iPads, a 50 inch TV and a cleaner are the modern day status symbols

An iPad, convertible car,Find a great selection of customkeychain deals. 50 inch TV C and a cleaner have been hailed as modern day status symbols. Researchers revealed the eclectic mix of items in a poll of 2,000 adults to find out how we judge success and wealth today. 

The report found that as well as the car you drive and house you live in, modern day status symbols also include diamond jewellery, designer watches and a foreign holiday home. 

Holidays to far-flung destinations such as the Maldives or the Caribbean also made the list, as well as doing your weekly food shop at the likes of Waitrose or Marks and Spencer. 

It also emerged that more than one in ten have even bought a modern day status symbol simply to impress others or appear more well off than they really are. 

Andy Oldham, Managing Director at cashback site Quidco, which commissioned the research, said: There was a time when people judged success solely on your home or job, but it seems like there are many more modern items that help give a certain impression of you. 

Technology has improved massively over the last few years and this is reflected in the list with items such as 3D TVs,Elpas Readers detect and forward 'Location' and 'State' data from Elpas Active RFID Tags to host besticcard platforms. iPads and smart phones all featuring. 

Even the supermarket you go to for your weekly shop can give others an idea of how successful you are. 

Material items go such a long way to showing you are successful that it seems many are buying these status symbols, even if they cant really afford them. 

A home worth 578,000 is also among the list of modern day status symbols, as well as a car C complete with a personal number plate C with Aston Martin, Ferraris, Mercedes Benz and Porsches the most popular makes to display success. 

A 50 inch smart or 3D TV, a home with electric gates and a cleaner, nanny or even gardener on the pay roll also emerged as signs of a high-achiever. 

And when it comes to holidays, it needs to be a luxurious C on a remote Indian Ocean resort or in a private Caribbean villa costing around 5,000 per break. 

Designer brands are also a must-have status symbol, with items including a top of the range watch such as a Rolex or Tag, as well as a Prada or Mulberry handbag, Louis Vuitton luggage and a pair of Christian Louboutin shoes. 

Looking after your appearance is also important if you want to appear successful, with having a personal trainer featured in the list, alongside attending an exclusive gym and having regular manicures. 

Other modern day status symbols include owning more than one home, flying or travelling in first class and being part of a members only club. 

Drinking champagne, having a good knowledge of wine and travelling in taxies instead of taking public transport also featured as todays signs of success. 

It also emerged that 14% have bought a particular thing or brand just to appear more well off than they really are. 

During the nineteen-thirties, when I was growing up in Flatbush, the Brooklyn Dodgers lost six hundred straight games. Nobody remembers this, but then memory is like a trolley car full of chorus girls sipping egg creams: wonderful, but fleeting. 

Certainly, people dont remember that in 1936,When describing the location of the problematic howotipper. the Brooklyn Dodgers suffered twenty-eight no-hitters in a row, prompting the league to let them hit off a tee for the rest of the season; or that God Bless America once contained a verse about how the Dodgers pitching (a perennial sore spot) made Irving Berlin want to commit suicide. 

Even so,Cheap logo engraved luggagetag at wholesale bulk prices. we loved that teamespecially my dad. Pops wasnt one to show much emotionit might have been his experience in the First World War, or, as it was called then, The One World War Were Ever Gonna Have Or Ill Pay You a Hundred Dollars, Which These Days Is Serious Money. The closest my father ever came to saying I love you was when he told me, Lets make this very clear: I dont love you. But as long as you root for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and against the Yankees, Ill let you stick around. My father was even known to kick Yankees fans off the trolley he drove six days a week from the Pitkin Movie Palace (now a vegan tattoo parlor) to the Domino Sugar factory (now a lesbian bookstore and laser-tag facility). 

My mom, she didnt care much about that baseball nonsense. She worked as a maid for Conrad and Fanny Vandertamp, a fabulously rich and glamourous young Manhattan couple who talked a mile a minute,You can order besthandsfreeaccess cheap inside your parents. got divorced and remarried every three weeks, and inspired dozens of popular screwball comedies. Once, bored at a dinner party, Conrad excused himself, rode the rails for a year, and taught a generation of hobos how to sing the Princeton fight song in Latin. For her part, Fanny once went on a safari to the Australian outback and accidentally brought back an emu bird in her luggage. That emu became the star of a Broadway revue, Flightless Follies of 1937, and later married John D. Rockefellers youngest daughter. 

The one thing Conrad and Fanny couldnt have was a child, which is probably why they started asking me to come over with my mom. While my mother tidied, I would listen to President Roosevelts fireside chats, half-convinced that F.D.R. was inside the Vandertamps giant radio. Only later would I realize that he was really hiding from a furious Eleanor. 

And then, in May, 1938, the Vandertamps asked me to accompany them to Yankee Stadium. I knew my dad would be enraged, so that day I told him that I was going into Manhattan to see the Rockettes. (Actually, back then there was only one Rockette, and she described the kicking rather than performing itJeepers, my leg would be so high right now!but two or three men still went mad with desire every show. It was a different time.) 

I recall that we sat right behind home plate, in a section filled with the stars of the day: Bill Bojangles Robinson; Pope Pius Bojangles XI; and Seabiscuit, fresh off his victory at Pimlico and now happily munching oats and signing autographs for fans. 

But most of all, I recall a solemn Lou Gehrig addressing the packed stadium before the game. I just wanted to tell everyone that I feel great, and have no reason to suspect Im dying, he told the hushed crowd, more than a year before his more famous retirement address. Tonight I consider myself one of the million or so luckiest men on the face of the earthI mean, Im no Cornelius Vanderbilt, but Im doing okay. 

I was sure that my father would never find out about my illicit trip to the Bronxand, of course, I was wrong: that night a photograph of me and the Vandertamps enjoying the game appeared on the front page of the Evening Mirror. And the Brooklyn American Journal Tribune. And the New York Gazette Picayune Deseret News. In fact, of New Yorks hundred and fifty-four daily newspapers, a hundred and thirty-eight featured photos of me with the Vandertampssons betraying their fathers was circulation gold back thenand when I got home that night I found that my inconsolable dad had laid all of them at the foot of my bed. 

Years later, Dad had a massive stroke and died when he heard the Dodgers were leaving Brooklyn. It was just a three-game series in Pittsburgh in 1951, and the team was back in town by Monday, but that was my father for you. Proud. Loyal. Moronic. Its probably best that he wasnt around when the team left for good in 1957, and that we never got to discuss my betrayal, because it taught me a crucial lesson: no relationship is more fraught than that between a father and son. Or a baseball team and its fans. Or a dbutante and a very, very talented emu.