9 FUNNY Items Rich Kids had in the 1980s... that you WANTED

From the hair to the heels, everything about the ‘80s seemed bigger and more daring-to the point where it’s almost laughable! This was the era of the very out there aesthetics, as we often see in wealthy homes where mirrored walls and oversized aquariums were a dime a dozen. If you yearn for that period, come with me and explore 10 hilarious knick-knacks only the rich had in the 1980s.
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[@butterbeanqueen8148]

My aunt and uncle bought a brick house (in the 70’s) with red carpet in the living room. But the piece de resistance was the glitter on the textured ceilings. 😂🤣😂 My little 10 year old heart just swooned. ❤️

[@cynthiablandford6213]

I remember the glitter too! We would call them stars as kids!❤⭐⭐

[@joschmo1007]

When we moved into our current house, every time I'd vacuum, I'd get glitter -- in ever room -- and wonderd what kind of craft-a-holics the crazy people who owned the place before us were. Then I looked up in one of the closets and saw the one place they hadn't removed the popcorn ceiling . . . glittered popcorn ceiling! I'd seen lots of popcorn ceilings, but never with glitter. Ick! They were a little bonkers. Their realtor boasted how smart the man was because he sugared the garden to improve the soil. I guess he didn't pull am Odysseus and salt it, at least!

[@butterbeanqueen8148]

@@joschmo1007 my daughter bought an older home when she was in her 20’s that had all wood ceilings except in the kitchen. It was a little lower and obviously put changed in the 60’s. She had a really pretty light fixture installed that reflected off the ceiling and wanted to add glitter to it. It turned out really cute. And the painter absolutely had a blast doing it. 😂

[@sylviastephens3322]

The house I grew up in had glitter popcorn ceilings😂

[@butterbeanqueen8148]

@@sylviastephens3322 you lucky duck! You lived in the lap of luxury and probably didn’t even realize it. 😂

[@kickthesky]

Basement bars were far from being a rich person's item in Wisconsin. I think half the homes in Milwaukee in the 80s had a basement bar.

[@lisalynnmarie2448]

I live in Michigan, and we also have a finished basement (thanks Dad!) and with it came a bar, pool table, a bedroom, bathroom with a shower, and laundry room. I was the first to inherit the basement bedroom, followed by just about everyone else lol Actually, my sister now owns our parent's home, and my niece is the second generation to make the basement a modern, nice sized basement apartment, minus the pool table, sadly. That was taken over by a living room and ginormous flat screen TV and video game systems lol

[@PatrickFDolan]

Alcoholic states

[@irenec4210]

They were also in many dens and basements on LI NY. Me and my friends used to raid them, as teenagers, One of my friends dads was PAPD and had hundreds of those single serve bottles they serve on airplanes. Good times ..good times,

[@wanderingwhimsy4800]

I went to Wisconsin. They still do ! 😊

[@katie7748]

Then you knew wealthy people. The only houses I ever visited with basement bars were owned by people who were loaded. By loaded I mean upper middle class.

[@51X_D3MON_B49]

I want to go back so bad. I even still only drive 80s vehicles just to keep the nostalgic effect lol.

[@MemoryManor]

Wow! Glad they are still holding up?!

[@user-pinckneysux]

Postal vehicles from ‘87 still deliverin’ in Michigan.🙄

[@1974Muzak]

I want to go back too!!

[@elhombrebilingue]

Me too. I drive an 85 Buick and an 80 Datsun ❤

[@annseabolt6645]

I remember having those toilet lid covers as a child in the 50’s and 60’s. Now all I can think is how nasty and gross they really were

[@MrStar700]

True germ and gross fluid catchers…..🤢 Easier and much cleaner to be able to grab a Lysol or Clorox Wipe, wipe down done.

[@ravenrebel3183]

This

[@Mister_Listener]

As cozy as the look is, Urine and feces would probably get splashed onto the fabric!!

[@shevettejackson.]

I guess no one thought about washing them

[@TiffanyMoore-ze2hs]

I was just thinking that.

[@chrismodski6284]

Finished basements are still popular, including bars. It's been popular since it's been possible.

