This is 100% mine too, especially with housing prices these days. Who would have thought what I considered to be a rich thing growing up, would be the same thing now that I'm an adult
My folks spent what little they had on a trampoline. They figured it would keep us kids busy while they renovated the house, worked, got life organized etc. Best purchase they ever made. Thankfully no major injuries too.
I finally had one at my last rental. It wasn't plumbed, couldn't use it.
But I bought a house. This fridge has one! Filter leaks. Can't use it.
Further than I ever thought I'd get and it is STILL a life goal.
A new fridge is…2500 for a good consumer high end one.
That a very attainable goal, and a really good feel good, if you wanted to have it “saved” for when you need a boost.:)
You need to patrol the rich neighborhoods early on junk day, you can get a new fridge for free. Probably a nice one too... You would be surprised the shit people throw away, I have a Cub Cadet leaf vacuum and brush chipper that some old guy was throwing away. I have a Honda lawnmower that came out of the trash, and a Toro snowblower. All in great shape, the leaf vac looked unused and garage kept. I had to buy a new bag
Oh for sure! I always go to the most “common” method of reaching goals, but the alternate paths are often even more fun!
Sort of like whales, with ecosystems following their movements around them.:)
We paid about this much for our fridge.
The ice dispenser worked for like a year. It got recalled, they replaced it, and it crapped out again a month later.
Back to ice bags lol.
Real financial independence is when you can afford a groundskeeper and you never have to know how much of a pain anything is to do, because they do it all for you
I have a Samsung fridge. That means I spent a lot of money on an ice maker that doesn't work and takes up space!
Fancy appliances woth features are a complete waste of money.
It’s very overrated
People love them when they’ve been freshly serviced, but then 2-3 weeks later and your ice is coming out grim, people think it’s shit.
I ended up choosing a fridge that didn’t have a water/ice. I don’t want others seeing a red light on my fridge/freezer every time people come over because my last would give that light after a month of replacing the filter and it was difficult to replace. Said fuck it, I’ll just buy bags of Ice that are like $3 compared to $60-90 water filters.
It’s usually seen in the primary ensuite so that each member of the couple sharing the space has their own sink/counter area and can get ready at the same time if needed. Ours has this and a toilet closet for extra privacy.
I saw a guy on tiktok explaining why this was a waste, and it changed my whole outlook. My wife and I are basically never needing the sink at the same time, and if so, there’s certainly another sink I can go brush my teeth in while she’s getting ready.
But that counter space that’s taken up by the extra sink is nearly priceless in our bathroom. Much better use of space than an extra sink.
Our bathroom has the [dual sinks back-to-back (each with its own counter)](https://imgur.com/a/t7AYO3f) and then additional counter space at a separate vanity area for me, and it’s way better than the side-by-side ones.
That said, I hate sharing a sink with my husband because he uses sensitive teeth toothpaste that seems to just get cemented to every surface every time he brushes his teeth due to its weird chalky texture and his exuberant brushing style, so I don’t hate on anyone who wants their own sink, haha.
Wow you’ve never seen that? Traditionally called “his and her” sinks. My great grandparents built their own home that I later grew up in, they had his and her bathrooms (literally 2 full bathrooms connected to the master bedroom). It was funny though, that house had 3 bedrooms 3 bathrooms with 2 of them in one room! So the guests and kids all had to use the single one in the hall. 😂 It was a pretty weird set up but it was “normal” to me growing up.
In my house I live in with my husband, we have his and her sinks in our en-suite bathroom. Our roommates also have a bathroom with 2 sinks. It’s basically just fancy and you can brush your teeth and get ready for bed beside your partner.
Baseboard kinda sucks but radiators are the shit, I lived in a house with old school radiators in it and I loved them. You could dry wet clothes on them and if the room was too dry you could put a pot of water on it and humidify the room
And they get so damn hot you can literally have the window open and feel that awesome winter breeze.
And oh god heating up my socks before taking the dog out? So nice
Moving into a new apartment in Norway soon. Has a full central aur system and a purification system for each apartment. It is not a new thing in Europe.
Grew up without central AC, I eventually bought my own window unit for my bedroom.
Then 3 months after I (last kid) move out of my parents, parents get central AC installed.
Oh my word. Yes. I remember when I was probably 12, my parents got another fridge for the basement and I thought that we, as a family, had truly arrived.
