To think working class shows?

[MrsBonnie]

I work in a lovely school where they’ve all had very different upbringings to me. Very much working class here. Sometimes I think it shows with little things I’ve noticed.

Having sugar in tea, using a tumble drier, not having a cleaner, using the wrong glasses for different drinks (I.E using the same one for everything!)… what else am I missing that excludes me from the club 😂 sometimes I will mention something like the above and get “oh I never use a tumble drier” … then I just think oops have I said something weird there?

Sometimes I think they’re judging me with things I say and do but I hope not! I grew up being homeless at a certain point, council houses, single teen (but amazing) mum, a very specific type of circle. I feel like Mum did everything she could to get us out of that way of life, but I can’t help but feel I don’t belong sometimes. Or that I stick out like a sore thumb. Am I being daft? Imposter syndrome a little bit!

Wondering if I should report someone hiding under the bridge… 🤔

I think you are reading to much into things

Is it to do with the types of clothing that can/cannot go in the tumble dryer? So the cashmere, silk, (etc) and dry-clean-only wearing middle classes would not be able to use the tumble dryer for much of their clothing and thus don’t bother having/using one.

I do have a tumble dryer but tend to hang my stuff up in the utility room or airing cupboard (or on a clothes horse in my room!) Always tumble dry towels though.

You're an enigma 😂

In the nicest possible way obviously 😂

What do you mean by "working class"?

How is a "graduate in a legal profession" " working class"? Unless you mean anyone who is in paid employment is "working class"?

Is this inverted snobbery?

It does show, the way you speak, the way you hold your knife and fork and so on.
It really shows when people pretend to be a higher class than they are and speak with a rather strange fake accent so please don't even consider doing that.
It's better to be your true authentic self and be liked for who you are.

Those of you who think that tumble dryers are a sign of being MC / WC - what's your position on a Lakeland heated clothes rail?!

I once bought sour dough crumpets by mistake, where do they fit in?

Surely this is not how people think?

I struggled to get my head around the post @MrsBonnie .

You've not made it clear if the list of behaviour is working class or middle class.

I would say that having sugar in tea is WC.

Tumble dryers are MC because as we all know, WC people hang out their washing across the road, back yard to back yard.

Yes?

Or are you just having some kind of laugh here and it's all a bit made up?

2 thoughts on this ;

1. MC likely to have bigger house you can afford to heat and ventilate so not having a tumble drier doesn't means clothes all over radiators/ furniture
2. More money= more clothes so ability to wait for the sun to come out or the wind to blow.

For me both a heated rail and a tumble drier suggest a need to get clothes " through" and ready to wear again in 24 hours (or even overnight)

I have a currently non-working tumble dryer in the garage, make of that what you will! It's Miele though, do I get more points?

What on earth are you talking about? The only person who uses different glasses for basic drinks is the Queen and maybe some weirdly aspirational types who've made up some rules.

The only thing that sticks out is you massively overthinking this.

It's just mumsnet nonsense everyone insists they are working classs and are very proud of their working class roots blah ,blah ,despite having a very middle class life style .

All we need to make this peak MN is someone speculating on if Meghan Markle has a dryer.

I’m a teacher too. From a working class background. My mum and sister think I’m push for having a ‘proper’ job 🤣

I kind of agree with the sugar in tea thing.

But I'm solidly middle class and amongst my friends and acquaintances it's pretty unusual for people to have a cleaner tbh. To my mind that's straying into upper middle class territory.

*posh

What about tellys in the bedroom? Im wc and they were never a thing. Even now none of my friends up north or extended family have them outside of the living room. However, all my work friends in London do. And they are what you would traditionally call mc doctors etc.

Just pleased you’re not working anywhere near my children.

I love my tumble dryer. I use it when it's too wet or cold to dry washing outside. To me, it makes sense to have one.
But I've no idea what 'class' I am 🤷‍♀️

Sourdough crumpets belong in the bin whatever class you are.They should only be sold in Brighton.

I'll go first 😅She's American, so classes don't apply to her. I bet she has the dryer, but uses it for some stuff like towels, kids' clothes, not for merino wool, cashmere, silk etc.

Totally agree, as a Boltonian I felt like setting fire to the Warby's factory, it was an error never to be repeated!

My DM was a combination of working/middle class, she used a tumble drier!

My DF was working class, council estate but 'made good'. You could probably tell by his accent (West London, Hammersmith) that he was working class but he tried to refine it a bit.

Stepdad is from a working class Irish (Southern) background but has cultivated his accent so it's hardly there at all, that, with an art college and museum background for work means he was/is taken for middle class.

I grew up and went to combination of private and non private schools but I 'talked posh' at the private school, to fit in. Ex boyfriend of mine years ago was from an army background, went to private boarding school where he lost his Hampshire accent to get a posh one at 11, to fit in. But was working class, lower middle before.

Struggling to understand about the glasses. How many different kinds of drinks do you have in a school?
At home we have wine glasses and tumblers for everything else, which I'd say was normal and not indicative of class. DH has a branded beer tankard he likes to use sometimes.
And I'm assuming that the school staff room does not encourage wine drinking on a regular basis!