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Celtic Tiger must-have items

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    #62
    Owryan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭Owryan


    An original painting by an authentic irish artist ie J b Yeats, for the bathroom loike. Authenticity and originality not guaranteed. AIB seemed to have the same line of thinking, they ve loads


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    #63
    K-9
    Registered Users Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Recliner sofas, wooden floors (carpet and vinyl became extinct), double ovens and a cleaner.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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    #64
    R.D. aka MR.D
    Registered Users Posts: 2,643 ✭✭✭R.D. aka MR.D


    Renting isn't good enough you HAVE to have a house


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    #65
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    R.D. aka MR.D wrote: »
    Renting isn't good enough you HAVE to have a house

    Ah yes renting is dead money they told us.


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    #66
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    44leto wrote: »
    Leasing cars, what the hell was that about, you get a mew car every 3 years but you pay a second mortgage.


    There are lads on here that work for leasing companies. AFAIK none lease to private individuals.


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    #67
    bil
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭bil


    so basically just slate everything that people bought a few years back ya? i mean ffs whinging about wooden floors??


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    #68
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    K-9 wrote: »
    wooden floors (carpet and vinyl became extinct),

    That was going on before the boom and it's still going on now

    Hardly a wasteful and pretentious spend

    It's pretty normal realy
    Doesn't have to be expensive, there are lots of options


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    #69
    washman3
    Registered Users Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    2 shopping centres in Castleblaney..:confused::confused:
    Castleblaney?? just a stonesthrow from N. Ireland...:confused::confused:


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    #70
    rilly99
    Registered Users Posts: 221 ✭✭rilly99


    A stretch car or fire engine just to go to pub Saturday night


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    #71
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    rilly99 wrote: »
    A stretch car or fire engine just to go to pub Saturday night

    Ya everyone had to feel important, the knackers still do this for special occasions, God knows where the money comes from.:rolleyes:


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    #72
    washman3
    Registered Users Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Ya everyone had to feel important, the knackers still do this for special occasions, God knows where the money comes from.:rolleyes:


    your Universal Social Charge...;)


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    #73
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    bradolf pittler wrote: »
    Jet-ski......and drive 45 mins to the ocean to use it

    are you really that lazy that you'd complain about having to drive for 45 minute I once drove for 4 hours to go windsurfing for and afternoon and then drove bad so i could be in work the next day :D

    hardly a long drive 45 minutes now is it :rolleyes:


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    #74
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    A banana guard.


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    #75
    vixdname
    Registered Users Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭vixdname


    50 or 60 inch Flatscreen TVs


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    #76
    Saint_Mel
    Registered Users Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭Saint_Mel


    funnights74 wrote: »
    A guy i know bought 1, he lived in athlone, hats off to that salesman!!

    Jet Skiing was very popular on Lough Ree for a weekend or 2 back in the boom!


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    #77
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Eathrin wrote: »
    Conservatories.
    Fúck knows why, anybody I know who built one never went into the place.

    Hey thats where I keep all my stuff I don't know what to do with :pac:


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    #78
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Mortgages
    Loans
    Going to the pub 2 or 3 nights a week.
    Holidays
    Having a job.
    building sites
    doing overtime on a Saturday morning.


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    #79
    Saint_Mel
    Registered Users Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭Saint_Mel


    People buying all the skiing equiptment cos it was gonna work out cheaper than renting it over in wherever as they planned on taking 2-3 ski holidays a year


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    #80
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    4x4s that NEVER saw dirt.


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    #81
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    I miss the Celtic Tiger :(


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    #82
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    demanufactured wrote: »
    4x4s that NEVER saw dirt.

    Having to pull up on the ditch to let the monsters past on narrow roads, God forbid they'd pull in to the rough edges in case it'd get dirty:D

    They were great for picking up the kids from school though:p


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    #83
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Nintendo wiis that got used once .


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    #84
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Importing expensive clothes to look like a hipster. I remember I went downstairs in The Oak and it was full of clones of this style. Not like now where it's all top man crap!

    Getting a loan to import a classic American car that still needed work.


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    #85
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Keeping up with the Jones'
    Now its keeping up With the mortgage payments.


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    #86
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    Having a cleaner in a few times a week cos you were too busy living it up and working.


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    #87
    Melted
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭Melted


    DR DRE beats biggets waste of money...


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    #88
    Seomra Mushie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭Seomra Mushie


    bil wrote: »
    so basically just slate everything that people bought a few years back ya? i mean ffs whinging about wooden floors??
    mikemac1 wrote: »
    That was going on before the boom and it's still going on now

    Hardly a wasteful and pretentious spend

    It's pretty normal realy
    Doesn't have to be expensive, there are lots of options

    Agree. Well, I like carpet, but vinyl is awful stuff, glad to see the back of it. And wooden floors have some advantages over carpet, just as carpet has over wood. Both are grand.


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    #89
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    demanufactured wrote: »
    Keeping up with the Jones'
    Now its keeping up With the mortgage payments.

    Sure the Jones' can't keep up with themselves any more:D

    Expensive handbags, and did I mention I'm off to New York/Dubai to do the weekly shopping?


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    #90
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    Plastic surgery - people with small willies not happy with the 7 inches god gave them


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    #91
    micropig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    smcgiff wrote: »
    Plastic surgery - people with small willies not happy with the 7 inches god gave them

    Lunch time surgery, quick nip and tuck and back in work for 2... and botox, lots of botox


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