The absolute peak of luxury as a child

[Jazzy1]

What did you consider the absolute peak of luxury as a child?

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For me it was people that had ice cubes coming out of the door of their fridge.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

People that had a tv in their bedroom.
I don’t feel that way now. I have a tv in my bedroom and never use it

 

[CallMeKate]

I never thought about it back then... but with today's perspective, I suppose the peak of luxury to me as a child would have been having a bedroom to myself and not having to share with my sister.

 

[officerripley]

If the wife/mother of the family didn't have to work outside the home.

 

[hollydolly]

Peak would have been many things in our house... I always envied my friends who had carpets....

 

[IrishEyes]

I never thought about it back then... but with today's perspective, I suppose the peak of luxury to me as a child would have been having a bedroom to myself and not having to share with my sister.

Absolutely!!!!!The most perfect gift ever!

 

[Beezer]

Whenever one of my daughters would complain about their cellphone, I would always say...

"Do you know what I had when I was your age? Do ya??"

"BALL IN A CUP!!"

 

[C50]

The peak of luxury was anyone who lived in the next township over from ours. My father claimed everyone who lived "over there" was rich, but I have no idea why he thought that.

 

[Aunt Bea]

The kids that had young parents and lived in new homes, had new cars, new furniture, etc…

I grew up with older parents and everything that we owned had stood the test of time.

 

[hollydolly]

Another was colour TV... by 1970 when I was 15, everyone I knew had colour TV.. not us.. in fact by the time I left home for good my father STILL wouldn't pay out for a colour TV...

 

[That Lady in PA]

food, and a new item of clothing

 

[hollydolly]

food, and a new item of clothing

I wasn't thinking along those lines... but we were in the same position as you.....Shoes were a definite luxury we had to wear shoes until they were literally falling off our feet.. very embarassing as a child... at school

 

[Paco Dennis]

I grew up in a household of domestic tranquility. Really, it was a wonderland to me, the perfect suburban nest.

 

[OldFeller]

We visited a rich relative when I was a kid and I was very impressed that their bathroom was at the far end of their walkin closet.

 

[Veronica]

food, and a new item of clothing

Same here. Me too. New clothes that actually fit would have been a luxury.
My few were all too short and all had the hems let out.
No hand me downs when youre taller than a lot of the adults in your family.

Sometimes on a weekend Mom and I would share a pint of ice cream a large soda and a bag of chips.
Back then I thought it was a luxury. Now its still a luxury. I can afford it but Im on a diet. #sigh

 

[Imogene]

I was pretty much stone country and didn’t know or care if I was missing out on any material things. The pinnacle for me was the spring I turned 12 and my first horse was delivered to our farm.

On a lateral with that, was the colt that sweet mare delivered a year later. I was allowed to keep him, raising and training him under my granddad’s watchful and experienced eye. Sonny stayed with me his entire lifetime. He was 29 and I was 42 when I laid him to rest. We did our share of riding in parades, sliding down power lines, river banks, and digging up the other side.. Sonny was a terrific children’s horse in his teens. I could pile my son and his cousins on Sonny’s back and send them on their way, around the pond in the woods, back to the house. A big deal trail ride for small children

Granddad’s farm, 1965. I was 18, Sonny was five and our journey was just beginning.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

That would be when we moved from a 2 bedroom frame house to a 3 bedroom brick house with 2 bathrooms instead of just 1.

 

[feywon]

I never thought about it back then... but with today's perspective, I suppose the peak of luxury to me as a child would have been having a bedroom to myself and not having to share with my sister.

I didn't think about it much then either. But i adored my 3 older sisters. Tho even as a child i valued alone time i missed them being around when they were in school before i was old enough for it. And when they went off for 6-8 weeks in late summer to work at 'Tobacco Camp' in their later teens.

When we moved to house on main part of river (had lived on an inlet my first 4 yrs) all 4 of us shared a room, albeit a huge one, 2 to a bed.

 

[C50]

My oldest brother would come by once a month to take my mom grocery shopping, her great indulgence would be buying an eight pack of 7up soda, for herself. Once in a while I would get a few sips, so to my eight year old self soda pop was a luxury.

 

[Sunny]

Having a car. We lived in a city and didn't "need" one, but I really, really wanted one. Didn't get it until I was married. DH was an Army officer stationed in Germany, and since there was no war going on in Europe, I was able to move there, and we had a beautiful apartment. We bought our first car, a VW "beetle" and I learned to drive on the Autobahn. I thought I was in heaven.

But after a year, his Army term was up and we had to return to the U.S. and reality. The car came with us.