Things you thought were posh/exciting/unattainable as a child that are actually everyday items

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I'm just searching for scotch tape on Amazon ready for Christmas. It got me thinking how double sided sticky tape was but a dream back when I was little. Blue Peter used it all the time but it was something I'd never have. The same with play dough. I only ever had plasticine. Scotch tape was fancy too, we only ever had yellow sellotape. Ribera. I'm sure I'll think of others.

I think it was cheap, then expensive then cheap. I’ve a vague idea children in 1930s books fed it to their cats.

Lucozade. Only for when you were poorly and very special 😂

Just remembered when we got a coffee percolator and electric carving knife and were allowed coco pops and ribena after my dad got a new better paid job

Chicken in a basket. They gave you a pair of polythene gloves as you were supposed to eat it with your hands. 😂

Also Sobranie cocktail cigarettes. All in beautiful jewel colours. My mum used to buy these if she was going out to a ‘do’. I longed to be old enough to smoke them.

Haven't RTFT yet. Has anyone mentioned Ferrero Rocher?

Sadly, and to my absolute shame, an abundance of sanitary products 😔😔 I used to use my own dinner money to buy a pack of 12 towels and make them last rather than use school toilet paper stuffed in my knickers, makes me sad and embarrassed just thinking about it

@Goodgriefisitginfizzoclock
You mustn’t feel ashamed. I hope you have an abundance of everything now.

I do, but you know it’s odd, you can never escape the past, god knows I try, no matter what you achieve, I doesn’t dominate my life now, but in truth the past makes you what you are. Didn’t mean to bring post down

No! No! You haven’t @Goodgriefisitginfizzoclock
Good user name. Mine is crap. I think I’ll change it again.

Chippy tea

Eating out

Soft towels

Hairdressers

Micro chips

Branded crisps! We always had no frills

Filofax.

Bottled water, I remember Perrier being quite fancy. Fizzy water!

How I longed to be a little yuppie…

See I feel like we had ALL the stuff people coveted, I pretty much wanted for nothing and we werent rich at all but my mam worked HARD at making sure we never missed out on anything.

Endless fizzy pop and a massive cupboard or sweets/crisps we could get at any time we wanted etc... but we weren't posh we loved a good weekend tip dive lol.

I have food allergies and have never had fish in my entire life and yet for some reason I always thought (and still do) that salmon is posh... as a kid I said I would have samon at my wedding with moet because it would be the height of 'fancy'.

In the end I had a hog roast at my wedding which is probably very much the opposit (although maybe not in henry the 8ths time lol).

My Dad said Scampy was the poshest dish when he was a kid in the 50s, he said it blew his mind when a rich family member they visited served it.

I will also add not for me but I remember a history trip when they said the streets of edinburgh use to be filled with discarded oyster shells in slum areas from the poor because it was all the homeless and impoverished could afford back then.

Oysters are deemed quite fancy now.

They did! I was so used to the weight of blankets as a child - and candlewick bedspreads

This thread is making me realise how powerful advertising and consumerism is, and how it exploits particularly women's insecurity, feelings of inadequacy, guilt around children's FOMO etc. Honestly my own mother would have been far happier if she could have just laughed at all the bollocks talked by lifestyle gurus and women's magazines years ago, just cooked and baked us basic meals (she was a great cook), and saved her money instead of buying Molineux blenders, soda streams, skiploads of tupperware from pushy neighbours, grapefruit glasses, melon boats or whatever the latest must-have this-will -transform -your -life shit was. All such a waste. Women really are consumer capitalist fodder.

My parents described clothes/shoes that were not particularly practical as 'fashion clothes'/'fashion shoes' and it was only on very, very rare occasions that I was allowed them. I thought the girls at school who were allowed 'fashion' shoes and coats for school and for playing in were really posh and vowed that when I was an adult I would only every buy fashion clothes. I did have about 5 minutes of spending most of my wages on clothes but now much prefer sensible shoes and comfortable clothes.

I also haven't kept my promise to myself to have cans of proper coke in my fridge at all times and only eat cereal from those little individual packs.

Going to a friend's house as a child and seeing a glass handwash dispenser in the bathroom.
We had a bar of cracked soap on the sink.
So just the fact that they not only had liquid handwash, but a lovely glass dispenser for it elevated her to royalty in my eyes.

Does anyone remember McDonalds pizzas? Not many people seem to but they were the bomb!

They were trialled in selected restaurants, @SicParvisMagna, so a lot of people were probably never aware of them. I loved them - as a vegetarian, I could finally eat something other than just chips 🍟 in McDonalds!

I was gutted when they stopped them, but I think the Vegetable Deluxe came in not longer after that.

They were called Personal Pizzas I think.

OMG, I came here to say Chambourcy chocolate mousse! I remember that advert so well - it had a joke warning at the beginning that “the following commercial is not suitable for children”, followed by a doe-eyed woman in a little black dress wearing a pound of mascara eating a tub of it sensually. I’ve no idea if it worked as a campaign to make adults think it was a decadent treat, but the very fact that it was marketed as adults only made seven year-old me desperate for it!

I thought I was very posh when I was allowed this very fancy mousse. In reality they were probably four for 70p 😁

Haha I remember the 5p long ice pops in a blue raspberry flavour we always got them after school - sucking on plastic 😂

When I was a kid it was posh if you shopped at M&S.
My gran would take me to look but could never afford to buy except at Christmas, which I guess is why I always go to M&S at Christmas, the nostalgia.

When I was a little girl there was these patent black school shoes from Clarks called Magic Step shoes.
The best bit was the secret key, which could be inserted into a hole in the sole and turned to reveal some delightful, if completely pointless, pictures. I was so envious of the girls at school who had them! My school shoes were knock off plain pleather from the tap room down the pub!

If you got a takeaway as a kid it was posh/exciting and rare. I remember the first time my dad brought us a KFC home it was my brothers birthday and we all sat around the bucket of chicken!

A trip to Mcdonalds was a real one off treat and often only on Birthdays, not the every day occurrence it is for kids of today!

Fizzy pop, we never had it, or it was a treat if we did.

That Krusha milkshake stuff you added to milk to make it flavoured was exciting when I was a kid.

Fresh orange as a starter - our local fish and chip restaurant still offers this on the senior citizens menu!