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i was born in ‘86, so my entire childhood was the 90’s. looking back now, i SO desperately wish my children could have a childhood like i had… from little to no screens to playing outside until the street lights came on, walking to school & friend’s houses without a care in the world, the BEST cartoons ever, making mixed tapes & CD’s, NO SOCIAL MEDIA, not being tied to electronics. i feel like we are the last generation to truly live. things really went downhill & kept going after 2005-2010.
Your kids can still have that kind of childhood. You, as the parent, can choose not to let them have tablets and stuff. We had TVs in the 90’s and computers in the 90’s, so it isn’t fair to say we had no screens. 😉 My son turns 5 next month and he is very much a kid who plays outside all the time and likes playing board games and looking at books. Not every kid alive in 2024 is glued to tablets all day.
Hello, fellow ‘86 baby! 😊 We did grow up during a great time! I try my best to blend the best parts of my childhood with the best parts of the current day for my children. They are blessedly innocent and sheltered due to the choices we’ve made for them and I hope they look back on their childhood with fondness.
@@sayhello5377 yes we had tvs and computers but it was differnt. You did not have endless things that you liked to watch on TV. You had to wait an entire week to watch a new episode of something. Day time TV was soap operas, game shows or talk shows.
This was making me laugh because the 90s seem so recent, but then I started thinking how when I was a teen in the 80s we would look back at the 50s and think how different those times were!!
Haha yes … I was born in ‘83 so a bit younger than you… but I was feeling very old when she was reminiscing about the 90s like it was so different back then! 😅 I will be forever grateful for growing up pre-internet (it was still pretty primitive when I was a teenager) and mobile phones though. Didn’t get my first mobile until I was 19. And after high school spent 4.5 months backpacking in Asia (without a mobile phone) in a lot of remote and otherworldly places, only going to internet cafes every now and then to email family! You just can’t disconnect from the modern world anymore! Even more sad is that the cultures around the world are changing and becoming so westernised due to globalisation. So I guess I do get reminiscing about that time 😊
I was turning 8 years old in the 90s. What I remember most that could be relevant to homemaking and family is: - kids were allowed to be bored. A LOT. It made us creative and we made up tons of games, skits, songs, etc - there wasn’t a huge focus on making the home asthetically pleasing. Often times wall calendars were the most interesting piece of “art” 😅
My babies were all born in the 90's, I had a floral couch, we listened to music on tapes, and life in some ways was way better! But we have to take each era and try to make it worth remembering for our family and friends.
I agree. I'm nostalgic about the 80s and 90s in many ways, but thanks to the internet, we have a lot of knowledge and tools at our fingertips. We just have to use it all wisely.
I was a mom of two in the 90’s, working in a corporate job. Remember wearing matching Laura Ashley outfits with my daughter. Wish I had slowed down and really soaked in those times. Now I’m a “Mimi”, watching my kids raise their own families. 😊
I was a 90’s Mom. I miss it. Our days were much more simple. When I fed my babies I used to stare at them and pray to remember this moment in time. How small they were. How they smelled as a baby. How they looked and sounded. I didn’t watch anything or look at anything other than them. I enjoyed this video very much. Thank you.
Yes, as a young mother, I would pray over my babies as I would feed or rock them to sleep. Those were precious times. If I wasn't praying, I would sing to them. ❤
I grew up in the 90s and loved it. I had the beenie babies, tomagatchi and always loved when dad would load the motor home and especially the massive cassette decks with all the music we would listen to down the road. Kids today don't appreciate 90s navigation with your mom in the passenger seat flipping the map all around trying to figure out where you are on the map and which way you're going lol. The good ole days
Your videos are just such an inspiration for me Megan! Thanks for being you and sharing with us. I love the balance on your channel between aesthetics/aspiration and reality/challenges. You manage to be uplifting without making me feel inept haha I think that's a really unique thing in the vlog space. Just wanted to say thanks!
@@MeganFoxUnlocked Awesome! I hope you'll keep it up! You're such a blessing, our family is in a whirlwind season trying to buy a house, caring for 2 month old twins + 2yo toddler. Trying to keep all the plates spinning so to speak! your channel is one guilt free constant for me and has been for years now 🩷
I was a young mom in the 90's. I did listen to the radio while doing chores (mostly Christian programs, a throw-back from what my mom did when I was a kid). For socialization (since we didn't have texting, etc.), I would either have friends with kids come over, or I would load up the kids and go to a friend's house for the day. I made a lot of casseroles (my mother-in-law taught me that). Thanks for taking me back and reminding me of those memories. I always enjoy your channel!
