I’m dreaming of an early 90s Christmas

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I’m a child of the 80s (born in 77) so am usually nostalgic for those days at christmas time, but for some reason I’m suddenly craving the christmases of my teens:

Shopping with my mates in the newly opened shopping centre and going for a Burger King (FANCY compared to McDonalds back then because it was a novelty), deliberating over which Body Shop gift basket to buy my mum - white musk, dewberry or go rogue and get ananya?

Will my BFF buy me Tribe perfume for Christmas or a Purple Ronnie mug? When is the One Foot in the Grave Christmas special on? Will my dad let me have some Babycham? (Still a thing in the 90s) Can I convince my mum to put up the tacky foil garland decorations instead of all the new Victorian themed stuff that she bought last year when she decided it was all too dated?

Will the sound of christmas morning be a Now album or the Smash Hits compilation? There’s bound to be one of those in my stocking. And will my festive makeup look be created with Miners eyeshadow or the lurid M&S palette that everyone had back then? (Heather Shimmer lipsticks was non negotiable).

I had some with egg shaped soaps in.

Also, who remembers Ice-Cream scented body shop bubbles? You could go to the factor shop at HQ and get it refilled. I can still remember the smell of that shop SO vividly. They had a little train you could ride on for the tour.

Another 90s stocking filler which I had every year - a Forever Friends diary which I would diligently record all family and friends’ landline numbers, birthdays and addresses in. I wasn’t really in to twee toys and stuff but I loved those big ol’ bears

I had this! I actually got two versions and one was more the deluxe one. I used to spend our fiddling with the magnetic locking mechanism

My 1993 list was:

Atari console
Body shop strawberry lip balm
Body shop Banana shampoo
Body shop clear mascara (for brows)
Babe cassette
Latest now cassette
Sony Walkman
Levi jeans (which cost £41)
Some scrunches
A multipack of 80 denier boots black tights
Max factor 2000 calorie mascara
Daniel Galvin conditioner
A mood ring
A choker
A crushed velvet dress from river island
Purple doc martens

Wicker ducks! Yes!!!! All my Body Shop soaps and bath pearls went into them, gathering dust

I had the Cosmetics To Go calendar on the wall above my bed. Each month gave a different offer (who also remembers their ration books?) I had their ginger perfume (please bring it back!) in a wooden crate that came with pot pourri. Lush have never been able to capture the magic that was CTG.

Does anyone remember the craze for kickers shoes and the paisley shirts?

Got my first tv for my bedroom when I was 10. Black and white with a round dial to change channel. I was so happy.

i had kickers i love my purple ones

I loved CTG blackberry bath bombs.

On my Christmas list was a forever friends pencil tin. No, not a case. Had to be a tin. Need to tippex and scratch things into the lid.

Oh yes the paisley shirts and kickers had those too! IIRC my paisley shirt was red (what the hell was I thinking?) It went really nicely with my pale blue rip off Levi's !

I also recall getting either Xmas 1990 or 91 a global hyper colour tee shirt that changed colour when you got warm (yuk) @ bright lime or bright aqua Nike Oregon sweater any one else remember those?

Does anyone remember a vanilla scent perfume and body spray set? cannot remember what it was called, but I used to love it and received most Cases from 1989 onwards. Think it came in pale cream and green packaging/logo. Do not think it was body shop.

Wicker ducks!

78 baby here. I was all about the Rimmel Black Cherries lipstick and Bodyshop Vanilla perfume. My crushed velvet mini dress was navy blue and my mum made me a matching velvet choker. Diane in the year above at school told me how she used to pull her bodysuit aside to wee, filthy bitch. I also had a long velvet waistcoat thing from Miss Selfridge which was purple and I wore it over black tights, velvet hotpants, and a black bodysuit. Wtf!

I went with my boyfriend who was 21 (I was 14) to see The Muppet Christmas Carol at the cinema and on the way home he presented me with a Faith, Hope, and Charity necklace from Elizabeth Duke, this must have been about a week before Christmas because I dumped him on Christmas Eve because he kept badgering me to have sex. He sent his sister round on Boxing Day with a note telling me he loved me and that we should get back together, but this time not keep it a secret (yeah because that would have worked), and I had to make up some excuse to my parents about why this girl had interrupted Boxing Day lunch.

I still have a random wicker duck that I keep hair grips in on my dressing table. It hadn’t occurred to me until just now that I’ve had it 25+ years! 😂

I remember wearing Rimmel Black Cherries circa 1993. They still do it in the nail varnish i think.

