Help me curate a 90s summer

[Anonymous]

Ask your friends to drop by unannounced.

Have friends over to do an aerobics video in your living room. When you’re done, have crystal light or frozen yogurt (frozen yogurt from your freezer)

Read magazines not your phone.

Don’t check phone messages until you get home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We used to go to the movies every week, especially in summer to enjoy the air conditioning (because our crappy group houses didn’t have it!) I also remember getting kicked out of the theater once for smoking! Yes, there was still a lot of smoking.

If you went to the theater in Union Station you’d never get kicked out. That place was the best place to watch a movie if you wanted to be with a rowdy crowd.

It was in Cambridge, MA.

[Anonymous]

For me, the 90s meant:

Going to my friend's pool in the summers
Reading lots of books, Sassy and Seventeen magazines
Calling my friends on my landline
Playing ball in the park
Boardwalk and beach
Watching Saved by the Bell
Board games

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone still have their palm pilot?

Yes!!!

I wish! I loved mine. I was still using one in 2007

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Inspired by the nostalgia of the JFK Jr Love Story series, I’m wondering what it would take to adopt a 1990s vibe for the summer (or maybe the spring).

What would it take to attempt to recapture that simpler time?

Silence my cell phone

No internet outside of the house, and only for specific tasks (no mindless scrolling)

Going out more with friends. Just for fun. No big plans.

Going dancing. (I’m probably too old to go clubbing, but I’d love to be out after dark listening to music with friends.)

I won’t smoke, but every time I see Carolyn light up it takes me back to having a cigarette towards the tail end of a drunken night when everyone is standing outside of the bar/club/party trying to decide where to go next. Sigh.

Simple clothes and makeup. Not fussing with my hair.

What else?

most people did not smoke in the 1990’s.

I guess you weren’t in college in the early 90s. People still smoked…especially when out drinking.

Anyone fellow Terps remember how smoky Planet X was? Or walking outside of Tracks on college night?

Anyway, I haven’t had a cigarette since the early/mid 90s and even then I wasn’t a regular smoker.

But people still smoked…especially young drunk people.

I was one of the few non-smokers and college in the 90s. Everyone smoked back then. If you went out, your clothes and hair would reek from all the second hand smoke. It was eveywhere.

[Anonymous]

My mom had me working at age 12.

[Anonymous]

You can still watch General hospital and Sunny and Carly are still on! All my children sadly gone.

[Anonymous]

On the dance front - look into Early Birds Dance Club. It started in Chicago (where I live), they have it in and around DC and is basically all moms on the dance floor with some serious 90s music (and 80s and aughts). Highly recommend! Peg those jeans and go for it.

https://early-birds.club/