Do/did people really live this way..?

Max_Headroom_3

Read this as an aside story to the one about the woman on benefits supposedly in a £7.5K/month house.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article5375733.ece

The thing is, the papers are full of stories like this, people who feast on quails eggs and keep chickens in a brand new Range Rover Vogue at the bottom of their orchard.

Now we all know people who've splurged a bit, but the papers just make a lot of this stuff up for effect surely? For example, from the story linked above:

One very rich woman I knew was so tormented by the difficulty of buying original and opulent placemat presents for ladies’ lunches that someone suggested she hire a professional present buyer. Oh, but she had, she shrieked, but he’d been poached and none of the other buyers was as good. At least this poor woman will no longer be tormented by that.

Now that's just invented surely? No one in the real world lives like this. And if the super rich really do, are they going to be that bothered by a recession?

I just can't help thinking that some of these hacks just write anything for the masses to enjoy a little schadenfreude over without thinking too deeply about whether there's any realistic chance that it's actually true.

It's just recession fodder for the proletariat really isn't it? "Ok so we can't make the mortgage, but ha, look at these people".

slipthru

I bet there are ladies who lunch that do stupid things like that, it's not like they have anything else to fill there day with. But honestly who cares about there situation.

On a side note i did see a picture of posh shopping at lidl yesterday, surely they are rich enough to never have to do that.

amcluesent

>No one in the real world lives like this<

But the great unwashed read "Hello" and thought that was how they should live and put it on the plastic.

There's more black granite in Leeds kitchens than in Florence.

EssexHebridean

The "Posh shops in Lidl" pics were a put-up job by whichever trash mag it was that wanted to put it on the cover. "Victoria" is actually a model. Having said that, the Beckhams do shop at our local Tesco when they're in the country, so I'd not be that surprised. She seems fairly sharp and as though she likes to do the best she can for her family - nothing wrong in that.

Oblivion

slipthru wrote: »

On a side note i did see a picture of posh shopping at lidl yesterday, surely they are rich enough to never have to do that.

She was probably checking it out to see if it was worth buying the entire chain! :rotfl:

Dave.

slipthru

EssexHebridean wrote: »

The "Posh shops in Lidl" pics were a put-up job by whichever trash mag it was that wanted to put it on the cover. "Victoria" is actually a model. Having said that, the Beckhams do shop at our local Tesco when they're in the country, so I'd not be that surprised. She seems fairly sharp and as though she likes to do the best she can for her family - nothing wrong in that.

Yea that sounds about right, I only glimpsed it while out shopping, so didn't get a proper look.

1sue23

I know many people who live like this and it can be great fun winding them up ,my husband is in a very well paid job and the folk we mix at functions are unbelievable always competing with each other over who has got the best nanny ,holiday home ,personal shopper ,the great thing now is that it is now very trendy to go without, and all of them seem to now brag about their hens and home grown veg all looked after by their gardeners .

mewbie_2

I'm lucky enough to be married to a 'personal shopper' who takes care of all my shopping needs and then some.