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 40. Wore Betty Barclay and stuff from somewhere like Crew, but not Crew.

The DC were 5 and 2 and life was blissful. Having two DC had been a challenge for us and we felt blessed. We had a long holiday making sandcastles and collecting shells in Cornwall. Got back to the news that my father had Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.

I was 9 so in primary school playing curby and football with neighbours, drinking panda pops and enjoying the days when a cadbury chocolate bar was 30p.

Celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary, moved house, started trying for a baby.

Got married
PhD Graduation
New job
Bought a house

It was a busy year

I saw in the Millennium with my friends at a sleepover, we were 17/18. It was very wholesome and we went into the village to watch the beacon being lit.

I went to university in the September to study nursing and had the time of my life. Loved every second.

I was in my first year of school. So probably snotting everywhere and playing.

I remember at midnight we sat on the bench outside my childhood home and I had apple juice from a champagne glass and my dad wore a stupid hat.

I turned 8 so not a massive amount. Lots of sleepovers, watching Top of the Pops, reading Mizz magazine, playing with Barbies, dreaming of being a marine biologist (which, I am not), collecting Beanie Babies, making toasted sandwiches, milkshakes and hot chocolate, and making up dance routines to Britney Spears.

2000 I would have been 17, at college, working part time in local b&b as a cleaner, living with my parents, had my first boyfriend.

Saw in the millennium in London on a bridge somewhere with uni friends, couldn’t get the tube home so walked back to my friend’s house. Oh to be 19 and carefree again. We cooked a massive roast the next day and pretended we were grown ups.

2000 was full of university, travelling round Italy with the same friends and generally being young.

I was 20 and had the flu on the nye so had to turn down invites, back when I had invites!
I had just finished college, young and carefree and my last time to single for a long while.

I moved in with my boyfriend, moved into a new career and was earning £33k. We got engaged in the October and that’s all I remember

Saw in new year at my friend's house party in Canterbury. I wore a black miniskirt and black and gold vest top which shed glitter wherever I went. At midnight we went outside to watch the fireworks going off over the cathedral. Another party from down the road were doing the same and friend's brother ended up bringing one of the women, old enough to be his mother, back to our party house where I saw them snogging and then disappearing up the stairs. Another friend threw up and passed out before midnight and missed the actual turn of the millennium.

Later that year, July, I got married (still married 25 years later).

I was working in the civil service whilst doing my postgraduate law course. I started my training contract to be a solicitor the following year (am still a solicitor too).

New Year at a party in Paris where got engaged.
Got married and still happily married 25 years later.
Honeymoon in French Carribbean and holiday in Greek islands
Owned my own Victorian flat in London by myself in the days when prices were good value.
Worked in private equity in Mayfair and everyone else was a lot posher than me.

I was 32. I'd not long bought a house (50k!) after leaving a LTR and was working for a Pharma company where we spent ages planning for the Millennium Bug. Remember watching the first BB. Sorting windows and carpets and furniture. I built kitchen cabinets and tiled the kitchen and learnt to wallpaper! Did some really fun trips with friends and spent a lot of time in the pub. Remember having Sky and Tivo for the first time. David Gray - Babylon. Future DH moved in at some point. It was a great time. I still miss my little house.

GCSEs
partying and being in awfully risky positions- lots of fun but also the start of panic attacks and OCD. I didn’t know how to handle big feelings and had no emotional support.

Ditto! Posters of david Beckham hung on my wall

I had the most horrendous flu. I was really ill for 2 weeks. My DH had some very expensive tickets for a golf club dinner but I couldn't go so DH took our teen DD and she wore my new expensive very high ankle strap shoes without asking me and she stretched them. I couldn't wear them after that so I gave them to her. We laugh about it now.

I had my 1st dd. Just turned 19 and had her on my birthday

19 and working in an office job - living at home and richer than I’ve ever been since! We were all panicking about whether the computers would work on 1st January 2000.

I had train track braces and had my first experience of Goldschlager (? - the spirit with the flecks of gold in) on millennium eve. It all got stuck in my braces!

Living in Japan as a TEFL teacher.

New year eve 1999/2000 sitting on a beach in Tokyo bay.
Amazing oh to be 22 again!

I had my third DC.

We had flu. DH was determined to go to his parents for new year. I wouldn’t normally even have been keen but I still felt terrible (we’d had it a week). He popped out to get some things to take and came home and admitted he couldn’t face the 4 hour drive and I cried with relief.
We watched fireworks from the window and went to bed. Woke up the next day feeling a million times better.

I was 12. At this exact time I was probably in the pub where my family worked. New Year’s Eve always spent at my aunts house with my cousins, she had a massive party. I stopped going there at about 15, and started going to my friends houses for new years.