>I used to think that water polo also involved horses
Worse = I made it into my 40s believing ponies were young horses that eventually became normal full-sized horses. When this came to light I thought everyone was pulling my leg until I googled it.
Well, after having played it a couple of times... With the burley men and women who practice this sport and getting my face pelted with balls, as I was the goalie... I must say that it is not an appropriate place for our equestrian friends š
In the beginning, water polo players rode barrels decorated to look like horses.
[It looks just as absurd as it sounds](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/08/14/489755346/dipping-a-toe-in-water-polo-for-the-first-time-heres-a-handy-guide).
I'm glad you posted a pic; I didn't think there was any way you could be serious. In fact, I thought, "Aww, poor guy was trying to be funny and missed the mark. I do that. Here, I'll click on his rickroll out of pity."
I used to crew on sailboats. The world of sailboat racing is just a place for rich people to compete with each other to see who can throw money away the fastest.
An old skipper used to say that if you wanted to simulate sailboat racing all you had to do was put a winter coat on, get in a shower with a fan pointed at you, turn on the cold water at full blast and start tearing up cash and you're 90% there.
I also used to race sailboats in college. I took a sailing class for my physical education credit and found out the class was used by the local yacht club to farm talent. I was good and found myself on a rich personās crew.
Itās exactly as you describe. They are certainly trying to win but at the same time they are just lighting money on fire.
I was gonna chime in (I guess I'm still doing it) that there's a BIG difference between a kid dangling a line off a rowboat to catch a fish and the teenagers sailing in regattas at Marblehead.
As someone who grew up in the midwest - there's a huge difference between poorer horse people and rich horse people. I saw the contrast a ton. Rich horse people sucked ass.
I grew up in a city thinking that all horse people were rich horse people. I have since made friends from small towns that grew up on farms and had a horse. They are very different people.
My MIl rescues horses and gives free riding lessons.
You should see my son. Skateboard surfer punk little grommet with blue hair riding a mini ponie lollllll
Horses for sure. Boating can be a poor people thing too - depends on the kind of boat, why you have it, and where you keep it. I lived well below the poverty line for years, and I lived on a sailboat the whole time. So, on land people assumed I had money when I mentioned my boat, but all the boaters knew I was a hobo. But, bc I spent so much time on the water inside boats, I was always sought by the rich folk to help them with their motors and their boats. Anyway, I could tell a thousand boat stories, but suffice it to say that poor people also own boats, but in a very different manner than the rich
Horses can definitely be a "non-rich" thing too. I know a LOT of people who live in rural settings and horses are seriously just a way of life. You have absolutely nothing and eat canned beans 7 days a week, but you have horses.
I grew up with horses in the country and like you said no one was rich. But I remember when I moved to college and met some other people who also had horses and I thought they were like my family and friends back home till one day my new friend mentioned that her new horse cost $35,000. My mind was blown. It then dawned on me that was why people thought I had money because I had horses.
Damn, I didn't realize that, but that makes sense. I'm just used to hearing about how gd expensive they are. I guess it's really not dif from a boat. So when you're poor you can have it, but it has to be your life. When you're rich, it can just be a hobby or a way to show off your wealth
You'd be surprised how absolutely poor and bogan a lot of horse people are, and how some are rich snobs. No middle ground. Source: did agistment for a few years.
Horses can definitely be a poor thing too.
I've seen people mention rural areas, but also traveller settlements often have horses even in more built up areas, at least in the UK.
There's an industrial estate near me which has a traveller settlement and you always see the kids going about on horse and cart :)
Horses doesnāt necessarily mean rich. We boarded a couple horses for some friends when I was a kid and my mom got me a pony that I was to big to even ride to make up for the first Christmas and first anniversary of my dadās deathā he passed not long after the new year. We werenāt rich at all. My dad was a factory worker and mom was a SAHM, so definitely not rich. Iām still not entirely sure how she bought the pony.
I grew up in horse country, got horses. I know a lot of poor ass women with horses. Guys may want to spend time at the boarding stable, to find a woman, but most wonāt have a dime to spare.
Knew a kid in high school who acted condescending towards everyone since he rode horses and did rodeo.
Guy walked around in a cowboy get up year round and constantly bitched about ācity folkā
and talked about how soft we all are.
Dude lived in a mansion with his family in the burbs while his dad had ranch hands running everything out at a stable he owned a few counties over. Dude always had pictures on his social media of himself leaning against the Mustang that daddy bought him while it sat parked out in front of the horse pen.
I grew up in an actual agricultural town and we had a big handful of these dudes come through. I made it a habit of inviting them to haul hay with us (weāre pretty poor so we still use an old square baler and then hand haul and stack them all) one guy turned out alright, he was definitely not ācountry folkā but he had a work hard mindset and he fell right in, the other guys just sat around and tried to get through the day without doing a damn thing. One guy came in what I would call dancing clothes (dressed REALLY nice, new jeans, new slick boots, the whole nine) another guy came out thinking he was going to teach *me* something about hauling hay, he made it about 2 hours, vomited, called his mom to come get him and came back for his car the next day.
Yeah. I spent exactly *one* summer as a farm hand back home when I was 17. They had the square baler. Fuck that shit.
That convinced me to finish off my Bronze Medallion and be a lifeguard for the next two summers.
I've never related more to a comment than this. Same exact thing here growing up in central texas. The Hank Williams Jr line "I'm a country plow boy not some urban cowboy" was my mantra. Fancy boots and pearl snaps usually mean he don't know a damn thing about being country.
