What was your ostentatious display of wealth as a young adult?

Having a “big” wedding at 23? I dunno. His parents and my mom paid for it. Don’t know that that counts.

Driving (my dad’s ) bad ass Mustang Mach One to school in my Senior year, and lying to my girlfriend that it was mine. Until I blew out the clutch racing another A hole and that was the end of it. Ended up driving a ‘71 VW beetle. My dad was PISSED! I just told the GF that my dad had taken the other car from me because he thought it was to dangerous for a teen. And he may have been right. LOL

On edit that may have been more of an irresponsible display of stupidity than anything else. That was a cool machine and I blew it. Before the incident he let me have it anytime I wanted. Said he’d rather have it driven than sit in the parking lot on his job all day…

My college boyfriend’s Porsche. So what that the boyfriend’s mother had paid for the car? It was a convertible, and it was the height of late-1970s cool to be seen driving around in it.

I bought a house in SF at age 29 back in 1980. I was an E-4 in the Army. Put $10K down on a 40K house. Sold it one year later to buy another (much nicer) house in SF for $80K. No one in the Army could understand how I did it. There’s no secrets. I did it by being frugal and working my ass off.

I didn’t have any wealth, ostentatious or otherwise, as a young adult.

I have never had any ostentatious display of wealth. I bought my first new car when I was about 24, but it was nothing fancy (Sentra). I was always into jeans and sneakers, never into getting nails done or designer brands. I’d say the one thing I might spend some money on would be perfume.

1980, age 25. Having an extra gram of coke for my date.

@jca2. You must have been fairly frugal. Didn“t keep you nails all pretty? Most of the gals I knew in the day were more into nail polish than anything else. But they probably weren’t that bright anyway, running around with my ass. LOL

@Nomore_lockout: I used to do my nails myself. Now, where I live, everyone has manicures and pedicures from a shop. My daughter’s friends’ mom always says how she got her girls gel manicures starting at age 9. I didn’t have my first professional manicure and pedicure until maybe 5 years ago, and since then, I’ve been about three times.

@jca2 Yes, I think i’ve only been twice – for my sons’ weddings.

@janbb: I have friends that go every few weeks. Who has time for that?

I have never had a manicure/pedicure. And I have no desire to.

Blowing money at the strip club? I dunno. I’ve never really done anything that I’d call ostentatious.

Even though I grew up well-off, I’ve never been ostentatious. Never wore designer clothing or had an expensive watch or anything like that. The only thing was getting to drive my dad’s Tesla Roadster back when they were less ubiquitous and more of a status symbol lol. Now I see Teslas everywhere. :P

I’ve been called a lot of things in my lifetime, but ostentatious was NEVER one of them!!! With me, what you see is what you get. Don’t like it, that’s YOUR problem as I tend to like me just as I am!!!