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Rich people are the most oddly tight people I've ever met. They'll buy a £5m house one day then the next spend 30 minutes arguing with the gardener that the broken 10 year old mower should just work and most definitely doesn't need replacing

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Boris Johnson (ex-Prime Minister) is the classic example here in the UK. Fantastically wealthy, yet infamous for stiffing other people with the bill and never paying them back.

They probably bought an expensive one that should be working longer than that. You don't get rich by buying cheap shit that breaks often.

You don't get poor from that level of rich replacing a lawnmower

The mower was £500 (my Dad was the gardener)

It's the mindset, not the specific action.

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