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What did you have 20 years ago that you don't have now?

128 replies

lightlypoached · 15/12/2018 00:25

I'll start:

  1. the ability to sleep face down (sadly lost during 1st pregnancy, have
    never been truly comfortable since Grin

  2. a tiny waist

  3. a huuuge mortgage

OP posts:
AornisHades · 15/12/2018 00:58

A spinal cord that worked properly.
4 weeks before I got together with DH.

StillMedusa · 15/12/2018 00:58

My waist.
Optimism
Career plans
The ability to sleep face down... my frozen shoulder has screwed that.

But I have 4 great kids and an ok life so win win!

PomBearWithoutHerOFRS · 15/12/2018 01:01

3 more children and cystitis. And hot flushes! And a full time job!!! Grin

PomBearWithoutHerOFRS · 15/12/2018 01:02

Oops, meant a full time job now, not then. Then I worked part time for £2.68 an hour!

C0untDucku1a · 15/12/2018 01:03

Optimism and Options.

Stufftheturkeysholewithholly · 15/12/2018 01:05

An aussie accent, clothes in a size 6, the willpower to be vegan and an abundance of confidence!

Melfish · 15/12/2018 01:07

Small Waistline.
Only one chin.
Career path which I soon discovered was unrealistic, but 20 years ago I was still naively optimistic.

Hellywelly10 · 15/12/2018 01:08

An abusive relationship.

AviatorShades · 15/12/2018 01:09

thanks PoachedSmile

But I can remember thinking "christ!they're burying me in bits" and going to the Co-op Funeral place, where I'd bought my funeral plan before, and asking if they'd give me some money backGrinGrinGrin

No, they didn't. Bastards!Wink

GlitterPixie · 15/12/2018 01:10

My whole life ahead of me! I wish I could turn back time and start over sometimes Blush

Partridgeamongstthepigeons · 15/12/2018 01:10

A tiny baby growing inside (20 next year!!)

One grandparent

More natural hair colour

Optimism

Energy

Nokia mobile

FullFatCoke · 15/12/2018 01:12

My natural eyebrows.
Large collection of tapes and a few CDs - got my CD player in 97 I think.
Great skin and slim figure, was convinced I was dreadful looking.
I was 15 in 1998.

crazycatguy · 15/12/2018 01:13

Hair.

AviatorShades · 15/12/2018 01:22

Nokia mobile - I LOVED mine, that greeny/grey one? Bloody loved it!

jessstan2 · 15/12/2018 01:28

My engagement ring, I was burgled.

chocolatebox1 · 15/12/2018 01:30

A cassette player
Spice girls posters
A lot of confidence
An inflatable chair
Body glitter
The belief that adults knew what they were doing

PlainVanilla · 15/12/2018 01:31

A husband.

Graphista · 15/12/2018 01:39

A waist!

A marriage

A good job that paid well

My health

Hope

Peace & quiet at weekends

Freedom

Aviatorshades Thanks

3 grandparents - all gone now.

GunpowderGelatine · 15/12/2018 01:39

A hymen 😬

Original poster
lightlypoached · 15/12/2018 01:43

@graphista Flowers

OP posts:
Graphista · 15/12/2018 01:56

Thanks op. Christmas seems as I get older less a time of celebration and more a time of reflecting and each year fewer loved ones. I hate it.

PrickWhittington · 15/12/2018 02:43

A pelvic floor!

Also

A Mum
A Dad
Grandparents
A baby (it goes too quick...)
Lovely shiny brown hair without the ahem, platinum streaks
An abusive husband
My youth
A gallbladder
A complete set of teeth

God this is depressing - only two in there I don't miss!

AmIIntrouble · 15/12/2018 02:51

Appearance, job prospect, massive mortgage. I am 44.

MawkishTwaddle · 15/12/2018 03:00

Crap teeth (I got braces at 27)
A naive belief I was married for life (thank God I was wrong)
A massive bank balance (oops)
A prick of a husband
A baby (big beardy bloke now)
A belief I came from a strong, close family (again naive)

Bloodybridget · 15/12/2018 03:04

Mother, aunts, a cousin, four close friends.
A job and a fairly exciting sex life!