What have you thought was posh, only to find out its not?

[LivingDeadGirlUK]

I have never been to The Range, I always thought it was a posh garden center. My partner has laughed at me and said its basically a Wilkos with plants. I still think that sounds pretty cool though!

Has anyone else expected something to be posh, only to have their hopes and dreams dashed?

Here's a funny one though.

When we were expecting our second child, I saw some one had posted some nice photos of baby clothes on a for sale page on Facebook! Messaged the lady to ask if we could have them. It wasn't going for much money and only 15 minutes drive away. I asked for her address and said wow, very posh. FWIW my aunt lives in a really posh area with the same sounding address. Think along the lines Grampion Gardens and Champion Gardens. Aunty lives in the first and Lady off Facebook sale page lived in the latter. Typed in the postcode on the Satnav and brought us to literally the most hideous ghetto. We met the lady in a car park behind some grubby, dodgy flats, she literally looked like she came off Jeremy Kyle and there were cars with smashed windows. Lol, it was a very rough area but I was still friendly and polite and paid for the bag of baby clothes. The lady must have thought we were extremely sarcastic telling her she lived in a very posh area because it was the complete opposite. Got home, opened the bag and let's just say my husband said they're not baby clothes, but you have the opportunity to use them as toilet cleaning rags!

Princess Margaret?

Sky TV

Grey Poupon— it is just mustard.

Growing up I always thought our neighbour was very posh as she cut sandwiches in triangles whereas we always had squares.

To this day DH swears that Viennetta is posh (even though it's now £1!)

My mother's family (toxic arseholes) used to sneer at my family for being 'posh'.

It was because my parents had jobs. When they were not sneering they had their hand out 'because you owe us you shits'.

I am NC (and now live in the UK which is a different country from where I was brought up).

Some of the restaurants my daughter takes me to I still think as posh so much so I can’t even remember the names.
Find it quite uncomfortable to relax.
Okay food but so much drama tiny something ordinary made to look like a picture so much clutter due to the glasses,cutlery.
She works in media and is given these treats.
She’s generous with them but fits and is so at ease..

Vienetta icecream it was the height of sophistication when I was a youngster.

I used to think getting your hair cut by a hairdresser was posh.

Relative armed with fabric scissors was my haircut all the way.

Crumpets. Way posher than boring old toast.

1.People who didn't wear shoes inside their house
2.Thorntons

@carnyvahr

Kitchen roll. It was seen as the greatest of extravagances by my frugal parents. I buy it now and I love it. Every time I use it I feel joyful at the convenience it offers.

I do the same....

Some visiting cousins from England when I was a child, because my mother thought so, because the male cousin wore driving gloves and his wife said ‘Ooh, ever so’ a lot — though admittedly my mother still thinks almost all English people are ‘posh’ in the teeth of the evidence.

When I was younger I always thought M&S was posh. Clarke’s as well. Everything I wore as a child was from the market so anyone who got their clothes from shops was posh.

Salad was posh too as was eating home cooked food. Children who didn’t have to share with their siblings. Games consoles and board games and having books. The list goes on.

My parents weren’t poor they just didn’t like to spend and my mum always said food was a waste of money as we just ate it.

Growing up, I thought Sara Lee chocolate gateaux was the height of sophistication. I remember they ran a promotion where they gave you a cake slice in the box. I thought I was sooo posh cutting cake with a cake slice as I never knew anyone who owed a cake slice.

Chocolate seashells.

The Ivy restaurant in Cardiff is stunning btw.

Magnum ice creams. I remember being taken to Alton towers with a friend and her mum took us to the ice cream counter. I ordered something 'normal' like a feast but her DD ordered a magnum!!!!!! I thought that was the height of posh (and cheeky, I never would have dared ask for such a posh grown up ice cream)

@Omemiserum

Boisdale in Belgravia. Full of wanker bankers too dim to realise that they were being charged a fortune for absolutely rubbish food.

Oh that’s a shame. The food used to be great. Mind you, I’m talking 20+ years ago, now...

My friend got some body shop bath pearls one Christmas. Sophisticated!
I persuaded my mum to get me some 'glitter babes' ones from boots - cue my first dalliance with thrush

Re bidets, as children in the 60s we all went with folks to a bathroom showroom after they’d decided to replace our ancient one.

There was a weird thing none of us had ever seen before.
‘It’s a bottom washer’, the saleslady explained.
Cue 4 children in absolute hysterics.

Tissues. Either in a box or, the height of sophistication, a handy andy packet.
I was sent to school with toilet roll

My dad had a Pager.
I wanted to be important enough to have a device that people could send you messages on at any time that you carried in your pocket....

Most 'conspicuous consumption' 'posh' items are the reverse! And 'posh' is not a word used by that demographic!