what’s something that absolutely ISN’T posh but you thought it was?

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I would say

Having 3 bathrooms

I like the 'everyday's a party' when you're posh aspect @AlbaAlba
Maybe the cocktail sausages reflect that 😀

Fur coats
Shiny stilletto heels
Cigarette holders

I have some photos of my grandma that look like she just stepped out of a 1920s film so I guess this is where my idea of posh came from as a child.

@PattyPan @Blackberrycream

I note that there is no mention of technology, because we didn't have it routinely in our homes back in the 70s and 80s. I imagine the next generation's version of this thread would involve "I thought an iPhone was posh, cos I only had a Nokia brick!'. I may have missed the timelines there though!

I've just thought of another one.

Shop bought birthday cakes. My mum would always make the cake because paying someone else to do something you could do yourself was not only unaffordable, but also considered an excessive extravagance even if you had the money.

I think I, and many others my age (40s) are products of parents who experienced post-war rationing, whether first or second hand, and had the make-do-and-mend mentality. It still makes me hate to waste food or throw things away.

Now of course, things have come full circle again. Waste is avoided on environmental grounds, not always frugality. Recycling is woke, and often middle class.

The entire town of Milton Keynes.
We went there once and had the mildly swanky experience of visiting a leisure centre with a jacuzzi in it. And that was it for me. Entire town. Height of sophistication.

Ironing and feather dusters

Going in a limo for your birthday.

Expensive cars (I know people who are not posh at all leasing them for a fortune).

Designer clothes/shoes (posh people dgaf).

Ferrero rochet 😂

So many of these are just so cute, a window on the way children see the world.

Tv in bedroom
Jacuzzi

It’s true. My mum always made our birthday cakes. They were delicious. I was always jealous of friends that got shop cakes. My poor mum trying her best and us so ungrateful!
@BendylikeBeckham

I just asked my son. It’s Alexa. Posh people have Alexa. His first answer was caviar before I specified tech.

Curtains with tie backs, pelmets, and super-posh, a little cord you pulled to make the curtains open and close. I remember going to a friend's house and being wowed by the windows having so much kit around them.

@Blackberrycream

It’s true. My mum always made our birthday cakes. They were delicious. I was always jealous of friends that got shop cakes. My poor mum trying her best and us so ungrateful! *@BendylikeBeckham* I just asked my son. It’s Alexa. Posh people have Alexa. His first answer was caviar before I specified tech.

I've got one in every room! I must be the queen!!

Home made cakes are the best. There was a lot I was ungrateful about as a kid!

@CorvusPurpureus I love the story about your parents and their little ritual. It's absolutely lovely that they still do this. Thinking about them tonight

@AlbaAlba

They've not seen Downton Abbey. Now you've said that though it did occur to me that they've seen a few episodes of Jeeves & Wooster

Though I'm still at a loss to explain the stew and cocktail sausages.

Now, you’re going to have to surprise them with cottage pie, cocktail sausages and possibly even stew 😋

Green peppers were a new posh item in the supermarket.
We’d heard of avocados but never seen one (rural Lincs in mid 70s)
School friends debated how to pronounce the name of a new luxury treat...was it Pizzer or Pitzer 😆 only one of us had had it. Or thought they had ... it was home made.

DH says putting the peas into a separate dish on the dining table.

Avocado.
M&S (my dad was convinced everything in there was posh, and had a go at me once for buying some milk and chocolate. He was shocked when he realised it didn't cost the earth )
Branded items, Birkenstocks for example. 😂 I got a pair a few years ago and in my head they're still my "posh sandals".
Earl Grey tea.
Sugar cubes.

Patent Mary Janes as I was only allowed brown lace ups.
Bubble bath.
Having a tennis racket. One friend used to carry one around as if going for a lesson - she wasn’t.
Owning a pony was the ultimate poshness. No one I knew did.

Paris

Not as posh as I dreamed it would be.

I can remember my friend from school coming round and telling me we were posh because we had a shower screen round the bath rather than a curtain.

People who had that doll that covered the toilet roll.

God I hated those dolls. My Grandmother used to make them. Once or twice a year when she came to visit my mother would rush around all the toilets (2 plus an outhouse we never pulled down) and put the dolls in situ to try and prevent her mother's passive aggressive weeping about how we never appreciated her and were snobs.

People mentioned thinking shop bought cake was posh. I was the same with knitwear and though shop bought was better than hand knitted. Now I only wear hand knitted.

The vienetta thing is funny. Me and my bf were holidaying at my parents house (they were out). They had like 4 vienettas in the freezer. They were on sale for €1 per cake (?). My mom likes to stock them up as a back up in case company comes over. It has never been a big deal to me. My bf saw them and asked if we can have one cause he has never had them because they were too fancy to buy when he was a kid.

We ate one. He was not too impressed.