Things Rich Kids Had in the 1980s...That You Wanted!

The 1980s was a time when everything was changing. Some kids always seemed to be on the cutting edge of technological advances and fashion trends, and they always seemed to have expensive tastes. We all grew up knowing someone who had it all, it might have been one particular friend or maybe it was just a random kid who was spoiled rotten. So, let’s take a look back at some things that meant you were rich during the 1980s.
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[@JeffMeadowsOutdoors]

I didn’t have a single item from this video. In junior high school I thought that if I did, then I would be one of the cool kids. Now I am much older and realize that having expensive things wouldn’t have changed anything. I am thankful for the wonderful life I did have - A loving family and everything I needed.

[@Entolyfik]

I can see that God has been Good to you...The Love is more precious than ALL material things that could EVER be produced, tangible OR intangible!

[@lmb1962]

Well, I did have a Garfield phone, but I was not rich until I found Jesus.

[@doodlebob3758]

You got to live without smartphones and the internet. As a zoomer in the thick of it, you cant even fathom how lucky you are.

[@sebastian3004]

It think it would be alright if you didn't get beat up while growing up ROFL

[@KnightOnBaldMountain]

@@doodlebob3758I agree. Sometimes I wonder if young people have ever seen clouds in daytime or stars at night. Always looking down at the phone. Even while walking.

[@evpilot]

A guys parents in my high school owned a furniture business. He got his pilots license at 16. At 17, they bought him a Cessna 172. I would go up with him once a week. I’m now a retired airline pilot. Glad it rubbed off on me.

[@GenXfrom75]

That's very cool ❤

[@miketemple7686]

Tubular man!

[@Istandby666]

​@@miketemple7686 Wrong era...rofl

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

doesn't sound like anything to be complaining about

[@RemoWilliams1227]

​@@Istandby666no tubular was definitely 80s

[@stevecrow3075]

We didn't have much growing up. But we had love that's more than anyone could ask for.❤️😊

[@momma3204]

@stevecrow3075 Thank you for that beautiful comment, we were the same, didn’t have much, never had the cool clothes, sneakers or fancy refrigerator, we lived in a small house, mom was a ‘housewife’ dad went off to work each morning, we were a close family and us kids grew up with a lot of LOVE and there was always ‘supper’ on the table at 6:00 each night. Good growing up back then 😊😊😊certainly nothing any amount of money can buy ❤Enjoy your weekend

[@user-wy1dl2me2p]

Yes that's great.

[@stevecrow3075]

@@momma3204 thank you for your kind words. May you and your family have a wonderful holiday.

[@momma3204]

@@stevecrow3075 Same to you and your family 💕☺️🎄

[@oreally8605]

Absolutely sir. ❤❤❤

[@westfield90]

The 80’s were the happiest period in my life. Not that I had any of items in this video but I had the best parents ever who provided whatever we needed and gave us the happiest childhood anyone could wish for. Thank you Mom and Dad. Will always love you.

[@spiegeltn]

My family was well off, we had an intercom system, a BMW and a brand new bass fishing boat in the garage all paid for by my fathers 6 businesses that were thriving in the 80's. The house I grew up in was featured in Americas top 100 log homes book, we still have it to this day. My entire life was a lie and a cruel joke and all this was ripped away from us by my father "befriending" one con artist sociopath all in the name of Christianity. Ever read the book of Job? Well that's my family and no one still gives a crap about us to this day. True story... the false hope is real.

[@anneonthephone]

AMENNN!! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@rdancranston]

My parents were not even close to being rich. But I can say I had everything I needed and appreciated all that I had...thanks Mom and Dad..for everything

[@staceyl.thienel1499]

Ditto for my situation!!

[@the_kombinator]

Did you have a computer? I really wanted one, I didn't get it until I was 12 or 13. And it was already like 7 years old.

[@rdancranston]

No parents could barley afford a used type writer!...I think of all my friends only 2 had actually computers....the rest had Ataris..😆thankfully my friends dad had a computer that if I was really pressed he would let me use for school.stuff but it wasn't needed much at all.

[@the_kombinator]

@@rdancranston Most of my friends had computers, one had a 486/66, and one JUST got a Pentium 100 the week before I moved out. Another friend in the building had a 33 MHz 386 (I think it was actually a DX) and my "poor" friends had a 286. Mid 90s, yo!

[@rdancranston]

I was all 80s...at college in 93 I had a friend in the dorms that a computer. That blew my mind. He played Doom on it more than anything else😆...in 87 I had several friends that had their own phones in their bedroom...that was so cool to me. I asked my mom and dad if I could have one and they were like uuuuuuh.... No. Unless you pay for the separate line....so no phone for me. I know that sounds lame but that's just the way it was for me..🤗

[@MapleNachiman]

The "rich" kids in the suburb where I grew up weren't rich, their parents were highly in debt. When the recession hit they all lost their homes. Meanwhile living within our means, we kept our home and had food in our belly. A lesson that has served me well in life.

[@stuartedwards6996]

Yeah, people take things at face value way too often (I have been guilty of this also). We must remember not everything is as it appears to be.

[@JasonStutz]

I think you are confusing the middle class for the rich.

[@candysmith8724]

I grew up in the suburbs, we were middle class. Our home was newer construction, but only 1823 SF. There were some kids who lived in mansions/estates I went to school with, those were who I thought were the "rich" kids.

[@scruf153]

big/expensive gifts was all ways at Christmas 10 seed bike color TV stuff like that

[@SnoopyReads]

They "ALL" lost their homes? I think you're being hyperbolic. Claiming all rich people are in Debt up to their eyeballs is just a way the poor cope

[@lauraalmasan3930]

My grandparents had an intercom system, not because they were rich but because my grandfather was an electrician 😊

[@SnoopyReads]

My house had an intercom installed in the 60s or 70s and by the 80's it didn't even work, so I guess we were elite status and didn't even know it

[@TheTrueheartTribe]

@@SnoopyReadsit was probably a super easy fix too, but nobody made an attempt thinking it was too expensive

[@SnoopyReads]

@@TheTrueheartTribe intercoms are stupid anyway unless your house is ginormous.

[@loki2240]

My parents had an intercom system, but they were just well to do. The next neighborhood over had upper middle class and low end rich people. My friend's parents had a bar, jukebox, and big screen TV in their basement. They let us drink after our high school football games, and his dad drank with us while watching boxing matches on pay per view. Another friend in that neighborhood had the Neo Geo video game console ($650). Neither was a spoiled jerk (at least not that I saw).

[@D-Fens_1632]

That's something rarely talked about, "Things kids had because of their parent's jobs." Everyone knew a kid with unlimited access to the most random but often treasured things. Sometimes it was just having a skill, like the dad who could build a real tree house that wasn't a death trap of tetanus and broken arms.

[@Cre8ivtouch]

How I miss clothing made in USA from 100% cotton.

[@freedomrings1420]

I only buy 100 percent cotton.

[@lovly2cu725]

BUT ITS MADE ELSEWHERE NO MORE FACTORIES IN THE USA@@freedomrings1420

[@freedomrings1420]

@@SODMGGOKU LOL 😂, luckily i live in Florida and barely wear anything else but shorts , I have real nice Carhartt jeans and other clothes I bought when I was up north and I hardly wear them. But I'll never throw them out.

[@SnoopyReads]

Polo shirts made of cotton look like shite after one wearing. The collar is all floppy and wrinkles everywhere

[@SnoopyReads]

@@SODMGGOKU I used to wear Lacoste all the time, cotton polos just aren't my style anymore

[@Jayflo7]

Members Only Jackets were another sign. I did not have all of the things on this list but I had a few. And it just makes me more grateful for my wonderful parents.

