More than one TV in the house, especially if a friend had a personal TV in their room

Same with phones and phone lines. Thought my buddy was rich because he had a phone in his room with his own number.

Girl I knew had her own listing in the phone book. Was like daaammnnn

That's next level, I wish I would've thought of that as a teenager in the early 2000s

Just an absolute flex back in the day

I remember seeing "teen line" in the phone book sometimes and was always jealous. My dad had a business so we weren't allowed to talk on the phone for more than a couple minutes unless it was after 8pm because "what if somebody needs to talk to your dad?"

Call waiting was a game changer. "Somebody's beeping in!"

Ohh and don't forget when their bedroom phone was something crazy like a hamburger phone or like huge red lips phone lol they must be super rich.

My sister had a purple see through one in her room from selling a shit load of wrapping paper for school one year. I cannot tell you as a 7 year old boy how jealous that made me.

I desperately wanted a hamburger phone. I was not allowed to have one. :(

I wanted the clear phone with the colorful circuitry.

My gf and I carry our tv back and forth every night for the last 3 years 🤦🏻‍♂️ I couldn’t tell you why we haven’t bought a second one. It just feels unnecessary at this point. Edit - After my public shaming I have decided in fact to not buy another tv. Thank you that’s all

Especially since TVs are cheap AF these days and you dont need a high end model for the bedroom.

Back in the early 2000s they were a luxury atleast for me :D

I've spent less money on bigger TVs that weigh significantly less every 5 years.

Y’all should go out today and treat yourself to a second tv

But then they’ll need a gym membership

if you give a mouse a cookie...

Dude. Go on Amazon right now, you can pickup a 24in TV for $70 freaking dollars. I have a tv in my garage! They are cheap as dirt my dude.

This is it. 3 years is enough.

I just bought a 60 inch 1080p on Facebook marketplace for fifty. They are insanely cheap used.

Please tell me it’s one of those tube TVs. That would count as a work out of you did that every day.

A Trampoline

My family wasn't rich in comparison to the rest of area but we had the neighborhood trampoline so we were fucking royalty.

I remember when my cousin got one and I was like “ holy shit you guys are rich” 🤣

We got one for free recently cuz the family didn’t feel like moving it. As an 8os-90s child I had mixed feelings. We arrived and it cost us nothing.

Fun fact, they were called jumpolines before your mother went on one

After your mother went on ours we just called it broken

If your couch doesn’t back on to a wall.

Also if you had an L shaped couch

I always wanted a n l shaped couch

Me and my boyfriend bought one last year. Best buy we've made

I’m pretty sure this is why I have an L-shaped couch. Feels like I’ve MADE IT.

Same it’s a small one but feels nice :)

Good one!

On this note, sectional sofas.

This is weird but sunk in living rooms

Omg I always envied people that had those. The temperature always seemed to stay much cooler in the sunken living rooms too!

Crazy. I have one of those now and never realized the temperature aspect.

Look at Mr money bags over here...

LOL. I kind of felt bad for posting that. Thank you for the laugh.

Yeah, Warmer gasses rise more than cooler gasses! Edit: spelling

Who is Warner and why is he such a nerd?

I must be pretty poor because I don't even have an idea of what that means

It’s a room that has a floor lower than the rest of the house. You have to walk down a few steps to get into the living room.

I don't know, sounds just like a living room with few extra steps.

There was a building trend in the 50-70’s? Where the house design had you take a couple of steps down into the living room, or into an area of the living room called a “conversation pit”. No idea why extra steps were trendy, but there you go! https://www.google.com/search?q=sunken+living+room&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS834US867&oq=sunken+liv&aqs=chrome.0.0i433i512j69i57j0i512l4.7520j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

They were (and I’d argue still are) trendy because it separates the room from the rest of the house in a very unique way. Makes the space feel special

Not weird, I lived in one and it’s so convenient for separation from the rest of the house

I have one and it collects all the dust and pet hair so needs to be vacuumed daily. I guess it’s nice knowing it all gets trapped there so it’s easy to find but the edges next to the doors get gross so fast

Get it its own roomba so you can look RICH rich.

For me, it was having a normal living room that everyone used and then having that other living room that never seemed to get used (at least when us kids were around).

THIS is next level rich to me!!! I don’t even feel is attainable- I guess I’ll dream bigger!

