What were you doing in the year 2000?

[NW3Lady]

Haven’t done one of these for a while…. Am I the only one who still feels a need to call it ‘the year 2000’ rather than just 2000?

I finished my A-levels and spent most of that summer playing Sims and watching the original Big Brother (remember Craig, Nasty Nick and that Dermot O’Leary voice-over?) before heading off on a gap year where I quite lost touch with what was going on in the UK.

How about you?

I turned 22 in 2000 and got married, bought my first house and was working in a bank. I was earning £12k a year - a pretty decent wage back then - and our first house, a 3 bed ex council semi in a dodgy area, was £29k! Nowadays, that same job is paying about £20k and the house would fetch about £170k. Scary how much property has inflated in comparison with wages!

It’s insane that it’s so long ago now! So much has happened between then and now. This will be outing to anyone close to me, I was in my late 20s and as a single parent of a child starting primary I went back to uni (again) full time as a “mature” student. Huge decision, but the right one for us at the time.
I vividly also recall watching the first series of Big Brother. It was fascinating in that (I don’t think) there had been anything else quite the same as that before.
I also took my then 4yo dc to the Millenium Dome, whilst it was still the original MD, and it was brilliant. I recall making the most of the end of free train travel etc before dc turned 5 that year, so had many days out all over the place, quite a few to all the museums etc in London, and those memories are invaluable. Life looked - and was, at that time - positive and full of possibilities, even if a lot of hard work and financially difficult. At the time I embraced all the stresses and thrived on them. So very different to today!

I was 11 and starting secondary school. Also associate that time with having a lot of dolphin-themed trinkets and jewellery 😅

Pregnant for the first few months then learning how to look after a baby .

Lessons learned
they are slippery little buggers
They think sleep is for the weak

I was 31 and struggling to work out what to do about the fact that I’d married the wrong person and I’d never have kids if I stayed. I was working at a rather miserable and nothingy NHS job and wishing I was a clinician.

Long summer days
Snake on Nokia
Clubs, mates, shagging
Frosted lip gloss
White stilletoes wobbling lol
Denim mini skskirt
MSN chat flirty
My Mam’s roasties...lush

Finishing my A Levels and working. Drinking a lot of vodka (triple vodka and Red Bull was £1.99) and going out three nights a week. I think that might actually kill me these days!

I was in year 6 at Primary school, and had a lovely long summer before starting secondary school. We played out all day long, built dens and stuff... it felt like the last proper childhood summer before we all became far too cool for that sort of thing once we were in secondary school!

I could be found listening to Radio 1 and taping it when NSYNC or Britney came on!

YES! to the dolphin themed accessories!

I went to Camden market with my aunt and sister, and got henna tattoos and remember getting a dolphin one around my belly button (cringing at that!)

I’d forgotten all about the Millennium Dome!

Did my GCSEs, started sixth form
Loving Britpop music
lots of gigs and festivals
met a boy - first love, first sexual relationship
Hours upon hours of snogging
first part time job at a supermarket

I hope things got better for you.

Fertility treatment ☹️

Ah yes, it was Red Bull for all-nighters before coursework deadlines for me.

Partying too much which led to me dropping out of uni after just a few months. 🙈 I don’t actually remember very much of the early 2000s until I ended up pregnant with DD in 2003.

Went travelling then came home and got my first ‘proper’ job with a phone, laptop and company car.

The world was exciting and full of possibilities, and I was in my 20s, thin, beautiful and drinking champagne in London.

It was a great year

I remember seeing in the new year pregnant with my first child and so ill full of flu watching everyone pissed and playing the Prince song ‘partying like it was 1999’. I was just glad the next day that the millennium bug hadn’t destroyed us all! My baby months were a blur of no sleep and sheer happiness.

I had a lovely year, I turned 32. I did quite a bit of travelling and flitting around, which I’m really pleased about as I ended the year about 4 days pregnant with my DS. Lol

Had my second baby in August and was living in Devon. Had to move house with a week old baby because landlord had sold up due to the housing boom so that was fun (not).

I had three small children aged 7, 4 and a baby. I was married and a SAHM. We had just moved into our forever home and were doing loads of renovation work.

It was a great time. Life was good. Although our forever home turned out not to be forever and we moved six years later.

I also had just finished my A levels! I passed my driving test in the July almost exactly 25 years ago, got my belly button pierced and went to Benidorm in a group of 12 friends. Good times! I also played the Sims and watched BB that year 🤣

I turned 10 so making daisy chains, hand stands and going into my final year of primary school

Was having a wild romance with an older man.

Was one of my most glorious summer's ever ☀️ (that and summer 2007!!)

I was 20 and the possibilities were endless.

I got married in 2000! (Still married, silver wedding this summer.)
Was working in the civil service and going to law college in the evenings. I didn't qualify as a solicitor until 3 years later- am now a partner.
Lived in a tiny flat with new husband but loved it! Was so excited to be married.

Spent the summer working in Ibiza. Then moved to Sheffield and worked at the super club there. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…