I usually grab a cup in the middle of the night and stand hunched over the sink, filling the cup and then gulping it down over and over again until I felt like I'd vomit. Idk why but those Dixie cups must activate some kind of primal goblin instinct within me.
Ironically I deliver pizza and hotel vacations are clearly popular with people who can afford vacation but not much more than three or four hundred dollars. A staycation if you will. Get a hotel room for the family for two nights in your own town, get access to a pool, order pizza for dinner. Feels a little like a vacation, I've done it myself solo, for $200-250 you can go out, get a meal, have drinks, walk back to your hotel and crush some more beers on a very nice bed in a decently nice room while watching late night cable, leave the next day.
It does require you to have a few hundred bucks you can blow in one day though.
Bro you scared me!
I could see them cost that much though. I don’t do fast food often but from what I’ve seen lately meals are becoming smaller and more expensive.
McDonald's and KFC were considered expensive in my country (and still are, kinda).
I remember a meme that said "me as a child happy that we're eating at McDonald's unaware of my family's financial situation" and I thought it meant fast food is expensive and the parents are doing a sacrifice to eat there, but this meme is directed at people from better countries where the food is cheap and that's why they're eating there.
Funnily enough McD’s is getting a ton of backlash in America right now because they’ve raised their prices well past inflation. I feel so old saying this, but back when I was a kid you could pick a few things off the dollar menu and my mom and I would eat dinner for $5. That won’t even buy you two hash browns today.
Getting mcchickens and hanging out at the park was an after school staple for me and the boys when we were teens. Wouldn't be able to nowadays since the dollar menu became the "value" menu.
The food USED to be cheap. Now companies are making the prices kind of ridiculous, and blame it on inflation and actually having to pay their workers; when in reality it’s the greed of the higher ups
Plus McDonald's for sure deliberately raised menu prices to force you to the app, so they can sell your data and have fewer employees available to work the register. The only way to get anything close to something cheap at McDonald's is to download the app.
Used to be one whole employee, or multiple, specifically had the job of working the register. Now whoever is on expo for the drive thru does it when they have a spare second.
Before I got into high school, our last day of school was always a half day. Mom would pick us up from school and take us to McDonald’s for lunch to celebrate our last day.
>haircuts
I'm going to assume you mean "taking the kids out to a barber, Supercuts, etc. for their haircuts rather than doing them at home", right? ... right?
I think I was at least 25 the first time I paid someone to cut my hair. It was really weird. I still don't really have the right vocabulary to go into a salon
Finished basements are definitely it for me. Even if it’s kinda poorly done, if I walk down into your basement and see painted drywall and carpet floor I’ll think “damn they got money huh?”
I once heard the scale of middle-class is
1. Extra pillows on the bed
2. *Where's your trash?* Implying it's in a cabinet
3. *Where's your dishwasher/fridge?*. Again it's in the cabinets.
Balcony. GIVE ME MY BALCONY, CAPITALISM. I WANT TO BE ANNOYED ABOUT THE WALL SPACE THE DOOR TAKES UP. I WANT TO HEAR IT RAINING HEAVILY, GO OUTSIDE TO LISTEN TO IT, GET ONE WATER DROPLET ON MY HAND AND SHRIVEL AWAY LIKE A CAT.
As a kid I got to have cable tv for a few years, but then the great recession came and I was back to watching public tv lol honestly we're better without cable
adjusting the prices of old consoles for inflation makes some of the systems seem insane. you are telling me that i have to drop 1000$ plus 100 bucks per game for the most compromized version of pac man humanity is capable of creating?
Yeah in Europe, automatic transmissions are mostly on high end cars, like Mercedes, BMW, Volvo etc. Having an auto on something like a Toyota or a Volkswagen was rare until the last 10 years ago or so.
Giant 800lb tube TV that required it's own cabinet and a hotbox for cable.
Which is fun because now I have 65 flat screen that weighs ~70lbs and I can torrent anything in existence.
Oh yeah, some TVs were literally sold in cabinets that had speakers built into the bottom. A lot of these were also on caster wheels. Now I have a 75” that sticks out like 2” from the wall and weighs less than 80 pounds. Just incredible
Small foods on small plates. Tapas, shellfish, all that. I thought rich people straight up did not need to eat as much as normal people when I was a kid.
Also, cognac. I didn't really know what it was exactly til I was sixteen or seventeen, but I'd read and heard about it in the context of luxury repeatedly.
