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Porkiepies
VIP Member
Sugar/Bliss/More....and any magazine that had a "good" freebie like Collection 2000 lipstick or a bright red lip liner.
Smash Hits with the posters, song lyrics and the occasional free cassette tape.
bubbletea123
VIP Member
For me:
Babysitter's Club books
Rugrats / Arthur / Recess / Scooby Doo theme tune
Starburst
Tommy Girl perfume
Babysitter's Club books
Rugrats / Arthur / Recess / Scooby Doo theme tune
Starburst
Tommy Girl perfume
Cute thread idea. Seems many of us are a similar age, I identify with so many of these.
Magazines were definitely a big part of my life growing up too. Remember "mizz" which was big on the "cringe" embarrassing moments section? each confession would be awarded a different amount of money( between 1 and 50 quid I think ?) I'm struggling to remember the difference between shout and sugar? I remember thinking I was so grown up when I started reading things like this but at the same time magazines like cosmopolitan and more (?more?) seemed impossiblly adult and sophisticated. I miss devoting that much time to reading magazines as much as books, without the distraction of the Internet and social media. I remember so many things I read in them, such a formulative time of life.
I also miss renting videos and what a big deal it was when a big film finally came out. But every time there was serious excitement going to the shop to choose something. I guess losing that is part of growing up anyway but at the same time we are spoilt with a practically infinite choice of films to stream, nothing is special. Same with things like catching a glimpse of your favourite band or actor on TV. We are just so over saturated now.
Magazines were definitely a big part of my life growing up too. Remember "mizz" which was big on the "cringe" embarrassing moments section? each confession would be awarded a different amount of money( between 1 and 50 quid I think ?) I'm struggling to remember the difference between shout and sugar? I remember thinking I was so grown up when I started reading things like this but at the same time magazines like cosmopolitan and more (?more?) seemed impossiblly adult and sophisticated. I miss devoting that much time to reading magazines as much as books, without the distraction of the Internet and social media. I remember so many things I read in them, such a formulative time of life.
I also miss renting videos and what a big deal it was when a big film finally came out. But every time there was serious excitement going to the shop to choose something. I guess losing that is part of growing up anyway but at the same time we are spoilt with a practically infinite choice of films to stream, nothing is special. Same with things like catching a glimpse of your favourite band or actor on TV. We are just so over saturated now.
Well that makes me feel ancient.....for me it was a 10p mix-up!
Just Seventeen magazine
The Body Shop's White Musk & Dewberry......later it was Ysatis, Amarige & Dune....the smell of those instantly transports me back to my youth (along with the smell of perm solution from the spiral corkscrew perms!)
Lynx Oriental (on boys and girls)
Levi's Jeans ads on telly
Buying your jeans from Madhouse or Benetton
The Adventure Game (like Crystal Maze) - anyone remember the talking plant?
Radio 1 Roadshow (skived off school to go!)
Wearing Grolsch bottle tops on shoes
Kickers, Pods and Hi-Tec Silver Shadow
Eerie Indiana
Sweet Valley High
Why Dont You?
Little House on The Prairie (cheesy and sentimental, I know!)
Top of the Pops & The Chart Show
Global Hypercolour colour-changing t-shirts
Magic Eye pictures
Etch-a-Sketch & Simon toys
Judy Blume books
Those useless plastic Jelly Bags to go with your jelly shoes
"Love is....." cartoons
View Master Picture Reels
Plastic bread bag tags clipped onto your bike cables
Pez
Berol Handwriting pens (in a furry pencil case, of course)
Scented pencil rubbers
Popeyes from the Ice Cream Man at the school gates
Wimpy's Brown Derby or Knickerbocker Glory when you visited with the family.....or nursing a toasted tea-cake and a drink when you were with your mates (the epitome of sophistication!)
Mirrors with cartoon pictures on them (I had a Snoopy one)
Wonkey Donkey & Cat the Dog
Trevor & Simon (especially "We Don't Do Duvets"......absolute class!)
Sun-In hair lightener
Frosted Pink & Rimmel Heather Shimmer lipsticks
Poster shopping in Athena
Record shopping in Our Price, Virgin or Woolworths
Clothes shopping in Chelsea Girl, Etams & Mark One
I'll leave it there or I'll be here all night. Great thread!
