35. Subscribe To Wine Clubs
Wine clubs offer tempting means for people to appear wealthier than they are. You pay a certain amount of money each month to have a wine connoisseur send you a package of high-quality wines that are sure to impress the neighbors or coworkers at an office party. The problem is that you don’t know if you will even like those wines, and they often cost more through the wine club because a wine expert is selecting them. You can get high-quality wine for much cheaper just by going to a local store, and the person working behind the counter probably knows just as much as the experts at the wine club.
Genuinely wealthy people do not bother subscribing to wine clubs because they already know what kinds of wine they like and don’t like. They don’t need an expert to pick things out for them and tell them what they should and shouldn’t drink. Also, those who make $30,000 a year or less are so busy trying to make ends meet that they cannot afford the luxury of subscribing to a service that sends them hand-picked wines every month. A subscription to a wine club is a reliable indicator that someone is middle class and possibly that that person is just trying to flaunt their money.