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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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Hugoslavia · 23/07/2021 20:12

@Spudlet

Why thank you very much. You simply must pop by for a little aperitif and a drive. I suspect that I must appears dreadfully 'poash' to any passers by on account of my perceived upper class ecentricity. I should probably nick my mother's pearl choker and my step father's tweed cap before I set orf on an outing. Perhaps I'll also encourage them to treat my daughter to a hobby horse, so that I can go for the occasional ride too.

NeedNewKnees · 23/07/2021 20:11

@LyingWitchInTheWardrobe

I have that brolly, NeedNewKnees, I also had the red lips one but managed to lose it.

I don't though have 800 thread count bedding, I think that's on my list somewhere, it does sound really comfortable and luxurious.

It's such a marvellous umbrella, isn't it?

One day all my bedding will be 800 count. My duvet and sheet are 400 count at the moment. I'm slowly saving up and one will sleep in ultimate luxury.

GreyhoundG1rl · 23/07/2021 20:05

[quote Ifeelsuchafool]@Caritas I hope you're married to an old Etonian? Shock[/quote]
Quite...

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leopardprintpants · 23/07/2021 20:03

@speakout

Haven't read the whole thread but towelling shorts sound dreadful. I have images of heavy seawater soaked shorts stuck with sand.

Don't worry I'm not giving away my child's non-posh shorts, just don't buy any 😂 they of course aren't going to wear them IN any water. Will be used to walk home from the beach when my child will no longer be wet so neither will the shorts... never mind 💤

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ravenmum · 23/07/2021 20:02

That dog is definitely posh even without the hat.

Spudlet · 23/07/2021 20:00

[quote Hugoslavia]@GreyhoundG1rl

If I put down the back of the front seat flat to form a bench seat I can fit in it. The top of my parents driveway/garden backs onto woodland with a public footpath running through it. Occasionally a walker strolls past and pops their head over the wall for a nose. If I'm in my little car, I always give a friendly toot and a little wave as though it's a perfectly normal thing to do![/quote]
I have never met you, but I like you very very much Grin

Ifeelsuchafool · 23/07/2021 20:00

@Caritas I hope you're married to an old Etonian? Shock

GreyhoundG1rl · 23/07/2021 19:58

Oh God, look at that dog! He's gorgeous 😍

Sarcobaleno · 23/07/2021 19:58

@madmomma

Donkeys years ago when I was a skint, depressed teen single mum, I was on income support and was fully breastfeeding dd. I got milk vouchers for her, which I didn't need for formula, so I used to get the milk, pour it all into a hot bath and pretend I was cleopatra. I felt incredibly posh until the nasty guy living downstairs turned my water off 😁. Gotta take that posh feeling from wherever you can get it 😂. Nowadays I feel hugely posh putting the heating on, buying petrol or nice fruit without worrying, getting socks from m&s.. It's that feeling of being able to meet needs that feels posh to me. I hope it always feels posh, and I hope everyone here enjoys every little bit of poshness they can get.
This is the best post i have ever read on Mumsnet. I think I love you.
GreyhoundG1rl · 23/07/2021 19:58

[quote Hugoslavia]@GreyhoundG1rl

If I put down the back of the front seat flat to form a bench seat I can fit in it. The top of my parents driveway/garden backs onto woodland with a public footpath running through it. Occasionally a walker strolls past and pops their head over the wall for a nose. If I'm in my little car, I always give a friendly toot and a little wave as though it's a perfectly normal thing to do![/quote]
Sounds like fun 😁

MarleneDietrichsSmile · 23/07/2021 19:57

@ravenmum brilliant idea

To feel "posh"
Hugoslavia · 23/07/2021 19:57

@GreyhoundG1rl

If I put down the back of the front seat flat to form a bench seat I can fit in it. The top of my parents driveway/garden backs onto woodland with a public footpath running through it. Occasionally a walker strolls past and pops their head over the wall for a nose. If I'm in my little car, I always give a friendly toot and a little wave as though it's a perfectly normal thing to do!

speakout · 23/07/2021 19:56

Haven't read the whole thread but towelling shorts sound dreadful.
I have images of heavy seawater soaked shorts stuck with sand.

