it used to be posh but now it ain't

Ticklemouse

moggins wrote:

My Dad made my dolls house from scratch and I can even remember him hand painting the ivy up the walls and the roses around the door. My bike was second hand but dad rubbed it right down and painted it to look like new.

That reminds me, my dad and grandad made us a wendy house from scratch. It was a walk in number with a felt roof, a chimney and a real stable door. It was fully painted in side and out and was made of 'real' wood, not plywood. We even made the local paper it was so nice

Ah, happy days (wistful smilie)

If anyone's kids went missing, they were usually to be found in our garden. Mum says that she used to count up to 30 kids in the garden and after a mammoth baking session one afternoon, left the buns out to cool, when I/my sisters invited everyone in for a cake :eek: She came back to find - well - nothing

Rikki

In1979. we had our first phone, only had a colour television 1 year and no car.

It sounds so sad.

headchef

We were brought up in the country - didn't have a fridge but a larder. Jelly took all night to set (and was a real treat). Mum looked at it on the morning only to find little mice foot prints in it!
Thanks heavens it was nearly set or what a sticky end for that mouse. She threw it away much to mine and my sister's disappointment - we wanted the jelly no matter what. Tere was no 'just popping down the shop' as they were miles away and budgets wouldn't allow a replacement treat

headchef

Love some of the reminisces - especially when dads and grandads have been making things. Dad made us a paddling pool in the summer of '77 (that was the hot one wasn't it?). It was made out of planks of wood the size of railway sleepers to make the sides and a tarpouline drapped into the middle and over the wood. Took ages to fill (or was that just impatience on our part) but it was fantastic.

Mr_Proctalgia

I was born into a corner shop in the fifties, one of my earliest memories was putting sugar into blue bags, packing butter into greaseproof paper, gillette "blue" razor blades, the bananas used to arrive in wooden coffin thingies which had a deposit on them! lucky bags were 3d, you could buy jubblies. I remember peoples faces when they invented King Edwards - never seen red spuds before. Cheese and onion crisps were invented and had real cheese and onion dust on them that stuck to your hands and turned them yellow. The toilet paper was Izal !!!! (We called it John Wayne cos it was rough, it was tough and it didn't take s**t off anyone)

We had a car that had running boards and trafficators that used to stick, 10 park drive used to cost 1s 11 1/2d and i got to keep the change. That would buy 8 flying saucers or 2 tubs of coloured rice crispys.

I could go on and on.

SnowyOwl_2

Looking back I guess my childhood was pretty frugal, though I'm from a farming family with quite a lot of land etc. The house was big and old and had been standing for virtually a century before anything modern was put in. The biggest posh luxury was central heating and actual radiators in every room. Before that it was a case of shivering in the winter, though my parents were v.strict about how often the central heating went on, to the point it was never on long enough to became warm, it just took the edge off the cold. Then, at the same time as central heating came double glazed windows, a new bathroom with a separate shower, and a separate shower room with an electric shower. Mighty changes indeed! Indeed I remember it normal just having a weekly bath - I'm still in my 30's but am of the generation who missed the tin bath in front of the kitchen range by about five years or something crazy. Imagine having just one bath a week these days, people would be disgusted! Oh nearly forgot...when it was one bath a week I used to have to use my sister's bathwater, she was older and got the fresh water - I got her bathwater, shoes, clothes, books, etc etc...

My mother's idea of sophistication when I was a child was Imperial Leather soap. In the event it was purchased the little label was firmly attached right down to the very last blob. I think she is quietly impressed by Imperial Leather bar soap even now, though she wouldn't dare say so.

Rebob

Had central heating then but not now ..... we had no fitted kitchen or bathroom when we moved into this house and were using the outside toilet ...... took me back to the house my mum bought when I was about 5 - 6 yo.

Tinned peach slices with tip - top or carnation milk for desert after sunday lunch.

Remember my mum having the phone put in when I was about 5. We had to learn to say "Hello, barnsley 87142" before we were allowed to answer it!!

Ticklemouse

Love people's reminicences

However, don't you think it's a bit sad that in today's society, I don't think there is really anything "posh" for a lot of people. If you look back at what people have said,it was mainly about what other, presumably richer people had that we didn't, from better food to shop bought clothes, colour tv's , cars to holidays. Nowadays, I don't think there is much of that going on. Why? Because a lot of today's youth see it, want it and get it. Whether they get it themselves or get parents to buy it, there is so much availability of money (loans, 'buy now, pay next' year etc) that a lot of todays kids don't ever realise that there is 'posh'. They see their idols wearing designer labels, driving such and such and they want it and get it now, to some degree or other.

Maybe today's "posh" is different. Maybe I'm seen as "posh" because we eat proper meals at a dinner table every night, we don't really do takeaways and never buy nuggets. Maybe "posh" is an attitude or a state of mind nowadays - it could be about manners and upbringing as opposed to being the kids who have everything.

Maybe I'm just rambling ...............:D

moggins

I think it all seems to be based around cars and mobile phones these days? Who has the biggest, fastest, newest? I remember when I first taught my eldest to shop for clothes, she had £60 to spend (birthday money) and she headed straight to one of the more expensive shops to buy 3 high fashion (meaning only to be worn for 3 months). I told her to hang on to her money until we'd been to one more shop and then took her to Primark. She ended up coming home with 12 items for her £60 and has never wanted designer/labels since

culpepper

Ticklemouse wrote:

Love people's reminicences

Maybe today's "posh" is different. Maybe I'm seen as "posh" because we eat proper meals at a dinner table every night, we don't really do takeaways and never buy nuggets. Maybe "posh" is an attitude or a state of mind nowadays - it could be about manners and upbringing as opposed to being the kids who have everything.

Maybe I'm just rambling ...............:D

My neighbours grandson mimicked me a couple of times in his OOH LA DEE DAH voice a few years ago.Im from London so my accent is apparently posh .
When on holiday in t'lake district last month a lady sitting outside a pub heard me talking to DD and said 'Oooh wheres my throne?' to her friend!
Wierd thing is, I used to get called cockney rebel at school.