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To feel "posh"

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leopardprintpants · 22/07/2021 19:48

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.

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GreyhoundG1rl · 23/07/2021 19:33

Buying Sylvanian families made me feel posh when the kids were small, they showed no interest 🤣, only rich kids had them when I was a child.
Aw! Smile

rhowton · 23/07/2021 19:36

@FuckingHateRats I think your idea is just the best!! Can't wait until mine are a little old 💕

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leopardprintpants · 23/07/2021 19:37

@danniduck

None of us have said we ARE posh.. just that for a moment we "felt posh" and it was really, really lovely.

💤

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3scape · 23/07/2021 19:37

I'm not sure posh is the word. But I did feel a bit "extra" sitting next to my son on his school Teams call with my hair in my new silk hair wrap, aeropress for a tea party, sat at our lovely new outdoor furniture- pool looking amazing in the background. I'm sure they'll be some parents thinking I'm a massive wanker now. In my defence I got the drinks ready (milk for him) with biscuits to bribe him out of the pool long enough and the pool isn't ours (no fence terribly lovely end of garden neighbours kind of story).

whyMrsRobinson · 23/07/2021 19:38

Lokidoki75 am so with you on the posh frock thing! Have some gorgeous shoes I bought in my yooof to go with posh frocks ( ghost! From ghost warehouse sale) and I wear them now not at all. Sigh. I will do as another poster says ( sorry, can’t find it atm) and wear them to feed the chickens.which ironically are posh! Dh won’t let me get them!

NormaSnorks · 23/07/2021 19:38

When DS1 started sixth form, and needed to wear suits, I took him to Charles Tyrwhitt to get them properly tailored/ taken in/ correct leg length etc. He is very tall and slim and we simply couldn't get anything 'off the peg'. While we were there he decided he really liked the cutaway collars and double cuffed shirts w/ cufflinks so we bought those too.

Funny thing was that he was always being mistaken for a teacher by visitors at the school etc.

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leopardprintpants · 23/07/2021 19:39

@DysmalRadius

I'm so posh I spend my Friday nights bitchplopping my cuntishness onto MN threads to try and bolster my flagging self-esteem by pretending I am the arbiter of what's posh or not despite having only minimal reading comprehension skills and an utter dearth of social grace.
Ha! 😂😂
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NeedNewKnees · 23/07/2021 19:39

Buying 800 thread egyptian cotton pillowcases made me feel stupendously posh. They make me happy every night and morning, the texture makes me feel like a queen.

I once blew £29 on a Lulu Guiness Birdcage umbrella. I feel happy every time it rains and I can use it. It's so delightful. DH and I had a blazing row about "wasting" money on a brolly. He was wrong - I live in this rainy country and the value per use ratio is fantastic. It's been years

MarleneDietrichsSmile · 23/07/2021 19:39

I never feel posh, I need to work on that!

Maybe my dogs are posh? Can dogs be posh? All my hope is on them 🤞🤞🤞

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leopardprintpants · 23/07/2021 19:40

@LettyLoman

Towelling shorts have made a comeback?? How about towelling playsuits. I’m going to have a look. Btw anything towelling never has been posh.
Never said the bloody shorts were posh.. just that I felt POSH buying something unnecessary and unneeded. Goodness me!
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SummerBreeze1980 · 23/07/2021 19:41

Really enjoying this fun thread. But why are there odd posters popping on to point out that no in fact that is not posh?! Does it make them feel superior? Confused

YanTanTethera123 · 23/07/2021 19:43

@ScrollingLeaves

The towelling shorts are not even comparable to chinos etc anyway. Their function is as practical and very comfortable wear - very soft and absorbent and with colourful, apt patterns- for young children on holiday having fun near water, sand, grass mud, picnic food and so on.

The luxury lies precisely in their being something to buy for holiday or weekend play only, without the smartness of plain chinos, or the year round practicality of jeans. An additional sense of luxury would be because getting something from Boden.

I completely agree! My DCs years ago had towelling shorts, trousers and hoodies, all very practical for the few holidays we had but also at the pool, park paddling pool and for picnics by the stream. They were hard wearing, colourful and practical.

For me posh was having afternoon tea at a cafe for the first time when on holiday with my SIL and BIL about 12 years ago. I was in my 50’s and had never done that before!

