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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

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Idontmeanto · 15/12/2018 07:46

Living parents, a student loan and a handsome colleague I went on to marry.

ReggieKrayDoYouKnowMyName · 15/12/2018 07:49

No qualifications

A pure and true belief in the genius of Savage Garden as a band

My natural hair colour

VioletCharlotte · 15/12/2018 07:56

A bump (3 months pregnant)
A mortgage
A hamster!

SheSnapsThenSheFarts · 15/12/2018 07:59

A healthy BMI, energy and positivity. And the ability to walk in high heels.

FoonaLagoonaBaboona · 15/12/2018 07:59

Money

ImogenTubbs · 15/12/2018 08:00

A strong pelvic floor
Anxiety and major self-doubt
Defined waist
Weird short red hair that didn't suit me

ittooshallpass · 15/12/2018 08:04

My Dad.

WallisFrizz · 15/12/2018 08:04

Student debt
A brilliant social life
Loads of free time

PearlandRubies194 · 15/12/2018 08:09

Teenage acne
My virginity

Howmanysleepstilchristmas · 15/12/2018 08:09

Hope for a career I loved
Cats
A friend
A slimmer waist

Accountant222 · 15/12/2018 08:14

A waist
A huge social life
Alcohol a plenty
A mortgage
A huge credit card bill

Chasingsquirrels · 15/12/2018 08:16

1998, umm...
A husband (we got married just over 20 years ago)
The ability to come and go as I pleased (no kids then - this is returning as they grow up).
A swimming pool (we were living abroard) and the knowledge that when I woke up the weather would be 30° or 31° and sunny 🙂.
Pert breasts 🤣

Inkspellme · 15/12/2018 08:17

Bombs and Bullets -from both sides - In Northern Ireland

Kemer2018 · 15/12/2018 08:19

A full-time job
All my teeth
A hernia free abdomen
Size 5 feet (went to 6 when pg, never went back)
A more optimistic outlook
A cd player
A standalone camera
A face-off Alpine car stereo
A tropical fish tank full of fish
A sex drive
Good hair
Better eyesight
A defined waist
Lovely small boobs

eggofmantumbi · 15/12/2018 08:19

A functioning pancreas! 😂

KlutzyDraconequus · 15/12/2018 08:22

Hair
Size 32 waist
Spare cash
Hopes and dreams.

All now ravaged with the passage of time.

ifigoup · 15/12/2018 08:23

Lots of friends I saw regularly - the kind where you pop in and out but could just casually end up spending several days together.

A faith that gave my whole life purpose and was mostly a source of joy and hope rather than guilt and exasperation.

An attention span for novels and “hard” books.

An in-depth knowledge of the current new music scene.

A mother.

Hope that things would probably work out for the best.

A late-teenage metabolism.

Several more piercings.

lightlypoached · 15/12/2018 08:31

@inkspellme I can distinctly remember working with government people who lived in NI - one chap used to back his car off the drive every morning before putting his infant son in for nursery run. Just in case there was a bomb in it. Shock

RIP to lots of people’s lovely family members

And once again a big shout out to all those fellow women with chunky waists and saggy tits, who suffer raging hangovers, can’t be arsed for sex anymore and who would rather sit quietly in a chair with a cuppa than don the Morgan top, grab the Nokia brick and go out partying at a gig [fgrin{

Keep ‘em coming - this is fascinating!

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lightlypoached · 15/12/2018 08:33

That was meant to be Xmas Grin soz.

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NotCitrus · 15/12/2018 08:42

A pager, to get messages from MrNC.
Phonecards
A perfectly-striped lawn (landlords lived next door and did our garden too)
Housemates
6 series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to look forward to
Contraceptive pills and tampons
Functioning hands and pelvis
Size 12 body
Hideous depression

Swings and roundabouts.

Scotinoz · 15/12/2018 08:45

Freedom
Youth
Fat salary
Money in the bank
A lovely figure
Sleep

echt · 15/12/2018 08:45

My late and lovely DH
A reliable pelvic floor, though getting it back now. Smile
A mortgage

AdaColeman · 15/12/2018 08:46

Love
Hope
Laughter

Thankssomuch · 15/12/2018 08:48

A complicated love life
An amazing sex life
A brilliant figure
A big mortgage
Hair that was naturally dark
My own teeth
A brother
Am happier now, just older

lightlypoached · 15/12/2018 08:52

@adacoleman Flowers

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