In what ways would you be considered trashy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Serious question; can somebody please explain to me how drinking soda out a can makes you trashy? Are you suppose to drink it out of a champagne glass?

Or going to Costco? You get good deals there. I don't go to Costco personally but would never pass judgement on somebody who does. Or calling somebody trashy for mowing their own lawn. Have people lost their minds from Covid?

Either a lot of people here have demented notions of what it means to be trashy or I'm way out of touch.

Mixed bag of examples, but mostly I agree with ya.

Costco - the folks I know who use Costco are uber educated and generous (shop in bulk for school and charity events). They have bigger houses than me and can store the stuff. Costco also has some nice quality items. I don’t see it as trashy at all. I just don’t want to fill up our limited space with stuff.

Drinking Soda out of cans - i don’t do that unless I am really thirsty and there is no alternative. Not because of class signaling but because of germs - you don’t know what hands have been to b that can.

Mowing your own lawn - that is admirable. I don’t have the back for it but try and weed myself. The wealthiest people on our street mow their own lawn. I don’t see it as a class thing but time and health thing.

[Anonymous]

I let my grey roots grow out for about 5 months before I can be bothered to dye them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I occasionally buy Corn Nuts at 7-11, when I’m buying my lottery ticket. While in line, I gaze at the over-cooked hot dogs and wonder if they taste good. Back home, you could get some pretty good friend chicken or chimichangas at the corner convenience store.

B-Q or plain?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I occasionally buy Corn Nuts at 7-11, when I’m buying my lottery ticket. While in line, I gaze at the over-cooked hot dogs and wonder if they taste good. Back home, you could get some pretty good friend chicken or chimichangas at the corner convenience store.

B-Q or plain?

. Plain, but I don’t even like flavored chips. I guess BBQ would be trashier, right? Or ranch?

[Anonymous]

-I have a cousin who just got out of prison for a serious sex crime
-My younger sister had a kid at 20 and the baby’s father is a drug addict who threatened to murder our whole family, and he’s on the loose
-My uncle was disbarred as a successful lawyer

[Anonymous]

I am loud. My family, friends, and from general social feedback I can tell I speak loudly. Oddly, I have excellent hearing; I can hear a baby crying rooms away over the TV or hear exact words of a conversation I''m not part of w/o trying but I get feedback that my regular speaking voice is loud and when excited I exclaim even more loudly.

I come from a waspy family where the ideal woman is not reserved and not loud, so I guess thats my trashy trait. I am also fun, outgoing and cheerful so Im not too worried about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Serious question; can somebody please explain to me how drinking soda out a can makes you trashy? Are you suppose to drink it out of a champagne glass?

Or going to Costco? You get good deals there. I don't go to Costco personally but would never pass judgement on somebody who does. Or calling somebody trashy for mowing their own lawn. Have people lost their minds from Covid?

Either a lot of people here have demented notions of what it means to be trashy or I'm way out of touch.

Mixed bag of examples, but mostly I agree with ya.

Costco - the folks I know who use Costco are uber educated and generous (shop in bulk for school and charity events). They have bigger houses than me and can store the stuff. Costco also has some nice quality items. I don’t see it as trashy at all. I just don’t want to fill up our limited space with stuff.

Drinking Soda out of cans - i don’t do that unless I am really thirsty and there is no alternative. Not because of class signaling but because of germs - you don’t know what hands have been to b that can.

Mowing your own lawn - that is admirable. I don’t have the back for it but try and weed myself. The wealthiest people on our street mow their own lawn. I don’t see it as a class thing but time and health thing.

We shop at Costco and DH mows our lawn. I don’t find either to be trashy. Everything we buy at Costco is consumable/items we buy on a recurring basis or items we need like kids winter coats. We do not buy random crap there. But sometimes when I’m there I see people whose carts are full of crap so I know what you mean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I look down on people who don’t live in Bethesda or McLean or Arlington.

Don't worry, we hate you too!

And, I look down on suburbanites. You can have Bethesda, McLean and Arlington. Nouveau trash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of these are so far from trashy. You guys need to get out of your UMC bubbles and explore more lol.

Agree but I think it's deliberate, basically a humble brag.

Speaking for myself, I was being honest in what makes me feel trashy. Everything is relative and we can only talk from our own experience. I am grateful that DMV is overall tasteful. You are probably right that compared to a trailer park in rural Mississippi or the Louisianan bayou, these are not terribly trashy examples.

