What things did you really enjoy but your DC will never get to experience?

[Doubledenimrocks]

Just reminiscing today and thinking about how much I enjoyed the Clothes Show magazine and actually magazines in general. I feel like these are pretty obsolete now and my teens will never have this simple experience.

Same goes for going to the video shop and choosing a film for the night or waiting for the chart show every weekend to record it.

Things are obviously completely different nowadays. What things did you really enjoy that your DC will never experience?

Getting lost. If you are younger than millennial then you’ll never know what it’s like to be truly lost because you’ve always been able to look up where you are instantly when you’ve been old enough to be out and about by yourself.

Not paying uni tuition fees

More affordable housing

Living and working in Europe with no more paperwork or hassle than moving within the UK

Taping the charts on a Sunday night.
Writing letters to my 3 pen friends.

I agree 100%

The great feeling of retrieving a tangled favourite tape from the cassette player without it snapping.
Rewinding it with a biro…

Saturday morning TV when everyone watched swapshop or Tizwas.

Having extended family all around them and the support and comfort that gave.

Fights in school that only involved fists.

Definitely this! My mum would select some of the grown up pick and mix to take home and eat on Saturday night. I would select some of the gummy jelly ones to eat while we walked round town.

Sitting on cushions from the sofa as a booster seat.

Choosing the ‘spot the ball’ location on the pools slip

Carrying 10p in case I needed to use a pay phone to call home. My friend had a phone card which I thought was super exciting

Generally being uplifted by music. At school we would gather in one of the sixth form rooms to listen and sing to the latest chart music, or we would make up dances
in someone's garden with a portable tape player. The kids I see today sit around listening to drill rap looking downright bloody miserable.

Playground roundabouts. I haven't seen one for years. There's nothing quite like the feeling of holding on for your life or risk flying off it into a crumpled heap after some over zealous friend or their dad has a go at pushing. And the mega high climbing frames and slides.

The Disney Store 😭

Going to Butlins where everything was free. Unlimited rides on the fair.

Going into a town centre which was full of all different types of shops - not half empty or charity shops as it is now. We had four or five tiny shops that just sold earrings. Big colourful round plastic earrings, metal hoops, long dangling earrings. So many to choose from. Claires is a poor substitute and full of tat.

Going to the phone box and paying for a random dial a disk - you never knew which one you would get. Also, not constantly knowing what time it was - phoning speaking clock for the time if you were worried you had stayed out playing too late.

Spending every holiday with my grandparents. Bliss.

Proper paper and crepe Christmas decorations.

Wilkos do a pick n mix. I'd say Wilkos is Woolies in all but name.

I think the biggest one for me was being able to play out all day unsupervised with the neighbourhood kids. I'm fortunate that this was safe. Those memories and experiences mean so much to me.

Being able to just walk round to your grandparents or cousin's house by yourself because everyone lived in the same village.

Having to go to the public library or school library if you wanted to use a computer or the internet because you didn't have it at home!

Chatting on MSN for hours. No pictures, videos, music, just conversation!

My dad letting me sit on the bonnet while he parked the car in the driveway.
Highlight of my weekends😂

Not having to show ID so you could go to nightclubs at 15/16 and just add 2 or 3 years to your birthdate if they asked, they rarely did.

Ideal Home Exhibition. First went with the school, so exciting! Discovering innovative kitchen tools, tasting stuff (first time having a fresh pineapple) and clothes. Bought a round sandwich maker that heated up on the cooker ring, it was rubbish but so cool. It has been total rubbish for years.

Coconut Boost bars (in the red packaging).

Rushing home from school on summer evenings to watch the likes of Becker, Agassi, Navratilova, Graf at Wimbledon. The tournament seems somehow duller these days, and doesn’t seem to be watched and discussed by everyone in the way it was back then.

More variety in chart music. It seems to me that modern music is all stuff that can be played on Kiss FM. When I was a sixth former, the Stone Roses shared the charts with Kylie, The Cure, Bananarama, Wet Wet Wet, Guns and Roses, Inspiral Carpets, Seal, Haddaway, The Happy Mondays, De La Soul, Tracy Chapman, Daft Punk.

Haha, my sister and I were exactly the same. I don't know why we didn't just entertain ourselves in some other way until the cartoons started but we used to just sit there and watch it like it a programme!

But the Pick and Mix is small and rubbish.

The one at Woollies in its heyday was amazing.

I actually miss waiting week to week for the next episode of a show. American shows in particular, like Dawson’s Creek and My So Called Life. Me and my sister used to watch them religiously and then the next day we’d be talking about it all day at school with our friends.

I miss recording songs off the radio, and taping my favourite acts on Top of The Pops.

Weekends we would all watch Gladiators, Blind Date and Beadles Abouts as a family.

Chatting to people on AOL and MSN.

Speanding my weekends with my friends shopping in Tammy Girl

There was such beauty in simplicity wasn't there? I'm only late 20's and did just catch the early days of social media at the end of school but no one had internet on their phones (the blind panic if you hit that button!) and only had a couple of hours on the shared family computer in the kitchen and I'm very glad of that looking back.