Naysayer
Well-known member
Grange hill, tucker years!
Etch a sketch
Holly hobby
Chocolate arctic circles
The carpenters ( my mum had an album and it was always on!
Anaïs Anaïs perfume
Body shop white musk perfume!
Nostalgic for more recent times when my kids were tiny
Balamory
Boobah
Tweenies
Milkshake ( channel 5 NOT the drink!)
Bear in the big blue house
Barney
Yeah we watched a lot of TV
Etch a sketch
Holly hobby
Chocolate arctic circles
The carpenters ( my mum had an album and it was always on!
Anaïs Anaïs perfume
Body shop white musk perfume!
Nostalgic for more recent times when my kids were tiny
Balamory
Boobah
Tweenies
Milkshake ( channel 5 NOT the drink!)
Bear in the big blue house
Barney
Yeah we watched a lot of TV
BarryGBaltic
New member
Hair straighteners that you had to put water in like an actual iron.
Searching teletext for a penpal or your mum using it to look for holidays. And the kids bamboozle at the weekend.
Searching teletext for a penpal or your mum using it to look for holidays. And the kids bamboozle at the weekend.
Laexquise
Member
Polly pockets - not the giant ones they’re churning out now
Pedal pushers and 3/4 tops
Playing kerby until dinner time
Baby G watches
The limewire danger
Those plastic w hair bands that just made your hair scrape back and look slightly bald...
Waiting for new music videos on The Box
Trevor Nelson on MTV Base
Trying to look after an alien in an egg
Actually just having to wear a tie for school and struggling with a cool enough length!
Pedal pushers and 3/4 tops
Playing kerby until dinner time
Baby G watches
The limewire danger
Those plastic w hair bands that just made your hair scrape back and look slightly bald...
Waiting for new music videos on The Box
Trevor Nelson on MTV Base
Trying to look after an alien in an egg
Actually just having to wear a tie for school and struggling with a cool enough length!
Lars Guinard
VIP Member
Press Gang with Dexter Fletcher
Fuzzy Felt especially the Space/Farm editions
Plasticine with the ridges that came in strips...not Play Doh
A la carte kitchen, with the advert with the little girl taking breakfast in bed
Collecting Pogs
Collecting ‘Cop Cards’, you would get cards from police officers with different scenes on them, if I remember correctly.
Simon and the Witch
T-Bag...”It’s time for high tea”
Watching Supergran at the weekend
Guessing what colour dress Cilla would wear on Blind Date just before the show started
Coca Cola Super Cans, they were just bigger cans of coke
Composing tunes on a Major Morgan
The Really Wild Show
A bath on Sunday, ready for school, drying your hair in front of the fire...watching London’s Burning/Heartbeat
Look In magazine/Fast Forward magazine
Listening to Worlds Apart/Brother Beyond...it was always about Nathan
Lycos chat, which was great before the whole ‘ship’ theme
Composing your own ringtones on your mobile...now everyone seems to have their phone on silent
Listening to Sugar Ray ‘Halo’ or Len ‘Steal my Sunshine’
Listening to anything on The OC soundtrack
Trackies with poppers, wearing Kickers shoes, NafNaf jumpers and coats, Kangol hats, Fubu tops, Tommy Hilfiger dungarees, The Sweater Shop sweaters, wearing a suit to go ‘out out’ in...with a corset top underneath, inspired by the Lady Marmalade video (Just me then)
Paula Danziger/Judy Blume books
Absolutely brilliant thread, have been cringing at some of the memories!
Fuzzy Felt especially the Space/Farm editions
Plasticine with the ridges that came in strips...not Play Doh
A la carte kitchen, with the advert with the little girl taking breakfast in bed
Collecting Pogs
Collecting ‘Cop Cards’, you would get cards from police officers with different scenes on them, if I remember correctly.
