WomensStuff

how rich is "rich person" - because my relative scale is so bad that being in a car with heated seats feels very "rich person" even though it's more like upper-middle class (if I'm not mistaken)

if "rich person" is more like top 1%, I'm not sure there's anything I've done that's "rich person":

• never been on a yacht (let alone owned one),
• never influenced an election or supported an illegal coup in another country to support my business interests,
• never owned a sex slave
• never used my extensive surveillance apparatus to stalk someone
• never coordinated a massacre of workers and their families for trying to improve their working conditions
• and, perhaps the most "rich person" thing in this particular moment, I've never been to Epstein's island.

Go to Michelin starred restaurants. I'm too poor to justify going to these places but my mom likes to take me out for my birthday, and I really love food so I will inevitably agree after a very feeble protest.

Buy sandwiches every week. In my defence, they're damn good ones!

I bought a piece of outdoor furniture yesterday. The nice kind of outdoor furniture which won't immediately rot in the Pacific Northwest.

...but just one piece.

... i sleep on expensive Italian/belgian linen sheets...

I've tasted tea in a teahouse that would be over $1000 a pound.

I may buy a house soon if I get real lucky.

I've lived on Queen Mary 2 for almost a year.

Granted, I was working aboard at the time, but still...

I can say from experience that I prefer riding in a Maybach over a Bentley, and driving a pre-war Bugatti is infinitely more fun than one of the modern ones.

If I skip certain details, my life sounds intensely fancy. I'm writing this message from a 5 star hotel room, for example. But the reality is much more down-to-earth, and I'm thankful for the things I have :-)

Oppression of the proletariat.

I don't splurge much on clothes, technology, vehicles, food, etc...but every month I do get a professional massage (get your head out of the gutter ...totally non-sexual). Helps with all the muscle tension that builds up from daily stress from everything (work, life, anything). If you've never had one, I highly suggest trying it out at least once.

I only fly once a year, and I save like a madwoman so I can buy business or first class.

Granted I do it because my health turns flying tourist into a waking nightmare with week-long consequences.

This got me to be picked up by a limousine once. It was excruciatingly awkward.