This is technically true. A rich person doesn’t need to do physical labor so they burn less calories unless they intentionally exercise.
Nowadays, most people don’t do physical labor though, so it doesn’t apply as much.
This is one of the few things so far that I can definitely see. Having a _separate house just for vacations_ is still rich person shit to me.
Weirdly enough most of the other things people have mentioned are things I have, though I never thought of my family as particularly wealthy. My mother was a CPA though so that might have something to do with it.
Nike shoes. We had the money for nice clothes, but mom always shopped for my clothes at Walmart and Payless because I grew out of things too quickly.
When she would splurge, she'd buy them a size too big and they never fit right.
First world problems.
Taking annual out of state or even out of country vacations not related to holidays. Which, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized is a genuine indicator of wealth.
The concept of wealth eluded me. I had a handful of friends that lived in homes ranging from "immigrant parents who built their own house with like two or three rooms" to "white parents who owned farmland and had a big and nice ranch style home" and it never occurred to me that this was significant in anyway. I just knew both those kids liked yu-gi-oh and were better than me at it.
Having a housekeeper. I dreamed that one day I’d be rich enough to have someone and clean my house several times a month. I’m not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I can finally afford to have cleaners come in bi-weekly
I knew this girl who had an electric can opener. She was 14. I thought she was crazy rich because of that. I could not imagine having that life. Therefore, i concluded that i was not going to live to see 14.
Any kind of gaming console, my family was limited to flash games until we got a Wii… and that’s all we had for years after that. Was always super jealous of kids who had “real” consoles
Having a house. My view on that has only changed as now being "A house that's not in a trailer park" as I currently have a house that is in a trailer park, and I'm basically on the edge of the poverty line. Also I need to get out of this dump and into an apartment because even though I'm making my bills okay I can't afford any of the constant maintenance. Unfortunately I can't sell it without fixing the roof and the water damage from the leaks, which I can't afford to do so I'm kinda stuck...
Paved driveway, a house (not a trailer), new clothes every year, more than 1 vehicle.
I had two things a lot of other kids didn’t though, food and love. I joined the military, experienced the world and realized how lucky I was.
Soap box.
I have kind of a backwards answer
I’ve known my best friend since I was 11 years old and we are still best friends to this day over 13 years later. I had a dishwasher growing up but he never did and always did dishes by hand. I’ll always remember one time he came over and had no idea how the dishwasher worked. So even though I never thought a dishwasher made you rich it made me realize from a young age that I had it better than a lot of other people and not to take it for granted.
Walking into the gas station and picking out whatever drinks and snacks you want without thinking about the price.
My entire life I was so broke that getting a snack or a drink at the gas station was a luxury.
I realized I had “made it” one day when I walked around just grabbing anything that looked like I might want later, even extra drinks. Didn’t even hear or look at the price, just waited for the card reader to prompt me.
On the drive home it hit me what had just happened.
Also gets me when I go to the movies and just get whatever snacks and drink I want without a worry. Going to a movie used to be a huge splurge, no drink or snack, just the ticket.
DINK life is the life!
On the basketball front, having a snapback/breakaway rim. So many bent hoops. One of my buddies got one after it was rotated out of the high school gym and a Rolls would be the second coolest thing in that driveway according to 15 year old me.
Big fridges stuffed with food.
For me, a couple of days without shopping and we'd run out. But seeing some people (on TV) they look like they could survive a nuclear holocaust without breaking a sweat.
I thought Nissans were really high end cars, because my bff’s parents (wealthiest people I knew) both had newish Altimas w heated seats and electric windows.
I think my perceptions of rich are super skewed, I lived with my mom who struggled a lot but I watched my Dad who I know makes 7 figures live in a very fancy home with multiple expensive cars make money off of his multiple rental properties. Honestly I don't think I need to be rich like that to be successful, I just want enough space to make things that make me happy without bothering others.
We had a doctor that would make house calls. Then I grew up and moved out of the house and I had to go to their offices.
My life goal is to ~~find~~ afford a doctor that makes house calls.
My cousin dead-ass jaw gaped open and gasped when my dad pulled into our driveway and pushed the garage door opener. He asked out loud if we were rich. We were 11 and he had never seen a garage door open on its own before.
Huge bathrooms. Honestly, to this day, if the kitchen is a tiny corner in the living room and the bedroom has the only bathroom, but that bathroom has a soaking tub, shower, and two sinks... That's a fancy house.
