What Did You Think Was 'Fancy' As A Child?

Welcome back to Proof It's Possible! In this episode, we take a nostalgic trip down memory lane, exploring their childhood perceptions of wealth and luxury. From lipstick and dangly earrings to escalators and room service, we unpack the quirky, heartfelt symbols that once defined “fancy” in our eyes—and reflect on how those dreams and markers have evolved as adults. Tune in to hear:

• The surprising objects and experiences that once screamed "luxury" to Dayle and Jamie as kids.
• How childhood influences shape our adult views on wealth, success, and aspiration.
• What still feels “fancy” today—and what has totally shifted.
• Why it's powerful to reconnect with your younger self’s dreams and desires.
• How redefining luxury on your own terms can bring more meaning to success.

What did luxury look like to you as a kid—and how has it changed? Share your thoughts with us—we’d love to hear!  DM us on Instagram @dayle_sheehan_designs & @jamiedfrancis! See you next time!

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Transcript

Dayle (00:01)
Welcome back today we're talking about something so fun and kind of silly but ⁓ I as a child, I love the high life like lifestyles of the rich and famous I watched movies where the mom was like this glamour woman. So we

Jamie (00:17)
Her favorite

movie as a child was Overboard with Goldie Hawn. Goldie Hawn is like a super rich lady who lives on a yacht and falls overboard and hits her head and forgets about her old life. Anyways, carry on.

Dayle (00:20)
Yes, I love that one.

Yes.

I'll tell you all my favorite movies coming up here. But what we're talking about and why we're talking about this is we want to talk about the things that we thought made you rich or what meant you were rich or or fancy when we were kids. Like, what did that mean to us as a child? And we think it's like a fun thing to A, just reminisce about, but B, ⁓ what did you think? Like, we definitely want to hear from you at the end of this one.

Jamie (00:41)
We're fancy.

Yes.

Dayle (00:58)
For me as a kid, I was obsessed with fanciness. So our mom didn't wear lipstick. And this is trauma with a little T here that I'm gonna get into. But I thought lipstick was just so nice and fancy and my grandma wore lipstick. So I thought, wow, what a amazing lady. What a style icon. I just looked.

Jamie (01:21)
He also

always had dangly earrings, which I thought were just, mean, if there was a physical sign of wealth, it was your dangly earring.

Dayle (01:24)
Earrings, yes. Yes.

Absolutely. She also, if you went digging in her closet, had big hat boxes. She had a couple of evening gowns and lots of high heels. Yes. And I thought, wow, she's got it all. I mean, keep in mind.

Jamie (01:34)
Yes, full. Hat boxes? Yes, yes. my God.

still kind

of feel like hat boxes if I was to run into someone's closet today and saw a hat box I'd be like, wow, you are living. Yeah, I really, you are living.

Dayle (01:47)
with the fancy lady hat in it. Oh yeah, I die. 100%.

And like, keep in mind, this is a farm. She lived on a farm when I found, when I'm digging in a closet. It's a two bedroom farmhouse. It is not the like hat box lady you're envisioning. But I took it upon myself from the lipstick, realizing that lipstick was awesome and fancy things were awesome, to like be obsessed with like New York City and movies about New York City or Los Angeles or

Jamie (01:59)
Okay.

Dayle (02:17)
So I loved movies like, what's, True Beverly Hills. So the mom smoked a cigarette in the movie with one of those like fancy porcelain-y, yeah, smoke holder extender. Like I don't even know the point of them. And I didn't like smoking. I didn't think smoking was cool, but I was like, now that's how you have a cigarette. As a six year old.

Jamie (02:22)
Beverly Hills.

Cigarette holders, thanks. Cigarette extenders.

When I'm older, that's how

Dayle (02:46)
I'm going to try to, and

Jamie (02:46)
I'm gonna smoke my...

Dayle (02:47)
what I realized is like the gas station's probably not going to sell you one of those extenders. So I just kind of forgot about that dream, unfortunately. What?

Jamie (02:56)
You know what I thought was super fancy?

Escalators.

Dayle (03:02)
Really? Why?

Jamie (03:04)
I don't know. I felt like all the fanciest places had an escalator. Keep in mind, like for part of my childhood, I grew up in a city that had a one-floor mall. Like it was all one level. So like when you went to the big city, they had escalators.