Simon and the Witch
T-Bag...”It’s time for high tea”
Watching Supergran at the weekend
Guessing what colour dress Cilla would wear on Blind Date just before the show started
Coca Cola Super Cans, they were just bigger cans of coke
Composing tunes on a Major Morgan
The Really Wild Show
A bath on Sunday, ready for school, drying your hair in front of the fire...watching London’s Burning/Heartbeat
Look In magazine/Fast Forward magazine
Listening to Worlds Apart/Brother Beyond...it was always about Nathan
Lycos chat, which was great before the whole ‘ship’ theme
Composing your own ringtones on your mobile...now everyone seems to have their phone on silent
Listening to Sugar Ray ‘Halo’ or Len ‘Steal my Sunshine’
Listening to anything on The OC soundtrack
Trackies with poppers, wearing Kickers shoes, NafNaf jumpers and coats, Kangol hats, Fubu tops, Tommy Hilfiger dungarees, The Sweater Shop sweaters, wearing a suit to go ‘out out’ in...with a corset top underneath, inspired by the Lady Marmalade video (Just me then
)Paula Danziger/Judy Blume books
Absolutely brilliant thread, have been cringing at some of the memories!
iLoveMeSomeCanoles
Chatty Member
- Body Shop Dewberry and Ananya perfume
- Impulse body spray
- Neighbours - Todd and Phoebe, Brett and the diabetic Dani Stark, Cody Willis. There is also a piece of incidental piano music used when Lucy Robinson had a brain tumour that has stuck in my head all these years and I remember always hearing it in my head when my Mum left me at school each morning and I'd be upset
- Heartbreak High
- my best friend always went to sleep playing Enya on her stereo so when I hear her music I remember our sleepovers and her house
- same friend was also a fan of Celine Dion so I probs know more of her lyrics than I care to
- remembering there was a time when the Peugot 306 was considered sexy
- TV adverts for Peugot 105 (or was it the 106
) with 2 girls on adventures and Reanult Clio ("Nicole?" "Papa?" )
- more TV ads: You Know When You've Been Tangoed, Tampax with Haddaway's "It's my Life",
- The smell of real Christmas trees
- catalogues - Argos, Index, Freemans. I liked looking at all the pictures of the Christmas hampers and imagining all the crockery I'd have
- Maid Marian and her Merry Men ("its pancake day, it's pancake day, it's P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P pancake day!")
- The Big Breakfast with Johnny and Denise - I found an episode on YouTube last year and spookily it was from 20 years ago that very day
- This Life, The Knock, Anna Lee, The Chamomile Lawn
- Byker Grove, Grange Hill, Round the Twist, Goggle Eyes, Live and Kicking (081 811 8181, yeah)
- The Darling Buds of May
- remembering that me and my friends used to spend hours playing "elastics" (I think it's proper name is French skipping??) and the levels were called "ankles-ees", "knees-ees" and "bums-ees"
- being the backseat passenger in any car
- Planet Sound on Teletext. Used to read every morning. Big Fat Flying Bloke
- Kerrang! magazine every Thursday
- sugar paper, wax crayons, PVA glue
- FunFax
- thinking about the routine of school
- hearing any music my parents liked - Simply Red, The Shadows, various 60s and 70s bands
- Only Fools and Horses The Jolly Boys Outing - my favourite episode ever
- The Goonies, Home Alone, Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, Dirty Dancing, Mermaids
- If Wishes Were Horses (Channel 4 show about kids learning to ride)
- having a 'special tea' when family visited on Sundays, where we put crisps in bowls and I was allowed to arrange the biscuits/Tunnocks teacakes on plates
- weekly trip to Safeway
- collecting rubbers (pencil erasers!) and postcards
- Shops: Bay Trading, The Sweater Shop, River Island when they had the brown and green decoupage-style carrier bags
- annual one week holiday to Weymouth and the need to have not sandals, but "canvas shoes" for said holiday
- Impulse body spray
- Neighbours - Todd and Phoebe, Brett and the diabetic Dani Stark, Cody Willis. There is also a piece of incidental piano music used when Lucy Robinson had a brain tumour that has stuck in my head all these years and I remember always hearing it in my head when my Mum left me at school each morning and I'd be upset
- Heartbreak High
- my best friend always went to sleep playing Enya on her stereo so when I hear her music I remember our sleepovers and her house
- same friend was also a fan of Celine Dion so I probs know more of her lyrics than I care to
- remembering there was a time when the Peugot 306 was considered sexy
- TV adverts for Peugot 105 (or was it the 106
) with 2 girls on adventures and Reanult Clio ("Nicole?" "Papa?" )- more TV ads: You Know When You've Been Tangoed, Tampax with Haddaway's "It's my Life",
- The smell of real Christmas trees
- catalogues - Argos, Index, Freemans. I liked looking at all the pictures of the Christmas hampers and imagining all the crockery I'd have
- Maid Marian and her Merry Men ("its pancake day, it's pancake day, it's P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P pancake day!")
