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Barbara Corcoran they can have the means to afford a first class plane ticketbut she chooses to fly economy instead.
The Shark Tank star recently appeared on the December 10 episode The Jamie Kern Lima Show podcast, where she discussed why she always chooses the cheaper seat on the plane. “Do you know how much a first class ticket costs?” asked the 75-year-old author and entrepreneur.
“Look, the way I figure it, the bus fare is about 25 percent of the first class fare. I get free miles and can give them away. Everyone in my family flies on my free miles.”
Corcoran continued: “What’s more important, everyone getting a free holiday or me being comfortable in first class? I suppose I could afford both, but I won’t because I’ll be on a bus and I feel very smug knowing I have three plane tickets that could take someone somewhere. It builds up, you know?”
The business woman also makes sure that she shares several homes with her loved ones, and she also said that she never wants one of her beds to be empty.
“There’s not a single bed in any of my homes that’s empty,” Corcoran said. “That’s more satisfying than someone saying, ‘Thanks, we enjoyed ourselves.’ Extended family, they’re family, whatever. ‘We had fun.’”
She added: “People enjoy my ski lodge — it’s big, it fits a lot of people. They’re going to my beach house, I don’t want to brag… They’re coming to New York. Where I live, never an empty bed and a boy, is that satisfying.”
The millionaire went on to explain that using all of her assets is simply a byproduct of how much money she has.
“The more money you have, the less you use your homes,” Corcoran told the podcast host. “That’s the truth. You sleep very few nights there, and they go to waste. What a shame.”
Corcoran previously revealed that among her many possessions, she and her husband, Bill Higgins, have separate bedrooms. While appearing on Today with Hoda and Jena in March, she credited their sleeping arrangement as her secret to keeping their nearly four-decade marriage “fun.”
“I’ve had a separate bedroom with Bill for about 40 years,” she told co-hosts Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb. “I have to invite him in, he invites me in. It keeps the whole thing sexy.”
When asked why the two have separate bedrooms, Corcoran said Higgins doesn’t keep his space as clean as she would like. “He’s such a mess. He puts piles of stuff everywhere and I’m very tidy,” she said. “I couldn’t sleep well at night and now I sleep like a baby.”
Corcoran and Higgins met in 1981, before officially tying the knot eight years later. They have two children, Tom and Kate, who have stayed out of the public eye.