Stupid fashionable things you remember from the boom

Nolanger · 26-02-2011 11:50AM

I remember walking behind a couple just off Camden Street and the guy was going on about his Xmas bonus and saying it's not his fault he's getting it while the lass/escort was oohing and aahing.

cleremy jarkson · 26-02-2011 12:36PM

Irish people were spoilt beyond belief.. we'll never have days that good again!

Run_to_da_hills · 26-02-2011 12:58PM

Stretch Humvee limos seen regularly on Saturday nights around East Wall.

peasant · 26-02-2011 01:13PM

cleremy jarkson wrote: »

Irish people were spoilt beyond belief.. we'll never have days that good again!

What was good about them?
Everything just became ridiculously expensive or just plain ridiculous

df1985 · 26-02-2011 01:13PM

cleremy jarkson wrote: »

Irish people were spoilt beyond belief.. we'll never have days that good again!

Some people are trying their damned hardest to hold on to it though.

Go into dublin tonight, pubs will be jammed with people paying a fiver a pint. I know loads of people who have 2/3 holidays planned this year, people changing cars etc.....these arent loaded people either, regular people working 9-5 jobs.

If you didnt lose your job or didnt buy a house at the top of the market, the recession didnt bite that hard for a lot of people as far as i can see......rent is down,food shopping can be done for very cheap etc.

lauren12 · 26-02-2011 01:23PM

Been given 2,000 euro loan to a first year student by the banks within 5 mins just cos you want one for "supplies"...:(

General General · 26-02-2011 01:24PM

three in a beds where both of the chicks were 'haht'...

lily09 · 26-02-2011 01:37PM

Hens/Stags in New York/London or Budapest that you just had to go to...
On that note 250 to 300 euro cards for weddings to "cover your meal"
Spas...not the people, getting your body dipped in saxa salt and being charged 120 euro to listen to whale music.
Laboutins/Manola Blahniks etc on sale in Brown Thomas that just adds to the Sex and the City complex that most 20 something women (and I will hold my hand up here) had.

kelle · 26-02-2011 02:42PM

The handbags that cost from €2000 upwards, some didn't have room to fit in your purse and mobile phone together. Before the likes of Debenhams would get the latest designer handbag in, there would be huge waiting lists!

PS workers deserting their "paltry" permanent pensionable jobs to work privately, and when PS job vacancies were ten a penny!

orangebud · 26-02-2011 03:19PM

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.

i miss the heart

Aishae · 26-02-2011 03:25PM

kelle wrote: »

The handbags that cost from €2000 upwards, some didn't have room to fit in your purse and mobile phone together. Before the likes of Debenhams would get the latest designer handbag in, there would be huge waiting lists!

PS workers deserting their "paltry" permanent pensionable jobs to work privately, and when PS job vacancies were ten a penny!

ha! yes - never owned a bag that didnt come from penny's or the bag shop or from a sale somewhere - all cost less than 30. but knew plenty of people with loadsa bags (nowt wrong with loadsa bags if they didnt all cost thousands) even paying hundreds for a bag is mad. they were everywhere though.

another one - buying new mobile phones every 5/6 months or even LESS. once a year you might be able to excuse cos a lot of em are so small or flimsy - esp if you go for the cheap to midrange. but buying ones that cost 2-500 every few months - blimey... didnt know too many who did that but every one of the people i know who did it didnt work.

this stuff mostly still happens though (from this thread) and people get themselves in debt over it. although were wising up to it. im glad we never had much cos its easier... that said i dont think the recession missed most of us. if you lose a house, or a job - yeah thats bad. but everyone hasbeen affected by the cutbacks in health, education, wages etc. and have had to tighten their belts on everything. it is teaching us to shop around for example but its wrong to say so many are unaffected.

Run_to_da_hills · 26-02-2011 04:00PM

During the boom I can remember seeing a company driving about the city offering a door mat cleaning / exchange service.

I couldn't see them surviving now.

padz · 26-02-2011 04:07PM

newspapers with tonnes of property ads and every week a new gloss leaflet insert in the sindo or times advertising some new development with just pictures of the plans (not a brick laid yet) but still sayin 'only a few remaining'

hi vis jackets all around even some in nightclubs on a fri nite in some back arse town

people knowing the price of everything and the cost of nothing

women openly sayin how much they paid for handbag wit a great big smile loving that they got ripped off

brown thomas carrier bags,... not sure if people had actuall BT goods in the bag but the bag was certainly a fashion item

teenagers/early 20s with credit cards

Smart telecom... anyone remember them

lots of conversations starting with 'my daddy.....' oh yes ur daddys litttle girl

kathy french in the paps and on the tele, @ opening night in clubs etc

vip areas in a crap disco... seriously that was just complete B0ll0x

girls and guys picking up every night, seriously some people used to go out thurs,fri,sat&sun and pic up every night...nothing wrong with that but know lots of guys n gals who got some stds (or a sprog) because of that lark, free love me ass....take that std wit you lol

Run_to_da_hills · 26-02-2011 04:15PM

padz wrote: »

vip areas in a crap disco... seriously that was just complete B0ll0x

At least we didn't need to get microchipped to enter the VIP lounges.

http://www.infowars.com/print/bb/bajaimplant.htm

Pauleta · 26-02-2011 04:16PM

feelingstressed wrote: »

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

AH i remember it well. I remember lads from my year rubbing it in our faces because they were out making money whilst we were stuck in school and all the hot girls were going out with the lads getting paid. Now they are all unemployed and the hot girls got ugly

fontanalis · 26-02-2011 04:19PM

People paying for some one to clean their house.

kelle · 26-02-2011 04:23PM

Peope paying their babysitter €10 per child per hour! And most of the time those children would be asleep.

