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?

Last year of school, had loads of school mates, passed test, played lots of sport, drank pints and smoked Malborough lights, weekend and summer job, went to Uni in Sept. Wore long ditsy skirts and had short hair. Never fully went back home after this year (just uni holidays), then moved away permanently.

Ah yes, the compass carving! A few girls carved names with arrows pointing to different items in the design. If you were one of their closest friends, you got your name next to a cartoon character or similar. If you were a more distant and less cool friend, like me, you might get a stone on the path named after you!

I was 12/13.
I watched Neighbours (still do!) And I had Now 26.
Spent my days talking about Sonic 2 on the mega drive, boys I fancied and the Premier League (I had a sticker book for the 92/93 season and my first ever sticker was of an Ipswich Town player)

I danced three times a week and loved it.
I do adult tap now and still love it.

I was in year 6, so about to finish primary school and go to a secondary school where I didn’t know anyone. Listening to Take That and Boyzone, reading Just 17, going to Guides, watching Casualty, very unhappy.

I was 30 and loving the high life in London (grew up in deepest Lincolnshire!) but had a strange yearning to visit Ireland so in ‘93 I travelled there for a month. Two years later I packed my life into a van and left the UK for Dublin.

I was 25 and living abroad, I’d been there since I was 18, so I had a wide circle of friends and was partying my arse off, lol
Fabulous times!!

Lincolnshire?

I was travelling the world, taking some fun drugs, raving, moving in With a far too old but very sexy man in his 30s, playing lots of pool, putting on free festivals and being very reckless.

My GCSE’s.

Ah I was 15. Lived for playing football in the park with the boys after school. Was also into point horror and sweet valley high. Loved the Saturday night tv - blind date, casualty, gladiators, and match of the day of course.
i had a major crush on one of the football boys so that took a lot of my thoughts back then, I was a very innocent 15 year old. Although I do remember getting drunk for the first time at a NY eve party on two hooches.
i loved the typical boy bands of that era and some not so typical ones.
i wasn’t great in school at this point but an angel compared to how it is today.
i would get weekly subscriptions of match or shoot and my sister would get just 17., mizz or more which is steal.
my bedroom wall was covered of pop stars and pictures of my friends
I really miss this period

Dp and I bought our first house in the April.
My dad took his own life in the September.
So a very memorable year for me.

Had my second child in 1993.
I was 34 years old

This, plus going to Athena to buy posters of men holding babies, and buying satsuma shower gel and cucumber cleanser in the Body Shop.

Going to festivals, drinking, snogging and shagging the wrong men

I had started secondary school also. I liked reading Shout magazine, Bliss and Sugar.
I also watched Blind Date and Beadles about on a Saturday and Fun House on a Friday. Wore Lee jeans and used to use the Wella Shaders and Toners on my hair and make up was Boots 17 bronzing pearls, naturals collection tinted moisturizer.

18, working FT and raving the rest.
Not sure how I managed it, copious recreationals were involved.

In 1993 I was working on Smash Hits magazine :) Take That, East 17, Blur and the lyrics to REM’s The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite. Happy days.

On cloud 9 in love with (now) DH.
We started living together in the October and this August will be our 30th wedding anniversary.

A’levels

I went off to Turkey (by myself as a then 18 year old) and worked there for the summer

I think I spend every Saturdays glued to the phone trying to get through and convinced that this would be my week.
IIRC the kids always got a prize so it was probably rigged a bit but I was sure I could smash it.

God knows why but I also desperately wanted the Live and Kicking record bag that every kid who won just for being a successful caller.

Teaching in London. Loved it!

Found my first grey hair, turned 21, did dissertation and finals, graduated from uni, worked the summer at home, lifeguarding and in the library (which had been my school Saturday job,) then got a job at a uni library, met various people I'm still good friends with, and got my first boyfriend.

University. I was a super serious student so no partying going on. I did start dating.

I was 17 and doing everything previous posters have mentioned.. I also loved The Word on Friday night's. Kiwi body shop lip balm, body shop bath pearls, 4 non blondes, EMF, REM, Shakespeare Sister, Spin Doctors, Soup dragons, Betty Boo. Radio 1 roadshows. Big Breakfast morning tv show, Mark One. Bay trading & Jane Norman for clothes. Neighbours on at 1.30pm & repeated at 5.35pm. Smash Hits & J17 magazines. TOTP. River Island plastic carrier bags with 3 blokes faces on, Jane Norman plastic bag for your school stuff. Covering school books in wallpaper. 10 Cigarettes for £1.25.. 50/50 alcholol drink. Wore a hell of a lot of cheap hair mousse that my hair was super stiff with curls. Afro combs. Hair diffusers.

No social media, mobiles, influencers, AI, photoshop, streaming, mainsteam Internet & less tv/screens, = BLISS

Totally great times. I miss it all so much