Indicators of Wealth

Rims that keep spinning every time you stop

 

Two story houses.

 

Convertible

 

conversion van

 

Hummers

 

Anyone with a Rolex watch was rich rich.

 

When I started having a wallet when I was kid and had maybe $5 I would think someone was rich if they had like $1,000 they could easily access. I am still very stupid but different ways

 

Hearing the “beep beep beep” of a security system every time someone went in/out of the house

 

• Screened in pools
• People who went on vacations that weren't just to visit family

 

Three square meals a day

 

My dad had a money clip and would always keep way too much money on him. We were not rich. It just seemed irresponsible as hell but back then you needed to have real money for things I guess

 

Built in kitchen ice machines

 

a computer

 

using ticonderoga pencils in our daily pencil fighting matches

 

the high pitched "beep beep" when someone locked their sportscar with the key fob

 

of course you looked at peoples watches when you were a kid

 

Arcade or pinball machines in basement

 

associates degree from Ball St

 

Not sure what this means?

 

Kitchen island

 

If you had push buttons on your microwave and it wasn't a dial.

 

Radiant floor heat

 

I always dreamed of growing up and making great money. $40k was the magic number that would get me there

But I was in the Florida panhandle, so maybe I wasn't too far off

 

Living in one of these new neighborhoods

 

I remember my parents buying a Honda Accord for $12k. Haha inflation amirite

 

Pool table

 

Wait. Wut?

 

A clean Mazda Miata was the height of wealth

 

We had a TV with dials and then a secondary dial that was for tweaking the reception

 

Cordless phones

 

I was told by a child from the bad part of town that not owning one of these indicated you were rich

 

A monocle and cane

 

Car phone

 

Each kid having their own room.

Finished basement.

 

Flying to vacation instead of driving

 

drinking not water at restaurants

 

I am such a cheap ass that I refuse to order anything but water when eating out.

Also, every kid in the south 16+ driving a brand new pickup or altima was not what I expected when going to school in Mississippi.

 

Fine dining ware/China

 

There were three kids who vied for richest kids in my school. Two were part of mafia families, like literal mafia. They both had indoor swimming pools. That was as elite as you could get.

The third was one of my best friends, whose dad owned a general contracting construction business—in ground pool, big screen TV, pool table. All mentioned above.

We had an Intellivision gaming system instead of Atari. That set us apart.