Not that I have one. Go back a few decades and there was a pool downstairs at my parents’ condo near NYC. Ladies who kept their bodies in tip top shape would show up at the pool wearing every diamond their husbands had bought them.
Nary a perfectly pedicured toe touched the water (I did and actually swam when I visited) but it was all about tanning, looking good and wearing more money than all the other wives.
My sister was making obscene amounts of money babysitting and dog walking for Jake LaMotta’s dogs and others. She went to a fancy private school (think Brooke Shields) and would not be seen getting on a school bus so used her earnings to call a cab. I’m surprised she didn’t think of having a limo on call. I was out of college and working for the government and she was probably making my salary. She was 13. I was 24.
Just as my husband talks of servant leaders, which I am as well, I scoff at these displays of unbridled greed and ostentatious behaviors. Yes, I babysat. Fifty cents an hour for my siblings, then a whole dollar an hour for neighbors.
Dog walking? That came later because I had to walk my dog anyway so helped out a few neighbors for $10 a visit. I never called a cab to go anywhere. I don’t look great in a bikini, do not tan well and even told my husband I never wanted an engagement ring. We have matching 18K gold bands and I’ve 18K gold earrings I wear 24/7 and two golf bracelets (magnets) that help my arthritis.
Now I kind of see what pain these women were in because they had to put on such a show on summer weekends. Jake LaMotta’s dogs, however, never had to wear jewelry or pose and they lived a life of luxury. Dee
Cooking with Dee 