[@staceyl.thienel1499]

I never had a MO jacket. Had a Swatch watch and a London Fog coat (I'd prefer the MO jacket 😅)

[@holsen2]

I came from an upper- middle class family and I can think of at least 2 things that we had in the 80's, missing from your list- an inground pool and a big satellite dish. We also had a big travel camper, and I hate camping to this day.

[@Momsdailyagenda]

We had an Intercom system in our house, It was our Mom screaming at us 😂

[@kimwarner1681]

Yep…in our house we had the mother of all intercoms…😂😂

[@kenbob1071]

My rich aunt had one. I remember being amazed by the fact that they even needed one.

[@ftumi]

Mine used it for spying listening in lol. Just figure that out couple years ago

[@Plan9-3127]

I just wanted to take a moment and say Thank You for these videos you do. Being a kid in the 80's was absolutely magical and I look back on it with great nostalgia. The videos you do, along with the pics seem to capture the decade the way it should be seen. So once again sir... Thank You! I always look forward to whatever you post...

[@Mr.Peanut1986]

You know what movie resonates with me the most as representing the 80's? 'Course you don't, you don't know me and didn't ask. However, I'm gonna tell you... It's "Little Monsters". I'm pretty sure it was made in the 90's but seems to scream 80's. I think, because of Fred Savage. To me, he was so "80's". God bless you, and be good to yourself.

[@kimwarner1681]

We had everything on this list, my dad never let us forget how fortunate we were & if we took it for granted , he had no problem taking some things away. My brothers had things taken away on the daily 😂 I always appreciated everything & took care of my things.

[@flargosa]

That was a great time to be a kid, no smartphones and internet. Just simple fun with friends.

[@jamesday9701]

One thing I think should be added to the list is the home stereo system, especially if the kids had it in their room. I'm talking about the ones that sat directly on the floor with the dual big speakers with the turn table, dual cassette player, and AM/FM stereo receiver that sat atop the record/cassette storage area.

[@lisamoag6548]

College in the 1980’s ❤sound systems = excellent parties.

[@kenbob1071]

Don't forget about Walkmans.

[@pequodexpress]

And the rosewood dampening panels.

[@dannyhensley1100]

Mine had an 8 trac player

[@christophe3281]

Hahahah yes! I remember that! My mom had a pioneer system but it had a 25 disc CD changer if I recall correctly. It was huge, or it looked huge maybe because I was just small. It was loud. Their friends would come over and they would drink beer and play pool in the basement hahahah oh the times

[@oreally8605]

Scott Zanderman. High school. 1984. Parents in the funeral business. Drove his 1979 Pace car trans am to school and some days would drive his Mom's 1981 Corvette to school. Always was kind to me. His future was set by his parents. Well, we're in our late 50s, Scott. I pray 🙏 everything is still going well for you...

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

This rich kid who went to school with us had a 67 candy apple red Corvette, a Jeep, and a 280ZX before he even turned 16. 😮

[@douglasb.1203]

Basically doxed for clicks.

[@real_exodus]

1984, I was in the10th grade. Homie _definitely_ came from money having all that back then.

[@LearnAboutFlow]

Once you read what a scam the funeral industry is you can see why they had $$$

[@oreally8605]

​@@douglasb.1203I'm telling the absolute truth. I don't care if people click or not.

[@michaelnomura5196]

I remember when MTV used to have concerts in the 1980’s. Now they only have drama.

[@kenbob1071]

I was rich in the 80s. I had Fancy Feast for every dinner.

[@jeffdurall8353]

I graduated in 1985 from high school and didn't have a single thing on this list. Best years of my life!

[@chrhadden]

another one from the blank generation. in my area guys your age were always trying to trick me and con me out of shit. mean mo fos

[@jeffdurall8353]

Sorry to hear that. My friends and I were never that way to others. We were the fun group.

[@pamelasmith6221]

Same here!! 85 was a great year. I’m so glad to grow up when I did.

[@pamelasmith6221]

@@chrhadden Shame. It was a good time to grow up.

[@anneonthephone]

I'm truly jealous of earlier generations. I'm sad I don't get to teleport in a time machine 😢😢😢

[@GRosa250]

My best friend’s family had a lot more money than mine in the 80’s. The family had four sons and I was best friends with two of them. Their whole life appeared wonderful from the outside. They always had the newest things, they had a beautiful new house and their parents had multiple new cars. But the whole thing was a facade. The parents were hard core alcoholics and would have major fights on a regular basis. It caused their sons to have their own issues with addiction and the two oldest sons ended up dying in their early 40’s. Sometimes having to much money is not a good thing.

[@TJ-bu9zk]

Sometimes, but the exact same scenario happens more in impoverished homes. Fighting over not being able to make the rent, screaming over money spent they didn't have, struggling with drugs and alcohol problems, being hangry/tired from long hours at multiple jobs..

[@otakuConn]

It’s not the money, it’s the people.

[@n.ll.8796]

Like that celebrity that died recently he had so much money he never ran out . Dead at 54 gone too soon !

[@omnipop4936]

@@n.ll.8796 Matthew Perry?

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

I'm pretty sure the money didn't cause them to have these difficult lives. Imagine how much worse they'd have been with no money.

[@nagarcia76]

I got a Cabbage Patch Kid for Christmas 1983.....sounds rich to me. I still have it, super rich i am.❤

[@lanky-x782]

God I remember waiting in the line at Zayre's with my mom and the savagery of all those suburban station wagon driving moms running in when the doors opened to grab a cabbage patch kid. I'm still scarred 40 some years later. Lol.

[@shanasapp6212]

I got a preemie

[@rootelation486]

​@@shanasapp6212I never got a preemie, but of the 15 I had, the cornsilks were my favorites. Gave them and all my barbies to my younger cousins and they destroyed them🤦🏾‍♀️😭

[@Woots78]

Dude I bet that’s worth money now! Haha ok maybe couple hundred bucks🤷🏻‍♂️

[@shanasapp6212]

@@rootelation486 YOU HAD A CORNSILK? My preemie was name Aileen and my black one w/ brown yarn hair was Annabelle

[@msnell326]

I grew up in the 50's and 60's. What a difference. Many things were hand me downs from 2 older brothers or other neighborhood kids. I remember getting a second hand girl's bike and figure skates from a second hand store after outgrowing my brothers skates. My clothes were mix and match from the sale racks. Girls had to wear skirts/dresses to school. No jeans. Never been impressed with designer clothes or expensive cars. Now in my 70's many new, rich friends are always buying new furniture, new cars and the latest technology. Having their kitchens and bathrooms remodeled. Our dad taught us to take care of what we had and repair rather than replace everything.

[@latachia_2981]

I'm also in my 70's, & when I went to school, the girls were not allowed to wear pants....just a dress or skirt & blouse.They didn't allow pants & jeans until I was out of school.I totaly agree with you, that one should take care of what we got, & be thankful that we got it!

[@themaggattack]

In the days before planned obsolescence when things were built to last and people cherished what they had. (Glad girls can wear pants now. Though!)

[@chrhadden]

we did that too. like they still do that now. dont be so naïve lol

[@Dazlidorne]

I also had a friend in the late 80's that had his food delivered by a Schwan's delivery truck once a week. This was decades before things like DoorDash and Uber Eats. No telling how much it cost. I just remember going over to his house and he had all of these cool frozen dinners and snacks that I had never seen before.

[@kevinlong9254]

Wow !! I grew up on the farm in the sixties and seventies. We always ate like kings and were never hungry. We didn't have any of these items but now that I'm old and look back, I kind of feel like we were rich.