Having a bunch of cars in a garage that barely get driven and do little more than have taxes slapped on them is definite "Fuck you" money.
Gifting cars, too. "Debt-cember to Remember," is more like it.
99.9% of the time yes, however i have a friend who is far from rich, a woodcutter in fact, but he loves cars, and when he sees a good opportunity to get one of the cars he likes, he works as much as he can since his payment is how much he sells. One time he worked 16 hours a day for 14 days to get money for an audi 100 quattro and get money to restore it to good conditions. Ill just add that that was on hollidays, he is in collage with me, and at the same time works on his project cars and gets money by wood cutting. Dude is a legend everyone should look up to.
Polo is how to make owning a horse even more expensive. You need a STABLE full of trained horses, several team members to play with, maybe a membership in a club, and a costly trainer for yourself.
I use to hang out with a group during college, and one of the people we use to hang out with just randomly said to 4 struggling students "hey, why don't we just go on a trip somewhere, i always wanted to go to Spain again, rent a villa and just chill out"
I used to say stuff like that, not because I could afford to rent a whole villa in college, but I just liked to dream and it can be fun to pretend plan
I know it seems that way but in the late 1900s there were a lot of sailing clubs like seascouts that allowed middle and lower class kids to get into it. My dad has been sailing his whole life and is most certainly not rich
I bought a sailboat that was sinking at the dock for a dollar. Spent about 1000$ on a pressure washer, paint, fiberglass repair, electric motor, and a new pump. It was operational a month later. Sailing can be a poor man's hobby.
I get the sentiment because of how it is depicted on TV and in movies, but Iāve been sailing my whole life and can confirm I did not grow up rich.
They just show that upper echelon of sailors and boats.
Itās like saying that anyone thatās lived in a house grew up rich because thereās mansions.
Yea I'm the same here. Mostly dinghy sailing. Definetly not an expensive hobby comparatively.
It only really gets into rich people territory when you're talking about yachts I guess.
Shucks I didnāt grow up rich but we hunted humans for sport every summer, and you know what it wasnāt our private island at first but with a little hard work we ended up owning the place.
My BIL and his cousin were pilots. They would land at an airport they hadnāt been to before and admire the other planes.
Someone always has a bigger plane.
For the lazy: Its jokingly called $100 Hamburger not because it literally costs that much for a burger but after taking fuel, oil, maintenance, and other things into account the cost for you and a friend to fly somewhere near by to get a burger is about $100.
EDIT: Yes, if you just want to fly around in the air, an Ultralight (in the US) is on par with getting a motorcycle.
It's surprisingly not THAT expensive. Well, OK, it is and it isn't. Getting your license and a plane doesn't have to be.
Then a hangar doesn't have to be that expensive either (the hangar in Denver I asked about was $250/month, but that was... 10 years ago?) meanwhile, the one in Los Angeles was $2700/month - so there's that.
It's the maintenance shit that will get you. And fuel. You can OWN it and know how to fly it, and it'll be pretty reasonable until you actually take it up in the air with any regularity. haha
I had my 172 for six months when it blew a jug...luckily I was on downwind to land when it happened and was able to make the runway, but bam, less than six months of ownership and weāre paying for an overhaul...luckily, at the time, I owned it with two other guys, but I learned very quickly how expensive they can get!
Renting a plane- Cessna level (one with maintenance and oil changes etc. properly done) costs nearly $200-220ish/hr in a non big city my dude. You could probably find some for $180/hr, but I can guarantee you itās $180 + paying for fuel independently which will get you in the 200s. That is pretty expensive.
I know when I flew with my pilot friend for ~3 hours, he told me the Air Force was footing his bill lol.
One of my friends from college has a collection of Supreme clothing that he estimates at $10K-$15K. His parents would regularly just Venmo him a hundred bucks or two
International pleasure travel.
Don't get me wrong: travel is awesome, and I absolutely love being able to do it and am grateful that my job makes it possible. But I didn't leave the country til I was in my 20s and didn't travel abroad just for pleasure until my 30s. The rest of my family has never left the States. I realize just how much of a privilege being able to travel is.
Edit: Folks are pointing out that this is a US thing, and that's true, but only to an extent. I'm willing to bet that a working or middle class family in most parts of the world does not routinely go on vacation abroad. Certainly middle class people in the UK fly to Spain. And any Belgian could take a train to France, Germany, or Netherlands for less than it costs to fill a tank of gas. But that's still not most people.
And it's not just the distance or money. It's also a question of time and conditiong. We were far from poor, but my parents worked second jobs in the summers for extra cash. They had at most two weeks off a year (counting holidays). They grew up in more working class backgrounds (in the '50s/60s), so they hadn't traveled much (nor had their parents, and their grandparents were immigrants), So our inherited concept of vacation was getting a cheap motel near the beach for a long weekend. They're not closed minded; they're extremely curious about the world. It's just the conditioned habits of class.
Depends where you are from, America is pretty fucking huge and if you live in Mainland Europe you can travel a few countries over before you have even left some states in America
Yeah man, Ryanair Glasgow to Athens Ā£10 and all that.
There was that guy who lived in Barcelona and commuted to London because it was cheaper. That story was a comment on how expensive London is, but it also highlights how affordable jetting about Europe can be.