[@Colorado_Native]

I had a house built in California in the early 90s with the built-in vacuum. It was nice. The main part was in the garage so it was a lot quieter and more powerful, plus the bag was easier to change. Also, less stuff inside to find storage for.

[@docsmctink]

I put one in my home 22 years ago!! Love it!

[@Magnum062]

Grew up in Fresno in the 80s. Our whole neighborhood all had built in vacuums and intercoms. I think it was just a feature of the times when those homes were built.

[@AM-qr4ys]

this makes me laugh bc when i was a kid i was so amazed and jealous that my neighbor had a built in vacuum- i thought it was the coolest thing lol. we had an electrolux which was like 800 bucks and came with a maintence man on dial lol . so we weren’t doing too bad lol but that built in vacuum still has me lol

[@Magnum062]

​@@AM-qr4ys Neat thing is my father sold that home in 2005 and the vacuum system still worked. Oh and still had that giant tv antenna on the roof those old house had.

[@chars437]

Me too the wall vacuum

[@plumber_midge]

I am a plumber in Upstate NY. I cannot believe how many old trailer homes from the 80's had huge jacuzzi tubs in them 😅 I still see them, but they're rarely in usable condition.

[@micheleromaine7782]

Live in a 91 single wide and my master bath has a big round jacuzzi tub and still works great!!

[@jenx5870]

I doubt that the trailers actually had Jacuzzis, which are a brand name. They more than likely had some other brand of jetted tub. Jacuzzi is known for their quality, and that is why they tend to cost more than their competitors. Not all tubs with jets are created equal, and they aren't all Jacuzzis. People have just gotten used to labeling them as such, just like we tend to call all tissues Kleenex, or all bandages Bandaids, regardless of brand name.

[@plumber_midge]

@@jenx5870 exactly. Not to mention you have to be an actual Jacuzzi technician to work on their stuff.

[@strange4change_6]

My mom built her house in ‘91 and she has her jacuzzi with the tile😊

[@JustBree716]

Let's go Buffalo 🦬🦬🦬

[@morticiaheisenberg9679]

Yikes to glass staircases😳. I still want a jacuzzi and the central vacuum. I love the 80s and miss the hell out of it. Best movies and music ever!! But I love the technology we have now.

[@DTD110865]

I'm with you on the glass staircase. The cental vacuum looks interesting, but I'm curious about how you control the speed. Also, what if you suck up something you didn't want?

[@rondas7772]

Best movies . OMG

[@brandonhull2695]

A lot of those "glass"staircases were actually acrylic, and they look like total crap after they were used for a few months. I can also remember as a teen one of my friends had the central vacuum at his house, we frequently used the vacuum to evacuate the pot smoke from his bedroom😂😂.

[@TomikaKelly]

Jacuzzis are hella unsanitary. Just get a regular tub.

[@sugarplumfayreye]

Swatch phones. “Teenager phone” separate phone line.

[@rondas7772]

Yesss lol

[@Dee-jq2ob]

We had everything and we were just middle class, both parents worked and actually saved for what they wanted. Nothing on the list is from a “rich” person, rich had eight thousand foot homes, hired help, vacation homes and a Mercedes Benz or two in the garage.

[@MetsterAnn]

We had an intercom, but it was in the 70s, a normal size house, and we weren’t rich. I guess the people who had the house before us liked tech (such as it was) because there was also a built in bread warmer and trash compacter, things I’d never seen before. FYI: The intercom never stopped anybody from yelling up the stairs.

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

We had an Apple IIC, which was basically only good for playing "Sort the Apples," "Oregon Trail," or printing a dot-matrix style block-letter banner over the course of an hour. :)

[@medicatedmastermind1879]

I liked "lemonade stand" and there was a baking program that taught fractions

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

oh wow--i forgot about that one... good memory!@@medicatedmastermind1879

[@HappyCabezonFish-je4tk]

Omg I almost forgot all about Oregon trail

[@janellcrews6108]

I had a apple ll E lol

[@christineanderson487]

i still have my redwood jacuzzi from 1988. it still works great. a good investment

[@christine4670]

When I was a kid my friends parents had a waterbed!!! We used to sneak in to their bedroom when they were at work and watch TV and eat junk food😁

[@alyzu4755]

I desperately wanted a waterbed when I was a kid! 😂

[@ShawniaMarie]

