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LadyButterfly she/her piefed.blahaj.zone LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone
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birdwing lemmy.blahaj.zone birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Buy sandwiches every week. In my defence, they're damn good ones!

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dandelion lemmy.blahaj.zone dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-03-02
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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":

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dandelion lemmy.blahaj.zone dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-03-02
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Buy sandwiches every week. In my defence, they're damn good ones!

wow!

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Zorsith lemmy.blahaj.zone Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-03-01
#5 · Quote Reply

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

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MantisToboggon lemmy.world MantisToboggon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-11-19
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Oppression of the proletariat.

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dandelion lemmy.blahaj.zone dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-03-02
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Oppression of the proletariat.

bad girl, no 🚿

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djdarren piefed.social djdarren@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-10-07
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I've lived on Queen Mary 2 for almost a year.

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

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Zathras lemmy.zip Zathras@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-05
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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.

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sparkles piefed.zip sparkles@piefed.zip
Joined: 2025-11-23
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dandelion lemmy.blahaj.zone dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-03-02
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meanwhile 90% of Chinese people own their homes, and of those 80% own their home outright (no mortgage or other liens)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/03/30/how-people-in-china-afford-their-outrageously-expensive-homes/

not sure we should consider home ownership "rich person" stuff, tbh - though it breaks my heart that this is what it has come to

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noseatbelt piefed.ca noseatbelt@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-12-04
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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.

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ZDL lazysoci.al ZDL@lazysoci.al
Joined: 2025-06-06
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I've tasted tea in a teahouse that would be over $1000 a pound.

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Drusas fedia.io Drusas@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-08-16
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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.

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dandelion lemmy.blahaj.zone dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-03-02
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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.

this, too, is my weakness - good food is good food; I don't need nice presentation, wait staff, etc. - I just crave excellent food.

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foxglove (she/her) Moderator foxglove@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-01-27
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I've lived on Queen Mary 2 for almost a year. Granted, I was working aboard at the time, but still...

Hi djdarren, thanks for your helpful comment! Unfortunately this community has a rule that only women are permitted to comment or post, so please refrain from commenting further.

I hope you understand 💛

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Zorsith lemmy.blahaj.zone Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-03-01
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I've tasted tea in a teahouse that would be over $1000 a pound.

I mean, to be fair a pound of tea is a LOT of tea by volume.

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djdarren piefed.social djdarren@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-10-07
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Hi djdarren, thanks for your helpful comment! Unfortunately this community has a rule that only women are permitted to comment or post, so please refrain from commenting further. I hope you understand 💛

Oh, I'm VERY sorry, I didn't see the community name!

zips it

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wildwhitehorses aussie.zone wildwhitehorses@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-07-22
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Buy sandwiches every week. In my defence, they're damn good ones!

I am amazed at how expensives sandwiches are these days. Even the cheap supermarket ones are no longer cheap.

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ZDL lazysoci.al ZDL@lazysoci.al
Joined: 2025-06-06
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I mean, to be fair a pound of tea is a LOT of tea by volume.

It's a few months' supply, yes. I probably go through about five pounds a year.

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juliebean lemmy.zip juliebean@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-17
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i've gone snowboarding a few times. haven't been able to afford it for years though.

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birdwing lemmy.blahaj.zone birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-08-19
#22 · Quote Reply

meanwhile 90% of Chinese people own their homes, and of those 80% own their home outright (no mortgage or other liens) https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/03/30/how-people-in-china-afford-their-outrageously-expensive-homes/ not sure we should consider home ownership "rich person" stuff, tbh - though it breaks my heart that this is what it has come to

Bit late but technically they don't own it, they lease it for max. 70 years and then it gets back into the hands of the community

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𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍 lemmy.world Witchfire@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-07
#23 · (edited) Quote Reply

Buying my used car with cash. It's the single most expensive thing I've ever bought not counting rent or my degree.

I also drink lattes which is why I can't afford a home

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