The Aspiration of Keeping Things Nice

In Glasgow in the 60s and 70s, there was still this sense of saving up for things. You were expected to show your best site to visitors and then live in a ragtag away you did when strangers went present. There was much more aspiration of a rather nervous class bound kind in Britain in previous decades. And it's also to do with credit in the way that credit works now. The people get things as they want them and then think about paying for them,. which is a sort of reversal.