r/AskReddit • u/SleepyLeaf44 • 6h ago
What is one thing that you really wanted when you were younger and were never allowed, that you bought as soon as you were old enough?
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u/HisChickenDinner 6h ago
For me it was a pair of Nike Air shoes. The day I started my first job I put them in layaway. My first check barely covered the cost of the shoes. I took them out of layaway and immediately returned them. It was at that moment I understood why I didn’t need them 🤣
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u/McEndee 6h ago
I dread sneaker shopping. They're so expensive. I will buy limited edition sneakers with no problem though. I have the Sonic Pumas and the Mario 64 Pumas.
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u/Historical-Leave5620 6h ago
finally got a pet after years of begging
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u/HourImportant1475 5h ago
Did this too lol soon as i hit 18 i got my boy, mum came home and tried to be angry but who can be angry at a 7 week old puppy wagging it's tail and trying to greet you?
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u/savguy6 6h ago
A snake.
Mom was deathly afraid of them….like wouldn’t even look at them on the TV on a nature show. So she forbid them in the house as pets.
As soon as I got to college, got a little ball python. 18 years later, dude is still kickin, chilling in his tank most days and gives the best hugs. 🐍😊
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u/WaywardJake 6h ago
Not bought, but rescued: a cat. Second to that was a gaming console. My mother didn't care for cats, and my father believed gaming rotted the brain.
As an aside, I'm 63f, and I'm an avid gamer and devoted old cat lady. My cats are always still rescues, but I've switched to PC gaming from console.
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u/Auzyx 6h ago
video games and console
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u/admlshake 5h ago
I can still hear my moms voice "when you get older you'll get bored with all these video games and won't have any interest in them anymore." Well almost 35-40 years later, my steam account and xbox/PS collection say otherwise.
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u/Auzyx 5h ago
40 years? amazing! i hope i'd never lose my interest. 20 years and it's still going strong!
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u/Comfortable_Rub2377 6h ago
A game console. Always heard ‘maybe next year.’ Next year finally came when it was my money....
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u/Vinny_Lam 5h ago edited 5h ago
It feels so nice having adult money and just being able to buy any game you want and not having to rely on my parents occasionally spoiling me. Video games are the kind of medium that you can only truly explore when you’re at adulthood.
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u/Plus-Replacement5451 6h ago
junk food. like full shelves of cereal and snacks. no limits felt illegal at first
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u/Competitive-East7794 6h ago
A motorcycle! My parents were completely against it, but as soon as I moved out and had my own money, I bought one. It was so liberating!
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u/Proper_Category_7662 6h ago
i bought a gaming console the second i had adult money. my parents swore it’d ruin my life
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u/Evening_Highlight949 6h ago
a lock for my door. privacy suddenly mattered a lot
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u/amethystCEOJ 5h ago
A trampoline. Love them. Mom wouldn’t let me jump on my friend’s across the street. I’m 53 yrs old, just got one this past summer. Jumped on it with my daughters, almost peed my pants, then hurt my back. It was so much fun for those 20 minutes. Now every morning I let the doggies outside and there it is, sitting back there, taunting me. Dammit.
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u/universe_from_above 4h ago
I had a trampoline growing up but my parents refused to get me a scooter. I had a bike, skates, tricicle and skateboard, but somehow I wasn't allowed to have a scooter. It was the one thing I always used at daycare and at friends' houses but I never got my own.
All my kids got a scooter, of course and than I found a used one in adult size!
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u/One_Science8349 5h ago
String cheese. I know it’s silly, but we couldn’t afford them growing up except as an extremely rare treat. We’d pull off the tiniest strings possible to prolong the enjoyment.
Taking that first, guilt free half stick bite of string cheese was when I knew I’d finally made it as an adult.
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u/CrimeTimeMama 6h ago
A horse
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u/42Pahin 6h ago
Came here to say this. Worst financial decision of my life. Couldn't be happier!
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u/United_News3779 4h ago
Q: How do you get a million dollars with a horse?
A: Start with two million.
Lol
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u/xrepeterx 6h ago
Real milk, (not skim powdered), butter, (not margarine)
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u/Prestigious-Rent-810 5h ago
Real butter was a real treat as an adult. kerrygold!
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u/oikorapunk 6h ago
8 hole Made in the UK Dr. Marten boots in oxblood. My parents always made me get black leather shoes or plain sneakers growing up.
