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?

Been married for a couple of years, we were about to complete a purchase on a lovely new house following the sale of our flat. Also trying for a baby. 😊

So the Live and Kicking phone number jingle is now living rent free in my head!!! Do you remember the games where kids phoned up and screamed up, down, left, right at some weird computer game thing and the presenters tried really hard not to piss themselves laughing at how bad they were.

I was 26 weeks pregnant with DC1 and DH collapsed and was rushed into hospital. 26 June! I’d forgotten the date.

My 13 year old self is wildly jealous 😣

Getting married, then being a bridesmaid a few weeks later, we're both still married - to the people we married in 1993.

I was having the best year of my school life in Year 6. Long sunny days playing with my friends. I was so happy.

Then September hit and we had to go to secondary school. It was such a shock after my gentle, fun filled, primary school heaven.

There was no transition or pastoral care in those days. I struggled massively and was quite depressed for a long time.

'93 ended very differently to how it started!

I wasn’t born in 1993 but I’m loving these posts and hoping I can look back like you lot one day and realise everything was going to be ok! 🤞

My greengrocers shop was flourishing, spent my time heaving sacks of spuds & carrots. Also getting up at 3.30 am to harvest cabbage’s & cauliflower

I started secondary school in 1992 and 1993 was a troubled year for me. I struggled to settle after primary and found secondary terrifying. There were lots of friendship dramas as well which I know are normal but very upsetting at the time.

But I do remember loving Body Shop and getting interested in perfumes and scents - an interest that would last a lifetime as it turned out. It was also the year I got a bit more independent and regularly started to go to town with my friends and we’d spend hours in Tammy Girl. I can’t remember where else we’d buy clothes from! C & A maybe? Primark wasn’t around then, I don’t think. Everyone loved Take That. I had a watch with them on 😂

Omg me too!!! Born in 82. And I was doing all the same things as you!!

A-Levels, touring music festivals with my mates in a campervan, starting uni. It was the beginning of the raving decade

I was almost 4. I don’t remember much. Haha

I was 21, had dropped out of a master’s and was living in a commune on Cape Cod, in a house with a backyard full of skunks, working various casual jobs and living on weed and whatever we could grow or forage. It was brilliant and silly and carefree.

1993 was a horrible year for me. I was 25 and had been married for less than 2 years and was widowed.

I was born!! In Feb 😊

In my final year of primary school I think 😬

I was born at the start of 1993. I always think being a 90s teenager looked amazing though!

You have just described my 1993, I cant believe I forgot about the sweet valley high books

I was at university, living in a grimy flat with a toxic frenemy. I spent that summer in the middle east though and that was incredible.

I was in my last year of middle school, we had sticker books with furries and shiny stickers in, I think it was the pog phase and I suspect all those yoyos that were branded with coke, 7up etc
Sweet valley high and point horror, Mallory towers and the twins at st Clare's would have been my reading choice I think. We were allowed to sit on chairs in assembly being year 8, the rest had to sit in the floor, and we felt like we ruled the school 😂

Yes I do relate to that to some extent. I remember that Haddaway song, ‘Life will never be the same, life is changing’ being in the charts that autumn and thinking how accurate it was. There were quite a few bleak -ish songs out that term which seemed quite apt. It got a bit better in the spring and once Mr. Blobby was well out of the way.

I was born in the May 🌼

Enjoying my first pregnancy

Mark One was popular at my school - don’t know if it was nationwide or just local. Snob was the slightly more grown up version of Tammy Girl. And Miss Selfridge was popular, but it wasn’t like it later became. Chelsea Girl was rebranded as River Island and became very much the thing — all the girls in my school used to carry their books around in those River Island plastic bags that looked like Victorian decoupage!

By 1993 I coveted Oasis and Warehouse as aspirational brands, and my Christmas present that year was a corset top from Warehouse, and some heavy silver earrings from Oasis with a sort of Celtic design on them, and a (much coveted) choker necklace with a black velvet ribbon and a chunky silver square cross with gems on it. I fancied myself very much like the Dolce&Gabbana look in Elle and Vogue at the time with those corsety dresses and chunky cross chokers.

Doing my A-levels and shagging a lot