What does YOUR Home Say About Your Social Class?

Our home and the possessions they contain can reveal an awful lot about our social character.

A house is a reflection of one’s personality, breeding, and aspirations so it’s fair game to critique, comment and pass judgment on what others freely chose to own.

So how many of these less-than-smart items do you have in your abode?

Hot tub 

I have written before that there are few worse accusations one can level against someone than that they own, or aspire to own, a hot tub.

Why anyone in sound mind would want to spend an evening mutually soaking with a group of flabby friends whilst microscopic chunks of epidermis float past is a continual conundrum.

Many PLU (people like us) would rather holiday in Aleppo than accept an invitation to a hot tub party.

Big television 

The size of a house’s main television is pretty much the acid test in social class. The bigger the television the more downmarket the establishment. Big is NOT beautiful.

Although the aristocracy is now prone to plonking a plasma, unashamedly, in the middle of a room where the walls are bedecked with Titians and Tintorettos, it is never any larger than 38 or so inches and definitely not the latest technology available.

Cinema room 

‘Guys, why don’t we go and watch a movie in our cinema room?’

Words that will send an icy chill down anyone of good breeding’s spine. A television that’s too large is nothing in comparison to a room that actually has one wall totally occupied by, and dedicated to, a projector screen.

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