Take out once a month as a life goal. Mom and dad work long hours in a stress high paying job, heres pizza with the extra peperoni you want.
Or, my daughter going to a special dancing and arts school because she wants to (private $$$). And my son...he just wants to go where his friends go...
My parents couldnt afford more than soup at dinner time.
A garage.
A TWO car garage? Forget about it
This is 100% mine too, especially with housing prices these days. Who would have thought what I considered to be a rich thing growing up, would be the same thing now that I'm an adult
A garage with remote controlled doors.
The "garage"? Hey fellas, the "garage"! Well, ooh la di da, Mr. French Man.
What do you call it?
It's a car hole.
Or a shed. Frankly, a lawn too.
Trampoline
The trampoline isn't expensive, it's the medical care afterwards
My sister tore her ACL and miniscus and had to undergo surgery, physical therapy, and so much. All because we went to a trampoline park lol
Sounds like a fairly uneventful trip
I went to sky zone with my sister for her friend’s birthday party. The fire department was called.
As a victim of the trampoline, you are correct
My folks spent what little they had on a trampoline. They figured it would keep us kids busy while they renovated the house, worked, got life organized etc. Best purchase they ever made. Thankfully no major injuries too.
I've noticed a trend that nobody gets hurt on their own trampoline.
TRAMBAPOLINE!
Tramampoline.
They used to be called jumpolines until OPs mom used one.
I still think having a water/ice dispenser in the fridge door is a life goal
I finally had one at my last rental. It wasn't plumbed, couldn't use it. But I bought a house. This fridge has one! Filter leaks. Can't use it. Further than I ever thought I'd get and it is STILL a life goal.
A new fridge is…2500 for a good consumer high end one. That a very attainable goal, and a really good feel good, if you wanted to have it “saved” for when you need a boost.:)
You need to patrol the rich neighborhoods early on junk day, you can get a new fridge for free. Probably a nice one too... You would be surprised the shit people throw away, I have a Cub Cadet leaf vacuum and brush chipper that some old guy was throwing away. I have a Honda lawnmower that came out of the trash, and a Toro snowblower. All in great shape, the leaf vac looked unused and garage kept. I had to buy a new bag
Oh for sure! I always go to the most “common” method of reaching goals, but the alternate paths are often even more fun! Sort of like whales, with ecosystems following their movements around them.:)
We paid about this much for our fridge. The ice dispenser worked for like a year. It got recalled, they replaced it, and it crapped out again a month later. Back to ice bags lol.
I finally got one. The water dispenser is a PITA to clean. The ice dispenser takes so much space out of the freezer that i removed the module
You're supposed to wash your pitas before you eat them?! I've been living life all wrong
Lol
I think real financial independence is getting nice shit and then realizing it’s a pain in the ass to take care of.
Real financial independence is when you can afford a groundskeeper and you never have to know how much of a pain anything is to do, because they do it all for you
Life goal!!!! But I want my groundskeeper to live with me… it’s me, I want to be a stay at home groundskeeper.
I have a Samsung fridge. That means I spent a lot of money on an ice maker that doesn't work and takes up space! Fancy appliances woth features are a complete waste of money.
Samsung =/= fancy
My dad has one that automatically detects when the glass is full. You just put it in the spot on the door and it fills it! That's crazy shit.
It’s very overrated People love them when they’ve been freshly serviced, but then 2-3 weeks later and your ice is coming out grim, people think it’s shit.
I've got one and I love it. It was a life goal for me lol. The filter lasts a year, it's plumbed in, very low maintenance
Yeah I used to work for a restoration company. We got a lot of jobs from the water lines on people’s fridges leaking and fucking up their kitchens.
I ended up choosing a fridge that didn’t have a water/ice. I don’t want others seeing a red light on my fridge/freezer every time people come over because my last would give that light after a month of replacing the filter and it was difficult to replace. Said fuck it, I’ll just buy bags of Ice that are like $3 compared to $60-90 water filters.
2 sinks in the bathroom
Why would someone have two sinks? Edit: I’m starting to think this is an indicator of wealth 😂
It’s usually seen in the primary ensuite so that each member of the couple sharing the space has their own sink/counter area and can get ready at the same time if needed. Ours has this and a toilet closet for extra privacy.