I had a king size water bed that I slept on the edge! Lol I was 8 loved the bed but it was soooo huge

[@rondas7772]

Yes I remember those days lol

[@markhetz1119]

Omg I still have my waterbed🤣never giving it up

[@user-hb6vn9ym6e]

80s best decade ever ❤❤

[@user-lh9pj5px3i]

I didn't think so at the time but my view has changed 😉

[@user-hb6vn9ym6e]

@@user-lh9pj5px3i oh I bet

[@sheilap7204]

I got married in 1994 and we stayed at a hotel with a heart shaped jacuzzi. We thought we were living large!! 😂😂❤

[@Mister_Listener]

Was that in The Poconos? There were resorts with heart shaped beds and jacuzzis shaped like a champagne glass. Lol!

[@sheilap7204]

@@Mister_Listener no actually it was in the Smokey Mountains. 🏔️

[@Mister_Listener]

@@sheilap7204 what a fun memory. And, it is your 30th anniversary this year, congratulations!! 🍾

[@bigdreamsbullys]

Frieda?

[@nancyberry1039]

We weren't rich, but fairly comfortable. I had the red lips phone in my room & the Mickey Mouse phone was in the family room - LOL. I wish we had central vacuum system instead of the Kirby machines my mom loved. I hated dragging that thing up & down the stairs. It weighed twice as much any other brand of upright vacuum back then. My uncle had a home bar but it wasn't in the basement. He added a huge room extending out from back of the one story house, which served as a recreational/TV room (with a pool table, pinball, & air hockey). I loved to visit my cousins & hang out in that room all day - so fun!

[@paulallen8495]

Didn't they sell those novelty phones at Spencer's Gifts and were given away free with magazine subscriptions?

[@butterbeanqueen8148]

You had a Kirby. You were rich. 😂

[@Number6_]

​@@butterbeanqueen8148$1500 for a vacuum cleaner. Solid metal. Best I have seen. Not for that kind of money.

[@karenjewell6543]

We had central vac..my 2 yr old would feed it cheese slices,toys,money & keys

[@BEACHDUDE71]

I had different phones and answering machine, my uncle had an intercom, they hardly use, they would just yell 😂

[@recycledapathy7411]

We weren't anywhere close to rich (blue collar rural), but we had an intercom in our house. It went from our house to my grandma's next door so that Grandma could call over to us if she needed something. She didn't have, or want, a phone in her house, and the intercom was cheaper than a monthly phone bill. I think the intercom itself was cheaper than a phone, actually. My dad bought it at Radio Shack and it was like, one step up from a walkie talkie in sound quality. Aside from its actual purpose, the other thing that it ended up being used for was when my brother or I were at Grandma's and we'd call over to the other one to see when supper was ready so that whoever was with Grandma could run to our house and get some supper for her.

[@Mister_Listener]

Apparently there is a tanker container somewhere in the world (France maybe?) that fell off a barge, and it contained Garfield Phones sometime in the 80’s and Garfield phones occasionally wash up on shore. It creeped people out for many years til someone solved the mystery. Lol.

[@Boxermom0317]

That's hilarious! I had a Garfield phone. Every time it rang, Garfield said something different. I had to finally turn that function off because it was annoying the crap out of me. :)

[@Mister_Listener]

@@Boxermom0317 lol i never knew anybody with one! The mickey Mouse body phone and snoopy phone “ring a bell” in my ancient memories of the 80’s, but not Garfield. My parents had ROTARY lol and those fancy/novelty phones never worked without touchtone service, which cost more money back in the day. Oh boy, thats funny.

[@Boxermom0317]

@@Mister_Listener rotary phone! Lol. 🤣

[@victoriawilliams2786]

Forgot all about my red lips phone! Thank-you for reminding me.

[@TheBackStory22]

I remember when jacuzzis first came out and two couples from the Bay Area were drinking and other things in the jacuzzi and passed out, no timers back then, so the jacuzzi kept heating them up...when finally found, dead of course, they were described as "ball park franks"

[@phife1878]

"They plump when you cook 'em!"

[@irenec4210]

Oh geez .. I turned blue once when I stayed in a jacuzzi to long when drinking. In the 80s. I was in a while when my friend left for five minutes (they said ..when they came back I was blue. I was fine after they took me out. But ..if they weren’t there ….