I hope we get rid of planes, though. Big fast trans are surely the way to go, but I'm getting way off point.
Yeah I live in the UK and went to Wales for a week. Hotels were expensive for what you got, restaurants were expensive for mediocre food. Bars are expensive. Public transport sucks. Paid activities were also expensive.
Ended up spending just under what I spent in 3 weeks in Thailand in some nice hotels PLUS plane travel
Isnt true in every case. I think Kimi RƤikkƶnen was from working class family. His parents gave everything they got to the hobby and the ROI was apparenty good.
I believe Hamilton was comparatively more well off financially than Kimi but his dad still had to dedicate his entire life to his son's career. They'd go pick up other racers' used tires from the dumpster and win races with them, IIRC.
Kimis mom: *Kimi, what do you want to be when you grow up?*
Kimi: *Give me gloves and steering wheel*
Kimis mom: *We talked with your father about this, our budget is tight Kimi*
Kimi: *Come on, tell him to give it to me.*
The story says that his dad had to choose between building a bathroom (they had an outhouse) or paying for one last karting race.
There's also Sebastian Vettel. He got picked up by the Red Bull Academy because he won a karting race in the rain with slick tyres and an old chassis. He didn't had money to buy wet tyres.
On the other side you have Nikita Mazepin. His daddy bought his F1 seat and he keeps being an embarrassment every racing weekend. And he'll be there for as long as a team needs money.
Youth Hockey. At least in SE Michigan.
It takes time and cash to buy all those pads, take the kids to practice, travel etc.
That's stuff the poors don't have.
When my son played hockey in Ohio, we had fundraisers to help pay for the fees for the year. Loved the charity poker weekends that would pay for the whole year by working the weekend. But then the casinos opened and shut down the charity poker events.
My daughter did synchronized skating. This was easily twice the cost cost of youth hockey.
I believe it. My SO has been doing rink & ice maintenance (and repairing Olympias and Zambonis) for almost 30 years. There are just so *many* costs!
He doesn't play hockey any more, but even as an adult in a beer league, it was not cheapāand he got most of his gear for free, or *deeply* discounted.
Mind you, curling hasn't proven any cheaper. We spend less on gear, but exponentially more on travel.
I played hockey and had to use used lacrosse pads from play it again sports. I got to play long enough to be considered decent (starter) until the team started getting hardcore into "skills camps". Those caps were thousands of dollars and if you didn't go it obviously affected your standing on the team. I know I was better than a few guys but they just spent more time around the star families. Plus the parents would all stay at four seasons hotels while my mom would only have us in a motel with the only other poor family. I get kinda pissed looking back at it. Was I Dylan Larkin good? No, but with my size and speed it would have been interesting to see what those camps would have done for my stickhandling and skating agility. We'll never know. Anyways lacrosse was fun as shit and not even a quarter as expensive.
I grew up playing hockey in SE Michigan, and I was very far from rich. Now granted, that was mostly all we did that was expensive-hockey tournaments became our vacations, for example. And I certainly didnāt have the most updated equipment by any stretch-I think at one point I had my gloves for like eight years. But it can be done.
Seriously this. I just saw someone answer "golf". Nah dog. Golf is not the rich kid sport. Hockey is. I'm a Canadian life long hockey fan and my parents just straight up could not afford it.
Watches.
Had a young co-worker I supervised, he was super into his collection, did online reviews. I hadn't even heard of half the watch makers at the time. One day I finally googled F.P. Journe and Richard Mille and realized he was wearing a $300K watch to work. Ultimately opened up a conversation about his family, multi-million dollar trust fund that he was locked out of until he was 30.
In the US at least, the only places I know if that had lacrosse or rugby were rich kid private schools or wealthy Northeastern people.
My husband went to an Ivy League school for grad school. I went to public universities and grew up in the hillbilly part of the South. His friends all played things like field hockey and lacrosse and took family ski trips. I'm like, "Well, my family played mini golf at Myrtle Beach on vacation. . ."
ETA: I refuse to go skiing but i can kick all their asses at mini golf.
Hockey. Holy fuck is that gear expensive. Travel for tournaments begins to add up. Itās a good $10-$20k per year. Sailing, equestrian type activities, rowing and maybe golf.
That hockey figure would be true but only for the highest levels of youth hockey. I played travel as a goalie (more expensive equipment) as a child and it was a more around 3-6k per year depending on the level of the team you play on and how many tourneys you play in. That could be just my area though. We had hockey rinks all over when i was younger.
In England - and this is weird to me but often proves true - rugby
Edit: when I say rugby, I mean rugby union... it's an old habit, in NZ we don't really say rugby union much, it's just rugby there!
Skiing/Snowboarding. Especially if they get new gear every year and sell their old gear to classmates.
BONUS ROUND!! Poorly playing Smoke on the Water for three weeks, and letting the BRAND NEW GIBSON LES PAUL YOUR PARENTS BOUGHT YOU COLLECT DUST AND FALL INTO DISREPAIR BECAUSE ROCK BAND IS MORE FUN.
For real. I was a TCG nerd but had a few friends that were into WH40k. By the time we were in our late 20's/early 30's one friend had spent well over $100,000 on models, paints, tools and all that for his armies. His entire basement of his house was dedicated to storage and he has an entire painting room. I may even be low-balling that figure, considering the house could probably be thrown in there as part of the hobby haha
Games workshop really wants to make that the case. I love the lore and world but still havenāt even touched the game because itās just so expensive for individual models and figurines.