I wore those boots for 15 years until they couldn't be repaired anymore.
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u/MarlenaEvans 5h ago
A rotisserie chicken. My mom would buy one and she and my brother were allowed to eat it but I wasn't because, was she out it, "you're a little pig who eat too much". So anyway. I ate an entire rotisserie chicken by myself and maybe I am a little pig but it was delicious, oink.
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u/SleepyLeaf44 5h ago
Omg that’s horrible! I’m glad you were finally able to buy yourself one! You deserve it so much :)
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u/CalamityAndTheApples 6h ago
Basically anything that would give me some semblance of joy
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u/SleepyLeaf44 6h ago
I 100% get that
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u/CalamityAndTheApples 5h ago
It was always, "We don't have the money," or "(blank) is satanic devil worship that's gonna drag you away to hell."
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u/SleepyLeaf44 5h ago
Aw that’s horrible i’m sorry! I hope you treat yourself to things you want now :))
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u/HoneyMustard086 5h ago
My mom is completely anti-dishwasher. I washed a lot of dishes as a kid. When I moved out a top priority was to have a dishwasher. I will never not have one.
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u/monsterlynn 4h ago
OMG my mom was militantly anti air conditioning and dishwasher! I love being able to crank the AC while I load my dishwasher!
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u/ScarletSpell 6h ago
Cats and dolls. Now I have two cats and countless dolls… couldn’t be happier hehe
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u/gbourg12 6h ago
Not that wasn’t allowed, but my parents couldn’t afford braces. Soon as I got my first job out of college- I got braces
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u/SteffasaurusRexa 6h ago
A kitten! 🐱 ♥️
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u/SleepyLeaf44 6h ago
Aww bless you! what did you call it?
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u/SteffasaurusRexa 6h ago
Sasquatch! He was an amazing!! My stepdad was anti animals but after I got him our house dynamic changed and now everyone is a cat person! ♥️
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u/Desalvo23 5h ago
An epipen for my bee allergy. Parents didn't want to spend that kind of money on me. See, i can die in about a half hour when i get stung. An epipen will give me about an extra hour to live, giving me time to go to a hospital. But since it doesnt save my life, they never deemed it necessary. Mind you, this isn't even remotely the worst thing they ever did. When i turned 8, i finally got a job and paid for one myself. Been working and paying my own stuff ever since.
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u/jhauger 4h ago edited 4h ago
Not me, but my uncle back in the 1960s really wanted a motorcycle. He saved up enough cash and went out and bought a 1966 Harley Davidson Sprint two days before his 16th birthday. My grandmother was apoplectic and made my uncle take it back to the dealer. She chewed out the sales guy for selling a motorcycle to an underage person.
Two days later, my uncle went back and repurchased the bike in a completely legal manner.
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u/chocolateandpretzles 6h ago
Sugar cereal. And because I wasn’t allowed anything but rice crispys and cheerios, I went hog in college. My kids though, I let them pick any cereal they wanted. You wanna know what my oldest likes best? Honey bunches of oats. My favorite? Reeces puffs.
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u/Feenixfan 5h ago
Yes! In our house it was a choice of Cheerios, Chex, Wheaties, Rice Krispies. As soon as I started working I bought Lucky Charms and Captain Crunch. Reeses Puffs are my all time fave now as an older adult. I often eat them right from the box, so good!
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u/chocological 6h ago
A laptop. Mind you, I wanted one in the 90s when they were huge and expensive. But i remember the satisfaction when I bought my first laptop in 2009.
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u/tracyvu89 6h ago
None. Honestly my mom did a great job with providing everything I wanted. It was above and beyond. For example: if I said I liked the yogurt she bought,next thing I knew was she stacked a whole fridge with that exact brand and flavour and I would have no more interest in them after finishing all. 😆
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u/Appropriate-Juice291 6h ago
my own phone and phone plan. that freedom hit different
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u/eyeballtourist 6h ago
Motorcycle. My parents would not finance my injury or death. So, I got a job that paid enough for me to pay rent, buy and insure a 1986 Ninja 600. It was one of the proudest moments in my life.
