To not actually know what social class I am?

[TheDogAteIt]

Their seems to be a lot of middle class vs working class vs chav etc on AIBU. So what criteria do you need to fill in order to be in one of these?

Maybe all the knowledgable MN's out there can help, so I can behave accordingly?

Education - Uni
Job - Public sector worker (wage £23000 pa)
Married - Yes
Child - One
Age I became a mother - Mid-twenties
BF? - Was crap at it, gave up at 6 weeks
Home - Average 3 bed semi (owned) in non-posh, non-rough area

Other suggestions for class criteria welcomed

i think you fall under the catagory of chav. you obviously give your children fruitshoots.

You are worrying about class, therefore you are middle class.

Try this...

blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/lucyjones/100008383/this-is-the-only-posh-test-you-need-to-take/

I think I might be declaring my social class - can someone tell me what's wrong with fruit shoots?

Middle class.

Anyone who owns a house and has a car and has been Uni is middle class in my view, especially if they go on holidays ever year.

I consider myself working class
Rented flat.
Public transport.
No holidays.
Collage education.
DF getting £23k me in limbo.

It is a MN thing -you have to detest fruitshoots because they are full of rubbish and a certain underclass prefer them as a child's drink.

Textbook working class.

I don't recognise class so I couldn't tell you.

I would have said that since you went to university, you're middle class, but as you called it uni, definitely working class.

What underclass, the fact they have the word fruit in them means they are only attractive to those with a passive interest in seeming to be healthy (I.E the middle classes) all us poor people don't care, we will be dead in a gutter before we hit 65 anyway so might as well stick to the Panda pops until you are able to start drinking real drinks (and then it's used for the mixers).

My dad always insisted he's working class, despite being a director in a large national firm and living in a massive house, so I must be part of the underclass based on this!

I am

Professional job earning just shy of £70K
2 degrees
Owns own home and buy to let
Owned holiday home in France (before selling it as never actually went to France ever)
Shops in Waitrose
Well spoken and well groomed

EMPHATICALLY working class and somewhat to the left of Keir Hardie.

whatever class you are - you're aspirational, hence the post (I suspect working class but you want to be told you're middle class)

This hang up on class is tedious. You are just as likely to find lovely kind well mannered working class people as you are a sociopath upper class murder and vice versa. We should jugde people on who they are not on some outdated pointless class system.

I give my DCV fruitshoots as a treat,

I clearly need to get on Jk!

OP - you are middle class. You are educated and own a house, there's no other possibility.

GetOrf - you are also middle class.

I don't think so chandellina

I would say that class is about upbringing. Come from solid working class background, so working class I am.

Just because I am successful doesn't mean I am middle class - i am rather nouveau riche or working class made good.

Plus, I still get excited when the Argos catalogue come out. I think that makes me working class by default

GOML, it is very middle class to pretend you are working class

Since I was a small child, my aspiration was to move from Lower Middle Class to Middle Middle Class.

As we now have a relatively biggish house, a battered old estate car and absolutely no money, DH has says that we must be nearer to Upper Class.

strandedpolarbear you are the underclass as the daily mail would say, or working class as any normal person who is not arrogant and elitist.

GetOrfMoiLand
You are higher middleclass/nouveau riche.

I think I am upper working class, dahling.

Ah, thanks for clearing that up for me!

I've decided I must be working class as DD took a swig of some other kids fruit shoot the other day and I didn't care!

Ah, you must have mayonnaise on your chips then, not salad cream, GOML.

owning a home dousnt make you middle class esp if you of a certain generation.

class is much deeper than that. a university education also dousnt make you middle class.