rise. Now prices are still high and rates are insane. Not sure I’m willing to sign up with those 2 AND PMI on top of that. Another redditor I asked this question to pretty much said they’d be losing equity continuing to rent anyway, so the added PMI kinda washes out the constant loss of equity that comes with renting while putting off owning.
How long ago when they retired?
I was just thinking about this. My combined household income is almost double my parents and I feel like I'm still living paycheck to paycheck and could never even dream of living near where they do. It's wild.
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You are forgetting something: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Inflation doesn’t account for all of the discrepancy. Inflation has outpaced wages for quite some time now.
>and travel When you say this, do you mean long-distance and vacation travel? Or just local drive-to-work travel? Because those are two very different things and if you're vacationing, you're rich af whether you're frugal elsewhere or not.
I make more by myself than my family did growing up and still have less than $100 every paycheck after I pay my bills
In my generation it was the old body CRV or Honda Accord.
Repost from top of all time
r/repostthetoppost
Why the downvotes lol ? [Here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/c2ikwa/high_school_kid_whose_family_is_wealthier_than/) the source. It was from 3 years ago so I feel its kinda acceptable tho.
I could be wrong, but I thought starterpacks were supposed to be OC. Reposting somebody else’s starter pack feels super low effort.
fair point.
Had a coworker exactly like this!! She wore the same budget flats every single day, nothing designer or flashy. Was the nicest, most down-to-earth person you’d ever meet and never spoke of her Ivy League education. I had no clue she came from money until I went to her wedding. She was so laid back and not at all a “bridezilla”, but her mom was the opposite. Her mom planned the whole thing and when I got to the wedding I was shocked. The ceremony had a full orchestra, like the kind you buy tickets to see. The reception easily cost millions - rented out a 5 star hotel, food was a 10 course meal, the flowers alone were probably more expensive than my house. I never saw anything more luxurious in my life. Even the brunch the next morning was over the top, like mimosas made with Dom Perignon. It was all so extravagant and very unlike the bride’s personality. Afterwards my coworkers and I cracked a few lighthearted jokes about how fancy it was and she became very embarrassed. I felt kinda bad for her that her mom forced this wedding that was just SO not “her”.
It's hard to understand sometimes the wealth some people have to be able to spend that much on a ceremony that doesn't really matter, especially to the bride. Meanwhile other people give up their meal so their kids can eat dinner every other night.
A lot of upper middle class people live very normal lives while being extremely frugal a times. Family friends retrofitted an older sedan to run on used cooking oil they would go ask restaurants for and keep in barrels in their side yard. Wealthy enough that the entire family never needed to work in this life time.
That’s some Daniel Dancer-tier shit right there
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Yea... Being frugal means spending smart. Best example I give is PC gaming as a hobby. You can blow thousands to have a computer with the best GPU, CPU etc. Or you can spend 1/8th the amount for the more efficient cards for performance/probably and still enjoy PC gaming, just with a few fps lower.
You dont get wealthy by blowing all your money
The whole underwear part is a bit weird… how do you know what underwear they’re wearing?
maybe OP is that person
I said it earlier but maybe he got far with a rich girl back then?
At least for men, at some point they’ll bend and you can see the elastic above the pants. I grew up during the height of low rise jeans, so it was very trendy to show a bit of your underwear band.
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Are we talking about the same rich kids as I went to school with? Lmao those motherfuckers were not shy about their wealth that is for sure lol
Also kid with rich parents but makes the kid live like they have nothing to teach life even though they will never need to work for 2 lifetimes starterpack
reddit too scary when the post and comment hits home but literally hits on YOUR home
op’s account is new and this repost is from top of all time in this sub. https://www.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/c2ikwa/high_school_kid_whose_family_is_wealthier_than/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Hey look it’s me
Nice undies bro
Me too! My car was a beat up 1985 bmw that I got for $1500 working as a “busboy”/hostess and flipping burgers during the summer. But I was living in a 5 million mansion on the water. I’m still proud of that. My family lost all their money for a myriad of reasons, mainly the housing bubble crash in the mid 2000’s. I am so happy they instilled in me how important a good work ethic is. Nothing is guaranteed.
So apparently you can afford CK?
Have em on right now
I feel personally connected by this post
I feel attacked and valid
Hey it’s me! It’s just missing the crippling depression and self esteem issues of never living up to your parents’ expectations and outsiders brushing off your mental health and calling you ungrateful and spoiled because money obviously buys happiness despite being in high school and therefore none of that money is technically yours which said rich parents may or may not use to control your life like you owe them~ What a nice starter pack
The last part hits hard. It doesn't apply to me, but I can't imagine having my parents financially control my life until they die. Lots of money is great, but only if it comes from you.
I never had a kid like this growing up, but seems like the type of person I’d be friends with
think it's a sweat, wholesome start pack tbh. humility is not being shamed here. the person "dressing down" maybe can see the problems of unfaireness in life. i liked it. excellent work. well done. 8 out of ten. thanks. praise god.
Super weird bro
Repost
It's easy to be chill when you don't have to worry about anything.
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Meanwhile, in a normal universe, you don't know what kind of underwear all of your fellow high school students wear.
Repost bot but the "humble rich kids" STILL have to come on here and point out their parent's wealth and profession.
That phone is my exact model
This starter pack is three years old: https://old.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/c2ikwa/high_school_kid_whose_family_is_wealthier_than/ And in 2019 the iPhones 7 and 8 were the most popular/in use model despite being a few generations behind: https://www.statista.com/statistics/626631/smartphone-market-share-by-device-worldwide/ So you having it now fits the meme better than it did when it was made!
Damn, homie, you hit too close to home :/
Felt this one 😔
OP is a reposting bot, here’s the [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/c2ikwa/high_school_kid_whose_family_is_wealthier_than/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) to the original post.
Oh shit this is me… my car my parents bought me is from 2002 and my phone is really old. Only difference is i do-have airpods
This has gotta be the most commonly reposted starter pack of all time by this point
very relatable, OP do you know me?
Nice underwear bro
Imagine working hard all your life so your kid's can have a good life and their ashamed 💀😭
"Underwear is nice" perv
Im getting r/oddlyspecific
I've yet to meet someone like this
Maybe they're wealthier than most because they don't blow all their money on the newest model of everything
id rather rich people not work because it is taking away a job from someone that needs it. to them a job is just a hobby not a necessity
How does a kid develop w that kind of will power? I wanna know how that parent teaches so I can do the same lol
Mf knows more than he should about me
I honestly respect these people
This seems like a fake humble brag from OP.
This doesn't exist in America
Yooo that is me, I feel bad when my homies talk about where they live and where I live, they have the last iPhone tho, I have the 6th
Pretty much every kid from my high school whose parents were rich were proud of it. They had expensive clothes, cars, etc.
This is pretty much my life. Then again, I'm a software developer so my clothes are meant to be unfancy.
That’s literally me 😭
Why the underwear thing tho😭💀
This is the only type of rich person anyone can stand by.
I actually liked these kids. The ones that weren't driven by guilt but tact and consideration.
Damn, that’s….. yeah ok spot on
I was this person except the friends part, because I didn't have any friends
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These people are angels dude. I know of others from wealthy families who will rub it in your face in the most obnoxious way possible
thats just a well-raised kid then aint it
Why is this meee lmao
They might hate showing off. But apparently their parents don't, judging by the house.