See, you don't want to have a private jet or have a Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport. You want to fly in a private jet and drive a Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport. Both are quite a bit more affordable than owning either.
People charter private jets all the time. People of very ordinary means lease and even learn to fly jets.
I haven't looked into it, but I'd bet there is somewhere in Europe that will rent and insure you a Bugatti that you can drive down the Autobahn for a few thousand. Heck, I know for certain you can drive an F1-style open wheeled race car around a track for a couple thousand. You won't even want to go as fast as it can go.
You can get a custom meal by a top ranked chef for one or two hundred dollars. You can't do that every day, but there's the law of dimishing returns on that stuff anyway.
Maid services can be had for several hundred dollars a year. Unless you have a palatial estate (tens of thousands of square feet) you don't need live in help.
I'm not trying to come down on you. I'm just trying to say doing even these extravagant things are not out of reach at all.
You're right about the private jet. I probably just need one chartered for two round trips per month. But regarding the Bugatti, I want to own it. I want to go to Safeway in it. I want to drive down the freeway and just think in it. I have no interest in driving the Autobahn. But for probably a year, I want this to be mine main solo car. Next year, probably a new car. So maybe leasing a Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport. Still at least $100k/year.
I don't want a meal by a top ranked chef. I actually want a private chef. I have a couple of friends that have them and they are very different, in the sense that you have very specialized meals. While I can probably charter Mario Batali for a custom meal for $500 to $1000 a couple of times. Having him staff for two to five meals per day probably costs a fair bit.
For a reasonably-sized house decent maid service will start at $1000/year, and that's just for something like 12 cleanings per year. For live in service, expect a fair bit more.
And again, part of what I want is not having to figure out the optimal way to get a good. I don't want to spend 20 minutes price shopping online for best rates on an alarm system. My time is my non-replenishable asset and you seem to be asking me to trade it in to get a sub-optimal service that only superficially looks like what I really want.
Another thing, I want a full scale gym in my house. I hate commuting to the gym (although made slightly better with a Bugatti). I want a bigger yard, but don't want to move my primary residence. Would be nice to just buy the houses around us.
I'd like to own the Lakers and the Dodgers.
There's a lot of things, and I haven't even really thought about it, largely because its not really in play today.
I hope that is the case, and I hope your posts aren't indicative of your mindset and worldview, because you come across as very whimsical and insecure--two qualities that I can assure you are not conducive to actually generating the kind of wealth you apparently desire.
What is this, amateur psychology hour? Aside from reading a couple paragraphs on HN you know pretty much nothing about him/her or his/her life. As far as how conducive his or her philosophy is to generating wealth, do you have statistics on this? Do you even have anecdotal evidence? Are you a HNWI or just talking out your ass?
People charter private jets all the time. People of very ordinary means lease and even learn to fly jets.
I haven't looked into it, but I'd bet there is somewhere in Europe that will rent and insure you a Bugatti that you can drive down the Autobahn for a few thousand. Heck, I know for certain you can drive an F1-style open wheeled race car around a track for a couple thousand. You won't even want to go as fast as it can go.
You can get a custom meal by a top ranked chef for one or two hundred dollars. You can't do that every day, but there's the law of dimishing returns on that stuff anyway.
Maid services can be had for several hundred dollars a year. Unless you have a palatial estate (tens of thousands of square feet) you don't need live in help.
I'm not trying to come down on you. I'm just trying to say doing even these extravagant things are not out of reach at all.