High Maintenance People

[disneydragon]

What do you think of high maintenance people? Love them, hate them, are one? What makes a person high maintenance in your opinion? My SO thinks that people who need to be entertained constantly are high maintenance, but I tend to see people like that as outgoing or adventurous, so I guess everyone has their own definition of what a high maintenance person is. Any thoughts?

 

[nana2tots]

I am a hyper disneynana, does that count!!!!!!!! disneykid

 

[Lynn CC]

I'm not high maintanance. I wear jeans and T'Shirts most days, I don't get my nails done (which is a big thing here on the Cape). I color my own hair $4 a bottle (to get the grey out) and I get my hair trimmed every 3 months $10 plus tip. (I used to do this at the salon, but they used to charge $155 for the same service).

I think I spend the most on my teeth, I'm always improving my smile with lazer whitening, caps, veniers etc.. Actually we all do but we have to have a healthy smile

 

[Evil Princess]

I guess you would call me high maintenance, but I really don't see how that affects anyone around me.

I only buy my makeup at Sephora (brands like Clinique, Stilla, Urban Decay, Lorac, etc), my favorite department store is Bloomingdales. I'll spend $120 dollars on a pair of jeans.

I'm obsessed with Burberry. I own way too much of it, lol. I love the brand. My handbags are Burberry, Fendi, Coach, Christain Dior, and Gucci.

At home I get a manicure and pedicure in the summer once a week. I get my hair cut and colored at a salon, and I get my eyebrows waxed.

The majority of the people in my town are like this. It never really crossed my mind that all this was abnormal until I got to college.

And for those who are wondering, no, my parents didn't buy me all of my designer things. I had a job where I worked on commission and made a good amount for a teenager. The only time I got a bag from my parents would be for my birthday or Christmas, and even then I only had about three presents because I wanted more expensive things.

Perhaps I am high maintenance, but I don't expect other people to act the way I do. Some of my friends are like me, some aren't at all. I don't judge people by what they wear, and I don't expect my boyfriend or other people to buy things for me. I guess I'm high maintanance, but at my own expense.

I get judged alot by what I wear and the things I buy. The first semester of college was interesting, to say the least. It took awhile to convince people that I wasn't some snob.

 

[Christine]

Hmmmm...this will be hard to explain, but I don't think people are considered "high maintenance" unless the things that they require infringe or torture others around them. For instance, I get my hair cut every 6 weeks, highlighted every 3 months. I know people who are like Evil Princess but I don't consider that high maintenance because she does it herself and it doesn't effect anyone.

Then there are the guys I know whose wives seem very high maintenance, but it has more to do with the attention they demand of their husbands. Like, they want to go shopping several times in a weekend and they "require" their DH's to go along. They want to go to the movies with the girlfriends, yet when their DH's want to go play basketball with the guys, all of a sudden it's "not fair." Or, it's the wives birthday and only a "certain" kind of diamond earring will do. And, I know another wife who gets mad if her husband doesn't start shopping for her birthday or Christmas gift well before the big day. She actually gets pissed if he waits until what she deems is the last minute. To me, that is high maintenance--when some poor person has to cow-tow to another's whims/wants/needs.

 

[grinningghost]

High maintenance people are like Adrianna on The Sopranos. That's what I consider super high maintenance.

I'm very low maintenance. Like LynnCC - no nails, hair color on my own, jeans, t-shirts, very little makeup unless I'm going out somewhere special.

I think if I became a high maintenance person, my DH would divorce me.

 

[Robinrs]

I'm EXTREMELY low maintenance and so is my son. My sister on the other hand....

BTW, I have two VERY HIGH MAINTENANCE cats, does that count???

 

[Disney Doll]

I would say low maintenance overall, except where WDW is concerned!!!!!!!!

I consider high maintenance to be when someone expects the world to stop and do their bidding all the time. I have a sister-in-law liek that...drives you crazy. If all the attention isn't focused on her, she does something, suddenly becomes "mysteriously" ill or whatever to focus the attention back to erself.

When DH and I were getting married, she was a brisdemaid. One month before our wedding, she decided to have elective knee surgery, then announced she would be in a wheelchair for the wedding. my other SIL told her if she showed up at my wedding in a wheelchair, that she'd push her dow the hill in it!!!! She showed up on crutches instead, with little shoes on the tips that matched her gown instead of the rubber tips that usually come on crutches. We have video of her dancing the polka, so I guess that wheelchair would have REALLY been necessary, huh?

 

[GlennandAnn]

Here's how I define high maintenance. I'll use an example of a friend of mine. You can begin a conversation with her about something that has happened to you, and she will almost immediately tell you about the same thing that happened to her, but worse . She needs to always be talking about either herself, her husband or her children . She constantly rails about how fat she is just so that you will tell her that she's not fat . If she does lose weight and you do not mention it, she will tell you how much weight she has lost, and will expect you to congratulate her within an inch of her life .
High maintenance to me means that you play games and expect other people to play them with you. I know someone is high maintenance when I am tired from either being around them, talking to them, or thinking about being around them.

Ann

 

[MosMom]

I am medium maintenance

 

[Beauty]

I'm both,

I'm high maint. about purses. I love Brighton, Fendi, Coach, Burberry etc.

Med on my make up its Revlon from Wal-mart.

Med on clothes, it has to look good but doesn't have to be expensive.

Med on my hair, I have spent $100 dollars or more but usually I do it myself.

I love adventure though and I'm always up to trying something new or going somewhere new.

My DH does call me his Princess though.

 

[Keli]

I'm not high maintenance at all. Or well, I don't think I am anyway. I don't dress in jeans or t-shirts but I do wear casual clothing (mostly skirts and knit shirts). I keep my nails trimmed short and I don't wear make up. But my hair is an issue (with my dh) at times. Since I let my perm grow out I don't like to leave the house unless I've curled my hair or I've put it up. That takes a little time and Dave does get aggrivated if he wants me to run to the store with him and I'm making him wait while I fix my hair (happens on saturday mornings a lot, lol)

My dd is more high maintenance but she's not bad. She takes some time getting ready every morning and usually looks pretty cute leaving for school (at least in my totally unbiased, motherly, opinion, lol). I guess why I think of her as a bit high maintenance is because whenever I've had occasion to be at her college I've been surprised by the number of kids running around that look like they slept in their clothes and didn't run a comb or a brush through their hair since they got up.

 

[Pop Daddy]

High Main people are allways ready to jump ship, gotta spend alot of time with them and they proabaly will leave anyway.

 

[grinningghost]

Originally posted by Pop Daddy
High Main people are allways ready to jump ship, gotta spend alot of time with them and they proabaly will leave anyway.

So may we assume you're a low maintenance guy PD?

 

[my3kids]

My husband would laugh at this. I think in general I'm low maintence(that is what he would laugh at) but on vacations, I tend to be high maintence. ...as in staying in nice places and resorts instead of budget places. I will still find the rock bottom lowest price I can for the Fairmont .....but it will be the Fairmont and not the Fairfield.

 

[Melora]

I think of high maintainence as someone who you have to constantly work at to keep happy. I do not think of someone who buys a lot of expensive stuff as HM unless they have to purchase the stuff to keep them happy. (thus making the spouse work extra hard to maintain enough income for said expenses).

Or else someone you have to "jump through hoops" for in the emotional dept. It seems to be someone who you have to be thinking about a lot so you can do things to make them happy or else they will pout, cry, complain or be pain in the a** until YOU do something to change their mood.

I'm low maintainence. I tend to try to make everyone else happy before me!