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u/BreadstickBitch9868 6h ago
Video game and console. My mom would go out of her way to get me girlier things like clothes and Barbies and play makeup while ignoring my one request - games for my Nintendo systems. This was back in the mid 2000s where games weren’t $80+, and I could never understand why my mom couldn’t just get me the games I wanted instead of miscellaneous crap that my sisters asked for but in a different colour…
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u/Chupapinta 5h ago
Pierced ears. I got my driver's license on my 16th birthday, then drove myself to the mall to get my ears pierced. Dad was still against it, but when I was ten he said I had to wait to 16.
Mom got her ears pierced in her fifties. He still thought it was barbaric.
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u/SleepyLeaf44 5h ago
Aww that’s so cool! Good for you!!
I was told when I was younger I had to wait until I was ten. When I was, and we were on holiday, I got my pierced and fainted lol.
The next day me and my dad were playing golf and my mum took my younger sister to get hers pierced and I was so annoyed because she didn’t have to wait like i did 😭
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u/Meep_Meep_2024 5h ago
A cat 🐈. My mother was allergic to cats so, understandably, I could never have one. So, as soon as I could, I got a cat. My mother said she would never visit me if I got "one of those creatures." And she didn't. And I was good with that 😁.
I did visit her though.
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u/mustluvkitties 4h ago
Not that I "wasnt allowed" but I grew up in a margarine family. I buy butter and have since the day I moved out. In the grand scheme of things, its just SO worth an extra few bucks to me.
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u/EarlGrey1806 4h ago
Same here. Country Crock margarine wasn’t working for me once I could afford real butter.
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u/ArielofIsha 5h ago
The box of 120 Crayola crayons, with the built in crayon sharpener.
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u/ReadontheCrapper 4h ago
Butter
My father was the only person allowed to eat the butter, everyone else ate Shedd’s Spred.
As soon as I got my own place, it was butter only. I haven’t willingly had margarine in almost 40 years.
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u/Candid-Ad-3694 6h ago
Jordan’s. we couldn’t afford it when I was younger, so I spoiled myself later.
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u/tightlikespandex 6h ago
I was so excited to buy myself blow up furniture LMAO when I got my first job as a teenager.
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u/SweetPing873 6h ago
Chips and sugary drinks. When I had my own apartment, my fridge was filled with energy drinks, sugary drinks, etc. My cupboard was instant noodles and chips. But after many years, I started missing my mom's cooking
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u/Forsaken_Print739 5h ago
Girly things (i was born a girl but i was never allowed either)
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u/OmnomVeggies 5h ago
A trampoline. I bought one on the way home from closing on my first house, and ended up having to pay a LOT extra for homeowners insurance... but man it was worth it!!!!
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u/Ydain 4h ago
Heat!! I swore I'd never keep my thermostat below my comfort level. Mom had it set to 60 during the day and 50 at night.
At Thanksgiving I mentioned it and my brother said 'same!'. He also keeps Captain crunch in his house at all times.
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u/SleepyLeaf44 4h ago
That’s good for you! I hope you’re all warm and toasty whenever you want now :)
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u/jennieother1 4h ago
I'm glad you finally got your heat. My grandma grow up during the Great depression and they couldn't afford to keep the house very warm. They lived in the Midwest so it was cold during the winter. She always swore that once times got better she would never be in a cold house again. As a kid I can remember her house being roasting hot even in the summer. I was glad she got her dream but oh my!
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u/DeaddyRuxpin 4h ago
My wife always wanted playdoh but her mother never let her have it claiming it was too messy and would ruin the carpet. I bought her a bunch of it and one of those playdoh fun factory things our first Christmas in our own house now that it was her own carpet at risk of being ruined. She played with it for like 15 minutes and never again. It was very anticlimactic. She did not ruin the carpet.
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u/davereit 1h ago
Piano.
Dad thought music was stupid and "just for girls." Joined the school band and played brass, but didn't give up on my piano dream...
Bought an old upright at age 21, started lessons, graduates with 2nd BA in piano at age 32. Now play jazz professionally, lead a big band that I founded in 2006, and reach music part time.
Dad is dead now, but he never acknowledged my music accomplishments.
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u/redwolve378 6h ago
A drum kit.
I begged and pleaded with my folks when I was about 8 or 9 y/o. I now understand why you don't buy an 8 y/o a drumkit when you have neighbours on either side of your house.
Bought myself an electric drumkit when I was mid-20s and soundproofed my shed for that very reason.
