If you turned 14 in the early '90s

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What did you get for your birthday presents?

I genuinely can't remember and my soon to be 14 y.o asked me the question.

It blows my mind what 14 year olds ask for nowadays that just were not part of my world back then, I had no interest in make up, skin care, expensive trainers, tech etc.

i was 14 in the 80s and can’t remember either!

Probably DMs

Four weddings and a funeral on VHS 🤣

I turned 14 in 1991 and have no idea what I got for my birthday. Thinking back to what I was into at the time, it might have been clothes but certainly not designer. Or possibly a pair of inexpensive earrings.

Books. Computer games (for PC). Music on tape.

Oooh, or a CD. I’d forgotten about those 😂

And clothes from river island. Probably a bodysuit with a massive floral corduroy shirt to wear over it.

Maybe a Blur t-shirt. And a book about the X Files. But I already hated my birthday by that age and had tried to cancel it.

Clothes and CDs were definitely the order of the day though.

Late 80s - I would guess clothes, books, jewellery & chocolate.

Probably some Judy Blume books and a music album (on tape).
I might have a look at my old diaries later and see if I wrote it down 🙂

A perm, hair tongs, clothes, money

Clothes most likely, perfume maybe

Not sure about birthday but I know a BIG Xmas present around that age was a little silver stereo system for my room
Double cassette, radio, record player on top. Probably about 1990. Heaven!!

I got a Walkman in the shape of a wedge. It was red and had a shoulder strap 😂

I got a Sega Master system with built in Alex Kid in Miracle World.

1994 I got… a little TV for my bedroom with built in VHS. DM (Matt black 8 hole by Red or Ded). Jeans from the Gap, jelly glitter bracelets, a dress from the pre-IRA Corn Exchange, some candles, money and henna hair dye that I never dared use.

I was 10 in 96 and got a Game Boy.
I had a much older brother and I think he had a lot of Star Wars, Transformers collectibles and Lego stuff but I can't remember anything else. Possibly he got a SNES on the earlier 90s.

I was 14 in 1992. I got some navy chinos with red paisley turn ups and an oversize white cotton shirt with a matching red paisley patch packet from the Co -op department store. I loved that outfit.

I turned 14 in 1990 and would have got money for my birthday.

New Walkman bought with birthday money and a new copy of the album (on tape) I listened to so much that I actually stretched the tape.

I remember lusting after a CD player for my room but it being too expensive. And I had no CDs 🤣🤣🤣

Probably rediculously wide jeans, a Tammy Girl voucher and some smellies from Body Shop.

Star Trek items and maybe X-Files books from Forbidden Planet (Star Trek being my special interest at that moment). Rotastak for my hamster. Chocolate. Maybe small stationery/Body Shop bath pearls from friends. I may have got a New Look voucher from relatives as New Look was the only clothes shop for people under 20 in our town.

I recall that I was quite interested in the concept of make-up, but I wasn't allowed to have it (in case I managed to get a boyfriend and forgot about studying), with the exception of a black pyramid all-in-one set from Argos and a billion rainbow nail polishes.

Mum handed me Kay's and Freeman's catalogues, gave me a budget and told me to go crazy

Granted we were an army family living abroad so fashions were a tad behind so this gift was a Big Deal

Oh and dad took me to the NAAFI shop on base on my actual birthday (his is the same day) and treated me to heaps of CDs and then a fry up after

Those were the days

Vouchers and / or money, which I probably spent in Tammy Girl!

Or really random things for my hobby.

‘93: I got 4 pairs of differently coloured Converse hi tops. Red, purple, turquoise, and i I can’t remember the fourth.