Celtic Tiger must-have items

44leto

Paddysboys wrote: »

Treadmill
Heating oil
(I have a very good top of the range treadmill only used once that I would swop for a half a fill of heating oil or maybe a good jetski ya I can see me on a jetski)

Taxing the car for 12 months
Filling the car with petrol
Buying every kind of s**t that would come into lidl even if you didn't need it

Gawd yeah, I actually asked the management to ban me. But my life wouldn't be the same if I hadn't got those flippers, snorkel and goggles.

I will defo use them at least once this summer.

marvsins

Lidl during the Celtic Tiger? I don't think so !

Dempsey

Paddysboys wrote: »

Treadmill
Heating oil
(I have a very good top of the range treadmill only used once that I would swop for a half a fill of heating oil or maybe a good jetski ya I can see me on a jetski)

Taxing the car for 12 months
Filling the car with petrol
Buying every kind of s**t that would come into lidl even if you didn't need it

That isnt a Celtic tiger must have

old_aussie

Celtic Tiger must-have items.........

A get out of jail free card

MadameGascar

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

I have never seen a place where people give less of a sh*t about beer as Ireland.
So, most people ordered "fancy" beer to be seen drinking it, could have been rat's urine in there, they wouldn't have known. So, fancy beer, Celtic Tiger must have.

Don't know about this. People were happier to knock back any old swill, not much presence of any fancy beer at all then. Only recently-ish enough I've noticed more people realizing the are entitled to some sort of value for their money. Taps of Erdinger, Paulaner have only been appearing since more people started drinking at home more and got curious about unfiltered 'fancy' beers that didn't look (as well as taste) like pee.

DebDynamite

The Safepass

Paparazzo

John_Rambo wrote: »

Celtic Tiger must-have items.

Beer made by monks.

Now in the recession, it's wine made by monks. Buckfast.

Dyr

Paparazzo wrote: »

Now in the recession, it's wine made by monks. Buckfast.

Buckfat is a tenner a bottle! Scandalous

Pupito

The use of a box at the Olympia for any of Fiona Looney's popular appeasements.

dr.fuzzenstein

Paparazzo wrote: »

Now in the recession, it's wine made by monks. Buckfast.

Ah, good old F*ckbast.

The Davestator

The girlfriend just found her pair of MBT's - expensive & useless trainers. About 150 lids for a pair of trainers to wear the odd time!

mbur

Two jobs.

1966

......................security & confidence - all gone.

washman3

A crewcab for the "school run"...;)

Mollyd90

not shopping in penneys
going to the hairdresser to blowdry your hair every weekend
bragging about how much of a mortgage the bank is willing to give you
bragging about how much you spent on a shopping spree
telling everyone how stressed and busy you are at work
bragging about how much the value of your house has increased since you bought it

Paparazzo

The Davestator wrote: »

The girlfriend just found her pair of MBT's - expensive & useless trainers. About 150 lids for a pair of trainers to wear the odd time!

Convinced people that by wearing they and just walking around, it's the same as a hardcore workout in the gym.

dr.fuzzenstein

Mollyd90 wrote: »

not shopping in penneys
going to the hairdresser to blowdry your hair every weekend
bragging about how much of a mortgage the bank is willing to give you
bragging about how much you spent on a shopping spree
telling everyone how stressed and busy you are at work
bragging about how much the value of your house has increased since you bought it

And have your suits, shirts, socks and underpants done twice weekly by the dry-cleaners.
No washing and ironing for us!
Have a E20k kitchen and eat takeout every night.

beertons

Having an au pair.

true

silly outside Christmas lights

Lenn Brennan

Not really a must have but, going to the pub all night, buying take away to go back to a party @ 3rd euro a can or 40 euro for a bottle of vodka and getting a taxi to the party

Rolli

Paying almost €30K a gas guzzling 3L petrol Lexus to drive around Dublin city all day

Buying suits from Bests

Having a job

Damn, I miss the Celtic Tiger

eth0

true wrote: »

silly outside Christmas lights

and it could be a good few years before the current lot of them stop working.

Every second house with a big massive American tackfest of flashing LED's outside it, looks awful

useeme

Pdfile wrote: »

apart from the keeping up with the jons, the folks trying to BE th jones and ae never happy...

one neighbour in particular amongest his collection of mootorbikes ( harleys mostly ) had TVR's mercs bmws lexus and others, evry 100k he made it spent about 50-60 on a new car ( barely if ever driven ) 10k on drgs & such, then te rest headin off to thailand or similr for a month or two... needless to say t was handy enough gettin to drive his toys and look after the house when he was away with the misses as a kid but when hi lady wrote off hr brad new merc he got her a new one the same day ( nobody knew if she'd drive ever again after the shock )

this same guy just has the 1 car, no job ( living off rented proppertys ) and has only 1 holiday a year abroad.


ive no sympathy whatsoever.... though i do wanna drive that old tvr again... they are quite litterally the worst car in popular production but some craic in wet weather.

my eyes are bleeding

Sea Filly

Glass bottles of water in pubs and restaurants. A number of times during the boom years, I was teased for asking for tap water. Now it's the done thing. I could never see the point in paying for water in restaurants.

useeme

longneck bottles of bulmers

villeroy and boch sanitary ware

Stained Class

Sea Filly wrote: »

Glass bottles of water in pubs and restaurants. A number of times during the boom years, I was teased for asking for tap water. Now it's the done thing. I could never see the point in paying for water in restaurants.

This is one thing I never got.

We're living in a country where it pisses rain all the time & people insist on paying top dollar to buy water in fancy bottles.

Unreal/Sureal.......whatever:rolleyes:

Cantona's Collars

Brabantia Bins at €90 odd a pop,who pays nearly 100 quid for something to throw rubbish in?

smileyj1987

Free water in your house

true

As someone once said, .....savings for old age / ill health...... wisely invested in a diverse range of assets such as telecom eireann shares, the Irish bank shares and buy to let mortgage.

fasttalkerchat

Stained Class wrote: »

This is one thing I never got.

We're living in a country where it pisses rain all the time & people insist on paying top dollar to buy water in fancy bottles.

Unreal/Sureal.......whatever:rolleyes:

AND now were expected to pay for tap water!