In our day, youths had no money for things that were expensive like dry suits. Youth today, start out a level we never dreamed about. Good for them. I doubt they will miss what they never had, like we did. But we had so many things money could never buy, like access to land built up and neighbors who freely gave kids freedom to roam the "wilds of their youth". I was allowed to save and buy 1,000 shells a year for hunting and used them all. Today I am lucky to use a small fraction of that number. I shot everything from Dove, quail, rabbits, squirrels, ducks and geese with my 28. The geese got me into trouble, but I shot them anyways. And I enjoyed every minute of it all. We had the outdoors instead of inside stuff like electronic games. We were told to go outside and find something to do or our parents would do it for us.