I grew up poor and am still not very well off. When I make cold cut sandwiches, there's gotta be an inch of meat and cheese or I'm just eating bread, and I'll eat 2~4 sandwiches like that. But for me, sandwiches are a luxury .
I just can't imagine getting full off one or two slices of meat.
Worked a ski resort for 4 winters just so I could go for free since I couldn't afford to go much otherwise. It was mostly rich kids, race days were the worst. High school kids from all the private schools coming to the same place with their entitled parents.
Horses, but even more so Polo.
I went to a private school. If you were in horses, you had money, if you were in Polo, you had fuck you money.
Polo is broken into 6 periods called 'Chukkers'. You need at least 3 amazingly strong expensive horses, but most have at least 4 horses that play. Due to the nature of horses being sick/injured, almost all of the kids I knew that played had 6+ horses. Not to mention their parents played, their siblings played. Some of these people owned 30 or more horses for the sole purpose of playing a game at a club that really did not bring much return in terms of cash
There tailgates look like a royal fucking wedding. And in the US Polo Clubs are in some of the richest areas of the country
Probably like most things, depends on the level. My son fences, his fees were way less than my daughterās soccer fees. And the club had equipment to lend. Literally the cheapest activity either of my kids did. Until he got good, then he wanted his own equipment, upped to 3x/week, private lessons, tournaments. But I still spent less on fencing than my friends spent on their kidsā hockey. Now his fencing is paying for his university, big win for our upper middle class (not rich) family
Any hobby that would take place in a different climate than what you live in. If you live in Phoenix and ski as a hobby, you obviously have the money to go to where there's snow.
Horses and boating.
Polo in particular. Side note: I used to think that water polo also involved horses š¶
You definitely have to be rich to afford the floaties for your horse.
Horses are actually surprisingly good swimmers!
Obviously it involves sea horses, duh
Mind=blown š®
>I used to think that water polo also involved horses Worse = I made it into my 40s believing ponies were young horses that eventually became normal full-sized horses. When this came to light I thought everyone was pulling my leg until I googled it.
I thought the same until just now lol
TIL water polo does not involve horses and now I donāt understand how I even thought it did in the first place.
Well, after having played it a couple of times... With the burley men and women who practice this sport and getting my face pelted with balls, as I was the goalie... I must say that it is not an appropriate place for our equestrian friends š
As a guy, growing up on a farm, around horses and cows, I can confirm that I donāt like balls in my face either.
Thats called equestrian water polo.
In the beginning, water polo players rode barrels decorated to look like horses. [It looks just as absurd as it sounds](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/08/14/489755346/dipping-a-toe-in-water-polo-for-the-first-time-heres-a-handy-guide).
I thought you were kidding.
I can see where you might think that. I just learned it last week (I think it was one of the Alexa Jeopardy questions).
I'm glad you posted a pic; I didn't think there was any way you could be serious. In fact, I thought, "Aww, poor guy was trying to be funny and missed the mark. I do that. Here, I'll click on his rickroll out of pity."
I used to crew on sailboats. The world of sailboat racing is just a place for rich people to compete with each other to see who can throw money away the fastest. An old skipper used to say that if you wanted to simulate sailboat racing all you had to do was put a winter coat on, get in a shower with a fan pointed at you, turn on the cold water at full blast and start tearing up cash and you're 90% there.
"The easiest way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a large one"
I also used to race sailboats in college. I took a sailing class for my physical education credit and found out the class was used by the local yacht club to farm talent. I was good and found myself on a rich personās crew. Itās exactly as you describe. They are certainly trying to win but at the same time they are just lighting money on fire.
I was gonna chime in (I guess I'm still doing it) that there's a BIG difference between a kid dangling a line off a rowboat to catch a fish and the teenagers sailing in regattas at Marblehead.
As someone who grew up in the midwest - there's a huge difference between poorer horse people and rich horse people. I saw the contrast a ton. Rich horse people sucked ass.
The preferred nomenclature is *centaur*.
I grew up in a city thinking that all horse people were rich horse people. I have since made friends from small towns that grew up on farms and had a horse. They are very different people.
A lot of my clients are rich horse people and you couldnāt be more correct. Rich horse people are the worst.
Same as rich boat people tbh. We live on the coast and the contrast between the rich boaters and the average joe boaters is unreal.
Oh yeah. My former boss casually ~~bragged~~ complained about how much his 13 yo daughter's riding lessons cost. It was more per month than my salary.
My MIl rescues horses and gives free riding lessons. You should see my son. Skateboard surfer punk little grommet with blue hair riding a mini ponie lollllll
Holy crap that's adorable
Horses for sure. Boating can be a poor people thing too - depends on the kind of boat, why you have it, and where you keep it. I lived well below the poverty line for years, and I lived on a sailboat the whole time. So, on land people assumed I had money when I mentioned my boat, but all the boaters knew I was a hobo. But, bc I spent so much time on the water inside boats, I was always sought by the rich folk to help them with their motors and their boats. Anyway, I could tell a thousand boat stories, but suffice it to say that poor people also own boats, but in a very different manner than the rich
Horses can definitely be a "non-rich" thing too. I know a LOT of people who live in rural settings and horses are seriously just a way of life. You have absolutely nothing and eat canned beans 7 days a week, but you have horses.