I'm probably one of your older viewers but your content reminds me of the days when I was home with my children and is somehow comforting to see you take care of your family and home. Anyway, I graduated high school in 96. I'm glad you are still able to remember those simple times. Life was slower and it took more effort to connect with others in those days. People could stop by to say hi without calling. Thanks for sparking my old memories ❤
I was a mom in the 90's. Second marriage. I loved the country vibe and had blue/rose furniture, and - stenciled walls in the living room. Also, sponge painted accents. Lace trim on the inside of cabinet shelves. Fun times!
We used a pencil to fix a cassette tape 😊😊 I was in my teens early 20's in the 90's Got through university without a mobile phone!! Those were the days!! 😄
So glad to be a 90's girl! I would like to be able to take my kids back to those days to experience what it was like for me growing up. Families were closer knit, groceries were cheaper, and people just seemed happier without all the negative influence of social media that they are exposed to today. It was easier to make "real life" friends as well. The 90's will always hold a special place in my heart!
I truly enjoyed this vlog. I grew up in the 90s and it was such simpler times back than. My friends and I would pass around starters of Amish friendship bread and would always play outside. I miss those days of a simple childhood.
Let's see. In the 90's ... got married, moved to Wyoming, built a house. Had no phone or TV (our choice) and heated our home with a wood burner. It was an adventure for sure! Sweet memories!
90's kid/adult here. I graduated HS in '92, got my first apartment (rent was $250 for a 2 bedroom), my first car was a Ford Escort. Hair was big (LOL). I worked at a bank (from Sophmore year until I started college) and brought home $500 every 2 weeks (thought that was a lot) and worked at Subway PT to have a little bit of spending money to hang out with friends. The lake and the rodeo was our summer hang out. Movies were so much better (but not as good as the ones in the 80's), music was so good back then. Fun times! So long ago, great memories were made in the 90's. ❤
I was born at the beginning of 1989❤ I remember my parents playing records still, but they had some tapes... then my dad got a car phone with a loooong antenna, haha 😅 that you had to pull out before you answered... we didn't get a cell phone of any kind until I was 16 years old. We just had the cord (and cordless) house phones until then... We used to ride bikes all over our neighborhood for hours (rollerblading, too), and never felt a bit of worry! We'd even stop at different neighbor's house and chat on their porches😊 Knee socks were in, and hair ribbons. My mom curled all 4 of us girls' hair into those long curls 🥰 I remember getting burnt, lol. Our little red tricycle was completely metal (we lived in PA then!), and we had one of those metal/hard plastic bouncing/rocking horses that were on long springs! ... and yes, definitely ALWAYS had the radio on 😊 to Rush Limbaugh, and I remember back when This Is The Book-shelf was airing stories like "All Things Including Frisky", "Where The River Begins", and then we always listened Ranger Bill on Saturdays 😊 Phone books, magazines like Country Living ❤ My mom read through a Manners book for devotions and had us practice manners during meals along with learning how to set the table properly. LOVED this video, Megan!! 🩷🤎🩵 Brought back SO many good memories!!
😅 Oh, also, every house about had the blue geese decor in their kitchen!!🩵🪿 Those stand-up geese that you could change the outfits on 😁 along with the curtains, dinnerware,😅 etc! Also, lots of fans blowing around the home since air-conditioning wasn't as common! Gas was $1.46 the year I was born in PA. Stamps were 25 cents. McDonald's ice cream cones were 50 cents where we lived!
I love the old cookbooks! I remember in the 90s it was safe enough in our small town that we knew to be home by the time the streetlights came on! I can’t imagine that in today’s time! Thanks for the video! 🩷
I was born ‘99 but that lifestyle suited my family so well that I grew up with much of what you discussed. That’s the joy of being home with your kids, is implementing what works for you! I remember practicing how to answer our landline, cutting colors out of magazines for crafts, and listening to kid story hour on the radio before bed.
Growing up in the 90s was the best! I remember listening to Adventures in Odyssey episodes on the radio with my family around the dinner table, and listening to them on cassette tapes when we went on long car trips.
I graduated high school in ‘92 😉. We wound up cassette tapes with a pencil 💁🏻♀️… and when I’m overwhelmed as a mom (I have grown kids down to a 5 year old) I actually do think back to how it probably was for my Mom in the 80’s / 90’s raising us, and I’m reminded how simplifying my life (and that mostly means pretending my phone and internet don’t exist) helps cut down on a lot of the stress!! Oh. And florals from the 80’s/ 90’s are always a win. ☺️
I was born in 92 as well. The 90s and early 2000s were a great time to grow up. I try to have a slow life with my kids as well. Also I didn’t know cookbooks weren’t a thing anymore😂 I have a collection and still look through them
I lived in California in 1993. I was in my early twenties. The first time I saw someone using a mobile phone in a shop. It was mind blowing. Another era.
