Things You Did at Sleepovers in the Early 2000s
58 Things You Did at Sleepovers in the Early 2000s
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If you grew up in the early 2000s, you know there's nothing that can compare to the pure joy and excitement you felt when you heard you were allowed to have a sleepover with your best friends on a treasured Friday night. You knew a wild evening of Mean Girls quoting, MySpace profile updating, and homemade music video creating was about to commence, and just the sheer thought of it made you burst with joy. As you packed for your exciting excursion across the street, you blasted "I'm a Slave 4 U" while you tucked your new Nokia into your backpack. (Hey, who knows? Your crush just might text message you!) You made sure to grab your velour tracksuit so you could match with your friends, and you threw on your bermuda shorts and styled your hair into a side pony just in case your BFF's cute sibling was home. As you made your way to their house, you could already smell the Easy Mac cooking up in the microwave. Yum. Your night hadn't even started yet, and you knew it would be one for the books.
If you're feeling serious nostalgia, then you, too, know how great it was growing up in the early 2000s. From flipping through YM Magazine to showing off your newest Hollister shirt to your besties, having a sleepover back then was cool. beans. Read through the most iconic things that happened at sleepovers in the early 2000s, and try not to cringe when you realise you and your friends still do some of these things to this day . . .
1 You Had to Plan Your Sleepover Around the Latest Disney Channel Original Movie
2 Someone Always Arrived in a Denim Dress
3 While Someone Else Withstood the Itchiness of Their Popcorn Top
4 You Hopped on Your Bikes and Rode Past Your Crush's House
5 You and the Crew Shook It Like a Polaroid Picture
6 Using *67 to Prank Call Your Classmates Was the Peak of the Night's Entertainment
7 You All Gushed Over the Thought of These Two Being Together Forever
8 If Someone Had a Crimper, You Knew the Drill
9 You All Spent Hours Choosing a Song to Play as Your Outgoing Voicemail Messages
10 You HAD to Give Each Other Makeovers
11 You Showed Off Your Newest Low-Rise Jeans
12 You All Pondered What You Should Say Back to Your Crush's "Hey" Text
13 Everyone Organised Their Top Friends on MySpace With the People at the Sleepover First
14 You Snapped Pics of Each Other All Night long
15 You Each Downloaded Music From Kazaa and LimeWire and Burned It Onto CDs
16 You Used Your Friend's Small Dog as an . . . Accessory?
17 You Learned the Cheer Routines From Bring It On
18 And Everyone Cringed When They Heard That Jessica Simpson Thought Tuna Was Chicken
19 Someone Did Front Twists in Everyone Else's Hair
20 Ordering Pizza Was the Highlight of the Night
21 You Watched the Latest Drama Unfold on The O.C. With Your Friends
22 You Covered Each Other in Your Finest Blue Eyeshadow Shades
23 You Each Had Different-Coloured Velour Tracksuits
24 Everyone Played Snake on Their Nokia Cell Phones
25 And You All Swapped Case Covers When Someone Got a New One
26 You and Your BFF Practiced the Routine to Lizzie and Paulo's Dance Number
27 Everyone Flipped Through Their YM Magazine Looking For Juicy Tidbits of Celeb Gossip
28 You Did a Fashion Show With Your Newest Hollister Haul
29 You Swapped Gauchos With Everyone So You Had Fresh Styles to Wear to School
30 Everyone Vowed to Stay Up All Night, but No One Actually Did
31 Everyone Tried to Imitate Monique's Iconic Line From This Scene in She's the Man
Rehearsing it just in case your BF dumped you — and from the top! "OK, let me put a stop to that little brain fart right now. Girls with asses like mine do not talk to boys with faces like yours."
32 Dance Parties Took Up a Majority of the Night
33 You Counted Who Could Roll Their Soffe Shorts the Most Times
34 You Vowed to Do a Scavenger Hunt as Cool as the One in Sleepover
35 The Coolest of the Crew Would Teach Everyone Else How to Perfect the Hair Bump
36 Heading to 7-11 to Mix Slurpee Flavours Was a Must
37 There Was a Time in the Night When Everyone Would Sing Avril Lavigne's "Complicated"
At the top your lungs, of course.
38 Slugging Down Capri Suns in as Little as 1 Sip Was Protocol
39 Falling Asleep to Nickelodeon's Nick at Nite TV Specials on the Couch Happened Every Time
And not having to get up for school the next day was the best.
