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?

@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.

Yes ! Me too.

Ribeana. The wealthy kids used it drink it back in the day. We had water or maybe cheap versions. It’s not quite the same now...

I thought the Waldorf was a bit shit. Very busy, horrid metal dishes, staff weren’t anything special.

@Mn753

Cake forks are posh

Definitely not posh, I have some from Ikea and love them. 'My kids use them when they eat cakes, but we are really not in any way posh

Chambourcy chocolate mousse

Doorbells. I thought anyone with a working doorbell was very posh. Also, another vote for Ribena here. And proper Crayola crayons.

This will sound nuts, when I was a child I thought all English people were posh

So much!
As a child/teen
Having more than two TV Chanel's, having a second toilet/bathroom, American teens with phones in bedrooms, central heating, drinking out of glasses.
As an adult, having a selection of alcohol in the house all year around and not just Christmas, having a credit card and regular hairdresser and beautician appt.

Volunteering at our local theatre.
Horse riding.
Am.Dram.
The school coach (bus) home.
My mother insisted I take part because we’d moved from the inner city to a semi rural village.
She was over compensating for her own mother’s lack of involvement and encouragement in her own life.
Mum read Archeology and Anthropology at Lucy Cavendish 10years ago. She was a contestant on University Challenge.
Let’s aspire to be better rather than posh which seems to equate to ‘ how the other half lives’.

The Royal Enclosure at Ascot.

First Class on British Airways.

Laduree macarons were everything I’d dreamed they’d be though.

Going skiing.

I grew up in South Africa, and British chocolates were posh. I thought Maltesers were the height of sophistication, and saved my pocket money for them (they are way too sweet for me now).

Jacuzzi baths
Ensuite bathrooms
Water beds
Mercedes
Cut crystal

Having your takeaway delivered - considered the height of decadence. I never had a takeaway delivered until after I'd left home, and it felt like a great novelty. Even now DF would sooner spend £2 on petrol than a £1 delivery fee.

Clothes with very large designer labels splashed up them

Cocaine - according to DF, it was a sign you have too much money

Wearing less than 3 jumpers indoors in midwinter (i.e. putting the sodding heating on)

Oh ive thought of another! Going in a taxi

Eating out because it was expensive when i was young; coffee in a cafetière always looked very sophisticated; olives and extra virgin olive oil because of the associations with foreign travel; years ago dishwashers cost a ton of money to use = posh!

Oooh I grew up pretty poor so have loads of these!!

Holidays to Spain
Home bars/hot tubs
Landrovers (unless you’re actually working land)
American fridge freezers
Prosecco
Skiing (I mean it can be posh but it’s also cold and shit)
Fancy nails
Bottomless brunch
Sainsbury’s
Chinese takeaways

@rjacksmiss

Macarons

Not to be confused with macaroons, which are Scottish, coconutty and not posh. May have made that mistake in a posh place once...

Plain rather than patterned carpet was posh. (Hard to imagine now but back in the day most if not all carpets were patterned in the downstairs living areas to hide the dirt, I believe.)

School friends who went to proper hairdressing salons rather than having a mobile hairdresser or their mum doing it (badly. Nothing against a mum cut but not if they are shit with scissors).

Paper umbrellas in drinks.

Having a little tray near the front door for keys and spare change instead of dumping it all on the side.

Next was considered rather posh when I was a wee girl. A local beauty got into modelling and ended up in the Next catalogue, yep the one you had to pay for, and our town lost its mind over it. Next was true accolade. Funny because it’s a polyester shitshow now.

Going on holiday abroad
Pure orange juice
Shopping in marks and Spencer
Carpet that went all the way to the walls

when I was at school friend had two balconies on her council flat. We though that was the height of posh and called her "two balconies Tina."

Shrimp cocktail

(I am American).

Soft toilet roll.

Don't ask.

A dishwasher
Foreign holiday
More than one kind of spoon eg soup spoons and dessert spoons
Napkins
Napkin ring
Platters
Cold meats
Being offered an aperitif on arrival at a restaurant. (I declined not knowing what it was...thought it was an olive)

We weren’t poor by any stretch but these things were always a marvel to me 😆😆😆...

After 8 Mints
Electric windows
Haagen Dazs
Floating candles
Leather sofas
Corner baths 🤣
Debenhams

When we were small my mum used to say if her Premium Bond came up she would buy us nice knickers from Marks and Spencers!

I had a school friend who was well posh. Her house had a shower, a proper one not just rubber tubes on the taps and a microwave!! I had never seen one before.