THE FASHIONS OF the 90s might be back in a big way, but there are some things from that decade we’d all rather forget. Here’s a list of what we want to throw right into Room 101.

1. Furbies

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There was a Furby revival in September of last year. Please don’t let this happen to our children again.

2. Tamagotchis

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Hours of our youth. Wasted.

3. Bad lip liner

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Dark lip liner around a metallic bright pastel. Why did we ever think this was a good look? It wasn’t.

4. Simply Red

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Stay in the 90s where you belong, Hucknall!

5. Tearaway tracksuit bottoms

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These tear-away tracksuit bottoms made life in school a lot harder than it needed to be. How did our parents let us get away with fully removable trousers in public?

6. Jenny Jones

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Hours spent in front of the TV, absorbing the worst 90s America had to offer us. Remember Rude Jude? We’d rather we didn’t. He can stay in the 90s along with Jenny. Sorry, Jen.

7. Push Pops

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These just weren’t practical. The resulting stickiness wouldn’t go away! Push Pops can remain firmly in the past, alongside jawbreakers and ten-penny bags. We’d like the Jurassic Park ice lollies back, though, please.

8. Stick-on jewels

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Stick-on jewels everywhere. Beside your eyes, on your sunglasses, on your Nokia 3310, on your belly button, on your pencil case. Never again.

9. Mr Blobby

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It’s time to admit to ourselves that Mr Blobby was never entertaining, merely deeply creepy.

10. Tiny hair clasps

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So… why exactly did we bother?

11. Curtains

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The hairstyle that should never have been. See also: boys home-bleaching to jazz up their bowl-cuts.

12. Deely boppers

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As we rang in the Millenium and breathed a sigh of relief about the Y2K bug, it was time to put away the deely boppers forever.

13. Rewinding your tape with a pencil

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We’ve come a long way from the manual days of the tape. Through CDs, mini discs, Napster down to iTunes. We don’t miss digging out a pen to rewind our tape, before popping it into our bulky Walkman (covered in stick-on jewels, naturally).

14. Blowing on the Sega cartridge

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Say what you want about video games in the 21st century – there’s no manual cleaning involved.

15. Gel pens

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Scented, metallic, neon – but all very pointless.

16. Fibre optic lamps

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The ideal 90s bedroom contained a bean bag and a fibre optic lamp. The ideal bedroom today contains neither of those things, right? Right?

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