Dayle (03:08)
my gosh.

Right, Yep.

Some of my earliest memories got over this quickly because this became more common, but we always lived in a bungalow and I thought people within upstairs. Now that is something to talk about. That means something. Whoa, unbelievable. There's two steps to everything. Exactly.

Jamie (03:27)
⁓ yeah. The more floors, the more floors your house had. If you had like a five level split, was like, woo!

Unbelievable. You might as well live in a mansion. They're the same, one in the same.

Dayle (03:43)
⁓ And as I got a little bit older and like more in tune, I started really digging deep into these movies that I would watch these like kind of teen movies or whatever. So I thought things everything from curved staircases, double staircases, like if a house had two staircases in the foyer, thought wowzies. That was amazing. I started even as I got a tiny bit older, zeroing in on glassware. And I remember mom and dad were having a party.

Jamie (03:55)
yeah.

Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Dayle (04:11)
And mom pulled out like wine glasses, but was serving champagne. And I was like, these won't do. No, no, I know better. My mom's like, you're 12. What are you talking about? And I'm like, well, a champagne flute is tall and skinny. I see it all the time in my movies. So you're just, you're just serving like a scubby do old wine glass and it's not okay. mean, well scubby doom just means like kind of ratty.

Jamie (04:35)
No one knows what's going be doing this. Well, so you know.

Dayle (04:41)
And Penn, Jamie's youngest, watched the movie Scooby-Doo. But he was always calling it scubby-doo and I thought that was so cute. So I turned it into just a way to describe something that's a little bit, you know, not great.

Jamie (04:56)
Not great. ⁓ Other things I thought were really fancy was a floral arrangement at the front door.

Dayle (05:03)
⁓ okay, weird.

Jamie (05:05)
So like, know, when you walk into a fancy hotel and there's a floral arrangement under it, it still is. It still is a sign of like a fancy hotel, in my opinion. Oh, long nails.

Dayle (05:07)
Yes, surely. I mean, that is still to this day. Yeah. I can tell. Absolutely.

Yes, yes, long nails.

Jamie (05:19)
long nails,

it was like that was it for me. Like you couldn't be cancer. It just couldn't, didn't get faster.

Dayle (05:22)
Yeah, you're new. No, I agree. Honestly,

all the like fancy things like high heels, long nails, a nice business power ladies skirt business suit. were one like how you were saying at the beginning that what's that movie called that you mentioned? No overboard. No, the other movie I was going to tell you about was ⁓ I watched recently made Darren watch it and he did not like it.

Jamie (05:35)
Yeah.

Overboard.

Dayle (05:51)
And it was about the two twin sisters that one, they got split up at birth with Bette Midler. Oh, I can't think of the name of it. Anyways, two sisters get sent to the country. Two sisters get sent to the city, but they're the opposite twins. So there's a redhead and a darkhead in each twin set. And the redhead is the like original New York City family. And she got sent the one redhead.

Jamie (05:56)
Yes, I know this movie, but I don't know this part. Yes.

Yes.

Dayle (06:18)
And she always dressed in these fancy things and she was carrying like, which I didn't even know at the time, but she was carrying like a Louis Vuitton in the movie, like things like that, that I was like, I don't know what this is, but man, it looks good. It sure looks good. And so I thought that like staying in a fancy hotel and buying your clothes, like, cause they each set of girls ends up in the same hotel and buying their clothes from like the lobby store. I thought, no, that's very fancy.

Jamie (06:45)
yeah.

That is fancy. That is fancy.

Dayle (06:49)
It is fancy.

And like honestly, but there's better stores to shop at. you know? Exactly. I'm like, this isn't where you'd actually want to buy any of your clothes, but I thought that was a sign of fanciness. I thought room service in a hotel, very nice, very fancy. I enjoyed that. But not just like buying out of the fridge, like getting the chocolate. Yes, the cart showed up. I thought that was really nice.

Jamie (06:53)
Yeah, yeah, because usually it's like resort wear.

Totally.

Yes. ⁓ room service. No, no, no. You get to order it up. You get to call it in.

When I was young, I also believed ⁓ that like a car phone was just, whoo, top notch. Couldn't get, couldn't get better. yeah.