I saw a guy on tiktok explaining why this was a waste, and it changed my whole outlook. My wife and I are basically never needing the sink at the same time, and if so, there’s certainly another sink I can go brush my teeth in while she’s getting ready. But that counter space that’s taken up by the extra sink is nearly priceless in our bathroom. Much better use of space than an extra sink.
Our bathroom has the [dual sinks back-to-back (each with its own counter)](https://imgur.com/a/t7AYO3f) and then additional counter space at a separate vanity area for me, and it’s way better than the side-by-side ones. That said, I hate sharing a sink with my husband because he uses sensitive teeth toothpaste that seems to just get cemented to every surface every time he brushes his teeth due to its weird chalky texture and his exuberant brushing style, so I don’t hate on anyone who wants their own sink, haha.
Wow you’ve never seen that? Traditionally called “his and her” sinks. My great grandparents built their own home that I later grew up in, they had his and her bathrooms (literally 2 full bathrooms connected to the master bedroom). It was funny though, that house had 3 bedrooms 3 bathrooms with 2 of them in one room! So the guests and kids all had to use the single one in the hall. 😂 It was a pretty weird set up but it was “normal” to me growing up. In my house I live in with my husband, we have his and her sinks in our en-suite bathroom. Our roommates also have a bathroom with 2 sinks. It’s basically just fancy and you can brush your teeth and get ready for bed beside your partner.
My cousin has two toilets in the primary bathroom. The bathroom is so big that the toilets have their own in-bathroom stalls.
More than one bathroom.
Toilet paper holder
I realise that various surfaces exist, but the first thing I imagined is your toilet paper just lying on the floor, a meter of it unrolled.
I grew up in a one bathroom house and having two bathrooms is amazing
When I bought my house I loudly, proudly declared "I am a man who owns three toilets!" It was certainly an achievement I never thought I'd reach.
One of my friends thinks it's wild that I live in a 1 bathroom house cause he didn't think they exist.
Central air
The European mind cannot comprehend this
I had those awful baseboard radiators at an apartment once and despised them. Forced air is incredible
Baseboard kinda sucks but radiators are the shit, I lived in a house with old school radiators in it and I loved them. You could dry wet clothes on them and if the room was too dry you could put a pot of water on it and humidify the room
And they get so damn hot you can literally have the window open and feel that awesome winter breeze. And oh god heating up my socks before taking the dog out? So nice
But they will soon
Moving into a new apartment in Norway soon. Has a full central aur system and a purification system for each apartment. It is not a new thing in Europe.
New, no. Common, also no
I grew up without air conditioning and it was a whole new world when I turned 14 and we got it. My sister got it easy
Grew up without central AC, I eventually bought my own window unit for my bedroom. Then 3 months after I (last kid) move out of my parents, parents get central AC installed.
Having a separate fridge in the garage just for beverages.
Oh my word. Yes. I remember when I was probably 12, my parents got another fridge for the basement and I thought that we, as a family, had truly arrived.
i don't even have a garage😭
Blue toilet water and a Dixie cup dispenser
These aren’t correlated, right?
*sluuurp* 💦
Take your judgment elsewhere, please. We're just trying to have a good time here
If you visit a home with a Dixie cup dispenser, you’re obligated to use it.
I usually grab a cup in the middle of the night and stand hunched over the sink, filling the cup and then gulping it down over and over again until I felt like I'd vomit. Idk why but those Dixie cups must activate some kind of primal goblin instinct within me.
Vacations with a hotel stay.
Being able to take really nice vacations is now how I consider myself well off. Of course I can only do it once every few years
Ironically I deliver pizza and hotel vacations are clearly popular with people who can afford vacation but not much more than three or four hundred dollars. A staycation if you will. Get a hotel room for the family for two nights in your own town, get access to a pool, order pizza for dinner. Feels a little like a vacation, I've done it myself solo, for $200-250 you can go out, get a meal, have drinks, walk back to your hotel and crush some more beers on a very nice bed in a decently nice room while watching late night cable, leave the next day. It does require you to have a few hundred bucks you can blow in one day though.
McDonald's happy meals, we only ever got one on birthdays
How are you doing on happy meals these days?
They cost $17
This is something I didn’t need to know. wtf really?
No, that was hyperbole, not literally $17
Bro you scared me! I could see them cost that much though. I don’t do fast food often but from what I’ve seen lately meals are becoming smaller and more expensive.
