What daft thing makes you feel " posh " ?

[HollyChristmas]

Is there a thing in your house , or something you've always wanted , that makes your home feel finished or

" posh " ?
For me it was going to a friends house as a child , and seeing they had a doorbell . We never had one as at my parents house , and when first married and in rented houses never had one . Once in our own home , having a doorbell makes my day ! ( Told you it was daft )

Having a shower. I never had one until a few year ago and I still get a little buzz of excitement about it.

Wall's Vienetta ice cream

Something I have never had but feel would be revolutionary in my life is a dishwasher. DH is not keen so probably won’t ever happen, but I can dream :)

I grew up poor so I used to think lots of things were posh
I’m with you on door bells
Having a porch
Having a conservatory
A landline that made outgoing calls even posher if it had an answer machine
A toaster
Cable tv
Branded cola
Andrew loo roll
Kitchen foil for your sandwiches instead of cling film

Nowadays it’s always having twinings tea, milk from the milk man, Elizabeth Arden hand soap

@Tempusfudgeit

Wall's Vienetta ice cream

Yes! The adverts growing up where Vienetta looks so elegant

Andrex *

@Tippytaps

Having a shower. I never had one until a few year ago and I still get a little buzz of excitement about it.

Yes! Same We used to have those crappy ones that attached to the taps

Definitely our shower. We rented for years and always had rubbish showers, I would dream of one day having a home with a nice shower and now we do - we moved into a newbuild show home and they had fitted the super-posh electronic one - we can control the temperature without the skills of a safe-cracker and it has this fantastic thing were you turn it on, it gives you time to close the door, then stops when it gets to temperature so you can walk straight in to a shower without it being cold at first!

I'm also rather fond of my bin and vacuum. Everyday things that work well are just a joy.

I'm with you on the door bell

Also, showers felt posh because we never had one growing up only a bath.

@Tippytaps

Something I have never had but feel would be revolutionary in my life is a dishwasher. DH is not keen so probably won’t ever happen, but I can dream :)

This too.

@PumpkinPickle22
Forgot about an answerphone ! I think the doorbell still trumps it for me.

I'm very miserly about kitchen roll. It seems such an extravagance when you could use a cloth and rinse it out. Using kitchen roll always feels posh to me.

Posh tea. We get teapigs loose leaf black tea and I had one of their advent calendars and it feels like a treat every time I have a cup. Growing up we had the cheapest, crappiest tea bags you could get.

Nuce, crusty bread or soft white bread cakes. Again, we had the stuff that looks and feels like cardboard that smelled slightly vinegary growing up. Now I actually like sandwiches and feel posh when I unwrap my fancy sarnie at lunchtime at work.

*nice

@Tippytaps

Something I have never had but feel would be revolutionary in my life is a dishwasher. DH is not keen so probably won’t ever happen, but I can dream :)

Oh trippytapps fuck getting dh permission- you're an adult and he's not the boss of you. Who does the most washing up?

Having 2 black labs.

We always had a dog growing up, but they were mongrels; hairy ragamuffins.

It always seemed that the posh people in our small rural town had multiple dogs, labs or spaniels. So when we got our second I felt I had made it 😂😂😂

Daft as with 2 labs we are always in a mess and have little money after food/ vets/ insurance etc, but they make me feel good.

Yes to a shower, a doorbell and an answerphone.
Also,
A bookcase full of books ( I now have an entire wall filled with them...hark at me!)

A dishwasher

Foreign holidays, in fact any holiday.

A selection of wines

Built in ovens didn't exist when I was young. They then became the norm and now stand alone ranges are back in fashion. My mum , in the 60s was clearly ahead of her time. I have one now, bought as it looked identical to my mum's New World range cooker.

Never had Christmas lights as a child. Only richer people did that. Waste of electricity!

Yes, not the point of the thread but tippytaps get a dishwasher. Washing up uses more water, you can create space by emptying the contents of a cupboard (even a slimline model is very useful). The contents of the cupboard can be rearranged and reset, utensils for example can live in a pot on the windowsill, cake tins can go in a box elsewhere for example. If he's not on board (sod that) then do it anyway, if you can afford it. I would rather go without a washing machine than a dishwasher. (I like the launderette and I have hand eczema so washing up and gloves are a nightmare)

Do It!

Eating avacado always feels really posh to me

@Tempusfudgeit

Wall's Vienetta ice cream

Yes!!

Eating fresh bread from an artisan baker. We only had pan or plain bread growing up. Tbh that might have been the only option back then but I feel posh when I treat myself to fresh bread in a brown bag.

Having labs and Muck boots.

We live rurally and the boots are ancient and the best money I've ever spent after years of holey wellies and blisters when taking said labs out.

And yes to Viennetta! So sophisticated!

@WhatAHexIGotInto I hope the labs have suitably posh names!

So if people didn’t have doorbells what did they have? I grew up in a council flat so definitely not posh but we had a doorbell on our flat door (it was on an open walkway - post war council block) just a door knocker? I never thought of doorbells as posh. That said, ours was one you had to wind up and we always forgot and mostly people would be banging on the door shouting.