to ask why ponce-tastic-ness is only "okay" at Christmas? And what else are you prepared to admit to the other 11 months of the year!!

I've done one since we lived in Germany, I try to find pussy willow but usually end up with something else, and I have a 45+years old set of wooden Easter decorations for it. If that makes me 'poncey' so be it! Definitely no fluffy chicks in sunglasses though.

I don’t think there’s anything “poncetastic’ about making home-made food and drink! (On the entire thread, only the chicken coop having its own door wreath qualifies, and decanting your washing up liquid into crystal!) And Lizzie Bennet is no ponceuse — she’s the unpretentious one who prefers a plain dish to a ragout, gets tanned when travelling, and walks three miles cross country to see her sick sister, and shows up at the Netherfield breakfast table all muddy…

Jo's a friend of mine from the olden days. While her style isn't my style, she very much fills her world with beauty! Behold, poncetastiques of Mumsnet:

@Mumdiva99, I love glass. Back when I had money & energy for poncing (it takes both), I collected the most fabulous hand-blown wine, champagne and cocktail glasses. The most amazing ones were Czech, very thin and decorated with different colours of glass or gilded.

I am a clumsy person. Not a single one of my delicately unique works of art for imbibing lasted two years: several got smashed first time out 😳 I can't bear keeping beautiful things For Best; they should be used and enjoyed ... but repeatedly, not destroyed soon after creation!

I buy glasses from supermarkets. Even if I could afford lovely ones, I wouldn't have them now. My ownership was a form of expensive vandalism.

I adore the poncetastic thread! Excellent thread @PoncingIsNotJustForChristmasButForLife ☺

I'd love to be a dedicated poncer and I was years ago but one of my DC (autistic) can't cope with Sensory overload for Xmas etc so we keep it low key. He'll be quite upset by the tree etc so it's all very minimal.

That said, please share my joy, for valentines day he tried some heart shaped potato product from lidl. My heart almost burst. That was my most recent ponce attempt and for this house, a roaring success!

I do level up the ponce for Christmas food though and my favourite chutney i make (Mary Berry recipe) I use cinnamon sticks with some red and green twine to decorate the jars for my neighbours gifts.
Maybe I could look for a spring alternative, jam maybe and decorate my wee jars with pastel coloured twine?

I'd love a house like a selina lake book, when my wee lad ill have one room for my poncey haven that if it overwhelms him he can choose to not go in, I will spam you all with my ponce!

I want to be poncey. I want a spring wreath and an easter tree. I want special jars for my Daz tablets.
Closest I've got at the moment is a glass hand soap in the ensuite. Gifted to me by my aunt who didn't like the glass. I love it and have already bought a refill.

(I already have a gin glass, wine glasses, cut glass wine glasses, champagne flutes (mine are really special beautiful ones and only come out on super poncey days), shot glasses, tumblers and pint glasses)

I love the carafe of water - but need to get a proper bedside table first.

I wish I could be more poncy(sp?).
It feels like it takes time I don't have right now but.....just you wait until the kids are grown and I have retired!!

I’m sure there are poncier MNers than me but I do try!

my chicken coop has its own wreath on the doorway

WE HAVE A WINNER!

I'm just here to say how much I loved your OP, @PoncingIsNotJustForChristmasButForLife 😂 Absolutely perfectly expressed!

And I say this as an ex-ponceuse. So very 'ex' that my cheap fake Christmas tree is still up with its workmanlike display of coloured lights, and I've only just brought the fake Christmas wreath in (I was waiting for the battery to die).

I made croissants today! In the air fryer. From frozen dough. And I didn't roll them, I just squished balls of dough. So not croissants at all, really ...
Flavour 9, texture 9, ponciness 1.

I have quite a few year round poncetastic things.

my cooking oils are all decanted into crystal decanters sourced from charity shops (as is my washing up liquid and my bath oil)

my vegetable patch is referred to as my kitchen garden and has signs for the various produce made from
old roof slates used as chalk boards

my chicken coop has its own wreath on the doorway

all of my laundry products are decanted into glass jars and bottles with brass scoops attached and beautiful labels

my seeds for the garden are collected and stored in little brown envelopes so they all match with planting instructions and a sketch of the flower on the front

i could go on and on. As a pp has says it makes me feel like I have my shit together and it looks pretty so why not.

