What do you miss about the 90s

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Watching the x files just now got me thinking about the 90s

The hedonism is right. I think as teenagers/ young adults we were way more hedonistic that young people are today. Glad to have had my youth without the worry and pressure of social media, especially my more immature moments!

I dont miss the sexism, which was way more acceptable than it is now.

Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers... Choose DSY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself, choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?

Going to a dive of a club with a fiver in my pocket, buying4 vodkas for 50p each and 2 bottles of Hooch alcoholic lemonade for £1 each and using them as a mixer. Walking home for an afterparty and waking up a few hours later as fresh as a daisy.

The Next directory.

Nirvana.

My mum who died aged 46 in 1994 and my grandma who died in 1996.😪

Just watched a film from the 90's which has made me nostalgic for the 90's, all the different cars with their older style number plates, phone boxes/booths, phones mounted on walls with long cords that would get tangled, smoking in pubs (I don't even smoke).
No social media and not constantly being available via phone/email/messages sounds wonderful.

Smash hits magazine, top of the pops, 02 by impulse body spray, decent tv, bhs christmas shop, bright coloured clothes, and the cusp of being young and all what was to become

Same 😂

Nothing much. I enjoyed some of it but not all, like any decade.

Dolcis. Smoking. Castaway. Grunge music. Dreaming of what the future held. MTV. Drinking in pubs with friends every Friday night.

Snakebite & black for £1 on student night
Making arrangements & sticking to them
Writing & getting letters & exchanging mix tapes with mates
Public transport being affordable
Being skinny
People driving normal sized cars instead of SUVs
Glastonbury & Reading being laid back - going to a record shop a few weeks before to get tickets & the tickets being affordable
Neighbours & Home & Away on TV
Great music

I have no idea how anyone organised a social life with no phone 🤷🏻‍♀️

Being in my twenties.

Yes loved these 😁

Going to the cinema a few times a month to see brilliant films. Renting videos and actually watching them instead of scrolling through lists on Netflix but never watching anything. Feeling dressed up in Docs and a checked shirt. Feeling optimistic about politics. The 90s were great.

Dying my hair for fun not to cover grey. Saving my dinner money to spend in the pub.
Buying cigarettes from the machine.
4star petrol for 48p a litre.
Listening to music through headphones in HMV.
Carefree and optimism.

To those saying Impulse O2..... Temptation was definitely superior!

I miss pastel coloured nails, each one a different colour.

Just Seventeen and Mizz magazine, especially with free make up on the front.

The Tribe TV show, and Sunset Beach omnibus every Saturday afternoon.

Renting a 15 movie at the video shop and hoping the lady at the till wouldn't ask your age.

Wearing crop tops with 'Babe' on the front.

Adidas trousers with poppers up the side.

No mobiles or internet.

I could go on forever! Loved the 90s!

Weekends just being with my friends.

living with my parents and being with them all the time Having stupid crushes
My first love. Not him but that feeling
Having the next 30years ahead .
Ice skating
My dad paying for everything
The crazy clothes and hair dos

Oh god, me too.

Also - my youth. Childfree weekenders. And ability to be perky on no hours sleep.

University (92 - 95), travelling the world, a social life, no mobiles or internet. Department stores. Sitting on the train on a Friday night and remembering that it was ‘Friends’ night on telly. The feeling that things could indeed ‘only get better’.

52 now, happily married and comfortably off but wondering what the hell went wrong with society. This is not what I expected. At All.

Gatecrasher

Oh and Ally McBeal. Currently rewatching it now, and the nostalgia is intense!

Friday night telly was amazing.
Coming home and doing my homework before watching Home and Away and Neighbours.
Heading into town and buying something from Athena or the Body Shop.
Music was amazing in every genre.
No phones... No evidence of all of the drunken, daft kid things. The excitement of getting my wee brown envelope with about 8 quid in it for my Saturday shift in the supermarket. Mixed tapes. Anaïs Anaïs.

Being 30 years younger. I miss the 80s more tbh.

I guess there's little bits of nostalgia, like renting a movie and getting a chinese take away being more of an exciting treat, but I was bullied quite badly in my teens and my home life was borderline abusive so I didn't come into my own until I left home and made different friends in the early naughties when I went to uni. (Thankyou zero tuition fees for low income families)

I guess politics was less batshit (until 9/11 at least) as was the house price to income ratio 😅

Being young and effortlessly slim
Splashing out on clothes and not feeling guilty, because Gordon Brown wanted us to spend, spend, spend to help the economy
Earning 7% interest on my savings
Indie music
All the glitter and sparkle - satin skirts, glitter spray for your hair, holographic stars to stick on your nails… I loved it.

Watching Blind Date with my uni flatmates on Saturday evenings before getting ready to go out.

Blockbuster video.

Getting pick n mix from Woolies with my best friend.

Brit Pop. (Uni days)

Having a university grant.

Again, the feeling of hope and optimism and that the world was my oyster.

I really despair about the country and society we've become.

The Spice Girls

Playing snake on my Nokia 3310

No social media and internet only on pc

Zig zag hair partings, crimpers, hair springs and tiny clips, glitter everything, blue mascara, Tommy girl perfume, platform boots, belly tops.

Take that mania

Boundless energy and optimism.

No awareness of world events.