You were poorer, it seems.in my family a ice cream cone for DQ was for special birthdays,,
now that I think about it we never ate out ever and my first mcdonalds I paid for after working for the money
In my family, we lived in a 1200 sq foot house, with one bathroom, one car, no central air conditioning of course, one single phone on a party line, one little B/W TV - and that was considered comfortably middle class! These days, libs would claim that’s “poor” and other people need to give them money.