To feel "posh"

[leopardprintpants]

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.

[quote Knittingnanny]@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[/quote]
It's funny u should say that as my DC have fallen apart think u get her Clark's next year😂😂

@diddl

"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?

I think you missed my point. They both go with salad. I buy mayo all the time now, and I know it isn't posh. But that first time, I felt posh, which is what this thread is about. Not what IS posh.

Haven't read the whole thread but towelling shorts sound dreadful.
I have images of heavy seawater soaked shorts stuck with sand.

@GreyhoundG1rl

If I put down the back of the front seat flat to form a bench seat I can fit in it. The top of my parents driveway/garden backs onto woodland with a public footpath running through it. Occasionally a walker strolls past and pops their head over the wall for a nose. If I'm in my little car, I always give a friendly toot and a little wave as though it's a perfectly normal thing to do!

@ravenmum brilliant idea

[quote Hugoslavia]@GreyhoundG1rl

If I put down the back of the front seat flat to form a bench seat I can fit in it. The top of my parents driveway/garden backs onto woodland with a public footpath running through it. Occasionally a walker strolls past and pops their head over the wall for a nose. If I'm in my little car, I always give a friendly toot and a little wave as though it's a perfectly normal thing to do![/quote]
Sounds like fun 😁

@madmomma

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.

This is the best post i have ever read on Mumsnet. I think I love you.

Oh God, look at that dog! He's gorgeous 😍

@Caritas I hope you're married to an old Etonian?

[quote Hugoslavia]@GreyhoundG1rl

If I put down the back of the front seat flat to form a bench seat I can fit in it. The top of my parents driveway/garden backs onto woodland with a public footpath running through it. Occasionally a walker strolls past and pops their head over the wall for a nose. If I'm in my little car, I always give a friendly toot and a little wave as though it's a perfectly normal thing to do![/quote]
I have never met you, but I like you very very much

That dog is definitely posh even without the hat.

@speakout

Haven't read the whole thread but towelling shorts sound dreadful. I have images of heavy seawater soaked shorts stuck with sand.

Don't worry I'm not giving away my child's non-posh shorts, just don't buy any 😂 they of course aren't going to wear them IN any water. Will be used to walk home from the beach when my child will no longer be wet so neither will the shorts... never mind 💤

[quote Ifeelsuchafool]@Caritas I hope you're married to an old Etonian? [/quote]
Quite...

@LyingWitchInTheWardrobe

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.

It's such a marvellous umbrella, isn't it?

One day all my bedding will be 800 count. My duvet and sheet are 400 count at the moment. I'm slowly saving up and one will sleep in ultimate luxury.

@Spudlet

Why thank you very much. You simply must pop by for a little aperitif and a drive. I suspect that I must appears dreadfully 'poash' to any passers by on account of my perceived upper class ecentricity. I should probably nick my mother's pearl choker and my step father's tweed cap before I set orf on an outing. Perhaps I'll also encourage them to treat my daughter to a hobby horse, so that I can go for the occasional ride too.

My mum won a tatler subscription once and although she never had the time to read it she would conveniently leave it very obviously open on the magazine rack it backfired on her though one day when I read through it myself and found a posh sex article!

@orangejuicer

Not posh but extravagant - £400 aircon unit.

Ooh! Me too, and an extra £50 on a drill bit to drill a hole in the wall for the outlet hose!

Loved it when my dc were smaller and wore mini Boden.

Swishing around in a maxi dress with cocktail rings on. Hair up in a bun. Neck fan round my neck. Just like a 21st century Margot Ledbetter!

@NeverDropYourMoonCup - love your description. What an amazing feeling!

Sat under a tree this afternoon with a baguette and a bottle of wine whilst swatting flies away cooling myself with a vintage fan. It may not be towelling or extravagant but I felt reet posh

@VictoriaLudorum

This is the saddest post I have ever read here.

oh you misery !! Its a fun post surely you can tell that !

I love the book one. We do that often. Bloody love it. My kids adore books. My younger one is more academic and spends hours doing school work.

I’ve brought them a lot of toys. I grew up not being able to eat. We were homeless. My mum didn’t eat for days so I could and had it not been for A Good Samaritan. We would of starved.

It’s not posh. But because of my past. Me and my children often work with the homeless. Both are under the age of 10 and often help me do the work. We go around our local town and often offer food and drinks and a chat. They all adore my children and often recognise them. It’s not posh. But it’s our thing.

It's a lovely thing.

When I bought my daughters first birthday outfit from Liberty, I felt so fancy when it turned up.
I will add it was in the sale though....

A few years ago I read about a poster on here who’d brought a Christmas bauble with her son every year. Fancy ones like from Liberty’s or Harrods. They’d make a day of it and go into town, have lunch and pick their Baubles. Then when he got married she gifted them all to him and his wife. It was such a lovely story and I couldn’t look at my B&Q baubles the same way that year so I decided to shamelessly steal her idea. I’ve now got a very fancy Christmas baubles collection and my dh jokes every year that someone will break the family heirlooms.