[@freedomrings1420]

I grew up on a dairy farm in Upstate NY. Lots of meat and plenty of homemade desserts. Always ate good also.

[@michellethomas7140]

@@freedomrings1420 My Mama was from Upstate New York, Beacon. Were you from around there? It’s right on the Hudson River.

[@freedomrings1420]

@@michellethomas7140 Richfield Springs and Amsterdam area.

[@Osprey850]

My rich friend had a Seiko TV watch. I never got to see it in action, but it just blew my mind that it was even possible to watch TV and movies on a watch. I was so envious.

[@GenXfrom75]

I grew up in rural South Carolina, born in '75. And our street was a dirt road trailer park. I got nice things occasionally from my mom's parents. They did rummage sales and it was all second hand. But I always appreciated it.

[@KJJ782]

Yeah I hear ya I was born in the same year of 75, we didn’t have much either in the northeast. Most of the gifts 🎁 we got was from our grandparents such as sneakers 👟 or school clothes, my parents didn’t have the money 💰. Many of the toys we had as kids were bought by our grandparents and I definitely Appreciated it. I was always embarrassed of the house I grew up in when I was young. My parents home had a basement that was cold and a dirt floor, with a washer and a dryer machine and a furnace and hot water heater for showers 🚿. There always seemed to be endless Vermin in the house at times. Both of my grandparents were disgusted 🤮 at the home 🏠 my parents had and would often give my father a fix it repair book for the house and he often threw it in the garbage 🗑️ as he refused to do any repairs. I remember one time there was a bird’s nest in the attic and one time a bird 🦅 flew in the kitchen until my father shooed it out. Then my uncle and my father would always get into shouting fights and hated each other because my uncle had more money 💰 and my father didn’t want to have anything to do with him. Looking back in hindsight I think 🤔 my parents were embarrassed 😞 by their home and occupations. My dad was a factory worker 👨‍🏭 and my mom was a home health aide, I remember in school my peers laughed at me and siblings and when my dad went bankrupt, the kids made it even worse they called my dad a loser and of course when he went bankrupt it was public in the newspapers. Lastly, my father also opened a credit card in my brothers name, he was never arrested but agreed to pay it back, and right before he died in 2015 you’d think 🤔 he learned his lesson from the 1990’s but when he got older he opened a credit card in my moms name without her permission. My father always struggled his whole life and he hated rich 🤑 people, he used to complain to my mom how they get off easy etc. when I grew up I realized I didn’t want to live this lifestyle and how crazy 🤪 his behavior was and moved away. I forgave my dad before he died, but it’s a lesson you have to work very hard in life to get better things, it does not come easy

[@GenXfrom75]

@@KJJ782 I feel so much of what you're talking about. It's awful as a kid. Now that I'm a mom and wife, we make sure our kids know the value of a buck and work for stuff they want. We're comfortable now but weren't in the beginning of our marriage. I took that dirt road and broke childhood and set my life up for success. I hope you're in a good place now, at least a secure place ❤️

[@YodaPagoda]

Here's another '75 kid, who grew up in the Pacific Northwest. I remember not wanting my friends over to play, because my drunk stepfather was, well, himself. I was teased for having old coats from Goodwill, but by golly, they were warm! By the time I got into high school, my mom had stepped up the ladder in her job, and our standard of living rose. My friends came over and said "wow, you have a nice house!" I didn't have Nintendo until I had a job where I made my own money. We had fun in the 80s, riding bikes, creating clubhouses, playing with toys.

[@GenXfrom75]

@@YodaPagoda my dad was always drunk when he was home… I wouldn’t have wanted to bring anyone over.

[@malcorub]

Being a poor 13-15 year old out in the country was rough back then, we'd be so bored. As a young kid it was fine because we'd find things to do out in the woods, but as teenagers that just wasn't fun anymore. No internet, no video games, no cable... you probably only got 1 or 2 channels on TV. At least the city kids could wander the streets and take the bus places. Eventually in my 20's I started to appreciate country life being that I could buy myself a little luxury and entertainment .

[@StarFleet_Tech1701]

I miss the 80’s😊

[@johnf5245]

I remember all the rich kids wore Benetton clothes and Reebok high tops

[@chrhadden]

that is so lame.

[@Julieroo28]

@@chrhaddenI had Benetton clothes and they were cute. 😊

[@chrhadden]

@@Julieroo28 cute people will always be cute mon petit chou

[@dsch3241]

I wore Benetton, Esprit, Guess, Venezia, Limited, and Express. I didn’t grow up rich. My 15 year old daughter today has an Apple Watch and phone, and LuLu lemon. Sure as hell doesn’t make us rich. It means I worked an extra job to pay for it, and all of her sports.

[@staceyl.thienel1499]

And Esprit!!

[@cporteus968]

My dad owed his own painting business and my mother worked in a school. We had most of these things on the list including the pool table minus the bar(parents not big drinkers). We did not think we were rich.

[@xmortimorxmortimorx]

Growing up in beverly hills i had all these things and much more. Sometimes my friend brandon and i would go down to the local hangout spot which was a little cafe called the peach pit where we would meet up with our other friends kelly, dillen and steve. My friend andrea was considered ‘the poor one’. We would jokingly call andrea grandma because in high school she looked like she was already in her 30s or 40s. Those were some good times tho.

[@bradclark2922]

90210

[@angelagokool9514]

Lol! Is this your life, or an episode of Beverly Hills 90210?

[@sagatuppercut2960]

Ha ha ha! That was the 1990s. 🤡

[@anneb889]

That was the 90s. In the 80s the Walsh’s still lived in Minnesota. 😂

[@LuckyCharms777]

Eww, West Beverly trash. When I was a kid, we weren’t allowed to venture south of Sunset Boulevard. What was it like to grow up poor?

[@chino7287]

A/C in the home was a sign of wealth, too. I grew up with box fans in the windows. Couldn't afford cable so my pops stole it. I wanted Levi's or Guess jeans but got no name brand slacks. I wanted a GAP denim jacket but got a Lee one instead. I wanted J's but got bobo's. I wanted a Swatch but got a cheesy steel strap Quartz watch. I wanted cool framed glasses but got middle-aged men ones. Needless to say, I got hella bullied & now I find myself spoiling the shyt outta my kids! 😂

[@MyNameIsUnavailable]

We said BOBOs back in Columbus Ohio in the 70s 80s 😂

[@mrmrso228]

I grew up in NYC and Lee denim jackets were definitely a cool thing. And no one I grew up with had money either.

[@For891]

@@mrmrso228was it a trend in NYC for kids to go around and rip the LEE badge off of your jeans? There were a few kids that did this upstate in the 80s.

[@mrmrso228]

@@For891 absolutely not u less you wanted to loose your teeth.

[@stoneman8110]

So you were jealous of the rich kids, and now you have turned your kids into what you wanted, and now they are those kids who you admired. It sounds like you have issues, and your kids are gonna think life revolves around them.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

As for the jeans, at my school Guess was middle of the road. The ones rich kids had were Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, Jordache, and Sasson. I personally liked Levi's better but I'm a country girl, lol.

[@freedomrings1420]

Levi's were number one.

[@Lemmon714_]

Girl's butts looked fantastic in the 80's Guess and Levis.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

The jeans mentioned were all early 80s. Guess didn't come along until the mid 80s (guess whos got $65 for Jeans), By then nobody wore Gloria Vanderbilts. Guess jeans were considered real JAPy in my circles.

[@candysmith8724]

Mom didn't let me wear Jordache until 4th grade. Guess Jeans came out swinging big in the mid-80s that's when I started wearing those. I didn't think they were higher end jeans than the others you mentioned, but just the latest and greatest at the time.

