Stuff your rich friends had that you didn't growing up

My Guyanese sitters/god family had a LaserDisc machine and a 50" rear projection TV hooked up to a stereo system in their basement family room in like '84 or '85. Despite their house being much smaller than ours, you couldn't tell me them muhfuckas wasn't rich.
 
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Elzo69Renaissance said:
Indoor/ outdoor pools for outdoor swimming pools were a must
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When I was growing up, having an above ground pool was seen as "the shit". One kid on my basketball team had one, that's the "exactly one kid" I knew and we thought he was rich.

Found out later in life that's borderline peasant shit. Having an in-ground joint is where it's at, the bigger the better.
 
konceptjones said:
When I was growing up, having an above ground pool was seen as "the shit". One kid on my basketball team had one, that's the "exactly one kid" I knew and we thought he was rich.

Found out later in life that's borderline peasant shit. Having an in-ground joint is where it's at, the bigger the better.
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Shit man I think at one point 90% of my class had an inground pool in their backyards
 
I still never had a refrigerator with an ice maker/water dispenser 😢

And dunkaroos.... still never tried em

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My cousin had a moped. We still on bikes while this nigga on a mopedI used to thought my aunt, uncle and cousins were rich when I was young. They weren't rich but their house was nice in a great neighborhood with a big living room with a big screen TV and a bar in it
 
T. Sanford said:
My cousin had a moped. We still on bikes while this nigga on a mopedI used to thought my aunt, uncle and cousins were rich when I was young. They weren't rich but their house was nice in a great neighborhood with a big living room with a big screen TV and a bar in it
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Same here. Cousins we used to visit in a pretty decent neighborhood on the east side had a black Trac Eagle II moped stuntin' on us. We were like 12 years old and I had a fuckin Kent KMX bike and this nigga had motorized transportation, I always thought they were paid.
 
Black_Samson said:
The Power Glove.

Only to find out upon finally purchasing my own that it was complete and total trash.

Slot car tracks.

I didn’t realize that it’s a full blown hobby and that the track out the box will never be enough.
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I had a Tyco Nite-Glow slot car track when I was a kid. Used to brag about it at school 'cause pops had bought some extra cars for it, including one dope ass looking van. Just so happened one of my classmates moms was friends with my stepmother, so one day we go over their crib in a much nicer part of town. Her brother had this big ass Tyco Nite Glow set I had only seen in the JC Penny Christmas catalog. Track was big as fuck and had all these turns where you go under parts of the track and everything. My shit was no longer brag-worthy; I was very much humbled by that shit and just knew they had money.

Found a picture of his track. It was this one:

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konceptjones said:
I had a Tyco Nite-Glow slot car track when I was a kid. Used to brag about it at school 'cause pops had bought some extra cars for it, including one dope ass looking van. Just so happened one of my classmates moms was friends with my stepmother, so one day we go over their crib in a much nicer part of town. Her brother had this big ass Tyco Nite Glow set I had only seen in the JC Penny Christmas catalog. Track was big as fuck and had all these turns where you go under parts of the track and everything. My shit was no longer brag-worthy; I was very much humbled by that shit and just knew they had money.

Found a picture of his track. It was this one:

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I got a Scalextric compact set, and that bitch still big as fuck. I priced the cars and they run 30 to 160+. Parts are easily available and seem to marry well with older tracks.

I plan to build a big ass table and set up a the Nur-Ring track one day.


One day.
 
GNS said:
Exactly
By time I came to the US
Friends who were supposedly rich you found out they were just normal
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Interesting. Depending on where you're at in America, things are usually split up along race and class lines, so outside of work situations most poor people really only know other poor people and so on.
 
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