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.

Orange juice, the real stuff not concentrate. Mcdonalds, they just couldn't justify the price for 1 evening meal as we were a family of 6.Napkins, we used to make them out of kitchen roll.

I buy paper napkins from IKEA but prefer to use cloth ones and wash them. Orange juice is as much a staple in my house as eggs. Mcdonalds is still a treat but once a month as opposed to 2-3 times a year.

We were sent to the icecream van with a glass bowl, it then had to be eaten straight away as there was no fridge at my Aunt's house. The drivers seemed to time their runs to be around at about teatime on Sunday!
Reminds me that we would also take a glass bowl to the chip shop if we were getting steak pudding and chips with gravy, no styrofoam trays in those days. I am now drooling for 'babby's 'ed and chips' as my Dad called pudding and chips!

Not too long ago, I thought I was super sophisticated for having ground coffee and a cafetière

Now it seems so normal.

When i was a kid, ground coffee seemed old fashioned. Only my Grannie had a coffee machine and we had a jar of granules at home

Vignette too. We'd get one and my mum would cut into 6 slices. It was a rare treat. I've had it since and not enjoyed it as much.

Vienetta even

But we used dishwashing liquid instead of shampoo

still better than vosene or head and shoulders

My pants were always M and S because a local mill made them and we could get 8 pairs for £1!
In the 60s I thought that going into Kendal Milne in Manchester as seriously posh, when I plucked up courage to go in during the late 70s and 80s I was so disappointed,

Not too long ago, I thought I was super sophisticated for having ground coffee and a cafetière

we used to have a percolator, I loved the coffee from that, then my parents got a filter machine, it was never as nice tasting for some reason

Taking a taxi. We never, ever travelled by taxi because we lived in the middle of nowhere and my parents weren't big drinkers, so I grew up thinking that getting a cab was the height of luxury and sophistication. I remember my heavily pregnant auntie getting one back home after we'd been shopping and thought she must be very posh indeed! Even now, it feels quite decadent.

And they were called Continental Quilts!

This more than anything else really puzzles my grandchildren, the fact that we could run ours lives without a phone! I recall arranging with a friend to call a phone box near her home from a phone box near me when we needed to arrange something. My future OH and I would make a specific arrangement at 7pm on Friday night from one call box to another if we were not at College.

Oh yes! I thought pizzaexpress was sophisticated when i was -18

Going out for a meal or getting a takeaway. Even as an adult living at home, I'd feel weird getting a takeaway or asking my mum if she wanted to go halves on one. It's like I knew she'd say no so I didn't ask because I didn't want the disappointment.

a pizza with the works on it.
a convertible car

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Quite a few reported sightings this millennium then.... funny! Love the OJ propaganda via Neighbours too!

My late OH shared Bill Bryson's opinion about holiday places to visit, the best ones were educational and free!

ribena
lucozade in a crackly plastic wrapper
smoked salmon /avocados
after eights /ferro rocher / box of orange and lemon segment jelly sweet in sugar
arctic roll
mint choc chip ice cream

Spaghetti bolognese with Parmesan cheese was the height of sophistication in the East Midlands in the mid-seventies 😃

I still have a grapefruit knife, a hostess trolley and electric percolators. All these things have a purpose. Warming drawers are all very well but if you want to serve a large supper party you need a bit more help keeping things hot. Same with bean to cup coffee machines. Rubbish for doing coffee after dinner. The first person is served twenty minutes before the last!

Staying in a hotel. In my head all
hotels were like being in home alone 🤣

going to restaurants or eating out, first time I went to pizza hut, I thought i was incredibly sophisticated. I spent the whole week beforehand telling everyone at school that i’m going for a meal to a resturant.

Prawn cocktail 😂

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I use a percolator now 🤣

Oh yes, apologies if this has already been mentioned but soft loo paper was seen as a bit louche in our household 😁. We had to endure the utilitarian boxes of small square paper sheets that had the texture of baking parchment. 😃

Clothes from M&S and Next, the Next Directory was quite posh