Taken from twitter: “My wife grew up thinking that having water/ice dispensers IN THE FRIDGE DOOR was a life goal.
I grew up thinking if you had a basketball hoop with a clear/plexiglass backboard, you were rich.
What are some things you thought were indicators of wealth when you were a kid?”
Curious to see your responses....

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I hate these questions. I just wanted a family. A kind husband and 4 kids. I came from broken family and I wondered what stable parents would be like. I have the vivid memory of a mom walking her kids to school every morning. We lived in a tough neighborhood. Gangs...Where was mine? Sleeping, no joke. Did I manage it? I wish I could say yes. At 40 hubby found himself in his midlife crises. I have forged ahead and became my 3 kids rock. We are tight. I’m in a good place.

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Congrats! I think is going thru that makes us better moms! You got this!

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Back when I was in high school I worked in room service at the Marriott in Paris (I’m French).
I was mind blown by those fancy people ordering 18€ burgers or just one bottle of beer with a huge room service fee on top of the 200€+ a night/room. I was fantasizing that they were world travelers on glamorous vacations in Paris with no money worry in the world.
Now I realize that they were people like me now who had to spend the night in their dumb hotel room eating there while churning slides instead of discovering gourmet nearby restaurant.
I feel sad for them and I am so glad I only realized that later instead of being jaded and disappointed in what the future could hold.

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I have European and Asian heritage and I thought life wasn’t worth living unless you lived in London and Paris. I still love both cities but not sure I can live in either now.

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Buying clothes or ordering food without looking at the price. I always thought that the day I am able to do this, it means I’ve made it.

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A house with a garage and a lawn, chandeliers, having the ability to take care of a pet, a fridge big enough with 2 pull out bottom freezers, ordering things that isn’t the main entree at a restaurant, affording to eat out on vacation and not bringing cup noodles to trips

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An office with a little putting green that shot the ball back to you and clear glass bottles with brown liquor in them.

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Cd changer in the trunk of a ford probe

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Flying first class

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I am from a poor family in a 3rd world country and only 2 people my while village had a personal car.

A car was the absolute epitome of live :)

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A bathtub

International vaca’s, two week skiing holidays, fancy cars and big house.

Any Japanese car.
I come from a country where car import tax is 100%. So, to be able to afford a basic Toyota is a luxury.

Having a garage

I hear you. For me it was having an attached garage

Big TV

Big ass house

For me it was having a relative working outside of the country. I never had anyone who ever left the country so it was huge.

Stealing other people's tweets without giving credit

You sound mad.

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More than 1 "big" car in your house. Big as in a 4x4, 7 passenger car

If you had a real putting green in your yard you were rich. If you had ice sculptures at your parties you were rich. If you had a entrance/gate to your property that was an 8th of a mile from your house you were rich. I miss being rich.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

Taking showers everyday.

m1. having your own car
2. own house
3. Tub in house

(1) A vacation that required flying
(2) Having a car that had no body damage on it
(3) Not having an argument about money
(4) Not having to finance a purchase on a store card
(5) Boombox that had two cassette decks and a CD player so I can record to my heart’s desire

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