To feel "posh"

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Have recently bought my DC towelling shorts from Boden for our holiday.. I feel like a bit of a posho which is weird, I know 😂

So what I want to know is, what thing did you buy for your children that made you feel "posh" or even, what have you bought your DC that your parents would have never dreamed of buying for you?

Lighthearted.

Being posh has nothing to do with money. Tamara Ecclestone is not posh. A broke Prince Harry will forever be posh

Sure but would a broke Prince Harry, doing his own shopping at Waitrose and wandering into Boden to pick up some bits for Archie without having to look at the price tags feel posh? Almost certainly not. This thread is about things that might make you feel posh, like getting a treat that you wouldn't have been able to dream of as a child.

@Straighttalking1

Buying my children clothes. My mother was a good sewer and usedto make our clothes bcos she cldnt afford shop bought.

It probably costs more to make your own now!

for many people, Jordan is posh too, does it make them right?

Love the bookshop then decamp to coffeeshop idea, it must be such a relaxing thing to look forward too. I too will be stealing this, OP!

I don't know why you've attracted some of the more bilious/snobby wannabes onto your thread but, that joyful first post has obviously cut them to the quick and, to paraphrase one of them, 'if you have to get pleasure from putting others down then you're a bit sad and should be focusing on working on that'.

Had to spend some time at Chatsworth during their Annual Country Fair. I don't judge but saw a happy couple pushing a pram around one of the craft marquees with the two adults and baby, all three of whom were wearing matching bright mustard tweed cloth clothing, three piece suits though the baby might have been slumming it in a two-piece. I looked down and the labrador had a coat/cape in matching cloth. It was very hot. They seemed very happy. They weren't the only family in matching new tweeds and stopped to talk to some of the other tweed uniformed.

I did feel posh the first time I ordered from boden (I love their jersey dresses!) Also getting those food boxes from HelloFresh and similar.

"I felt very posh the first time I shopped for myself and bought Hellman's mayonnaise. We had salad cream at home."

They are different things though aren't they?

@BeanyBops

My kid got a ride on one of those kiddy rides you get at shopping centres the other day. Two rides, in fact!! Super posh.

I still remember the first time I had the money spare that I could afford to let my DC ride one of those. Until that day they had been able to sit on them but I couldn't afford to activate them. I used to tell them they only worked if it was your birthday! On the same shopping trip I was able to buy them a brand new Pingu DVD. Until then we had to rent them form the library or buy them second hand.

We are pretty well off now (due to DH's hard work and good career) but when the D.C. were little we were skint and went without so much so I could be a SAHM. It was worth every penny and sacrifice and remembering the day I could afford that 40p for the ride is such a wonderful memory.

One of the things my husband insists on is if we are out for the day and stop for a drink in a pub the children get a drink (lemonade/coke etc) even if we have a bottle of squash. He hates in his childhood that his mum and dad would get a cold beer and he and his siblings would have warm squash.

When I buy cheese from the market instead of the supermarket with the little wax round it!

Also when I put crisps in a bowl instead of eating from the packet I feel quite fancy.

A very long time ago, (2001), I got DD a fairly cheap reconditioned second hand laptop. Apparently this made her posh, despite me being a single parent and she having started in the sixth form at the local and very snobbish girls’ grammar school, to which she hadn’t wanted to go but had to because of an A level subject clash.

My husband bought me a real gold tennis bracelet and necklace for my birthday. I'm 31 and I've never had real jewellery before, I could get used to it

@Meatshake

Sainsbury's uniform instead of George 🤣🤣

When my DD was little I bought her a beautiful dark red wool duffle coat from Laura Ashley. Think it was around £60 at the time which was way over my budget and this was in about 1998 but I couldn't resist it. Proper Paddington Bear style. It was styled to reach mid calf. Ended up fitting her for several winters although got shorter and shorter! Passed down to her cousin after so didn't regret buying it. Laura Ashley was considered posh for me at the time!

@waitingpatientlyforspring
I can see the point of that..it felt extravagant to us last night because we had burger and chips on the sea front then went straight to get a nice ice cream or milkshake, we haven't got much money but it was nice to say yea get what you want

When we were dating, it took DH ages to feel comfortable about buying lunch out in a café and he was really uptight about the cost of it as when he was young, his family would never buy food on a day out. My PILs still don't - it's always a flask and packed sandwiches etc. We often take our own food on days out too but sometimes it's just nice to buy something instead! I remember I once suggested that DH and I went to the John Lewis café for lunch early on in our relationship and he said he felt super posh doing that. It was just my nearest department store growing up so I didn't see it as a massive deal.

For me I felt very posh the first few times I did a week's shop in Waitrose. I can't afford to do it every week but I do every few weeks now and the excitement hasn't quite worn off

Yes to Boden clothing for the DCs. Again we have more money now and it isn't such a big deal but at first it was very exciting.

Oh, and DH and I went on a minibreak to Burnham Market in Norfolk when we were first married. We were very young and didn't have a lot of money and that felt VERY posh.

My Aga is four oven, battered and dates from 1968. This is game set and match on the poshness league table. Increasingly environmentally iffy to run though which is not posh.

First class flying

Ex MIL told me once that my DC were swearing when they were playing out with exes SDC. Apparently she knew it was my dc not the others because they swore "poshly"

I’ve just bought a few bits for myself from St Berts- they’re like Boden towelling kids clothes, but for adults. Takes me right back to my 70s childhood!

My ‘posh’ moment was when I discovered those checked White Company pyjama bottoms for children, with a plain t-shirt. Bought those every year (in the sale) after that.

Oh I used to love a Boden towelling item! Sadly my daughter is now sixteen and won’t comply!

A car! Ok so it's a 10 year old, high mileage runaround, but so glad that we were able to do it

Private education. I just went on holiday to a place my son has been nearly every year with a mate - staying free in their family villa. Never realised how posh it was there. He’s a lucky boy.

@MySecretHistory

Anyone who uses the word posh is not. You are safe. Enjoy your shorts (look at Vilebrequin or Orlebar Brown for posh)

'Ridiculously expensive' is not the same as 'posh.

I bought my kids second hand clothes from eBay and I felt really middle class. It was something only the 'posh' parents did when I was at school and all the WC like us bought new (usually with a huge logo conspicuously emblazoned on the front) and took the piss out of the second hand buyers. When my Mum asked where the new clothes had come from I told her and she looked quite horrified and my dad said 'you never wore second hand clothes!'. It was a definite moment of separation from my childhood. See also taking my kids camping.