‘What did your mates have at their houses that seemed fancy AF when you were a kid?’ – 24 things to blow your tiny childish mind
13.
‘Dimmer lights, and lamps. We just had the big light and my parents had one lamp in their bedroom.’
–-myeyeshaveseenyou-
14.
‘A chinchilla. Like WTF dude, cats and dogs are normal pets, a mouse maybe, or hamster, definitely a rabbit? But a chinchilla?! What a super exotic pet choice. Fancy fucks.’
–Baby-Catcher
15.
‘Going back a bit now but, Findus Crispy Pancakes. Totally bourgeois for the seventies.’
–Chargerado
16.
‘A glass bowl in the bathroom filled with bath pearls. Remember those?’
–WoodElfWitch
17.
‘Back in the early 1970s my better-off friends used to have massive chest freezers in the garages of their homes (indoor fridge-freezers were not really a thing). They had gallons of ice cream.’
–Emergency_Driver_421
18.
‘A race car bed.’
–SpudFire
19.
‘Microchips! Chips. As a SNACK. Whenever you wanted. Pure decadence.’
–doulikadikaday
20.
‘One of my friends had a massive built-in tropical fish tank. At the time I thought it was fabulous. Now I’d be appalled.’
–BackgroundGate3
21.
‘A shower. Like being at a French campsite.’
–Gullible-Lie2494
22.
‘My friend’s dad had a car phone, long before mobiles were around. Massively impressive to 10 year old me in the mid 80s!’
–Jolly-Bandicoot7162
23.
‘A dishwasher. I have always despised doing dishes and saw a dishwasher for the first time and was just awestruck!’
–Melodic-Tutor-2172
24.
‘My friends dad had a Volvo estate and the rear two seats faced backwards (why?!). I thought that was next level shit.’
–DinosaurInAPartyHat
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