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We each had those friends increasing up, the ones whose parents made similar a bajillion dollars and gave their kids immoderate they wanted. Going to bent retired astatine their houses felt similar stepping into different world, a satellite with never-ending name-brand snacks, each the latest tech gadgets, and different not-so-subtle signs of utmost affluence.
1. "The Money Drawer. Instead of a junk drawer successful the kitchen, they had a drawer filled with cash. If immoderate of the kids needed money, they conscionable went to the drawer. Their dada refilled it arsenic needed, and they didn’t instrumentality much than they needed due to the fact that it was ever determination astatine the ready."
2. "My person had a serving robot. This was successful the aboriginal '90s, and his dada worked for a robotics company. I was flabbergasted."
3. "I knew it was a antithetic benignant of affluent erstwhile they told me, 'You tin usage the nanny’s bathroom; her suite is downstairs.'”
—u/Tamihera
4. "They had a elephantine solid java array successful a country afloat of mind-blowing decorator furniture. There were 5 magazines connected the solid table: Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, worldly similar that. It took maine a small portion to realize, but each of the magazines had the location I was sitting successful connected the cover."
5. "In the Los Angeles area, determination is simply a moving gag that nary substance however affluent you are, determination is ever idiosyncratic richer. I grew up good off, but I had a person successful Calabasas who lived connected a compound. At the time, my person was 12 years old, and helium had his 16-year-old sister had their ain 'houses.' They lived successful wholly abstracted structures from the main house, with large bedrooms and abstracted rooms for immoderate they wanted, and idiosyncratic would travel successful each week to banal up connected their favourite snacks. His sister was into constitution and birds, truthful she had a abstracted country for makeup, a abstracted room/outdoor country for her parrots. Their excavation was a straight-up h2o parkland with aggregate h2o slides and a monolithic saltwater pool. You could person easy had a excavation enactment of 200+ people. They besides had a mini play people and a immense outdoor kitchen/grill. On apical of it all, they had a impermanent location that they 'didn’t cognize what to bash with.'"
7. "As a kid, my friends who had those small Jeeps they could thrust successful their backyard shocked me."
—u/Kivulee
"A kid from our schoolhouse had a existent racing go-kart, similar the nonrecreational benignant you contention astatine a track. I saw him driving successful it successful beforehand of his waterfront mansion. Us mediocre colony kids were gathering go-karts with buggy wheels we recovered astatine the dump, and our lone centrifugal was gravity going downhill."
—u/dcannons
8. "My friend's parents' surviving country had a closet doorway that opened to a descent that took you down to the basement."
9. "A Steinway expansive soft successful their surviving country that was conscionable for decoration. It was surrounded by a velvet enactment arsenic if it were successful a museum, truthful children wouldn't situation interaction it. The aforesaid country had a heap of Ferrero Rochers successful a crystal candy vessel arranged successful a cleanable pyramid. My person said that if anyone touched it, her ma would bent them by the ears. Really, the full country was for decoration. I could not recognize wherefore you'd person the champion soft successful the satellite conscionable for decoration. "
10. "They had two antithetic tanning beds successful their house."
—u/Neon-Ruby3
11. "A backstage movie theatre that had 2 rows of 8 recliner chairs successful a soundproof, acheronian room. The full location was perfectly incredible, but that’s erstwhile I realized determination are levels to wealth."
13. "They had a vacuum strategy built into the walls. There were these outlet-looking things each implicit the house, and each you had to bash was plug a hose into it to vacuum. That's the lone 1 I've ever seen successful my life."
14. "My roommate and I had a person successful assemblage who swore up and down that she was conscionable different miss from the suburbs. She invited america to a tiny enactment astatine her parents' location backmost successful her hometown for New Year's. It was a gorgeous three-story cobblestone location with a four-car garage. Inside, we were led to the furnished basement wherever I saw the biggest TV I person ever seen (still to this day), 4 excavation tables, and a doorway that led to the actual basement. They had 2 basements! The adjacent morning, we woke up and were led upstairs to an all-glass eating room, wherever a Cuban-style meal had been prepared by a hired chef. Everything conscionable felt ridiculous. "
15. "Having cheeseburgers astatine a friend’s location and being asked what benignant of food I wanted. My reply of 'regular' was funny."
16. "I knew idiosyncratic who was a millionaire erstwhile I was increasing up successful the 80s and coiled up becoming a billionaire agelong aft we knew them. The happening that impressed maine astir astatine the clip was that his daughter, who was a small older than me, had each azygous Smurfs figurine ever made."
—u/DJzzzzzzs
17. "I coiled up being champion friends with the C.E.O. of our section infirmary system. They had arcade games successful their house, similar Pac-Man, Joust, and a pinball machine. I was like, 'These radical indispensable beryllium the richest radical successful the world!'"
18. "The archetypal clip I encountered a pat that dispensed instant boiling h2o successful the '90s, it was magical to me."
19. "His stairs were truthful wide, and his LEGO postulation truthful plentiful, that his sets were displayed connected the steps and landings."
—u/standarsh618
20. "Security guards astatine the gross of their neighborhood. You had to cheque successful with them earlier they'd fto you in, and you had to archer them who you were determination to see."
21. And finally, "I knew a household that had their ain idiosyncratic weed grower. Like, a feline making $200k a twelvemonth to turn weed strictly for that family."
—u/snownative86
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