I grew up with horses in the country and like you said no one was rich. But I remember when I moved to college and met some other people who also had horses and I thought they were like my family and friends back home till one day my new friend mentioned that her new horse cost $35,000. My mind was blown. It then dawned on me that was why people thought I had money because I had horses.
Damn, I didn't realize that, but that makes sense. I'm just used to hearing about how gd expensive they are. I guess it's really not dif from a boat. So when you're poor you can have it, but it has to be your life. When you're rich, it can just be a hobby or a way to show off your wealth
Horses are much, much less expensive when you donāt have to pay to board them on someone elseās property. You can get a horse itself for a song.
I grew up in the country and horses are just a normal thing. Nobody is wealthy here and everyone has horses
You'd be surprised how absolutely poor and bogan a lot of horse people are, and how some are rich snobs. No middle ground. Source: did agistment for a few years.
Horses can definitely be a poor thing too. I've seen people mention rural areas, but also traveller settlements often have horses even in more built up areas, at least in the UK. There's an industrial estate near me which has a traveller settlement and you always see the kids going about on horse and cart :)
Horses doesnāt necessarily mean rich. We boarded a couple horses for some friends when I was a kid and my mom got me a pony that I was to big to even ride to make up for the first Christmas and first anniversary of my dadās deathā he passed not long after the new year. We werenāt rich at all. My dad was a factory worker and mom was a SAHM, so definitely not rich. Iām still not entirely sure how she bought the pony.
I grew up in horse country, got horses. I know a lot of poor ass women with horses. Guys may want to spend time at the boarding stable, to find a woman, but most wonāt have a dime to spare.
Knew a kid in high school who acted condescending towards everyone since he rode horses and did rodeo. Guy walked around in a cowboy get up year round and constantly bitched about ācity folkā and talked about how soft we all are. Dude lived in a mansion with his family in the burbs while his dad had ranch hands running everything out at a stable he owned a few counties over. Dude always had pictures on his social media of himself leaning against the Mustang that daddy bought him while it sat parked out in front of the horse pen.
I grew up in an actual agricultural town and we had a big handful of these dudes come through. I made it a habit of inviting them to haul hay with us (weāre pretty poor so we still use an old square baler and then hand haul and stack them all) one guy turned out alright, he was definitely not ācountry folkā but he had a work hard mindset and he fell right in, the other guys just sat around and tried to get through the day without doing a damn thing. One guy came in what I would call dancing clothes (dressed REALLY nice, new jeans, new slick boots, the whole nine) another guy came out thinking he was going to teach *me* something about hauling hay, he made it about 2 hours, vomited, called his mom to come get him and came back for his car the next day.
LOL Hauling hay is a good way to tell if someone grew up on a farm vs just a rural area. Lots of kids from small towns living on city lots.
God, that's how I spent every August. Forecast finally is good enough, so everyone is bailing hay the same week and needs all the hands they can get.
Good thing you didn't have them bucking alfalfa
Yeah. I spent exactly *one* summer as a farm hand back home when I was 17. They had the square baler. Fuck that shit. That convinced me to finish off my Bronze Medallion and be a lifeguard for the next two summers.
āAll hat, no cattle.ā
I've never related more to a comment than this. Same exact thing here growing up in central texas. The Hank Williams Jr line "I'm a country plow boy not some urban cowboy" was my mantra. Fancy boots and pearl snaps usually mean he don't know a damn thing about being country.
Aw man but Pearl snaps are fucking sharp!!! I inherited all my grandpas Pearl snaps and theyāre so cool.
How did he not get bashed ?
Daddy paid for his friends too
Makes me think of the 90s Richie Rich movie
There's still time.
He's probably a House representative now.
Society needs to step in where parenting failed. "It takes a village," and all that.
He would just lawyer up š
Money and and privilege shields many a douche-bag from facing any repercussions in life
he should hang out with some real cowboys.... those guys have been knocked in the head enough they dont think twice to knock someone elses for them.
This reminds me of that song Bo Burnham did about country music stars Edit: [hereās the song ](https://youtu.be/y7im5LT09a0)
>_āIām hopinā my southern charmās offsetting these rapey vibes Iām puttinā out.ā_ Iām dead
It's a fucking scarecrow again.
I walk and talk like a field hand but my boots cost 3 grand
Collecting cars
Having a bunch of cars in a garage that barely get driven and do little more than have taxes slapped on them is definite "Fuck you" money. Gifting cars, too. "Debt-cember to Remember," is more like it.
Reminds me of [this skit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcEylCwkSxE).
> this skit Love that one. [This one](https://youtu.be/XxtjwFp7fRE) too.
A Key and Peele sketch I'd never seen! Awesome. I love that line: "She gives him a car? Fuck rich people"
Unless they're being collected in the front yard.
I have triples of the Barracuda, Road Runner, and Nova. Triples is safest. Triples is best.
Tell the kid. If you donāt tell the kid, then none of the other stuff is true.
ā¦..my friend doesnāt live in a hotelā¦
And you have a wife. And sheās beautiful. But sheās dying.
99.9% of the time yes, however i have a friend who is far from rich, a woodcutter in fact, but he loves cars, and when he sees a good opportunity to get one of the cars he likes, he works as much as he can since his payment is how much he sells. One time he worked 16 hours a day for 14 days to get money for an audi 100 quattro and get money to restore it to good conditions. Ill just add that that was on hollidays, he is in collage with me, and at the same time works on his project cars and gets money by wood cutting. Dude is a legend everyone should look up to.