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u/Kyriana1812 6h ago
I wanted a Barbie Dream House so bad but it was too expensive. I'm now an empty heater with some expendable income & thinking of buying one for myself & telling hubby is for the grands! 🤣
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u/Designer-Bid-3155 6h ago
A big ass fluffy shedding dog. My brother had allergies. So we always had these old lady dogs that we're supposed to be low. Shedding.... And they were always small, so yeah, when I became an adult.....
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u/hereforgetaway 5h ago
I plan to buy myself Cerelac. Loads of cerelac when I can afford it.
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u/Weird_Ad6669 4h ago
A whole cake. Not for a birthday, not for a party, just a random Tuesday afternoon. I sat there eating it with a fork directly from the box because I realized that as an adult, no one can stop me. My stomach regretted it, but my soul was soaring
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u/monsterlynn 4h ago
A classic Brooks biker jacket. So glad I listened to the lady at the motorcycle shop and got it 2 sizes up, against my thinking!
I was able to layer under it when I was young and now that I'm in pudgy middle age I can still wear it!
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u/SleepyLeaf44 4h ago
What a lovely lady who helped you out as you can probably still wear it for the rest of your life now :)
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u/cat_prophecy 4h ago
Those juice barrels at the grocery store. The one we frequented always had them at perfect kid eye level and I desperately wanted one, but my mom always said no because they were "just sugar water".
Anyway when I had my own job I saw them at the store and was reminded how I never had one. Turns out Mom was right, they were just sugar water, and tasted bad as well.
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u/TeacherLady3 6h ago
Clogs. My mom hated them so I bought a pair as an adult and stompity stomped all over her house in them.
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u/VeronicoElectronica 6h ago
multiple pairs of sneakers 😅. my mild obsession has calmed down for a while now but i went through a rough 6 months to 1 year when i had my first job where i bought up all the sneakers i wanted in hs but my parents never got me cause ofc why would they spend over $200 on one pair of sneakers for a child let alone multiple $200 pairs every release.
i understood my parents even then but i had to go through that buying up period to get it out of my system
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u/Tuznelda75 6h ago
The good, expensive tartelettes for chicken asparagus stew... I've never bought the cheap ones since I moved out from my parents house.
Tartelettes is something we eat 3-4 times a year - if we cannot afford the good, expensive tartelettes "that often", I'd rather only have it 1-2 a year with the good ones, and with potatoes the rest of the time .
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u/Travelgrrl 5h ago
I loved candy as a kid and we had it in our home only on holidays like Halloween, Christmas and Easter. I sometimes used babysitting money to buy candy, which was great because I could pick it out. (And I remember sometimes candy bars were on sale for 10 cents so you could buy ten big candy bars for a dollar!)
But when I got my first proper job at age 15, my friend and I went to the store and bought ALL the candy we ever wanted to try, or had tried and liked. A big bag each. Then we went to her house for a sleepover and dumped it all out on the floor in a ginormous pile. Her mom just shook her head and laughed.
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u/SleepyLeaf44 5h ago
That’s so sweet! I hope you weren’t too ill after!! :)
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u/Travelgrrl 5h ago
Hahaha, I don't think we ate it all in one night. But it was fun to feel like Pippi Longstocking, taking over the candy shop!
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u/CenterofChaos 5h ago
Dog. All my siblings got dogs too. We understand why our parents wouldn't let us have a dog. Zero regrets though.
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u/music_lover_95_ 5h ago
A cat, I wasn't allowed for a good reason thou, my sister is allergic
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u/tisteegz 5h ago
A Chucky doll.
It was my first purchase after moving out and now sits in my room. Had it 18 years now.
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u/GotgSwiftie13 5h ago
I’m a proud member of the Five Nights at Freddy’s fandom, but my Mum doesn’t know. She forbade that a long time ago, but I just stayed in the fandom but stopped talking about it. I turn eighteen in two years and I plan to buy merch, games, and maybe the movies as soon as I move out. That probably won’t be immediate, but I’m excited.
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u/Dr_Identity 5h ago
TTRPG books and supplies. I wasn't allowed to play D&D as a kid cause my folks bought into the satanic panic bullshit. Good parents overall, and pretty smart in most ways, but for some reason they couldn't wrap their heads around the idea that it was literally just a game.
