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Stupid fashionable things you remember from the boom

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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.

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starbelgrade

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

Nickolas Future Loaf wrote: »

Special saving schemes

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

Fart

Take-aways

darragh16

bonerm wrote: »

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

They were basically just giving away the money!

fedor.2.

The belief that it would never end

yrwhu8jxtni06a

Trading in cars that where a year old.

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

littleandoften

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

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

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

starbelgrade

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

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

Pokémon cards.

Nadser

starbelgrade wrote: »

Is there a Starbucks here?

Can't remember ever seeing one.

There's one in Kildare Village

mikemac

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

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

Taking out massive mortgages.

Sticky_Fingers

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

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

Jambons, breakfast rolls & the like.

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

aujopimur

Customers leaving small change on the shop counter.

Cosimo Salvatore

A sense of importance. A feeling of worthiness.

Cheap Thrills!

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

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

The days seemed brighter and the winters less sh1te

coffeelover

Eddy f*cking Hobbs

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

Gummy Panda

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

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

Dudess

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

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

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

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: