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.

I blew all my tesco vouchers on lego, back in the day when lego was half price at Christmas vouchers. I started when DS was 2 years old and carried on for years. Consequently we have a staggering amount of lego.

It's been quite good though, because DS still uses it with his best friend who is 15 and visits nearly every day. Friend is a promising designer and I think DS is heading toward writing scifi novels, so lego is actually working out well for both of them.

@Lndnmummy

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.

Lovely story. 😊

I’ve been collecting my Christmas tree decorations for over 20 years. They’re all glass and have to fit a particular colour scheme so don’t look random. My posh ones are from Macy’s in New York City. Most people I know completely get rid of their decorations and buy all new ones every couple of years, but I absolutely love mine.

@Fluffmum

My son had osh kosh clothes in 1993 when he was a toddler. My parents bought him loads of stuff when my Dad worked in the US. I felt posh when he went to playgroup 😂

Wow that bought back memories! When I was nursery nursing I remember Osh Kosh being an in brand and I thought it was posh at the time when kids were sent to nursery wearing osh kosh

I preferred to dress them in Tesco and then give them a deposit on a house. Meh.

Exactly, people have no idea of the ‘real’ posh and it certainly isn’t Boden or Moonsoon.

@threatmatrix

I preferred to dress them in Tesco and then give them a deposit on a house. Meh.

🙄

You must live somewhere really cheap if a pair of Boden shorts equates to a house deposit.

@irresistibleoverwhelm
Oh I’m glad it’s not just me.

Mine eat Parmesan too (and request it when someone else serves spaghetti bolognese). The shame

[quote mummeeee]@irresistibleoverwhelm
Oh I’m glad it’s not just me.

Mine eat Parmesan too (and request it when someone else serves spaghetti bolognese). The shame [/quote]
Shame? It's a perfectly normal accompaniment to spag bol.

One of my great pleasures when I lived in London was spending an hour or two in Liberty just browsing through the fabrics and furnishings. Never spent any money in there but it was such a soothing place to be in. Lovely against the contrast of Oxford Street outside.

Our David Lloyd family membership.
Never mind the fact we rock up in our 20 year old car and second hand clothes (Boden for the kids of course!).

And when we eat out DS8 will invariably pick some fancy seafood dish. But then DD5 goes and spoils the illusion by asking for sausage and chips.

@Picklesbaby

I’ve come back to add about Clark’s. When Id been with dh a couple of months I mentioned dd needed proper shoes now she was walking , he suggested going to Clark’s to get measured. I’d already made up an excuse as to why I wasn’t going to buy any that very day (because for some reason I couldn’t admit I would be buying them second hand off eBay. )Just getting her feet measured there felt posh to me. She tried the loviest shiniest shoes on. He went back while I was in the baby change in the shopping centre and bought them in 2 different colours , put the bag under the pram and didn’t say a word. I looked him in the eyes and had to stop myself from crying !he said it wasn’t even because he thought I couldn’t but because he wanted to. Every pair of shoes she’s had since then have been Clark’s and it is their thing to go get shoes and a Mac Donald’s. I love feeling posh looking at the shiny shoes lined up in her wardrobe.

This is lovely

Shame? It's a perfectly normal accompaniment to spag bol.

Now when I grew up in the north in the 80s it definitely was - but only in those little shakers of dried Parmesan that smelt of sick 😂

So I tell you, proper Parmesan is most definitely Posh 😂

@irresistibleoverwhelm

Shame? It's a perfectly normal accompaniment to spag bol.

Now when I grew up in the north in the 80s it definitely was - but only in those little shakers of dried Parmesan that smelt of sick 😂

So I tell you, proper Parmesan is most definitely Posh 😂

If you say so. Once they start selling stuff in Tesco, though, it tends to lose it's allure in the posh stakes...

Boden is not "posh" however you define it.
Boden sells lower quality goods with a marketing slant on making people feel like they are living a higher quality life.

We grew up hand to mouth but my father every year took us to foyle's in London and gave us £50 each to spend on books. We took ages choosing but it was such a treat.

@GreyhoundG1rl I am starting to think you don’t have much of a sense of humour….

@threatmatrix

I preferred to dress them in Tesco and then give them a deposit on a house. Meh.

My 5 year old isn't quite ready for the responsibility of having her own house 😂

@threatmatrix

Exactly, people have no idea of the ‘real’ posh and it certainly isn’t Boden or Moonsoon.

Whoosh.. this thread went right over your "real" posh head didn't it??

@irresistibleoverwhelm

Shame? It's a perfectly normal accompaniment to spag bol.

Now when I grew up in the north in the 80s it definitely was - but only in those little shakers of dried Parmesan that smelt of sick 😂

So I tell you, proper Parmesan is most definitely Posh 😂

HAHA sicky parmesan! That was in the cupboard until it ran out LOL

@VictoriaLudorum

Boden is not "posh" however you define it. Boden sells lower quality goods with a marketing slant on making people feel like they are living a higher quality life.

You must be such fun at a party.

I never said boden was posh... Jesus!

I've l oved this thread!

I was brought up on a lot of beige food as my lovely mum hated cooking and my dad was Peter Kays 'garlic bread ' man.

Whenever I sit down to ANYTHING a bit fancy I feel posh but especially on holiday when I always have stuff with tentacles.

We've just moved in and had our neighbours over for drinks
(even saying it feels posh)
I made mojitos (I'd had one on holiday, there was lots of mint in the garden, and it felt very summery) and thoroughly overdid the nibbles, but I definitely felt really posh!

@Onlyherefortheconspiracies

DP tried to explain the garlic bread sketch to DD yesterday when we were having some garlic bread. She was totally nonplussed and I realised how incomprehensible it is unless you grew up literally knowing some actual “garlic bread!?!?” men!

My grandfather only ate a range of about three meals - Irish stew, fish and chips and liver and onions - and even requested fish and chips at my aunt’s wedding because he wouldn’t eat the “posh” wedding food. I remember watching Peter Kay doing that routine in the early 2000s and it was literally just like being with my relatives 😂😂😂

@Ifeelsuchafool He’s not that old...