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u/MastusAR 5h ago
Not exactly when I was old enough, but as soon as I got a reasonable place to live:
A ham radio
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u/ShowMeYourHappyTrail 5h ago
Fish tank. Got a little 10 gallon and a blackmoor goldfish for college.
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u/FormerStuff 5h ago
A tractor. I love that stupid little thing even if it does give me fits constantly
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u/STL_BBW_Luvr2 5h ago
A guitar. From the time I was 13, I wanted to start playing music. But that would have possibly annoyed my father, so it never happened.
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u/Sky_Van 4h ago
Comic books. My parents didn't want to waste money on them cause I'll just read them once and forget about them.
I now own a couple 9.8 graded ones that's worth a couple hundred to a thousand dollar just for one and never read them once when I bought them.
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u/loves_spain 4h ago
Privacy! My room was the only one not allowed to have a lock on it. When I got married (but we still lived at my parents' because we were both in university), I bought a lock for the door, which my dad promptly took off because he decided he "needed" that particular one. I put my foot down and took it back. Thankfully we moved out not long after that as soon as we both graduated and could find a place.
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u/Minflick 4h ago
Pretty bras that actually fit. Mom bought the plainest, ugliest cotton things until the day she quit buying them entirely and told me I was on my own from now on. And then got mad that I spent my money on clothes I needed, and undergarments that both fit and looked good. Go figure.
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u/Strongit 4h ago
Better quality, well, stuff. Ever since I got my first paycheck working at a grocery store I started buying better clothes, new or lightly used electronics, or good deals on quality brands. Things don't fall apart after three months and they generally fit better too.
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u/Bikewer 4h ago
Guns. I was interested in firearms from childhood, and like many young lads in the late 50s, I got a shotgun…. And was allowed to on rabbit-hunting trips with the “men”. But I wanted more. I wanted handguns. I pointed out the just-released “Whitney Wolverine” futuristic .22 pistol to my dad… He said, “what would you do with one?” “Shoot it.” Was my reply. My parents were not enthused….
But I joined the army in ‘64, and besides my issued .45 1911, I found I could buy guns at the base “Rod and Gun” store, and shoot them at the base range. By the time I left the army in ‘67, I had accumulated a small arsenal, and only increased that over years.
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u/Kershaws_Tasty_Ruben 4h ago
A motorcycle. Mom was an emergency room nurse. Turns out she was right all along.
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u/Consistent-Pirate-23 4h ago
Home internet. My parents thought we didn’t need it but we mysteriously did when I paid for it
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u/Superstarr_Alex 4h ago
A god damn R rated movie.
Yall my mom was like the weirdest. And my dad just kinda deferred to her. She was like OBSESSED with making damn sure that I didn’t watch an R rated movie until I was like 15 lmao.
Keep in mind that at 15 I also started smoking weed. She found out. Was totally cool about it, didn’t sweat it. Even when I was caught smoking weed in the woods by the cops and they called our parents to come get us, no punishment.
Caught me smoking cigs with my emo/scene gf (I’m gay as fuck, she was my first and last lmao) by her mom at her mom’s house. Her mom tells me, “I’m gonna give you a week to tell your mom, and then I’m calling her. If you haven’t told her by then I will.” I said “that’s a deal.”
So I went home that same day and told my mom. Not even a problem, don’t sweat it, teenagers do that shit. Mom spoke to gf’s mom, both agreed that I’m based as fuck, her mom tells my mom I made a good impression because of my honesty, didn’t care about the cigs (her god damn daughter let me bum one of hers, not the other way around anyway hahaha). We were together for two whole weeks, maybe even two weeks and a day!
Had friends over one night, got wasted, piled into the car (I didn’t care if someone else drove drunk as long as it wasn’t me, dint want the dui). Went driving around just because WE WERE BORED. Parents had no idea, no phone calls, we did it, came back, and as this girl was carefully backing the car up to align it with the curb in front of our lawn to park her car, BOOM! She fucking backs straight into the motherfucking light post on the street and made the loudest sound ever recorded in human history. Mom wakes up. No punishment. (I dipped out my own house later that morning and that girl and my mom apparently had this horribly uncomfortable silent awkward breakfast together without me there xD hahaha. They had never even met!) copacetic, don’t sweat it.
