Rich in the '80s (a vibe)

[@Melissa0774]

Ok, here's the ultimate 80's rich housewife fantasy - You live in a huge mansion and your butler brings you breakfast in bed after your husband has left for work. Your breakfast is some kind of fancy egg omelet with caviar, brie cheese, and Grey Poupon mustard. Then you go jump into your large heated indoor pool for an early morning swim. Then you get dressed like that woman from that Beverly Hills Girl Scout movie, jump in your black Lincoln Towncar stretch limo, with the chauffer who also doubles as your butler when he's not driving you places. You call your best friend from boarding school from the built in car phone to let her know you're on the way to pick her up from the airport, where she just came in from Europe on the Concord. You pick her up and head straight to your favorite fancy French restaurant for lunch. Then you spend the rest of the day shopping for clothes at the mall.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Love it! The Grey Poupon is a key component!

[@Melissa0774]

@@teresachaotic.corner I'm sure there's some older lady down in Palm Beach Florida, who still does those exact things on a pretty regular basis. (except for the Concord part, since it doesn't fly anymore.)

[@miraclesblessings-n8e]

Okay.... I like it but instead of lunch with your friend you go have a quickie with your pool boy........

[@sparklingdaisy3169]

​@@miraclesblessings-n8e😂

[@Melissa0774]

@@miraclesblessings-n8e You could fit that in, during your morning swim.

[@josiemaromi6981]

I love the microphone on the flower!! 🌹

[@teresachaotic.corner]

thank you!

[@TASconfidential]

I was an 80s kid and grew up in a middle class family. Even though my parents weren’t rich at all, they lived good and were very “80’s” Yes, my parents had leather outfits (suits & dresses), furs, and the perfume/cologne was strong, the jewelry was gaudy and the hair was big. And everyone did the most. The 80’s was the BOMB!!!

[@teresachaotic.corner]

There's something so cool about the excess. Like everyday was a music video.

[@juliannehannes11]

Late 80s baby here, I'm also obsessed with 80s wealth and live for 1980s period pieces that don't revolve around kids, most specifically 80s miniseries about rich families like Judith Krantz

[@juliannehannes11]

I forgot, I highly recomend the apple show Physical, trust me, you will love it, it masterfully shows the birth and creation of the glamourous pastel 80s from the groovy boho chic mustard 70s, it has that Mad Men attention to period details with the show taking place in the years between 1981-1986 slowpace in near real time that gives you this profound newfound perception and understanding of the era witnessing its slow messy birth, it's quite masterful (though as a warning, the main character suffers from bulleimia, not in a graphic nor gruesome way, more psychological, they never show it but it's there and might be triggering) I garuntee you, after you watch it, it will inspire in you so many video essays

[@dw9524]

Any mini series recommendations. I've seen a few but need more to feed me lol!

[@juliannehannes11]

@@dw9524 Judith Krantz miniseries Princess Daisy and Til We Meet Again(stars baby Hugh Grant as this fuckboy villian and baby Courtney Cox) and of course the miniseries Lace

[@pattiroti]

80s rich just one word: Dynasty 😎

[@Kallah_DaughterOfYAHUAH]

I LOVE the 80s and 40s comparison! I NEVER thought about that. But it is SOOOOO correct!

[@missilotze2985]

I was born in the 70s and grew up in the 80s...did anyone notice the shift in rich between the decades? Dallas had rich people living in a nice farmhouse with a pool...a little bigger than regular folks had, but mostly decorated from Sears. and for some reason, the grown kids still lived at home. Knots Landing put the rich people in the same suburb as the regular people. Falcon Crest had an honest to God mansion on a winery but all the kids and grandkids kept living at home, there, too. Then Dynasty came along and it actually had the ginormous mansions with multiple wings...so you kind of understood why nobody was leaving home there. And nothing on that set came from Sears.

[@kv2723]

"Rich" was different in the past. For example, when I visited Graceland, I expected to walk into a sprawling mansion. It's nothing like that. We're talking the biggest entertainer of all time! There are a lot of rooms, but they're not very big. It's intimate. The living room is basically the size of a middle class home up north. I brought this up to one of the guides. She said: that's how these old farmhouses were built. The rooms aren't very big. Plus, it isn't set very far back, or hidden, from the road. You can drive by and see the house. He had fans waiting at the gates by the street all of the time. There are pics of him and Priscilla, in their cars, stopping to sign autographs at the gates. It's so cool and so different from what we're used to today. Also, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez had a really charming home in Beverly Hills or one of the areas where celebrities live. It was ranch style, not hidden from the road. Backyard home videos show a relatively modest yard and beautiful, but not extravagant pool. They had gatherings with friends/family regularly and played games, swam, cooked - very wholesome, family, down to earth stuff.

