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Celtic Tiger must-have items

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    #452
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    chrismon wrote: »
    €250 minimum gift for a wedding present wrote on the invitation .

    Is that true? I never saw anything like that and if I had they'd be getting nothing. The cheek!

    I did get the wedding list at Brown Thomas the odd time with everything costing a fortune


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    #453
    working fool
    Registered Users Posts: 813 ✭✭✭working fool


    Daft Dave's monkey


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    #454
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,718 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    Converting your garage and attic (velux windows required) into rooms because some lad down the pub said it added 100k to your gaf's value
    In fairness an attic conversion is a very practical solution to a growing family.
    I take your point re the barstooler.


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    #455
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,398 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Owldshtok wrote: »
    One-off impressive looking 8 bedroom stone cut mansion built in the middle of some flood plain fields but DIDN'T BUILD A GARAGE for the expensive car or jeep left to rot outside in the Irish weather.

    I don't think a house was built with a garage in Ireland for 20 years.


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    #456
    NakedNNettles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭NakedNNettles


    beertons wrote: »
    Having an au pair.

    Dosen't everyone have an auld pair? :confused:


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    #457
    toexpress
    Closed Accounts Posts: 853 ✭✭✭toexpress


    My Christians Kitchen complete with Aga and over the top chandelier!

    I was going to try and say something to defend this but to be honest not even I can come up with some BS to make it sound better. Was a lovely kitchen though ... these days I have a Cash and Carry one and am considering replacing it with an IKEA one


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    #458
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    toexpress wrote: »
    My Christians Kitchen complete with Aga and over the top chandelier!

    I was going to try and say something to defend this but to be honest not even I can come up with some BS to make it sound better. Was a lovely kitchen though ... these days I have a Cash and Carry one and am considering replacing it with an IKEA one

    Are we talking kitchens in different houses here or if you do go for the IKEA kitchen, will that be the third kitchen in the same house? Because that would be very Celtic Tigerish!


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    #459
    toexpress
    Closed Accounts Posts: 853 ✭✭✭toexpress


    No kitchens in different house. Sold the big house in 08 moved back to my flat early 09 then moved back to Ireland last summer and this house was (very Celtic Tiger here) one I had bought to rent and now I live in it but the kitchen is crap


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    #460
    red sean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    toexpress wrote: »
    No kitchens in different house. Sold the big house in 08 moved back to my flat early 09 then moved back to Ireland last summer and this house was (very Celtic Tiger here) one I had bought to rent and now I live in it but the kitchen is crap

    Ah, non-celtic tiger then. Different species altogether! :p


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    #461
    Mollyd90
    Registered Users Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Mollyd90


    eth0 wrote: »
    If you went to buy bricks, cement, tiles and a bit of timber you could probably build it yourself for less than 15k.

    I know someone who spotted a plumber she knew passing the house, so she called him straight away cause she wanted a job done, when he answered the phone he said there would be a 50e call-out fee


    did he say that he would be able to call in straightaway to look at the problem? then fair enough a €50 call out fee was a bit ridiculous. He could have being in the middle of another job 20 miles away getting fittings and on a deadline etc and if he had to call there out of his way on the way home then €50 call out fee is fair enough.


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    #462
    Robbo
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,560 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    Graham Knuttel paintings. Since the demise of the Tiger, there's a whole village of sweatshop orphans in China who know nothing else but to paint people with big noses looking sideways.

    At least with Louis Le Brocquy dying today, some people have just seen a 15% bump in their "investment".


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    #463
    General Zod
    Registered Users Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    "you and your Money" with Eddie Hobbs grinning mug on it every month. Usually it would be him showering himself with rubies or getting gold plated paving stones when converting your front garden into extra parking spaces for the 4x4.

    Things started to go downhill when the cheeky grin wasn't visible on the front of the magazine anymore, and he was advising all and sundry to buy south african kougarands. after that the cover had him stuffing 50 euro notes into his mattress and sweating nervously.

    Last I saw it had a picture of eddie trying to flog goods at a flea market. He had 3 day stubble and was printed on photocopied a4 pages and stapled together.

    Sad times.


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    #464
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    SerialComplaint wrote: »
    I remember going looking for a €10k-€15k kitchen. The head-up-her-own-ass lady in the shop told me their kitchens started at about €70k. We left quickly.

    i bet her goose is cooked now. :D


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    #465
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    1966 wrote: »
    Wasn't this when everyone became a wine connesseur ?

    no they became wine CON-ASS -ers.


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    #466
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    fishy fishy wrote: »
    no they became wine CON-ASS -ers.

    Wine the only drink were people talk bollox BEFORE they drink it.

    Euugh yeah that chateau came from a good year, it has a full body, you can taste the fruit of the loom as you can with all Australian plonk.

    Guinness is simple, its either a good pint or not.


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    #467
    toexpress
    Closed Accounts Posts: 853 ✭✭✭toexpress


    red sean wrote: »
    Ah, non-celtic tiger then. Different species altogether! :p

    huh?