- The Big Breakfast with Johnny and Denise - I found an episode on YouTube last year and spookily it was from 20 years ago that very day
- This Life, The Knock, Anna Lee, The Chamomile Lawn
- Byker Grove, Grange Hill, Round the Twist, Goggle Eyes, Live and Kicking (081 811 8181, yeah)
- The Darling Buds of May
- remembering that me and my friends used to spend hours playing "elastics" (I think it's proper name is French skipping??) and the levels were called "ankles-ees", "knees-ees" and "bums-ees"
- being the backseat passenger in any car
- Planet Sound on Teletext. Used to read every morning. Big Fat Flying Bloke
- Kerrang! magazine every Thursday
- sugar paper, wax crayons, PVA glue
- FunFax
- thinking about the routine of school
- hearing any music my parents liked - Simply Red, The Shadows, various 60s and 70s bands
- Only Fools and Horses The Jolly Boys Outing - my favourite episode ever
- The Goonies, Home Alone, Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, Dirty Dancing, Mermaids
- If Wishes Were Horses (Channel 4 show about kids learning to ride)
- having a 'special tea' when family visited on Sundays, where we put crisps in bowls and I was allowed to arrange the biscuits/Tunnocks teacakes on plates
- weekly trip to Safeway
- collecting rubbers (pencil erasers!) and postcards
- Shops: Bay Trading, The Sweater Shop, River Island when they had the brown and green decoupage-style carrier bags
- annual one week holiday to Weymouth and the need to have not sandals, but "canvas shoes" for said holiday
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annanuttall
VIP Member
Jem and the Holograms <3
Laexquise
Member
Sunny delight
BN biscuits!
For some weird reason lately I keep likening things to The Brittas Empire
The Bill
Iced gems
Covering school books in wrapping paper
Pencils
Sister Sister
Trouble tv
Round the twist
SM:TV
Browsing HMV while thinking Virgin was too posh
Fountain pen erasers
BN biscuits!
For some weird reason lately I keep likening things to The Brittas Empire
The Bill
Iced gems
Covering school books in wrapping paper
Pencils
Sister Sister
Trouble tv
Round the twist
SM:TV
Browsing HMV while thinking Virgin was too posh
Fountain pen erasers
Highlandcow
VIP Member
Lights alive, anyone have one of them?
Watching The Racoons and going live on a Saturday morning then Live and kicking when it started.
Jason and Kylie.
Hours spent playing solitaire on the PC.
20p mixtures.
Tango adverts.
Collecting Tazos in bags of Walkers crisps.
Having to adjust the wire aerial on top of your TV in your bedroom.
Having a hi-fi in your house, extra points if it was a 5 disc changer.
Argos catalogue.
And Freddos being 10p
Watching The Racoons and going live on a Saturday morning then Live and kicking when it started.
Jason and Kylie.
Hours spent playing solitaire on the PC.
20p mixtures.
Tango adverts.
Collecting Tazos in bags of Walkers crisps.
Having to adjust the wire aerial on top of your TV in your bedroom.
Having a hi-fi in your house, extra points if it was a 5 disc changer.
Argos catalogue.
And Freddos being 10p
These answers are brilliant 
BAMBOOZLE and teletext!
How did I forget that.
- Baby G watches
God they were tacky
- Smirnoff Ice - the actual urine of Satan’s cat.
BAMBOOZLE
and teletext!How did I forget that.
- Baby G watches
God they were tacky - Smirnoff Ice - the actual urine of Satan’s cat.
Kids nowadays should have to experience and endure the dark days that were....
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...
Dial up internet.
nostalgic in the same way getting your school jabs (followed by a sugar cube!) is nostalgic. Or getting chickpox, or nits
Children don’t know suffering until they experience that moment when SOMEONE PICKS UP THE FECKING LAND LINE PHONE.
