it used to be posh but now it ain't

1connect

Hostess Trolley (heated)

Soda Syphons

Yellow Ford Capri's

Soda Stream

Pot Noodle (even if you do put in on a china plate to eat it, ha ha)

Carmen Heated Rollers

Vibrating cellulite reducing machine (stand up version with rubber belt) - >yes they really did exist> they also used to be called slimming machines

Cadburys Smash (dryed potato)

Ronco products , remember the buttoneer?

Avon

Kitchen Serving Hatches

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ask me in 30 years and hopefully i will be saying

regererating active lipozome face tonics, with bulltox, and proactive extract of plant placenta-roids

all mens beauty and face care products

all men who use face care products (you wendies)

bluetooth headsets

novelty ringtones

anyone involved in pedaling false mass marketing lies via tv advertising (ps i hope you will be lying down and staying very still for a very long time soon)

haut cature (utter botox)

designer labels

perfume and aftershave

celebrity product lines / brands / shops/ outlets / chains

debt consolidation companies, get out of debt with a new loan ... etc

Get the picture? ... I could go on and on but I should let someone else have their say...

best wishes

1connect

ps if there is anything you dont like in the list above, please bear in mind that I really really dont care, thanks

tootles_2

I was not allowed a bra and suspender belt until I was 16.....and went to college, I had a liberty bodice with attached suspenders......I wore black woollen stockings for school until I was 15, then in the last year we had lisle stockings, in the summer we had white ankle socks..............

As far as drying washing was concerned if it was wet we dried the laundry on a clothes horse round the fire or on a pully in the kitchen.....we had to wear knickers for two days...poo.......my summer dresses had removable collars and cuffs, my school dresses were washed once a week, as were my scholl blouses, I had two of these and a hand knitted cardigan when everyone else had shop bought cardigans. My grandmother was a dressmaker and made my school uniform, blazer, tunic, blouses and dresses as far as I remember my tunic was never washed in the 5 years I was at secondary school. I only had two sets of top clothes ie school clothes and best clothes......I had to wear my school mac as a coat on Sunday, it was my 16th birthday before I got a best coat. My mother bought me a windcheater for Christmas when I was 15. I learnt to knit when I was 11 and for my birthday an aunt bought me the wool to knit a cardigan, I knitted it in a week, so she bought wool for a second one, until recently I knitted, but since I developed arthirtis in my hands I have not done any knitting, prefer quilting these days. Antoher aunt handed on clothes to me once I got past 14, I hated wearing them......... I well remember a dusky pink dress and jacket which itched, I loathed it, could not wait to get rid of it.....

Sorry I did not reply earllier we have been away on holiday.......have just re read some of the threads that I missed whilst I was away.

squeaky

tootles wrote:

Sorry I did not reply earllier we have been away on holiday.......have just re read some of the threads that I missed whilst I was away.

Did you have a nice time?

tootles_2

Great thanks, very restful, we went to the Somme in France, the weather was great and the food (&wine) was wonderful..... did not want to come home......but needs must...........

squeaky

Yeah... that's the thing about holidays... they always have to end

Sofa_Sogood

tootles wrote:

I had a liberty bodice with attached suspenders......I wore black woollen stockings

I'll have to Google them. I've a feeling what I knew as liberty bodices weren't as you've described lol

Here's hoping it doesn't throw up some strange sites lol.

Curry_Queen

Here you go Sofa ...



and...

Sofa_Sogood

I found the same one - but it's nothing like I remember my 'posh friends' having

When I had vests lol, they had something similar, but those lb's had loads of ribbon type things that criss-crossed over and behind everything.

But as far as I remember .... no suspenders

Then again ... I was poor

tootles_2

Thats the ones I wore, I hated the damn things especially the suspenders, they had rubber buttons on them and went through a button hole in the liberty bodice, why on earth they called them liberty bodices I'll never know..... only wore them in the winter over a hand knitted woolen vest, never had a shop bought vest, when I was 16 I rebelled and stopped wearing vests, haven't worn one since and I am over 60 now!!!

We were poor, my mother had to work to keep us, three women in the same house, Grandma looked after me, she was a widow, mother too, but no widows pensions, Grandmother sewed hence my home made school uniform, GM got her pension when she was 60 but it was not much.......life was hard... but we survived.

rozeepozee

I come from a fanatically money saving family. My parents were relatively cash 'rich' in that they were small business people and never had any debt (not even a mortgage). Owning their own business meant no housing costs as we would live in a few rooms above our shop. So I thought that people who had houses were posh! Obviously all the things that came with those houses: kitchens, dining table, central heating, inside loo. A proper oven too, as we had a camping stove!

I used to think the kids who's parents took them shopping for a new uniform at the start of the new school year were posh. Also those trendy kids who's parents bought them adidas and fila sportgear. I didn't have an item of new clothing until I was 17 - everything came from the jumble sale - even my knickers!!!! (Wearing secondhand knickers was one up on my mother who used to go to school wearing her dad's vest safety-pinned under her crotch as underwear - ouch!) It was a great treat when the annual private school jumble sale was held as this is where you'd get all the best clothes :rotfl:. My mum and gran would go at least an hour before and queue, though never managed to get in front of the regular dealers.

I once came home in tears cos I'd been teased about my 'nose picker' collars (very unfashionable) so my mum turned them back and rehemmed them! She would never cut the hems off my trousers or jeans either, she'd just tack them in huge turn ups so they could be taken down when I got a bit taller - yes I WAS emotionally scarred!!!

Once I had my own earnings, I went a bit mad and used to spend fortunes on designer clothes (and fancy underwear!!!!) as these were something I had never had. As I've gotten older, I can see the real value in not consuming unnecessarily and really appreciate what they taught me about the value of things.

My parents still don't have central heating as they think it's too expensive to run - nor do they have a mobile phone, cheque book or cash point card!