What did you consider a luxury growing up?
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Hot water on tap!
(parents house the hot water was heated by a separate stove in the back room and only lit once a week on 'bath night')
Even today I still do most washing in cold water, never think to use the hot tap.
(parents house the hot water was heated by a separate stove in the back room and only lit once a week on 'bath night')
Even today I still do most washing in cold water, never think to use the hot tap.
Having an answer phone so you can tell how rang you if you miss the call when at work away from the phone etc.
Which is what I keep it for, my early morning and after dinner coffees from the coffee machine. Before the Lidl tins, I have around 12 tins in stock, I would use the Elmlea cream - but the Lidl evap is both a lot cheaper, easier to store and an acceptable substitute.
All of those and more - life was pretty dire, though unused to anything better, I just didn't realise it. Just one room heated, mother cooking on the fire range, doing washing in a tub in the scullery with a posser. Sweets still on ration, fuel on ration during Suez.
They continued to struggle like that, for a few years after I moved out to something a more civilised. In their lives and despite moving, they never experienced benefits and comforts of central heating. Working away much of the time, staying in comfortable hotels with all the facilities, I soon wanted something better, so I moved out just ASAP.
I'm not sure which was worse, the torn newspaper on a string at the back of the outside toilet door, or the single sheet hard Izal toilet paper of school. Neither were much fun. Why was Izal even hard at all? Was it cheaper to make than soft?
I never knew that -Im not sure Id like it in coffee, evap has a particular taste
we do sometimes have tinned peaches and evap -it is rather yummy
As above, I use it (Lidl Evap) in my proper ground coffee, as well as tinned fruit. For instant coffee I usually use 50/50 milk/ water, or 100% milk sometimes. I also sometimes use Coffee Mate in the instant coffee, it gives a slightly creamy taste.
Footie in the park;
jumpers for goalposts,
jam sandwiches for tea.
Marvellous.
jumpers for goalposts,
jam sandwiches for tea.
Marvellous.
Apart from for hand washing, I never use the bathroom wash-basin. For a quick wash I simply duck my upper body under the shower, or simply take a proper shower. I prefer to wash under flowing water. When at home with my parents, then had an electric geyser, so it was either the scalding hot from the geyser, or cold from the cold tap. I would use the cold.
A car seat. And by that, I mean an actual seat, not the thing people put in for kids these days. My dad would have samples in cases, fill the back of the car up, so took the bench of the back seat out most days. So if we needed to go out he'd take the cases out, and we'd be sat on the floor of a Morris Marina. Then if the bench was refitted and it was summer, your legs would be scorched by the hot seat.
My second school had no playing field - They used to have us run two miles to, then from a local playing field. Many were much too kna**** to play when they got there. No changing rooms, no showers, just get changed and crack on with the maths. The school never taught any scientific subjects, but a very large cupboard in our classroom had a lot of chemistry glass ware and physics kit, so it must have been a subject at one time. All the subjects were taught in that one classroom, what changed were the teachers, books were in desperately short supply. From there, our next classroom was a hastily built pre-fab. My next school, a brand new one, we had a base classroom, but changed to specialised classrooms for each subject. It was a revelation - massive playing fields, sports hall, changing rooms, showers, fully equipped science labs. Everything you could wish for and more. The sports master was a bit of a hard case and when you came in from a freezing cold game, or a run in mid-winter, always insisted on a freezing cold and timed shower for everyone. That was the only thing I hated about the school.
Not quite when growing up (I was in my early 20s) and not something I considered luxury although I did LOVE it.
Bought myself a Cavalier GSi, it was a couple of years old when I bought it, met blue. It was my first decent car and at early 20s you can imagine.
One time I was taking mum and my uncle/auntie to see some other family members. When my uncle/auntie settled in the back seat, my uncle turned to my auntie and said 'oh this is luxury, isn't it, luxury!'
It made me smile. These days, looking back, it still makes me smile. No, not in a boasting way, just remembering my uncle (now deceased) and thinking that, for him, the interior of that Cavalier maybe was, indeed, luxury
Bought myself a Cavalier GSi, it was a couple of years old when I bought it, met blue. It was my first decent car and at early 20s you can imagine.
One time I was taking mum and my uncle/auntie to see some other family members. When my uncle/auntie settled in the back seat, my uncle turned to my auntie and said 'oh this is luxury, isn't it, luxury!'
It made me smile. These days, looking back, it still makes me smile. No, not in a boasting way, just remembering my uncle (now deceased) and thinking that, for him, the interior of that Cavalier maybe was, indeed, luxury
Alpen. Ski youghurts. Real instant coffee.
Modern new build houses.
Cars less than 4 years old.
Holidays abroad.
Dishwashers.
SKY TV
If you had those things, that was the height of middle class to me but then, just not having rising damp spread over my walls every 6 months would have been a bonus.
Cars less than 4 years old.
Holidays abroad.
Dishwashers.
SKY TV
If you had those things, that was the height of middle class to me but then, just not having rising damp spread over my walls every 6 months would have been a bonus.
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