How to live like its the 1990s?

[Coffeeandcake12]

Inspired by a thread about how people were happier in the 90s, how can I live more like we did in the 90s?
Obviously no Internet, I already don't use social media apart from mumsnet.
But what made the 90s so good that I could recreate for me and my children a bit more?

There was no min wage until Blair so I don’t think the 90s were that great personally. I was born in 93, parents separated when I was a baby and Mum spent my early years in abject poverty as a result. She worked full time as a hairdresser but because there was no min wage, got paid next to nothing. We survived on beans on toast (I don’t remember this but she has told me).

Obviously nice to be nostalgic about the inflatable sofas and platform trainers but I don’t think it was that amazing until Blair.

Beans on toast. If I planned carefully, there might be a small piece of cheese left to melt on top. Slice potatoes, pour milk over them, bake in the oven. That's where you can use some crumbs of cheese if you have them. Food parcel once a week from my mother, containing basic things and a small tin of salmon. Oh, the joy when dd and I were rich enough to go to M&S once a week to buy one meal to share. Fucking hard times.
And here they are again.

I'm not your mum, by the way, @Sartre.

I got my first email address in 1990.

You hadn't heard of a food bank. Plenty of others had.

People (generally) had more money. Ignorance about climate change and plastic use.
Weekends were doing normal things like a food shop, household chores, watching something in the afternoon with the rest of the country. A little bit of ignorance can be bliss.

Plenty, really? I went to school in one of the most deprived wards in the UK during the recession in the early 90s and there definitely weren't any food banks there. So where were they all?

Buy a flat in a very trendy area whilst working as a sales assistant even though the mortgage rate is 15%, get your boss to lie about what you earn so you can buy it

Ditto @FourTeaFallOut . I worked in England's 2nd most deprived Borough in the 80s and 90s. Hackney. There were Meals on Wheels of course but I wasn't aware of any food banks. I worked for the council too.
Likewise there were squatters but very few rough sleepers.