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leopardprintpants · 23/07/2021 19:43

@SummerBreeze1980

Really enjoying this fun thread. But why are there odd posters popping on to point out that no in fact that is not posh?! Does it make them feel superior? Confused
Kill joys galore.. afraid if us paupers feel "posh" even for a fleeting moment it will somehow taint them actually being posh.. not that they call themselves posh. Because that makes you not-posh. But you can tell us non-posh folk that we aren't posh. Get it? 😉😂
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madmomma · 23/07/2021 19:44

Donkeys years ago when I was a skint, depressed teen single mum, I was on income support and was fully breastfeeding dd. I got milk vouchers for her, which I didn't need for formula, so I used to get the milk, pour it all into a hot bath and pretend I was cleopatra. I felt incredibly posh until the nasty guy living downstairs turned my water off 😁. Gotta take that posh feeling from wherever you can get it 😂. Nowadays I feel hugely posh putting the heating on, buying petrol or nice fruit without worrying, getting socks from m&s.. It's that feeling of being able to meet needs that feels posh to me. I hope it always feels posh, and I hope everyone here enjoys every little bit of poshness they can get.

Michellelovesizzy · 23/07/2021 19:45

Kickers always wanted them when I was at school back in the 90s.... but got Clark's shoes.

Hugoslavia · 23/07/2021 19:45

My son loved land rovers, so when he was four, I bought him a Britain's Farm one for his birthday. I took him to visit my parents and they had bought him an actual toylander (which cost more than my car). I tend to wait until the kids are at school and my parents are on holiday, then I pop up to water their plants/keep an eye on their house and I get in it and have a pootle around their gardens. Sometimes I even nick a bottle of prosecco, pour myself a glass and go for a little leisure ride, whilst thinking, "Living the dream Hugo, living the dream!"

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 23/07/2021 19:46

I have that brolly, NeedNewKnees, I also had the red lips one but managed to lose it.

I don't though have 800 thread count bedding, I think that's on my list somewhere, it does sound really comfortable and luxurious.

Depechemodebiggestfan · 23/07/2021 19:48

I felt posh when I first flew from Heathrow (circa 2005)
I always used coach and later on Ryanair to come to U.K. from my (post communist) country years ago and then I managed to get cheap plane tickets from Heathrow ( non ryanair obviously)
Me walking through the corridors— it felt proper posh to me.

GreyhoundG1rl · 23/07/2021 19:49

@Hugoslavia

My son loved land rovers, so when he was four, I bought him a Britain's Farm one for his birthday. I took him to visit my parents and they had bought him an actual toylander (which cost more than my car). I tend to wait until the kids are at school and my parents are on holiday, then I pop up to water their plants/keep an eye on their house and I get in it and have a pootle around their gardens. Sometimes I even nick a bottle of prosecco, pour myself a glass and go for a little leisure ride, whilst thinking, "Living the dream Hugo, living the dream!"
Do you fit in it? Grin
ravenmum · 23/07/2021 19:51

@MarleneDietrichsSmile

I never feel posh, I need to work on that!

Maybe my dogs are posh? Can dogs be posh? All my hope is on them 🤞🤞🤞

Maybe buy them hats?
SoupDragon · 23/07/2021 19:52

DD had a posh fringed "flapper" type dress from Monsoon. In cream.

I let her wear it everywhere, even to climb trees in 😂

doorornottodoor · 23/07/2021 19:52

I’m now wanting towelling shorts finisterre.com/products/womens-organic-cotton-robeston-towelling-short-olive

I might actually get the hoodie for my UK beach holiday Grin ❤️

Knittingnanny · 23/07/2021 19:52

@Michellelovesizzy, ah you didn’t miss much! In the mid 90’s when my eldest was a teenager he desperately wanted Kickers for school. I couldn’t afford them so we came to a compromise. I would give him the amount I’d spend on the school shoes and he would add the rest from his paper delivery job. £60 seems to ring a bell for a pair? Anyway after 3 weeks one of the coloured tabs fell off and was lost. He did admit he wished he hadn’t bothered and they were a bit of a waste of his money. Hard lesson for him

doorornottodoor · 23/07/2021 19:52

@Hugoslavia I love this ❤️Grin

Spudlet · 23/07/2021 19:55

I have a gorgeous Boden shift dress, fully lined and just lovely. I always feel very well turned out in it, and yep, a bit posh. And deeply smug, cos it was £15 in a charity shop Grin