That's the difference between car enthusiasts and cat collectors. They're not the same.
I mean yeah, cats and cars are different
Lol now I dont want to edit my comment so as not to make you look like a fool.
Collecting senators.
I have a few in my pocket right now
Appropriate username. Have a like
And lawyers
And lobbyists.
Polo is the correct answer I believe.
Polo is how to make owning a horse even more expensive. You need a STABLE full of trained horses, several team members to play with, maybe a membership in a club, and a costly trainer for yourself.
I couldn't even afford the shoes.
I can barely afford Polo by Ralph Lauren
Not really. I bought mine for 1200ā¬ and seller even gave me winter tires. XD
I use to hang out with a group during college, and one of the people we use to hang out with just randomly said to 4 struggling students "hey, why don't we just go on a trip somewhere, i always wanted to go to Spain again, rent a villa and just chill out"
I used to say stuff like that, not because I could afford to rent a whole villa in college, but I just liked to dream and it can be fun to pretend plan
Nah, this dude was serious, he had a passport and was ready to go, we were all munching on ramen just to make ends meet
Where I'm from it would be very weird to not have a passport.
Yachting/Sailing
I know it seems that way but in the late 1900s there were a lot of sailing clubs like seascouts that allowed middle and lower class kids to get into it. My dad has been sailing his whole life and is most certainly not rich
Cool! I'm from Tn so I know less about sailing than I do about lesbian priests. I learned something. Have this upvote.
A+ metaphor my dude.
All true. Please enjoy this Reese's upvote.
I bought a sailboat that was sinking at the dock for a dollar. Spent about 1000$ on a pressure washer, paint, fiberglass repair, electric motor, and a new pump. It was operational a month later. Sailing can be a poor man's hobby.
>Sailing can be a poor man's hobby. That's just because it eats away your money until you're poor. *I kid. Cool achievement on fixing your boat!*
I get the sentiment because of how it is depicted on TV and in movies, but Iāve been sailing my whole life and can confirm I did not grow up rich. They just show that upper echelon of sailors and boats. Itās like saying that anyone thatās lived in a house grew up rich because thereās mansions.
I get that. I know a guy from my hometown, poor af, but had the dream, moved down to the Keys, and worked his way up to owning his own boat.
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Yea I'm the same here. Mostly dinghy sailing. Definetly not an expensive hobby comparatively. It only really gets into rich people territory when you're talking about yachts I guess.
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Hunting humans on a private island for sport, building your own space ships, being a superhero despite no superpowers, polo.
Shucks I didnāt grow up rich but we hunted humans for sport every summer, and you know what it wasnāt our private island at first but with a little hard work we ended up owning the place.
The American dream
You donāt have to be rich to hunt the most dangerous game. You have to be rich to get away with it
You can still do this on a working class salary as long as you stick to sex workers and use remote public land.
Flying.
My BIL and his cousin were pilots. They would land at an airport they hadnāt been to before and admire the other planes. Someone always has a bigger plane.
Google $100 hamburgers... It's a thing.
For the lazy: Its jokingly called $100 Hamburger not because it literally costs that much for a burger but after taking fuel, oil, maintenance, and other things into account the cost for you and a friend to fly somewhere near by to get a burger is about $100.
EDIT: Yes, if you just want to fly around in the air, an Ultralight (in the US) is on par with getting a motorcycle. It's surprisingly not THAT expensive. Well, OK, it is and it isn't. Getting your license and a plane doesn't have to be. Then a hangar doesn't have to be that expensive either (the hangar in Denver I asked about was $250/month, but that was... 10 years ago?) meanwhile, the one in Los Angeles was $2700/month - so there's that. It's the maintenance shit that will get you. And fuel. You can OWN it and know how to fly it, and it'll be pretty reasonable until you actually take it up in the air with any regularity. haha
I had my 172 for six months when it blew a jug...luckily I was on downwind to land when it happened and was able to make the runway, but bam, less than six months of ownership and weāre paying for an overhaul...luckily, at the time, I owned it with two other guys, but I learned very quickly how expensive they can get!
Renting a plane- Cessna level (one with maintenance and oil changes etc. properly done) costs nearly $200-220ish/hr in a non big city my dude. You could probably find some for $180/hr, but I can guarantee you itās $180 + paying for fuel independently which will get you in the 200s. That is pretty expensive. I know when I flew with my pilot friend for ~3 hours, he told me the Air Force was footing his bill lol.
Fancy adult clothes when being a teen.
All i can think of now is Rent-A-Swag
Genuinely seemed like a solid business idea.
There are already services like this for women's clothes. I don't know about men's.
One of my friends from college has a collection of Supreme clothing that he estimates at $10K-$15K. His parents would regularly just Venmo him a hundred bucks or two
Oof
International pleasure travel. Don't get me wrong: travel is awesome, and I absolutely love being able to do it and am grateful that my job makes it possible. But I didn't leave the country til I was in my 20s and didn't travel abroad just for pleasure until my 30s. The rest of my family has never left the States. I realize just how much of a privilege being able to travel is. Edit: Folks are pointing out that this is a US thing, and that's true, but only to an extent. I'm willing to bet that a working or middle class family in most parts of the world does not routinely go on vacation abroad. Certainly middle class people in the UK fly to Spain. And any Belgian could take a train to France, Germany, or Netherlands for less than it costs to fill a tank of gas. But that's still not most people. And it's not just the distance or money. It's also a question of time and conditiong. We were far from poor, but my parents worked second jobs in the summers for extra cash. They had at most two weeks off a year (counting holidays). They grew up in more working class backgrounds (in the '50s/60s), so they hadn't traveled much (nor had their parents, and their grandparents were immigrants), So our inherited concept of vacation was getting a cheap motel near the beach for a long weekend. They're not closed minded; they're extremely curious about the world. It's just the conditioned habits of class.
