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.

Detached houses
takeaway especially Chinese!
kickers shoes as school shoes!
anything from Next so you could have the carrier bag for your PE kit
gold taps
steak
nike trainers

A 'good' shoeshop, that wasn't Trueform. They always smelled of soft, expensive leather (not elastane coated in fungicide).

They always had Mrs Slocombe-y women working in them. I thought she was quite a faithfully rendered character, shops were full of saleswomen like that!

My mum's friend worked in a department store. Her colleague had amazing piled up hair, which was done by her hairdresser on Monday. Like Bet Lynch hair. It was kept in place all week by wearing sturdy knickers on her hairdo overnight.
This seemed very practical and sophisticated to me.

Having food at a service station. We regularly made long car journeys but it was a 'waste of money' to eat at a service station, so we were only allowed a pot of tea.

I was making a cake with brown sugar earlier and it reminded me of my mum having demerara sugar in her coffee if we went out somewhere.

The coffee was sometimes in individual filters - was it Douwe Egbert?? and it all added to the sense of occasion.

Yes to demerara sugar, and also sugar cubes were posh and only for special occasions.

And the coloured coffee sugar!

It was exciting to get pocket money once you were old enough to go to the sweet shop yourself, so you could buy all the things your mother disapproved of, like bubblegum (my mum had a mortal fear of it getting into our 'insides'), candy fags and the little chocolate paper-covered ones that came in an authentic-looking packet. And that lovely sugar-strand 'tobacco'!

I have chewed gum as long as I can remember, at least since 3-4 year old and had no idea it was deemed 'wierd' by others, its my favorite sweet even now (dont eat chocolate, cant eat a lot of other things due to an allergy although free from stuff is getting better now).

I swollowed it constantly, still do quite often and have for 30+ years and Im absoloutly fine, gum breaks down in your stomach acid like other food and it was a complete myth that it can 'clog you up', it just has zero nuritional value so couldnt be used in place of food.

My mother used to tell us that bubble gum would stick to our innards.

I knew that was rubbish,but for some reason I believed her when she told me bread crusts would make my hair curl and I avoided them like the plague.

Orange juice.And grapes- they were so expensive in the 70s!

We used to get one pot of tea with a pot of hot water and then get three cups. So my father only had to pay for one person!

We did that too. Never could get the pot to pour properly into the cup. Always went into the saucer

I was so envious of those who were able to eat

Tea in a service station! You were lucky!

Phoning somebody before 6 pm

Just thought of another one!
A video player. We didn't get one for years after everyone else. A family friend used to bring theirs round at times so we could all watch a film together!!!
I remember the day we got one. I was so excited and couldn't wait to get home from school as I knew it was being delivered!
We had a book then to log in all our recordings!!

I loved renting videos, it was an occasion.
My dad used to ring his cousin, who would call back...it was an international call. His cousin got his phone bill paid by employers, and had a company car. They were very posh indeed.

Peppers
Broccoli
Kiwi fruit
Green beans
dried pasta - spaghetti came in tins covered in tomato sauce

Any veg beyond carrots, peas and cabbage, and fruit beyond apples bananas, orange and pears basically. Oh and strawberries - we had strawberries, although they were seasonal treats only back then.

@ParsleySageRosemary i remember my grandma buying a kiwi fruit in the 1980’s and thinking it was so posh. We would cut it in half and scoop it out with a spoon. Uber posh if you put it in a fruit salad.

We used to ear kiwi fruits from egg cups with teaspoons, the height of poshness to 1989s 8 year old me.

We didn't get a Video for years, but I remember going rould to a posh friends house and being amazed that they could tape programmes even though the telly had been taken away for repairs.......it absolutely blew my mind........how could you tape without the telly!!!!!!

Gameboy
Olives
Seeing a counsellor (it indicated your parents loved you)
New coat/shoes/clothes each year
Going away anywhere
Restaurants
After school/weekend activities
Going to museums/galleries
A washing machine
A telephone
Cable television
Birthday gifts / Christmas gifts / any gifts at all
Books
Toys
Children’s bedsheets and bedroom accoutrements
Underwear that fit each year (very uncomfortable)

Did you have a kiwi spoon? I have a bright green plastic one which came free with a pack decades ago, the handle is a knife. I'm not sure I've ever eaten a kiwi with it, so I think I'll retrieve it from the odds and sods drawer and keep it with my gardening tools, it should be just the job for transplanting small seedlings.

Going to an orthodontist, I'm still not entirely clear what they do.

I didn’t but that would have been even posher!