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 as a holiday rep in Magaluf. The best and most wild summer I ever had!

I was in my 2nd year at uni, floating around in long, swishy Indian skirts and velvet Mary jane pumps. There was probably also a cotton pirate shirt with long, voluminous sleeves and a vintage suede waistcoat (where did that go?!). It's a hot summer's evening, and I'm whiling away the hours in the Botanical Gardens in Sheffield. Feels like yesterday.

You are the same age as my (younger) DP as he started secondary that year too. I, on the other hand, had just become a parent.

University

It was the year I left school to go to college, because I flopped my GCSEs school was for losers.

I think I had stopped watching TOTP by that stage, as obviously I was too cool 😎 I was busy underage raving to jungle (jJunglist massive! Booyaka! etc) and crying over being dumped by my cool, older boyfriend who had a car (in 93 we hadn’t yet realised that those ‘cool older guys with cars’ who dated schoolgirls were actually predatory creeps).

Ah, good times! 😆

My beloved cross choker necklace was almost exactly like this, only by Oasis not Christian Lacroix 😆:

https://4element.co.uk/product/vintage-crystal-cross-ribbon-necklace/

I thought I was just the bees knees in this and my floppy black velvet hat and “Linger” by the Cranberries on my Walkman 👍

Pregnant with my first

Off my face probably at an illegal rave 😂

I had our first child in 1993 , worked very pt nights as a nurse and still had 4 horses

Me too
we won the lottery of life !

I took a year off after uni and worked in an old people’s home then went to teaching college doing my PGCE and it was the year I got engaged to dh (now married 30 years). I travelled properly for the first time (backpacking in Central America). Excellent year in my life!

It was the year I started secondary school too.

My family watched Home and Away for years and years. Back then, it didn't dawn on me that even in Australia, it wasn't warm all year round and the poor actors would not have enjoyed the swimming and surfing scenes filmed in winter.

Other programs I enjoyed were Count Duckula, Sooty & Co (I kept that one quiet), Mr Bean, Stars in Their Eyes, Goodnight Sweetheart and Strange but True.

I loved Mr Blobby 😶, my favourite band was Take That and I enjoyed reading Smash Hits and Shout.

At the weekend, I used to hang out with my friends at the park, ride my bike and go shopping for jewellery, crystals, bath pearls, stickers, ornaments and more pencil tins than one person could ever need. I wasn't really into clothes yet.

I was 24yo.

Working in IT and introducing new technology to our company’s secretary’s such as pc with windows and mice, they preferred their typewriters and were very reluctant to change 😂

Went on first holiday ever abroad with bf (now dh) to Caribbean and later that year moved in together to a small flat with a mattress on the floor and a 3rd hand couch that had seen much better days!

out most weekends either out in home town with friends/bf or in city with work colleagues (and bf would come and pick me up after)

was still skinny 🤣

it was a good year.

@Cattenberg OMG the pencil tins! They were such a Thing and girls these days don’t seem to have them any more.

I found my secondary school one recently - it was a cream Winnie the Pooh tin, into which I’d carved my name with the point of some compasses in different styles of fancy handwriting. Ah, good times 😀

1993 was my GCSE year.. I had a massive crush on a boy with floppy hair who reminded me of Christian Slater in Heathers, I was really into Nirvana and REM, and my friends and I spent our weekend evenings at the local park drinking cider and smoking Marlboro lights. Spent the summer on the beach . Seems like golden days looking back but I know I also suffered massively with anxiety, it’s easy to forget the difficult bits.

Let me guess - Melody Maker instead of the NME, am I right?

I was back packing south east Asia and went to Australia for a year. Full Moon Parties before anyone knew about them. trying to learn to surf in Bali. Malaysian trains having TV screens in each carriage. The People you meet and cultures along the way, Using my passport as Collateral so as I could stay at a backpackers, I’d used the last of my money For Bus fare to get to a place in Western Auz to fruit pick and got work the next day ! That happen twice !!!
It was Amazing, no Mobiles I made the occasional landline phone call home and wrote letters and sent card by return of the nearest ‘Post Restaurante’. I was 25 and made some of the best friendships whom I still meet up with. Wild wonderful times 🤩 So many stories I could go on and on and on …..
4 Non Blondes, Red Hot Chilli Peppers , Ace of base , Meatloaf, R.E.M

I had just had my second (now middle) child at the end of April and also had a two-year-old. It was a very special time.

I turned 18, finished school for ever, went travelling solo for the first time ever between school and university, and then went to university.

Although I didn’t know it at the time, and although we didn’t start going out until a few years later, I met my husband in 1993.

All considered, it was a good year.

Juggling two small children and household largely alone as had a partner working abroad mostly. Not my easiest year.

I turned 5 in 1993, would have started year 1 later that year.

I was 23 and it was the year I met my husband. We were working in banking in The City of London.

I was born in 1993 so I was either chilling in my mums womb or doing baby things depending on what time of year 😂

Enjoying the coziness of my mums womb

I spent most of 1993 in Australia as part of a gap year. It was magnificent. I’d love to relive that year again.