Despite absolutely nobody asking, this is my parents' daily routine

"educational"

Random influencers have made what they're calling "old money daily routines" that supposedly the rich are gatekeeping. It's almost all entirely incorrect, fiction created to be entertaining. They make it seem like wealthy people are far more productive than most actually are. Most times given are approximate, because nobody actually lives exactly on a schedule. So here we are, despite demand from nobody:

5:45-- Mom wakes up

6:00-7:30-- Mom is at her exercise class. She has ballet Monday and Wednesday, yoga Tuesday and Thursday, and Pilates on Friday

7:45-- Mom comes back home, showers, and puts on clean lounge clothes

8:00-- She gets back in bed with Dad. If she's not in bed next to him when he wakes up, there are problems

8:30-- Dad wakes up. Mom wakes him up, because an alarm "too harsh"

8:30-9:00-- There is a half hour of cuddles every morning. Why? I don't really know. They both have a need to almost constantly be close to each other. I honestly think if they could live in the same skin, they would

9:00-- For breakfast, Mom has tea, a grapefruit, and three hardboiled eggs. It very specifically must be three eggs. Dad has coffee, a croissant with butter and honey, and eggs en cocotte, and sometimes a bit of melon

9:30-- Mom walks the dog around the neighborhood and says hi to the neighbors. Dad reads the newspaper, listens to his podcast, and lays out in the sun on the balcony

10:00-- Mom comes home and does the daily tidying (putting laundry in the laundry room, wiping off the table, airing out the rooms, etc) because the maid only comes twice a week now

10:30-- Mom sits down and writes in her journal for the next hour and a half

11:00-- Dad checks on his investments and pretends to work

12:00-- Mom takes a nap. Dad has lunch, usually a ham and cheese sandwich and a salad with olive oil and lemon juice

13:00-- Dad does "business calls" that are mostly just calling friends and family to gossip

14:00-- Mom wakes up and leaves the house to socialize. Right now, that mostly means going to my sister's house to help with the baby. Dad pretends to do more work

16:00-- Mom comes home, work is done for the day, and they share a rather traditional snack of cheese, olives, and tomatoes

16:30-- Mom watches her shows and does something creative while she does, usually doing embroidery. Dad goes out to exercise. Usually it's open water swimming, but he goes to play tennis with his cousin on Wednesday

19:30-- Dinner and sitting at the table talking

21:00-- They go up to the study for a routine of wine, tobacco, and chocolate. I don't know much about this, and from what I know, I don't want to.

22:00-- Mom goes to bed and Dad comes to my room. He usually brings something to drink and we talk about all kinds of things, family stories, relationships, politics, the general state of the world, and anything else really

23:00/23:30-- Dad goes to bed, and I assume sleeps not long after

Once again, times are approximate and this means pretty much nothing. The point, if I had to make one, is there's not some magic daily routine that you can follow to also be rich and successful. The general daily life is very normal and rather boring.

Posted Mar 6, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC

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