But if I were to DARE watch an R rated movie before the age of 17? She would flip her shit. I don’t know wtf it was, like I had to be hella careful with what I watched. Any time she caught my ass watching a god damn movie, best believe that woman would DEMAND to know the rating, and I couldn’t lie to her because she’d make me pull up the tv guide or whatever she had to do to find that shit out 😂 her logic was, “well, it says only 17 and older.”
I’d have to lie to her about the movies I watched when I went to friends houses, and it was like I almost felt like I was doing something morally wrong. Even if I walked through the den to the kitchen while my dad was watching an R rated movie, that woman would make him pause that shit, even if it wasn’t even playing a sexual or violent scene. xD just absolute nonsense all around.
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u/Ok-Cheetah-9125 1h ago
A poster for my walls. I wasn't allowed anything on my walls as a kid. My parents painted a neutral color and they wanted it kept clear to keep up the resale value. Then I rented apartments where I wasn't allowed to put holes in the wall.
When I bought my condo, I painted the bedroom walls bright purple the first day and bought posters and prints to decorate the walls.
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u/renswann 47m ago
A cat as soon as I got my own place. I still have him 14 years later, along with two others!
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u/interstatebus 19m ago
Any concert ticket I want.
Parents said I couldn’t see my favorite singer at the time when I was a teen. So I saw her in my city and drove 3 hours to see her on the next stop. It was amazing.
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u/lemgandi 6h ago
Air pistol. I bought a Crosman 1377C without my parents' knowledge when I was a junior in high school. I had so much fun with that thing. I bought a couple of Springers in my 30s. Still fun.
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u/Saphira9 5h ago
Roller blades. I was a junior in college, skating in circles in the parking lot of my college apartment.
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u/lafoiaveugle 5h ago
My cartilage piercing. Mom said not under my roof, so I got it done ~3 days of moving into my dorm.
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u/Bertuthald_McMannis 5h ago
I just got myself a sim racing rig with a vr headset for Christmas, and am soo stoked to set it up
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u/Ok_Outcome_6213 5h ago
I bought all the expensive crystals my tiny, baby witch heart always wanted when I was a young, poor lass. Found a place that sells them wholesale, so I spend far less than younger me would have imagined possible!
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u/Crazy_Unicorn_153 5h ago
Drum set.
Playing the drums was my childhood dream. My mom even took me downtown to see drum sets when I was 15. I don't know if she realised she couldn't afford it, or she thought I'd be content just looking at them, but I never got one.
I bought my electric one 3 years ago. Adult life and laziness have gotten in the way and I'm nowhere near as good as I thought I'd be but at least now I know how to play them.
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u/Appropriate-Dig-7080 4h ago
Nice underwear, still remember the day I bought my first pair of Calvin kleins with my own money
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u/TrustIsOverrated 4h ago
A five cd changer (carousel type) and a Columbia record club membership. I had also moved into my first solo apartment.
Before that money went to necessities and things that were good for my roommates as well as me. From childhood I was not allowed to play music over a whisper because my sister is extremely sound-sensitive.
Being a people pleaser is awfully isolating.
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u/FrozenBibitte 4h ago
Certain styles of clothing. My mother was very prudish when I was a teen, and was against most things “fashionable”, despite them not even being particularly revealing. If it wasn’t frumpy and appropriate for a 50 year old office worker, it was “slutty”. Also, my mother was not religious at all. She just harboured a lot of internalized hate towards women and femininity.
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u/Five2one521 4h ago
Sugary Cereals. Was on a strict diet of no sugar or caffeine. When I got older I started eating Cookie Crisp and Count Chocula and Fruity Pebbles.
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u/labratnc 4h ago edited 2h ago
I came —this close— but the owner took another offer, I have always wanted a house with a spiral staircase from when I was a kid. Found a townhouse with a loft that had one, was for the best that it didn’t work out though, that neighborhood took a major downturn after a failed development project near it.
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u/em_dutton_md 4h ago
A guitar. My parents made me learn the piano as a child.
I'm not angry, because the piano is a great basis for learning music. I just really wanted a guitar, too!
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u/sailor_bat_90 4h ago
A mug of my own that was online. I bought from ThinkGeek in their heyday, the BMO mug. One of my most treasured possessions. It has a few chips due to its size but I love it still. It's no longer available for purchase.
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u/Dominik_Witanowski 6h ago
A whole box of cereal that’s 90% sugar. Not because I wanted it. Just because no one could stop me. Ate three bowls. Felt sick. Worth it