Feedingthebirds1 · 23/07/2021 19:56

@diddl

"I felt very posh the first time I shopped for myself and bought Hellman's mayonnaise. We had salad cream at home."

They are different things though aren't they?

I think you missed my point. They both go with salad. I buy mayo all the time now, and I know it isn't posh. But that first time, I felt posh, which is what this thread is about. Not what IS posh.
Michellelovesizzy · 23/07/2021 19:55

[quote Knittingnanny]@Michellelovesizzy, ah you didn’t miss much! In the mid 90’s when my eldest was a teenager he desperately wanted Kickers for school. I couldn’t afford them so we came to a compromise. I would give him the amount I’d spend on the school shoes and he would add the rest from his paper delivery job. £60 seems to ring a bell for a pair? Anyway after 3 weeks one of the coloured tabs fell off and was lost. He did admit he wished he hadn’t bothered and they were a bit of a waste of his money. Hard lesson for him[/quote]
It's funny u should say that as my DC have fallen apart think u get her Clark's next year😂😂

Spudlet · 23/07/2021 19:55

I have a gorgeous Boden shift dress, fully lined and just lovely. I always feel very well turned out in it, and yep, a bit posh. And deeply smug, cos it was £15 in a charity shop Grin

doorornottodoor · 23/07/2021 19:52

@Hugoslavia I love this ❤️Grin

Knittingnanny · 23/07/2021 19:52

@Michellelovesizzy, ah you didn’t miss much! In the mid 90’s when my eldest was a teenager he desperately wanted Kickers for school. I couldn’t afford them so we came to a compromise. I would give him the amount I’d spend on the school shoes and he would add the rest from his paper delivery job. £60 seems to ring a bell for a pair? Anyway after 3 weeks one of the coloured tabs fell off and was lost. He did admit he wished he hadn’t bothered and they were a bit of a waste of his money. Hard lesson for him

doorornottodoor · 23/07/2021 19:52

I’m now wanting towelling shorts finisterre.com/products/womens-organic-cotton-robeston-towelling-short-olive

I might actually get the hoodie for my UK beach holiday Grin ❤️

SoupDragon · 23/07/2021 19:52

DD had a posh fringed "flapper" type dress from Monsoon. In cream.

I let her wear it everywhere, even to climb trees in 😂

ravenmum · 23/07/2021 19:51

@MarleneDietrichsSmile

I never feel posh, I need to work on that!

Maybe my dogs are posh? Can dogs be posh? All my hope is on them 🤞🤞🤞

Maybe buy them hats?
GreyhoundG1rl · 23/07/2021 19:49

@Hugoslavia

My son loved land rovers, so when he was four, I bought him a Britain's Farm one for his birthday. I took him to visit my parents and they had bought him an actual toylander (which cost more than my car). I tend to wait until the kids are at school and my parents are on holiday, then I pop up to water their plants/keep an eye on their house and I get in it and have a pootle around their gardens. Sometimes I even nick a bottle of prosecco, pour myself a glass and go for a little leisure ride, whilst thinking, "Living the dream Hugo, living the dream!"
Do you fit in it? Grin
Depechemodebiggestfan · 23/07/2021 19:48

I felt posh when I first flew from Heathrow (circa 2005)
I always used coach and later on Ryanair to come to U.K. from my (post communist) country years ago and then I managed to get cheap plane tickets from Heathrow ( non ryanair obviously)
Me walking through the corridors— it felt proper posh to me.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 23/07/2021 19:46

I have that brolly, NeedNewKnees, I also had the red lips one but managed to lose it.

I don't though have 800 thread count bedding, I think that's on my list somewhere, it does sound really comfortable and luxurious.

Hugoslavia · 23/07/2021 19:45

My son loved land rovers, so when he was four, I bought him a Britain's Farm one for his birthday. I took him to visit my parents and they had bought him an actual toylander (which cost more than my car). I tend to wait until the kids are at school and my parents are on holiday, then I pop up to water their plants/keep an eye on their house and I get in it and have a pootle around their gardens. Sometimes I even nick a bottle of prosecco, pour myself a glass and go for a little leisure ride, whilst thinking, "Living the dream Hugo, living the dream!"