[@Theposhfablife]

80's baby too! Grew up in my grandparents house!!! If you remember the Soap Operas from the 80's, your grandmother babysat you! 😊😊😊

[@teresachaotic.corner]

I also started watching All My Children in '98. I would tape it so I can watch it when I came back from school 🤣 The soap opera culture was totally a vibe.

[@francesmay6380]

I feel like you described this perfectly...right down to the 40's fashion influence ❤ Thank you!

[@teresachaotic.corner]

❤️Thank you🥰

[@raimeyewens7518]

5:57 I was a teenager in the 80’s and my boyfriends (now husband) parents had money. This picture reminds me of how my MIL used to decorate. Everything matched! She even used leftover border wallpaper to wrap the scented air spray can in the bathroom, along with the Kleenex box. It was way over the top. My parents still had olive green kitchen appliances from the 70”s and an octagon shaped kitchen table with a glass top and those weird shaped metal chairs with a wicker back. My home life resembled the show Roseanne and his was like walking into Leave It to Beaver. They sang songs around the piano. I didn’t know people did that lol. When she cooked meals she would put the food in serving dishes and put them in the formal dining room like Martha Stewart. My mom left it on the stove in whatever she cooked it in and you filled your plate and then sat down. I’m used to it now but back then it was a bit of a surprise how different we lived.

[@lorihoop3831]

We had a baby grand piano and were not allowed to touch it. Oh, how I longed for lessons... Lol All for show. Our home was constantly being remodeled or redecorated.

[@RosieIfYouKnowMe]

83 and was poor as can be. Used to walk around stores dreaming about what I could buy if I was rich. Loving the memories here. Thank you.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Ah the window shopping memories! Thank you for watching!❤️

[@Karmin19991]

malls were free and fun

[@TarynsTime]

I was obsessed with catalogs and window shopping was a pass time with my mother and then my best friend when I got my license in 1986. I got a red IROC Z Camero in 1988 and omg I was the happiest. I had a job at a shoe store that was so 80s it only had dress shoes and they were so gorgeous. I only got $3.35 an hour, but window shopping at the mall was free and fun.

[@SloanePaoPow]

Same, baby of the 80s, child of the 90s. I agree, lots of 80s bled into the 90s. I was not rich, but middle class, and my mom also talks negatively about the 80s. She thought everyone was money obsessed and shallow always trying to keep up appearances. She knew a woman who would buy expensive flashy sports cars, that would regularly get reposessed. 😂 She says that sums up what the vibe was back then.

[@mercedesvelasquez8781]

Now with the internet we are back to the 80's in a way with folks trying to outshine one another lol

[@_vikie09]

@@mercedesvelasquez8781yes exactly what I was thinking

[@kv2723]

That's also the vibe today

[@gloriathomas3245]

I grew up in the 80's and in my 45 years of life the very definition of what it means to be wealthy has changed considerably. Now if you wanted to see the 80s definition of what it means to be wealthy then you tuned into Lifestyle Of The Rich and Famous

[@TheErikaShow]

Loved me some “Lifestyles”! That was back before Air b&b’s 😂

[@Mia-Elemental]

I remember watching the lifestyle of the rich and famous 😅

[@Melissa0774]

When it comes to super rich people in the 80's, the top three things I think of are, indoor pools, a Lincoln Towncar stretch limo with a driver to take you everywhere, 24/7, and a cell phone. Cell phones were mostly associated with rich business people back then, and half way into the 90's. The stretch limo is an especially accurate stereotype of 80's rich people, because hardly anyone, especially rich celebrities use them anymore. People prefer regular sized cars, SUVs, or limo busses now.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

I will forever be in awe of that big brick cell phone. Back then, it was a signal that you've made it and you're making deals.

[@Melissa0774]

@@teresachaotic.corner Also, I forgot to mention, eating fancy gourmet French food, especially at restaurants, was another common 80's rich people stereotype. I wasn't even just thinking of the brick phones. I meant the Motorola flip phones that people had all through the early 90's. I think a lot of people forget how much of a status symbol it was to have a cell phone for a long time. You watch a movie like Home Alone and you realize now how weird it is that a family like that actually didn't have cell phones so they could just call Kevin and then the whole plot wouldn't have happened. (Unless they would've worked it into the story that something happened not only to the outside phone lines, but also to Kevin's cell phone or the Chicago area tower.)