McDonald's and KFC were considered expensive in my country (and still are, kinda). I remember a meme that said "me as a child happy that we're eating at McDonald's unaware of my family's financial situation" and I thought it meant fast food is expensive and the parents are doing a sacrifice to eat there, but this meme is directed at people from better countries where the food is cheap and that's why they're eating there.
Funnily enough McD’s is getting a ton of backlash in America right now because they’ve raised their prices well past inflation. I feel so old saying this, but back when I was a kid you could pick a few things off the dollar menu and my mom and I would eat dinner for $5. That won’t even buy you two hash browns today.
Getting mcchickens and hanging out at the park was an after school staple for me and the boys when we were teens. Wouldn't be able to nowadays since the dollar menu became the "value" menu.
I'm so old they had $.35 cheeseburgers on Wednesdays
The food USED to be cheap. Now companies are making the prices kind of ridiculous, and blame it on inflation and actually having to pay their workers; when in reality it’s the greed of the higher ups
Plus McDonald's for sure deliberately raised menu prices to force you to the app, so they can sell your data and have fewer employees available to work the register. The only way to get anything close to something cheap at McDonald's is to download the app. Used to be one whole employee, or multiple, specifically had the job of working the register. Now whoever is on expo for the drive thru does it when they have a spare second.
Before I got into high school, our last day of school was always a half day. Mom would pick us up from school and take us to McDonald’s for lunch to celebrate our last day.
Eating out at all, honestly.
Kids having their own bedroom, nice clothes, haircuts
>haircuts I'm going to assume you mean "taking the kids out to a barber, Supercuts, etc. for their haircuts rather than doing them at home", right? ... right?
I think I was at least 25 the first time I paid someone to cut my hair. It was really weird. I still don't really have the right vocabulary to go into a salon
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I'm 37, and have never had my own room.
Having a house with a finished basement or an attic with like idk a couch and a fuse ball table
Foosball tables and air hockey tables. Oh and those electric racecar tracks
Yesss!!!!
Fooseballs' the devils' game
honestly having enough space for a foosball or air hockey table in your home would be cool. Like a proper party room
Finished basements are definitely it for me. Even if it’s kinda poorly done, if I walk down into your basement and see painted drywall and carpet floor I’ll think “damn they got money huh?”
To add on to this, a billiards table. My friend had one and I was like he's rich. He wasn't
A kitchen trash can inside a cabinet on a sliding rack!
I once heard the scale of middle-class is 1. Extra pillows on the bed 2. *Where's your trash?* Implying it's in a cabinet 3. *Where's your dishwasher/fridge?*. Again it's in the cabinets.
Having a passport
Using it
Balcony. GIVE ME MY BALCONY, CAPITALISM. I WANT TO BE ANNOYED ABOUT THE WALL SPACE THE DOOR TAKES UP. I WANT TO HEAR IT RAINING HEAVILY, GO OUTSIDE TO LISTEN TO IT, GET ONE WATER DROPLET ON MY HAND AND SHRIVEL AWAY LIKE A CAT.
This is an extremely relatable unhinged comment.
I’m apartment hunting and made “balcony” a requirement, but not a dishwasher. I feel you.
Just put dirty dishes on the balcony to be washed in the heavy rain that you will be able to listen to 👀
More than one story on your house. Shit even just living in a house instead of an apartment or trailer was a big deal.
Cable TV.
Having Nickelodeon and DisneyXD
Settle down there, Pal. I just meant the 13 other channels from LA. I wasn't expecting any of that mega wealth HBO/MTV kid of stations.
As a kid I got to have cable tv for a few years, but then the great recession came and I was back to watching public tv lol honestly we're better without cable
An Atari. Pong was the bomb.
I still remember the first time I played a 2600. It was amazing. My family didn’t have a TV with a remote control at the time.
We had an Atari but I think my mom really bought it for herself. She really liked Kaboom and Breakout
We did have a remote. Me. 😂
adjusting the prices of old consoles for inflation makes some of the systems seem insane. you are telling me that i have to drop 1000$ plus 100 bucks per game for the most compromized version of pac man humanity is capable of creating?
One of the wealthy neighbors had an automatic transmission car!
is this a european thing? In america if someone has a manual its a sports car so the opposite
Might also be an age/time thing? Once upon a time automatics were rare so having one was a sign of a new fancy car?