We only started getting a babysitter when the recession took hold!

padz · 26-02-2011 04:24PM

fontanalis wrote: »

People paying for some one to clean their house.

i know somebody who still gets a cleaner or they did b4 they emigrated lol, there just crap at cleaning or lazy,.. but now that u mention it a polish nanny at home to mind 1 kid while mummy went to the gym that was a big thing wasnt it, live in nanny cause they didnt have a pps number people used to pay them buttons cash in hand to live with them& mind there little terrors

Run_to_da_hills · 26-02-2011 04:28PM

fontanalis wrote: »

People paying for some one to clean their house.

Nowadays that is how kids should earn their pocket money, as we did in the past.

Aishae · 26-02-2011 04:29PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Nowadays that is how kids should earn their pocket money, as we did in the past.

pocket money - communion money - confirmation money etc - it was all mad during the boom

Luxie · 26-02-2011 04:30PM

Just out of interest. (As I was away through all this, still am). Were salaries really that high? What would, say, a secretary take home? Or somone in IT?

Or was it really mainly credit?

I considered returning in 2005, but on doing the maths I couldn't figure out how people were leading the lifestyles they were leading, specially with the cost of everything.

Or am I just thick?

Aishae · 26-02-2011 04:34PM

luxie - i dont know the exact figures myself but it seemed the higher wages were needed as the cost of living was so high - so it balanced out a bit. i dont see how people afforded some of the things they did either

cordub · 26-02-2011 04:44PM

coffeelover wrote: »

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

Luxie wrote: »

Just out of interest. (As I was away through all this, still am). Were salaries really that high? What would, say, a secretary take home? Or somone in IT?

Or was it really mainly credit?

I considered returning in 2005, but on doing the maths I couldn't figure out how people were leading the lifestyles they were leading, specially with the cost of everything.

Or am I just thick?

Luxie Im not too sure that the wages were actually huge i think the major problem during the CELTIC tiger was attitude to money, I think the majority of people were living on the never never ie borrowing money from banks and credit unions, living the high life on VISA cards, thinking ah sure we will pay for it next month next year, and now banks are stopping the loans and refusing credit, people have lost jobs and cant pay what they owe so there starts the problems !!!:mad:

Luxie · 26-02-2011 04:48PM

cordub wrote: »

Luxie Im not too sure that the wages were actually huge i think the major problem during the CELTIC tiger was attitude to money, I think the majority of people were living on the never never ie borrowing money from banks and credit unions, living the high life on VISA cards, thinking ah sure we will pay for it next month next year, and now banks are stopping the loans and refusing credit, people have lost jobs and cant pay what they owe so there starts the problems !!!:mad:

That's what I figured, the reason I asked is the salary I could have commanded wasn't really all that.

Snakeblood · 26-02-2011 05:18PM

lauren12 wrote: »

Been given 2,000 euro loan to a first year student by the banks within 5 mins just cos you want one for "supplies"...:(

That ad where the procession of students came to the bank and asked for money from the bank manager. He sits there and listens to them lie to him and tells them he'll give them the money, even though he knows they're lying.

In retrospect, I should have realised there was a problem.

yrwhu8jxtni06a · 26-02-2011 06:29PM

Pauleta wrote: »

AH i remember it well. I remember lads from my year rubbing it in our faces because they were out making money whilst we were stuck in school and all the hot girls were going out with the lads getting paid. Now they are all unemployed and the hot girls got ugly

Theres some that actually stayed with them? :eek:

Lando Griffin · 26-02-2011 10:29PM

The PD's.
A 5 hour drive from Cork to Dublin.
Pages and pages of recruitment in the papers.
Rashers became bacon.
Quality street hookers unwilling to haggle because they knew the next customer was only a few minutes away.

ArtyC · 26-02-2011 10:33PM

painting those cornerstone things onto houses---all trying to be different- evry house in our area had them after a year

pebbles21 · 26-02-2011 10:54PM

The Evening Herarld headlines telling me i was €2k richer when i came back from my holiday in las Vegas cos my house had just rose that much in value in two weeks

spider guardian · 26-02-2011 11:55PM

Being able to conveniently get to my holiday home in Fuerteventura before Ryanair discontinued the route :mad:

Stupid fashionable things you remember from the boom

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