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 32, with a 5 year old and 3 year old. Working full time and knackered!

Leaving school/starting College
Had the best long Summer
Met my first proper boyfriend
Started clubbing occasionally but spent a lot of time drinking in fields or on beaches
Spent a lot of time around the local carnival during the Summer
Had my best horse around that time so competed a lot
Dressed in mini skirts, white trousers and matching two piece outfits
Drank bacardi breezers, MD 20/20 and Hooch
Went ice skating a lot
Lived on chips and gravy purchased on our many long walks to meet friends
Had a great social life
Spent many nights walking my friend half way home then we would both run home

Yes I remember being at school and learning about the Millennium bug 🤣 we also went on a school trip to the Millennium dome at some point, it was so weird but great!

I remember wearing baggy Nike T-shirts with cycling shorts and reeboks. Big (fake) gold hoops and styling my hair curly… crispy. Dolphins, groovy chick and Spice Girls.

We were actually living in a series of homeless hostels at the time having left a really bad situation - just packed some bags and left one day with police / social services help. But weirdly I remember being happy?! It was exciting, scary but I was glad to be out of the bad times we left behind . Looking back they still felt quite simple times - having a nice time with friends, I stayed at a friend’s house a lot.

24 and pregnant for half the year then looking after a baby for the next half of the year

Finished my A levels then off to uni where I met my now DH in Oct of 2000.

Started the Year 2000 watching the Manics at the Millennium stadium, slept on the streets of Cardiff that night, and got the train back to Devon the next morning panicking that our mum's would find out we had no where to stay and had been out all night (was 15)
2000 was the last year you could climb under/over the fence at Glastonbury. We saw David Bowie, NIN, Elastica and Muse that year. Did my GCSEs too somewhere in between.

Working in IT, earning 36k which felt like a fortune. Owned my own 2 bed flat with 40k mortgage. Engaged and planning my wedding. Lots of weekends away and holidays. Good times.

I was 34 and I worked the night shift of 31 December 1999- 1 January 2000. I was working in the water industry as an emergency call hadler and although we were prepared for the Y2K bug that had been predicted we were concerned that that things requiring an electrical supply like sewerage treatment works and reservoirs were going to be affected.
Nothing happened.

I also moved office locations 3 times in 2 months and moved house at the same time.

I’m East Midlands, so house prices are lower than a lot of places.

I saw in 2000 10 weeks pregnant knowing he didn't want it (Id had a termination 5 months before with him too). In a crappy rented flat and no money.

In my younger world, by the year 2000 as I would be 27, I'd have had the perfect relationship and 2.4 kids and the 3 bed house and a marvellous job. Oh the ignorance of youth.

Omg, current dp was running the acoustics at that gig to make sure it wasn't too loud!

I was waiting at 2 o'clock by the fountain down the road.

I’d just starting a new career working with people with autism, an area I’m still in.
id been married 8 years and had a six year old and would soon fall pregnant with my second and last.
i lived in zone 4 London in a 5 bedroomed house which had cost £205,000.
that was the last year I ever weighed less than 10 stone. Actually, I think I’m still carrying the second baby weight even though she is nearly 24 now.

This day in 2000, I was 12 and 3 months. End of year 7. Think we’d just come back from our France trip… can’t remember too much more tbh 😂 we did visit the millennium dome near the end of the school year aswell.

Got promoted
Had a baby

Learning how to eat solid foods and crawl

It was a busy year!
Got married
Moved house (rented to rented)
New job
Commuted weekly to London as part of new job.
Got stuck in Somerset on holiday due to petrol strike
Decade birthday.
Bought a house and moved again

I’d just finished my degree and moved into a house in London with my sister who was older. Found myself a job in an office and spent too much time drinking vodka martinis and at swanky nightclubs. I bought a lot of clothes in Miss Selfridge and Top Shop that year!

I was 18. I was sitting my a levels but got so sick with tonsillitis and gastroenteritis I missed half of my exams and didn't have enough evidence to be able to progress so had to resit the whole year while my friends went on to uni. I lost so much weight I was under 7 stone. I was working in a pub 2 nights per week and got paid £2.70 an hour.

I was seeing a very unsuitable boy which derailed me from my studies and we spent lots of time skiving and smoking at his house. I used to go out every Monday and Thursday to the local rock and indie nights.

I do wonder if this was a glitch in the matrix year for me, and if I had gone to uni as planned whether things would have been different. Probably not, as I had loads of potential but wasn't particularly motivated.

That summer I went to stay with my cousin who lived in a city, and loafed about, eating pizza, watching Big Brother and going to the pub when she wasn't at work. We went to Reading festival and had a great time.

Have been back countless times in the decades since for so many gigs!

Working out just how to escape the DV that I and my children were living through. Terrified every day. Constant victim of SA in the marriage. Took till Feb 2002. No one knows what I went through, apart from my oldest and best friend who is now no longer with us.

I also recall we had really bad flooding at the end of the year. Not an aware that had ever flooded like that before. Unfortunately almost destroyed the kids’ primary school, which then had to be rebuilt. Mad time juggling life and everything with venues until a temp school was built elsewhere for them for the 18 months + until the school was ready. Quite a sad memory actually.

Sorry to hear all that. Must’ve been absolutely torturous to live through. More than two decades later I hope you and your children have rebuilt happy lives 💕

I was busy creating DD. 😃

Pregnant with my first. Worrying about the millennium bug.