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Or the fact that they let everyone on the plane without scanning or double checking their tickets🤣 Fancy French food and sushi (that was the hot new food of the '80s).

[@SuperYogagirl]

Hot tub parties with pretty girls.

[@Melissa0774]

@@SuperYogagirl And the hot tub is installed in the back of a stretch limo, where the trunk would normally be. I can never find anything about that online, but I know it was a thing.

[@hih2430]

this was not what i expected when i clicked on the video but it was like i was hearing myself talk 😂

[@teresachaotic.corner]

🤣

[@QuesoKilla]

You awoke a long buried memory. I was doing vision boards in the 80s before it was a thing, cutting out inspiration for rooms and outfits from Sears / Penney’s catalogs and taping them into that notebook with the pink paper we all had. Ah, being poor in the 80s. It means seeing my Gen Z coworkers discover ramen noodles like its cuisine and not the same Oodles of Noodles us latchkey Xenniel kids raised ourselves on.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Ah yes, the mood boards! I remember pouring over magazines (well, in the '90s) and wish, hoping, dreaming... I guess this video is an extension of a childhood mood board!

[@CS-zq1nh]

OMG! Me too! I planned my whole ideal life from those catalogs. Clothes, home interior, husband, kids. It was fun to dream :D

[@shan_react]

I too channel, have already wore fashion in projects working lived those years during 2000 era loved it ❤😂your on point ☝🏽👉🏽🎉👏🏽

[@DameDarcy999]

Overboard - Goldie Hawn Yacht, fashion, and attitude.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Love that movie! Especially her swimsuit! And I remember a gold dress

[@CarmenBelcher]

I like to listen to Grace Jones music and go back to the 80s every day.

[@Karmin19991]

the music was the best

[@michaelaharris-sutton9002]

This video actually coincided with the release of Disney+ and Hulu's Rivals which is about......being rich in the 80s.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Nice! I'm a bit out of the loop in the Disney + world now and this my first time hearing about Rivals, but it sounds fun!

[@jacobryanpaul2897]

@@teresachaotic.cornerI couldn’t stop watching it! ‘87 here, I live for Dynasty- I see Alexis Carrington Colby… I click! Great vid ❤

[@evelynebeautywaters]

So cool to see the 80’s, 40’s Connection you pointed out 😍

[@edwardtheinsane]

I love the aesthetic journey you take us on.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Thank you!❤️ I have fun doing it😉

[@nordicvolkan]

The irony is the 80s poor are now the 20s Middle class, 80s middle Class are now the 20s millionairs, & 80s Rich are now top 1%.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

ah inflation also happens socially.

[@Keeper_of_the_Hearth]

7:13 OMG yesssssss! This is exactly how I pictured myself rich as a kid. That was one of my fave movies.

[@SloanePaoPow]

Thesesa: Basically, I just want to talk about soap operas. Me: Girl, I am sat.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

🤣🥰

[@kimmikosi]

This video is brilliant! born in '79' and I think this is one of my fav you-tube videos of all time! Had Troop Beverly Hills on VHS and asked my mom every day if we could move to Beverly Hills!

[@teresachaotic.corner]

awww thank you! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 🤣 I just recently found a DVD of Troop Beverly Hills at an estate sale, but I remember looking forward to it every time it was on tv.

[@terrahillman151]

This made me smile so hard ! Def raised my vibration! Ty❤

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Awww. Thank you ❤️

[@Satanna.avemaria]

I was born in the mid 90s but I definitely remember the gilded, pastel pink interior of the yesteryear 😂😂😂 and it’s my favourite vibe of the 80s. So films like she devil come to mind. A character in it called Mary Fisher had a beautiful pink palace over looking the sea.

[@missdenisebee]

She-Devil! Loved that movie so much. I rarely see anyone talking about it, but my mom & I watched the HELL out of it.

