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?

Drink white lightening in the park with your friends.
Then hit the pub at 6 pm,
go on a massive pub crawl until 11pm.
Go home.

I married in 95 and had DS1 in 96. I had the Internet and a mobile in the mid 90s, mainly because DH worked in tech. I remember being with Orange, paying £30 a month for 15 minutes! It also cost a fortune to ring it from a landline. Much later Nokia 3310s were the toughest phones ever. I loved mine.
It cost £20 to be added to our car insurance as a named driver when I passed my test in 96 and our first house cost £33,000. Life did seem much cheaper back then.

Be young!

Reading Sweet Valley High books.
Going to Woolworths to look at the tapes in the chart section.
As long as you behaved yourself in pubs/ clubs nobody asking you for ID or caring if you weren't 18.
Buying clothes from Bay Trading.
Wearing Black Cherry lipstick and Poison perfume.

The fact that there was less media and media was less overwhelming is what I wish I could recreate. I did have a phone and a computer with internet but it was less all consuming, you didn’t need to be always online or available, and there wasn’t social media as we know it now. Things weren’t yet driven by a 24 hour news cycle. The blockbuster films, big albums, hit tv series were far fewer and more people experienced them together as these shared cultural moments. And we had less things and valued and treasured them more. That’s how I remember it. I think I would rather raise my children then than now, yes.

😂😂😂

Go backpacking, sleep in a mixed sex dorm cos it's cheaper, make friends with everybody else in the hostel whilst waiting for your cheap pasta to cook in the communal kitchen, get drunk with them all in the communal lounge, then when somebody pulls out a deck of cards, play endless rounds of "Shithead". You should be wearing a thin leather necklace (male or female) with a metal, bone, jade or tiger eye pendant on it, possibly in the shape of a whale tail or Māori fishhook design.

(Maybe the youngsters still do this?)

Badger badger badger badger badger badger
That's not what I needed to read before going to bed.
😂

We joined the single market in 1992

Wear a kangol hat and listen to your Jagged Little Pill cd on repeat.

I went to uni in 1998 and paid fees

This is 100% my 1997- 2002

Haha I was only thinking the other day how I’d like to buy a house and decorate it completely 90’s put an old tele in with 3 fuzzy channels and 1 clearer channel. Posters up and fridge full of pies and findus pancakes and neopolitan ice cream. Get a tape player out listen to now 20 or whatever it was and watch a video tape of neverending story all wrapped up in my mishmash bedding floral duvet and striped pillow case bought from a jumble sale.
oh god how I miss those days 😢

Yes white lightening that horrible rancid stuff we all loved! 😂

In what ways was it different?

Eh? We didn't join the EU in the 90's, we'd already been a member of what was commonly called the Common Market since the 1970's, and they just rebranded it.

The internet was available from about 1995 outside academic/defence circles,vans in the early years was a pleasure to use, it's smartphones that have made the difference...

The early 1990s were bloody awful if you weren't rich, from about 1997 things improved and then all that progress was thrown away in 2010.

For a few years there was a sense of hope, music and movies were great, life was relatively affordable for most people and the global population hadn't reached the tipping point it's at now. I'm not sure that sense of optimism and isolation can be recovered.

Though if you'd like to give it a go, there's always the Isle of Wight...or, more seriously, occasional jobs come up as stewards etc on islands with the National Trust etc...

I was a young mum in the 90s. Main memories are negative equity worries, no before or after school clubs so hard to work sensible jobs, everything took ages as no internet shopping, banking or even research so trips to shops, banks, libraries etc. Music was quite fun after the terrible eighties though.

My children were born from 1993 onwards . Cannot remember anything negative until 1997when Princess Diana died . No mobile phone/ internet,friends were sincere and were not flaky. A date was a date!

Eat pop tarts, wear odd fluorescent socks.

Have a sense of optimism about the future and a feeling that everything was going to get better.

Hmm I wad 30 in 1990, married in 1991, first baby 1994.

I was very happy in the 1990s but the clothes were awful - grunge merged into combats worn with the too tight Angel Teeshirt. Can't remember the music but have memories of reading about raves and acid.

Decor by the mid 90s was lots of navy, orange and gold and silver suns and moons.

Fleece for babies was not around unless bought in France in the mid 90s.

We made a killing on a house in 1992 because the builders had gone bankrupt.

Everything fell apart in 1997 when BLiar was elected.

I had my dc in 1994 and 1998. I distinctly recall every midwife telling me they were desperately over worked due to the bastard tories in 1994. In 1998 they were complaining bitterly because one of our local hospitals was shut down - 12 months after BLiar was elected.

Agree everything took longer. I remember my boyfriend and myself at the time agreeing a Saturday to go around travel agent shops to find the cheapest flight for our holiday.
But life was slower.

And when labour came into power the NHS got way better,
I have a chronic health condition. I phoned the health centre about a flare up. The next morning when I was at work a nurse turned up at my house to do an assessment and organise the treatment I needed.i only found out that evening and by the next day she had come back out again and did an assessment. Two weeks later I had weekly meetings with a consultant. Looking back I can hardly believe how quick it all was and how much input I had.

Tell someone you’re going travelling and only contact from a pay phone once in a while

No uploading holiday snaps