17 Habits Rich People Have That Can Make Others’ Jaws Drop to the Floor

Most of us know about the lives of the rich from flicks, but the reality is frequently much more astonishing than a movie plot. For example, a rich person can put on a new sweater in the morning and toss it in the trash in the evening. Or they might not turn off a tap in the bathroom and leave it running because it’s the duty of the house staff.

We at Bright Side found a thread where people shared thousands of such stories, and we selected the most impressive ones for you.

• I had a girlfriend who was a performer who was paid tens of thousands, flew out to Saudi Arabia, and was put up for this extravaganza of hundreds of other performers for a Saudi prince’s birthday. Millions were spent on this, but on the day of, the prince decided he wanted to fly out and go hunting instead, so the extravaganza never happened, everyone was just paid and sent home. © CaIamitea / Reddit
• I knew a family that had a lot of household staff, including a person who had the responsibility of setting up, troubleshooting, and get this, charging all their personal electronic devices. Yes, their job included charging all the electronic devices. © Sham**ap / Reddit
• One rich guy I knew in the dorms never wore socks for more than a day. He just put on a new pair, right out of the package every day, and tossed the “old” ones in the trash. It’s not like he even did his own laundry either, he just collected his clothes in a big bag and someone would pick them up at the front desk and return them washed and neatly folded once a week. He was shocked to discover that the rest of us not only did our own laundry but also laundered our socks. © DLS3141 / Reddit

• I knew a guy at uni, from the top 10 richest families in the country. He left a tap running and when someone mentioned he should turn it off, he genuinely said, “Oh, I have people do that for me at home.” I was baffled, still not sure what to believe. © kuncogopuncogo / Reddit
• An exceptionally wealthy family I know refers to a wing of the local art museum as their “public storage unit.” They funded the wing to store their huge collection of classic and modern art since it was more practical than private storage — it included a climate controlled, 24/7 secure location managed by professionals. Plus, the curators would handle the swapping out of pieces to/from the museum and the home when they needed a different style or era to fit the mood of the next dinner or event at the house. Behind the fuss, the family just wanted to create the right ambiance for grandma’s eightieth birthday party. © writenroll / Reddit
• I had a friend in high school who always looked super cute, so one day, in math class, I complimented her outfit and overall style. She explained to me that she had never worn an outfit more than once. She didn’t wear each item just once but would never wear the same ensemble twice. As a guy who wears the same pair of jeans for weeks and rotates through like 10 T-shirts, I was stunned. Still blows my mind. © SocratesFailed / Reddit

• I know a couple who lives in NYC who has a live-in “nanny” for their 2 dogs. They hire a different veterinary student every few years. The student gets their own suite, a town car, a generous salary in the high 5 figures, paid trips home twice yearly, and nice bonuses. Their only job is to care for the pets, including home cooking their meals, walking them, training them, and taking them to any appointments. By all accounts, it’s a pretty sweet gig. © AuntySocialite / Reddit
• I used to work for an engineering firm and we did the engineering (HVAC, plumbing, electrical, fire protection) for high-end residential in NYC. There was a client who owned a floor in an apartment building. The people below him moved out so he bought that floor to host parties. He had a 6″ thick sound and vibration dampening system installed on that level so he wouldn’t bother the people that lived below. The building was old and the existing elevator would not stop the additional 6″ higher on that floor only, so he installed a new elevator in the building. © Lazlo_Hollyfeld / Reddit
• When I was young, my first serious girlfriend’s family was super rich. They had what I would learn was “food service.” This consisted of a woman who would show up in the morning at maybe 5:30 and stock the fridge and make sure the coffee was on the timer and there were fresh pastries, etc. At 7:30, the actual food service people would arrive with fresh food for the day and prep anything you wanted. If you wanted something special for dinner, say lobster thermidor, you just told them by 3 and it would be ready whenever you wanted. This included any snack you *might* want. Did you like the cheeseburger and want a few for later? Done. Every day the fridge would be stocked and cleaned out. Excellent use of disposable income, in my humble opinion. © YeastLords / Reddit

• I once worked at a 24/7 call center that was mostly for a bunch of area hospitals and large clinics, but there were some private doctors as well. There was this one account for a concierge doctor for the super-rich and they got this doctor on call for them whenever, wherever, 24/7. Someone once called with a hangnail and the doctor went and attended to it. © Bitwix / Reddit
• My in-laws have a rich friend who wrote a movie glamorizing her own life, produced and starred in said movie, got a famous retired actor to play her father, got her son’s model girlfriend to play her younger self, and gave us all the DVD and a collectors book for the holidays...It was the most cringe “movie” we’ve ever watched. © food***reddit / Reddit
• I had an aquarium service and one of my clients kept a mansion that no one lived in, 2 pools, 2 tennis courts, massive gardens, and a 1000-gallon in-wall aquarium that I fed five days a week and did all the maintenance on. An army of their staff would show up and clean and prep the house and stock the kitchen any time they might show up. There was a time they didn’t visit for more than a year. It was just armed security, housekeepers, myself, and the gardeners. I’d get loaded down with so much fruit and meat and whatnot from the fancy grocery store every time they didn’t show. It was rad. I’d be rolling home with like, a whole organic pork loin, organic grass-fed filet mignon, 4 organic chickens, avocados, pineapples, bags of apples, and even cherimoyas (a subtropical fruit — a Bright Side note). © larry_flarry / Reddit

• Canned air. It was a trend in China for a while. Rich people would get canisters of air from somewhere in Canada, and just take a few breaths of it at like parties or whatever. © w_nbes / Reddit
• My parents-in-law built a new house and got a tap in their kitchen which dispenses hot, cold, boiling, AND sparkling water... © galacticsimian / Reddit
• One of the investors of the previous company I used to work at was a billionaire. I didn’t spend too much time with him, but he was always around during company parties. The most “whoa” moment was when he talked about his house at a ski resort. Nope, he’s not a skier. Nope, he’s not someone who likes the mountains. Nope, it’s not some real estate that he’s hoping earns money. He bought it because he liked the idea of having a mountain/ski retreat available to him at any time. He’s owned it for 10 years, and aside from visiting it when he first bought it, he’s never stepped foot in it. This guy was too much of a big shot to rent a vacation house; he only wanted to stay in the ones he owned, even if he never visits them. © LA_Nail_Clippers / Reddit

• A penthouse owner has a private elevator but also their garage is a lift so you can drive home and when you open your car door you’re at the same level as your apartment. A private garage elevator? © sonia72quebec / Reddit
• My boss (who’s exorbitantly rich) tasks his employees to buy things for him and recently asked the lab department to order a scale “capable of measuring to the 0.001 of a gram.” So I give him 3 options between $1,200 and $2,400, and he elected to go with the most costly version as “it has a windscreen,” and he wants it rushed and received ASAP. This scale is built when ordered so we negotiate a fee of $800 to jump the line and have it delivered by our meeting in 3 days. Turns out his at-home scale that he uses for meal prep has “gone out” and instead of buying batteries to replace, he decided to rush order a $2,400 scale that doesn’t operate on batteries so he can meal prep for the next week. © sleepy_Meerkat / Reddit

Which of these stories impressed you most of all?