it used to be posh but now it ain't

calleyw

tr3mor wrote:

Sky TV's never been posh. Virtually every council house in the country has a dish hanging on their wall. Personally i'd say posh people were less likely to watch TV, and certainly less likely to watch all the commercial american crap that is on most of the sky channels!

Hey does that make me posh as I don't have a telly at all


Yours

Calley

Breynia

When I was a kid I thought that people who went to Tupperware parties were posh!
Posh people always had labrador dogs.

fuglyjowls

talking about telephones - around 1978 ish my best friend said she thought we were posh because we had our own telephone line - they had a "party line" which was shared with one of the neighbours - you had to push a button to get a line to dial out. Great for nosy neighbours too as you could listen to the other people's conversations!!

pandas66

This has got me thinking back to the days of old !
No labels in my clothes as Mum made most of them.
We had prawn cocktail starters at Christmas.
Next door to us were ( I thought at the time) posh and got new bikes 1 year at Christmas, Catalogue I later found out.
I was 12/13 before I had a new coat as 'an auntie' (neighbour over the road) always passed on her elder daughters 'good' clothes.

JuB_2

Altho' not used to these threads, I'm still using my old twin tub which still works well, even without the spin dryer! Daughter wants an automatic - are they really worth it?

Does anyone remember milk from milk churns? - not posh - but great without being pasteurised.

My posh memories are taxis, and I still think they are! - wonderful extravagance on trips to London.

mintymanda

I was tidying out the loft with the help of my 14 year old daughter and she said- "Mum! what are all these giant black CDs?" Of course: my treasured record collection - she thought they were pre-historic!
But, back to the thread- posh/not posh

I thought my friend was dead posh cos she had:
Fitted bedroom furniture including a "vanity unit" (sink) so she didn't have to share the bathroom with her brothers.
Piano lessons
fluffy pedigree cats
a cleaner
horse riding lessons
her dad played golf
a bowl of sweets on the table in their hall that nobody ever ate.
A hall big enough to have a table in it!
laura ashley wallpaper in the dining room
a dining room!
Meals round the dining table using napkins made of cloth, and a named napkin holder for each member of the family. Wow!

sprucegoose

Foreign holidays further than Majorca!

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

This comment in the Obvious Tips thread from Greenstuff (thanks Greenstuff) brought so many memories of what I thought 'rich' people had when I was a kid in the 1960's - all these things are so commonplace now - like

electric lawnmowers
chocolate biscuits wrapped in foil
fridge
car
bedside lamps
rubber gloves
outside taps for a hose
matching saucepans
steam iron
matching undies
potato peeler
freezer
colour TV
more than one TV
bought dishcloths (not home knitted!)


edit - they're all rushing back now - what about

proper cream, not Carnation
showers
bubble bath
shampoo -Fairy Liquid did for both of these
fresh salmon


anyone else got any memories of what used to be posh but today is taken for granted?

rainydays_3

What a fabulous thread. I have just read all of it instead of hanging the washing out, lol!!!

Anyway I was born in 74.

Grew up on rough council estate in cardiff & my mother was on social security so we had very little money, infatc hardly any cos she was also very crap with money, lol!!!

POSH was:
branded toys (like Barbie) I got the cheapo versions!
shop bought jumpers & cardis (my mum knitted all of mine)
sliced bread (rofl!)
showers
duvets
vienetta
chocolate biscuits such as Club, choc fingers etc...
stereo players
Stead & Simpson
Any large supermarket
coleslaw
spag bol

prob loads more as well!

How great!!!!

pandas66

mintymanda wrote:

I was tidying out the loft with the help of my 14 year old daughter and she said- "Mum! what are all these giant black CDs?" Of course: my treasured record collection - she thought they were pre-historic!
But, back to the thread- posh/not posh

I thought my friend was dead posh cos she had:
Fitted bedroom furniture including a "vanity unit" (sink) so she didn't have to share the bathroom with her brothers.
Piano lessons
fluffy pedigree cats
a cleaner
horse riding lessons
her dad played golf
a bowl of sweets on the table in their hall that nobody ever ate.
A hall big enough to have a table in it!
laura ashley wallpaper in the dining room
a dining room!
Meals round the dining table using napkins made of cloth, and a named napkin holder for each member of the family. Wow!

I can confirm they were posh.

Austin_Allegro

Actually, napkin rings aren't posh - really posh people used to launder their table linen after every use, so they never used napkin rings. Confusing isn't it!

I remember the clinic orange juice - it was quite nice. I used to say to my mother 'can I have a drink of climmic?' I think they stopped giving it out to kiddies once you were over 7 or something though.

I used to think shake and vac was a special kind of posh hoover - until I found out it was just scented baking soda!