What have you bought for yourself as an adult, that you couldn't get as a kid/teen?

[HipChick]

I always wanted a bike, never did get one...as an adult, bought a nice mountain bike and rode the hell out of it..

a 3ft radio controlled Dalek...I always loved Dr.Who as a kid..

Front row tickets to see The Police ok..but mostly Sting in Vegas when they did their reunion tour...I've been in love with their music since I was about 16..it cost me an arm and leg,but it was worth it..I remember sneaking into this pub/club hole-in-the-wall place because I heard this new band was going to be playing...I was entranced by their music...it never registered in my teen mind at that time, that they would actually get so big..

[rrneck]

1. Um, let's see...

Booze
Motorcycle
Travel
Camping equipment
Hifi stereo
SLR camera

[cliffordu]

2. Hookers and blow

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. Toys

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yeah, . . . . ..

"them" kind.



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[Goalie49009]

4. All the above

what the posters posted

[Denninmi]

5. The life I deserved

Worth every last penny. Money does
nothing for me if I am dead.

[pipi_k]

6. Things that weren't

even available when I was 40, let alone a teen/kid...

iPad
iPhone
Kindle Fire


And then, since I didn't have the money back then, I've since been able to afford things like:

stashes and stashes of yarn

fun little clip on hairpieces

jewelry

nicer clothing and shoes

small kitchen appliances, like blender
and food processor

[Tom Ripley]

7. Higher quality drugs and porn

[antiquie]

8. Rock polisher

[hunter]

9. I was a very resourceful child.

I was obsessed with computers so I built them.

But I still ride the same bike my dad bought me when I was a kid, more than forty years ago.

Grown-up me actually buys less stuff than I did as a kid, and certainly less dangerous stuff.

When I sixteen I'd drive to the local agricultural supply place and buy big bags of potassium nitrate for the rockets and explosives I was making.

My friends and I once bought five gallons of gasoline which we poured on the street of a bankrupt subdivision (no houses, dirt lots, just street...) and lit on fire.

I don't do things like that anymore. If my own kids ever did anything like that (they are "over 21" adults now) they haven't told me.

[RebelOne]

10. A horse. When I was kid and into my teens,

I always wanted a horse. Finally got one when I in my 20s and married. My husband did not buy it. I was babysitting for my cousin and bought it from my babysitting money.

[femmocrat]

11. Dogs.

My mother would never allow us to have one.

[Broken_Hero]

12. An AT-AT, and

the Millennium Falcon, the X Wing Fighter, and a large amount of comic book toys.....

[Goalie49009]

13. Where do you park the Falcon...must be one big garage

[Broken_Hero]

14. I park it on the roof....

[NuclearDem]

24. One way to deal with traffic...

Set S-foils in attack positions

[cristianmarie533]

15. Hmm, let's see

A car.
Beer (actually, all alcohol in general)
A motorcycle
My own computer

And etc.

[RobinA]

16. Ice Skates

and a bike.

[Demo_Chris]

17. Internet porn. nt

[Arugula Latte]

32. Awww. That's sweet.

[XemaSab]

18. Really nice optics

[Recursion]

19. Fruity Pebbles

I could never have sugary cereal as a kid.

Sometimes I even use them in place of rice crispies in rice crispie treats.

[av8rdave]

20. Lots of things

Cars, boats, motorcycles, liquor, gifts for girlfriends/wives.

I probably should have learned the Pilot's creed - the rule of 3 Fs - earlier in life. If it flies, floats or @&$#s, you're better off renting.

[pinboy3niner]

21. Your OP is directed at my blow-up doll, isn't it?

You have to get over your obession with 'outing' me, HipChick. My blow-up doll is strictly for using the carpool lanes, as you well know already.

And what she does on her off time is none of your business!!!

[Xyzse]

22. A few things

Books - I always bought my own books. My favorite hang out was the library.
Clothes - That are not hugely discounted
Guitar - Worth more than 300(they would never buy me anything above 60)
Gundam Models
Movies - DVD, Theater, VHS
SWORDS!!!
Ukulele
Work out videos and implements

[eppur_se_muova]

23. Selmer (Paris) S80 soprano, Selmer Mark VI tenor saxophone, and a telescope (two, actually)

Never could convince my dad to buy me a decent horn. Played cheap horns all through jr. high and high school.

By the time I could afford my own horn, I was completely out of practice ... may never get any good out of it.

[Bertha Venation]

25. Coca-Cola

My mother had all the Pepsi she wanted. She always had a Pepsi in her hand. She would grudgingly give a sip, but never allowed any of us to have a whole one by ourselves. I vowed that when I grew up I'd have all the Pepsi I wanted.

By the time I was able to fulfill that vow, you couldn't have gotten me to drink a Pepsi if you'd promised to me free for my lifetime. Nope. I drank Coca-Cola.

It has a lot to do with the shape I am in, and I very rarely drink it anymore.

[Aristus]

26. A private, in-home library.

Something I always wanted when I was a kid.

I had a bookshelf in my bedroom, and there were bookshelves all through the house where I grew up. I come from a family which loves to read.

But I never had a separate room, filled with bookshelves and supplied with a comfortable reading chair, lamps, and plenty of windows for light. A place I could call "my library" (like Mr. Bennett in 'P&P'.) and could retreat to when I wanted to relax.

Now I have just that.

When we moved into our new house, it had several spare bedrooms. One of which we turned into a playroom for the grandkids, another into a more traditional guest room, and the third, I commandeered and turned into my long-sought-after library.

I also installed my computer and my stereo there.

It's my man-cave, but I refer to it by the more civilized term: 'library'.

[Burma Jones]

27. A Monette Ajna Trumpet

[raccoon]

28. A laptop. They didn't exist around 1950's and 1960's. nt

[laundry_queen]

29. This is going to sound weird.

Halloween Candy.

When we went trick or treating and came home with a large bag full, my parents wouldn't let us have more than one treat per day. And my dad always stole the good stuff. Then my mom would start refusing to let us have even one a day. "It's too late to eat your candy today, sorry." or "You don't need any sugar today." Then, one day, 6 months later, she'd throw it all out, declaring it was too old to eat. I was forbidden to trick or treat when I was 11, as I was 'too old'. All my friends continued to do so until the mid-teens. I felt left out.

So. Now I overbuy candy. I let my kids eat as much of their loot as they want, whenever they want. It's theirs after all. They always get the day off school the next day too, so they can go as crazy as they want. And then in a week or 2 it's all gone and we don't have to deal with it for another year. I never understood why my parents wanted this stupid power struggle for 6 months. So, I overbuy and eat the left overs. Also, I don't ever steal candy from my kids or throw it out without their permission, but, because they are free to eat whatever, whenever, they often offer it to me (my brother and I would NEVER have parted with our candy since we hardly got any).

[Chan790]

30. Lots of things.

Condoms, drugs, liquor, naughty toys, guns, membership in the ACLU and Amnesty (My mother thinks they're both unamerican), a computer, lots of books, my own website, art supplies, ouija board, voodoo doll, phrenology head-model, a desk to write at.

[Scuba]

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