To feel "posh"

Now, I am a grown up and have travelled all over and stayed in some amazing places, but I still feel a bit posh if I buy a Vienetta. Even though they are only 99p in Lidl. I am sure it is still a staple dessert at sophisticated dinner parties as the 1980s ads showed.

MrsMack that's a Welsh expression 😆.

@Winecurestiredness that reminds me of going to a garden party sort of thing once ( something local not Buckingham palace) ) when my first son was a baby in the early 80’s. Someone “ posh” asked me where I shopped for his clothes and when I said Woolworths ( they sold Ladybird stuff) or made them myself, they were so taken aback at the horror of that they didn’t know what to say.

This is a lovely, appreciative thread, (ignoring the humourless. mean-spirited and sneery).

I love the expression 'there's posh.'

@FuckingHateRats I love this idea ❤️

communities in italy that is, not 'posh' just sensible and
cultured.

Buying our berries in M&S after doing the food shop in Sainsbury’s.
Also, doing the food shop in Sainsbury’s!
At least 2 holidays abroad a year.

My now DH, then boyfriend, broke a bone right after we’d had DD (young & unplanned) so couldn’t work for a few months and we were terribly skint.
Now have 3DC with DD in prep school and both DS starting there next year. Never would’ve imagined this would’ve been our life.

Balsamic vinegar from Modena,
Best mozarella
Fresh basil from our allotment
Fresh tomatoes likewise
Olive oil

Tricolour salad
Posh for some but for other communities working class.

I thought I was very posh when I bought my first Boden top (in their clearance sale!)
And the day I did my weekly shop in Waitrose...

Now I can do those things regularly (but I still only buy Boden in their sales) but I still remember those moments, each of which signaled a recognition that my financial status had improved enough for those things to be possible. Anyone who chooses to put that feeling down needs to check their privilege.

at the sneering posters trying to come across as superior, but actually sounding a bit dim for misunderstanding the point of the thread!

Growing up, we didn’t have hot water for many years. We had to boil it. Adding a drop of Aromatherapy Associated oil (one of the lighter ones) into my children’s bath still gives me a great feeling.

Any of the sneery pp want to have a pop at this?

I used to enjoy reading the Tatler while perched in my kitchen drinking wine (and it had to be perched, not sat), and I'd feel a bit posh when I saw friends or acquaintances in the Bystander. Not posh enough to get photographed myself though (which is probably why I needed the wine)

Hahaha oh god. I was a 19 year old first time mum in Surrey where its only acceptable to be a good mum If you do/own something posh enough. I used to try to 'fit in' with the older, richer mums by buying Joules and Jojo Maman Bebe stuff. I felt like perhaps people wouldn't judge me as much if he wore posh clothes

And because this is a light hearted thread to gently poke fun at our ‘notions’

There is something very weird about experiencing “ posh” stuff when you are visiting your adult son! He’s very well off ( high earning job) and him and his family live a lifestyle ( overseas) that is so different from the one he had growing up! It’s really strange and hard to explain. We had smart price diluted squash and hand me down clothes til they were all teens when our finances improved somewhat. So seeing the food deliveries, the taxis, holidays, etc seems posh to me. If my dad was still alive he’d find it even posher!

I don’t have children so have no business on this thread, but the posts about bookshops made me smile.

When I was a kid I needed loads of orthodontic work, and my dad took me to every appointment in the car - usually we would go to checkups with my mum on the bus and my dad would be at work, so it was a big deal for him to take time off. Before every appointment we would go to Waterstones and he would let me choose a book. After that we would stop at the “fancy” chemist and I would pick some “nice” bubble bath. On the way home we would go to the supermarket and I would choose ice cream/ice lollies for after dinner, which I still to this day associate with the dentist. (I mean bubble bath in a bottle shaped like a dog, not Jo Malone type stuff.)

None of that is at all posh, I know, but it made a “treat” out of something that is often a negative experience. I have a checkup at the dentist tomorrow and might do all of those things!

Someone said this is a really sad thread but I’ve really enjoyed it

Premade Salad/Deli type stuff especially when doing online shopping or shopping and planning on eating it at home! It feels so extravagant to buy a premade salad type things, my favourite are M&S ones!

Having a coffee when out or going out for the day and having lunch out rather than taking a packed lunch. I remember as a child going out with my godmother and we had coffee when we were out AND a piece of cake!

Ordering a drink in a restaurant instead of just a jug of tap water or heaven forbid having TWO drinks (and by drinks I mean something like coke!). As a kid on the very rare occasion we are out it was one soft drink sipped slowly to last and water.

Bottles sparkling water with lemon, not just on special occasions (although rather than posh it just makes me feel guilty for the environment!).

Olives. There’s something about them that makes it feel luxury, I think it’s as they aren’t in the least bit filling so purchased purely for pleasure except I don’t see any other food that way nor do I deny myself anything that’s pleasurable?

Using a whole bathbomb. I weirdly struggle with this a little! It seems so wasteful, especially if I’ve been gifted lush ones knowing I’m chucking £5 of bathbomb into one bath

Ahh this is a lovely thread to those that understand it.
My posh moment was when we started holidaying abroad in the sort of hotels I used to look at as we walked past. I remember when we stayed in one with an outside glass lift with all plants growing on it I kept humming "If my friends could see me now" from Sweet Charity.

I feel posh whenever I wear Loro Piana loafers or pearl earrings. I tend to buy my children Gap, J Crew etc.—the poor deprived souls 😁