I have seen some of those alarming photos of Walmart shoppers in rural America - it is mind boggling and heart breaking to me that some people go out dressed like that … e.g., obese men with beards in high heels and tankini mini skirts that let their sagging spare tires spillover onto the cart handles, morbidly obese mothers in wireless bras and skimpy shorts with no underwear and their obese kids waddling around them grabbing junk food and toys, teenagers covered top to bottom in tattoos with misspelled words and multiple piercings in every orifice. Many of them are probably very nice people but it is just very far removed from my experience of life and hard to relate to.

Look, maybe you stuff your face every night with Twinkies and Ding Dongs, but mowing one's lawn, not using pesticides or wearing makeup, and shopping at thrift shops are no one's idea of trashy. In the spectrum that runs from Old Money New England WASP and Nouveau Riche, they are closer to the former, which of course, is the antithesis of trash in DCUM-landia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I occasionally buy Corn Nuts at 7-11, when I’m buying my lottery ticket. While in line, I gaze at the over-cooked hot dogs and wonder if they taste good. Back home, you could get some pretty good friend chicken or chimichangas at the corner convenience store.

B-Q or plain?

. Plain, but I don’t even like flavored chips. I guess BBQ would be trashier, right? Or ranch?

NP and I love Corn Nuts, but only eat the ranch and nacho flavors. And I buy them at the dollar store!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also vacation in ocean city!
I don’t get mani/pedis.
I send my kids to public school.

Not getting mani pedis is not trashy. Quote the opposite, actually.

No honey. Getting mani/pedis is trashy

[Anonymous]

Basketball shorts and flip flops in public
My education is having a BS from a state school
Grew up in a blue collar neighborhood
Qualified for free and reduced meals as a high school student

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of these are so far from trashy. You guys need to get out of your UMC bubbles and explore more lol.

Agree but I think it's deliberate, basically a humble brag.

Speaking for myself, I was being honest in what makes me feel trashy. Everything is relative and we can only talk from our own experience. I am grateful that DMV is overall tasteful. You are probably right that compared to a trailer park in rural Mississippi or the Louisianan bayou, these are not terribly trashy examples.

I have seen some of those alarming photos of Walmart shoppers in rural America - it is mind boggling and heart breaking to me that some people go out dressed like that … e.g., obese men with beards in high heels and tankini mini skirts that let their sagging spare tires spillover onto the cart handles, morbidly obese mothers in wireless bras and skimpy shorts with no underwear and their obese kids waddling around them grabbing junk food and toys, teenagers covered top to bottom in tattoos with misspelled words and multiple piercings in every orifice. Many of them are probably very nice people but it is just very far removed from my experience of life and hard to relate to.

Look, maybe you stuff your face every night with Twinkies and Ding Dongs, but mowing one's lawn, not using pesticides or wearing makeup, and shopping at thrift shops are no one's idea of trashy. In the spectrum that runs from Old Money New England WASP and Nouveau Riche, they are closer to the former, which of course, is the antithesis of trash in DCUM-landia.

Umm yeah - I was the one who said mowing your own lawn is commendable and shopping at Costco is for people with big homes. We love thrift stores. My examples of what made me feel much less then ideal definitely fall within first world problems. I personally don’t think anyone is trash as we are all human. For some inexplicable reason, It is quite fun to hear all the different takes on pleb behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also vacation in ocean city!
I don’t get mani/pedis.
I send my kids to public school.

Not getting mani pedis is not trashy. Quote the opposite, actually.

No honey. Getting mani/pedis is trashy

Two negatives make a positive - you were arguing the same point .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of these are so far from trashy. You guys need to get out of your UMC bubbles and explore more lol.

Agree but I think it's deliberate, basically a humble brag.

Speaking for myself, I was being honest in what makes me feel trashy. Everything is relative and we can only talk from our own experience. I am grateful that DMV is overall tasteful. You are probably right that compared to a trailer park in rural Mississippi or the Louisianan bayou, these are not terribly trashy examples.

I have seen some of those alarming photos of Walmart shoppers in rural America - it is mind boggling and heart breaking to me that some people go out dressed like that … e.g., obese men with beards in high heels and tankini mini skirts that let their sagging spare tires spillover onto the cart handles, morbidly obese mothers in wireless bras and skimpy shorts with no underwear and their obese kids waddling around them grabbing junk food and toys, teenagers covered top to bottom in tattoos with misspelled words and multiple piercings in every orifice. Many of them are probably very nice people but it is just very far removed from my experience of life and hard to relate to.

Walmart gets something like 265 million customer visits per week, if you count all of its locations around the world. The vast, vast, majority of those customers are normal middle- and lower-income people buying things like groceries and toothpaste.

If you think the “people of Walmart” pictures are in any way representative of the average Walmart shopper, well, that’s more of a reflection of your own provincialism and parochialism.