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I want to be 18 again and getting ready in my bedroom for a Friday night

129 replies

Robofoof · 28/03/2025 18:40

In my bedroom at my parents house
90s music playing
I'm tiny and have a huge wardrobe
No idea where the night will take us
Pubs are busy, I'll probably get a few drinks brought for me
I'm going out with £20 for the whole night

Happy days

OP posts:
mumoftwoboys321 · 28/03/2025 18:41

I would love to be 18 again doing just that being carefree god there was some good nights

cantthinkofausername26 · 28/03/2025 18:44

Eating homemade vodka jelly ✌🏼

Ilikewinter · 28/03/2025 18:44

Yep, then get up with no hangover over!, goto town with friends, buy a new top for Saturday night, and do it all over again ! Such good times

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 28/03/2025 18:45

Yep, great!

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 28/03/2025 18:45

80s for me!

elliejjtiny · 28/03/2025 18:54

Yes! Hair twisted into a load of those tiny crocodile hair clips, glittery lip gloss and my black velvet trousers from next I saved up my babysitting money to buy. Strappy top and my denim jacket. Tiny handbag. I've got a part time job where I earn £120 a month and it's all spending money. I will take loads of photos and on Monday I'll be going into boots after school and pay for the 1 hour service because I can afford it.

SunsetCocktails · 28/03/2025 18:55

Those were the days!! I would roll in at 2am, then get up at 7 and go to work (probably still drunk), come home, shower, tea, and off out again! Sundays I wouldn’t surface until mum had brought me tea and biscuits 😆

HorribleHisTories15 · 28/03/2025 18:57

Spraying Impulse O2 heavily
using transparent lipgloss

Stuckinarut100 · 28/03/2025 18:58

Oh yes, oh this has almost made me cry with nostalgia!!

PrincessFluffyPants · 28/03/2025 19:00

I love this thread! Tucking an emergency £5 in my knickers for the taxi home in case I lost my handbag…

Iammatrix · 28/03/2025 19:00

Buying a bottle of rum and blackcurrant cordial and realising we didn’t have a glass. So downed the rum so we could mix it, all while walking to the disco. We were so drunk. My friend who had a white coat, she was so drunk, was doing snow angles on the toilet floor. No hang over though next day. On Saturday we’d spend the day hanging around the shopping centre eating M&S crisps. Nothing else mattered and we thought we looked so good! This was in the 80s.

TaylorSwish · 28/03/2025 19:02

No social media so you could look a sweaty mess after dancing in your heels for hours, make up smudged and a packet of ciggys down your bra. The best times ever!

PrincessFluffyPants · 28/03/2025 19:08

PrincessFluffyPants · 28/03/2025 19:00

I love this thread! Tucking an emergency £5 in my knickers for the taxi home in case I lost my handbag…

Can’t seem to edit so need to add, the £5 was in a little cloth bag pinned to the waistband and not directly shoved down my pants!!

CraftyHappyMama · 28/03/2025 19:08

I have to go out tonight and I'm not happy! Yawning already and looking forward to my bed! 😄

1900s · 28/03/2025 19:25

I had my son at 18 he`s now out tonight with mates clubbing.
Im out tomorrow night with mates we dont have to stop good times we just make more.

HorribleHisTories15 · 28/03/2025 19:40

Sheryl crow
all saints
beverley Knight music
m people
stereophonics
Now music
and so many more playing in the background

classics

cramptramp · 28/03/2025 19:49

I’m in my 60’s and still enjoy the ritual of getting ready in my bedroom to go out (more often in the afternoon now). I still have music playing, but it doesn’t take me quite as long now.

Soonenough · 28/03/2025 19:51

Hiding the good outfit under my mattress so my sister doesn't steal it .

BlondeMummyto1 · 28/03/2025 19:54

I still have nights like this except it costs more than £20 and I’m in my own house getting ready.

Witchywoo41 · 28/03/2025 19:55

Oh god yes! Now I’m in my pjs drinking lemon tea wishing I could live vicariously through my 19 year old daughter but she’s not interested in going out like that 🫣😭

NotOnThsAsosChristmasCardList · 28/03/2025 19:57

Wish I hadn't gone after the inappropriate relationships and lived this stage maybe when my kiddo has grown ill live it in my 50s!

Glitchymn1 · 28/03/2025 19:57

Those were the days.

MenopauseSucks · 28/03/2025 19:58

The days when you didn’t have to watch your drink like a hawk & you could gratefully accept if a bloke offered to buy you a beer, not be concerned it might be spiked…
Chips & Garlic Mayonnaise on the post-club walk to the nightbus (N29) in Trafalgar Square.

LBOCS2 · 28/03/2025 20:01

PrincessFluffyPants · 28/03/2025 19:08

Can’t seem to edit so need to add, the £5 was in a little cloth bag pinned to the waistband and not directly shoved down my pants!!

no judgement here - my cash lived in my bra. I’d quite often get home after a night out, take my bra off and throw coins all over the bedroom 😁

YesHonestly · 28/03/2025 20:10

God I loved those days.