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bubbletea123
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The school sponge cake was AMAZING. I can imagine the taste nowAbsolutely loving this thread! Bought back so many great memories! Especially finding a toy in your cereal, completely forgot about that and gave me so much happiness like I was 8 years old again
To add a few:
Tamagotchis
Furbies
McDonald's having the Ronald McDonald foundation donation box where a coin would whirl around for the whole time it took for them to cook your £1.99 happy meal
Petrol being less than £1 a litre
Teletext so grandad could check his lottery numbers or the football scores
Yellow pages
Goosebumps
Rosie and Jim
Cassettes
CD singles
The Walkman - that would always skip a bit of the song if you walked too fast and heaven forbid trying to run with it
The foil Christmas chain decorations that your mum would use a drawing pin to stick to the ceiling
Playing "kerbie" in the streets and seeing other kids playing out in general
Being able to leave your push bike out in the driveway whilst you went inside to have your lunch and it wouldn't have been stolen!
Sunny D
School sponge cake (the one with all the multi coloured sprinkles on the top)
Supermarkets leaving their old cardboard boxes out for customer's to pack their shopping in to
The weird goo alien toys that would "make babies" if you put them back to back in the fridge
The millennial coin collections they done in Sainsburys (I think)
The battery hair braid thing that would tangle your hair into the biggest knot and rip most of it out
"Scoobys" the plastic string things you could plait together and make key rings out of
Push pops
Blow pens
Penny sweets
McDonalds birthday parties
And a ps2 that could play new games and all the original ps1 games as they were transferable without having to buy a whole new console (like you do now!) And the memory sticks that would sometimes not save your game or would be "full" and you'd have to play roulette deleting another save game which you hope wasn't the one with your best score
DCICassieStuart
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And trying to take the last few photos just to 'finish off the film'. My husband used to just point it at the floor and snap away the last 2 or 3.
chocolate choux
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Are WKD (blue) and Smirnoff Ice still the teenage drinks of choice? I know they’re around but no one seems to drink them anymore. Maybe I’m just old 
Sugar magazine was the best. For some reason I considered it far more sophisticated than Bliss, Mizz, etc. All the free gifts were tat, except for the occasional short story/book excerpt which I loved
Sugar magazine was the best. For some reason I considered it far more sophisticated than Bliss, Mizz, etc. All the free gifts were tat, except for the occasional short story/book excerpt which I loved
Callmemaybe
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No, full length trousers with a skirt stitched over the top
TheFabFader
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Miners, Outdoor Girl and Boots 17 makeup.
Jackie magazine with Cathy and Claire, the photo stories and the pop posters.
Jackie magazine with Cathy and Claire, the photo stories and the pop posters.
Barkin Mad
Chatty Member
The Free toys in cereal boxes
Influenced
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Chilblains!
Barkin Mad
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My dad used to collect the vouchers out of his Cigarette boxes for some shit gift that took thousands to collect pack of 3 tea towels 
LittleMy
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It literally became the weakest link. Goodbye
haha
Thechubbymoaner
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they would leave a weird film on your skin and smell slightly plasticy?
I remember everyone wanting absolutely everything and smells of dewberry from the bodyshop and there were some other brands that did dewberry but they had a real funky twang. one of the students where I work works in the bodyshop and I met here in there and got talking. The manager came out and I asked her when they stopped doing dewberry. she asked what is that. Shes 23 and I am ancient!
Also, those teeny red spider things that you always had on white walls in the summer- we used to call them blood suckers
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bubbletea123
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S Club Juniors/8... LOL
cushtybert
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Ahh every Friday I would buy a packet of vice versas and more magazine to have after college
Avon Iced Champink lipstick and nail varnish
PACERS - would give anything to have them back in my life!!!!!
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Yes! I remember going to a school disco in year 7 in a 'nice top' (it was basically a slinky vest top with a Chinese symbol on it
) which wasn't baggy so I guess you could see my figure. One of the 'popular' girls said I had an amazing figure and I was like oh right ummm thanks! Up until then I had never even thought about it, had never considered myself skinny or fat, its just not something that I had registered at that age. It's sad how kids of that age are so hyper aware now.YES!! don't know why but that reminds me of Cutting It with Sarah Parish and Amanda Holden. And, randomly, Bad Girls - which I own and sometimes binge watchThe drama Sunburn on BBC1 with Michelle Collins.
@Birdistheword reminded me of Bamboozle on Teletext!
I love this thread
OMG!! I loved exactly the same things as you! Sabrina magazine was amazing, did you build the make up kit in that purple box?! And there was hair tutorials!
Glitter babes was everywhere! They do still have a v. Small line at boots 3 4 2 at xmas.
Did anyone collect spice girls photographs? They were in a white envelope and you got about 5 in a pack. I also had the album to put them in. I was gutted when they stopped doing them!
ShowMeYourFeline
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Anyone remember pencil cases with “sex” then a picture of a bomb, or “mad” and a picture of a cow?
Yes. My kangol bucket hat. Kappa popper tracksuit and buffalo boots. High as a kite. A sight for sore eyes lol