it used to be posh but now it ain't

squeaky

Join the TA?

BWZN93

squeaky wrote:

Join the TA?

I intend to! I decided to leave it until after my degree, after getting a job (so I know what my days/hours are like) and after we move house - so Ill be making enquiries as soon as I move, and registering after that. Im quite excited about dusting off my combats and shining my boots!

Jo xx

sarahmelita

I can't believe noone's mentioned Betamax video players! We only got ours because my dad's friend was upgrading to VHS. I also remember being really jealous of one of my friends who got one of the first gameboys when they came out. I also realy, really wanted a soda stream - wasn't allowed one though.

SnowyOwl_2

My mother threw away some Cornishware - I think that's what it's called - the crockery with the white and blue stripes. It wasn't a full set or anything, just a milk jug, butter dish and bits and pieces. Think she said something along the lines of it being old fashioned. She probably replaced it with freebees from the petrol station. I would love to get my paws on it now.

bargainqueen_2

jw1096 wrote:

Im an 80's kid so I have some odd memories of things that I dont know if anyone else will remember!!

Same here, and surprisingly they are so similar top yours even though I grew up in Germany!

jw1096 wrote:

Vienetta Ice Cream (that posh looking vanilla and chocolate thing) on exceptionally rare occasions

Yeah on very special weekends and it is so easily sliced that Mum could serve 10 people from one, at least!

jw1096 wrote:

Going on holiday to Germany in the car - and staying with friends there

That cracks me up, we used to go to England by car and stay with family- and all my mates were jealous! When I was 11 I had to go alone, and flew- it was AMAZING, my first flight, all alone- and all the attention and free peanuts from the stewardesses!

I got a lot of 2nd hand clothes because my mum is really thrifty. I remember seeing a Mickey Mouse jumper in the shop and being DESPERATE to own it. No luck, but my best friend got one- boy did I think her parents were rich!
Only posh people had recycling bins! Only posh people had a pond in their garden! Only posh people got to have more than 5 friends round for b'day parties! Oh....the good old days!!!

lady_lucan

I grew up in Northern ireland in the eighties - so probably like the fifties in any other part of the UK I remember thinking it was really posh to have Apeel orange juice sachets at friends' houses. Every terrace house had a coal fire that fired the hot water, but no central heating. Winters were misery because of 'blow-backs' - huge clouds of smoke and soot that would belch down the ceiling into the small living room, like being in a Russian peasant's cottage. Insulating tape on the bottom of all the doors, jack frost on the windows. Sunday nights, after our weekly bath, me and my brother would bask in front of the fire eating toast spread with Toast Toppers, and if we were lucky, some Cadbury's chocolate fingers or Angel Delight. Really posh people had Habitat furniture, Laura Ashley, Benneton, and went to France for their holidays. My parents always rented the latest telly from Radio Rentals or later, Granada. In 1981 I remember advising my dad to go for the VHS video because 'Betamax was on the way out'. Four seasons pizzas were the height of luxury from the supermarket. When I was 12 my dad bought me a Spectrum 128K (I spent so many hours in Boots playing their display models) and I used to spend hours programming it in Basic up in my bedroom. My mother thought Dorothy Perkins clothes were the height of fashion, my Dad used to pile on the Paco Rabane aftershave. All our clothes came from the 'club book' (home shopping catalogue) or Dunnes Stores. We never had a car or went on holiday, though my parents went to Majorca, once, on their own. I started snooping in charity and junk shops from the age of about 12, cooked, shopped and paid all the family bills from about 8, and was far too grown up for my own good. These days I regard a dishwasher as the height of luxury - washing dishes caused more row and upset in my family than probably any other thing.

jennyjo_2

detached houses
leather shoes
trainers not pumps

Downsizing__for_sanity

Olive oil!

Used to only come in little bottles from the chemist for cradle cap/cleaning ears! Now everyone uses extra virgin to cook with!

DFS

bagby

Not so much posh people - but really envious of those girls with the very big platform shoes made by Sacha - very expensive then - usually found in cobblers shops now - I used to get the very similar ones made by Shoefayre.

apprentice_tycoon

Just touching on food again - why was it perfectly OK for restaurants to offer grapefruit juice or an egg with mayonnaise as a starter?

edit - how did I forget the melon boat with an orange slice and a cherry? the first time I ate melon was when I was 11...