I really enjoyed this vlog, thank you. It felt kind of nostalgic actually! Life sure felt a lot simpler in the 90s. I used to just go outside and play with my neighbors, all unsupervised 😅 and come home when it was dinner time. Collecting stickers and buying bubble gum was a big thing in my life at that time 😂 It was nice to have dinner on the table and then my mom would give me bath, I’d watch one cartoon episode on TV and then down to bed! We had very limited cassette tapes of cartoons so I’d watch the same ones over and over again and never got tired of it. Nowadays there are too many options for kids.
Gosh Megan talking about the 90's..I was in the midst of raising our 2 sons who were born in 83 and 87 and I worked full time outside the home. The 90's are somewhat of a blur! If you only knew what back in the 60's and 70's were like....that is when I was growing up!! I sure think it would be SO fun sometime for you to do a Q & A with your mother!!!! We could come up with all kinds of questions for her about raising her children and hearing of her childhood. Love seeing the children. I still think Baylor looks so much like Josh...so cute!! Wishing you a lovely summer since this is the first day of summer!!!! God bless you all!
I loved the 90s! The big bangs with lots of Hairspray! Banana clips, charm bracelets, jelly shoes, smelly stickers! Loved it all! We also live in ohio and went to lots of tractor pulls! But loved playing outside for lots of hours! If it was raining we loved playing office & board games! There were 5 of us kids so we kept busy! ❤
We had a corded phone through most of the 90’s because my dad refused to get a cordless phone because he knew it would never be where it was supposed to be when he needed it. 😂 And he would get the shortest cord he could find so we had to stand right where the phone was. 😂❤ My parents did eventually have a cordless phone but my dad still has never owned a cell phone. And I honestly really admire that about my dad….he doesn’t ever feel pressured to do anything just because "it’s what people do."💜
I love that you cherish the 90's and all your childhood memories. I actually graduated from High School in 1991 and eventually was a mother of two throughout the late 90"s. Those were good times and simpler because we really didn't know what other people were doing unless we called them on the home phone or talked to them in person. Love your videos and how you inspire me to love being a homemaker.
I remember all of the 1990s (1983 baby here). In 1990, neon colors were a huge deal. Crayon boxes had electric blue and other tones I had not seen before in the 1980s. I was in Kindergarten and 1st grade that year. Everyone had neon shorts with crazy designs on them. I wore a lot of floral with bright tones. There are so many other things. . .Those were just the start of the 1990s! I remember wearing a lot of hairclips when I became a teenager in the mid 1990s. Like little glittery ones. Blue mascara became big. Lots of rings from Claire's was huge. Chunky shoes (I had royal blue and bright orange platform sneakers with star laces). Early 1990s mom fashion, I remember those straight dresses with buttons all the way down and little sweaters over them, maryjane shoes with socks. I feel that was typical of moms. Big hair and perms was huge in the early 1990s while ironed hair was big in the late 1990s. Funny! I didn't have a cell phone until 2005 (a flip phone). I was married for a year already then. My dad had a beeper in the early 1990s and I thought that was so pointless. I was like, "Why do you have to call that number back? Why not just have them call our home phone and answer that to save you the trouble?" HAHA. We had 1970s Fedders air conditioners in the 1990s. Catalogs were huge in the mid to late 1990s. I had Alloy, Moxie Girl, Delias, and a few others. In the 1990s, Ecto Cooler Hi-C was a drink people liked. It was green and I did not like it. Others liked Mondo which was blue. I didn't like the 1990s. They felt strange to me. I knew of too many people who got caught up into drugs like extasy and it just felt strange. I always felt odd. I enjoyed the 1980s and 2000s. :) Have a great week.
I graduated from highschool in 1995, although we were transitioning to CDs, I was still recording my favorite songs off the radio on cassette on Saturday mornings. Neon was big, and my bangs were bigger. Thank you Aquanet!
Love this! You come up with great ideas for videos. 😊 I remember calling into the radio to make a request and then taping the song when they played it. That was the thing to do in middle school on a Saturday night in the 90s.
