Things from the 90s/00s you don’t see anymore?

[Firebird83]

What are some things you remember from the 90s or early 2000s that don’t exist anymore?

I remember old ladies used to wear headscarves or those plastic rain bonnets

Lucky heather sellers in town centres

In my gran’s rural village she used to get a mobile library van and also a man selling soft drinks in glass bottles

Any more?

Of course a lot of these things existed before that era too, I just don’t remember seeing them anymore after the early 2000s.

Geordie Jeans!

And that horrific talking tree in the Early Learning Centre

Slightly pre nineties but my first shopping trips on my own was me and my bestie getting the bus to the next town and going to the sticker shop in the precinct where the lady who owned it would glare at us as if we were shoplifters 😂

Happy days!

I still have a lot of copies of Sugar, Bliss and J17 because I'm stuck in the 90s. Funnily enough I posted this picture on a different thread earlier. Don't think I've seen "totty" mentioned since around 2001 😄

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Threshers!

Virgin Megastore where you could listen to the new releases on headphones.

Walkmans/Discmans.

Miss Selfridge & Topshop, my two fave places to buy ‘going out’ clothes.

I honestly would love to go back, just for one day.

Employment agencies for office staff.

Funny little red rabbit boxes by curbs. I used to see them all the time and never bothered to find out what they were, now I wish I had.

Sinclair C5.

90s- things with fun fur on, like as a trim. Blow up armchairs
Very expensive contact lenses you massively panic if you lose and pat the floor for an hour
Sponge bags

00s - Hairslides - and short choppy hair on women, which apparently doesn't seem to be allowed now. 12 year old DN watched Gavin and Stacey with me the other day and said "But why did she have her hair like that, did something happen to her?"

And Botox. He probably keeps the industry afloat.

Lack of offence taken. Everyone is offended by everything these days. it's beyond tedious.

High heels. Anyone else remember running for the bus/tube in stilettos without any worry about breaking an ankle?!

Not just encouraging landfill. Creating yet more disposable plastic crap to go in landfill!

Madhouse
Athena
C&A
That Chinese rib burger at McDonalds and those brown high chairs with the Ronald/Hamburgler scene on the padded pillow of the back
Big street lights
Price stickers from sticker guns
Those Frankenstein mousses with legs on the pots
Whistle pops in Chemists

Sand art pictures. Whole shops were dedicated to these.
Athena poster shops
sarah Lee chocolate gateaux.
Greens cheesecake mix in a cardboard packet.

Someone at my work sometimes comes to work in one.

1p tins of beans

Tesco's were stripey label... Kwik save were the most depressing in white. Our student food cupboards were all monochrome 😁

Hahaha I’ll never forget the night we heard this almighty scream and crash from the bathroom. I’d had a bath and gone doolally with bath pearls I’d got for Christmas. Being a selfish twat I didn’t bother cleaning it after me. Poor dad had stepped in the bath and gone down like a skittle after slipping all his length and crashing. Needless to say bath pearls were about as welcome in our house as a dose of the clap after that.

Flicking through the rack of posters in Athena...

From the 80's: The catalog lady coming round to take orders and collect money.

The clothes show. Tomorrow's world. Teen magazines like Smash Hits. Holiday brochures, the excitement of pouring over the pages and picking a hotel.
From the 90's: Vodka jelly from Uni nights out....is it still a thing? Wogan's chat show. Coca cola Yoyo's. Round the Twist (kids show). Saturday morning kids tv like Going Live.

Phone boxes on the street corners.

Also plenty of ‘hippy/goth’ shops selling joss sticks and stripey tights and dream catchers.

Heather Shimmer or Blackcherry Rimmel lipstick

I just bought a Coffee Shimmer lipstick!

Rouge Noir Chanel nail polish
Rum and Raisin Bodyshop lip balm
Sun In
Ying Yang stud earrings

Oh wow! Yes!! The only decent vegetarian sarnie out there (was always a bit dry/ hard, though). Hated the courgette if it was too courgettey. I can smell it and taste it right now 🤤

Clank clank clank.
Never bought one and they never changed them but by god I loved the noise those frames made. It was almost therapeutic.