If Your Family Had ONE Of These, We All Assumed You Were Rich

I was poor growing up. Not a lot poor, but medium poor. Does that make sense? Regardless, there were things I saw growing up that made me automatically assume you were rich.

Here's the list.

Trampolines

This was a big one. If I went to a friend's house and they had a trampoline, I just assumed their parents were doctors or lawyers. I will say my family eventually got one, but it had no safety netting, and we regularly flew off the side.

Soda

I grew up drinking water from the tap. We were definitely too poor for a water filtration system. Also, I'm pretty sure those didn't exist back in the 90s.

Nothing said peak wealth like a garage fridge stocked with different types of soda. I literally didn't know what Mountain Dew was until I went to a party at a friend's house in middle school. My pupils were fully dilated that entire night.

Hot Tub

My family had a hot tub growing up. It's called a bathtub, and I still own one. No big deal. Having a hot tub meant your parents were probably wealthy astronauts, because who could afford to have an outside tub of water? Not me.

Glamour Shots

Peak jealousy was when I went to a friend's house and saw those soft-lit mother-daughter portraits. Dressed in rhinestones and cowboy hats, with hair teased to Jesus, getting a full-on makeover and then having "professional" pictures taken was a whole lot of wow.

There was a Glamour Shots location in Fort Collins, but I only ever drove by. Womp Womp.

Vacations

Growing up, vacations weren't a thing. I didn't even take my first airplane ride until I was 19. Seeing friends fly away to Mexico on Christmas always blew my mind.

Vacation for my family meant renting a room at the Holiday Inn 15 minutes from our house. This only happened once a year, but damn, was it a treat, and we swam in the filthy, filthy pee pee water for 23 hours straight.