How posh are you?

paulineb_2

paulineb wrote: »

My local asda is a bit of a rabble but thats because its always mobbed. Aldi is always busy but its more like a steady busy, never really jam packed.
Never had a bad shopping experience in home bargains or B and M either.

However, one time I was in home bargains, this woman who must have been 50 something, had a pair of pyjama bottoms on, a scotland top and a pair of wellies. I couldnt believe it. It was about midday.

Even I wouldnt go shopping dressed like that.

Id wear a Motherwell top instead boom boom:rotfl:

Joke, Id never go into town with my pjs on and I dont do wellies, they just dont suit me

MrsE_2

barbiedoll wrote: »

27% posh!

I do have a mantlepiece.....

And I do use french phrases in casual conversation (just like Del Boy..."Mon dieu Rodney" etc etc.)

I have been to the ballet....once, during a very rowdy third year school trip. Our music teacher had been taking third year students to the ballet every year since the dawn of time. When the male dancer came on stage with his incredibly tight tights and bulgy bits, we all roared with laughter and cheered and clapped. A couple of the more "knowledgeable" girls shouted out some very rude things and the upshot was that our school was banned from visiting again. Our teacher was incandescent with rage, we all got very long detentions for that. :rotfl:

I've never had a ski lesson. I have had a Ski yoghurt though, does that count?

Re the skiing, I have been, in the south of France not woolwich dry slope:)
Anyway, I used to work with someone who talked "frightfully" posh & he was an awful snob.
There was a conversation about chair lifts in mountains & I said I prefer drag lifts as you keep your feet on the ground, so long as you dont fall off!
"Drag lifts?" He said, "you only use those skiing?".............

Clearly someone who speaks like me can never have been skiing.........

MrsE_2

Buzzybee90 wrote: »

I think it's pretty obvious about the catalogue thing, in fact, I'm confused, you can buy jewellery from a catalogue? Does this mean argos though?

I think they mean Elizabeth Duke not Tiffany;)

MrsE_2

paulineb wrote: »

I actually cant afford to shop in M and S and theres one waitrose within about 20 miles of me and its not close to where I live

I have shopped in M and S in times gone by when I had more spare cash. I bought a groupon 10 quid voucher for a 5 quid in M and S before christmas spend and I just bought another one, I went round the shop mostly going holy !!!!, look at the prices, I also thought the ready meal portions were tiny.

When I earned 5 times what I earn now Id have shopped in M and S and not thought very much of it. Its not a matter of being posh or not posh as far as Im concerned shopping in M and S or not, its simple economics.

Waitrose price match with tesco.

thorsoak

If you are 100% posh, the jeweller will come round to see you ...bringing antique jewellery to you (not bright shiny new baubles, dahling)!

That and buying your own furniture are sooo neuveau riche!

MrsE_2

thorsoak wrote: »

Well this 77% posh person is quite happy to take advantage of Asda whoopsies! Noblesse oblige & all that!

In actual fact, the staff in the two Asda stores that I patronise are polite and helpful ....which is more than can be said of some the hoi polloi that one can meet in Waitrose or M & S - very Hyacinth Buckett!

Worst place of all is Costco (shudder)!

The only whoopsies I will buy are from m&s or waitrose. I think the other supermarkets dont take much off & it looks pretty crappy for 50p off.
Waitrose in particular things are still lovely when they reduce & they take the most off:D its worth your while buying.

paulineb_2

MrsE wrote: »

Waitrose price match with tesco.

Theres no waitrose near me. About 15 miles and I dont drive.

I rarely shop in tesco either. Im a freelance fitness instructor and I love my job but my income varies, hence the shopping in the shops I mentioned before.

paulineb_2

All will change when I win the euro millions though

I'll be the queen of chavtastic bling (I dont actually do the lottery, so fat chance)

FatVonD

I agree the Waitrose reductions are good (especially compared to my local Tesco who reduce by a paltry amount) but shopping at Waitrose still didn't mean they weren't up for a scrum when the meat went half price on Christmas Eve!

Mrs E, I went to school in Peckham too from age 9 - 12, I went to St Lukes and Camden (no longer there) and Trinity House (now called something else) but I suspect you are younger than me

MrsE_2

FatVonD wrote: »

I agree the Waitrose reductions are good (especially compared to my local Tesco who reduce by a paltry amount) but shopping at Waitrose still didn't mean they weren't up for a scrum when the meat went half price on Christmas Eve!

Mrs E, I went to school in Peckham too from age 9 - 12, I went to St Lukes and Camden (no longer there) and Trinity House (now called something else) but I suspect you are younger than me

Never heard of those, I'm 46. I went to peckham girls for 2 years (I didn't "get on" there:)) I left & went to Thomas carlton (in peckham rye) for the other 3 years.
Chris eubanks also went to thomas carlton but hes a year older than me & got expelled (god knows what he did to get expelled from Thomas carlton:eek:) a little before I started.