It’s Friday night-1994

[Cositseleventhirtyandtheclubisjumpinjumpin]

How old are you, what are you doing?

I’m 16, almost due to do GCSE’s and have an amazing summer, only bettered by summer of 1995, the following year.
I’m out, either at a house party or drinking in the park or around the village. I spent ages getting ready in crop top or maybe a body, oversized denim or check shirt, usually tied around my waist, kickers & jeans. Hair long and wavy, coffee shimmer lipstick, bronzer and heavy eyeliner. Met up with the other four friends in our group to drink vodka or cider, smoke Embassy number one and probably some weed later on. Excitement’s in the air as it is every Friday night, we’ll probably meet up with the boys two years above us, maybe drive around in cars, possibly go with one of them (snog/kiss) but the most fun part is when all five of us girls get drunk together and howl with laughter, rarely has there been friendships as precious as those early ones.

This Friday night-I’m 48, lay in bed next to my sleeping 7 year old, live abroad and am a sensible adult.

Oh 1994! I
had a mum! And a dad! And didn t ever think that one day I wouldn t.

😂

24 Been married about 9 months. Dad died a month after we got married. Mortgage rate was 8% on the subsidised part as my wife worked for a bank..15% on the rest.
We earned about £17k between us, dad's house was on the market and we were broke...so Friday night was a 30p mix up bag of sweets from Brian's shop on the corner and TV.

Tonight im on call for the funeral director I work part-time at just for beer money having retired at 55 two years ago...we are planning a trip to France and deciding where to stay in our campervan at the end of the month

Probably spend the night chatting rubbish, rolling about the floor then shitting myself. Id have just turned 2.

My son was just under 4 weeks old and was feeding every couple of hours, so chances are I was breastfeeding in bed, in blissful ignorance that at his 6 week check he’d be referred for testing due to poor weight gain and being “floppy”.
At age 13 he was diagnosed with a rare chromosome disorder.
Now I’m home alone, newly divorced after nearly 30 years married, still in shock at ex husbands “new” girlfriend is his “best friend” of 15 or so years.
Beautiful full moon tonight though so desperately trying to let go of the old and embrace new beginnings.

So sorry 😔

Was this Newcastle, or were all 90s SUs very similar?!

17, and probably just hanging out at home, stressing about revising for my A levels in a few weeks but also planning what I was going to do in the summer before going to uni.

Now I am 49 and just hanging out at home with my two children, musing about what we might all do this summer.

I'm 21, married with a mortgage and a 3 month old baby, completely broke and it's just starting to sink in that I did it all too quickly, to young.

1994 Age 20. At University. Almost certainly at the Union or a night club or a party. Or all 3.

2026 Age 51 Tonight was at a football game cheering on my team. ⚽️

I was -3

I was 17 living on the streets on the south coast with my 25 year old boyfriend. Begging and clipping for money to buy speed, acid and pills and deep into the sound system rave scene. Luckily after a year, I saw sense and went home. Went back to college and on to uni. Now living a very comfortable life but don’t regret a second! I was so free and those experiences shaped who I am now.

Sat in my pj's with a glass of red, watching Beverley housewives reunion 🤣

I still have the odd wild one, but it's rare. Day raves are our go to when we do go there lol.

Exactly the same age..had just started study leave for GCSEs. Couldn't wait to go to sixth form college. I had just got tickets for Blur and Sleeper playing soon at the club we liked on a Friday night and my three best pals and I had no difficulty getting in despite being in year eleven. It had a great seventies night on a Friday. Tonight have taken kids to swimming and cubs but in between I met the same best friend from the time for a coffee and we texted the other two friends from the group of four. Our friendship group has survived all going off to uni in different places, some of us living abroad for a while, marriages, grown up careers, divorces and lots of kids... but we are all still close mates to this very day.

Similar to you OP, except going to free parties on the South Downs and covered in glitter gel and a floaty maxi skirt not eyeliner! Grew up in the Land of the Levellers (who I actually thought were really cheesy but all of my friends were into them so 🤷‍♀️)

I'm 20, living in France on my uni year abroad. I'm sitting in someone's room in halls with a load of other students from around Europe drinking rosé wine bought for a euro a bottle from the local budget supermarket, before heading out to a bar.

I’m 22, in Bristol having graduated last summer and not organised enough to have a serious job. Temping at BT probably and out in the pub after work, maybe still working in a pub too with an ex. Pretty happy carefree days.

Very early 30s, been to the gym then watching TV - very boring!

I was 24, living with my BF in a house share with 2 other couples in a town in the Cotswolds. We’ll have all been for a few beers after work, perhaps had one of our ‘family dinners’ and we generally sat outside in the huge garden late into the night, wrapped in blankets, smoking, drinking, telling stories, playing silly games, laughing.

That was a fun chilled out house share for 6 months, until my BF moved out to a nearby city to do his masters and one of my other housemates declared his love for me, was overheard by his GF. I moved to London soon after all that drama,

Now, I am in bed. DH is out for a beer with friends, DS14 is asleep, and DS17 is on a lengthy phone call to his best friend which is frequently punctuated by his loud laugh.

19 year old, student nurse.
Louise from sleeper wannabe (same haircut)
i would be drinking and living the life, great memories
Great thread

Not read the thread but aaaaah! In a lovely gap between boyfriends. Bit lonely, had Talk Radio on all night so I could sleep alone. Fab job, good friends around me in the daytime. Trying to adult without moving back to hometown. Have been through much worse since so those days feel so simple!

I was in my second year at Uni so it probably involved an incredibly cheap night out at Streetlife in Leicester. Thankfully by this age I had grown out of Blue Bols and Lemonade or Malibu and Coke and was drinking out of pint glasses.

I am now 51 and never miss Gardeners World and Gogglebox after taking DS12 to cricket practice.

1994 - relieved school is over and it's a bank holiday weekend. Probably stay in my room tonight playing CD's on the stacker thing that I got for my birthday (that also has radio and 2 x cassette players, but no turntable). Alternatively I'll be out with friends, maybe at the park drinking a bottle of wine we've got an older sibling to get for us. A couple of friends smoke, I've tried but don't like it. Maybe sneak into the pub, no one asks for ID these days anyway, have some Alcopops or Hooch. If not tonight maybe that'll be tomorrow evening. Saturdays are fun, probably go to the city with my sister to buy make up and a new dress. Maybe a new poster from Athena. Might visit Dolcis, Jane Norman, Debenhams, Top Shop, Miss Selfridge, BHS and C&A, Looking forward to tomorrow.

2026 - Had dinner, been to the supermarket with DC to stock up on food for the long weekend. Watched TOTP on BBC4. Sat on the sofa seeing if anything is on that I want to watch, no not really. So browsing on my laptop, everyone else is doing their own thing. Not looking forward to tomorrow particularly, most of it will be spent taxying DC to and from activities. Dimmer will be out though so looking forward to that.

Almost identical.
15. Short floral dress and dms.
2x pints strongbow, packet of narlboros from the pub vending nachine and a return bus fare (child of corse!) £7
Swooning over the 6th form boys, hopefully.

Am I the only one thinking, no, don't put how old you were in 1994 as someone can probably find a way to use that info for ID purposes?