The winds of change

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Originally Posted by DanaC

She told me about a friend of hers, who was a little more affluent and who had fitted carpets in her house. She was envious of this and was very excited when the day came for them to get fitted carpets in their house. She must have been about 14 when those fitted carpets arrived.

It struck me when she was telling me about this, that the world had changed a lot between her childhood and mine. This little difference was one of many.

The example strikes me as ironic, because fitted carpets (wall-to-wall carpets in the US) are now a sign of cheap construction, used to cover flaws in workmanship and use of less expensive building materials. A house with hardwood floors or tile floors is now the object of envy, and wall-to-wall carpets are considered common.

Times do change.