[@Satanna.avemaria]

@@missdenisebee Meryl’s outfits in that movie were also iconic! 🥰💖🌸

[@michwashington]

I’m totally a 3:43 Gen Xer my grandparents use to have plastic covering on their white furniture… I really miss that furniture 😢

[@samiliciou_s]

11:40 my uncle buck was my favorite movie growing up and imma watch it rn!! Great video! I was born in 98, I'm 26 years old and i clicked on ur video for pure knowledge of luxury 80s. And its cool to see what they had in their mansions is so glamorous to me, i want it to be my reality! :P

[@teresachaotic.corner]

The name Buck just came to me. Buck sounds like just the guy to wear a bolo tie

[@acjessie6]

I will be back to watch. I just have to say. Your videos feel so good to my brain. It's a loose thread I pull on to unravel down the rabbit hole of something simultaneously meaningless and extremely pivotal all at once. Love it.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Thank you! 🥰 "Meaningless and pivotal" pretty much sums up this channel 🤣

[@Karmin19991]

I know this is the 90's but I loved the prince of Bel Air. I loved to see what Hilary was wearing. She was the fashionista of her day.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

OMG I forgot Hilary! Love her.

[@Gobble_de_Goop]

Phyllis Nefler from Troop Beverly Hills was SUCH a vibe!! Love her house ❤

[@teresachaotic.corner]

I've always loved her character!

[@cj222100]

I think my favorite Phyllis Nefler look was the part where she had on the khaki & hunter green cape & walked into the meeting late, smoking a cigarette with one of those long holders😂

[@teresachaotic.corner]

off tangent, but my favorite line from Troop Beverly Hills "so what if she's toyed with by lonely mountain men" Classic Phyllis

[@tatianah869]

86 grew up in the housing projects in a 1 room apartment as a family of 4. Now I live in a beautiful Victorian 3 floor home with my cats and partner. It has so many rooms. I feel blessed.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Living in a Victorian home has always been a dream of mine:)

[@marcellostraps]

I see that you were raised by the TV from 2pm forwards on weekdays! I watched those same afternoon soaps before I could even speak English. I thought "Is this how Americans live?" People kept horses and butlers, and women never wore the same outfit twice.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

I was! Soap opera + prime time TV +afternoon cartoons raised me.

[@debrawells-hopey1980]

80s kid here 👋 born in the 70s. This is (was?) the vibe 100% IFYKN 😂😂 Great job- this was so fun to watch!

[@teresachaotic.corner]

thank you! 🥰

[@jackietatum2245]

my dream bedroom and dream wardrobe were in the jcpenny's catalog lmao!

[@dw9524]

Danielle steel!!! Love her movies! And dynasty too. The elegance, the extravagances. I loves 80s excess "aestetic" (thats the official term for 80s luxury and its so fitting)

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Danielle Steele is a vibe onto herself! Love all the ballgowns she wears in her author photos!

[@nickcaputo4374]

Teresa! I left a comment earlier but it appears to have melted into the internet ethos😬 I'm a chid of the 1960s and didn't have much in the way of toys either, so I can relate to that pic of you and the Coke bottle (which I love) For me it was the garbage can lid where I could imitate Captain America! Also love your imagination. Your expansive life as the wife of a oil baron makes for quite a tale! It speaks to your talent as a writer. One last note, since you mentioned Richie Rich, and I'm the comic book guy, I thought I'd inform you that Richie Rich was created in 1953 and starred in a ton of comiic books for decades. In addition (and to tie in with your theme) Richie also appeared in a early 1990's comic book mini-series titled Richie Rich and the New Kids on the Block!

[@teresachaotic.corner]

That's so frustrating because my replies disappears too! Must be a technical glitch today. Thank you so much for trying again! I didn't know Richie Rich originated that far, but it makes sense for it to really take off in the '80s!

[@LS-hu1lm]

lol fun video. The truth is that it was great to be middle class in the 80s - and more people were than now. Moms were more likely to be able to stay home with the kids, you could trust the school, food and gas were cheap. People were more polite. Every Christmas there was a pile of presents under the Christmas tree. A lot of the over the top “rich” fashion, people laughed at. Travel was becoming more affordable. Things were fun and optimistic. Go look at home prices. It was expected that everyone would be able to be middle class.

[@Erica-en2qz]

This sounds so much my life growing up (I was a teenager in the 80's), except my mom worked, but everything else was the same. And yes, we totally expected to still be middle class, if not richer, when we grew up.

[@ryanfoxx3142]

gen z here and i came and stayed for the ✨vibes✨

[@acsaudiodramas]

That rose mic is just perfect for a video about the dream of luxury. ❤

[@neousf]

Subbing bc I can barely get through a week without bringing up Habsburg jaw in conversation and it’s nice to have someone else mention it for a change.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Now I wonder what kind of conversations you have that centers around the Hapsburg jaw🤣💖

[@Mariathinking]

The 40s had the bones but lacked the material due to war. 80s had 40s bones with eccess wealth.

