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.

Body Shop stuff, make-up, endless CDs, trainers (Nike Air Max or Reebok Classics), Hoodies from Stussy etc, jumpers and bags from Benetton or Sweater Shop, Discman, perfume.

Comparable to the stuff I'd by for my own teenagers now (but just the modern day versions!)

Certainly not all at once but things I can remember getting early 90s were: Body Shop Banana shampoo, shell suit, Reebok Pump trainers, Swatch Watch, Benneton bag, Head bag, massive mechanical alarm clock, hi-fi, Stephen King book, bath pearls. Always used to go out for a family meal or get a takeaway too but they were strictly limited to birthdays.

I was finally allowed to get my ears pierced when I turned 14 in 1991. I presume I got other gifts too but don’t remember anything other than the ears!

To be fair I'd bloody love that now too

Some shorts from Dorothy Perkins. They were the voluminous knee length ones that were fashionable at the time.

A Q magazine subscription as my main present.

Otherwise, all my teenage birthdays in the 90s were focused around CDs. My fourteenth I remember clearly as being the year of Definitely Maybe, among others.

Aside from music, I also would have received Body Shop sets and Dewberry perfume.

From friends, I would have received candles and incense sticks.

Do you remember Yves Rocher? I loved their stuff

Mac Donald’s and windsurfing. It was good 😁

I got my ears pierced for my 14th birthday.

My eldest turned 14 in 1999 and she got her first mobile phone. Was a Nokia then.
( might be worth something now).

I turned 14 in 1993. I got a musical jewellery box with a ballerina in it. I also remember getting a Forever friends alarm clock around that time. We didn’t have Argos in Ireland but we were visiting family in the uk and I was obsessed with the catalogue. Could not believe all the stuff you could get. My mam bought me the presents while we were there.
Somebody else got me a big Body Shop gift basket full of smellies.

Probably an album (on cassette), or a pair of jeans or a tennis racquet.

A shell suit.

And did you mix and match them so you had a red one on one foot and purple on the other 🫣😂

I turned 14 in the early 90's and I believe I got a pair of bright green DM boots!

I turned 14 in 1996

Big presents around that time were:

Hifi

Curling tongs

Money to go clothes shopping (I remember one year spending it on a pair of Levi's and an enormous Levi's brand t shirt)

DMs

Dark purple Doctor Martens, money for gig tickets/to spend in Camden Town.

Modem and 50hours use of it on the phone bill. 1995.

This is what I was going to say! Still got mine!

DMs. Music tapes. Maybe a clothing item like a hoody.

Cherry red DMs
Books
CDs

I think I wanted titanic on video, nirvana tapes and also the soundtrack to Romeo and Juliet. Maybe this was later in the 90s? Anything from the body shop. I loved hair mascara so that I could look like Gwen Stefani.

I also wanted big checked shirts I could wear with awful Timberland boots and combat trousers and a crop top. I'd look state of the art if I wore that to your child's school today!!!

1988 - I'm fairly sure I got a Pepe denim jacket that year. Hideous thing it was.

I’m a bit younger (turned 14 in 1999) and I would have got:

CDs
Books
Clothes (from New Look, probably), or money to spend on clothes - we're talking £30 or £40
Body Shop toiletries

In the 80s ... I got my ears pierced for my 13th birthday and purple docs for my 14th. For my 16th I got a silver st Christopher necklace.