Stupid fashionable things you remember from the boom

yrwhu8jxtni06a · 25-02-2011 10:02PM #1

Stupid fashionable things you remember from the boom-

Suvs and small women driving them while caring one kid in back.

Leggy blondes who where with builders who where small and bald and had big arse.

Eating out in restaurants and takeaways everyday.

Developers flying to races.

Bertie telling us we had a booming economy.

Bottled water

When being a developer/builder made you vip

Galway races.

Special saving schemes

One house bigger than other.

Being overcharged for items.

starbelgrade · 25-02-2011 10:04PM

Nickolas Future Loaf wrote: »

Stupid fashionable things you remember from the boom-

Suvs and small women driving them while caring one kid in back.

Leggy blondes who where with builders who where small and bald and had big arse.

Eating out in restaurants and takeaways everyday.

Developers flying to races.

Bertie telling us we had a booming economy.

Bottled water

When being a developer/builder made you vip

Galway races.

Special saving schemes

One house bigger than other.

Being overcharged for items.

Apart from the ones I've scratched out, the rest still happen / exist.

bonerm · 25-02-2011 10:05PM

Nickolas Future Loaf wrote: »

Special saving schemes

I don't think that was stupid. Easiest 4k I ever made.

Fart · 25-02-2011 10:06PM

Take-aways

darragh16 · 25-02-2011 10:06PM

bonerm wrote: »

I don't think that was stupid. Easiest 4k I ever made.

They were basically just giving away the money!

fedor.2. · 25-02-2011 10:06PM

The belief that it would never end

yrwhu8jxtni06a · 25-02-2011 10:07PM

Trading in cars that where a year old.

Does anyone remember the rte news report "average person in ireland has two houses?".

littleandoften · 25-02-2011 10:13PM

Shopping;People saying they've never been in lidl/aldi.
Tradesmen;Saying ah come on youd get nothing done for that sort of money.
Dentists;Saying january is a quiet month with alot of people away skiing.

Lando Griffin · 25-02-2011 10:23PM

FAS factfinding missions to NASA.
The idea of bringing the Olympics to Ireland.
There was no need for God as money brings eternal happiness.

Chuchoter · 25-02-2011 10:24PM

People thinking Starbucks was the best place ever and totally affordable!:eek:

starbelgrade · 25-02-2011 10:27PM

crayolastereo wrote: »

People thinking Starbucks was the best place ever and totally affordable!:eek:

Is there a Starbucks here?

Can't remember ever seeing one.

Chuchoter · 25-02-2011 10:28PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Is there a Starbucks here?

Can't remember ever seeing one.

As in, in the whole of Ireland? In Dublin you can't move and you're in a Starbucks :P

Dante · 25-02-2011 10:29PM

Pokémon cards.

Nadser · 25-02-2011 10:30PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Is there a Starbucks here?

Can't remember ever seeing one.

There's one in Kildare Village

mikemac · 25-02-2011 10:30PM

Queing to see flats and houseshares with 10 other people and bringing your deposit in cash with you to snap it up if it was half way decent. Bad times. To be fair a lot of this was before the boom

Tradesmen letting you down, dropping you suddenly for a bigger job down the road and quoting you that your job wasn't worth their time.

16 year olds quitting schools, going labouring on sites and pulling more money then most graduates. Often cash in hand

Boo hoo, poor lambs now. Maybe FF should have made the housing boom last forever

yrwhu8jxtni06a · 25-02-2011 10:31PM

Rewarding the career dolers by increasing the welfare payment during the budget.

Taking out massive mortgages.

Sticky_Fingers · 25-02-2011 10:34PM

Christmas shopping trips to New York

Thinking nothing of paying 5 euro for a pint

Being able to pick and choose jobs

People financing Sex and the City lifestyles off of credit cards

People thinking the above was completely normal

"Owning" a shoebox apartment that cost 300k

Banks throwing credit at anyone who had a pulse

"If I have it I'll spend it" economics (both national and personal)

Eddy f*cking Hobbs

yrwhu8jxtni06a · 25-02-2011 10:36PM

MBMA+Bank ireland sending credit card forms in post.