[@MK_1Ultra]

Wow, flashbacks. Our life was like dynasty growing up. 89' baby here, and we didnt watch a lot of television growing up, but my parents really did live like that. I saw the show and my sister was like 'thats mom and dad', and they often hosted parties until they divorced.

[@BreathlessConni]

100% YES to all of this! So happy this video found me. Same childhood!!!

[@teresachaotic.corner]

❤️ thank you!

[@josephgallegos1156]

When you said VC Andrew’s I fell in love 😍

[@PR-cv1if]

Subscribed because of this nostalgia and because I’m an 80s baby (84’) ❤

[@teresachaotic.corner]

🤣 thank you! ❤️

[@asmrbunnyelephantproductio5431]

Iconic video

[@teresachaotic.corner]

❤️ Aww thank you

[@cheri__anne]

I feel like you'd write a really good TV show! Love your vids

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Thank you! ❤️ In another life, I would've made a great soap opera writer :)

[@BozeDoesGodsWork]

Material Girl is the perfect theme song for the 80’s ngl

[@teresachaotic.corner]

👌

[@patrickpatel5527]

I’m from the Uk and I was born in 1984 I can totally relate 😊. Thanks loved listening to you

[@teresachaotic.corner]

❤️ Thank you for watching!

[@seaglassdraws]

Girl, i love this, more of this. I also fantasised about having huge shoulder pads and hair that reached the heavens. I would power walk to the office, and drink fancy cocktails with little umbrellas in them.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Thank you! I love the big shoulder power suit vibe❤️

[@QueenofSoy]

Dude, I am ready for the whole series about vc Andrew's!

[@Keeper_of_the_Hearth]

13:22 I’m cracking up 😂 thanks for making my morning coffee and makeup time hilarious. 14:35 now we on Scarface 😂💀

[@teresachaotic.corner]

🤣❤️

[@Kirstyburst]

I was laughing throughout the whole video ! Especially when you started mentioning V.C Andrews I got a whole box of those books as a hand me down when I was like 12 😂🫣 and was obsessed with them especially the covers. Gothic fiction vibes.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

She's so rarely talked about online! The fact that I can still remember the twisty plots after all these years is a testimony to her impact on a generation!

[@Kirstyburst]

​@@teresachaotic.corner so true ! I'm only just discovering that it wasn't a weird solitary obsession I had. I'm so relieved 😅 also it makes me think of movies like cruel intentions! I wonder if that sort of gothic genre was an influence, same with the dark academia genre which seemed to get popular in the 90s/early 00s to. 😮

[@jenniferri7735]

i already liked you but when you said “i really just wanna talk about the VC Andrews novels” you won my heart all over again

[@teresachaotic.corner]

❤️V.C. Andrews 👊

[@JadoreLulu]

As an '86 baby and child of the 90's, had no other choice but to subscribe.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

❤️Thank you!

[@luckyluckymexo]

I'm here after watching RIVALS (on hulu & disney+) which is rich people set in the 80's, i looove it

[@v_vlps]

Girl you've brightened my day! BIG DADDY 😂😂😂

[@teresachaotic.corner]

🤣❤️

[@SuperYogagirl]

Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous was my favourite show in the 80s. It was everything'. I would be eating left overs and hung over from the party the night before, watching this show on a Saturday afternoon.

[@karimelupus]

This video has been a wild ride. I'd like to have beers with you 😂

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Thank you! ❤️ Or a 🍸 cocktail 🤣

[@karimelupus]

@@teresachaotic.corner Yes. Shoulderpads included.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

And big crunchy perms.

[@cj222100]

I was born in 1981, & as a kid, my 'if I were rich and a grown up' fantasy in the 80s was more like how they'd portray a young rich artist or designer in 80s movies or shows-a big fabulous loft apartment with white walls, glass block, & a version of Memphis style where it as a bit more minimal & bright primary colors as opposed to the neon or pastel squiggly line version.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Yes! The cosmopolitan Memphis group vibe!

[@cj222100]

​@@teresachaotic.cornerthat's a great way of putting it! Like you know there would be furniture or shelving that looked like a Piet Mondrian painting, but in a more 80s way, if that makes sense.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

OMG my dream is to have a Mondrian style shelf!