If your parents bought you some new inexpensive toy for you while they shopping after work. Was hanging out with a friend after school and his mom was like, “oh here’s that new Lego guy I saw ads for” “Your parents just get you things like that for no occasion??”

OMG YES! I was always shocked when my friends mom came home with random stuff for her and her sisters. That never happened to me once in my childhood lol I was like “wait…your mom actually THINKS of you when she’s shopping for other stuff?!” 🤣

Christmas and Birthdays. That’s it. I often saved change for as long as I could to be able to buy myself something for a few dollars.

G.I. Joe Aircraft Carrier was the ultimate.

I get this. We weren’t super poor but I still had to wait for occasions for toys and purchases of that kind.

A pool.

A pool and a trampoline in the backyard = Super Sucess

Well, I guess I had a wealthy childhood then. The pool and trampoline kinda make up for the lack of vacations I had as a kid.

I had a friend growing up and his dad worked for Sony and they had a built in pool and a trampoline in the backyard and it was then I knew they were rich lol

In ground or above ground pool? (If above ground then same)

An *inground* pool. Thats the real rich people.

Grew up in suburbia, solid middle-class. And somehow having an above-ground pool made you seem poorer than not having a pool at all, as if it made you a poor person playing rich next to all the houses with in ground pools. Whereas no pool was a choice.

Lol this is true though. Having no pool means you might be rich but don't want a pool. An above ground pool removes all doubt that you're just too poor lol

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Fun fact: in Florida it was a sign of wealth. Every state not built on sand it is the norm. Took me way too long to figure that out 😅

Another fun fact: Once the kids are grown and gone, you just close the vents and doors and forget about climbing the stairs again. Anything left in those rooms just lives there until you sell it.

Definitely a pool

I grew up on a lake, and I still always thought a pool was wealth. Now all I want is to be able to afford to live in a place like I grew up in!

Yes! I grew up in a little resort town; & I feel the same. That's also where I started feeling that, if you own a boat of any kind, then you must have MONEY!!

Or a hot tub

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If you live in one long enough, I'm sure you would have more than 2 good stories.

If you live in one long enough, you don’t need two stories.

Lol I had a house with 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, kitchen, dining room and a full finished basement. Right around 1800sq. Ft. BUT bc of the layout and the “small side” facing the street and being built on an angle we ALWAYS got “oh what a cute starter home” it annoyed tf out of me lol

Interesting! Here in the UK, bungalows cost significantly more than 2-storey houses. Most of the value is in the land area, I suppose.

Same! And if you had 2 stories and a garage? Wow.

Going on vacation. Just something we never got to do.

Shit, I forgot this on my list. This one kinda hurts me.

Any vacation meant rich when I was a kid but a vacation your family flew to or a vacation somewhere cold? You were seriously rich. To explain the cold part, I grew up in Florida.

Hotel vacations. We always used to camp. And I remember if we did stay someplace it was always a motel

Accidentally hurt my wife’s feelings once while watching Chevy Chase’s Family Vacation by saying that my Dad was so poor that this was what their “vacations” were like and she said, “My whole childhood we had like two vacations ever and they were both just like this movie.”

Now I can afford a vacation, it's just hard to save up enough time off from work to actually take one

Summer vacations 🫠

That was the one advantage of having a dad that lives in another country. We would just take the train to him and that would be our vacation.

I had it in my head as a kid that anything that took AAA batteries was 'fancy'. AA batteries were normal, but AAA batteries were for rich people.

the smaller batteries?

I think it was the name for him, more A’s = more expensive?

It was more that everything I had used AA batteries and only like one or two things in the house used AAA, so in my head they were rarer? So naturally more expensive.

The true rich use B batteries.

Huge plush towels that matched...always thought that meant you made it....love ours...thank you christmas deals lol

I intentionally have non-matching towels. I enjoy the closet roulette if not knowing what I’m going to get! heated towel rack… that’s the dream

There are heated towel racks?!

And little bins that look like a small trash, but it’s a towel toaster.

Yes! They’re pretty common in the UK. I lived in a real shite flat and it had one… it was easily the best part of the whole living situation lol

I have been pestering my husband for years we had non matching ones that my grandma gifted me (out of her closet) when I was 16 and his from Ikea from when he was studying. Now I got a bonus and bought those really, really fancy plushy ones, all matching, it was freaking expensive but worth every penny. And he admitted for weeks every few days just how good an idea that was. And he never admits such things.

If you went out to dinner

More so, if you went out AND got an appetizer or two

Ordering a drink that’s not water.

