To ask what makes you working class? (Lighthearted)

[MissAlabamaWhitman]

So, the whole 'what makes you middle class' has been done to death hasn't it?

We're all pretty au fair with avocados, elephants sodding breath, the ubiquity of joules et cetera.
And lovely as it is to have such knowledge of the middle classes, none of it applies to me.

I'm working class and I'll explIn to you that which denotes this in just a minute.

Incidentally I heard that there's a few of us about so perhaps we can make our own list of our very own class signifiers.

Who's in?

I shall go first.....

Love of charity shops, this week I picked up a leather Hobbs bag for 3.99 and a couple of Abercrombie & Fitch tops for DD1 1.49 each!

Love of Iceland/Heron foods/Home bargains/B&M. Yes I know I could get everything I need in Sainsbury's but I actually prefer scrabbling around for bargains and topping up at Lidl.

Chardonnay. I love it, tastes fab. I can't be arsed to pretend that I prefer a Beaujolais or Cab Sav. I don't.

One bathroom/toilet in a five bed house.

Regional accent which I take pleasure in.

Children who play football and wear replica kits whilst doing so

Girls who wear pinkI draw the line at bloody Jojo bows though

Getting drunk at barbecues and performing impromptu Karaoke.

Allowing my children to 'play out' in the cul de sac from age seven.

Cleaning my own house.

Holidays at Center Parcs rather than overseas.

Owning a Huskita

Letting my children watch TV and eat crisps in full view of other parents.

Having a 'pop man'

Listening to LBC rather than R4

Not really giving a fuck about trans, one way or the other.

I'm sure there's lots more besides which I'll try to remember.
How about you?
What makes you sit back at the end of a hard day and think 'yep I'm a fully paid up member of the old working classes?'

We are working class.

I'm a TA and Dh is a plumber. You can be WC and enjoy all kinds of things; even Waitrose, avocado and wine.

I know it's a light hearted thread.

Another one for breakfast, dinner and tea
I like shopping in b and m and the range.

To add to theredknights list:
Clean kids with brushed hair
Kids dressed better than mum

Charity shops are quite middle class- catalogues for the WC- on the never never.

A chip pan. Snakebites and black.

Chardonnay still counted as wine last time I checked Sandiego

I was born into a very middle class family, privately educated, nanny's/au pairs blah blah blah

Now I think others whom I don't know view me as working class. I'll explain why..

I don't look middle class. I'm not thin. I'm short, curvy all boobs and bum to be honest. I wear quite a bit of make up, fake tan and nails. I was raised middle class but have a London accent as I'm a born and bred Londoner.

I find most middle class women are slim and don't wear a lot of make up and also wear rather plain clothes.

I feel many middle class people view me as chavvy and would imagine my background to be very different to what it actually was.

When I started uni, a very "rah" type girl asked me about what school I had attended. When I told her she said incredulously "YOU went to private school"!

A chip pan?!?

Sorry mate, we're discussing the WC not the seventies.

We do our chips in the actifryer these days. Do keep up.

Butlins is bloody expensive. My wc ass can rarely afford it

Ah yes former but the word 'whom' gives you away

Heron foods is nasty

How is going to centre parcs working class ffs.

Always thought I was working class, but reading this maybe not. Don't really identify with the middle class thread either though! WHO AM I! WHAT AM I!!

The only things I can jump on board with are not giving a hoot about gender politics, one way or another, and shopping for household bits and home bargains. But that's just good sense!

Ain't nothin nasty about eight mini magnums for two quid!

Yeah but I was too busy applying fake tan to concentrate at school!

Anyway, my point is I think there is a middle class 'look' and a working class 'look'. I am the latter!

Hehe former

Nothing will part me from my giant hoop earrings

Letting my kids swig out of Coke cans in the street if we're out and about?

(Once in a blue moon because I don't want their teeth to rot!)

WC go to caravan parks not centre parks!!
WC London also like a bit of bling, have photos of children on the walls, like pie and mash or a carvery.
We also pierce our children's ears and put them in kickers for school.

Oh interesting theory former

I'm slim and porcelain skinned but obviously very WC.

Lots of my WC friends have lip fillers and Botox though now that your local beautician/hairdresser/cabin crew will limmobilise your face/reinflate your lips for eighty quid

I've also started shopping at Iceland! It's surprisingly good.

Names are also a massive class indicator.

Think Horatio v. Jayden

takes the attention away from me swigging out of can of white lightning

I make and eat instant noodles in a cup

I have my tea on a cushion on my knee

We don't have a dining table

I'm often seen in gymwear despite never setting foot in a gym

I'm very close to 40 and still wear trainers

I DO care about the gender debate, ime the posher the person the more liberal they desperately want to appear, s'cool innit

I call people I don't know and will never see again "mate"

I know, I know it's offending some MC sensibilities that we've taken to descending upon center parcs.

But we have, lots of us actually.

I've been six times since 2013.

I heard somewhere that if you need to set an alarm to get up and earn a living then you're working class. Massive generalisation there but I like to think that those swanning about believing they are middle class.. actually aren't.
Upper class to me - royal family and aristocracy
Middle class - top lawyers, doctors, CEOs etc
Working class - the rest of us

Since when haven't doctors lawyers and ceos not had to use an alarm clock