[@markhetz1119]

I think this is just a myth Jacuzzis don’t keep getting hotter and hotter🤭 until You are cooked to death They all have a temperature guide on them even the old ones

[@Deborahtunes]

Ewwww...

[@TheBackStory22]

Had a construction company back in the day and one house we rebuilt had a room that was built out over the water in Malibu (couldn't do that now with all the environmental BS), anyway, the room had a glass floor so you could watch the waves and water underneath. It even had a panel that opened up with stairs (not glass) for access to the water or just to catch the ocean mist. Those were the days!

[@Cruvygirlsrule77]

That sounds amazing and so dynasty like… 😊

[@ThiccChickCrisha]

That's BADASS

[@sanonymous9812]

I didn’t know anyone with a round bed , but knew a few people with waterbeds. Those were the epitome of luxury to me!

[@Deborahtunes]

I never understood the attraction to waterbeds. As it turned out, they weren't very good for your back, and were hard to get out of. Former landlords of mine had one. Once when I was babysitting for them, I laid down on it while trying to get one of their children to sleep. I had a hard time getting off of it, and my back was hurting. I never did it again...

[@Plan9-3127]

The house i grew up in that my parents bought in 84 had carpet in the kitchen and gold wallpaper with felt textured black diamonds on it! I'll never forget that wallpaper and how hideous it was. 😂😂

[@rondas7772]

😂😂😂

[@TomikaKelly]

Carpet in the kitchen sounds like a moldy nightmare. 😂

[@heathermichael3987]

I was staying at my rich friends house , they had an intercom. Anyways, her mom asked me to call my friend down to dinner and I said ok , and went to get her and the mom let out a sigh and walked over the intercom and called her down. I stopped not really in shock but realized I had seen something but didn’t know what it was . 🤷‍♀️

[@heathermichael3987]

The only thing I could respond with was my mom has a cell phone in her car . My dad won’t have an intercom in his house 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[@eMegMBea]

Everyone remember homes that had those glass block walls?? I used to DREAM that I'd some day live in a home with a glass block wall! 😂 Used to draw out "home plans" and put in all tue cool 80s stuff - the block wall, a catwalk, semi-sunken living room, fully decked out finished basement! I thought the Weekend at Bernie's house was tre' chic 😂

[@Rebel9668]

Actually, intercom systems COULD be faked. You'd pick up your phone, dial your own number and hang up. The phone would ring, someone else in the house would pick up making the phone stop ringing then you picked up the receiver and talked to them on your phone. Worked like a charm.

[@stephanieallen6406]

Yes we did that too all the time

[@RLR117]

My husband and I grew up in the 80's, and I actually never knew this at the time. We had a very small house though, so it was never necessary. The first I ever heard about it was when my husband told me his family would always do this when he was a kid. Especially when his dad would call from the bedroom to have one of the kids bring him a Pepsi. Lol

[@Rebel9668]

@@RLR117 🤣🤣

[@4mySweetheart369]

I forgot about that! We did that too!

[@melissaweintraub5854]

I never heard of that, but what a good idea!

[@darlamccracken4062]

We had a round king size bed when i grew up, which i took when i moved out. It was cool, but yes, getting sheets was impossible, so you just got squares and tucked em in. It was also weird because you would fall asleep and roll a little and both your head AND your feet would be hanging off 😂. The tufted headboard brought back memories!!!

[@emilykeegan4345]

Was born in 1980 and I was obsessed with Shelly Duvall s fairy tale theatre movies and my favorite one was Rapunzel mainly because Rapunzel when the evil witch took her away and locked her up in the tower.. she had a huge giant round bed.. I'm 43 now and still dream of having a huge round bed lol ❤

[@LindyQ]

​@@emilykeegan4345I just found all of those on KZbin recently!!!

[@darlamccracken4062]

@@emilykeegan4345 it's cool for about 5 minutes til you gotta make the bed lol

[@kcaviatrix]

Most of the early items were 70s items. The poorest girl I knew had a hamburger phone. Many novelty phones came free with a Sports Illustrated subscription. The intercoms were in older houses, and rarely were fully functional. The central vac systems were in middle classed, nicer homes, but the wealthy had Rainbow, Oreck and Kirby vacuums.