[@vinewood8295]

OMG I was wondering if Sasson Jeans would get mentioned, I had a bunch of those as a kid...

[@suzannes783]

I attended a wealthy prep school, while my family literally "lived on the other side of the tracks" in the Tri-State area. One of the biggest signs of difference in wealth was visible after the Christmas break. The rich kids had tans following their family holiday in the Caribbean, while the rest of us were pale white from shoveling snow, building snowmen and going sledding in the local park. I have very happy childhood memories of family Christmas time in the snow, but the tans were a huge status symbol every January. Izod and RL Polo shirts were a big thing too. Also Guess jeans weren't status symbol jeans where I attended school, they were Gloria Vanderbilt, Jordache, Calvin Klein and Sassoon. My brothers and I wore clothing from second hand shops. I was grateful for the school uniforms that sort of equalized us at first glance, but still everyone knew who came from money and who didn't. That said, even then I knew my family life was a lot healthier than those of the rich kids. Despite how hard the differences felt as a kid, I think in the end most us less wealthy kids wound up happier and more successful in life, than the rich kids did.

[@rboddington]

I can totally relate to the "tans". Excellent comment.

[@mudpiemutt8305]

So true about the less wealthy kids winding up happier and more successful. My cousin came from a rich family and I did not. 30 years later I am happily married with kids living in a nice modest home. My cousin is still living with her mom so she can still have her "luxurious" lifestyle that she had as a teenager. She never married or had any children either. Everything in her life is still "all about her".

[@malaguitarista5266]

Fairfield CT here. The tans, i remember the tans, or having the CB jackets with all of their ski passes on them. No one wore London Fog, their parents may have. The school uniforms were easily dressed up with name brands and you could tell if their clothes were from Caldor or Bradleys. The rich girls with Benetton, guys in Izod or Ralph Lauren. I was wearing Abercrombie and Fitch from the original store when there were only three locations. Everyone had a car, but the rich kids had Volvo, Mercedes, Saab or BMW. There were two Porsches at my high school. The rich kids had vacation homes in Vermont.

[@ambermac77]

@@malaguitarista5266 Interesting on the comment, “everyone had a car”. When I was younger, my mom had promised to buy me a car $2,000 or under when I turned 16 (1993). But in 1993, she didn’t ever remember saying that. 🙄 I didn’t get one until I turned 19 and did it on my own. My family was middle class (maybe upper middle), but we lived in an area where my school had lots of indigent kids. So I probably seemed rich to them. Money didn’t mean anything to me growing up. Many of my friends in middle and high school had families that were on government assistance. But I don’t even think I understood that then. I now know that their homes I went to visit were section 8 housing. But they had happy families that actually enjoyed each other’s company. Something I sorely wished for. 😢 All that to say, when I was a senior in high school, one of my other friends had a car and would sometimes drive me home. I’d say MAYBE 5% of the seniors at my high school had cars. I doubt if any of the 9-11th graders did. Those who had cars seemed rich!

[@themaggattack]

That "coming back from winter break with a tan" thing was very East coast. Everyone on the West coast already had a tan. 😂 Some kid who moved to my west coast ghetto school from somewhere back east tried flexing on us by wearing his ski gear to school one day. But we just looked at him funny and laughed at him because first of all nobody in our area skied, secondly it was too warm for a ski coat, and third his pale face had turned pink from wind burn! 😂

[@selenacordeiro1458]

I slept on a couch until I was 14 because our tiny apartment didn’t have enough bedrooms for me and my sister. I had 2 pairs of shoes, one for church and one for school. I also didn’t have a single thing on this list but was fortunate enough to have an aunt that took us on quite a few vacations! I’m so thankful for my life, even in the very hard times. It’s been good 🙏

[@dank.6942]

I find it accurate. and hilarious... Our "rich" friends had the decked-out bar/arcade basement. Pool table, juke box, bar, player piano(!), pinball machine, etc.... and they had the first fridge with water dispenser... They even had a mini dirt bike and phone that looked like a Pepsi can! LOL

[@jeffraines414]

As a poor kid in the 80s, I can confirm I owned nothing in this video 😮

[@danielemmons3513]

Us too, luckily I was the oldest and only received half the "hand-me downs" my brother received.

[@victoriaespinoza1280]

Same here

[@mikeschuler2946]

Me too lol but I did have a bmx and that’s all that mattered

[@victoriaespinoza1280]

@@mikeschuler2946 Cool 😎

[@tommcdonough6086]

​@@mikeschuler2946 Freedom right there, my parents would àllways scream at me if I didn't change out of my school clothes, and came home for supper all muddy. Good times. 55 now where does the time go 😮😮😮. Peace.........

[@Entolyfik]

I had an unusual upbringing on this subject. My mom, in the 80's (I was born 83') was a working class mom turned house mom, but we lived in my grandma's house in the suburbs. She didn't have a whole lot of money, but my dad (separate households) owned a grocery store that made upwards of 400,000 (give or take) a year, raising higher in the 90's... Mom's suburban house was a typical style house, looking very similar to some of the housing you've seen in some of these videos, 3 bedrooms, nice living room, spacious kitchen, and built-in garage. Dad's house (this is where it's unusual) was -- as I used to call it -- "the house that time forgot." His style (including color) had not changed since the 90's, though it had a similar structure as mom's. Difference was, dad had 2 bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs (it had a basement with another living room, 2 furnished bedrooms and a bathroom), and a 4 car garage (he built) that was connected to the grocery store (safe entry without coming through the front). He had the old big-body wood paneled TV, with an 80's TV atop it (LOL!), a wonderful piano (not grand though...tear), very nice crystal chandelier, and the old (now paper-weight) black-and-green screened computer (for business) in the corner...he was NOT computer savvy like I would be (later). Mom would cook large family meals (3 boys and herself), whereas with dad (99%), we ate out at Furr's (OHH man, remember??) EVERY day. I had the tastes of both lower class and middle-upper class living, which I thought was normal. But, as far as MOST of the things in this video, yeah...the rich rich kids had the goods! I had friends with homes like this, and even with all that I had, I was never satisfied because most of my friends had more! SO glad I grew out of that!

[@okgo620]

I remember Furr's.....as in Furr's Cafeteria....WOW! that restaurant was the bomb! The food was so good.

[@Entolyfik]

@@okgo620 Yup, it was "thee" Cafeteria, lol! Ohh I miss it so much; still to this day I'm disappointed they are gone. A few of my personal favs from there where millionaire's pie, spinach cassarole (yuck for most), mashed potatoes and gravy, steak (Ryan's was better), and Jell-O with cherries and peaches (always room!)!

[@themaggattack]

The irony of your dad owning a whole grocery store, yet never cooking. Sounds more like your mom was middle class and your dad was rich. 400k p/yr in the 80's was like a millionair now.

[@Entolyfik]

​@@themaggattack Whoa, ironically, I had not seen the irony of it until you mentioned this! We did eat at home every once in a while, when he didn't feel like going out, or was too sick to...I tell you, I cherish those moments now more than I did back then. He also had an RV which was fun to take trips in, though there's nothing to boast about, it was pretty old! The store made quite a bit year after year until around 99 when things slowed down a bit; even by 03' when we closed down, it was only due to years of back taxes (IRS, ARRRGH!! lol). BUT because of it, we found humility! I really can't boast, because none of that ever brought us true happiness (though it was nice, lol)...we were never satisfied! It was FAMILY that gave it to us, and sometimes we took it for granted.

