For those who didn't grow up privileged, name something you thought was a luxury when you were a kid.

[godofwine]

Converse Chuck Taylor All Star sneakers. I grew up with Bobo's from the grocery stores. Eventually saved up enough money to afford the Sears Winners sneakers.

Those were the days!

Same here
Except they were buddies from Kroger's
Or Payless shoes

We all know the song

"Buddies they cost a $1.99, buddies they make your feet feel fine"

 

[HellBoy]

Name brand anything. Our clothes and shoes all came from Sears or Zayres. I didn't get my first name brand shoes until I was 16 or 17.

 

[godofwine]

Nosebleed seats.

Man, The best thing about having some money is not fucking with them goddamn nosebleeds. I told myself a while ago, if I can't tell the difference between Jill Scott and Kelly Clarkson I ain't going to a concert.

If I can't tell the difference between Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen, I ain't going to a football game

I went to this Ice Cube concert back in October and sat in row nine. (Also, if I wanted to upload the concert to put in the basement for y'all what could I upload it on? Because I recorded the whole show, all 2 hours.)

 

[Lurk Diggler]

Steak - REAL steak. I was almost 40 before I truly found out.

When I was a kid, we got cubed steak, bullshit steak, and 'I can't believe this shit is actually meat' steak, So as an adult, I ain't know no better.

In 2016, I had a roommate and Acme Supermarket had a steak sale, so I went up there with like $150 and bought a bunch of steak, what I thought was good steak.

One day in the spring, We're sitting around watching The NBA playoffs and I throw a steak on the grill and asked him if he wanted one, he said yes so I threw two on. I seasoned it and cooked it, gave him one and I ate one.

He took one bite, set his on the counter and said, I'll be back

He came back with what I now know is filet mignon. That shit was butterflied and he seasoned it and threw it on the grill. Flipped it over, threw a pat of butter on the back side, threw it on a plate and gave it to me.

I cut into that shit, saw that pink and was like, "Naw, throw my shit back on the grill. This shit ain't done. This shit mooing still."

He said, "Naw, dude, trust me. I wouldn't bullshit you."

I bit into that shit like Simba with the bug on Lion King, but better...



That shit was good, good good. Blew my fucking mind good. I had no idea you weren't supposed to burn the fuck out of steak. I had no idea of anything other than medium well and well done. I had no idea what a good cut of meat was.

All that meat was in the freezer was 'fajita meat' from that point forward. I was filet mignon from that day on

***

Also, I was much older than I should have been before I found out that the butcher at the grocery store can cut meat that's packaged at the store.

After I discovered filet mignon, I discovered that it's much cheaper if you get a whole tenderloin (between $55-80 at most stores), Give it to the butcher and tell him to cut it into filets and you can get 13 or more fillets out of that tenderloin PLUS they give you the remaining leftover pieces as ground meat - and they do it for free!

Till this day I refuse to eat cube steak or Salisbury stake that’s the only steak we had growing up then one day at a coworkers bbq in my 20s I was introduced to a properly grilled t-bone…life changing

 

[godofwine]

Till this day I refuse to eat cube steak or Salisbury stake that’s the only steak we had growing up then one day at a coworkers bbq in my 20s I was introduced to a properly grilled t-bone…life changing

Oh my fucking god, cube steak. Nightmares

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

A house with more than one bathroom. I thought that was amazing!

I grew up in a 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom row home in north Philly. (There were 5 of us - Dad, Mom and us children)

Now I live alone in a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath single family home and one of the bathrooms I don't even use.

I’m a west oak lane kid. When I started hanging around your region, I would always joke that you had to park half your car on the sidewalk and the other in the living room. How do you not have a damn driveway?

 

[dade305]

Cinnamon Toast Crunch

 

[Journey]

For me it would be a satellite tv dish, that would be equivalent to an IPTV today. Owning a satellite tv dish as kid meant you had money, came from privilege or had some form of status in you community or neighborhood.

 

[dade305]

For me it would be a satellite tv dish, that would be equivalent to an IPTV today. Owning a satellite tv dish as kid meant you had money, came from privilege or had some form of status in you community or neighborhood.

Same, we were one of the first on my block to get satellite

 

[34real]

I sometime have to tell my older bro he don't know how good we really had it with some of the stories I hear from people

Yes I agree,especially after seeing some of the responces in this thread because if that's what you call luxury than I have nothing to complain about at all as a kid cause a lot of people would of thought we were living luxury but that's why we welcomed alot of family and friends in.

As silly as it sounds watching "Fresh prince of Bel-air" "The Crosby show" I thought that was Luxury looking at how they lived on tv but I was
blessed

 

[HUNTSVEGAZ]

My mom could sow. in the summer she’d make me and babe bro short sets we thought we had fly exclusive shit lol the material was paper thin from a dept store called Hills and would only last the summer but it didn’t matter we’d grow every year anyway

Hills??

You from Alabama??

 

[samh32]

Milk in a jug, rather than card a card board box.

 

[BigDaddyBuk]

i was gonna say this

finally got one as an adult and it was the worst thing i ever had in my mouth.

and i accidentally bit a bug once.