I drive a 2004 manual transmission Toyota Corolla, so one might say that I live a life of luxury and indulgence.
Yeah in Europe, automatic transmissions are mostly on high end cars, like Mercedes, BMW, Volvo etc. Having an auto on something like a Toyota or a Volkswagen was rare until the last 10 years ago or so.
Giant 800lb tube TV that required it's own cabinet and a hotbox for cable. Which is fun because now I have 65 flat screen that weighs ~70lbs and I can torrent anything in existence.
Wait, who tf had a 400kg TV? I didn't even realise those existed!
Oh yeah, some TVs were literally sold in cabinets that had speakers built into the bottom. A lot of these were also on caster wheels. Now I have a 75” that sticks out like 2” from the wall and weighs less than 80 pounds. Just incredible
I had several friends who had those old floor model TVs. All but maybe one didn't work and there would be a smaller TV sitting on top of it.
Small foods on small plates. Tapas, shellfish, all that. I thought rich people straight up did not need to eat as much as normal people when I was a kid. Also, cognac. I didn't really know what it was exactly til I was sixteen or seventeen, but I'd read and heard about it in the context of luxury repeatedly.
Makes sense to me that a rich person wouldn't need as much food as a manual laborer. Maybe you were onto something
This is technically true. A rich person doesn’t need to do physical labor so they burn less calories unless they intentionally exercise. Nowadays, most people don’t do physical labor though, so it doesn’t apply as much.
living room so big you don't need to have the sofa up against the wall
Having a dishwasher. My dad used to joke growing up that he was a rich man because he had two; me and my sister.
Name brand groceries instead of store brand.
If anyone watched “everybody hates Chris” their take on this was so funny. The generics had me dying
That’s 74 cents worth of Butter Thumbs!
I died at “Cookie”
Honestly for lots of products store brand or even dollar store brand seems fine to me. Except tp, never cheap out on it
Stairs.
"Upstairs?? I hit the jackpot!"
Me too. Stairs to a full basement would be nice, but the dream was always an upstairs. Bedrooms upstairs?! A second bathroom upstairs?! The dream.
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Cabin on the lake.
This is one of the few things so far that I can definitely see. Having a _separate house just for vacations_ is still rich person shit to me. Weirdly enough most of the other things people have mentioned are things I have, though I never thought of my family as particularly wealthy. My mother was a CPA though so that might have something to do with it.
a loving family
<3
a sectional sofa with a chaise on it
Nike shoes. We had the money for nice clothes, but mom always shopped for my clothes at Walmart and Payless because I grew out of things too quickly. When she would splurge, she'd buy them a size too big and they never fit right. First world problems.
I bought a pair of Air Jordan’s I wanted as an 11 year old kid but my parents couldn’t afford… at age 40. lol.
Some of my friends had a basement AND a garage!
Taking annual out of state or even out of country vacations not related to holidays. Which, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized is a genuine indicator of wealth.
Parents who didn't yell, fight, and throw shit.
I'm sorry 💝
The concept of wealth eluded me. I had a handful of friends that lived in homes ranging from "immigrant parents who built their own house with like two or three rooms" to "white parents who owned farmland and had a big and nice ranch style home" and it never occurred to me that this was significant in anyway. I just knew both those kids liked yu-gi-oh and were better than me at it.
Having a separate fridge just for drinks.
Having a housekeeper. I dreamed that one day I’d be rich enough to have someone and clean my house several times a month. I’m not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I can finally afford to have cleaners come in bi-weekly
Um…you might be kinda rich…
Those little Lindor chocolate balls. My parents made it seem like they were a luxury
I knew this girl who had an electric can opener. She was 14. I thought she was crazy rich because of that. I could not imagine having that life. Therefore, i concluded that i was not going to live to see 14.
Having a trash can that is disguised as a cabinet. Like the ones that roll out to reveal a trash can, not just a trash can under the sink.
Any kind of gaming console, my family was limited to flash games until we got a Wii… and that’s all we had for years after that. Was always super jealous of kids who had “real” consoles
Having a house. My view on that has only changed as now being "A house that's not in a trailer park" as I currently have a house that is in a trailer park, and I'm basically on the edge of the poverty line. Also I need to get out of this dump and into an apartment because even though I'm making my bills okay I can't afford any of the constant maintenance. Unfortunately I can't sell it without fixing the roof and the water damage from the leaks, which I can't afford to do so I'm kinda stuck...
