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 was 4 turning 5 so I imagine I still thought fairies existed and was trying to hunt them in my garden. That was my main pastime for about 3 years:

I had dropped out of uni, was driving a delivery van for a florist and living with my loser of a boyfriend in a really shitty flat above a drug dealer (on one side) and (on the other side) a guy who would play Blue Oyster Cult’s Don’t Fear the Reaper on loop for like 12 hours a day. I used to come home from my shitty job to my shitty flat wondering if I was more likely to find some junkie on my steps or the building blown up because my neighbour gassed himself.

Whenever I see anyone in their 20s depressed about how shitty their life is, I want to hug them and tell them it gets better. I dumped the loser boyfriend, went back to uni and got a PhD, have lived all over the world since then, live in a beautiful peaceful home, and have a very lovely Dh now.

I was working but still gaining experience rather than in career job. Started going out with DH in 1999 and had a very romantic NYE. Halcyon days.

Leaving my abusive ex and rebuilding my life with my child. Wasn't an easy time at all but well worth it as I am now 25 years free.

Hope you had a good outcome.

thank you, it’s a beginning but I’ve got DD later. However I realised recently that a lot of world events around that time passed me by completely.

Waiting for the millennium bug to materialise?

Dancing to J'Lo's "Waiting for Tonight", still remember the video.

Clubbing. Watching MTV a lot! Wearing low waist jeans and high heels to look taller. Making questionable make up choices. Fancying a boy in my high school. Looking pretty hot (although I didn't see it myself then, regretfully). Having big plans for university and travel which mostly materialised. Being optimistic and feeling invincible.

I loved the noughties, my absolute golden era, I feel hugely nostalgic (I'm late 30s now). Wish I could go back, such a happier and less stressful time when everything just seemed so much better and so normal. Today's world is hideous in comparison.

Finished first year of uni, changed unis, remember watching nasty nick in a bar in Edinburgh. Can't imagine watching reality TV in a bar these days (or indeed, even going in to a bar in the first place). Dying my hair with hat star gazer hair dye, cutting it short, going to Afflecks palace, not really knowing anything about the world or life.

Seem to remember an easy jet flight Manchester to Edinburgh was about £10, also if you were lucky you could get a train to London for similar.Also, pound a pint / shot, god knows what it was but we didn't care.

In the year 2000 I:

• Was occasionally shitting myself.

• Had a pastime of throwing myself on the supermarket floor in rage at the choice of dinner.

• Developed a fascination of the outdoors, demonstrating this to those around me by collecting worms in my pocket and saving them for "later".

• Much to the embarrassment of him, found humour in pulling my Dad's trunks down in the pool at the family fun session.

Ah, I miss my twenties!

Just kidding, I was 3.

First year of being cabin crew. Had a fabulous year

First 9 months of the year I was doing my masters. Then I moved to London in September, spent a couple of weeks looking for a job which conveniently coincided with the Summer Olympics, then started temping.

Spent a lot of time drinking and going out. Friends with now DH, but not together at that point.

I was 20 turning 21 in the summer. I was working full time in a quite boring job full of brown nosed wan*ers.
Lots of going out and clubbing. 18-30's holiday with my mates to Faliraki for 2 weeks in the August, I was single and life was fun!!

It was a horrible year for me. It started with my mum in hospital where she was diagnosed with cancer. She went downhill fairly quickly and died in August, a month after my 40th birthday in July. Dreadful year and one I'd not like to repeat.

I was on maternity leave a few weeks into January having the baby in March. Then we put the house on the market and we’re trying to maintain an immaculate house whilst dealing with a puking baby. We moved just before Christmas into a house that was barely habital and needed a lot of work but in was in the location, size of house & garden we wanted and about £30k cheaper.

2001 the massive renovation started that took the next four years. I’m still in that house even that baby moved out nearly 7 years ago and my DH became ExH

I was 23, at Uni, part time job that seemed to fund the amount of time I spent in the pub/clubs.

I had so much fun. 😀

Also - I got my first tattoo after making a pact with a friend in like 1995 - if we still wanted tattoos in the year 2000 we must DEFINITELY want one!

I was 20 just finished my college course, still living at home, lived for weekends and clubbing. I met my exh that the end of that year, I wished I’d followed my gut feeling and not got involved, I was enjoying my youth and freedom, it didn’t last long.

Happy anniversary!

We got married in 2000, had our second baby and celebrated my 21st birthday.

Still very happily married, 3 children now.

I was 24. DS1 was a baby, he turned 1 in July 2000. I remember it was hot on his birthday, we had a family BBQ. I fell pregnant with DS2 in September. Relationship with DP was still ok-ish. We went on our first (and last!) holiday abroad together. It all went downhill the following year after DS2 was born.

Oh gosh - the original Big Brother!! What a cultural game changer that was!

I remember reports in the media of people being bereft when it ended - we were so invested in the Nasty Nick drama. I remember being so worried that these seemingly nice people were being manipulated by this ‘evil’ man - my logic and rationale just went out the window!

The series started just after I moved back to my home city in the south east with my BF after three years in London. I’d wanted to stay but he wasn’t enjoying it, and BB really alleviated my disappointment.

Soon after I got my dream job though and started my career properly - a really great year for so many reasons.

That sounds fabulous!!

My first born would be a few weeks old. I'd be living in France on maternity leave from my teaching job. During the long summer holiday we travelled round Europe staying in cheap hotels (good idea) and camping (not such a great idea) while getting the hang of being parents to a tiny human and gradually realising that our previous free and easy life might now be changing a bit. As the year progressed, I made a jump to change career and started working freelance from home around a baby who, over that year, was fast becoming a toddler. So the year 2000 was joyous and exhausting and exhilarating and terrifying and will always be unforgettable.

I was telling my ex with DD yelling for a nappy change that there was no way on Earth a tiny, mouldy, unheated, two bedroom council flat with a leaking roof, a kitchen that consisted of a sink and a cooker jammed up against the back of the gas meter and directly under the single surface-mounted electrical socket (as it was the only place it would fit) was worth the £239,000 the council was wanting for it, even if I did go back to work full time, money fell from the sky to cover the childcare and a bank was stupid enough to consider lending me the money when I wasn't eligible for income protection insurance because I'd been 'let go' the week I notified work I was pregnant.

Never did manage to get on the housing ladder.

2000 was a big change for us. Second baby was born at the start of the year and two weeks later we moved.

I’m more fascinated by how house prices have changed. We sold my house for £60,000 and bought a new home seventy miles away for £130,000. Twice the price and yet half the size. We’re not talking large homes so guessing @JBJ is somewhere northern?

I was pregnant for the first 7 months then a first time mum for the rest of it.