What were you doing in 1993?

[NW3Lady]

It was the year I started secondary school. I used to watch Neighbours and Home & Away religiously everyday on arriving home just like everyone else I knew, plus Top of the Pops on Thursdays. I sometimes watched Saved by the Bell on a Sunday morning although more because it was the in thing to watch than because I genuinely enjoyed it. On a Saturday night I might watch Beadle’s About or we’d rent a video from Blockbuster. I loved reading The Babysitters Club, Point Horror and Sweet Valley High and occasionally I’d get a copy of Smash Hits magazine. For Xmas I got a CD player and the Now 26 album to play on it.

How about you?

Working... falling in and out of love. Attending my uncle's wedding in Florida which was huge fun actually.

Same as you, I was 12 and writing out the lyrics to that song that goes “no, no, no, no, no no no no no no there’s no Limitz” on the edge of my Oxford dictionary my mum bought me for senior school. I can still remember all the lyrics to Saved by the Bell!! Buying cropped tops and skirts from Miss selfridge before taking a look at the posters in Athena. Then a bath at home with those oil things from the body shop.

Happy, happy days

in my last year at college doing a btec. Lots of clubbing and getting drunk.

Got married in the September. Still married!

Going through quite gruelling - and hugely expensive - infertility treatment. Had 3 missed miscarriages which were tremendously upsetting.😥

Holding down a very demanding, high powered job at the same time which entailed lots of driving and international travel.

Finally got pregnant yet again in the December which resulted in our gorgeous DD. ❤️

I was early 20s, riding motorbikes, working as a writer on a magazine in London so regularly being taken out and schmoozed by PR flunkies, going out to gigs and parties, generally misbehaving and having an absolute blast.

Ah yes, all that Body Shop stuff! I had so many rubbishy bits from C&A.

I found some Saved by the Bell recently online and was disappointed by how very low budget it seemed.

Marketing to tweens wasn’t such a thing then but I think it went crazy not long after?

Being thought about for the first half, marinating for the second half 🤰🏼 😂

Lots of playing with Playmobil

I was 15 and I also watched Neighbours religiously but was less keen on H&A. I used to go to the local Youth Club on Friday nights for a disco and cheap crisps and sweets from the tuck shop. Sometimes the boys managed to sneak some alcohol there too or occasionally someone would produce a spliff while we sat in the fields behind the building. Happy memories of summer evenings in those fields!

In 1993, I was obsessed with the band EMF and with Keanu Reeves. I was also obsessed with Daniel at school who I had fancied for ages and often wrote about in my diary. I asked him out and he said yes- I felt like I’d won the lottery. He was so aloof and I couldn’t tell if he really liked me, and that made me fancy him more. But after a few months, the tables turned and he got all doe-eyed over me and starting falling in love and I got the ick 😂 Turns out it was the aloofness that lit my fire!

Alongside those first steps into grown-up stuff like booze and boys, I was still a Girl Guide and still loved being in the school choir. At lunchtimes, I could either be found hanging out in the music room with my fellow GCSE music students, or I’d be near the bottom of the field smoking Silk Cuts which I had bought with my dinner money that morning- about £1.20 for ten iirc.

Times were good- I loved school and loved my friends.

I was just about to go back to work after my second child had been born. My eldest was 3 and we were enjoying the summer before I went back teaching (I went back for the last week of term, so I would be on my full salary over the summer holidays).

A bit if an in-between time.

Three years earlier I'd left an awful relationship, three years later I met the person I married.

I'd just been promoted from receptionist straight to secretary to Senior Partner - just after that the business massively expanded with five offices.

Social life was fairly quiet, but Fridays it was pub and nightclubs, often getting in at 3am. Saturday nights I went around to a lifelong friend's house. We'd always have a good chat in her room, supper with her parents and I'd have a whisky with her Dad.

going to make you feel old now OP, I was 8 years old and don't remember much of it apart from living in Huddersfield and going to primary school.

Working in my chosen profession, wanting my boyfriend to propose to me. He did the following year and we are still together now.

I was 18 and having the time of my life raving, living in student digs and every meal being a spud-u-like . Happy days

I was 2 and getting used to being a big sister. Baby brother arrived end 1992.

Starting university for the second time (dropped out 2yrs earlier) and travelling round Canada before hand, Now my eldest is nearly the same age I’m arrhh at the thought of her leaving home.

I was at Glastonbury! I was 21 and don’t remember sleeping for a whole 4 days. It would kill me now, of course.

Also a similar age to you and definitely watched those and other soaps and had NOW CDs.

I was a young teenager at secondary school, also watched Neighbours religiously (didn’t everyone?), but only sporadically watched Home & Away because that was usually the exact time my mum put dinner out. She had just gone back to work after doing an OU degree, and so instead of her nice cooking we were used to, it was all a bit more Findus and fish fingers with oven chips for a while. Poor mum, I don’t know why she didn’t make us kids cook dinner occasionally.

All my friends were into boy bands, but I was a bit indie, so REM and Tori Amos were on my Walkman on rotation. I dressed in little print dresses with a “body” underneath, and had a floppy velvet hat (basically channelling “Blossom” 😆)

I spent my free time reading, listening to music (it was a good weekend when it was the Indie chart on The Chart Show!), reading magazines (I was keen on Cosmo and Marie Claire). The only proper hi-fi in the house was downstairs in the living room, so I spent a LOT of time with giant headphones on, sitting on the sofa attached to the hi-fi, listening to commercial radio with my finger on the “Record” button on the tape deck to make mixtapes, especially of the charts. I read a LOT of Terry Pratchett. Red Dwarf and Drop the Dead Donkey were my favourite TV shows.

I was unreasonably obsessed with Body Shop Morello Cherry lip balm, had just discovered Cosmetics To Go, and my “signature perfume” was Elizabeth Arden Sunflowers. Good times 😆

Qualified ACA with one of the big four (but they were the big eight still I think in 93).

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I'd just sat my GCSEs and was about to do a btec in beauty therapy, when I got work experience in a beauty salon where Mark Owen used to come in to top up his tan on the sun beds. @PlipPlapPlop

I was in year 3 I believe. You second to youngest sister had just been born and we went on holiday in a caravan and my then 4 year old sister did a big smelly poo behind the sofa. Something I’ve never let her forget. 😂

Probably being toilet trained.