I Can't Imagine Life Without...

Today, as I was gazing with that lovesick-mummy feeling at my baby girl fast asleep on my bed (currently the only place she’ll  nap), I was suddenly struck by a weird thought. What would I be doing now if I didn’t have her? If she had never come along, would I be sad? Happy? Lonely? What would my life be like? And the truth is, I couldn’t imagine it. My baby is so much a part of my life now that I can’t conceive of a world without her. And this got me thinking… what else did we used to live without, but now can’t imagine not having? These are my top ten, but do let me know if you have any more!

 

 

 

 

1.     GHD’s. Seriously, did I really ever just wash and blow? And what must my hair have looked like? (Thankfully, this was pre-Facebook).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        Mobile phones. I honestly, honestly cannot begin to imagine the nightmare of arranging to meet a friend in town, or a car breaking down, or simply getting separated in a shopping centre, without a mobile phone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.        Speaking of shopping: the Trafford Centre. Can you imagine a world where every time you need something, you have to drive all the way to town, pay £12 an hour to park and run to Zara in the pouring rain? Nope, me neither.  (Disclaimer: the Trafford Centre isn’t paying me to write this, and I’m not even its biggest fan, to tell the truth. But it is convenient).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.       Leggings. What a godsend they are, pregnant or not. Okay, I know that leggings were around pre-2010, but only for children or the seriously athletic. Now, however, anyone can get away with them, and look okay- even me. What a relief.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.       While I’m on the subject of clothes, can you remember when jeans were only worn for events of extreme casualness, and you would never go “out-out” in them? I mentioned this to my mum, and she told me that back when she was young*, a lady wearing jeans with high heels was considered to be very slutty. I kid you not.

*        *I won’t name the decade, she’ll kill me.

 

 

 

 

6.
Google. My niece and nephew don’t believe me that when I was in school, we had to look things up in actual books.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.      BB cream. I shudder to remember a time when the choice was naked face or cakey, orange foundation. Yeah, I know there were tinted moisturisers, but they never really worked, did they?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8.     MP3 storage devices, be that your iPod, phone or tablet. Now that every nook and cranny of my house is crammed with baby items, I dread to think where I would store 500 CD’s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.      On the subject of baby items, I have no memory of living without them, but I say a little thankyou once (or twice) a day for the invention of the disposable nappy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1   Gel nails and/or Shellac polish. Did anyone ever really think that acrylic nails with massive white tips was a good look? Yikes.