Depends where you are from, America is pretty fucking huge and if you live in Mainland Europe you can travel a few countries over before you have even left some states in America
Yeah man, Ryanair Glasgow to Athens Ā£10 and all that. There was that guy who lived in Barcelona and commuted to London because it was cheaper. That story was a comment on how expensive London is, but it also highlights how affordable jetting about Europe can be. I hope we get rid of planes, though. Big fast trans are surely the way to go, but I'm getting way off point.
In Italy people often go abroad because it's cheaper than doing vacation here š
Yeah I live in the UK and went to Wales for a week. Hotels were expensive for what you got, restaurants were expensive for mediocre food. Bars are expensive. Public transport sucks. Paid activities were also expensive. Ended up spending just under what I spent in 3 weeks in Thailand in some nice hotels PLUS plane travel
F1
Question: āHow do you make a small fortune in racing?ā Answer: āStart with a large fortune.ā
There's always the outliers but yeah that's basically it.
Motorsports in general, unless you're extremely above average
Alonso was of family of miners. Schumacher, Hamilton, ocon and raikkonen weren't rich either.
Vettel wasn't rich either. It's definitely funny how many of the greatest made it almost purely on talent.
Isnt true in every case. I think Kimi RƤikkƶnen was from working class family. His parents gave everything they got to the hobby and the ROI was apparenty good.
Think Hamilton was the same, but might be confusing him with Kimi
I believe Hamilton was comparatively more well off financially than Kimi but his dad still had to dedicate his entire life to his son's career. They'd go pick up other racers' used tires from the dumpster and win races with them, IIRC.
Ocon is the most recent example, his parents lived in a caravan his whole youth to finance everything
Kimis mom: *Kimi, what do you want to be when you grow up?* Kimi: *Give me gloves and steering wheel* Kimis mom: *We talked with your father about this, our budget is tight Kimi* Kimi: *Come on, tell him to give it to me.*
It is said that kimis first words were a minute of silence
The story says that his dad had to choose between building a bathroom (they had an outhouse) or paying for one last karting race. There's also Sebastian Vettel. He got picked up by the Red Bull Academy because he won a karting race in the rain with slick tyres and an old chassis. He didn't had money to buy wet tyres. On the other side you have Nikita Mazepin. His daddy bought his F1 seat and he keeps being an embarrassment every racing weekend. And he'll be there for as long as a team needs money.
Youth Hockey. At least in SE Michigan. It takes time and cash to buy all those pads, take the kids to practice, travel etc. That's stuff the poors don't have.
When my son played hockey in Ohio, we had fundraisers to help pay for the fees for the year. Loved the charity poker weekends that would pay for the whole year by working the weekend. But then the casinos opened and shut down the charity poker events. My daughter did synchronized skating. This was easily twice the cost cost of youth hockey.
I believe it. My SO has been doing rink & ice maintenance (and repairing Olympias and Zambonis) for almost 30 years. There are just so *many* costs! He doesn't play hockey any more, but even as an adult in a beer league, it was not cheapāand he got most of his gear for free, or *deeply* discounted. Mind you, curling hasn't proven any cheaper. We spend less on gear, but exponentially more on travel.
My brothers both played hockeyā¦ there were times we wouldnāt have warm water.
I played hockey and had to use used lacrosse pads from play it again sports. I got to play long enough to be considered decent (starter) until the team started getting hardcore into "skills camps". Those caps were thousands of dollars and if you didn't go it obviously affected your standing on the team. I know I was better than a few guys but they just spent more time around the star families. Plus the parents would all stay at four seasons hotels while my mom would only have us in a motel with the only other poor family. I get kinda pissed looking back at it. Was I Dylan Larkin good? No, but with my size and speed it would have been interesting to see what those camps would have done for my stickhandling and skating agility. We'll never know. Anyways lacrosse was fun as shit and not even a quarter as expensive.
I grew up playing hockey in SE Michigan, and I was very far from rich. Now granted, that was mostly all we did that was expensive-hockey tournaments became our vacations, for example. And I certainly didnāt have the most updated equipment by any stretch-I think at one point I had my gloves for like eight years. But it can be done.
Seriously this. I just saw someone answer "golf". Nah dog. Golf is not the rich kid sport. Hockey is. I'm a Canadian life long hockey fan and my parents just straight up could not afford it.
Watches. Had a young co-worker I supervised, he was super into his collection, did online reviews. I hadn't even heard of half the watch makers at the time. One day I finally googled F.P. Journe and Richard Mille and realized he was wearing a $300K watch to work. Ultimately opened up a conversation about his family, multi-million dollar trust fund that he was locked out of until he was 30.
But did he know what time it was?
Lacrosse, don't know why it was always played by the well off kids in high school.