[@korbell1089]

Our intercom system was my grandmother yelling in the heater vent downstairs and me hearing it upstairs in my room.🤣

[@nathanfisher4452]

Growing up on a farm in the 80s. We had none of this, and we heated with wood in an 800 share foot house. It was a good life and I wouldn’t change it for the world…. I miss it everyday.

[@PhantasyStarved]

One thing I haven't seen yet in the comments are the rich families that took vacations every summer and they had footage from those big reel-to-reel "handheld" movie cameras that they then could play at home with their movie projectors on a blank wall or drop-down movie screen. My family had to settle for Polaroids lol

[@larryinNH]

I always thought we were poor growing up. Mainly because my father worked as a contractor, busting his butt every day, and my friends parents went to work in suits. Also because I was one of six, and we wore hand me downs, which I didn’t mind. I always loved the clothes my older brother wore. Turns out most of those people today are no better off than any of us. Most had serious issues in their families, like alcoholism, drug addiction and even suicide. My family was never perfect, but we did a lot of things together as a family, and those memories last with me more than just “ Stuff” I received. As a matter of fact, when I went to high school, the kids that were considered to be Troubled or The Bad Kids, were drawn to me and we got along great. Most of my friends were from broken homes, even foster homes. Those were truly my closest friends.

[@chrhadden]

having alot of buying power and having alot of money isnt the same thing. anybody can lease an audi. the rich people can buy one

[@jamessieker1712]

I marvel everyday at the "stuff" that came along in my lifetime. Our first TV was the latest 19" Sears and Roebucks black and white, on a roll around cart. We had a phone line that was shared with family across the street. My grandfather was born in 1898 and died in 74. I loved hearing him tell me about the stuff that came along during his time.

[@aprilrobinson7713]

We had a VCR. My dad got a broken one from where he worked. He was handy. We were so proud

[@Osprey850]

It wasn't owning a VCR that the video says was a sign of being rich. It was owning store-bought movies on VHS. Back in the 80s, those cost nearly $100 each, presumably because that's what video rental stores paid and there was maybe a concern that, if much cheaper versions were sold to the public, the stores might buy and rent those, instead. What non-rich people did was rent movies, sometimes the same ones over and over, as well as record them off of TV. That changed in the early 90s, when VHS movies got a whole lot cheaper and even lower middle class families could afford a store-bought movie collection.

[@takeadive]

I had a bunch of these things and considered our family middle class. I appreciated everything that we had and have taught my children to do the same. When it comes to things though we care more about the time and memories with each other.

[@kpk33x]

What the NON-rich kids had in the house in the 80s... 1. Sears Toughskins jeans, homemade Jams shorts 2. Super TV instead of cable (1 movie channel via antenna because it was cheaper) 3. Dad did oil changes and tire changes/ rotations in the driveway himself. The car had to be really bad to go to the shop. Also always hand washed cars in the driveway, we never went to the car wash 4. Kool aid with less sugar than the mix called for 5. Store brand food was chosen always if it was an option versus name brand. If we complained, things like imitation Cocoa Puffs were put inside of an old (real) Cocoa Puffs box that was only purchased when there was a big discount. Empty boxes would be hidden until store brand stuff needed disguise. 6. Newspapers and extra circulars and the rectangular box the clipped coupons went into. 7. Box fans on the floor. Running the air conditioner was too expensive so it was 85 in the house all day all summer and you sat in front of one until you were yelled at to stop blocking air. 8. Clothesline in the back with clothes on it if the weather was nice because running the dryer was expensive 9. You stayed at the beach in June or the very last week of summer because the rates were lower versus July and August 10. Worn out 70s furniture. New 80s stuff was expensive. 11. You DIDN'T have repair vans at the house. Things were fixed or duct taped together as long as they would last. 12. If you were the youngest of brothers or sisters, you can bet none of your clothes were new. Bonus-we had male cousins so I being the youngest was sometimes the 4th or 5th boy to wear stuff and they were out of style e.g. a football player who had retired before it was my turn to wear the jersey. 13. All meals home cooked. Pizza boxes or McDonalds containers in the house would be a RARE treat like a birthday party. And forget about going to a foo-foo sit down restaurant with waiters! 14. Rotary dial phones. "No reason to spend money on a new fancy push button phone when the old one works perfectly" 15. Dirty clothes from chores or work. You want money for a date? Go cut some lawns or go get a job (I was the ONLY 8th grader who requested a work permit form from the school that year...and besides the busboy job I had 3 lawn mow customers AND was part of the winter shovel brigade). 16. Rebuilt/refinished wooden antique wooden furniture. Scrap price plus repairs, stain and elbow grease was always cheaper than a kitchen or dining room set.

[@darylwhitty]

I love your channel , your voice is not only nostalgic, but also very pleasant and easy to listen to. Keep up the amazing videos

[@saminaneen]

@darylwhitty, He has the whinny, despicable, voice, of a jealous, LIBTARD, Wokester, Democrap, TROLL BOT

[@KatClem46]

We had a bar in the basement, but we were far from rich. It wasn't always stocked, though. And as teens, we would replace gin/vodka with water because our parents would never notice, right? 😂 Man, we were some dumb kids. Everything else was definitely an indicator of having money. Everyone, but my sisters and I, were rich who went to our grade school. They were all preppies and had LL Bean backpacks and coats that would have multiple ski tags. I guess that was to show off how often they went skiing. I enjoyed this video. Very entertaining and spot-on. 👍

[@candiceroccia6219]

Haha! My sister used to drink the alcohol in my parents bar area and fill it with water. My parents didn't drink, they just had it for when family or friends came who drank. Years later he gave all of the alcohol to a neighbor and the neighbor told my dad that half of the crap was just water!!!!! Busted!!!! we still laugh about it to this day!!!

[@KatClem46]

@@candiceroccia6219 That's friggin hilarious! 😄

[@johnbethea4505]

I was born in 1946 and had 3 kids born during the 1980's. They had the things that they absolutely needed. I was in my 50's before I got well off, but if I would have had money back then we would not have had these things...

[@krisklinge5172]

My Mom was born in 46, I was born in 77. The fanciest thing we had is that we would get mcdonalds on pay day. To us kids that was like the best day. When I look back at my childhood in the 80s in my hand-me-down jeans from Sears and huffy bike from Kmart I still absolutely believe it was the best time of my life and that I had a great childhood. I bet if you ask your kids, they'll probably say the same.

[@johnbethea4505]

@krisklinge5172 love ❤️ and listen to your parents because we won't be around forever. Have a great life..Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays..

[@borntoclimb7116]

But nowadays is a interesting time, im from Germany, we have more than 5 million poor kids and in the another Site, rich parents buy they kids 1000€ Smartphones and jackets for 800€

[@johnbethea4505]

@@borntoclimb7116 there is a privilege to having wealth, you can buy things. We were taught in schools and from being poor that we must achieve to make money. Today kids think that they are owed things without working hard for it. As far as I know their are no money trees to pick money from..

[@RemoWilliams1227]

You're the same age as my Dad (still going thank God), goodness knows I had what I needed but not every extravagance I desired.

[@katlover4442]

I remember always wanting to shop at Cricket Alley because that was where all of the popular girls shopped. Mom finally let me shop there for a prom dress and I was so excited to go there. We bought a pale blue dress with white flowers and white lace, and I believe that it was a Gunne Sax dress… Later on, I bought two other formal dresses from there, and I think that both of them were Gunne Sax dresses, too.

[@kimwarner1681]

Omg..Gunne Sax…all my prom & homecoming dresses , even my graduation dresses were Gunne Sax. They were really beautiful. And Jessica McClintok. For my h.s.graduation, I bought a light blue McClintok sundress, it had a white v neck, off the shoulder bow type of front /chest area, all cotton, so pretty. I miss those days!

