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To feel "posh"

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leopardprintpants · 22/07/2021 19:48

Have recently bought my DC towelling shorts from Boden for our holiday.. I feel like a bit of a posho which is weird, I know 😂

So what I want to know is, what thing did you buy for your children that made you feel "posh" or even, what have you bought your DC that your parents would have never dreamed of buying for you?

Lighthearted.

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CommanderBurnham · 23/07/2021 22:54

We grew up hand to mouth but my father every year took us to foyle's in London and gave us £50 each to spend on books. We took ages choosing but it was such a treat.

VictoriaLudorum · 23/07/2021 22:54

Boden is not "posh" however you define it.
Boden sells lower quality goods with a marketing slant on making people feel like they are living a higher quality life.

GreyhoundG1rl · 23/07/2021 22:54

@irresistibleoverwhelm

Shame? It's a perfectly normal accompaniment to spag bol.

Now when I grew up in the north in the 80s it definitely was - but only in those little shakers of dried Parmesan that smelt of sick 😂

So I tell you, proper Parmesan is most definitely Posh 😂

If you say so. Once they start selling stuff in Tesco, though, it tends to lose it's allure in the posh stakes...
irresistibleoverwhelm · 23/07/2021 22:50

Shame? It's a perfectly normal accompaniment to spag bol.

Now when I grew up in the north in the 80s it definitely was - but only in those little shakers of dried Parmesan that smelt of sick 😂

So I tell you, proper Parmesan is most definitely Posh 😂

Antwerpen · 23/07/2021 22:50

@Picklesbaby

I’ve come back to add about Clark’s. When Id been with dh a couple of months I mentioned dd needed proper shoes now she was walking , he suggested going to Clark’s to get measured. I’d already made up an excuse as to why I wasn’t going to buy any that very day (because for some reason I couldn’t admit I would be buying them second hand off eBay. )Just getting her feet measured there felt posh to me. She tried the loviest shiniest shoes on. He went back while I was in the baby change in the shopping centre and bought them in 2 different colours , put the bag under the pram and didn’t say a word. I looked him in the eyes and had to stop myself from crying !he said it wasn’t even because he thought I couldn’t but because he wanted to. Every pair of shoes she’s had since then have been Clark’s and it is their thing to go get shoes and a Mac Donald’s. I love feeling posh looking at the shiny shoes lined up in her wardrobe.
This is lovely
NotThatSocial · 23/07/2021 22:48

Our David Lloyd family membership.
Never mind the fact we rock up in our 20 year old car and second hand clothes (Boden for the kids of course!).

And when we eat out DS8 will invariably pick some fancy seafood dish. But then DD5 goes and spoils the illusion by asking for sausage and chips.

longwayoff · 23/07/2021 22:48

One of my great pleasures when I lived in London was spending an hour or two in Liberty just browsing through the fabrics and furnishings. Never spent any money in there but it was such a soothing place to be in. Lovely against the contrast of Oxford Street outside.

GreyhoundG1rl · 23/07/2021 22:47

[quote mummeeee]@irresistibleoverwhelm
Oh I’m glad it’s not just me.

Mine eat Parmesan too (and request it when someone else serves spaghetti bolognese). The shame Blush[/quote]
Shame? It's a perfectly normal accompaniment to spag bol.

mummeeee · 23/07/2021 22:35

@irresistibleoverwhelm
Oh I’m glad it’s not just me.

Mine eat Parmesan too (and request it when someone else serves spaghetti bolognese). The shame Blush

SoupDragon · 23/07/2021 22:34

@threatmatrix

I preferred to dress them in Tesco and then give them a deposit on a house. Meh.
🙄

You must live somewhere really cheap if a pair of Boden shorts equates to a house deposit.

threatmatrix · 23/07/2021 22:33

Exactly, people have no idea of the ‘real’ posh and it certainly isn’t Boden or Moonsoon.

threatmatrix · 23/07/2021 22:30

I preferred to dress them in Tesco and then give them a deposit on a house. Meh.

