What things make you feel nostalgic?

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Spice girls/All Saints

Recording the top 40 on a Sunday with Dr Fox and trying to miss all the adverts 😂

Upgrading to mini disc and thinking I was tit hot 😂

Spooksville books

Visiting Blockbuster every Saturday afternoon

Caravan holidays in the Lake District

Mizz magazine, especially the spooky section.

Opal fruits (Pft to starburst!)
 
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Yesssss!!!!!!!!!!
Smash hits magazine 🤣
with yet another boyzone notebook NOBODY EVER NEEDS.
😒
4 stickers all saying something along the lines of “girls crew” or “WOW” (pre lmfo and omg” days)
And a poster of “the wanted” as the centre fold 🤣



Waiting for a solid hour to get to the top 5, pressing record while HOLDING YOUR BREATH... and the damn DJ talks over the end of song 😒
Same time next Sunday then 😐
😂😂😂 im howling at these, didnt u ever rewind to when the dj started talking and tape over that part 🤷🏼‍♀️
 
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Ah so many good ones already mentioned!

-scratch & sniff
-smelly gel pens
-chocker necklaces
-rubbing glitter body gel everywhere
-skirt over trousers
-combat trousers
-baggy boyfriend style jeans worn with pointy heels on a night out
-Smirnoff Ice
-tan towels (little sachets with a baby wipe covered in fake tan that you would rub all over and then wake up to see what your tan looked like!!!)


So many more!!!!!
 
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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.
 
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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.
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!
 
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Polly pockets - not the giant ones they’re churning out now :cautious:
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!
 
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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. 🤢
 
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Love love love this thread!
Mine are,
Watching smile on the weekends
Arthur, after school
Impulse sprays
Gel pens
Goosebumps
Top 40 on a sunday
Mums roast lamb and dying a slow death listening to songs of praise!
The wild thornebrries
The simpsons
Anything Christmas related
Woolworths!
So many that I know can't remember!
 
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Ooh remember "bang on the door" merch?
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Has that sort of stuff been replaced by youtube merch? These were so pure
 
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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
 
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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
 
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Yes to superman followed by live and kicking i remeber that on Saturday mornings! And wasn't rugrats in there too somewhere?
 
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20p mixtures.
Well that makes me feel ancient.....for me it was a 10p mix-up! :rolleyes:

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 :love:
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!
 
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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 :love:🙈
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!
 
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Well that makes me feel ancient.....for me it was a 10p mix-up! :rolleyes:

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 :love:
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!
Omg I think you must be me :LOL: Down to the odd wee things like cartoons mirrors - mine was a Peanuts one too.
Does anyone remember Blue Jeans magazine with their photo stories? My then boyfriend aged about 15, was in a story with his brother and Dad! We were so excited - people were so sweetly naive about being in the media back then.
 
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Omg I think you must be me :LOL: Down to the odd wee things like cartoons mirrors - mine was a Peanuts one too.
Does anyone remember Blue Jeans magazine with their photo stories? My then boyfriend aged about 15, was in a story with his brother and Dad! We were so excited - people were so sweetly naive about being in the media back then.
Brilliant! Glad I'm not the only old fogey here! 😁

I think Blue Jeans was the same kind of magazine as My Guy and Jackie. One of the neighbours used to give me those when she was finished with them (she was older and my pocket money only stretched so far!) I remember sending off a Jackie crossword and being thrilled when a cheque turned up in the post. Must've only been £5 or £10 but felt like a fortune and went straight into my bank account which I'd only opened because it came with a free clipboard/folder thingy for organising all my ultra important paperwork that I didn't have! Kids were so easily pleased back then!

Me and my peers learned so much about life, love, sex etc from teen mags. Do teens still buy magazines these days or have they been pretty much replaced by social media? (If so, heaven help them!)

Press Gang with Dexter Fletcher
Listening to anything on The OC soundtrack
I had such a silly crush on Dexter Fletcher at that age. Girls all fancied him and boys wanted to be like him (especially if it meant getting a bit of action with the pretty nerd, Julia Sawalha!) As a teenager my major crush was Matt Dillon though, especially after watching The Outsiders in a school English lesson. I bloody love that film still to this day - one of my all time faves.

I wasn't so much into The OC but in a similar vein really loved Dawsons Creek, Party of Five, Beverley Hills 90210 (original), The Wonder Years and the Australian show Heartbreak High.

Awww...this thread is giving me the warm and fuzzies!
 
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Oh god! Blue jeans! I was more of a Jackie reader mind you. Dear Cathy and Claire problem page! TV for teen me was s.w.a.l.k think prunella scales was in it? Also liked shows like beat the teacher degrassi junior high and Jonny Briggs 🙂
 
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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 :love:🙈
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!
Fast Forward!! I can still remember the tune from the TV advert! There was a competition in one issue you could win a part in the BBC Chronicles of Narnia adaptation of The Silver Chair. I wanted to enter it but my parents wouldn't let me.
 
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- 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

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- annual one week holiday to Weymouth and the need to have not sandals, but "canvas shoes" for said holiday
 
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