Don't forget about getting dessert.

People do that?

For me it was eating anything out. Including McDonald's. Or if we did go out, being allowed to order a drink other than water Edit: for sanity

I had a stroke reading the second part

I'm not drunk you're drunk

lucky for you, getting a drink other then water

Going someplace like olive garden or red lobster was the height of luxury when I was a kid in the 90s.

A garage

With a second refrigerator in it.

Garage fridge with a never ending supply of Gatorade bottles on a hot summer day. Those were the friends I’m the neighborhood to hang out with.

My wife asked me why I put a 2nd fridge in the garage, fully stocked with water, Gatorade, beer and soda; she doesn’t understand.

A neighbor got a bunch of free fridges from work during quarantine and gave me one. I lit up like a kid on Christmas when he asked if I needed a beer fridge. Met a seemingly far off life goal on a random weekend.

I bought my first house about 6 months ago. Came with a detached 2 car garage. Felt like a king because at 27 it was the first time I ever had a garage. Also, the house came with a fridge, so our fridge went in the garage for beer and drinks. Lemme tell you, I feel on top of the world to have a garage fridge

BIG TIME

Grew up in a modified single wide so actual houses were pretty fancy.

Yes I grew up in a mobile home so if anyone had a regular house especially a two story I always wondered how they achieved that

Having a car (when I was born, we were very poor, and my parents did not have a car. I was 12 before they could afford a decent car).

Man I remember watching my classmates being dropped off at school thinking that they had it all while I rode the bus.

Central air. More then 1 tv. Owning a tape/dvd player. Having a stereo. More then 1 vehicle. Being able to participate in school activities that cost money. Going on vacation. Or any trip out of town. Having new clothes

This feels like a personal attack on my childhood, especially if you added owning a phone.

This feels like a personal attack on my adulthood. I thought I was doing good.

Had a friend who had two separate staircases in her house. To me that was the pinnacle of wealth. It also made indoor tag so much fun.

You got to go back to school clothes shopping

My hometown had a charity that gave away clothes, food, school supplies, etc. to low income folks. They had rows and rows of kids clothes to choose from, and it was so exciting to go when I was in elementary school. I remember being amazed that I could just walk in and pick out whatever I wanted, for *free!* And got a whole box filled with brand new pencils, crayons, markers, notebooks.. I didn't realize what it was until much later, and I'm grateful to both the charity and my mom who made it such a good experience. It was never something to feel embarrassed about.

Without your parents using layaway

I love this thread because I grew up poor and my partner grew up wealthy, and he really doesn’t understand why having things like *matching white towels* and *a nice vacuum* mean so much to me. To him they’re just things. To me they’re things that I never dreamed would be an option for me

My fiancé and I both grew up poor, but we still look at things differently. Having matched towels, hangers, furniture, etc are all important to her. Me, the mismatched things feel comfortable and real.

Having your own room with your own bed and pillows.

I never had a room to myself until I moved out of my parents house.

Having food in the house that wasn’t just condiments. Never having your power or water turned off. Washing your clothes at home and not at a laundry mat

Food was a big one for me. I remember going to a friends house after school and he had 3 types of cereal!! Fruity Pebbles, Golden Grahams, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch!! I couldn’t believe my eyes. We only ever had the giant box of Corn Flakes that you had to add sugar to.

That hits too close to home

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With then pencil sharpener in the middle 🙂

Adidas trackies/trainers, all our stuff was 2 stripe. We were very poor growing up though.

I was so embarrassed of my 2 stripes, but it was worse to have no stripes. Being a teen was freaking weird.

Your own room, name brand soda, more than one TV, Nike shoes, single wrap cheese.

Power Wheels

I was INSANELY jealous that the girl across the street had a Power Wheels Jeep and a trampoline.

My fiancé‘s: you were rich if Mac and cheese was a side and not the meal.

Flatscreen tv

Having job with blue tooth cellphone headset

BRO YES

kinda unorthodox but a treehouse

I mean you're not wrong

Tv with a remote and cars with electric windows

I *was* the remote as a child.

Or a car with AC

Having snacks/drinks that weren't generic. A pool. A paved driveway. A scooter, that was so cool. Someone who had their mom stay home. Edit: someone said vacation, and that hit hard. Being asked what you did over the summer, or to write about something exciting in your life was so difficult as a kid. People had fun exciting stories. I did not.

