Being middle class based on what you own?

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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 got 4 so I am not middle class.

However

1. the Dyson was an hand-me-down and is totally unreliable. We are thinking of replacing it with a Miele.

1. Lots of vinyl bcause I am old enough to have bought it when it was the only option.

1. We have a tiny portable 8 year old BBQ.

We do though have Bromptons because we live in central London and so bought them through work schemes. Great, but we would not have them if we lived elsewhere.

(DS borrowed mine for his summer internship in South Wales, once he realised buses outside London are expensive and infrequent, and had local kids jeering at him for riding a kid's bike.)

But we are middle class. Definately. Just the sort of middle class who bankrupt themselves to pay London mortgages and private school fees and so shop in Lidl and TKMaxx, stay in gites and don't buy things we don't need.

navyandwhite seven TVs? Do you have a mansion?

Yes Navy yes I am

anyway, what exactly is a smart tv?

mine has built in freeview - is it smart?

My mum got 10. She finally did it, she'll be pleased.
Her fridge and Hoover are posher than a smeg or dyson though

Seriously? A test of middle classness that doesn't include Le Creuset cookware, Emma Bridgewater mugs, Hunter wellies or Kath Kidston oven gloves?

6 for me. A bit silly, especially the BBQ, coasters and hot tub.

day I think it means a TV that your broadband connects to so you can watch iplayer etc on it

It's le chameau wellingtons not hunters

liiinoo Ah hunter wellies are not the exclusive middle class item they once were you know

Only 6 out of the list but "solidly middle class" yeah, right.

Agree this is really a test of how acquisitive you are not how MC. The musical instrument, hardback book, etc etc a much better idea Jasper

Oh thanks. I think we may have a smart tv. I never watch it though. I don't even know how to turn it on, there are too many controls

Now I do have le cham wellies

Smart TV they're all 'smart' now, aren't they?
BBQ doesn't everyone?
Vinyl no, I'm under 50
Nutribullet wtf is that?
Spiralizer wtf is that?
Matching Coasters matching what? Each other? The place mats? The curtains?
Aga no, more trouble than they're worth
Brompton Bike no, I have room for a real pashley bike

I wonder how much they charged those brands to be in their quiz? (As there are plenty of excellent brands also very popular with more affluent consumers). Perhaps the torygraph is struggling financially again.

How about original Hunters bought in the 1970s that are still going (albeit with one buckle missing)? That's what my (super-MC) DM wears HUNTER CACHET these wannabe Hunter upstarts huh

All those posters on here saying they're solidly middle class. How do you know? I mean, what makes you certain of that? That's not a goady question, it just baffles me as, despite being English, I can't get my head around the whole thing. Is it wealth? Level of education or just that you feel MC?

Thanks for the info on smart TVs, turns out that mine is decidedly thick!

Do people equate class with being better, more superior than others.

No class is better than any other. Working Class people are just as important as Middle/upper etc, I dont see why its significant what class people are especially as there is no link between finances, You can be a working class millionaire or a high class pauper...lol

The only people obsessed with class are those without any.

And William Hanson goes straight to the top of that list!

I got 4, I have a Spiralizer because it got given to me by my mother when she moved in a rest home and I've got matching coasters but they've been used about once in the 10 years I've had them...

Oh well I am probably working class anyway

I scored a whole 1. My Samsonite is from 1998, built like a warhorse

The name of Smeg fridges just make me think of Red Dwarf! I'd like to own one for that reason alone. But we rent and the white goods come with the house, so hey ho.

I have a cutglass accent and live in Spain - who knows wtf class i am. And i don't care so nerr.

Propertyquandry - i think it's a mumsnet thing! This is the only place I've ever known anyone talk about class and declare themselves MC. It's so odd.

You just know. But there are a gazillion different sorts of middle class, so being middle class doesn't actually mean you have all that much in common with people from a different middle class tribe. I'm from the urban culture vulture tribe so horsey country types are a bit of a mystery to me, although I'm comfortable with rural hippies who spin their own wool.

Thinking about it, it's probably all more or less meaningless now that it's not unusual for working class people to go to university?

I would assume you would need a big kitchen and probably stone floors to have an aga, but then they're not a million miles away from the old stoves that used to be present in old terraced cottages?

They sell vinyl in Sainsbury's now, but I don't know what that says about it.

I think the distinction is easy - is John Lewis normal or posh? If you think it's normal, you're middle class. If you think it's posh, you're working class.

Maybe matching coasters are working class because the middle classes have all those artfully mismatched faux vintage ones?