44 Extremely Specific Things That Scream "I Was The Rich Friend"
The American dream is owning a "garage fridge" and filling it with Snapples in glass bottles.
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1. A refrigerator that looked like a cabinet:
The glorious camouflaged fridge.
2. A trash drawer that was also a cabinet:
Everything's a cabinet to rich people.
3. A bed that looked like a car:
And it wasn't even comfortable.
4. Beverages in glass bottles:
Individual glass bottles of Snapple is a level of rich I aspire to be.
5. A *WORKING* air hockey table:
Anyone could own an air hockey table but only the 1% had an actual working one.
6. A very large SUV
Comically big.
7. Any sort of surround sound system, something that usually looked like this:
This also came with like three remotes. The more remotes = the more rich.
8. A Tivo (before you even heard of DVRs):
Sleek.
9. A purse that had your first initial on it:
Screams Mean Girls.
10. A "mudroom" with some sort of cabinet or built-in that looked like this:
The bench is luxury.
11. A zip line:
Extremely dangerous and a huge liability but if you had a zipline you could definitely afford the legal fees.
12. A large wooden playhouse:
I still want one of these and I'm in my thirties.
13. A tub like this in the parent's en suite:
A very large bathtub surrounded by tiling.
14. A trampoline:
Everyone from the neighborhood wanted to jump on it. Everyone from the neighbor got injured falling off it.
15. A subscription to any magazine, but especially Nickelodeon magazine:
I still dream about "Nickelodeon Magazine, PLEASE."
16. A large collection of chunky VHS tapes:
What a beautiful, gorgeous stack of plastic.
17. A model-train room:
A room for a toy train.
18. A Princess Diana Beanie Baby:
The epitome of wealth.
19. A pile of Uggs at the door:
Nothing says "rich friend group" like a pile of Uggs at the door.
20. A pinball machine:
21. A car with a TV on the back of the seat:
Before phones, there were car TVs.
22. A giant teddy bear:
Tacky... but definitely a symbol of wealth.
23. A fountain:
Rich people had fountains.
24. A framed portrait of their dog that they clearly had a photo shoot for:
25. A painting of their dog:
Bonus points if the dog looked like an old British man.
26. Fancy ice cream loaves:
Ooh la la.
27. An assortment of food you would only find at a baseball concession stand:
Choco Tacos, Chipwitches, and Big League Chew.
28. Individually wrapped assortment of chips:
Basically a in-real-life vending machine.
29. Fancy sodas you've never even heard of before:
Blue, green, and orange colors with very American sounding names like "Jones" and "Smith."
30. Multiple American Girl dolls:
The Rolls-Royce of dolls.
31. A DDR set:
Your rich friend basically had a mall inside their house.
32. Yogurt you put candy in:
Because I'm pretty sure only your rich friend bought this stuff.
33. Kudos:
The "healthy" candy bar.
34. A computer that looked like this:
Some space-age looking iMac.
35. A piano room:
No one ever actually went in the piano room because no one actually played the piano.
36. A bottle of J.Lo's Glow perfume:
That bottle belongs in a Lourve.
37. A bowl of Andes mints:
38. A second refrigerator in the garage or basement just for beverages:
Filled with glass Snapples and diet Pepsi probably.
39. A very thick TV:
Probably the most "rich friend" thing on this list.
40. Sharper Image air purifiers in every bedroom:
Sharper Image anything could be on this list.
41. A series of professionally taken photos of the entire family (all wearing the matching outfits) that lined the hallway:
Also, they were always outside!
42. Any kind of ice cream with bubblegum eyes:
A combination that never even made sense.
43. A Coach wristlet:
Screams "dad bought me a Jetta for my 16th birthday."
44. And lastly, a robotic animal:
No one actually owned one of these even though we include it in every BuzzFeed list.