-Renting VHS tapes!!
and having to go on a waiting list for that new release before rocking up with your blockbuster card and feeling like a boss walking out with home alone 2 before anyone else, 8 months after it had been in the cinema
-Playing PC games in black and white
-Saga mega drive (echo the dolphin, sonic)
-Buying magazines!!!
-My little pony. Before they went sassy and bad ass.
...
...
Dial up internet.
nostalgic in the same way getting your school jabs (followed by a sugar cube!) is nostalgic. Or getting chickpox, or nits
Children don’t know suffering until they experience that moment when SOMEONE PICKS UP THE FECKING LAND LINE PHONE.
-Renting VHS tapes!!
and having to go on a waiting list for that new release before rocking up with your blockbuster card and feeling like a boss walking out with home alone 2 before anyone else, 8 months after it had been in the cinema
-Playing PC games in black and white
-Saga mega drive (echo the dolphin, sonic)
-Buying magazines!!!
-My little pony. Before they went sassy and bad ass.
bexgreen1983
VIP Member
Dewberry body spray from body shop
Sun in
MSN
Dial up and the sound it used to make
East 17 v take that debate
Spice girls
Superman followed by live and kicking
Recording the top 40 off the radio
When Freddos were 10p
Going to the corner shop and £1 would get you loads
Neighbours being on BBC 1
The broom cupboard/ Byker grove / Grange hill/ demon headmaster / queens nose / 5 children and it
Saved by the bell / sabrina / sister sister / California dreams
The big breakfast
Timmy mallet
Sun in
MSN
Dial up and the sound it used to make
East 17 v take that debate
Spice girls
Superman followed by live and kicking
Recording the top 40 off the radio
When Freddos were 10p
Going to the corner shop and £1 would get you loads
Neighbours being on BBC 1
The broom cupboard/ Byker grove / Grange hill/ demon headmaster / queens nose / 5 children and it
Saved by the bell / sabrina / sister sister / California dreams
The big breakfast
Timmy mallet
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BettyCrocker
VIP Member
Oh god yes!
Crimping your hair (because it was such a good look!!!!)
Teletext penpals!!!!
Having to unplug the landline to plug in the internet and trying to do it on the sly so your parents wouldn’t hear it dial up because you were being charged by the minute!
Nokia mobile phones and the dodgy polyphonic ringtones that you would order via a code on the back of magazines!
Playing games I can actually hold.
Tamgotchi!
Gremlins
E.T
Fame!
Moon dust
Sindy dolls
T-shirts that changed colour
Benetton
Shipping Kate Moss & Johnny Depp as a couple
Sunflowers perfume
The Big Breakfast show.
Watching shitty cartoons after school on a Friday such as Captain Caveman & Scooby Doo.
Salted crisps with the little packet of salt to sprinkle yourself.
The ice-cream van visiting and picking an ice lolly.
Stray dogs, flipping everywhere! Back in the day where I lived nobody walked dogs. They just booted them out for a while & you'd see these streetwise dogs crossing roads using zebra crossing and finding their own food.
Not having to wear seatbelts.
No speed cameras.
Watching Neighbours after school. Missing school to watch the 1pm Neighbours then going back to school and being the person everyone wanted to talk to, to get the goss
Everyone seemed to have a single budgie in a cage.
I realise ppl were very ignorant to animal needs lol
Tamgotchi!
Gremlins
E.T
Fame!
Moon dust
Sindy dolls
T-shirts that changed colour
Benetton
Shipping Kate Moss & Johnny Depp as a couple
Sunflowers perfume
The Big Breakfast show.
Watching shitty cartoons after school on a Friday such as Captain Caveman & Scooby Doo.
Salted crisps with the little packet of salt to sprinkle yourself.
The ice-cream van visiting and picking an ice lolly.
Stray dogs, flipping everywhere! Back in the day where I lived nobody walked dogs. They just booted them out for a while & you'd see these streetwise dogs crossing roads using zebra crossing and finding their own food.
Not having to wear seatbelts.
No speed cameras.
Watching Neighbours after school. Missing school to watch the 1pm Neighbours then going back to school and being the person everyone wanted to talk to, to get the goss
Everyone seemed to have a single budgie in a cage.
I realise ppl were very ignorant to animal needs lol
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