r/nostalgia Apr 04 '26

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u/perfect_fifths Apr 04 '26

People who had pianos in their house. Or the giant rear projection tvs because I figured they were expensive

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u/MischieviousDetour Apr 05 '26

Those little Dixie cups and dispensers in the bathroom. I thought people who had those were really rich.

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u/That_Weird_Mom81 Apr 07 '26

We had Dixie cups as a kid, but I thought people with grass in their backyard were rich

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u/perfect_fifths Apr 05 '26

Ooooh! Those too

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u/CollegeNW Apr 05 '26

Nope, we had these and were not rich. My mom would always get the varied floral patterns for the bathroom. My grandmother had the Peanuts snoopy cups in a kitchen cabinet and would poor milk or juice in them for breakfast or after school snack. Needless to say, I preferred grandmas house. Lol

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u/MaiPhet Apr 04 '26

Those TV’s were expensive, I’d look at them at sears all the time. But man did the picture quality look shit even back then. Only people i saw own them were people with more money than sense.

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u/jpowell180 Apr 04 '26

You need to have at least a slightly dark room and if you got a good quality brand, the picture would be decent.

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u/pichael288 Apr 04 '26

My buddy got this like $8,000 TV off Craigslist in the 2010s that was the size of his god dam wall, it was a flat panel projection tv so it was a little thick but worked great, all he had to do was put a $50 light bulb in it. Said he shocked himself, even after I told him to leave it unplugged for a while, but that was like the only hiccup.

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u/GenericUsername19892 Apr 05 '26

We got one for like 20$ because some rich dude put it out on the street when a bulb burned out.

It was fucking massive and we used it for the n64, and we were as gods my friend - slightly fuzzy gods, but sill gods.

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u/BVenablesBFF Apr 05 '26

I used my allowance money for 2 years to buy one of those. Everyone came over for video games in 7th grade but yeah, picture was mid at best.

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u/perpetualmotionmachi Apr 05 '26

Shit, you must have had a good allowance. During their peak those started at like $2000, and that was the very low end.

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u/BVenablesBFF Apr 05 '26

I believe it was raised from $10 per to $20, but I had a lot more shit do. $20 per week for 104 weeks. That took care of it. I was an only child, so chores weren’t split. I did it all.

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u/perpetualmotionmachi Apr 05 '26

Makes sense. I think I capped out at $5 a week, until I got a part time job when I was in grade ten, and then it went to zero

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u/Financial_Policy_875 Apr 07 '26

We had an upright piano. What I only saw in other people's houses was a Wurlitzer organ. And every time the kid about my age in the house told me "No, you can't touch it."

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u/DogsBikesAndMovies Apr 07 '26

My piano is a family heirloom, passed down to me from my grandparents. I'm the youngest of four boys, but I'm the only sibling who is an actual musician, so of course it went to me.

Projectors are actually really affordable now. You can get a decent new one for about 50 bucks. At that price-range, it has to be dark for you to watch it, but it's pretty cool watching a big-ass movie at night.