I wouldnt do a dark lip now at the age of 45 Dark colours can make your lips look small especially when you are older.

For those of you who want to/can still do this colour though.....................Revlon Black Cherry.

makeupandbeauty.com/revlon-super-lustrous-lipstick-black-cherry-review/

More cherished 90s Christmas presents (across the era):

Long-sleeved band T-shirts.
Pulp, Blur, Oasis albums.
Neon Crayola felt-tips.
Those black boards with a picture on (usually something like a wolf’s head) that came with a scraper and you scratched off the black to reveal silver/gold underneath.
Paint by numbers.
(Early 90s:) Neon spiral shoelaces.
Those GIANT (like metre-long) bars of Dairy Milk from Woollies.
Moon and star earrings.
Joss sticks.
Crystals.
Vouchers for Tammy Girl, Snob, Miss Selfridge.
Loose glitter eyeshadow.
Candy floss lip gloss.
Baby pink or baby blue mini t-shirts.
Spiral bound A5 notebooks from the Body Shop.
Dewberry gift baskets with the little bits of shredded paper underneath.
Coloured hair mascaras.
Cherry red 16-hole DMs.
Fake fur jacket.
Brown lipliner.
Big transparent plastic Japanese hair bobbles with little coloured springs inside.
Novelty coloured nail polish when before that you could really only get red or pale pink.

Born Jan 78 and I loved those 90's Christmas memories.
I remember the year I refused to get up because I thought all I had was a bloody washing basket in the shape of an elephant!

I didn't know that it was full to the brim with my presents inside what a cow I was.
I loved my perfumes then as I do now and got Tribe, Exclamation! And Versace Red Jeans in the tin.

Chocolate was chocolate and life was good.

I also remember one year wanting corkscrew curls so my mum put my hair in rags and I had the worst sleep of my life though they did look amazing.

Lovely thread.

Ooh I forgot about Exclamation perfume along with Dew Berry.
I didn't realise I had forgotten them until I remembered them
Who remembers Naff Naff trackies and Travel Fox trainers or trabs as we used call them. I recall saying to my nan that was still going to wear them when I was her age.
Excellent thread, op.

Born in 67, i was a new romantic. White shirt with diamante brooch.

Body shop dewberry and white mist! Opium perfume, once I could afford it. Listening to Annie Nightingale on a Sunday night.

Ah dewberry perfume! Anaïs Anaïs aswell of course.

Has anyone mentioned hair mousse?? I would have bought (and used) hair mousse by the truck load.

I kept all my important addresses, birthday info in my filofax.

My boyfriend at that time used to wear Fahrenheit and listened to Blur and Oasis.

Early 90s brings back memories of my DMs, floppy velvet hats, and the leotard tops. It was around that time I was also went to Capital Radio's Junior Best disco at the Hammersmith Palais .

spider

I'm betting my life savings ( all 16p of it ) that you're from the NW based on your "trabs" comment.

Im from Liverpool and I begged for a pair of Travel Fox in 1992, I was 14 and they cost £110 and I got them, I thought I was the bees knees!

I also used to love Naf Naf, Ton Sur Ton, Dash, Benetton and Oilily.

I was still buying Oilily for dd until this year but she's decided she's too grown up now at almost 8 and prefers River Island....

Yes I'm a scouser, Zolflor.

Oh Just saw you're a fellow scouser, too.
I remember Ton Sir Ton, as well
I'm sure I had a mint green top with the words Ton sur Ton written across the chest.
I wonder if any our dcs will turn out to be mumsnetters and one day say 25 years down the line start a thread about this Christmas, isnt History fascinating.

Haha! Knew it :)

My dd will defo be a MNer, i talk about it all of the time and she loves hearing about it.

Ds is almost 16 and when I don't get his attention straight away it's " oh me mum's on Mumsnet again! " what's so special about it?
If only he knew....

I loved Christmas tv back then! Circling things in the radio and tv times diving across the floor to press record on the video, as you didn’t quite trust the timer/tv plusto not miss the start or end, stoping it for ad breaks and forgetting to press restart.

On Sunday my 6year old was counting down to watching elf on tv, he was asking all day how long til 6 oclock. He sat with such concentration watching it, running to the loo in the ad breaks. Downloading something off net flicks isn’t the same.

The bottles of little perfumes.

Dewbury range at body shop

Exclamation perfume

But mainly it was horsey stuff for me.

I still buy an Xmas TV magazine and circle things. Am I the only one?