[@markhetz1119]

We had a Kirby vacuum cleaner I hated that damn thing it was so heavy

[@PrincessDiana1220]

We had a Kirby vac and we were not wealthy.

[@ricklodestein1101]

My grandparents had an intercom system. It was very high tech. It had a built-in radio. Not only could you talk or page people. But you could listen to each individual room. In radio mode. It was cool walking throughout the house while listening to it.

[@Ephemeral2023]

That skull says all you need to know about those glass staircases.

[@markdanner4900]

I am a late 40s. I wish it were back to the same. Technology has so messed everything up. My opinion. Hope I haven't hurt someone's feelings. Thanks for the video.

[@72seasonsofwither]

I had a Kermit The Frog novelty phone in my room, but I would hardly call my 80's upbringing "privileged" by any means. Same goes for the bar and mini barber shop we had in the basement of our 70's home at the time. My dad at the time was a barber and cut the hair of myself and my sisters back in the day, so that's why he set up a mini shop in our basement.

[@LinneaSanchez]

I wish I had an intercom system and central vacuum in my house now.

[@emilyjoeblow9755]

🤣 🥰 😂 I absolutely loved the Ready For The World reference!🤣😂 I was looking to see if anyone else caught that & I don’t see any other comments mentioning it. Anyway, I just had to let you know that I caught it and sincerely appreciate it!! I was just listening to them last week. Great work buddy! ❤

[@lianalonge1984]

I live in a 1984 3-level condo which I’ve fully renovated over a 12-year period. The foyer is on 1st floor; half bath/living/dining/kitchen/huge deck on the 2nd floor; and bedrooms & full baths on the 3rd floor. But I just couldn’t bring myself to get rid of the faux wood NuTone Scovill intercom system with AM/FM radio which still works! 😂 It’s just too nostalgic. I even have the original instruction booklet. 🥰

[@candyh9876]

The 80's were great and I'm proud to say I never dreamed of or wished for any of those "desired" things !!

[@2okaycola]

Why not?

[@mark-xx1lt]

The intercom system I didn't see as an elite or rich thing. My parents built a new house in the mid 1960s & had an intercom system put in. I always thought it was just because it was 2 story & and it worked better than yelling. Thanks for the video.

[@DTD110865]

I know people in Bayside, Queens who have an intercom system in their house dating back to the 1960's. As far as I know, it was there before they moved in. By the 1980's, novelty phones weren't just for the rich. Jacuzzis also pre-dated the 1980's.

[@theclearsounds3911]

Same for my best friend in the 70's, and his house was middle class. Loved that intercom, though. Very elaborate with a radio, and you could pipe music into any room in the house.

[@LemonThyme1933]

The intercoms in this video look decades older than the 80s. I knew people with them in the 60s. I was born in the 60s, so I wasn't alive if they existed sooner.

[@DTD110865]

@@theclearsounds3911 The people I knew who had one didn't have a radio attached to their intercoms.

[@theclearsounds3911]

@@DTD110865 If you do a web search for nutone 2057-2058 intercom, and specify just pictures, you will see the model my best friend had, along with some pictures of the remotes.

[@fishercourt]

I remember the basements with Marble-like materials that were large square tiles in the floor, in a checkerboard pattern. The dark wood paneling, ping pong tables and the dark wooden sturdy bar, that looked like the one on the sitcom“Cheers”. I do remember the faux leather stools and the burgundy colored carpet.

[@StamperWendy]

I've never seen a glass staircase but they still sell those same deer! 9:43

[@thecajunphoenix]

Those glass staircases are ridiculously high-maintenance to where you have to walk barefooted to avoid scratching or cracking the staircases!

[@CrimeSleuthin]

The 6 foot satellite dish was a status symbol, as was having a double VCR (to record rented movies) and one of the first and most expensive CD Players. We had all these plus the intercom system, surround sound system, and jacuzzi. Dad had Klipsch speakers everywhere. My parents waited on getting a computer mainly because they were pouring money into everything else electronic. Ours was a music and movie loving family. One of the funniest memories is mom's matching bathrooms. One was done all in pink, one was all red and yellow and the other was avocado green. Each bathroom was fully carpeted with lots of fluffy towels and the fluffy toilet seat covers etc. Fluffy/comfort was also considered a symbol of opulence. Those were the days! I'd go back in a heart beat.

