What do rich people spend money on that we could never imagine exists? – 17 ludicrous purchases made by the one percent

10.

‘I used to do landscaping on one of the 12 holiday homes of a billionaire. He was only there once or twice a year. He still had a full time crew of 6 guys maintaining it. He also really loved pine trees but didn’t like pine cones on the grass, so I was paid $17 an hour in 2012 to pick up pine cones all day long.

There was also a tree that a bald eagle nested in for many years that apparently blocked the view from his bedroom, so he tried getting us to cut it down. When my boss thankfully refused, the billionaire hired someone else to do it, and ended up getting fined a huge amount after the fact. But the tree was still cut down.

Dickhead’
-lobstesbucko

11.

‘Family offices.

They hire a team of people to manage their wealth. An office with their own investment bankers, lawyers, accounts, financial planners etc.

I was approached as a junior/mid-level lawyer to join. I wasn’t that interested so I asked for a good pay bump – I think it was around ~USD280k per year not including bonus and perks. This was some years ago. They agreed. Imagine how much more the senior bankers, accountants are getting paid.

And then imagine being wealthy enough to pay for an office full of them.’
-Uncontrollable_Farts

12.

‘Knew this one dude who bought a vacant piece of land in the Hollywood Hills just to pour asphalt over it so his guests had a valet parking spot right next to the mansion we were throwing a huge party at. The asphalt had just a few days to dry before cars started showing up. It came close to the wire and the guests in their exotic imported sports cars never knew.

Also, same guy would have sushi from Japan (from the Tsijijki market) flown into the U.S. and before eating it would need to see a certification that the fish was caught no more than 15 hours prior. He would also pay the restaurant (can’t mention what restaurant specifically or even where) tons of money to close down so he could eat the sushi in peace alone with his wife.

The guy was an asshole btw.’
-88Milton

13.

‘Have a friend that rents a 108k USD per year apartment in the high rise over his gym because he didn’t feel like using the gym’s toilet, showers and locker room. Literally uses it maybe 2 hours per week.’
-Livinincrazytown

14.

‘I grew up with a kid whose dad bought 100 acres of farm land because he liked the look of the agriculture license plate more than the normal one in our state.

He was a pretty humble kid and I always thought they were just farmers until I showed up to his house the first time and saw that his pool house was bigger than my house. That’s when I learned that my friend was the heir to a fortune 100 company.’
-ReferenceGlum

15.

‘I just worked a wedding and they spent 400k on flowers at the venue. They were at this venue for 4 hours.’
-THE_DANDY_LI0N

16.

‘Lady Gaga once bought a $50,000 ghost detector. $50,000’
-AspenLondon_

17.

‘The richest person I’ve known (about £0.5bn personal net worth about 15 years ago) owned a completely separate house purely as an address to put on official forms, so that his real home address would never be disclosed.’
-stevejparks

Source Reddit, Image Wikimedia Commons