As I watched this video I was reflecting back to the 80s when my children were your children’s ages… ours has always been life in the city: us moms baking cookies, cross stitching, taking children to the park, weekly friendship bible coffee in our homes, camping together and always church services and activities. It was a very social time not isolation in our own homes. Clothing styles were never a big thing in my community of friends. We always dressed practically and modestly (although not dresses for the most part). By The 90s my children were teenagers, I was working at their Christian school (my children and I wore school uniforms) and I was busy going to their sports tournaments and other activities . We didn’t get cell phones until after 2015. I think the biggest change I see around me is the influence of social media. Also a move away from frequent entertaining in homes as a whole. A big food prep change for us has been the entrance of the air fryer! So wonderful for a retired widow❤. My grandchildren still love grandma’s cooking and baking and regularly come for family feasts and game playing.
The phone battery answer was... Who the heck knows because you were scolded if that phone did not go right back on the cradle! Haha. 80s baby here. Loved, loved the 90s. From non busy Disneyland, unprocessed meals, to plaing outside with community and absolutly no clue of where to go or who might be there.
I was also born in ‘92 and I loved everything about this video. Your description of your favorite outfit took me right back to my curled bangs and favorite velvet Christmas dresses with white tights and a giant bow. 😅 I’m thankful to know what this era felt like because although I can’t recreate it for my kids, I can do my best to instill the values that come from a slower pace of life!
Taste of Home magazine’s and cookbooks 😀 I loved looking through them. I still have them to this day. Even though my cooking is a lot different now much more whole food plant-based with a little meat.
I loved this video! That was my life! Children in 1988, 1990, and 1993……..raised actively in our church, stay-at-home mom (after 7 years in college), home in the country very much like yours (I loved it and we did MANY renovations and additions ourselves), had a large garden and berries, canned/froze everything!!, took pride in my landscaping and flower beds (with NO posts), sewed all holiday outfits for 3 kids, played with and read to my kids constantly, and cooked everything from scratch. Really really good days……with no cell phones or internet……..most time at home with just me and my kids. We pinched pennies, I clipped coupons, had garage sales…….managed to pay all bills and take our kids on a 10-day vacation somewhere around the country every year. So many wonderful memories…….with a bazillion pictures printed out at CVS😂…….and I wouldn’t change one single thing, except to start over and do it all over again!!!! What a blessing!! Megan I so appreciate what you do, and I also appreciate the lovely reminder to prepare Chicken Cordon Bleu!! We had it this evening and it was just SO GOOD!!!
Loved this episode! I raised my boys (3) in the 90's. Definitely no cell phones for a while yet, no social media, lots of outdoor play, etc. Thank you for the validation of our parenting! 😂
Oh goodness, I’m probably the oldest one on here! The 90’s seem like yesterday to me😆 I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s😳 We just had our 50th year class reunion 😭😭 I absolutely love your videos and watching you (and Lynette) raise your beautiful families! Lots to be said for “slower” times👍🏼❤️ Have a blessed weekend🙏
When I was a kid in the 70's, the 1940's seemed so long ago. I couldn't believe my mother didn't have a refrigerator but had an ice box. To realize that the 90's is the same difference is unreal to me. My students just look at me weirdly when i say I used to have to do research in books in a library. The one thing that doesn't change is a mother's love for her children.
Same here - I was married, no kids, working as a law librarian in the 90's. I got divorced, met my husband, and life started a bit late for me - I was in my late 30s when I had our son. I still remember fondly the corded phone, typewriters, radio, and doing research without computers!
Growing up we ate a lot of processed foods and gradually my mom made more from scratch as we got older. However we always ate dinner as a family. I also had a newspaper route in 6th grade (1996). That definitely doesn’t exist anymore. The magazine thing is so real. I remember spending hours looking through the Spiegel catalog.
OMG the play dough !! So many memories, my mom and I made it all the time. It had the best texture. We used to colour it with no sugar added cool-aid and it would smell so delicious 😋
I was born in 1981 so I definitely enjoyed growing up in the 80’s & 90’s 😂 I rode my bike and rollerblades in my high sinched shorts or overalls and spent summers dancing in front of my mirror with friends listening to CDs or making mixed tapes- good ol days! ❤
I loved the throw back to the 90's!! My daughter was born in 92 as well! I had 3 boys before she was born, so her birth was pretty special 😊 I swear I could smell that play doh, I made that all the time for my kids! I remember making cookies every week for snacks and just experimenting with different ingredients if I didn't have something in the recipe. Yeah, no going on the Internet or googling a substitute, lol! Thanks for bringing back sweet memories!! 🥲😍
I remember hearing a cell phone ring at a fast food place and thinking how crazy it was that you could talk to someone away from your home. Thought it was bizarre you could charge your groceries, then comes along debit cards and then seeing them in fast food places. Now who carries cash today??? Oh the lists could keep going and going. Glad I was born in the 70's.
Homesick for the 90s. I loved seeing how far that phone cord could stretch and having a huge sheet of paper next to the phone with everybody's number on it.
