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What was your life like in 2005?

202 replies

AbsentmindedWoman · 06/08/2021 23:27

I was 20 and life was so, so easy compared to now. Just had such a sense of having plenty of time, and that the future was going to be great. I was at uni and loved my course, the people I met etc. It seems like yesterday in one way, can't believe it's so long ago.

What was your life like in 2005?

OP posts:
Ponoka7 · 07/08/2021 00:15

I was Widowed with three children. I moved house and started a new job. It was a year of change.

Bythemillpond · 07/08/2021 00:16

I had a 3 & 5 year old. Every day was about going out and having fun.

LindaEllen · 07/08/2021 00:17

I was 15 and having the best time of my life - but I neither knew nor appreciated that at the time.

SuziLikeSuziQ · 07/08/2021 00:18

I was mid-20s. I lived alone and was suffering from depression. I didn't earn much and the last week of every month saw me scrabbling around for a few pounds to buy some cheap food from Aldi. My boyfriend was at uni so I didn't see him much. Pretty miserable, to be honest.

Hm2020 · 07/08/2021 00:18

Awful I was 11 and being abused

80sPadme · 07/08/2021 00:18

@DoingItMyself

I was still working, so in a living hell.
Do you not work now? Have you retired or similar??
LadyPips · 07/08/2021 00:19

I was 25 and just back from a 3 month trip around the world. Got a well paid job straight away, made a load of new friends through work and rented an apartment with one of the girls I worked with. Life was good in 2005. Full of possibilities.

yacketyyak · 07/08/2021 00:19

I was 24. Had got engaged to DH and we bought our first home. 3 kids later it feels like it was a whole other life!!!

HealthKick2021 · 07/08/2021 00:21

I was 15 and at school. I was loving school but I was struggling to find my place in life outside of that.

ACloseMatch · 07/08/2021 00:23

3 under 5. Possibly my favourite year ever.

PeterPomegranate · 07/08/2021 00:24

I was 30 and got married. Sister in law had breast cancer (she’s well now thank goodness) and London attacks.

Sarahlou63 · 07/08/2021 00:25

I was 42, living in Dublin, working hard, partying hard and having the most mind blowing sex ever. Happy days.

80sPadme · 07/08/2021 00:25

I was 20 and had just had my first child.

80sMum · 07/08/2021 00:26

I was working full time in a job that I enjoyed, as was DH. The kids had both left home and we had a lot of disposable income. It was that crazy time when you could buy a Ryanair flight to Europe for 25p (remember those days?) and so we were having 2 holidays a year plus city breaks every couple of months. It was a lovely, carefree time for us in many ways.

Homemadearmy · 07/08/2021 00:29

2005 was a hard year. I had baby number 5, when he was 11 weeks old dd2 who was nearly 4 contracted meningococcal septicaemia. Emotionally and physically it was hard trying to be in two places at once. Ds was ebf. And I was coming to the realisation that I was in a abusive relation ship. I'd never heard of gas lighting or coercive control and love bombing. I thought abuse was physical.

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 07/08/2021 00:34

It was a strange year for work. We made some significant decisions. I was fit and healthy. How things change.

Zealois · 07/08/2021 00:35

I was 13 and life was awful due to a tough home life.

I'm very happy now though. 😊

ElBarstardoMonkfish · 07/08/2021 00:36

Stressful… I was 6 and parents were going through a divorce😬😬

NordicBerry · 07/08/2021 00:38

2005 was a great year. I got married. We had a 1 year old. We had some brilliant holidays and then started to plan moving abroad. I feel very nostalgic now for our little house in UK and life back then when parents and grandparents were still alive too.

RainbowMum11 · 07/08/2021 00:57

I had just bought my first house and had no money for food (other than very basics) or furniture, so slept on a load of old blankets and duvets on the living room floor while working full time & studying towards a professional qualification - it was bloody brilliant.

Yubaba · 07/08/2021 01:09

DH and I got married that year so I spent a large part of it planning the wedding, I loved it!
We were 25, young and carefree. We weren’t well off but we were always out and about with our friends getting drunk and having fun.
DD was born in 2006 and the party years were over after that!
We’ve been married 16 year next month and it feels like a lifetime ago.

YesIReallyDoLikeRootBeer · 07/08/2021 01:28

I was 37. My 3 sons were 17, 13 and 2. I was working at a job I loved (still work at that same job all these years later, and still love it). DH had a good job, money was not an issue like it had been in the past. A lot of ups and downs before and since 2005, but at that moment in time things were very content.

Blamelesscars · 07/08/2021 01:33

I was 17 turning 18. Had finished 6th form waiting for start of uni in the autumn. Had the best summer.

I really didn’t appreciate how wonderful my life was or the Pureness of those friends
And those wonderful days

switswoo81 · 07/08/2021 01:43

I was 24, living my best life in a gypsy skirt, dangly earrings and a wide belt with a huge buckle! Great fashion tines.Travelled SE Asia in my summer holidays that year and spent Christmas in New York. Lived with my best friends in a house share that was party central.
We are all turning 40 this and can barely coordinate a night away!

Colouringaddict · 07/08/2021 01:50

I was 36 and lost my mum in the January due to cancer. My whole life changed