Lighthearted - What’s the most (stereotypically) middle class thing you’ve done/said recently?

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I’ve just re-waxed my Barbour jacket…

What about you?

Well you see, to MC people, tradesman are just manual workers, they forget they have got them in to do something they probably don't have the skill to do.

Most people on here don't even know what middle class is, ramblings about things that are actually upper class like orchards, stables and boarding school haha I even got told I can't be middle class because I had my first child at 16 apparently that dooms you to be lower class forever and no other aspect of your life can make up for it.
I've got to admit I wouldn't bother cracking out my fine coffee beans for someone who's in my house for half an hour but then I rarely bother cracking it out anyway.
Anyway I love reading these threads

There's no "probably" about it! Although a lot of tradesman could do with boning up on their supposed skills, too.

Because if he’s having to do the yuckiest job in my house he deserves the best ever coffee to make up for it?

I don’t think I have ever had a plumber here for as little as 10 minutes. Mind you the one in my old house was a falconer so he used to stay for hours telling me about the Harris hawks he reared.

It’s always the kids. My son trying to persuade me to go off-menu and have fresh burrata added to his artisanal pizza, ‘like at L’Industrie.’ Pondering whether he may have been swapped at birth. Maybe there’s a Manus somewhere out there horrifying Mummy by rolling all his Chewits into a giant ball and eating them like an apple.

I agree with a pp regarding the horse thing. I know several people who own horses. One is a gypsie and damn proud (as he should be!), one is very rich old money born, and the others just come from horsey families, but very average status. There's also a very well known council estate near me with huge gardens and one of them houses a horse. He's very friendly and always comes trotting up to say hello when I walk past. I'm envious, I'd love a horse but despite having a masters and owning several properties, I'd need to double my income to afford one!

Middle clas, me? Hmm. Vegan, love avocados but have stopped buying them due to ethical concerns. Own a huge dog who's a mutt I hand-reared after dam rejection. Rich parentage. Spinster middle-aged lesbian who demands a certain wine glass design in her local pub (I don't like modern angular designs, wine doesn't taste right out of them). Does that fit. 🤣

That's ace

And workmen all get the same coffee at our house. I do deliberately serve it in Manchester city mugs though to see if I get any complaints - mostly Man U and Liverpool fans I find

I would like to know this too! also, why we eat 'cobs' not 'rolls'.

Talking about middle class things with tradesmen - when we moved back from Copenhagen to UK , one of our removal men was a huge burly Polish guy -tats everywhere, built like a brick shit house, strong as an ox - He insisted on a constant supply of pure freshly squeezed orange juice with bits- and not just the kind in cartons- actual'squeezed in front of you stuff' I had to keep popping round the corner to the posh cafe to keep him supplied !

Somebody has been putting things in MY skip.

Paid a company to pick up my washing, clean it, iron it and deliver it back to me on the same day. Also paid to have my oven deep cleaned 😅

I’ve got M&S and Ocado tote bags that I use for shopping too. I don’t use them just for the branding though. I like them because of the material!

I bloody love Frasier. And this thread is full of exactly that type of status hungry posers!

Grand child said awyw not tinned tuna.... I like fresh tuna !!
Obvs has a high standard in regards to eating fish 😁

Oh and I own a Burberry trench and more than several Burberry scarves. Does that count? 😂

Had my builders scratch my Lusso Stone Bath.

When i opened the thread i thought to myself that im not like that, i dont think i have anything to say, but.
I restocked the logs for the log burner.
Had pomegranite with Houmus last week.
Just been on our annual skiing holiday.
DGD dosn't want to go skiing but i heard myself telling her that if she didnt ski she would be in the beginners group on the school ski trip, (in 5 years time).
Have a holiday home here and go abroad at least 3 times a year.
When people ask what my son does abroad and i have to say he is retired at 46 because he doesnt need to work.
All children were privately educated and doing well.
Ok all very pompous but being Scottish i wouldnt know what class i am because it doesnt matter.

My cat has her own savings account.

Try taking a Booths bag.

Is that instead of insurance?

Whenever I shop at Aldi or Lidl, I always take my M&S and Waitrose bags.

I'll go for the slightly faded and creased Farmfoods bag

@UnimaginableWindBird, no she has that and a vet health plan as well. When I had two cats, the other cat was on the health plan, and as I didn't need all the flea stuff. I put the mo ray the health plan would have cost, away for Penelope. And now she's an only, I've kept it going.
Penelope is a very middle class name for a cat. 🤣

I need more chocolate (from Hotel Chocolat) for the Velvetiser! I don’t like the taste of Black
Forest Gateau.

Wear your Crocs, so you don’t make your trainers muddy on your way to the court. (Not just any old trainers, but expensive netball trainers.)

@HelmholtzWatson My late uncle had a different strategy with carrier bags. He would turn them inside out, because he wasn’t going to
do their advertising for them, as a matter of principle.

I was confused why you would be wearing either crocs or trainers (expensive or otherwise) to court, but then I realised you said netball

(I'm sure you already know this but you can use any grated chocolate in the velvetiser btw, doesn't have to be from Hotel Chocolat 🍫)