Being middle class based on what you own?

[BlancheBlue]

Anyone seen this "quiz" in the telegraph - aside from the fact that it is probably just to flog certain items, anyone agree with this list or come out with all of them.

Hot tubs ffs? "vulgar" no?

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/23/how-middle-class-are-you-it-depends-how-many-of-these-items-you/

I just love the stereotype of the article

The middle classes have always been known for their love of material possessions and for keeping up with their neighbours, with suburban one-upmanship taking place on a daily basis," says Hanson, author of the Bluffer's Guide to Etiquette.

“They are constantly looking for the next thing they can install, fit or mount in their homes to be a cut about those next door.”

No that is not what "middle class" do, that is what shallow people do, nothing to do with class. What a lazy piece of "journalism". I am probably within the middle class category and I couldn't give a fig about what my neighbours are doing!

I scored 2 !
have vinyl records that have somehow since they were purchased in the day when vinyl was what you bought - totally unplayable probably
I have a wood burning stove - because I actually live in a rural area - where it is an alternative to an open fire
I am probably middle class based on my previous professional job and my education level not on having a smeg fridge. So the more things you have - that makes you superior.

verbena. I did the 'posh' test too. I came out in the middle....

I swear on the holiest of holy books that I will never utter keen-wah as long as I live.

0 despite coming from an upper-middle class background.

I'm not mc and middle for posh.
I don't think it's scientific.

"alrightarekid

Haha! I noticed poppy being snobby and cringe on more than one thread also. Looks like you have two personal stalkers!"

I think you'll find the word is "snobbish".
Lol

Income is not a good indicator. Think lottery winners although their money has not been earned.

gilly

Am deffo not posh. For one thing, I would never date a man who wore red trousers....

I wouldn't know poppy wot wiv me growin up on a council estate n that. I'm just ere to clean yer chimney.

I'm not sure what the differences between middle/upper/working class are. But, I would say that it's a person with no class who speaks to or about others as though they are beneath them. It's gruesome that we seem unable to leave the class system behind.

Well I only have a bbq and a wood burning stove so I am not middle class at all according to that. Yet I am the granddaughter of doctors and the daughter of a solicitor. I was privately educated and went to a highly regarded university. I am married to a professional and have a qualified profession myself. I had always regarded myself as middle class. Not positively, not negatively, just if I were asked to place myself on the scale of working to upper class I'd have said middle.

I suppose it depends on your definition. Traditionally class was based on a patriarchal system of whose daughter you were and where their money came from. This quiz bases it on material possessions. So how are we basing social mobility? Are we considering social mobility as something linked to education and profession and the potential financial rewards that could bring or are we linking it solely to money and possessions?

Or am I overthinking a daft quiz?

Do wood burning stoves still count as a middle class thing if you only have one because you live out in the sticks and don't have gas so are rather reliant on it for water and heat? I'm not sure daily lugging of wood and coal is quite as middle class as sitting beside a nice little fire on a crisp evening with a Labrador.

alright. It's all a load of bollocks about 'aspiration'; i.e encouraging us to want unnecessary material goods so we can give ourselves a big pat on the back and feel smug. You work for a living or you sponge off your murdering, looting ancestors. The middle class is a fantasy that too many people are willing to buy into.

Or am I overthinking a daft quiz?

Very, very much so.

I got one (Mulberry bag) and I'm definitely middle class.

Not middle class on this quiz.

But apparently I'm upper class by the next 'How Posh Are You' quiz.

So Poppy, you say neither DH nor myself can ever be MC due to growing up on a council estate. Fair enough. Although Oxford then the law are fairly MC pursuits, I guess. Does that mean our children are working class too despite their parents education and professional jobs? If they are that's fine by me, I'm just curious as to the construct. I'm also wondering if the 2 brought up in The North are considered more working class than the 2 brought up in Surrey/Sussex?

And what about being brought up on the council estate by a graduate parent who stuffed the flat full of books and took her son to libraries and museums?

It all seems a bit of a nonsense to me and I've never heard anyone talk about it in RL.

Does that mean our children are working class too despite their parents education and professional jobs? If they are that's fine by me, I'm just curious as to the construct. I'm also wondering if the 2 brought up in The North are considered more working class than the 2 brought up in Surrey/Sussex?

This is an age old debate, and one to which the answer is invariably:

Who give a shit??

I'm also wondering if the 2 brought up in The North are considered more working class than the 2 brought up in Surrey/Sussex?

They do have some of those nice middle class folk up there in the north too you know.

1. I had to Google boiling water tap.

MN would consider me to be staunchly middle class. I don't do keeping up /gadgets.

Own quite a few of those things, and wouldn't say any one of them would be a good distinction of class - especially a hot tub .

I have my own class decider; if I go into someone's house and their TV is fixed to the wall, they are immediately downgraded to the chav class (joke).

Doesn't the obsession about designer brands and materialistic attitudes
relate to the 'nouveau riche' class - does that even exist any more? looking at my DB & DSIL

CopperBlue, it was, at least, Cheshire. Looking back, Cheshire was a strange mix of lots of very old money and lots of very new money so not much of a middle class at all! It was a funny old place to live.

Just done the 'Posh' Quiz - despite not being middle class I am apparently very Posh .

Ha haha ha ha.

I'm sat here in my Home Counties listed cottage with my foolishly blonde locked son, just relaxing after his preschool French class.

But I'm common as muck cos I haven't got a hot tub or a smart tv

Foolish (probably, but I was aiming for foppish!)