If you could go back to 1983, what's the first thing you'd do?

[Sinat]

I'd buy a brand new Volvo 340 straight from the Volvo dealership

I had a brown (Yeuk) automatic 340 but it wasn’t automatic like we know - it was called a variomatic.

what would I do?

i wouldn’t have sex with my bf and then I wouldn’t get pregnant just before my 16th birthday.
this would lead to a termination ( decided by my parents) on my 16th birthday and forty years of trying to forgive myself

I would buy a series of houses

me too xxx

Lots of people buying property, are you ready for the 15% interest rates at the end of the decade?!

I would find that through a series of well placed bets

Not chew my gold stud earrings and then blame my younger brother.

Didn't you see Back to the Future part 2?

See my dad again. Then my grandma, grandad and my two aunts.

Jump in the car with my Dad and go to the einkaufzentrum to buy hot jam doughnuts for all the family and the two of us sit there and sneakily eat one before we got home and sat with everyone else pretending it was out first. Then letting Mum share her second one with me as a reward for getting up early adn going with Dad to do the shopping!

Sorry Mum !
Then hug both my parents everyday and say thank you for a brilliant childhood.

Thoughts are with everyone who experienced sadness /trauma

Give my best friend a big hug

Nope because houses cost around 50p then so no mortgages!

I would be a property mogul by now if I could go back as an adult with my current money (not so much as the 1 year old I was then 😁)

I would set an alarm for myself for ten years later to head up to kirby and save James Bulger.

Or maybe just 4 years later to try and save the two 10 Yr olds through some kind of early intervention.

I would buy Tears For Fears' 'Change' on vinyl and sit and listen to it on repeat

Tried to persuade my parents to get help for my brother. Earlier intervention could have made a real difference.

Told myself I was ok and didn’t need to take on other peoples problems.

Not been a wallflower.

Bought apple shares

Taken computer science gcse

Tell my mum I love her, hug her, then ask her all about her life and family.

I'd say "Yes,I'd love to have a drink with you".

I’d wait a few years until i was old enough then buy 5 houses!

LTB and get divorced quickly.

Yes. Super smart!

Second thing I’d do is tell myself I am slim, I am pretty, and to try for one of the rock boys because they might just say yes.

I wasn't born until 1985, but if I went back to December 1983, I'd pick up my newborn big sister and cuddle her and look after her, as she has looked after me my entire life 💕

Assuming I went back as an adult instead of reverting back to a child, I'd tell my parents to get their child tested for the disabilities she'd later turn out to have.

And I'd tell my dad to wear a condom so I'd be an only child 😂

I would embrace every single second with 100% enthusiasm because the 80s was a great decade to be a teenager

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