[@MRm-f5x]

Surprised you didn't mention the TV series Miami Vice and movie Scarface. They were hugely influential (particular Miami Vice) in terms of fashion, architecture (pastel art deco style), beach culture, and music (Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, Exposé). In fact, the enormous amounts of cocaine imported to South Florida during the late 70s and through the 80s, is basically what insulated south Florida from the early 80s recession, gave Miami it's glitz and glamour and transforming its skyline. The Miami Vice show was part of fashion change of the mid 80s that made pastels fashionable compared to the earth tones of the early 80s that carried from the 70s (you know those olive greens, marigold oranges, and many shades of brown). There's a documentary called "Cocaine Cowboys" if anyone is interested in that part of Miami's violent drug history.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Scarface is weaved throughout the story of this video:) It's one of my favorite movies so can't forget it! But yes, totally skipped over Miami Vice, which was such an amazing vibe. Maybe next time❤️

[@EXOmakemeHorololo]

😊Yes. Born early 80s and 90s kid and working class. I'm quite happy about the kids shows and movies I grew up and all the great colourful toys!!! My Little Pony and Polly Pocket all the way. I kinda wish I'd been a bit earlier and be a teen in the 80s. I missed out on some fun fashion and hair!! 90s minimalism was boring as heck 🙄

[@teresachaotic.corner]

I totally wished I was a teen in the '80s.

[@panetapes]

Born poor '83 and only in '97 parents be came middle class. Decorated the house according to 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' and ' Dallas' 😅

[@cutiebear-nz5ki]

Subbed❤️

[@teresachaotic.corner]

thank you! 🥰

[@africocoalux722]

This entire video was a marketing advertisement to read VC Andrews books. …. As a GOT addict….im sold.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

🤣

[@anngelgames]

I subscribed after the Daniel Plainview reference

[@teresachaotic.corner]

I can quote him all day long!

[@toughcookie6144]

VC Andrew’s is my absolute fav author hands down forever lol😅…. I do not share this info widely 😂😂😂😂😂

[@teresachaotic.corner]

🥰 Her world was so twisted and fun!

[@nickcaputo4374]

Hi Teresa, I thought I'd follow up with a scenario that came to mind which I thought you might find amusing (and inspired by your dreams of excessive wealth). Richie Rich first appeared as a back-up strip in Little Dot comics. The comic began in 1949 and ran into the early 90s (perhaps you even read one of her comics as a child?) Little Dot was a girl obsessed with dots. She was one of the popular characters published by Harvey Comics, who had a line-up consisting of Casper, Wendy, the Good Witch, Sad Sack, and - one of the most bizarre concepts - Baby Huey, a giant duck! Well, my brain started percolating (never a good thing!) and I imagined Richie Rich and Little Dot growing up, dating and eventually marrying. Richie played the field (he even had a comic titled Richie Rich's Girlfriends) but he loved Dot, and early on the Dot motif was both fun and kinky. Soon after the marriage things changed. His wife insisted on dots on everything: Walls, bedrooms, swimming pools! And, of course, clothing. She would turn away any gift not speckled with dots. They had to be on dresses, boots, hats, sweaters, swimwear, even fur coats! Richie was losing his mind! He turned from a benevolent soul to a raging madman. Fights were constant. Finally one day he went insane and strangled Dot with her favorite dotted scarf. He laughed insanely as the poloce took him away. Richie is spending the rest of his life in a home for the criminally insane. He never talks to anyone, but can be heard muttering "dots!....dots!...dot!"

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Awesome! You should look into writing the spin off to the Richie Rich x Dots story!

[@foxygloss]

I would do anything to be a rich lady in the 70’s or 80’s ❤

[@00084915]

Your tangents beget my tangents. After watching this, I immediately looked up V.C. Andrews (whom I hadn't heard of ), followed by Andrew Neidermann (whom I really, really hadn't heard of). Ghostwriting is such an interesting game, especially when it's being done for a deceased author. That's when the occupation really lives up to its name, I'd say. Also, I hadn't considered how the 80s were responsible for a 40s fashion revival. Thanks for that. It brought to mind that awesome musical number called "Dancin" from the movie "Xanadu" where the big swing band and the grungy rock band literally meld together sonically and visually. A brilliant concept and execution. Now I'm going to have to listen to some E.L.O.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

I'm so happy this video prompted you to look up V.C. Andrews and her ghostwriter. I feel like she's so rarely talked about here on YT. Together, they put out a string of bestsellers (not necessarily 🤌 literature, but a 'good time' for readers who just need an escape). Also pleased my video made you break out the '80s playlist! ❤️

[@00084915]

Your describing her work as "wild and salacious" is a all the endorsement I need. 😁

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Her books were something I was into in middle school. Were I to re-read them now... eh... don't know if they will live up. However, I appreciate the entertainment it gave 12 year old me so I always refer back to V.C. Andrews with fondness. Do you have a book(s) like that?