[@tracyfitch4873]

My friend had a vhs rewind machine that rewound them super fast. We were always the last family to get everything, a VCR, call waiting, cordless phone, etc. This video is making me feel extremely old.

[@lindaJS7]

My dad had a basement bar, but the rest of the basement was never finished.

[@freedomrings1420]

LOL 😂, just the necessities.

[@JustinCase780]

with a pool table! 😂

[@ngo7156]

I grew up in the 80's in a middle class household. We had a VCR but would rent movies instead of buying them. We had an organ and not a piano. I remember shopping for clothes at Kmart, Bradlees, and occasionally at the mall. Love these videos on this channel, they bring back such fond memories. 😊 ❤

[@pequodexpress]

We had two VCRs and would rent movies and copy them.

[@loristone9242]

@@pequodexpress Right!! To hell with the FBI warning at the beginning of the video 😂😂

[@pequodexpress]

@@loristone9242 Look at the video's thumbnail. Does she look like she cares about an FBI nag warning. The statute of limitations on the 80's has expired, so I have not incriminated myself.

[@lreppy10]

I forgot about Bradley’s, lol!

[@munajedski]

We had most of these things growing up but I wouldn't consider my family "rich" necessarily. It's interesting to see pictures of kitchens from past decades.

[@Entolyfik]

I hear you there. We did too (minus the grand piano and the intercom system), but I wouldn't say we were "rich" either (necessarily). Those images bring back memories for me. I had family with places that looked like these, and I always wanted to spend time at THEIR houses, lol!

[@totigerus]

yeah most of these are bullshit.

[@lady4191]

You don't see it because you lived it. To me those were what we considered the ritch kids. To be fair I was the kid eating government peanut butter from a can 🤢 wearing the shoes my mom hot glued when the bottom came loose.

[@flyingsodwai1382]

Nah, that's all rich kid stuff, for sure.

[@rogerstlaurent8704]

@@lady4191 i am from the 60s but when you said government food LMAO yes i remember the peanut butter in a Big steel rusty can when you open it up it had a layer of peanut oil on the top also the Gaint Block of Cheese was another thing ... wearing low graded shoes that were junk and to keep your feet dry we would slip on bread bags before you put on your shoes BTW drinking water out of a garden hose it tastes better than bottle water

[@eloysuarez364]

I was at univeristy in the 1980's. I was pounding out my papers on a manual portable typewriter while other kids had " word processors" . proud of my ribbon stained fingers. LOL

[@tonywilliams4066]

Nailed it. Everything you covered I absolutely remember as things I wanted because it did seem like you would be rich if you did.

[@metalman_j]

I can't believe "Power Wheels" wasn't included on the list. That was how you knew the rich kids (maybe younger ones than you were talking about on this list). My parents were pretty well off and we had a lot of things on this list, but power wheels was where my parents drew the line. Always wanted one but never got one. Also, I knew a couple of kids whose families had arcade cabinets in their basements. That was wild, being able to play a Baby Pacman machine at somebody's house with the coin door open for infinite credits. And of course, as others have mentioned: swimming pools. That was another definite cut-off from "pretty well off" to "stinking rich".

[@SnoopyReads]

A Pow Pow Power Wheels was one thing I never had as a kid I wanted and we were middle class and I had a lot of the other things on this list

[@ftumi]

Really? I thought everyone had those as most (not rich just kids) had a radio flyer etc

[@metalman_j]

@@ftumi Radio flyer was just a cheap wagon that you pull. Sure, I had a fricking wagon! Who didn't? Power wheels were basically a tiny golf cart with an electric motor on them and everything. They were very expensive toys!

[@ftumi]

@@metalman_j I didn't realize mine was a brown ugly looking Rolls-Royce when I was 4 when my dad purchased one to be twins.. I meant radio flyers as it was common. I didn't have one, wish I did. It might not have been power Wheels but it's the same thing. I don't know if that was the brand

[@JMazzaTaz]

I had an unfinished basement, definitely middle class, but I got called rich a couple times just because I had a TV, Nintendo, and a phone in my bedroom, lol. Also, designer stores sold Guess jeans for $70-$80. However, there was a name brand outlet mall that sold them for $35!!

[@chrhadden]

unfinished basements are called cellars. much easier and quicker

[@GishGirlB]

I got my first pair from Sam's! I was so excited!

[@GeorgieB1965]

Grey Poupon was very much an acquired taste back then, and most of the people that I knew stuck with either the classic yellow mustard or Guldens Spicy brown.

[@candysmith8724]

I didn't care for it, guess I didn't have upper-end taste buds. LOL

[@TaaxiCaab]

Guldens was the only mustard I grew up on.

[@GeorgieB1965]

@@TaaxiCaab can't forget when it came in jars. I really miss that.

[@walmartynotc-jq1ps]

I just enjoyed French's mustard especially cuz it talks 😂 , legend has it just like Mrs Butterworth

[@kenbob1071]

Grey Poupon was not an indication that you were rich, despite the commercial's suggestions...lol. Kinda like saying you're rich b/c you bought Fancy Feast for your cat.

[@ericlindenmuth7517]

When I was in high school in the early 80's. Ocean Pacific, better known as OP, was the brand everyone wore. Surf wear ruled the school!! Never wore long pants until college and only because the teacher made us...

[@gdjets]

I remember a kid having not just 1 stormtrooper action figure., but an army of them! At least 10! I was in awe. 😮 He also had the GI Joe Aircraft Carrier! 😭

[@cdldriver2348]

My family had that piano in the house, I always thought the IZOD(Alligator) shirts were too nerdy. I had the Garfield phone when I could afford my own phone line & my my own VCR while in high school, the Swatch Watch and now I can also afford the Grey Poupon Mustard portrayed in this video as well!

[@katlover4442]

My family had a 6‘ Lyon & Healy grand piano in our living room too…

[@annahgibbus8]

My Mom had her baby grand in our living room that she got on her 16th birthday in 1936. I don't remember the brand. She added a big organ in the 80's. When she passed in 89 my Dad couldn't find anybody to buy the big organ. He finally found a church that wanted it & he said: If you just get it out of here it's free. They got it out😂 LoL I was a teen in the 70's & I had 2 friends that both had finished bars & pool tables in the basement. They both had in ground pools, intercoms, their own phones, TV's & got Firebird's on their 16th birthdays. My parents had money, but I had to work for anything I wanted. I wasn't spoiled. I thought my parents were cruel at the time, but as an adult I totally agree with them about not spoiling a child.

[@ftumi]

Are you sure Izod? From what I remember, the crocodile was lacoste.. lol as a matter of fact, I just googled it: Price: Lacoste generally sits on the pricier side, basking in its "luxury" status like a crocodile on a gold-plated rock. Izod is more affordable, perfect for those who appreciate a good deal (and maybe don't mind slightly less fancy fabric)

[@cdldriver2348]

@@ftumi MY thoughts were, too nerdy.

[@ftumi]

@@cdldriver2348 lol well, Izod is hehe

[@giuliamotta628]

I love the 80s videos on your channel 😊

[@roncaruso931]

I was a teenager in the 80's and my family and friends families only had a VCR. We did as well. We bought some tapes. I guess I did not live in a wealthy neighborhood.

[@Lemmon714_]

Thankfully mine bought a beta when it first came out. They had to switch to VHS and I got the beta. At least I could tape shows.

[@JayJayFromAZ]

I remember in my parents getting me a Nintendo by way of Layway for like 3 months. That is the one thing I remember waking up and seeing that for my Bday gift. My parents are the best. I see them each day.