Batteries would last a while because we wouldn't use our phones as much as we do now. Our "car phones " were for emergencies or to notify someone we were on our way.
We moved to Vermont In 1994 and my daughter was 10. We had a wall phone,. If you needed to make a phone call when you were out, you stopped at a gas station and used a pay phone. It would have a phone book hanging there to look up numbers. I remember a friend had a mobile phone in a box and the phone was huge. We got our first cell phone in 2000 when my daughter started driving in case something might happen or she needed to get a hold of us.
My parents had a whole collection of encyclopedias that we used to “google” what we wanted to know 😅 I also remember going to the library a lot as a kid and borrowing books with cassette tapes to listen to, like Bernstein Bears. Oh, and on super special occasions my Mom would serve “Vienetta”, a frozen ice cream dessert that was sooo good 🤤 Ah, good ol’ nostalgia!
I remember I had a whole box of crazy hair accessories like scrunchies and big butterfly and flower clips and Pom poms, and when my mom did my hair in the 90s we would root through the box to pick out the accessories for that day!
I use that cookbook often. It is a good one. Being born in 1942, I remember quite a few more years, and they were wonderful. Went to Millersville University, which then was a State College. Lived near you, and love the area. Enjoy every age, every stage, and keep God first. Yep. Life is awesome.
I was born in '86. I fully remember the 90s, especially the second half. I definitely feel like my kids live in the 90s and that's on purpose! You're bored? Go climb a tree. Hot? Break out the kiddie pools. Hungry? Well, thats where i go to the early 1900s and make it from scratch, but you get the idea ;)
I love Focus on the Family. I need to look them up. I haven't heard them since the early 90s when I would drive to and from church on Sunday nights. It was a 45 minute drive and the christian radio was always on in my car; that was one of the programs they would play.
I was also born in 1992! I remember literally rolling the window down in the car, home phones with cords, I remember when we got a computer, and I remember pagers before cell phones.
Would be a cute photo shoot someday with your fashion to be in a 90s (goose themed) kitchen cooking and talking on a corded phone mounted to the wall!! Definitely with wallpaper border too!!
Oh to be in the 90’s again, I was just a kid and my favorite outfit was a denim shirt that had rose print patches on the shoulders with a rose printed skirt. Ugh I loved it and wore it all the time 😂 ❤
Wow brilliant vlog Megan. Where do I start about the 90s, I was 20 then so I had a 2 Yr old and prams were nothing like today's 😂, in the uk we had a milkman who delivered eggs,yogurt,milk and at Christmas a yearly diary 😁 full of recipes and home making ideas. Adidas clothing and shell suits 😂 raa raa skirts and pointed toe flat shoes, Sunday would be a Roast at lunch and evening meal would be ham sandwiches with pickled cucumber and onions, baby beetroots, the beetroots always made the bread soggy & pink lol. We covered our school books with wallpaper and scrap paper to keep the books nice. We would listen to top of the pops on the radio and record it on a small tape machine that you put the tape in and would press record & play together 😂, sweet bags from the local corner shop,1p sweets 😋, we would get so much for the few pence we got for pocket money. The Morris minor cars and the Hilmans were popular back then early 70s followed by the skoda that came on the market in the late 80,90s absolutely vile car 😂. The mobile phones were huge and only the wealthy people or businesses had one, they had a huge battery that clipped on the bottom. People still shopped in the local markets for groceries rather than now everything pretty much comes from the one shop. Tesco was a very popular store,as was Sainsbury's they were the only 2 main stores we had. Our town was car friendly and everyone just got on with it,then late 90 early 00 modernisation came in 🤦♀️ ruined everything. I have very found memories of my younger days 😊. I still have one of those diary's from the milk man 😂.
I also was just beginning my motherhood journey in the 1990’s daughter born September 1989 and my son May 1996 and pregnant in December 1999. I remember that I only had one mail box to check, writing checks to pay bills. Books on cassettes for cars, a lot more outside play for my children. Cutting coupons and having my coupon box. Slower paced cartoons like my favorite “Little Bear”.
Not unusual at all to go back mentally to where you learned to be a Mom! I go back to the 50's, so if you think the 90's were slower! Anyway it can be comforting as well as inspiring. Glorified rice was BIG in the 50's!
I actually had two sweaters like the one you are wearing in the early 90s. One cobalt blue, one red. Of course I wore them with dresses that had huge white collars that were worn out over the sweaters 😊 Loved the nineties.
We got an older library book with the checkout card still in the back with stamps from the last times it was checked out before the library switched to computer only checkouts. My kiddo asked what it was and the nostalgia hit me hard.