Dayle (07:19)
Yes. Yes.

Yes, a limousine really hit in a way for me too. Like that

was a neat experience. I thought, we're pretty

Jamie (07:31)
We got to

ride a limousine. I don't think you were with us. I don't know where you were, but it was Grandma and Grandpa's anniversary party in Edmonton. you with us? I think so. Anyway, they got us a limousine to get to the party like all the grandkids and this kid rode up on his bike and knocked on the window and we were stopped at a light. Like nobody we knew, obviously. Knocked on the window and he was like, do you guys have any gray poopon in there?

Dayle (07:39)
Yeah. No, I wasn't.

⁓ Yeah.

Right.

so stupid, but honestly think how fun when you're with all your cousins for that moment to happen.

Jamie (08:05)
and I was like, what is gay poop on?

Because I know, I know, I knew at that moment, but I still didn't know what it was. It's a fancy mustard, I'm pretty sure. Anyways, just all the things that were like signs of wealth, some still hold true for me. And some are the exact opposite, like, like long nails. I don't, they're just like, for me, they're like mostly what teenagers do. So like the opposite of wealth, like a teenager has no money.

Dayle (08:11)
It's from a movie that line, I'm pretty sure.

Yeah, exactly. I think so. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. For sure. Another...

Totally. Yeah.

Well, this super long one, yeah.

Jamie (08:40)
None!

Dayle (08:40)
Exactly.

Totally. Their parents might have money and that's how they got them. The other thing that was always a real ace in the hole, you're true rich person. And like, I think it's more attainable now, but maybe not. ⁓ And it's also a big, has a lot to do with where you live, but is a pool in your backyard. I thought anyone with a pool in their backyard was, what a life. What a life. an elevator. I never really actually knew a person with an elevator in their house, if...

Jamie (08:45)
Yeah

Mm-hmm.

elevator in your house too.

heard of a

person once. Yeah.

Dayle (09:10)
Yeah, you did. Actually, that's

not true. One of my friends when I was really little, they had an elevator in their house and they also had a sauna. And I thought, okay, this place has got it all.

Jamie (09:20)
Yeah, yeah, you know what, you're right.

I also was shocked the first time I saw an elevator in a house about how small and insignificant it felt. I was envisioning like a hotel lobby elevator with big gold doors, like huge, you know, it could fit two luggage carts and five people. And then when like the single size elevator in someone's house opened, I was like, yeah, where's the rest of it?

Dayle (09:31)
Mm-hmm.

Yes, for sure. Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

What do you mean? What are you gonna do in this thing?

Jamie (09:50)
Yeah.

Dayle (09:50)
Well, and yeah, for sure. Absolutely. I mean, but just honestly, an elevator in the house is still a really nice one for me. I like that. It's a sign of good things for sure, even to this day. I know there's so many funny things that like, as a kid you value that you just don't, I can't even remember what I all the things I thought.

Jamie (09:59)
It is, yeah.

Yep. Yeah, for sure.

Dayle (10:15)
Do remember in Clueless how she got, had that fancy computer type of closet system where she could match her outfits? And like that never really came to life as a thing. Totally. I know.

Jamie (10:21)
Yes. Yes. But why though? Like I'm a little surprised by that.

Cause I would

like to flip through my app to remind me of what's in my closet.

Dayle (10:34)
for sure. like, if it could also push it to the front for me, so I don't have to go searching. That would be really good. Like somebody make this happen. Because the movie Overboard, he also made like a shoe kind of carousel that I thought, wow, that'd be nice. And honestly, I'm still kind of waiting for one. And myself. It's still an aspiration I have.

Jamie (10:39)
Yeah. Yeah.

Okay.

They

exist, but you do have to be a rich person to be able to afford it. they're out there.

Dayle (10:59)
Yeah, that's true. Now just

like a basic closet. If you have like anything in your closet, you're like, wow, look at this nice $35,000 closet. And all it has is two hanging rods and a laundry basket. I know. So we're just grateful we've got hanging rods at this point.

Jamie (11:09)
Exactly.

Exactly.

Okay, this is so fun. I want to hear what everybody else thought was like a sign of wealth when you were young.

Dayle (11:21)
Me too.

Yeah.

Have a great day guys, bye bye.

Jamie (11:28)
Bye guys.