[@misterjwestcoast]

I had Viennetta, grey poupon and an ice maker/water dispensing fridge and a big screen tv, and I didn’t grow up rich, maybe compared to some of the kids I knew but I definitely wasn’t considered rich by any means in my opinion.

[@frankwafer6919]

Thanks so much for the wonderful memories...gotta❤ them 80s baby! and Merry Christmas!🎅🌲!

[@mewregaurdhissyfit7733]

I grew up without any of this stuff. I graduated in 1981 and got out on my own. I worked for what I had, which was literally just the bare basics. One thing that was popular here in the South wasn't London Fog, but Members Only jackets. I had a friend who WAS well-to-do, and he bought one in every new color they came out with.

[@acatal2464]

Same here, too.

[@flyingsodwai1382]

Yeah , Members Only is what I remember too. Those epaulets were so damn cool. Sadly for me there was never one at the goodwill.

[@candysmith8724]

Texas here - Both London Fog and Members Only were popular.

[@TruthIs17]

Yep the Members Only….what memories….

[@noahpartic7586]

Gen X from '72 here. I remember most of this, particularly having a big TV carved from a tree🤣. THAT...was our big screen of the time. My parents 1st owned a VCR that looked like a very big cassette recorder with analog TV tuners for recording shows. Both My Stepmoms would record their soap operas on it while away at work. I myself had the chance to record a movie or 2, particularly "Coming To America" with Eddie Murphy & was able to enjoy many times. 😌Ahhhhhhhh, they just don't make'em like that...anymore.

[@juckimal]

Great video and spot on. I would love to see this same thing for the kids in the 90's and 2000's

[@m4ttyp4nts]

Back in the 80s, you weren't rich unless you had a cake-serving robot: "happy birthday, paulie."

[@ceeviking5713]

My brother and I worked while going to school so we could have nicer things that rich kids would have handed to them. I’m happy that I didn’t just get things, nice to have earned them, and look up to date.

[@SnoopyReads]

I feel the opposite, I hate wasting my hard earned money on stupid shit. Makes me feel like I'm a literal slave to my possessions

[@Tim_the_Enchanter]

It wasn't the '80s, but I befriended a new kid in school in sixth grade whose family turned out to be more well-off than mine. He had a houseful of toys I envied. Video games (virtually unheard of then), bumper pool, slot-car racing. I loved playing with his toys, but, of course, he was bored of them. Mostly, we played outside and had imaginary adventures. Things don't make you happy. Not for very long.

[@TheTillmanSneakerReview]

Playing outside and going on adventures is what today's children are sorely missing out on...my grandma punished me by keeping me inside the house all day when I acted up. Yet, I discipline my children by making them go outside all day. Yikes.

[@chrhadden]

said the person that never got into skateboarding

[@JaysonMunoz2448]

I grew up in Hawai'i and it was all about your BMX bike back in the 80's. I started out with a Diamondback only to find out it was considered middle class 😂. Then I convinced my parents to get me a Haro only to find out the rich kids were riding Hutch Trick Stars. I gave up at that point, but it didn't matter because years later I would start driving.

[@chrhadden]

i got jumped for my haro by a gang of number ones in 7th grade. i got the frame and forks back later. i traded that for a skateboard and never looked back. i still skate to this day.

[@justincoleman7856]

So out of all these mentioned, the French door refrigerator with the built in ice dispenser is STILL being sought after today & it STILL considered a luxury item to many out there.

[@Leah_F.]

I had some of these things growing up, but when my dad passed when I was 13, all of that ended, & made me grow up fast. He had no life insurance, so every Christmas after was a struggle. My mom didn’t even have a driver license, she depended on my dad for everything. The hardest part was losing our beautiful home, having to sell it for only the equity which was much less than it’s value. I think in some ways it made me grateful for what we were left with, but it also damaged me. I’m still left buying name brands to make up for loss and grief, which I probably need therapy for. The 80’s held some of the greatest times of my life, and some of the worst. It was very bittersweet.

[@jeffw1267]

People don't know the value of having insurance. I knew a family who had a son who died in an accident, and they were bankrupted paying for his funeral and burial. Life insurance for kids only costs a few dollars, because they don't die very often. Life insurance for young adults is also cheap, for the same reason. People don't consider those possibilities because they don't want to think about death. If I had a family, I'd get enough life insurance to make sure my family was comfortable upon my death. Enough to pay off the house, allow the wife to get a college education if necessary, and make sure the kids have enough money for college. The premium would still be much lower than a car payment.

[@camdencosigner2606]

I’ll never forget how bad I wanted Guess jeans. I remember picking them out at the store and my Dad saying ‘your ass doesn’t know what that brand name says!’ My older sister convinced him to buy them for me! And I’m so happy she did.

[@SnoopyReads]

Oh yeah, I bet you're a better person today because you wore Guess jeans

[@shaynejenkins446]

And I'm guessing you weren't rich either?

[@kenbob1071]

Your dad was right.

[@rich_t]

The really rich kids wore Girbaud jeans...

[@jeffw1267]

In fairness, the guys who were looking at the girls' butts (like me), knew that the girls were wearing Guess jeans. But I guess your dad wouldn't have appreciated it had you pointed it out. I still remember the names of the girls who wore Guess jeans, for exactly that reason.

[@betsyduane3461]

Never met anyone in my life with a London Fog jacket, teens never wore them.

[@chris882211]

Never even heard of them. but I wasn't into name brand things at all back then, and my parents were far from poor

[@MyDyerMaker]

My brother had one. It was a good quality coat.

[@sethlarsen3020]

maybe its a east coast thing. never heard of it either

[@betsyduane3461]

@@sethlarsen3020 I grew up in NJ. Old men wore LF trench coats.

[@traceejohnson290]

My whole family had them.

[@zacharyrome3432]

I'd love to have one of those Garfield phones now as a collectors item lol !

[@rustyrefill6449]

The Garfield phone is probably the only thing in the video that would be neat to have now, even if it's useless

[@oregon32nursenurse43]

My bestie was rich. She had braces, all the designer clothes & She would go shopping in portland Oregon all the time. They had a Cessna airplane (we flew to San Juan islands and sanfran ) private tennis courts, 2 balance beams, private intercom throughout their house, and a pool in the backyard. I loved spending the night at her house 🏡

[@HoopsYou]

Yep I'll never forget my first pair or air Jordans or Reebox pumps! Those were the days!

[@aussiejubes]

In Australia in my day, Vienettas were the "adult" dessert and pretty much only got bought for visitors (not the visitors' kids, lol) & special occasions. I always asked for one for my birthday.

