'Classy if you're rich, but trashy if you're poor': Home designer exposes 1%ers for stealing low income aesthetic and calling it booshie

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Mar 26, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

Some skills are considered classy if you're rich but trashy when you're poor. But why is that? When you speak a second language in an upper class household, you're highly praised at every cocktail party every time you share a pretty embarrassing, accented sentence of broken French. But if you're from a lower income family and you're completely fluent in a second language (maybe English isn't even your first language) then it's considerably less impressive. 

One man recently pointed out that this phenomenon is not mutually exclusive to human characteristics, but also home stylings as well. Things that are considered avant garde or artistically inclined in an expensive home's "design" might be considered a bit cheesy in a poor person's apartment.

For example, does your child sleep on the floor? For rich people, that's considered super classy and there are countless trendy bed frames that have no legs at all. Apparently for the upper crust, nobody needs to store anything under their beds. Then again, if you're not rich and your child sleeps on the floor, someone might be calling CPS on you for neglect sometime soon. If you have mismatched old furniture in your house, that's considered "classy" if you call it vintage aesthetic. But if you're broke, it's considered trashy since you don't have enough money to buy un-used furniture. 

For more things that make no sense, check out the list below for home design fails for the rich and the poor.

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    Font - Olivia I'm going to start telling people I'm high class
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    Font - Halee Pre-owned items. Vintage if you're rich, but "used" if you're poor.
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    Font - lemon my house says middle class but my bank account at poverty
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    Human body - Interesting how middle class does the opposite to not look poor but rich has enough to make "poor" things look rich
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    Font - daniel to be middle class is always anxious of appearing low class.
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    Sky - nath 4130 being bilingual and day drinking could probably go on the list
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    Smile - The_Real_Maple_Syrup Has kid's mattress of the floor..."but it's a MONTESSORI bed!"
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    Low class and high class homes have a lot in common

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    "It's called a Montesorri bed and it's classy"

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