holly
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Post by holly on Jul 18, 2022 3:23:04 GMT
We do some work for a very well-known celebrity, & he & his wife definitely gives his kids chores. I’ve seen their oldest son taking out the trash, & their house is not ostentatious at all, fits it with the rest of the homes surrounding it. Granted, it’s their second home, but they spend a ton of time there. During Covid, they spent almost all their time there. Very down to earth, if you didn’t know who they are, you would never guess they’re celebrities. He is especially very private, & very quiet when not performing.
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Post by no1novice on Jul 18, 2022 20:54:14 GMT
i think gisele's gorgeous but i know i'm in the minority on that. i hate brady so it's easy to dismiss his comments as bs, especially his calling it the hardest part but i think at its core it's a valid concern. one of my best friends, who i grew up with and her family and mine are basically more like cousins than friends, married her high school bf who comes from money. not obscene money like brady but generations of old money and generations of never having to worry about it. her husband and his family aren't ostentatious about it, they're very hard working, they live very well but also pretty discreetly and without excess, but it's definitely a different mindset than what she and i grew up with. not that we didn't grow up with privilege but that's not the same as coming from a family where there is enough wealth that you don't actually HAVE to work for a living. and she definitely worries that even with all her best efforts, her kids don't really fully grasp that their reality is nothing like that of 99% of people. and they're adorable, sweet, generous kids, not spoiled brats at all, but it's just a different way of viewing the world and i'm not sure she can really do anything about it short of them giving up the family money and having to work for a living and without the family wealth always there to protect them. Yep, I knew a girl when I was at college, seriously wealthy family (& I mean seriously). She had to work on college breaks, dad bought the house she lived in at collage but she got to rent rooms out to friends, who paid her rent which I think she was supposed to pay to her dad. She was very down-to-earth but I don't know if she'd have the same attitude now with all the bs rich kids on IG etc etc.... |
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Post by louiswinthorpe111 on Jul 19, 2022 14:20:43 GMT
I kinda agree with him though. Even though we are not rich by any means, we are much better off than we were when growing up. I didn't fly on an airplane until I was 25. My kids have been to Mexico! They have passports. I think there's a real difference in growing up comfortable. I grew up broke and my mom didn't have a spare dime. I footed my own bills for everything since I was 16 years old. Mine seem to not have the same incentive. I made them get jobs early, school, chores, but they don't have the same initiative that we did. Not sure if its generational, or just how they are built.
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