1. Having these as your go-to shoes for EVERYTHING...
2. ...and Candies as your go-to party shoes (even if you did sound like a Clydesdale whenever you wore them):
3. Carrying around a JanSport backpack at school that you customized with Sharpies or Wite-Out pens and maybe even patches.
4. Also carrying around a day planner that you really only used to store wallet-size photos given to you by friends:
5. Decorating the inside of your locker and the cover of your folders with these stickers:
6. Wanting these oh-so-Y2K futuristic lava lamps to decorate your bedroom with:
7. Also wanting a 13-inch TV with the built-in VCR for your room ('cause that was LUXE)...
8. ...and a VTech cordless phone — with your own personal line:
9. Buying random unauthorized biographies about your favorite celebs because that was really the only way you could learn about them — although most of the time, there was never new info in them:
10. Buying magazines dedicated to just one celeb so that you could cut out the pictures and decorate your room with them:
11. Sponge-painting your bedroom or bathroom and having some seriously questionable results:
12. Thinking celestial pattern decor was just so cool and grown-up:
13. Having a desk drawer or shoebox full of film-developing envelopes stuffed with old photos you either didn't care too much for or didn't like:
14. Being obsessed with Tommy Hilfiger because of Aaliyah's iconic Tommy campaign:
15. Having an ~era~ where you did nothing but listen to Fiona Apple and Lauryn Hill over and over:
16. Switching out your beeper cases to match your outfits:
17. Calling your parents collect to come pick you up from somewhere — because you didn't have any change — and quickly delivering the message in the part where you were supposed to say your name:
18. Owning at least one Beanie Baby whether you collected them or not:
19. Knowing that whenever you wore your carpenter jeans, the hammer loop would get caught on something at some point:
20. Feeling as if you were going to break your ankles whenever you wore platform sneakers:
21. Having this as the hairstyle you wanted for any type of formal event:
22. And, of course, wearing a pashmina to any type of formal event:
23. Leaving body glitter on everything (but mainly on your bathroom counters and floors) anytime you wore it:
24. Having Gap perfumes as your go-to daily perfume:
25. And Bath & Body Works sprays as your backup at-school scent:
26. Ordering magazines from Publishers Clearing House that you then would never pay for:
27. And ordering CDs from Columbia House or BMG that you then would never pay for:
28. Having a CD tower in the corner of your room displaying all your CDs (and you would always put your favorite CDs on the top):
29. Having your floor look like this whenever you made a mixtape:
30. Running home from school to catch TRL (had to know where your favorite video placed):
31. Being super careful when handling your portable CD player because you knew it wouldn't survive a drop:
32. Being obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
33. ...and debating over which one Buffy should choose: Angel or Spike?
34. Having your entire bathroom smell like Herbal Essences anytime you used it in the shower:
35. And finally, being completely obsessed with Titanic:
