In 1967 I was six years old.
We had one tv that showed three stations. I had a hula hoop, a clothes line that doubled as a jump rope, six Barbies and lots of friends. We had chores to do and could not play until they were done. I washed dishes by hand, we were the only ones in the neighborhood to have a clothes dryer, one car and could take the bus to the local shopping center where the lady at the bakery would give free cookies to the gaggle of kids buying bread. (my mom would write notes to the local Dairy Dell to let me buy cigarettes for her!)
In 2006, my daughter is six years old.
We have four tvs with satellite, two VCRs, two DVDs, twenty computers, a laptop, an old but workable game system, and a room full of toys. I drive my daughters to see their friends because all the moms work to get even MORE things for their kids in daycare. We have a dishwasher, a microwave, washer and dryer and two cars. I make a special point to "teach" the kids to do chores so they know how to do them.
I was happy in 1967.
My daughter is happy too but we are trying to downsize "stuff".
Twenty computers??
I'm about your age. I remember the family of five making a weekly trip in a 20 year old camper to the local burger joint where we would buy 6 for $1 hamburgers that had nothing but a burger patties and a squirt of mustard and ketchup on them.
We brought our own fixin's to save money and turn those plain burgers into DELUXE.
Dad had an almost dead center middle class income at the time (hence the 20 year old camper). How many families today take a head of lettuce, a couple of onions, and a tomato to McDonalds to save a buck on a burger?
By the way, those were some good burgers.