it used to be posh but now it ain't

Lucie_2

We got our first phone in about 78/79 when I was about 5, and a video recorder about 5 years later - it was huge!
Anyone else remember having candlewick bed spreads & those awful nylon sheets? - usually luminous orange or purple & the static electricity used to give off sparks! Duvets were the height of sophistication.
I remember my Mum having a twin tub & it used to take forever to do the washing.
Hand me downs came from my sister, cousins, friends of the family & my Auntie Susan. A bin bag full of clothes from her caused high excitement!
When I was 11 my Mum bought me 2 pairs of shoes in one go! Two pairs! At the same time! I thought I was the bees knees having a pair for school & a pair for "best".

Austin_Allegro

I recall that when I started at university in 1991, a girl from Crewe who I lured back to my room said that my cheapo wine glasses from woolies were 'posh'. LOL!

Also, in the 80s, London changed its dialling code from 01 for the whole of London, to 071 (inner London) and 081 (outer London). In the bizarre maze that is English snobbery, it was thought by some that an 081 number was 'posher' than an 071 number (presumably because that was the gin and jag/golf course types lived) despite the fact that areas like Kensington, Knightsbridge, Mayfair etc had 071 numbers!

corners_2

Oh what a lot of memories this has dredged up!!!

I remember a 'Soda Stream' being the family main cmas present one year.

Fitted carpets were posh.

Remember getting our first phone at home, yes we had a party line too

Remember when we got 'rich' enough to have a Vesta meal for a special occasion.

I can also remember my mum getting her first automatic washing machine. When she had a twin-tub, she used to do all her housework first, then into the kitchen, get the washer on and spin it while the next lot was being loaded.

First time she used the automatic, she followed her usual routine and then when it came to 'doing the washing' there's no need to stand over it, so she was at a loss,sat down with a cup of tea and watched the machine doing the wash [like a tv].

Happy memories

Gingham_Ribbon

I remember the soda stream being the main pressie one year too! And when my mum got an automatic washing machine for the first time, she didn't believe it would clean the clothes. (I think she even put the first couple of loads in twice just to be sure!)

Chipps

Oh, Vesta meals! Whatever happened to them? My sisters and I used to have those as special lunches sometimes when mum was at work, and we were home in the school holidays. I used to love cooking those noodles that you fried & they puffed up like magic!

lily_the_pink

Mushroom voulevants

French bread

Pre-grated parmesan cheese

Chorlton and Whalley Range (for any mancunians out there - I was from Longsight so these 2 were the height of my aspirations)

Semi detached houses (Longsight is full of terraces or council estates)

Garlic mushrooms

Pate

Melon

Advocados and Kiwi fruit

Any restaurant with watercress soup on the menu

Almost any restaurant

People from Cheshire

Chicken Kiev

Damart thermal underwear

St Anne's Square in Manchester

Going to France

Wine

Monsoon Clothes



Apologies for any repetitions.

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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?

wall to wall carpets,fridge, t.v. washing machine, central heating ,indoor toilet Proper bathroom Ironing board(my mum used an old army blanket and some old sheeting all of her life on the kitchen tabletop) I can remember my dad buying her a new style electric iron that was plugged into the centre light with a double adaptor she was thrilled as she didn't have to use the flat iron on the gas stove anymore
a Biro pen.My dad brought one home and I always thought how great it would be to own one and not have to use the rotten dippy nib ones at school and the horrible powdered ink
Tinned food .My aunt sent some from the states in 1946 and in the food parcel was some tinned pineapple. We saved it for Xmas as a special treat.
She also sent my Mum some nylons and my Mum sat and cried she was so pleased to get these wonderful things.
John Hoods the cleaners in Lewisham had a lady in the shop window who used to sit and do repairs on stockings with a machine it was 8 ladders for 2/6d a fortune in 1950.
Queing around the block with a bag of washing to try the new-fangled Bendix Launderette that had opened. the queque was about an hour and a half

aliasojo

Glad wrote:

I had a few more well off pals when in school and was always impressed when asked to tea by,
dimmer switches
fridge-freezers
breakfast bars
outside plants in pots

Good grief you were easily impressed! :rotfl:

Mind you, with hindsight...I'd have been impressed with dimmer switches and the like which could ask you to tea.

I was always impressed by flushing toilets. We didn't have a fully plumbed bathroom when I was a kid. Amazing what we all take for granted now, I couldn't imagine life without a cistern and handle.

Btw...why is this not in Discussions? Would have thought this is exactly the type of thread the Dt'ers would like too?

Glad

aliasojo wrote:

I was always impressed by flushing toilets. We didn't have a fully plumbed bathroom when I was a kid. Amazing what we all take for granted now, I couldn't imagine life without a cistern and handle.

well of course being a lot older than me.........................

aliasojo

Glad wrote:

well of course being a lot older than me.........................

Lies, lies...all lies!