It's the Friday before Christmas (mad Friday) in 1994. What are you upto?!

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I have just picked my mail up for the week as I have been on Holiday and I been sent a medical appointment through for a mini op on 'mad Friday' which will lead me to spending the eve in my pjs it got me thinking.

In 1994 I'd have knocked off work at lunch time - I would have gone with my mates Angie and Fiona who I worked with to the bars near my work and we would be firmly on the 'lash'.

I'd probably have got changed in the toilets at work into something I might be able to fit one leg into now 😆 probably some sort of black Mini dress.

This would be the last Christmas of singledom before I met my husband the following summer and I probably won't spend much that night!

1994 mad Friday ... What are you upto?

I was either working in the local pub as a waitress (saving money for my gap year travelling) or if it was my night off I would have been in a different pub in the local town drinking cider with my friends who had just come back from uni for the Christmas holidays.

Checking a calendar, I think it's my 14th birthday. I have no recollection of what I did, probably shopping in town.

I would be 8 years old, still a firm believer in Santa and beyond excited for Christmas with my parents and baby sister. Google tells me Christmas was on a Monday so I’d be enjoying Xmas holidays and helping with Xmas baking.

Pissed up at uni probably, and a size 8, sigh 😮‍💨...

I'm 14, so I'm probably tidying my room in a strop because I have to shift out of it so my grandma can stay. Then I'll need to wrap the gifts I got my friends from the Body Shop.

Out on the town with my new boyfriend (now DH of over 30 years…) ☺️

I’m home from uni so I’m off to the pub to meet up with old school friends & get v v pissed. I’m wearing Levi 501s or a v tight black Lycra skirt. I’m drinking pints of snakebite or shots of Benedictine (!).

Possibly babysitting the Chinese kids above their parents’ takeaway shop. (A perk of the job is that they would provide dinner for me.)

Other than that, I was on the dole, living in an absolute shithole of a council flat, and going out with a doofus.

I was 25. At my mum's for Christmas, hundreds of miles from where I lived. Maybe I was out with old school friends?

Still living at home but about to have my last Christmas there before spreading my wings a bit.
I would have got all my outfit ready - definitely something by Kookai or Morgan, with a little Moschino bag I had got that summer. Definitely something short but would be sporting flesh-coloured shiny tights.
Hair in a centre part, spent a good hour trying to keep straight.
Stuck on a choker and a pair of Ravel shoes, as I stuck a CD on my Sony ghetto blaster.
Met my two friends in our local and then a taxi into town
(or a lift from one of our dads!)
Then onto a club. Then we would do it all again the next night.
I was a size 8, had a good hair, a great job and a very good looking but unreliable boyfriend.
Now 3 sizes bigger, 3 decades older, and with someone much more reliable.

Probably travelling home from uni. Or maybe getting pissed in the union before travelling home hung over the next day.
wearing dms, thick tights, a short flowery summer dress with a thick wool jumper on top.

I was 5 months old so I was probably doing regular baby stuff 😅

Well I was 4 so probably on a comedown from the nursery nativity 😁

I was 14. I cannot recall what I was doing. Sulking in my room at home, listening to the charts at a friends house, drinking cider in a local park or in bed to get ready for an absolutely mad and long day working at the local bakers are my best guess. I had to wear a brown and orange polyester sack that passed for a dress, and got paid £1.70 an hour, working 7.30-5.30 with one half an hour break.

That very day we were moving with our two dcs into the old victorian house we still occupy. DH bought an enormous Christmas tree which we decorated immediately, leaving our boxes unpacked. And we had to write urgent letters to Santa informing him of our change of address.

Travelling home from uni, getting the coach about 9 to arrive home about 6:30. Ignoring my parents and going straight to the pub to see my boyfriend who I haven't seen in four weeks, drink cider, sit in a fog of cigarette smoke for four hours and play pool.

It was the day before my 2nd birthday so I have no idea what I was doing but I'm sure it would have been festive 🥰

I was 16. Probably at the park! Two days before Christmas though, looking at the calendar. So I’ll be meeting my friends to panic buy all our presents tomorrow.

Probably following my sister around, peeing myself and going to bed early.

oh I was 2.

School? Or had we broken up already?

I was 24, and would have been playing East 17’s Stay another Day over and over again before going to the pub with my friends

I was 17 and at college... probably on a diet and hoping to go to Ritsys that night! 😂

I was just over a,year into my nurse training ,it was in the very early days of the nursing diploma so we had Xmas holidays for two weeks I wernt to my mum and dad's for Xmas but back to my student house for new year and a party!

I'm 17, in my first real job for 6 weeks and invited along to the Christmas night out in a restaurant and pub.
Few drinks and felt bold enough to kiss a guy I'd liked from starting in the company.
Didn't go anywhere other than beyond a kiss but still glad I felt bold enough.

This year we're escaping Christmas madness and flying to the canaries on the Friday before Christmas 🎅🏻

I was at university, but was probably in the Middle East for Christmas, as my parents had moved there the year before.