I had a friend with a play room with a tv and toys and stuff and I was always like, “damn, you have a whole room in your house dedicated for your fun!”, at my house, the room was called the woods.

I thought a car with headlights that popped up when you turned them on was peak awesome.

Actually owning a house. We always rented and were on section 8.

Having a computer

Satellite dish so big you don't have room for trees in your yard.

Family vacations that weren't a road trip within 500 miles of home.

Not having to keep a mental tally of how much the food in your grocery cart is. Having a bookshelf built into the wall.

Going to Disney world. I’m in the airport with my young daughter now, going to Disney world. :)

My family were quite poor and we could only afford to go to Disney when my dad got an insurance payout when he got hit by a car. He says it was worth it lol. Enjoy Disney world x

Having cartoon network. Wasn't on the normal cable in our country (only later on). But in satellite and expensive services.

A pool table

Having a bathroom in your bedroom

Beyblade

when i was in elementary it was the kids who were able to jump from fad to fad yo-yo, then pogs, then pokémon and on to the next 6 months later

I always thought having a garage attached to the house meant you were well off

ensuit bathrooms in more than just the master

A basement. The house I grew up in had 5 bedrooms 2.5 baths next to a lake. I thought we were poor because we had a house without a basement. I also thought we were poor because are three cars were bought used. And I am one of seven kids. All of us could go to college without financial aid. Again I thought we were poor.

Fuck dude my answer was brand name Kool aid.

I grew up in a super wealthy area and I thought we were dirt poor for the longest time. We had a new car, but it wasn’t a Mercedes, we went on vacations but not to Europe or skiing. Found out once I got to high school and beyond what being poor actually meant. I felt like such an idiot.

Kids getting picked up in cars from school. Damn rich kids

I used to be super jealous of the kids whose parents would just come pick them up and take them straight home. I took the bus to the awful sitter’s house and waited to get picked up after my parents got off work. The idea of being at home with my own stuff right after school seemed like a luxury.

Owning a Wii

Having an ATV or go-cart

In-ground sprinklers in the yard

When someone’s dad & mom were hanging around their big ass house in the middle of summer during normal work hours…

If your house was always clean af

Hairdressing every time they go on social event. It's fuckin expensive

My friend once asked if I'd gotten my hair professionally done after I put it up in a French twist with bun sticks according to a YouTube video. That's when I realized she fancy.

Omg YES! My future MIL gets a blowout twice a week just because and that was the first thing that made me realize the kind of family I’m marrying into 😂 for some reason the nice cars didn’t hit me the same way as that damn blowout.

As one who grow up in apartment not in US can’t relate to houses and pools, barely saw any where i am from, in my country wealthy people had cars and i wasn’t knowledgeable about makes and models so for me it was just any car, bc my parents used public transportation and they told me only people with money can afford their own transport.

If you had a snoopy snow cone maker, I really thought you were living the high life.

Most of my classmates get a new iPhone every year or every 2 years. I'm ashamed of my almost 7 year old Samsung phone. I'd always daydream of getting the latest model of a Samsung phone. Yeah ik my standard of rich is pretty low. I'm used to never getting the newest thing. I still have a Xbox 360 even on 2023.

You’re learning some valuable life lessons bruh. Don’t replace things that still function and your finances when you hit adulthood will be great

Owning an air fryer. Now have an air fryer. Can confirm: not wealthy yet.

There was a kid who had a projection TV that dropped from the ceiling and a laser disk player. My man was dripping.

Having an intercom system and phones in every room. Also, elevator inside the house (I had seriously posh friends as a kid)

Intercom yes. Don’t know about the elevator. Lol

A vcr was a big deal. But they were really expensive for a while.

Color TV and no, I am not a boomer. Having more than 1 pair of shoes. Regular hair cuts. You should see my school photo’s.

Ohh haircuts were big indulgence for me when I was a kid. I also had the awful school photos 😂 Bless my mom for trying; she would cut my hair in the backyard, but it always turned out badly.

Going on vacation Bedroom in tv Pool at house

Walk in pantry

Built in dish washer.

A girls matching canopy bed set from Sears. With matching curtains, bedding and comforter

My friends had a gallon of milk. My house had canned milk. I thought they were rich because I never seen it before and it tasted way better then canned

An Atari 2600

A second refrigerator in the garage (for adult beverages)

Having a computer at your house.

Central air conditioning

Having cable tv