To think that today is Wednesday 1st October 2008? Happy new month everyone!! (lighthearted)

[Settle59]

My main strategy for getting through lockdown is pretending it's the latter part of 2008 as this was a time that was very difficult and bleak for me but the following years my life improved beyond all recognition. I download music from 2008, even read all the mumsnet Chat threads from 2008!! I know I'm a random sentimental old fool but it's helping to give me hope at this difficult time!
So, in a world where we are all 12 years younger, hope you all have a great day!!

The last part of 2008 is visually represented to me by dark green leaves!

I know - I'm random and weird!

I was 18 and having a whale of a time. Living in a shared house, working as a waitress, going out clubbing every night after work and sleeping in til noon. Those were the days!

I've just moved in with my boyfriend (now DH) and have never heard of mumsnet!

I've also just turned 18, left behind my horrendous secondary school, found some friends, am starting to become quite serious with my bf (now my dp and father to ds). I'm going on holiday with my friends to Spain in a few months and we're all very excited.

I've just landed a job I love (in a geeky gaming cafe, where I get to hang out with the punters, who happen to also be my friends, drink coffee and play d&d on my lunch break /after my shift ends). The pay is shocking but I'm basically being paid to teach people how to play the geeky games I love, make sandwiches and occasionally do a bit of actual work like manning the till or sorting through stock.

Also very much enjoying the courses we're studying they're much more interesting this year now we've covered the basics.

I am young, free, healthy and beautiful. My mental health is finally starting to recover and I haven't thought about how much better it would be if I was dead for nearly a year. I'm feeling grateful to have survived that very dark time.

What a time to be alive!

October 2008.I have beautiful, healthy 11 month old twins and am on an extended mat leave (as work making redundancies). Happily married, no real money worries although I would like a bigger house. It has taken about 5 years to conceive these beauties and they are truly sweet and very bright. I am happy beyond belief at this time albeit exhausted. I am slightly bigger and older looking than I was before I had them but nowhere near as old as I am now. They are now still very sweet, bright beautiful girls that I am very proud of but not quite so all-consuming as they were at that age.

@Settle59 Thank you. Sorry for being a grump on your lighthearted thread. My little boy is indeed my little hero. Notwithstanding anything I’ve said above, my early 30s were a great time. Living in London, going to so many gigs, festivals, working hard but playing hard too. Good times for sure. I’d love to turn the clock back to those simpler more care free times.

GrizzlebumsMum - don't worry you weren't a grump. October 2008 in many ways was a scary miserable time for me. I only see it as good now because in the spring of 2010 my life improved exponentially.
I'd absolutely LOVE to turn the clock back to 2008 though knowing good times were to come.

No thanks. I attempted suicide for the first time in November 2008 so I'll stick with 2020 thanks.

Hollywhiskey - so sorry to hear this. On Thursday 6th November 2008 I was convinced that I would die within 4 months. I was sitting in the fron living room of my dad's house having these thoughts. In fact - 4 months later my life had actually improved - not MAJORLY, but I was on the right track.
Glad things have improved for you now x

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Great thread concept!
I'm about to turn 23, in final year of university, still living in England (moved back to NI in 2011) just moved in with now DH (now married with 2 kids) - was a very exciting time for us and I would love to go back for a few days to give the then me some home truths / advice!

Hollywhiskey

No thanks, I had just started university and was about to completely ruin my experience by getting into a relationship that wasn't right for me but I didn't realise that. Life is so much better now even with lockdown.

I’m just about to find out in pregnant with my much wanted DD in thar case the 😁

I was having an affair with a married guy at work who I loved more than knew I had the capacity for. My life was 90% misery and 10% ecstasy. Had given myself a mental deadline of ending it at the 6m mark as I'd read somewhere that if a MM doesn't leave within 6m, he never will.

What I didn't know was that 4 days later he would decide to call it quits with his wife and move in with me.

We have been very happily married for nearly 10 years now and have two children.

If you'd have told me that on 1 October 2008, I would never have believed you.

(His wife is now happily married to a chap she met very soon after and they have a family of their own).

October 1, 2008...

Hurricane Ike hit my city on September 13th.
Many places were also devastated not just from storm surge but by tornadoes during the storm.
Thankfully, my family and the home was spared but many of our neighbors weren't.
We were out of power for days.
There were so many people suffering and conditions for so many were quite dire.
We had no idea what was happening in the outside world and learned when we finally got non-local news around October 1st, that there was a world-wide financial collapse.

Perhaps my October 1, 2008 wasn't brilliant but I have other dates that make me exceptionally happy and get me through hard times like the OP.

Mine is November 30th, 1995.

Oh fuck no. I’m at the sharp end of my NQT year and my boyfriend is a bellend.

Sorry to hear this elp30 - it sounded like very traumatic times. Where did you live then, out of interest?

And what out of interest happened on November 30 1995

Of course please don't answer these questions if you don't want to. All I remember of November 1995 was playing sports for my college and also bonfire night in my ex boyfriends house where fireworks (of the physical not metaphorical kind) were set off on the patio!

elp30 - glad at least your home was spared!

October 2008 was very busy for me, I was preparing to sell the flat I was living in to buy a Victorian family home and was deep in the planning for our wedding in April 2009. It was a happy carefree time 👍🏻

Ahhh 2008, I am 18 and have a really shitty boyfriend who will string me along until 2011, I am in a constant state of anxiety over wether he will text me/ignore me today. I am sad all the time. But, I'm a size 10 and filled with hope for the good times to come. I don't feel nostalgic for that time, just sad at how little I thought I deserved, but sometimes I look at life now (pandemic aside) with lovely husband and daughter and I would do it all again just to be with them.