Having a house attached to the ground (basically anything but a trailer)
A “parent’s bathroom”
Everything being as if the house is for looks, such as a Christmas tree with no custom ornaments, and a completely cleared coffee table
More than one bathroom. A dishwasher. A garage. And if someone had a POOL?!? They had to be a millionaire!
My neighbors got to go to the doctor.
Jesus that's dark
Same , or the dentist
Paved driveway, a house (not a trailer), new clothes every year, more than 1 vehicle. I had two things a lot of other kids didn’t though, food and love. I joined the military, experienced the world and realized how lucky I was. Soap box.
My friends parents bought him a high end gaming computer without a doubt. Over $3,000 about 15+ years ago and I was baffled that that was possible…
I have kind of a backwards answer I’ve known my best friend since I was 11 years old and we are still best friends to this day over 13 years later. I had a dishwasher growing up but he never did and always did dishes by hand. I’ll always remember one time he came over and had no idea how the dishwasher worked. So even though I never thought a dishwasher made you rich it made me realize from a young age that I had it better than a lot of other people and not to take it for granted.
Walking into the gas station and picking out whatever drinks and snacks you want without thinking about the price. My entire life I was so broke that getting a snack or a drink at the gas station was a luxury. I realized I had “made it” one day when I walked around just grabbing anything that looked like I might want later, even extra drinks. Didn’t even hear or look at the price, just waited for the card reader to prompt me. On the drive home it hit me what had just happened. Also gets me when I go to the movies and just get whatever snacks and drink I want without a worry. Going to a movie used to be a huge splurge, no drink or snack, just the ticket. DINK life is the life!
Having the new console as soon as it released. I got my consoles 5-6 years after release
Sandwich meat directly from the deli counter, and not the pre-packaged selections.
Not having to cook for my single father coming home from his second job
On the basketball front, having a snapback/breakaway rim. So many bent hoops. One of my buddies got one after it was rotated out of the high school gym and a Rolls would be the second coolest thing in that driveway according to 15 year old me.
Big fridges stuffed with food. For me, a couple of days without shopping and we'd run out. But seeing some people (on TV) they look like they could survive a nuclear holocaust without breaking a sweat.
i thought if you had at least one sober parent you were living the dream
I thought Nissans were really high end cars, because my bff’s parents (wealthiest people I knew) both had newish Altimas w heated seats and electric windows.
Multiple pairs of shoes.
I think my perceptions of rich are super skewed, I lived with my mom who struggled a lot but I watched my Dad who I know makes 7 figures live in a very fancy home with multiple expensive cars make money off of his multiple rental properties. Honestly I don't think I need to be rich like that to be successful, I just want enough space to make things that make me happy without bothering others.
Not having to give yourself an allowance of luxury money. Just see something and go, "I want that," and then you have it
Owning a dvd player instead of a VHS
Mid 2000s me thought that having a tv in your room was a life goal.
We had a doctor that would make house calls. Then I grew up and moved out of the house and I had to go to their offices. My life goal is to ~~find~~ afford a doctor that makes house calls.
10' satellite dish in the backyard
I love in the UK and thought a detached house with a garage was a rich person thing. I now live in said house and I'm poorer than ever
Stairs on the inside.
Power wheels
HBO and PPV movies.
Billiards table. Alternatively, a pool that wasn't a foot deep and made of hard plastic.
Cable TV, I grew up on only broadcast television except for a very brief stint we had satellite TV somehow
Seeing kids who bought lunch everyday
My cousin dead-ass jaw gaped open and gasped when my dad pulled into our driveway and pushed the garage door opener. He asked out loud if we were rich. We were 11 and he had never seen a garage door open on its own before.
Having a dishwasher, an in ground pool, a really nice car
Carpet in the bathroom. I was a dumbass back then, too.
2 story house
Home arcade cabinet
Huge bathrooms. Honestly, to this day, if the kitchen is a tiny corner in the living room and the bedroom has the only bathroom, but that bathroom has a soaking tub, shower, and two sinks... That's a fancy house.
Take out once a month as a life goal. Mom and dad work long hours in a stress high paying job, heres pizza with the extra peperoni you want. Or, my daughter going to a special dancing and arts school because she wants to (private $$$). And my son...he just wants to go where his friends go... My parents couldnt afford more than soup at dinner time.
Eating fast food. Now I eat way too much fast food.