How to deal with snobbery?

Strider590

passatrider wrote: »

I know alot of it is in my own head and should just ignore them. That said we do live in a very judgemental world which does not help but I guess it's their problem not mine.

Thanks for the responses so far though!

Consumerism = Spending money we don't have, on things we don't need, to impress people we don't even know.

I have no debt (except the unavoidable mortgage).
I have everything I truly need.
Most people are impressed only by things that I find entirely unimportant and down right simple minded.

grizzly1911

Strider590 wrote: »

Consumerism = Spending money we don't have, on things we don't need, to impress people we don't even know.

I have no debt (except the unavoidable mortgage).
I have everything I truly need.
Most people are impressed only by things that I find entirely unimportant and down right simple minded.

Op I don't always agree with Striders comments, or portrayed attitude, but he is spot on with both posts here as are most others.

It's yours, you own it, move on there is way more stuff to stress about.

I know people that won't shop anywhere else than Waitrose, whilst I like JL for certain things - electricals for instance and their customer care, I don't see the point in spending over the odds on the basics of life every week. Amazing how many "posh" neighbours you meet in Aldi.

SaLoGo

I am a reformed car snob!

When I was with my ex he always had a brand new car every 3 years and when I passed my test I thought I was the bees knees driving round in a lovely car.

Then when the time came that I needed my own car we couldn't afford 2 new cars so he gave me £500 to spend. I was mortified! I bought a 13 year old 306 and I hated it!!

Then less than a year later he left me and my old banger became my lifeline. I was just so grateful to have a car at all, didn't care how old it was or that it wasn't as pretty as a new car.

It's totally changed my perspective of cars... even if I had £10k to spend I'd only spend about £2k of it on a car.

iharding

My last car was 13 years old, almost every panel had one or more dents and deep scratches, one of the rear doors was completely caved in! Didn't bother me in the slightest, and I appreciated the wide berth other drivers gave me; I knew that none of the damage was caused by me or my wife.

Bothered her a bit because she only passed her test last year and was worried people would assume she'd caused the dents, but the only reason we replaced it was because the electrics started failing and it wasn't worth spending the money to get it sorted on a car that only cost £200 in the first place.

Replacement is a slightly tatty 12 year old Focus, only a few barely noticeable scratches though and put nearly 2000 miles on it in the first 2 1/2 months of ownership without skipping a beat. Can't see myself ever spending more than £1000 on a car, but the wife might have other ideas :-)

Keith

Strangely our local "social housing" has lots of nice cars outside... Must be the cheaper rent.

wba31

I lived in Dorridge for a while (where a lot of footballers lived) and yes there were mercs and bmw and audi's all around, but there were a large number of old battered vehicles.
Ive also lived in Kingstanding, not a posh area, high unemployment, a lot of council houses, and the number of BMW M5's and Focus RS and AMG Mercedes I saw parked outside these below average value homes amazed me.

I wouldnt worry about it if i were you.

Owain_Moneysaver

Look on the bright side - their cars are the ones that will get nicked/vandalised first.

mikey72

interstellaflyer wrote: »

I live in a little village, most of the people with real money drive some of the oldest, clapped out cars, it's those that like to pretend they have money that have the flash cars

We have the XK's on the drive next to the old people carriers as well. (5 to 10 year old Zafiras and Galaxys)
There are a few porsche 4 x 4's.
Most people just run their car into the ground though, and don't worry about the mud off the wellies from the estate getting inside then.

Limey

Strider590 wrote: »

Exactly........... It's impossible to have nothing in the fridge, unless it's new or being cleaned.

Quite, there's always a bit of hard cheese in the corner.

grizzly1911

wba31 wrote: »

Ive also lived in Kingstanding, not a posh area, high unemployment, a lot of council houses, and the number of BMW M5's and Focus RS and AMG Mercedes I saw parked outside these below average value homes amazed me.

You quite often notice that the incidence of sky dishes goes up markedly in "poorer" housing too:think: