it used to be posh but now it ain't

jazzyjustlaw

What happens if you were born in 1970'S? I dont necessarily think having a knitted jumper meant you were poor. SOme rich people just make different choices etc.

I do like this thread though. We didnt have much money and I had never heard of an icecream until 1981 when I was 10 poor me eh!

tootles_2

Turkey for Christmas lunch when we had the usual piece of beef.

culpepper

I never used a phone until I was 16 (1978).
The sewing machines in sewing lessons had minds of their own(electric) and would burst into life if you happened to put your foot too near the pedal.
We had a 'language lab' at school and I was the only one who had no idea how to work the tape recorder.

16011996

i always remember rich friends having drinking glasses that matched, and mugs. it used to fascinate me.

calleyw

I'm in my early 30's but when we were at secondary school so 11+.

I thought the rich people where the ones who bought there daughters the summer uniform dress which was red gingham. It was awful but it cost a lot of money for something you would wear for just a few weeks a year.

How wrong I was, just glad that we where poor :rotfl:

Think you would have to pay me to wear it it that was that grim.


Yours

Calley

jazzyjustlaw

Gosh we had those gingham dresses everyone did though and they were blue. I think I am the same age as you but we were not rich just everyone had them.

calleyw

jazzyjustlaw wrote:

Gosh we had those gingham dresses everyone did though and they were blue. I think I am the same age as you but we were not rich just everyone had them.

At out school they where just a summer uniform if you wanted to spend the extra. You could tell all the 1st years or year 6 I think they call them now. As some of there parents would buy them. But as only half dozen in the year wore them. They stuck out like sore thumbs.

Come the following year you never saw them wearing them again.

Yours

Calley

Rikki

culpepper wrote:

I never used a phone until I was 16 (1978).
The sewing machines in sewing lessons had minds of their own(electric) and would burst into life if you happened to put your foot too near the pedal.
We had a 'language lab' at school and I was the only one who had no idea how to work the tape recorder.

we never had a telephone until I was 16 too. (1979)

I wonder if its something about being that age. Mum only changed that phone earlier this year.

Spendless

House phone
stopping school dinners instead of going home (weren't entitled to free ones)
having the optional school uniform items (at my school was blazer and tie).
Having a chinese takeaway
eating out at a restaurant

Spendless

Rikki wrote:

we never had a telephone until I was 16 too. (1979)

I wonder if its something about being that age. Mum only changed that phone earlier this year.

My parents only had phone put in in 1978 too when I was 12. Wonder if they had an offer at that time which is why it seems to be common -lol.

Remember when the tv series Heartbeat started it cracked me up that a programme set in the 60s has everyone with a house phone.