[@johnp139]

Only tapes had copy protection systems, so that didn’t work!

[@CrimeSleuthin]

@@johnp139 we would put tape over the hole and then it would let us record over the tape contents. Copying rented movies was just as easy, we had quite the library at home lol

[@frankrizzo4460]

We lived in South Florida in the 80s and had a pool and an intercom system in the house and we weren't rich. Lower middle class at that time. And my Dad was the only one working in the household.

[@raestalgia]

Coming from somebody who would tag along with their mom in the 1980's to their "rich" friend's house, I would like to add a few other things to that list. You know they have money if they have paintings on the wall that lit up. They have one of those oil rain lamps that change color, but most importantly, they not only had regular cable,but they have the premium channels as well like HBO, and Showtime. Yeah, that's when you know they are comfortably off in the 1980's, and not broke a** like my family was.

[@CharlesW92]

I remember my neighbor in the late 80s had a cell phone and all the kids thought he was the richest man on the block. 😂

[@kaytlinbartynski2046]

My family had a basement bar. As did my aunt. We also had an intercom in our new home. It was hardly ever used.

[@clintcountryman4849]

Oh fart!! I never thought about gettin sheets for a round bed lol

[@chiarac3833]

They weren't that hard to find.

[@jensing6889]

Ferris Buellar’s parents were rich… then again that does kind of explain his boldness maybe😂

[@velvetbear7184]

lol no

[@rondas7772]

Novelty phones, I remember those, so cool

[@jonawesolowski-thecommunit9968]

Our family built a home in 1974. We had the intercom system, central air, and the central vacuum system.

[@blacbutaflyy2]

We had velvet wall paper with flowers in the bathroom of our house in the 80s . I remember always hearing visitors say how beautiful the bathroom was. It was pink black and silver. The toilet,sink and tub were pink with sliding doors and entire wall was a mirror. 😂

[@heidibaker1796]

My parents bought our house in the 1960s. It had an intercom and central vacuum cleaner and we were far from being rich.

[@tanayanottanyabrooks8085]

I grew up in the 80s. I love videos like this. I wonder do the young people think these things are corny😂😂😂😂 I thought the items were cool.

[@user-sf5hc8ky4z]

OMG! We had the intercom! Also, my uncle had the mini-bar in the basement. So much wood panneling! It brings back so many memories.

[@jennieepp8263]

We had a central vac in our house. It was really convenient and worked great. I miss it. My best friend had an intercom when her family moved into their new home. I thought it was pretty cool and fancy back then. Didn’t know anyone else who had one. I bought myself an awesome neon phone. It could be set to light up when it rang or turned on to stay on. I loved the phone!

[@ANNEMARGARET0319]

Growing up, we didn’t have a finished basement… So my Dad put a bar in what we called the parlor (our living room) 🤣 and it definitely wasn’t a rich person thing…. they weren’t that pretty, and they were usually in a wood panel room… And the bars had bumpers all the way around 😂

[@grannyweatherwax8005]

I knew multiple people back then who had intercom systems and I don't think a single one worked. I always thought they'd be so cool, but whenever I mentioned it, I was always told they were broken or something. I even knew people with central vacuums and again people didn't actually use them. Just had a regular vacuum instead.

[@sweetc832002]

The novelty phone is the only thing on this list that I never stopped wanting.

[@MoonwolfeConsulting]

Oh, the Garfield phone I always wanted, but could never afford.

[@FLgurl407]

Forget it. If you had the Mickey Mouse phone you were a baller. No round beds but high bed. It was so high they had fancy wooden stairs to get into it. Even as a kid I thought it was cool, but knew it was dumb.

[@chelleb70]

I had the Mickey Mouse phone 😂 actually I still have it and while I don’t use it it actually works!

[@Powerduo88]

Those neon lights actually were in the homes of the rich ppl in the movies...lol! Anyway, my aunt and uncle had a basement bar...they weren't rich either. We were def not rich but had central a/c and heating ,Atari and games, and bought new vehicles. We really need to define "rich" for this video. I think there are diff definitions...Lol!