[@juliejackman2649]

So my family was considered the rich family when I was growing up in the 80s...maybe not since we only had a few of these things..haha 😀. But I did enjoy having unlimited gas and insurance paid for me to drive the brand new corvette my Parents decided to buy just because they were on a ride and saw it at the dealership and decided what the heck and bought it. I grew up in a family where my Dad was able bodied and worked hard. I am actually a frugal minded person though. I'm sure I was spoiled as well. I'll always be grateful though all the ways I've been blessed in all kinds of life situations that I've been in. ❤

[@myfrestuff3453]

These things were also thought of as luxuries in the 1980's, too: (I apologize for repeats or items from different eras, but they were considered luxuries then.) Satellite television with hundreds of channels on the receiver, the motorized dish mover and the huge eight foot metal mesh dish installed in the yard on a pole in a concrete slab, carrying portable stereos called Boom Boxes, Sony Walkmans, Discmans, and Watchmans (mini TV's), Commodore 64 home computer, Texas Instruments TI-55, and 65 Scientific Calculators, Seiko, Bulova, and Rolex watches, heavy gold necklaces and ID bracelets and real gold class rings, dining out weekly to different restaurants that weren't fast food, wearing leather jackets, coats, pants, exotic skin boots, shoes and belts in alligator, lizard, ostrich, snake, shark, elephant and Horween Shell Cordovan leather, Doc Martens, L.L. Bean lined Winter Boots, Duck Shoes and Wicked Good Slippers, Florsheim Shoes, Ray Ban Wayfarer, Oakley Frogskin and Porsche Carrera sunglasses with removable prescription lenses, 10-12-15 speed racing bicycles, fur jackets and coats including mink, fox, chinchilla, ermine, and rabbit, 100% cashmere sweaters and sport coats, wool and leather sleeved letter jackets, wool peacoats, suits by Botany 500, Brooks Brothers, Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Johnny Carson, Hart, Schaffner & Marx, Levi's 501 button fly jeans, Arrow, Van Heusen, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and Brooks Brothers dress shirts, central air and heat, paved, brick or concrete slab driveways instead of gravel, a washer and dryer, an extra chest or upright freezer, shopping in bulk at Sam's Club, Columbia Record and Tape Club, gift giving from Omaha Steaks or Swiss Colony, getting or buying a brand new car or high performance motorcycle in high school instead of a used one, vacationing to resorts, Disneyland or Disney World, or traveling to cities all around the country from coast to coast or abroad, and participating student exchange programs or athletic exchange programs to Europe or camps at colleges and universities. That's about all I could think of in one sitting. 😎

[@TheTillmanSneakerReview]

A Seiko or Citizen still meant something in the 80s because they used actual gold in some models. I bought an 18k gold Citizens at a pawn shop in 2001 for only $200, fell on hard times, and sold it somewhere for $200. Little did I know that obscure watch is now worth around $3000.

[@earlleary]

My parents weren't rich by far. But, I never knew it growing up. They both came from homes where they knew what going without made them feel like, so, they gave me things so I would never feel the way they did. ( I didn't learn this untill I was an adult ) I just felt normal, and still don't feel it was unusual some of the things I had, because my friends had these things too. I had my own phone around age 12. Had a TV, vcr, stereo in my room around the same age. The one thing I WAS surprised at , was at age 14, my dad just decided to take me to look at a car with him, little did I know, he was intending on buying it for me! I didn't even have a driver's permit yet , lol. I....stood there telling my dad I can't even legally drive it for about two more years dad ! He looked at me, very seriously, and said " When you get your license, I want to know you have a car to drive waiting for you!" Right then, I knew there was something more than just giving me things involved with his wanting me to have a car that day. I look back, and I realize my family wasn't rich, but, I never ever felt like we weren't growing up. Because my parents are the best parents God could have given me. Not just because of giving me things, they taught me to be a giver also. I'm 52 years old now. I still have my dad , we lost Mom two years ago. It did change a lot. But we are still here for each other.

[@ronwilliams1094]

All the rich kids had mopeds (motorized bikes) to get around when I was in school. As far as jeans go, don't forget 'Gloria Vanderbilts'!

[@ftumi]

I'm assuming this wasn't high school?

[@ronwilliams1094]

@@ftumi It was during high school from 1981 - 1985

[@ScottRandolph-dd7dr]

🎉 Salutations from coastal Mississippi. Being a teenager in the early 80's,We had most of these items. Actually still have some of these. Thank you for the research and memories 😂

[@LakeNipissing]

I do remember having the Viennetta ice cream (which I had forgotten about until this video).. They were great.... and no, we weren't rich. LOL

[@jwb52z9]

For a long time, the maker stopped selling Viennetta in the US, but they started again not all that long ago.

[@kenbob1071]

Yeah, it's kinda like saying you're rich b/c you bought Grey Poupon or Fancy Feast for your cat...lol.

[@floodway2955]

I enjoy these shows but I have to say this one was a bit of a stretch for me. I'm 62 and In the 80's I don't recall feeling like my friends were rich. We had what we had and made the best of it. Nice

[@cristinhopkins2748]

I LOVE this!! I STILL have my swatch watches! I also had 2 that I hooked together to put around my ankle!!!

[@BoJangles42]

I didn’t have any of these things growing up, but I had a mom who loved my brother and I and she gave us a very happy childhood. When I bought my first home it was a total “80’s rich kid house” though lol. Had a finished basement with a pool table, and it had an intercom.

[@josephtreffiletti4198]

Nope. I never dressed in fashion haha. I was a headbanger back in High School and at 56 years old, I am still the same way. Rock T shirts, Jeans, and Black Leather jacket. Love your channel. Brings back great memories! 😃🤘

[@agomodern]

Yep, I knew rich kids that dressed like stoners.

[@MisterMikeTexas]

Higher class houses have had intercoms since the 50s or 60s, actually. I have a friend in Fort Worth who lives in a good size house that was built in 1969. It still has part of the original intercom system (long since dormant). It also has 2 or three phone lines built in. I visited open house at the new houses being built in our area in the late 70s. Many of them had built-in intercoms, with AM/FM Stereo that could play through those speakers.

[@samanthab1923]

The NuTone system. Our house was built in 1970 NJ. We had it. It’s how my dad woke us for school.

[@elmobolan4274]

A Members Only jacket/Gloria Vanderbilt/Jordash Jeans/Vans....57 yrs old...

[@fingers215]

Can't speak for anybody else, but they had food and options? A good day was snaging an extra school lunch for dinner! Lol, my life is different now, but that is what got me to where I am now. Blessed

[@anarizmoore]

My siblings enjoyed half of those items listed....we weren't rich, just blessed. It's not about material "things"it's values and love.

[@fxontv]

If you had Grey Poupon, you were rich? I don’t think so 😂. But I enjoyed watching the video.

[@Mikewee777]

Republicans were still outraged because obama wore a tan suit while eating some fancy mustard .

[@puddincup9879]

You must not remember the commercials

[@annahgibbus8]

​@@puddincup9879 In 1989 after visiting my Mom in the hospital, we were driving out in my Dad's Lincoln & at the stop light a cream color Rolls Royce was at the stop light next to us! I made the motions to roll down the window & I couldn't believe the driver/chauffeur did! I asked if he had any Grey Poupon & he shut the window while giving me a mean look 😆 It probably wasn't the first time he was asked 🤣 No joke true story. LoL

[@MichaelBoltonsEntireCatalog]

​@Mikewee777 Folks with TDS have to put it in every single subject. "Orange Man go BOO! I'm scared now."

[@ashconner2293]

We were rich but had an intercom system at our house. We still yelled because we're just italian like that

[@ftumi]

Haha! Yesss! Hey MAAA.. OR JUST MAAAAAAAA

[@r.a.contrerasma8578]

You left out Member's Only jackets. (Didn't that say it all?) And while we got our shoes from Kmart or Payless, I knew rich kids always wore Reeboks.

[@chrhadden]

they cost like 5 bucks and were in style for like 3 months

[@jaggerkate]

I KNEW the clear phone would be on here. One of my closest friends had it all. They weren’t rich, but she was spoiled rotten. And a total brat.

[@crashburn3292]

I'm sure every kid like me, who grew up lower middle class with brothers and sisters, "hated" the teenager in the neighborhood (usually an only child) who had their own phone, TV, VCR, Atari/PlayStation, car, etc. And we "hated" how they always had brand name clothes and food. - But that didn't stop us from spending the night at their house, playing with their toys, borrowing their clothes, watching their big tv's and eating their brand name food! LOL

[@chrhadden]

i havent met an only child i can get along with yet