it used to be posh but now it ain't

empfun

In my time it was mobile phones, but it's so commonplace now to own one or two.

Mom started her off with the Ericsson mobile and progressed from there. Back in those days it took a couple of days to connect your phone, there were cross lines.

Curry_Queen

If you think that's embarrasing, you wanna see the first ever mobile phone me and OH got




And yes, it was heavy and cumbersome with that huge battery pack to carry around too!!! :eek:

Sarahsaver

'posher' friends when i was a kid in the 70's had metallic wallpaper, courgettes, dry pasta (i.e. not in tins) new cars, colour telllies, telephones, dads who wore suits, artificial xmas trees, older brothers, chopper bikes and milk in a jug in the breakfast table instead of in a bottle. They had duvets and I had flanelette candystripe sheets and a nylon blanket with a 'satin' edge. Their parents were lots younger than mine cos then it was odd to have kids in your mid to late 30s(mum) and dad was born in 1920!
Chicken in a basket and mateus rose were exotic things we heard of, and a posh aunty went to France on holiday.
One of my mates had a track light in their front room, and another lived in a pub and they had a microwave in the days we still were scared of them. Doormobiles, now they were the ultimate in posh. And staying in a caravan with a REAL TOILET in it.:)
Having your hair in a quirky ponytail on one side of your head !!! :rolleyes:
The nolans satin trousers.
My teacher's knitted tie.
Yoghurt.

Maisie

Davidboy wrote:

Ah sorry, unless you are from my part of the world (Gloucester) elvers are an unknown.

Elvers are baby eels, look like little worms, grey/see through in colour. They used to be caught in the River Severn (I think illegal to catch them now). But the elver man used sell them street by street. Only happened certain times of the year cos thats when baby eels were about..spring I think? Used to be a big bucket of these things swimming about in the back of his van, always attracted the kids (me). He used to shout "ELVERS" in a big bellowing voice to announce his arrival. You could buy them by the pint. Yes he used to have a pint mug put it into the squirming mass, you took some sort of container to put them in. They were then cooked alive, never used to watch that bit!! Or eat them Yuk yuk yuk!!!

Wish you hadn't asked now dont you? Hee hee

I was a London child and the above reminds me of the cockle and winkle man coming round with a barrow on a Sunday afternoon. If you were rich enough you could buy shrimps and jellied eels too.

We used to have pints of winkles (measured with a pint glass) for Sunday tea. We would get a pin and dig the winkle out and make winkle sandwiches!
Always had sliced beetroot for Sunday tea too. Mum used to cook it in a big pan.

Maisie

Also I used to think people were posh who had slippers.

We used to wear rubber plimsolls indoors and out!

Maisie

corners wrote:

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.


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We never had a phone at home. There was an undertakers (funeral director's) shop across the road and he used to take messages for us!

He would often come to our house in his black suit to say there was a message. Mainly because my dad was ill and in hospital.

Always remember the smell of his shop. Fresh sawn wood and varnish... nothing else!!

moneysavingplumber

A car (our family's first I remember was a second hand all-agro in 1979)
Tinned salmon in sandwiches (red or pink).
A pushbike that wasn't inherited from my grandad.
A cricket bat that wasn't made by aforementioned grandad.
A video machine.
Colour TV (remember borrowing one for a while and wanting to turn the colours up to full saturation!)
Holidays (had three in total throughout childhood, all in Britain).
Waste disposal units (sometimes it's a blessing to be poor!).

empfun

Curry_Queen wrote:

If you think that's embarrasing, you wanna see the first ever mobile phone me and OH got

It wasn't embarrassing at all. It was real cool to have one.

MATH

We had an extreemly posh 1970's lounge (pronounced luuurnge) It was wall to wall poshness. Dreylon sofas with yards of gold fringeing arround the base. Wall lights which were much posher than pendents the shades had gold fringeing (naturally). Where we had to slum it with a humble pendent light my Mother made sure it was a rise and fall system cos they were posher. We had hours of fun as kids pulling the lights up and down like demented bell ringers until we worn the things out and they would just plummet during my Mothers posh dinner parties (probably fell into the Black Forrest Gataux):rotfl: Babycham served in basin type glasses were posh especially if placed on smoked glass topped cartwheel coffee tables (yes, we had one of those too):D It had a fibre optic lamp on it, and onyx lighter and a donkey that passed cigarettes out of its bum if you lifted it's tail.(and I defy anyone to get posher than that):o

pandas66

yep, you were posh, I hope your suit had one side gold dreylon the other a chintzy pattern but wasn't a corner suite posher