[@Sarika38]

The only item from the 1980’s that the “rich” had that I wanted was a pair of Doc Martens. Didn’t care about any of the other stuff,although I loved the neon art!😁

[@vaneskak1579]

The intercom was a great idea, if you lived in a large home , before we all had cell phones. We had one. It was kinda fun❤

[@invisigoth777]

sorry to blow up your feed, but that image you showed, with the "realistic" device, brings back memories of time spent in radio shack..the computers were "Tandy".. but the cool stuff, like musical equipment, and headphones..DJ stuff..the stuff i bought..were "realistic"

[@christinamathews7012]

Finally someone else who was tortued with the Tandy😂😂😂😂

[@deborahbaker4770]

Rich kid’s aren’t the only people who had anything like what is in this video ‼️

[@sstephens2175]

We didn't have popcorn ceilings we had beautiful textured designs on our ceilings. The drywallers were professionals who added artistic designs to the ceilings. There were many different designs to choose from. The texture on the ceiling was hand done, not blown on like pop corn ceilings are. I never saw popcorn ceilings till I got grown and moved away. I call it assembly line, cookie cutter houses. I had no idea that what I grew up with was a status symbol, because that's just the way it was done where I lived as a teen in the 80's.

[@chandamara]

My family and I definitely were not rich but we did have a scaled back intercom and I had the red lips phone.

[@twintwo278]

We had an intercom system why I don't know. We lived in a three bed 2 bath 1100 sq ft house, one story😂😂😂my dad was always installing something

[@Inmatesixdoublefive321]

My alcoholic dad still has a finished basement with a fully functioning bar. 😂

[@ftumi]

When you started talking about novelty phones. I was expecting added to what you said the clear neon phones!!! Everyone every teen had to have one

[@krisr1704]

back in the 80's my dad and brothers put an intercom system in our house ...its was an 800-900 sq ft house LMAO (and we were not rich ) if u went to the intercom in any room u were within 10 ft of somebody LMAO so funny...and i also remember waterbeds were the thing back then ...my sis and i had twin waterbeds in one tiny room lmao and also we had a pool table on our enclosed back porch that my dad built for the pool table specifically... but what i wanted the most back then was my sisters wham! poster i was 5-6 yrs old and in love with george michael lmao i wish i could be a kid again sometimes but then remember how much i wanted to be a grown up lol humans are never happy with just being lmao

[@mrsvickigriffin]

Built in central vacuum systems can still be had really they are underrated not having to lug any type of machine around the house is nice

[@johnp139]

Apparently just like not having to use any punctuation whatsoever.

[@andrearace1168]

I love the novelty phones and the hear-shaped Jacuzzi's! Might have to include them in my home someday 😂

[@thecajunphoenix]

The heart-shaped Jacuzzi, absolutely. Too bad we've all since moved on from landline phones, though.

[@andrearace1168]

@@thecajunphoenix I feel like I would have to get one set up so I could have my white Salvador Dali lobster phone fake though 🥲

[@Cookie-kk9dc]

The home my husband and I bought 2 years ago was totally redone. It has a " basement bar" for me it was a selling point. 😅😂

[@chrismodski6284]

In the late 1990s I sold Kirby vacuums and saw a few central vacs. First one I saw confused me because we hadn't been coached on such things.

[@Galloway278]

My dad was poor but by golly he had a basement bar and a jacuzzi. He never paid child support or helped with a damn thing for my brother or me but at least we got to play hide and seek behind his stocked bar and sit in the fancy jacuzzi.

[@Youtubeparolee]

We had a computer but it wasn’t an Apple Lisa. We didn’t have round beds but waterbeds. We had all those things. I still remember taking Jack Daniel’s miniatures out of the blue and orange bar.

[@mittens4kittens-ym4or]

I remember when a well-off friend in the late 80's got an early version of the cell phone. It was as heavy as a brick, and it would often cut out if the microwave was on at the same time. :D

[@invisigoth777]

i didn't have a round bed, the rooms looked wonderful ..but i did have a waterbed, a free flow..my Apple products were an .. Apple 2e, a Mac 1984, and a Mac Fx..then in the 90's an Apple powerbook All apple products were over priced..and still are

[@MoonwolfeConsulting]

I still miss my waterbed. 😢

[@darlenegattus8190]

Garfield phones ❤

[@lennywright5655]

I grew up in California in the 80s and I never noticed anyone with a central vacuum, maybe I wasn’t paying attention. I also never met anyone with a basement bar but, that’s probably because it was a rarity to have a basement in California at all, definitely had friends whose parents had an above ground bar.