Spinningaround21 · 23/07/2021 22:29

@Fluffmum

My son had osh kosh clothes in 1993 when he was a toddler. My parents bought him loads of stuff when my Dad worked in the US. I felt posh when he went to playgroup 😂
Wow that bought back memories! When I was nursery nursing I remember Osh Kosh being an in brand and I thought it was posh at the time when kids were sent to nursery wearing osh kosh
Paquerette · 23/07/2021 22:22

@Lndnmummy

A few years ago I read about a poster on here who’d brought a Christmas bauble with her son every year. Fancy ones like from Liberty’s or Harrods. They’d make a day of it and go into town, have lunch and pick their Baubles. Then when he got married she gifted them all to him and his wife. It was such a lovely story and I couldn’t look at my B&Q baubles the same way that year so I decided to shamelessly steal her idea. I’ve now got a very fancy Christmas baubles collection and my dh jokes every year that someone will break the family heirlooms.
Lovely story. 😊

I’ve been collecting my Christmas tree decorations for over 20 years. They’re all glass and have to fit a particular colour scheme so don’t look random. My posh ones are from Macy’s in New York City. Most people I know completely get rid of their decorations and buy all new ones every couple of years, but I absolutely love mine.

StrongLegs · 23/07/2021 22:22

I blew all my tesco vouchers on lego, back in the day when lego was half price at Christmas vouchers. I started when DS was 2 years old and carried on for years. Consequently we have a staggering amount of lego.

It's been quite good though, because DS still uses it with his best friend who is 15 and visits nearly every day. Friend is a promising designer and I think DS is heading toward writing scifi novels, so lego is actually working out well for both of them.

irresistibleoverwhelm · 23/07/2021 22:19

*hear!

Bertiebiscuit · 23/07/2021 22:18

Brunch with cocktails in Liberty's - I felt proper posh 😂😂😂😂

irresistibleoverwhelm · 23/07/2021 22:18

@mummeeee

My 7-yr old ds and I were in our small Waitrose the other day, buying a couple of things we couldn’t get from other shops (never do a big shop there but buy nice wine as gift etc). At the checkout, I’m putting things through, chatting to checkout operator, when my phone rings and it’s older ds, who is at home with DH, they’re making some lunch. 7-yr old, after speaking on the phone, says dramatically ’Mum, stop, we HAVE to go back and get black olives, ds says we CAN’T make greek salad without them.’ I’ve taught ds to make Greek salad as I made it once and they mostly all like it….but I have to admit it made me think I’d raised posh kids!!Grin
We live near a Waitrose and you had some fantastic stuff - I once heard a dad say “Lucien, no no no, those aren’t the melba toasts you like” and almost died trying not to laugh 😂

I remember in the early 2000s mocking Nigella for giving her kids Parmesan on pasta in her TV show (who would give KIDS expensive cheese?!?) Fast forward 20 years and there is DD snacking on finest Parmesan in her nursery lunchbox. Oh the shame 🤦‍♀️

Feedingthebirds1 · 23/07/2021 22:15

[quote Doodlebug71]@Feedingthebirds1 Hellmans or salad cream? Dear gods.. do you not make your own salad dressing??[/quote]
I tried once. I'll stick to Hellman's (or Heinz) Grin

I can do olive oil and lemon juice (real lemons - posh, me), and even a decent Ceasar. Mayo - no!

ItPearl · 23/07/2021 22:15

The first time I bought something from Boden I felt very English !
(I'm Irish. Fewer people here have heard of Boden. If they have, I suspect they're on mumsnet. More people have heard of mumsnet than Boden).

Recently I bought something from Toast! I older, eccentric and quietly rich. The first might be true.

ArabellaScott · 23/07/2021 22:13

Borders dark choc/ginger biscuits instead of penguins in the lunchboxes.

goose1964 · 23/07/2021 22:09

Having Bahlsen biscuits rather than own brand or McVities

mummeeee · 23/07/2021 22:09

My 7-yr old ds and I were in our small Waitrose the other day, buying a couple of things we couldn’t get from other shops (never do a big shop there but buy nice wine as gift etc). At the checkout, I’m putting things through, chatting to checkout operator, when my phone rings and it’s older ds, who is at home with DH, they’re making some lunch.
7-yr old, after speaking on the phone, says dramatically ’Mum, stop, we HAVE to go back and get black olives, ds says we CAN’T make greek salad without them.’
I’ve taught ds to make Greek salad as I made it once and they mostly all like it….but I have to admit it made me think I’d raised posh kids!!Grin

Allycott · 23/07/2021 21:59

When DD1 was 7 bought her a quad for Xmas - this was 1999 and it cost £800. Total extravagance but (then) DH was loaded so who cares😁

ScrollingLeaves · 23/07/2021 21:57

“Pickles baby
He went back while I was in the baby change in the shopping centre and bought them in 2 different colours , put the bag under the pram and didn’t say a word.”

That’s one of the most loving and enchanting gestures I’ve ever heard of.

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