Does anybody here take the Greens seriously?

[Blazing Saddles]

Posh kids had them.

I had a pair, so not only posh types. Quality footwear imo.
Talking about Green Flash on the Green thread. What could be better?

 

[briantrumpet]

I had a pair, so not only posh types. Quality footwear imo.
Talking about Green Flash on the Green thread. What could be better?

My first 'fancy' pair were Ambler Flash, guess c.1978. I guess thaat the parents must have saved up to get me Green Flash subsequently, or saved up the Green Shield Stamps...

 

[Pblakeney]

Posh kids had them.

C'mon. The posh kids had Sambas. As a slight diversion, I upgraded from Green Flash to Vans in 1979 (I wanted them in 1976) and to Nike Hi-Tops in 1980. Looonnnggg before Jordan.

 

[AuroraSaab]

In junior school I had those white pumps with the grid rubber toes, the ones you whitened with the tube of whitening stuff with a sponge on the end. I also had unbranded black baseball boots. Paired them with 2 coloured split knee brushed denim jeans. I think my mum patched those a few times.

 

[briantrumpet]

C'mon. The posh kids had Sambas. As a slight diversion, I upgraded from Green Flash to Vans in 1979 (I wanted them in 1976) and to Nike Hi-Tops in 1980. Looonnnggg before Jordan.

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Just accept that you were posh, and they were really posh.

 

[Pblakeney]

Just accept that you were posh, and they were really posh.

Relativity. As always. 😉

 

[Blazing Saddles]

My first 'fancy' pair were Ambler Flash, guess c.1978. I guess thaat the parents must have saved up to get me Green Flash subsequently, or saved up the Green Shield Stamps...

Well done. Excellent use of my nudge to introduce Green Shield stamps to the conversation.
I am surprised that I still have a functioning tongue after all the licking of those blocks of seventies stampettes. Filling book after book just to get a cheap “gift”.
It’s great how such a simple thing could become a national pastime.

 

[rakkor]

Well done. Excellent use of my nudge to introduce Green Shield stamps to the conversation.
I am surprised that I still have a functioning tongue after all the licking of those blocks of seventies stampettes. Filling book after book just to get a cheap “gift”.
It’s great how such a simple thing could become a national pastime.

Cheap gift?? I got an Airfix Apollo 19 Rocket kit courtesy of a visit to the Green Shield stamp shop in that there London as a child

 

[BoldonLad]

I hadn’t realised how many children were on this forum 😊

 

[Ian H]

I guess that the mis-selling of endowment mortgages to that (my) generation is probably small beer compared with the before/after generations. And wearing flares. And having the choice between Blue Peter and Magpie based solely on parents' prejudices.

See, it wasn't all sunshine and roses.

I'm old enough to have had an endowment mortgage that paid out with profit.

 

[briantrumpet]

I'm old enough to have had an endowment mortgage that paid out with profit.

Thankfully mine was small enough that the shortfall was bearable, but it still hurt that when I chose endowment over repayment, the difference in monthly payment was small, but the 'promise' of a profit with the endowment option made it an obvious choice... I mean, why wouldn't I?

 

[briantrumpet]

OTOH, when I was choosing who to start a private pension with, the top two choices were Equitable Life and NFU Mutual, and despite EL having the slightly better returns at that time, I chose to go with NFU for various reasons.

 

[BoldonLad]

I'm old enough to have had an endowment mortgage that paid out with profit.

me too

 

[Psamathe]

I'm old enough to have had an endowment mortgage that paid out with profit.

They were all the rage when I was starting mortgages but I wouldn't touch one as they seemed to me to be flawed (which turns out they were and I made good choice for the right reasons ... ).

 

[AuroraSaab]

Back then estate agents were unregulated and it was often necessary to go through the mortgage agent they worked with to ensure a purchase. That's how we ended up with an endowment. We later got the lender to convert it to repayment and put us back in the position we would have been if it was that from the outset.

Interest only mortgages were also heavily pushed at one time. Not sure how they panned out for users.