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 )

Private school
Having a picnic in a park with chairs and outdoor games
Tennis
Champagne
Staying in 5 star hotels
Playing an instrument
Horse races
Convertible cars

Enough food in the house to be able to pick and choose how much and when you eat also inviting people over to eat. We grew up with little and every meal was accounted for.
Going out for pleasure we never had this growing up.
Heating , we had a fire in the living room with no central heating.
New clothes we lived in hand me downs.
A car and and a phone.
In light of all tha we class ourselves as very posh now 😂

A bubble bath or shower gel that costs more than £1.
Drinking Decaf tea.
My individually bought handmade Christmas baubles and woodland animals decorations. Feel like an aristocrat when I look over to my tree and see them dangling expensively( if I squint I can also pretend it's a real tree and not one from Wilko).

Buying anything from Marks and Spencer. ( forgot to put mine in)

When I was about 10 we moved house to a new town.

I went to a birthday party and I was so impressed that they had a down stairs toilet as well as one in the bathroom.

It was actually a council house.

Staircase with a gallery and stained glass window. Old fashioned built in doorbell, had these growing up. And

… when we first moved in to the house there were working bells in all the rooms including the bathroom. As they were electric my dad rapidly removed them, you can imagine the bedlam with three small girls running round ringing the bells continuously.
Also electric bell next to a bath full of water 🙄.
Never considered ourselves posh but apparently we were.

Owning serving dishes and more than one bottle of wine at a time.

I lived in the tiniest shitty bedsit for eight years before DH and I moved in together. The kitchen was basically a hob, washing machine, fridge and sink with two cupboards for storage of everything and effectively one square of counter space equivalent of the size of the cupboard top.

I couldn't host anyone so literally had two plates/bowls etc in the cupboard. No space to store so only bought wine as I drank it.

I've spent a ridiculous amount of time this Christmas feeling giddy every time I've got serving dishes out of our cupboards. It's nearly a decade since we moved and it still gives me a giddy thrill and makes me feel fancy.

Don't even get me started on my fancy glass bowl with five different types of snack that I got this year and is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen (albeit ludicrous for DH and I alone when no-one else can visit this Christmas anyway!)

Ha this was my flat. We never went on the balcony as it looked like it might fall off! It was basically where we stored things and my gran smoked.

Growing up, I always wanted these:

Stained glass window (like you get in 1930s semis)
A door bell that went “ding doooooong”
Any ice cream that was better than cheap vanilla (I don’t know why we never had a different flavour)
“Proper” fruit juice. We only had it as a starter on Christmas Day.
Any carbs that weren’t potatoes. We only had rice if we bought a Chinese, so probably 5 times in my childhood. We didn’t have pasta, couscous etc.
A VCR
A shower
Heating in the house

I also really wanted an outdoor toilet because my primary school friend had one with a candle in a jar on the windowsill! He didn’t have an indoor bathroom. I knew that wasn’t posh, though.

Asparagus and Covent garden soups instead of soup from a can!

I didn’t know it was possible to fit a dishwasher in place of a existing cupboard!

I am feeling empowered by mumsnet to go dishwasher shopping (we are lucky to now be able to easily afford one!)

Dishwasher
Doorbell
Burglar alarms
Yankee candles
Having a cleaner 😂

@AnxiousPixie

Asparagus and Covent garden soups instead of soup from a can!

Yes! This! Although I still hanker after a Tim of Heinz’s tomato soup

Having ten proper dogs. All mine. Home educating from choice as opposed to necessity. Owning two cars.
Not sure if it's posh though as for me it's just normal. Growing up posh meant having a cleaner, butler, hairdresser.

Nice loose leaf tea and not having a telly 😄

Matching heavy saucepans
Scotch tape instead of sellotape
A full wine fridge

Having a bedroom with fancy drapes over the bed.

I absolutely love having a washing machine and tumble dryer....in my childhood my mother would wash everything by hand and dry it on the line outside. Even sheets and blankets.

A duvet. We had sheets and blankets as kids (see above).

Being able to drive and have my own car. In our family, all the women never learned to drive and were dependant on their men to ferry them about. I didn't learn until I was in my 30s....oh the freedom!!

Yes to Vienatta, thought it was the height of sophistication when I was kid, and I'll add Shloer to that. We had it on Christmas day and it was a major treat.
Doesn't make me feel posh, but I feel I'm no longer poor when we have heat on in every room in the house. In my house as a kid, the heating was only put on in the sitting room, the rest of the house was freezing. Even though I try to be environmentally aware now and will put on a jumper etc, I still feel decadent when I turn on the heating.
In all other ways, I'm a product of two frugal (and yet very generous) parents and hate to waste anything.

@Tippytaps we did this when we moved into this house as there wasn't a dishwasher! Slight bodge job but easy to do and so worth it.
Even though it's slimline it's fine for our family of 4 (though I covet having a proper size one )

M&S food

I catch myself telling ds ‘it’s from marks you know’ said in a tone of voice I rarely use. Like my nanny used to

@toots111

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.

People just knocked on our door. No doorbell, no knocker and no knocking bar above the letterbox.

My friend has a boot room. Proper posh

A cooker with more than four rings.

Ooh, and a utility room! Preferably with floor to ceiling cupboards.