17 Reports on the extravagant — and unusual — habits of the rich

Most of us only know about the lives of the rich through what we see in the movies. But reality is much more fantastic than fiction. For example, a rich person can easily wear a new sock in the morning and get rid of it in the evening. Or not turn off the faucet because you simply have an employee to do it. What do you think?

We, from awesome.club, we found a thread on Reddit in which Internet users shared stories in which they witnessed some absurdities in the lives of the most fortunate. Check out!

I had a girlfriend who was an artist. She and others were hired to perform at a Saudi Arabian prince’s birthday. Millions were spent on this party, but on the day, the prince decided he wanted to go hunting, so the birthday didn’t happen. Everyone was paid and sent home. © CaIamitea / Reddit I knew a family that had a lot of domestic servants, including one person who was responsible for setting up, troubleshooting, and recharging all of their electronic devices. Yes, his job also included charging all cell phones. © Sham ** ap / RedditA rich guy I met in the dorm never wore the same sock for more than a day. He simply put on a new pair straight out of the box every day and tossed the “old ones” in the trash. He also didn’t do his own laundry, he just collected it in a big bag and someone picked it up at reception and returned the washed and folded clothes once a week. He was shocked to discover that the rest of us not only did our own laundry, but our socks as well. © DLS3141 / Reddit

I knew a guy at university whose family was one of the ten richest in the country. He left a faucet running and when someone told him to turn it off, he just replied: “Oh, I have people who do that for me at home”. I was baffled. © kuncogopuncogo / RedditA wealthy family keeps a deposit at the local art museum. They have an extensive art collection that they keep in the museum (not for free, of course). There is 24 hour security and climate control. In addition, the family can temporarily borrow some of the museum’s exhibits for their home if they need to create the appropriate atmosphere for a party. The funny thing is that the family started all this fuzuê to prepare for the celebration of the beloved grandmother’s 80th birthday. © writeenroll / RedditI had a classmate who always seemed so cute. One day in math class I complimented her outfit and her style. She explained that she never repeated the same look more than once. As someone who owns 1 pair of jeans and 10 shirts max, I was shocked. © SocratesFailed / Reddit

I know a couple who live in New York and have a sitter for their two dogs. They hire a veterinary student from time to time. The student lives in a suite, has a car at his disposal, a generous 5-figure salary and paid trips home twice a year. All you have to do is take care of the pets, including preparing their natural food, going for walks, exercising with them and accompanying them in any situation that arises. It seems to me that in this situation everyone is satisfied. © AuntySocialite / RedditI used to work for an engineering company that did design (plumbing, electrical) for luxury residential buildings. A customer once bought an entire floor in an apartment building. The downstairs tenants moved out, so he bought the entire floor for parties. The guy installed a sound and vibration isolation system so as not to disturb the neighbors. Due to sound insulation, the floor has become 15 cm thicker. Then a new problem arose: the elevator opened six inches below floor level on this floor. He then decided to buy a new smart elevator that adjusted the height of the stop. © Lazlo_Hollyfeld / RedditMy first girlfriend’s family was very wealthy. And they had their own catering. It worked like this: at 5:30 am a woman would come to stock the fridge and make sure that the coffee maker’s timer was set for the right time and that there were fresh cakes in the house. At 7:30 am, other people would come with fresh food and cook whatever the family wanted for the day. If you wanted something special, like a lobster for dinner, just let me know at 3pm and it would be ready any time you wanted it. Did you like the cheeseburger and want more? Ready. The fridge was filled and emptied every day. It was fantastic. Excellent use of fortune, in my humble opinion. © YeastLords / Reddit

I worked at a medical call center that was open 24 hours a day. The service was intended for various district hospitals and large clinics, but there were also some private physicians for the super-rich. They called the doctors with or without reason. Once, they called asking for one because of a nail. And the doctor had to answer. © Bitwix / Reddit My in-laws have a rich friend who wrote a movie script glamorizing her own life. She produced and starred in said film, got a famous retired actor to play her father, and had her son’s model girlfriend play her in their youth. The woman then distributed a DVD to all her friends. It was the worst movie we’ve ever seen. © foodsexreddit / RedditI had an aquarium maintenance service business and one of my clients kept a mansion that no one lived in. It had two pools, two tennis courts, huge gardens, a thousand-gallon aquarium that I fed five days a week and did all the maintenance. An army of staff kept everything clean and ready in case the owner showed up at any time. There was a time when the family didn’t go there for over a year. There were only armed security guards, housekeepers, me and the gardeners in the house. I came home full of fruits, meats and other things from the fancy supermarket whenever they didn’t show up. © larry_flarry / Reddit

Canned air. That was a trend in China for a while. Rich people bought cans of air from somewhere in Canada and breathed it in a few times at parties. © w_nbes / RedditMy husband’s parents built a new house and installed a faucet in the kitchen that, in addition to hot and cold water, poured boiling water and sparkling water. © galacticsimian / RedditOne of the investors in the company I previously worked for was a billionaire. Sometimes we talked at parties. The most “wow” moment was when he talked about his home in a town that has a ski resort. No, he is not a skier. No, he is not someone who likes mountains. No, it’s not a property he expected to make money from. He bought it because he liked the idea of ​​having a mountain retreat available at any time. He’s had it for 10 years and just stepped on it the day he went to buy it, then never came back. This guy thought he was too important to rent a house on vacation, he just wanted to stay in the ones he already owned, even if he never set foot there. © LA_Nail_Clippers / Reddit

A penthouse owner has a private elevator, but his garage is also an elevator. That way, you can drive home and when you open your car door, you’ll be on your apartment floor. Was that a private garage elevator? © sonia72quebec / RedditMy boss, who is extremely wealthy, sometimes instructs his employees to buy things for him. Recently he asked the laboratory sector to buy a balance “capable of measuring 0.001 g accurately”. So I gave him three options between $1,200 and $2,400, and he opted for the most expensive version because “it has a windshield screen.” Furthermore, he wanted to receive the product as soon as possible. This scale is only built on demand, so we negotiated an $800 fee to “skip the line” and have the scale delivered in time for our meeting in three days. What happened was that the batteries on the kitchen scale he used to prepare meals had run out, and instead of buying new ones to replace them, he decided to buy a $2,400 scale that doesn’t need batteries to prepare his meals. to the next week. © sleepy_Meerkat / Reddit

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