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.

Birthday cakes from Fortnum & Mason

More seriously when my daughter heads into town to spend her monthly allowance on macarons from Laudree

@PippaPots

I love the bookstore and cake outings, my poor dc have to make do with the library and greggs on the way back to the car.

At a previous job the directors used to have a car valeter come in each week to clean their cars. For his lowest bracket inside and out it was good value and convenient so I used to treat myself once a month. I always felt very grand when my keys were presented back to me. My car has currently been a perch for a diarrhoea ridden pigeon, the mess has been baked on thanks to the heatwave. Sad times.

Get yourself some soap. Make up a squirty bottle of it (grate soap into warm/hot water, dissolve... cool.. decant into spray bottle). Spray, leave a few minutes (loosens it up). Rinse/hose item needing cleaning. restore shine with turtlewax. You're welcome. Don't use Ecover. That stuff can remove paint....

Does your local library sell old stock? Some of ours have been acquired from library sales. 10 p a time. I bought a few language courses at one of those sales. Because I could.

[quote Doodlebug71]**@peaceanddove* However, since they started wearing make up I have always bought them Chanel foundation because I can't bear that chalky orange cast you see on so many teens.* Is that the foundation that makes so many of them look like Morph wannabees? I don't wear the stuff, but it amuses me/saddens me that so many teens choose to look like clones/morph.[/quote]
Probably! I really think the one thing you shouldn't skimp on is foundation x

Haha love this thread! Despite the typical MN classism that shows up all the time

We were poor growing up, I remember one particularly bad time where my siblings and I searched through the sofa cushions for coins and were overjoyed we could afford a box of McDonalds nuggets to share for lunch. Feels a lifetime ago now and DH and I are definitely not high earners by any stretch of the imagination but we do splash out on nice things for DD.

I’ve bought some extortionate handmade birthday decorations from Etsy for her birthday party which feels posh. Growing up I’d have a pack of balloons from Poundland and that would do us!

You are a fun sponge

I sent DS a birthday cake in a tin to university for his birthday. Honest to God i felt like a mother from the pages of an Enid Blyton book.
Sadly they post room in his halls wouldn’t accept it because of Covid and the lazy bugger couldn’t be bothered to pick it up from the depot. I was gutted

@Hdhdjejdj

@MySecretHistory

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

Sorry quote fail! You are a fun sponge.

I'd never even heard of Boden until I joined Mumsnet a few years ago!

Me too plus there aren't a lot of decent shops down our way.

We do have Frugi which I may buy from when DD is no longer a toddler and when they have a sale on.

I feel posh using a cafetiere. And I have cake forks.

@Maggiesfarm

Why publicly insult an item of clothing someone has bought for their child? It’s terribly uncouth. @Waxonwaxoff0 had already made a self-deprecating remark about the ‘poshness’ of the shirt, albeit she made her point far more eloquently.

I’ll be slated but it’s my birthday treat £30 on crayfish, loads of crayfish sandwiches which I love.

@MySecretHistory

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

I am posh and I use the word posh all the time.

When I was in my late 20s and still very skint, I was in town with a friend who had a proper job and we got a taxi back home as he couldn't be bothered to walk. It cost him a tenner, and felt incredibly extravagant!

I feel posh whenever I wear Loro Piana loafers or pearl earrings. I tend to buy my children Gap, J Crew etc.—the poor deprived souls 😁

Ahh this is a lovely thread to those that understand it.
My posh moment was when we started holidaying abroad in the sort of hotels I used to look at as we walked past. I remember when we stayed in one with an outside glass lift with all plants growing on it I kept humming "If my friends could see me now" from Sweet Charity.

Premade Salad/Deli type stuff especially when doing online shopping or shopping and planning on eating it at home! It feels so extravagant to buy a premade salad type things, my favourite are M&S ones!

Having a coffee when out or going out for the day and having lunch out rather than taking a packed lunch. I remember as a child going out with my godmother and we had coffee when we were out AND a piece of cake!

Ordering a drink in a restaurant instead of just a jug of tap water or heaven forbid having TWO drinks (and by drinks I mean something like coke!). As a kid on the very rare occasion we are out it was one soft drink sipped slowly to last and water.

Bottles sparkling water with lemon, not just on special occasions (although rather than posh it just makes me feel guilty for the environment!).

Olives. There’s something about them that makes it feel luxury, I think it’s as they aren’t in the least bit filling so purchased purely for pleasure except I don’t see any other food that way nor do I deny myself anything that’s pleasurable?

Using a whole bathbomb. I weirdly struggle with this a little! It seems so wasteful, especially if I’ve been gifted lush ones knowing I’m chucking £5 of bathbomb into one bath

Someone said this is a really sad thread but I’ve really enjoyed it

I don’t have children so have no business on this thread, but the posts about bookshops made me smile.

When I was a kid I needed loads of orthodontic work, and my dad took me to every appointment in the car - usually we would go to checkups with my mum on the bus and my dad would be at work, so it was a big deal for him to take time off. Before every appointment we would go to Waterstones and he would let me choose a book. After that we would stop at the “fancy” chemist and I would pick some “nice” bubble bath. On the way home we would go to the supermarket and I would choose ice cream/ice lollies for after dinner, which I still to this day associate with the dentist. (I mean bubble bath in a bottle shaped like a dog, not Jo Malone type stuff.)

None of that is at all posh, I know, but it made a “treat” out of something that is often a negative experience. I have a checkup at the dentist tomorrow and might do all of those things!

There is something very weird about experiencing “ posh” stuff when you are visiting your adult son! He’s very well off ( high earning job) and him and his family live a lifestyle ( overseas) that is so different from the one he had growing up! It’s really strange and hard to explain. We had smart price diluted squash and hand me down clothes til they were all teens when our finances improved somewhat. So seeing the food deliveries, the taxis, holidays, etc seems posh to me. If my dad was still alive he’d find it even posher!

@Miliao

How is reading a book and eating cake posh?!! I’m not even sure it’s extravagant!

Because when I was young you went to the library.

And because this is a light hearted thread to gently poke fun at our ‘notions’

Hahaha oh god. I was a 19 year old first time mum in Surrey where its only acceptable to be a good mum If you do/own something posh enough. I used to try to 'fit in' with the older, richer mums by buying Joules and Jojo Maman Bebe stuff. I felt like perhaps people wouldn't judge me as much if he wore posh clothes

I used to enjoy reading the Tatler while perched in my kitchen drinking wine (and it had to be perched, not sat), and I'd feel a bit posh when I saw friends or acquaintances in the Bystander. Not posh enough to get photographed myself though (which is probably why I needed the wine)