The guy who brought in a brand new Crossbows and Catapults Fortress War box for the last day of Primary 3
That or a Corner Yogurt
Merely having a packed lunch was a sign of wealth in my school. I was one of about 4/5 people who got a packed lunch, everyone else got a dinner ticket. A packet of those wee Dairylea hot dog lunchables and the grenade shaped bottle of irn bru was my regular nourishment.
Girl in my school’s dad used to pick her up in his lambo countach ,back in the 80s
Brand name shoes and trainers. Mine were knockoff or unbranded until my late teens. Even then they were basic tennis shoes or whatever.
The kids with Kickers really looked down on us plebs who didn’t have green/red tabs (showing my age here!)
A mother who wasn’t a violent drunk
People who got Sky TV.
Having an Xbox and a Ps2.
Or, using iTunes rather than Limewire.
Kids with wee plastic Ferrero Rocher boxes full of Panini footy sticker swaps. I’d get a few packs a month from my gran if I was lucky.
Getting the electricity back on.
Folks that had mini pringles or the wee tray of jafa cakes in a packed lunch
When a family owns two cars instead of the parents having to share one car
People whose families went on holiday
Ice maker in the refrigerator door.
A fridge with a water dispenser
No paying for your lunch with a wee ticket
My son had a sleepover & in the morning they went to get cereal for breakfast. We had quite an array of mostly sugar & adult cereals. One of the boys took a look and said “you guys must be rich” (we aren’t, I just like Capt Crunch)
I can mind going to my mates house for the first time in primary school, a newer estate with big houses just down the road from my grans house where I spent most evenings after school. They had two motors, a double garage, sliding glass window doors at the back but the biggest indicator of rich in my head back then was mates electric scooter, which is quite funny these days because most of the people I see on them now are very clearly not most well off chaps.
Having a shower and not just a bath. I remember staying at a mates house and leaving a water stain on their kitchen ceiling because I didn’t realise the shower curtain went inside the bath. I didn’t want it getting wet 🤷🏻♂️😂
Difficult to say. Probably having more than one tv or sound system, and like having your own tv or hi-fi system in your room. That was something that seemed the height of wealth to me.
But it’s odd because objectively we weren’t exactly poor, like in 1990 or so my male parent earned like £20k, which was at that time a fair sum. However, he kept basically all of that for himself and my mum had like zero income other than the child benefit money, and whatever pittance he gave her.
My siblings and I did not get pocket money. The only money I had was in birthday cards from grandparents, and the occasional prize from doing well at school.
So like, being able to buy your own clothes was also a luxury from my viewpoint at the time.
Vienetta
People who didn’t have to queue up with a wee dinner ticket
A school bag that wasn’t made of canvas.
I’m one of those weans who got slagged for being ‘posh’ at school in the 80s, as my parents both worked, we had two cars, my clothes were always clean, I never ate school dinners, we had our ‘ain hoose’, and went to France every summer.
I feel so sad that I didn’t realise my privilege back then and assumed that everyone was the same. And what makes me even sadder is that a basic, but not flashy, standard of living, makes you an outcast at school because the poverty and deprivation in my part of the country is basically the norm.
I know now that it’s a wonder I wasn’t given a battering more frequently.
Wankers who went to spain rather than finding themselves 4 people boxed into a 2 bedroom cottage in the driving rain in the highlands.
I always found it was the ‘poor’ kids that had all the new trainers and sky tvs and the middle class kids didn’t.
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The guy who brought in a brand new Crossbows and Catapults Fortress War box for the last day of Primary 3
That or a Corner Yogurt
Merely having a packed lunch was a sign of wealth in my school. I was one of about 4/5 people who got a packed lunch, everyone else got a dinner ticket. A packet of those wee Dairylea hot dog lunchables and the grenade shaped bottle of irn bru was my regular nourishment.
Girl in my school’s dad used to pick her up in his lambo countach ,back in the 80s
Brand name shoes and trainers. Mine were knockoff or unbranded until my late teens. Even then they were basic tennis shoes or whatever.
The kids with Kickers really looked down on us plebs who didn’t have green/red tabs (showing my age here!)
A mother who wasn’t a violent drunk
People who got Sky TV.
Having an Xbox and a Ps2.
Or, using iTunes rather than Limewire.
Kids with wee plastic Ferrero Rocher boxes full of Panini footy sticker swaps. I’d get a few packs a month from my gran if I was lucky.
Getting the electricity back on.
Folks that had mini pringles or the wee tray of jafa cakes in a packed lunch
When a family owns two cars instead of the parents having to share one car
People whose families went on holiday
Ice maker in the refrigerator door.
A fridge with a water dispenser
No paying for your lunch with a wee ticket
My son had a sleepover & in the morning they went to get cereal for breakfast. We had quite an array of mostly sugar & adult cereals. One of the boys took a look and said “you guys must be rich” (we aren’t, I just like Capt Crunch)
I can mind going to my mates house for the first time in primary school, a newer estate with big houses just down the road from my grans house where I spent most evenings after school. They had two motors, a double garage, sliding glass window doors at the back but the biggest indicator of rich in my head back then was mates electric scooter, which is quite funny these days because most of the people I see on them now are very clearly not most well off chaps.
Having a shower and not just a bath. I remember staying at a mates house and leaving a water stain on their kitchen ceiling because I didn’t realise the shower curtain went inside the bath. I didn’t want it getting wet 🤷🏻♂️😂
Difficult to say. Probably having more than one tv or sound system, and like having your own tv or hi-fi system in your room. That was something that seemed the height of wealth to me.
But it’s odd because objectively we weren’t exactly poor, like in 1990 or so my male parent earned like £20k, which was at that time a fair sum. However, he kept basically all of that for himself and my mum had like zero income other than the child benefit money, and whatever pittance he gave her.
My siblings and I did not get pocket money. The only money I had was in birthday cards from grandparents, and the occasional prize from doing well at school.
So like, being able to buy your own clothes was also a luxury from my viewpoint at the time.
Vienetta
People who didn’t have to queue up with a wee dinner ticket
A school bag that wasn’t made of canvas.
I’m one of those weans who got slagged for being ‘posh’ at school in the 80s, as my parents both worked, we had two cars, my clothes were always clean, I never ate school dinners, we had our ‘ain hoose’, and went to France every summer.
I feel so sad that I didn’t realise my privilege back then and assumed that everyone was the same. And what makes me even sadder is that a basic, but not flashy, standard of living, makes you an outcast at school because the poverty and deprivation in my part of the country is basically the norm.
I know now that it’s a wonder I wasn’t given a battering more frequently.
Wankers who went to spain rather than finding themselves 4 people boxed into a 2 bedroom cottage in the driving rain in the highlands.
I always found it was the ‘poor’ kids that had all the new trainers and sky tvs and the middle class kids didn’t.
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