[@Gen_X_Rosey]

We weren't wealthy, but in the 90s, I had a Corvette phone. It didn't have a base, just a button that when pressed down, hung up the phone, and when it rang, it was the annoying noise that made it sound like a honking horn.

[@Cristinact]

The Novelty Phones, yesss!

[@24goodbuddy]

Remember the Garfield phones?

[@Liminal_Galaxie]

waterbeds, wood paneling, Garfield phone, mirror wall, popcorn ceiling, colorful formica countertops, the Kirby home vacuum, the Commodore 64. 1980s: I was there and all I got was this lousy Hypercolor t-shirt

[@invisigoth777]

Me and my best friend rigged up special "phones" using the regular phone lines, where we had a mic and a speaker, and could play our newest cassettes to each other it was probably illegal, but we got away with it for years

[@johnp139]

WHAT???

[@DumbyDerek302]

I grew up in a working class area, so I didn't know anyone who had any of this.

[@wandawells5596]

We weren't rich. We did have an intercom, until my mom got tired of people actually using it. 😂

[@sarcasticcat4982]

Built in vacuums were from the seventies at least. My grandparents had one in their home.No.one else i knew did.

[@wapartist]

Basement Bars were and are awesome!!

[@jfly919]

OMG, we had the NuTone intercoms, when I saw it I screamed.😂 my parents had a Jacuzzi (6 person) in their room, not just bathroom but bedroom too. And we had another big one out back on the deck. They both were pinkish marble to match the dusty rose carpet inside, lol it was a very 80’s aesthetic 😂😂😂.

[@ShawniaMarie]

Cell phones where huge bricks in the 80s and cost several $ a minute!

[@irenec4210]

Me and my sisters had a red phone that lit up when it rang ..the whole phone not just a light on it. We called it our bat phone.

[@Power_On_Technology]

Rich back when I was a kid was floor to ceiling shag carpets

[@loracline4655]

Central vacuums we’re stupid and actually harder than normal ones considering you had to still lug the hose to every room and hook it up. IMO anyway The novelty phones were awesome though lol

[@2okaycola]

I loved going over to people’s houses to see all this cool stuff ❤❤❤❤❤ thank you for having great taste!! Omg we have the apple phone!!

[@sweet_pea]

Ooo intercoms! We had those in my old house. I was so excited to use them when we moved in.

[@hoodoocanyonsyndicate]

I was 16 in 1984 so I was right there. I had a rich girlfriend she had her own phone line, that was a sure sign a girl was pampered. We had a central vacuum system and it was pretty cool my parents still have it and use it.

[@musicnerd72]

My grandma lived in a plain one level ranch house. Even it had a central vacuum. Guess it was just a feature of the time.

[@solosureshot]

We had intercoms in our home in the 80s. Super cheap. You buy these 2 boxes you plug in to the wall outlet and just push the button to talk. Granted it was only for the 2 devices so dont know if you could connect more of them. But they werent that expensive. Dad plugged his up in his room and one downstair in the hall. It also had an alarm on it that was really loud so in the mornings to wake up me and my brother he would just push that button to wake us up to get ready for school.

[@DM0317]

The central vacuum cleaner was a great idea

[@tj921able]

I had a friend who had an intercom system in their house. It was rather nice. They also played music over it. I listened to our local classical station on it at the time.

[@dawnelder9046]

We bought a house that had central vac installed in 64 when the house was built. We bought it in the 90s. And we were not rich. When we sold it to retire 6 years ago, it still worked. We did half to replace the hose. But still a fraction of the price of buying a new vacuum. Not sure what the first owners paid to have it installed. However, when you think of the cost of replacing several vacuums over the years, it likely ended up cheaper in the long run.

[@kimlockett307]

My grandparents used an intercom to talk to us when my family lived in their basement. This was early 90s, though.