Breakfast roll man.

Opposition in government not shaming them to stop the madness.

Shops opened 24hrs

Cosimo Salvatore · 25-02-2011 10:37PM

Jambons, breakfast rolls & the like.

EDIT: Beat me to it, great breakfast rolls, I mean minds, think alike.

aujopimur · 25-02-2011 10:39PM

Customers leaving small change on the shop counter.

Cosimo Salvatore · 25-02-2011 10:41PM

A sense of importance. A feeling of worthiness.

Cheap Thrills! · 25-02-2011 10:44PM

Cosimo Salvatore wrote: »

Jambons, breakfast rolls & the like.

Was about to say breakfast rolls EVEN ON A WEEKDAY.

Everyone having a job.

Reataurant meals.

Lots of decking.

Middle class people having enough money for creche fees AND cocaine.

Boozy work lunches.

Drinking outside a house.

Loans.

City breaks and inpromptu sun holidays.

Dough balls.

Pure blissful ignorance of politics and economics.

Hearing tales of other peoples 'period art-deco' apartments right on the Square of a significant formerly eastern block european country, bought from only the change from a Sunday breakfast roll and a copy of 'The Observer'

:p:p:rolleyes:

yrwhu8jxtni06a · 25-02-2011 10:48PM

House warmings for new mansion

Barbecues

Trampolines at back of house.

Women throwing away skirts/boots/shoes worn once.

Everyone was a builder/carpenter/electrician

No trades person was interested in small work.

Buying wine in the shop.

talla10 · 25-02-2011 10:49PM

The days seemed brighter and the winters less sh1te

coffeelover · 25-02-2011 10:49PM

Eddy f*cking Hobbs

Haha haven't heard him lately at all :eek: God he really annoyed me!

Gummy Panda · 25-02-2011 10:58PM

Paninis - everywhere suddenly became gourmet food bar with a wide range of coffee. Actually fact they weren't and they tasted like shít. Really expensive.

Run_to_da_hills · 25-02-2011 11:12PM

Nightlink almost every night of the week, Now there is even talk of scrapping it altogether. :mad:

Dudess · 25-02-2011 11:19PM

Getting diamantés on your fanny, and your muff hair waxed into the shape of a heart - or a shamrock if your fella's a Celtic supporter.

Vajazzle I think it's called - although I only heard about this craze in recent times. Maybe it wasn't even around during the boom... :eek:

/emails appointment request to beautician

Gummy Panda · 25-02-2011 11:22PM

O'Briens sandwich bar - 8-10 euro for lunch with a drink. Sandwich was usually a juggernaut of fillets like colesaw and onion.

Gummy Panda · 25-02-2011 11:23PM

Dudess wrote: »

Getting diamantés on your fanny, and your muff hair waxed into the shape of a heart - or a shamrock if your fella's a Celtic supporter.

Vajazzle I think it's called - although I only heard about this craze in recent times. Maybe it wasn't even around during the boom... :eek:

/emails appointment request to beautician

Sounds hawt bar the Celtic part

LambsEye · 25-02-2011 11:34PM

I was a penniless student during the "boom" years but I still remember the vestiges of ridiculous wealth:

Kids in my class wearing Ralph Lauren/Tommy Hillfiger blue shirts to school instead of regular shirts.

Online shopping was completely acceptable. One girl I know took her Da's credit card and spent 200 quid, and "hoped" he wouldn't notice.

Two holidays a year - Christmas shopping in America, Spain/Egypt/Dubai/Malta during the summer.

EVERYONE having a car

My school used to do annual ski trips. It cost about 800quid and there would usually be at LEAST 60 - 100 people going....on a ski trip....when you're 17...when I think back I'm like, WHAT!??! :eek:

Stupid fashionable things you remember from the boom

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