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!

We had builders doing some work in the garden in the Spring. They had about 6 cups of tea a day with 2/3 and in one case 4 sugars in every one! Every break they had also involved a fag and when it was even remotely warm it was tops off and swigging beer! That’s what I would say is perfect working class!

Of course she did. She was the Queen!!!

I gave stemless, very light and slightly curved wine glasses I bought in Waitrose. They’re cool.

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I think that any professional job is middle class…. So teaching as a profession certainly counts as that!

You need a post-graduate qualification to teach, so how can you categorise that as ‘working class?’

Those ceiling pulley things are very 'pit village' definitely not MC associations IMO

Draping laundry over bannisters to dry inside slowly doesn’t seem very MC, either…..

I think perhaps I am perhaps the only person in the world who cannot stand the smell or feel of air dried laundry. I detest it with a passion and still remember trying to fall asleep with the smell or line dried bedsheets when I was a little child. I hated the smell so much I would beg my mum to re wash them and put them in the tumble dryer no matter how hot the day was. And don't even get me started on line dried towels. They're like sandpaper. Who wants that!?!

A big class thing for me is paying for things, I have noticed that WC people will pay for their friend within reason , MC people won't

Me. I like rough towels they feel stimulating. Sounds like you have very heightened sense of smell.

This response clearly making a point about outside drying therefore the quote is besides the point!

Wouldn’t it make your house smell of damp clothes too? A friend used to have clothes drying over radiators and the house smelled.

Yes, it would! I don’t understand why it’s supposed to be a good thing.

Middle class dryer user here - at least in bad weather. If it’s sunny, I line dry in good weather.

In our house all clothes and linen are dried on a line outside, placed on the AGA overnight or hung to dry in the laundry room. No need to have clothes hanging all over the house.

I like how you slipped in the aga.

I smiled at that too.
I was recounting my memories of childhood to my OH ( who is much posher than m).
I grew up in a poverty striken council scheme and it was grim.
OH said " Oh we were poor too, the housekeeper would have us children sit around the AGA to keep warm"
I still tease him for that.

speakout I had an aunt, DM’s sister, from working class family. Some time just after WW11 said aunt was crying because she and her husband were down to their last £600. This was while the younger siblings were struggling to afford food.

Lovely to have a laundry room and an Aga.

Really you should never fill any wine glass to the top! For optimum taste, fill to the point where the glass is at its maximum diameter. Usually this is about a third of the glass.

Ive always had sugar in tea but my parents and sister don't, does that make me the lone working class person in my family? Also my parents had a tumble drier when I was a kid but not now. I have a washer dryer now though

Whereas tumble driers leave that smell you get in charity shops on clothes, line, air dried don't have that fustyness

Add in sky television, men wearing those awful skinny jeans like Katie Price boyfriends, white cars, mirrored furniture , walking around town with a sweetened coffee with those domed plastic tops and a straw, the list goes on.

My tumble dryer doesn’t smell like a charity shop. It smells clean.

No they don’t! You must have an old or dysfunctional dryer.

Leaving clothes to dry inside certainly makes them smell like they’re from a charity shop. And creates damp.

Sugar in tea/coffee was a given. I eventually stopped and now prefer the different taste; it's a different drink, that's all.
Tumble dryer, really? About 40 years ago we camped in a French travellers camp site. One caravan had a utility trailer attached - washing machine, tumble dryer and a dishwasher.
Now glasses, cutlery, plates are upbringing but NOTHING to do with class, not even anything to do with aspiration either.