[@00084915]

I completely get that. While I wasn't much of a reader at that age, I understand the concept of revisiting stuff that formerly supplied a visceral gush. Were I to rewatch Rod Serling's "Night Gallery" these days, episodes that scared the hell out of my impressionable 12-year-old self would likely put an amused smile on this jaded face!

[@michwashington]

Who couldn’t forget all the coke that was done in Robocop.. love that movie. Probably shouldn’t have been allowed to watch that at my age when it came out 😂

[@teresachaotic.corner]

I actually saw Robocop for the first time a few years ago. It was so over-the-top '80s. Love it!

[@michwashington]

@@teresachaotic.corner Dead Or Alive… I’m staying subscribed to your channel 🦾🤖😝👍

[@daytonpeters4355]

The way you’d be the Queen of the 80s

[@jermainecornelius7193]

I was a kid of the 80's and I definitely was one of the have nots. Throughout my school years I never had any of the name brand clothes. As for as toys, I did get toys for Christmas and birthdays but they were never the toys based on popular cartoons. That's why to this day as an adult, the cartoons like He-Man, Transformers and also Jem; I now have on DVD because those cartoons meant so much to me growing up because they were the only connection that I had to them. That was simply because they were on tv and free watch.

[@iampatricemeeks]

I graduated in 1984. Rich kids in my small town. A money town….had a black maid who came daily she cooked cleaned ironed Ect. She was always around but not the mothers. Big houses 🏠 the kids had cars at age 14. Kids had big playhouses trampolines go carts motorcycles swimming pools. The moms all drove black Cadillacs. Us kids in the 80’s raised ourselves. Both parents worked to give us everything they thought we wanted. We played outside until 11pm 🕚 in the summer and on weekends. Parents did not show affection. The rich kids had maids the middle class kids were the maids.

[@Kallah_DaughterOfYAHUAH]

Not black maid. Smh

[@chibivesicle9612]

I feel called out about the flipping through catalogues though it was only the Sears one that came out in August for the holidays since we didn't get many trendy catalogues for furniture and whatnot. It really shows what type of media one grew up wtih - I had a mix of cartoons Voltron, Thundercats, Loony Tunes, Rocky and Bullwinkle, action shows like Airwolf, Nightrider, Quantum Leap, old Star Trek and then TNG and tons of PBS - Wild America, Nature, 3,2,1 Contact, Sesame Street, Nova and we can't forget the Muppets show and reruns of shows from the 50s-70s. When it comes to fashion however, I was oblivious. I grew up middle class in the rust belt at a time when you still had leaded gasoline, no emission standards and the mills and factories were all still operating. When I think of 80s fashion it is pretty much pants, t-shirts and crew neck sweatshirts & sweaters. Neither of my parents were fashionable and I would go even further to say the general cross section of a middle class/working class city in the rust belt was not a hotbed of fashion. What really gets me is I never had some future dream house for when I'd be married and so on and so forth. It never occurred to me at all. I'm pretty sure all I thought was I would 1.) have a cat and 2.) would live in a house similar to my family - I guess? This video essay really has me realizing that I never pondered any of this and further more -hell, I never pondered it well into my 20s! Still don't own a home but hey, I've got a handsome little cat.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Did you ever play M.A.S.H. where M is for mansion, A apartment, S for shack, H for house...? I was really counting my numbers to land on M 🤣 Fashion-wise, the '80s spanned a broad range of subcultures and social class. I love looking back at middle class/working class wear. I mean, that's what my family wore. But the '80s were also big on aspirations and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, which I watched as a six-year-old and that probably inspired most of my ideas!

[@chibivesicle9612]

@@teresachaotic.corner I've never even heard of MASH as a game! I think the big thing for me is that I can identify certain fashion styles and silhouettes as being 80s but it is almost like I absorbed it in the background. I didn't see it in my day to day existence as an elementary school student - maybe my parents did a good job of restricting my TV watching habits. 😅

[@AlexaSmith]

amazing video omg!

[@teresachaotic.corner]

thank you! ❤️

[@kimmikosi]

80's flex - going on Safari to kill big game was just what rich people did!

[@clutchingpearls22]

This video belongs in the Smithsonian right beside the bubble boy suit 👏🏼 iconic

[@StefanTaf]

Totally get the vibe hahahah

[@teresachaotic.corner]

😂

[@jasonsdodd]

I'm still rocking my 80s style :)

[@teresachaotic.corner]

What is your '80s style?

