What makes someone middle class?

[lilibet]

Just had a conversation with a mate and a mutual freind has described themselves as middle class.

He works in a shop for a living, his parents work for a living, to me he is therefore working class.

I appreciate that a brain surgeon is obvioulsy a bit higher up the social strata than me ( I work in finance in the NHS), but to me if you have to work for a living you are working class.

Thoughts and opinions?

I "second hand clothes and new shoes". That's me!
I don't think it's anything to so with work or money - I think it's mostly to do with attitude and language. For example, I am inescapably middle class. I shop at charity shops (apart from shoes, obviously!)and take great pleasure in doing so - but I can take pleasure in it because realistically I don't actually have to. Tesco's clothes are cheaper than out Charitity shops, but I would rather have second hand Boden than new Cherokee. I have supper or dinner in the evening, never tea, unless it's for the children and in inverted commas. I have lunch in the middle of the day, I go to the loo not the toilet, I have a living room not a lounge, I would rather my children said "what?" than "pardon?", I have a terrace not a patio, my house is always untidy, I awvays have a real Christmas tree, I have a sofa not a settee and I get very uncomfortable when people start talking about the cost of things. The list goes on, but I will spare you the rest!

I'm amazed that people still give a monkey's about this sort of stuff. It's so . . . Edwardian.

And dull.

People who give a toss which class they are, are usually Middle Class.

Anyone else is just normal.

oh it's great fun to discuss not dull at all

well I grow my own herbs

and I have bib and spile taps

Im amazed that no one has mentioned newspapapers!

I said that Happy Daddy and everyone said that no working class people did too!

Working class people who worry about being middle class should get a life.

actually most working class people consider themselves middle class becuase they ownt heir own homes. the mistake being that its something to aspire to! as if.

I'm working class, my mum's working class, grand parents and so on. I don't bother about status or what others have that i don't. We work hard so we can buy nice things but they are for us and no-one else's benefit.

I am me and I have no desire to be anything else.

Pamina rhubarb once argued that having a blender was middle class after i had bought one. i couldnt take the ridicule so bought her one

Adding 2nd post to correct the spelling on your 1st post is very middle class .

Agghh!! Class definition by kitchen appliances...... is there no escape????

Yup. Gaggia, breadmaker, garlic-press, juicer... surely all middle-class items?

And a drawing room

We've got a painting room, will that do?

(It's also known as the decking.)

I've got a study, although DW calls it the loo. Does that count?