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please, please dont judge people automatically by what they have. get to know the person first .

we have the biggest tent that we could find, i drive an 09 plate car (although other car is a 17 yr old minibus!) and we have a big house.

but, we do have a larger then average family, so need the extra size!

also, we own all of it, we do not get finance, we wait till we can afford things before we buy. we save, then we spend! we have the 09 car cos of scrappage and we will have it till it doesnt go anymore!

we do not waste money, we are not lavish and we economise wherever we can.

i would never describe myself as a snob, and have never looked at anyone as being better or lesser then me, just as having different situations!

Well I drive a pretty decent car and I live in a very nice house. But I do remember where I "came from" and I am happy to talk with anyone and I'm certainly not snobby.

However, I think some people see my nice car and just assume I'm snobby.

Frankly I couldn't give a flying toss what anyone else has, I judge the person by their personality not by what they have or don't have.  

Quote: Originally posted by bartown22 on 17/10/2009

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Not noticed any snobbery really, I just had an inferiority complex, having me and three children in a popup 4 man tent, I felt the need to tell my neighbours in their big tents that we started out with a big montanna 6, and have gradually downsized.

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Quote: Originally posted by Gypsydoll on 17/10/2009

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Wendy - you all look HAPPY - no amount of money can buy that !

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We came across snobbery several times over the years but it's never bothered us one bit. Everything we need we have with us & we have a good time every time we go away. We're a big family with only one income so, we can't afford to eat out all the time like a lot of people we know do. We've got one thing inside our front door (on our pitch) that all the snobbery on the planet can never buy, we're a very happy family & I thank my lucky stars for that.

BB

Dont think Ive ever knowingly come across snobbery on a campsite...Yep Ive met the ones with the big vans..big car...all the gear..Who for some reason or another wouldnt reply when you spoke to them...But Ive always put that down to their personalities or a dislike of me rather than the fact that I was in a 20 odd year old van...

Came across a form of keeping up with the Jones's at work a few years ago....2 or 3 of the engineers...who had been quite happy with their workaday family saloons bought themselves BMW's with personalised No plates...Over the next 6 months there was a frenzy of BMW buying....All with personalized plates....It was so noticable that folk were commenting on it...All the engineers bar one had bigger and better than than the one before...When I asked the one still running around in his wee hatchback why he had'nt joined the BMW crew...His answer struck me as sensible and practable

He told me he didnt NEED one...Only him and his wife(no family at the time) used it..He spent his weekends at the football (supporters bus) They only used the car for shopping/getting to work...Why on earth would he buy a BMW to drive 7 miles to work???....He recognised what was happening with the others...and refused to join in..

As a wee footnote....Most of the Bemmers have now gone...and when you ask them the reason...Keeping up the finance seems to be the universal factor in returning to a more practical form of transport....

Jelboy.