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?

Taking a LOT of ecstasy!

I don’t know how I managed to completely miss Blossom. I truly don’t even remember anybody even mentioning it. It sounds like it was a good show.

Spent 11 weeks of that year in a mental hospital.

Hopefully that was around the time they were starting to get a bit nicer?

I was 12/13 too.

also watching saved by the bell and Beadles about. Blockbuster seemed such a novel thing to be able to hire a film!

Another who loved 0800 prank calls - but it wasn’t as easy in the days of the telephones you had to dial on the round thingy!!

Life was good back then

I was doing the equivalent of GCSEs that summer, I was 15. Remember lots of previously quoted things, the Body Shop stuff was huge, loved Home and Away and TOTP etc.

Being 1

Getting divorced , juggling a SEN 4 year old. FT job , OU course. Help from family and good friends , NONE from EXH 🙄

@marshmallowpuff- I was nodding along with so much of what you wrote! My mum worked full time so we had a lot of Findus crispy pancakes too, having previously been reared on pork/lamb chops with boiled potatoes and broad beans (my mum was never a great cook, bless her).

I was usually wearing a little dress with thin straps over a T-shirt. Or Levi 501s with a ‘skinny rib’.

And thank you so much for mentioning Cosmetics to Go- I’d completely forgotten about it and it’s a lovely blast from the past.

Started secondary school

Ah yes, that strappy dress over a plain T-shirt fashion. I had several of those.

@NW3Lady 081-811-8181 is etched into my brain forever I think. Whoever came up with that was a genius.

Oh blimey OP, now I've got the jingle for the Live and Kicking phone number earworming me, 0181 811 8181.

As for 1993, pretty much the same as you. Neighbours and H&A because Armageddon would definitely arrive if you didn't watch both of them. And watching crestfallen that Christmas as Take That were beaten to number one by the bastard Mr Blooby.

OP I was pretty much doing exactly the same as you in 1993!

I was 7.

Unbeknownst to me, my parents were about to separate. My dad would descend into the alcoholism that eventually killed him.

Spent the first 8 months living on the inside 🤰🏻and the final 4 months probably drinking milk, sleeping, crying and pooping 😂

In Italy on a paid for Eramus year out. Bloody amazing!!!

We got married at the end of August that year. I was 27 by then and DH almost 30. We are still married now and have three grown up DDs aged between 30 and 23.

Time flies.

I graduated from college in the summer of '93. I was also working part-time. There were less classes that year (4th year) because we were supposed to be working on our dissertation. Spent a bit of time stressing about that dissertation, but I got it in on time, with a bit of help from my friend, who found someone to type it up for me. Met my Ex that summer. We were working in the same place. After I graduated, I stayed on in my college job for a bit, while I looked for a proper job. I was working with some really nice people (lots of young people/college students) and we enjoyed a good social life. The second half of the year was really good. I was young, in love, carefree, and the future was full of possibilities......

I was at uni
I'd been going out with my future husband for 12 months and was very in love.
I was mostly wearing oversized dungarees and doc martens

Same!

Phew I don’t feel so old now 🤣 She is 32 this year and gets married also!! HOW!?

Working in London, had my heart broken by someone who I thought was the love of my life (he wasn't)

@Littletreefrog @HundredPercentUnsure In 2003 I did a 6-month stint at a BT 192 Directory Enquiry call centre...oh the stories my time-served colleauges used to tell about how in the past they'd have to have more call handlers online at 3pm & thereabouts, to cope with the national influx of kids wandering home from school and calling any freephone number they could remember - typically 192.

I could have cringed so hard I might have turned inside out, knowing that I was one of those twats kids they were talking about. At the time we thought we were so clever.

Para boots , dog on a bit of string and listening to the levellers! Signing on and drinking thunderbird and mad dog 20 / 20 . Best days

I was 25. Working to fund my partying. Good times.