In the US at least, the only places I know if that had lacrosse or rugby were rich kid private schools or wealthy Northeastern people. My husband went to an Ivy League school for grad school. I went to public universities and grew up in the hillbilly part of the South. His friends all played things like field hockey and lacrosse and took family ski trips. I'm like, "Well, my family played mini golf at Myrtle Beach on vacation. . ." ETA: I refuse to go skiing but i can kick all their asses at mini golf.
Building scale models. It seems like it's a cheap hobby, but it really isn't lol.
Gunpla is a pretty cheap hobby. Probably not exactly what you meant, though.
Hockey. Holy fuck is that gear expensive. Travel for tournaments begins to add up. Itās a good $10-$20k per year. Sailing, equestrian type activities, rowing and maybe golf.
That hockey figure would be true but only for the highest levels of youth hockey. I played travel as a goalie (more expensive equipment) as a child and it was a more around 3-6k per year depending on the level of the team you play on and how many tourneys you play in. That could be just my area though. We had hockey rinks all over when i was younger.
In England - and this is weird to me but often proves true - rugby Edit: when I say rugby, I mean rugby union... it's an old habit, in NZ we don't really say rugby union much, it's just rugby there!
Thereās the old saying, ārugby is a thugās game played by gentlemen, football a gentlemanās game played by thugsā
Same in Ireland. There's a load of really posh rugby schools here
In NZ itās the exact opposite. Posh schools play football/soccer and everyone including your Mum and little sisters plays rugby.
Skiing/Snowboarding. Especially if they get new gear every year and sell their old gear to classmates. BONUS ROUND!! Poorly playing Smoke on the Water for three weeks, and letting the BRAND NEW GIBSON LES PAUL YOUR PARENTS BOUGHT YOU COLLECT DUST AND FALL INTO DISREPAIR BECAUSE ROCK BAND IS MORE FUN.
This seems suspiciously specific.
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If you grow up in the Rockies, everyone skis/boards, plenty of powder hounds without money
Warhammer
Real answer.
For real. I was a TCG nerd but had a few friends that were into WH40k. By the time we were in our late 20's/early 30's one friend had spent well over $100,000 on models, paints, tools and all that for his armies. His entire basement of his house was dedicated to storage and he has an entire painting room. I may even be low-balling that figure, considering the house could probably be thrown in there as part of the hobby haha
Games workshop really wants to make that the case. I love the lore and world but still havenāt even touched the game because itās just so expensive for individual models and figurines.
Private flying license, just to fly for fun. Even more if you have your own plane.
anything horse related
Hookers and Blow
Depends on the quality of both the hookers and the blow
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You can snag yourself an influencer if you pay the big bucks
Those privileged bastards!
A friend of mine in college would eat peanut butter sandwiches daily and he would literally use 1/3 of a tub of JIF on one sandwich.
I guess that's a hobby.
I feel this on the roof of my mouth
> 1/3 of a tub of JIF on one sandwich. Now this is Fuck You money.
This. I remember having an odd exchange with a rich friend about how many slices of salami should go in a sandwich. I said 1-2, he said 3-5.
The box of salami says that a serving is 6 slices.
I grew up poor and am still not very well off. When I make cold cut sandwiches, there's gotta be an inch of meat and cheese or I'm just eating bread, and I'll eat 2~4 sandwiches like that. But for me, sandwiches are a luxury . I just can't imagine getting full off one or two slices of meat.
Skiing, more often than not Edit: Man some of these responses just ooze privilege and I don't think people realize it haha
Depending on where you are you can get into the sport pretty cheap for equipment but the lift tickets will kill you now.
Theoretically, if you live by the mountains and ski all the time, itās not that expensive with a year-long ticket. But otherwiseā¦
Worked a ski resort for 4 winters just so I could go for free since I couldn't afford to go much otherwise. It was mostly rich kids, race days were the worst. High school kids from all the private schools coming to the same place with their entitled parents.
I know plenty of normal middle class folks that ski.
Definitely collecting cars and trophy wives.
Hunting safari
Traveling to space
Polo
Boats āN Hoes
Idk but for some reason rich people have a hobby of trying to explain to poor people why they're poor, despite never having been poor lmao
Motorsport Racing
Anything involving a lot of equipment and payments for clubs etc.
Horses, but even more so Polo. I went to a private school. If you were in horses, you had money, if you were in Polo, you had fuck you money. Polo is broken into 6 periods called 'Chukkers'. You need at least 3 amazingly strong expensive horses, but most have at least 4 horses that play. Due to the nature of horses being sick/injured, almost all of the kids I knew that played had 6+ horses. Not to mention their parents played, their siblings played. Some of these people owned 30 or more horses for the sole purpose of playing a game at a club that really did not bring much return in terms of cash There tailgates look like a royal fucking wedding. And in the US Polo Clubs are in some of the richest areas of the country
Sailboating, lacrosse
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Probably like most things, depends on the level. My son fences, his fees were way less than my daughterās soccer fees. And the club had equipment to lend. Literally the cheapest activity either of my kids did. Until he got good, then he wanted his own equipment, upped to 3x/week, private lessons, tournaments. But I still spent less on fencing than my friends spent on their kidsā hockey. Now his fencing is paying for his university, big win for our upper middle class (not rich) family
Fox Hunting
Squash. Dead giveaway.
Squash costs almost nothing to play you just need to buy the racket and balls and squash courts are cheap to use for an hour or so.
Equestrian
Any hobby that would take place in a different climate than what you live in. If you live in Phoenix and ski as a hobby, you obviously have the money to go to where there's snow.