[@meredethenglish1577]

Absolutely love Joan Collins in "Dynasty"! ❤

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Joan Collins = Goals

[@Larisa1Cristina]

0:16 Don't worry about the plastic bottle. It wasn't because you didn't have toys. My daughter, born in 2014 loved to play with 5L bottles all the time. They just are more fun ☺️☺️

[@FarewellAphrodite]

I miss the toys 🧸 and commercials of the 1980’s… seafood 🍣 🍤 🍱🦞 and family times🍭 🍓🌭 🔥🍫🍬🍪was delicious, 🍹 🍇🥬🥕🥩🥦🍎 music 🎼 🎶 🎵 other than that…not much❣️💋

[@Abby-00]

Ok born in ‘83 to upper middle class parents… central vac ✅ floor to ceiling floral fabric and matching furniture ✅ my mom’s power suits ✅ VC Andrews ✅

[@acsaudiodramas]

It is perfectly fine not to have been rich in the 80s. 😄 Seems some people are just weird about everything. My parents were well off in the 80s till I turned 6 yo - then they were bankrupt. Still, we had always lived for rent - no house owners. Half of the furniture were inherited from relatives and from the 50s and 60s and the other half was from Ikea - except for my parents' ugly wicker bed and two white leather couches somehow none of my parents liked. My dad had spent most of their income on collecting antique toys - believing them to become even more valuable later. The same toys are rather worthless today - despite them being so much older by now. It was just a collecting boom and people obviously had too much money to spent on crap. When my dad's hotel was shut down - cuz he ignored guidelines, my parents hadn’t saved any money. My mom had a small frame and always wore children clothes. So guess who would get mocked in school, wearing her old colorful Oililly children clothes from the 80s to school in the late 90s? Yup, me! It went fine until 1996/97 - then I really stuck out in these clothes like a sore thump. Somehow my parents stayed broke throughout the whole 90s - for several reasons - like my father never staying at any job for long and my mother refusing to work alltogether. And sure, our home never changed after the 80s. Even as we had to move, we kept the same furniture.

[@iampatricemeeks]

New here. New sub. Great work.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

thank you!❤️

[@mikkievolante]

I need this to be a series. Rich in the 90s, rich in the 2000s, rich in the 2010s???

[@teresachaotic.corner]

You have me a 💡 moment!

[@kanilana1007]

I was born int he late 80s but remember the vibe well because it bled into the 90s. As an adult I'm subtly influenced by that vibe in my fashion and decor choices.

[@NC-tt4gc]

I’d watch a video dedicated to VC Andrews.

[@teresachaotic.corner]

Which family series is your favorite?

[@GLENDALE_ISBACK]

I love being rich in the 80s

[@glamazon6172]

Fuck it. I'm a Xennial. Subscribed!

[@teresachaotic.corner]

thank you🤣🥰

[@april1947]

my bff in elementary school's dad was a surgeon. her house looked straight out of Southern Living magazine

[@kita6707]

Gilt and gilded. :) Oh yeah. I was a teen in the 80s. It was a great time to come of age for many reasons. But it was most definitely a wealth-obsessed age. So we poor kids always felt rather less-than, and everyone did a lot of pretending that they had more than they did. There was a certain business man whose name began with T who, many of us quickly learned, was very shady, corrupt, and immoral. Many of those my age and older who support him now must have terrible memories. That’s all I’m gonna say on that.

[@lunallena5594]

Nothing wrong with keeping stuff you like, and that works. Visible and social media always promotes the latest and greatest to get people to buy more things. But even rich people I know keep the furniture they like and paid for.

[@deadlynightshade6581]

❤ troop Beverly Hills is one of my favorite movies from the 80s 😂

[@Princessm2025]

I don’t know how exactly I got here, but I’m glad I made it. I need an oil man husband too 💖😂

[@teresachaotic.corner]

🥰🤣 Certainly makes life easier (or more difficult) depending on how many road houses he visits and how many bolo ties he owns. Thank you for watching!

[@thesecondcoming2022]

Oh yeah...you had me at the matching Bedroom sets, cocaine all night, rich husband's, and dressing like all the women on Dallas...You got a new Subbie Bunny...in my Buck Voice 🤣🤣🤣 Flowers in the Attic still gives me nightmares, my big sister brought it home, and then the movie came out...smh We would have so rocked as adults in the 80's...😉

[@teresachaotic.corner]

When I'm down I like to pretend I'm Joan Collins in Dynasty and all my cares melt away... ❤️