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    #468
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Cobble stone gardens, which is now causing a big problem, in some areas.

    Apparently they are not allowing heavy rain, as today, to drain naturally into the soil and causing to much of the water to flow all at once into a stretched road drainage system.

    It was different during the celtic tiger when we were all drinking and boiling our spuds in Ballygowan water, we didn't need drainage.


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    #469
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,116 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    speaking of wine, fancy mechanised wine openers that cost 70 euro.
    gravity defying wine holders that cost 20 quid a pop. And buying 6 of them.
    corkscrews and foldy wine holders were obviously obsolete peasant tools.

    Also, the asshattery that passed for attempted connoiseur-ness/snobbery, like going into bars and having conversations like this:

    "Excuse me what kind of white wine do you have?"
    "Well madam, we have a chablis, a sauvignon blanc and a chenin blanc"
    "Do you have a chilean white?"
    "Yes the sauvignon blanc is chilean"
    "I'll have that" (Turns away to her mouldy middle aged friend) "Chilean is so hot right now". Friend nods in approval and says "Yes, I believe the old world wines are on a downward trajectory from which they may never recover"

    I mean, what the f*ck is that? I hope that silly bint drowned in a vat of blossom hill


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    #470
    crapmanjoe
    Registered Users Posts: 472 ✭✭crapmanjoe


    blackbox wrote: »
    Apple branded electronic devices

    That wasnt really celtic tiger though, i mean everyone had an i pod but they were never expensive.

    The apple products have only really boomed post celtic tiger and everyone and their mother still seems able to afford them


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    #471
    Mollyd90
    Registered Users Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Mollyd90


    crapmanjoe wrote: »
    That wasnt really celtic tiger though, i mean everyone had an i pod but they were never expensive.

    The apple products have only really boomed post celtic tiger and everyone and their mother still seems able to afford them

    just thinking that today when looking for a new phone and considering an iphone..not after I seen the prices


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    #472
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Mollyd90 wrote: »
    just thinking that today when looking for a new phone and considering an iphone..not after I seen the prices

    Are the deals not the same. You need a bill pay because of the data deals for the smart phones.

    I had a choice of the Iphone, the Galaxy, HTC all for the same price. But i chose the Galaxy because i pirate and you never know about pirate music and apples.


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    #473
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    crapmanjoe wrote: »
    That wasnt really celtic tiger though, i mean everyone had an i pod but they were never expensive.

    The apple products have only really boomed post celtic tiger and everyone and their mother still seems able to afford them

    There's been a few times on this thread where things that were new on the scene coincidentally at the same time the Celtic Tiger was roaring so were thrown in as being a must have CT item. Someone earlier mentioned wearing a bluetooth receiver on your ear for God's sake. Hardly a "look at me, I'm rich" item


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    #474
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    crapmanjoe wrote: »
    That wasnt really celtic tiger though, i mean everyone had an i pod but they were never expensive.

    The apple products have only really boomed post celtic tiger and everyone and their mother still seems able to afford them

    Its not the mammy that buys em now the latest codology is giving a junkie 50e to 'show up' with whatever item you request but in most cases it will be an iphone or a set of Dr. Dre beats


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    #475
    Mollyd90
    Registered Users Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Mollyd90


    Denby tableware
    newbridge cutlery
    nicholas mosse pottery


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    #476
    anthonyos
    Registered Users Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭anthonyos


    a dyson hoover ever shed has one


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    #477
    beertons
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    anthonyos wrote: »
    a dyson hoover ever shed has one

    What? I bloody love my dyson. Essential when you have a dog, baby or asthma.


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    #478
    1966
    Registered Users Posts: 1,655 ✭✭✭1966


    Nothing excessive bout a Dyson!

    More a staple I'd say


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    #479
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    1966 wrote: »
    Nothing excessive bout a Dyson!

    More a staple I'd say

    One thing I noticed during the tiger was that people wouldn't spend money on good quality stuff like a Dyson and bought cheap shoite instead because they could afford to replace it along with a heightened sense of trust in big companies 'ah sure, they don't make poor quality hoovers in this modern day and age'. Loads of these pieces of rubbish now for sale at car boot sales, seen one lad bring about 10 of them and he couldn't give them away for free


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    #480
    jack presley
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    eth0 wrote: »
    One thing I noticed during the tiger was that people wouldn't spend money on good quality stuff like a Dyson and bought cheap shoite instead because they could afford to replace it along with a heightened sense of trust in big companies 'ah sure, they don't make poor quality hoovers in this modern day and age'. Loads of these pieces of rubbish now for sale at car boot sales, seen one lad bring about 10 of them and he couldn't give them away for free

    There's nothing sadder than a Henry Hoover dumped in a skip. He's there with his big happy face. If only he knew where he was going.


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    #481
    DebDynamite
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    Delusions of grandeur for some Irish women during the boom... Thinking they were Carrie Bradshaw or Samantha Jone from Sex and the City. Cringe :pac:


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