Absolutely agree, we have sooo many glasses for each drink in our house. DH indulges me..

Drinks don't taste the same unless they're in the correct receptacle

I have a vase of pussy willow twigs and special tiny Easter eggs on ribbons for Easter, plus a family of ceramic bunnies.

There's not much scope for poncing St Patrick's Day - it's the anti poncing holiday par excellence - but I'll be baking soda bread lovingly, from acratch.

Are you me? I did the same for a good few years.

OP, I barely have enough time to ponce at Christmas, never mind the rest of the year. But if I did….

Lucy at Attic24 https://www.attic24.typepad.com/?fbclid=IwAR3eYK7JqYbeP1PAikulMjGzEtKJjAN7CLivF3O41ie0TuOBtx9Q0k88YgI Does this. She has a mantlepiece so is able to decorate it seasonally.

I love doing an Easter tree... twigs from garden in a vase with my special poncy decorative hanging easter eggs and little fluffy chick's in sunglasses

I always have plans to be more poncey at Christmas but end up not bothering!! One thing I can never get my head around is the bed made with loads of cushions that just get taken off at night and then put back the next day - for what?? Even if you have visitors they won’t be looking in your bedroom?

For me its glasses.

The right glass for the right drink.

High balls for a long drink. Wine glass for wine, cut glass heavy tumbler for whiskey, coupe for sparkling wine (dont get me started on flutes.....totally wrong imo) the correct cocktail glass depending on the cocktail (I have 5 types of cocktail glass!). Bottled beer? Straight from the bottle, it tastes better! Gin......I am not sure on that, I do own gin globes but I prefer a high ball, I think that the big bowl glasses are like champagne flutes, an affected fashion invented to modernise what didnt need modernising.

Then we have the "high days and holidays" versions of the above, all of which live still in their tissue paper in their original boxes in my designated glass cupboard.

I have manners so I will drink out of any glass given to me in someone elses house and not comment, but it will grate! When a friend came round with champagne to celebrate her promotion, she just grabbed a wine glass for it and I made her jump with my "NO!" and then she laughed until she may have peed a bit when I said "I have COUPES!!!" and I laughed too at my utter poncey-ness about it. But we used the goddam coupes, and I bought her a cheap set as present for a laugh and now she loves them!

I love a bit of poncing.

Easter tree - basically Twiggy Shit with yellow and green accessories.

Making a big fuss about the First Pull of rhubarb for Easter Sunday's rhubarb crumble.

Making redcurrant jelly and harping on about the jewelled colour (hope to god it is clear not cloudy) then entering it in the local gardening society produce show.

Making wreaths out of rosemary and lavender (just twine the lengths together along with florist wire) and tuck in current garden blooms, untuck them once wilted, replace.

‘Have nothing in your house that you do not think is beautiful, or know to be useful’

I read a book by Rita Konig that was all about this kind of thing. Decanting the washing up liquid into a pretty bottle found at a flea market..

Poncing is not just about expense. It’s effort and time to go the extra mile just for the satisfaction it brings.

It is making custard from scratch even though you can buy decent readymade these days.

It is making your own cranberry sauce, picking your own sloes or baking crackers for the cheese board.
Ponce is home made wreaths with foliage you collected on walks and co-ordinated gift wrap

I know what you mean I love the Christmas poncing thread. I think it's just time and other commitments and what's the points. I might do a bit for Easter and special occasions for birthdays and things

I used to have a glass carafe and cup set which I dutifully filled with water and took to her every night in case I wanted a drink in the night. Every morning, i woke up feeling slightly dehydrated, I poured the water down the sink and rinsed out the unused carafe and cup. I did this for years. I never drank the water but I wanted to give the impression that maybe I had my shit sorted enough that I had special bedside table drink ware and would wake if thirsty overnight. As I lived by myself, I'm not entirely sure who I was going to make this impression on. My flat at the time was miniscule so I could have reached the kitchen sink in about 10 steps.

I am not sure it's expense, because some of it is not necessarily expensive (though time consuming and that's a form of privilege I know).

Interesting that a PP said that it made them feel like they have their shit together....