If you grew up in the early 2000s [1], 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 [2] 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 [3] 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 [4]. 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 . . .
You Had to Plan Your Sleepover Around the Latest Disney Channel Original Movie
Someone Always Arrived in a Denim Dress
You Hopped on Your Bikes and Rode Past Your Crush's House
Using *67 to Prank Call Your Classmates Was the Peak of the Night's Entertainment
You All Gushed Over the Thought of These Two Being Together Forever
If Someone Had a Crimper, You Knew the Drill
You All Spent Hours Choosing a Song to Play as Your Outgoing Voicemail Messages
And recording it at just the right moment.
You HAD to Give Each Other Makeovers
You Showed Off Your Newest Low-Rise Jeans
You All Pondered What You Should Say Back to Your Crush's "Hey" Text
Everyone Organised Their Top Friends on MySpace With the People at the Sleepover First
It was never without drama.
You Snapped Pics of Each Other All Night long
You Used Your Friend's Small Dog as an . . . Accessory?
You Learned the Cheer Routines From Bring It On
And Everyone Cringed When They Heard That Jessica Simpson Thought Tuna Was Chicken
Someone Did Front Twists in Everyone Else's Hair
Ordering Pizza Was the Highlight of the Night
You Watched the Latest Drama Unfold on The O.C. With Your Friends
You Covered Each Other in Your Finest Blue Eyeshadow Shades
You Each Had Different-Coloured Velour Tracksuits
Everyone Played Snake on Their Nokia Cell Phones
And You All Swapped Case Covers When Someone Got a New One
Nokia 5165 Vintage Cell Phone With USA Flag Design [6] ($30)
You and Your BFF Practiced the Routine to Lizzie and Paulo's Dance Number
Everyone Flipped Through Their YM Magazine Looking For Juicy Tidbits of Celeb Gossip
YM Magazine [7] ($38)
You Swapped Gauchos With Everyone So You Had Fresh Styles to Wear to School
Everyone Vowed to Stay Up All Night, but No One Actually Did
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."
Dance Parties Took Up a Majority of the Night
You Vowed to Do a Scavenger Hunt as Cool as the One in Sleepover
The Coolest of the Crew Would Teach Everyone Else How to Perfect the Hair Bump
Heading to 7-11 to Mix Slurpee Flavours Was a Must
Slugging Down Capri Suns in as Little as 1 Sip Was Protocol
Capri Sun Pacific Cooler [8] ($15)
You Searched For the Perfect Pair of Travelling Pants
If Someone Didn't Know the "Burns" From White Chicks, You Taught Them
You All Smothered Your Lips in Tube Lip Gloss
Like this Lancôme Juicy Tubes Original Lip Gloss [9] ($20).
Even When Everyone Went to Bed, You Still Wore Your Livestrong Bracelets
Like this Livestrong New Yellow Cancer Support Bracelet Wristband [10] ($6).
If It Was Summer, Your Parents Let You Set Up a Slip N' Slide in the Backyard
Like this Water Slide [11] ($90).
You Tried to Play Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board Without Cracking Up
Taking New MySpace Pics With Your Digital Camera HAD to Happen
Someone Always Rocked a Side Ponytail
While Someone Else Sported Their Stick-Thin Eyebrows
The Squad Got Excited When Someone's Parents Brought Home Legally Blonde From Blockbuster
Someone Always Told a Scary Story That Their Older Sibling Swore Was True
Baby Bottle Pops Were Always Scattered Across the Floor
Baby Bottle Pop Candy Assortment [12] ($23)
Someone in the Group Secretly Wanted to Date John Tucker
Even though he was the biggest player.
It Was a Successful Night If You Were Covered in Crystal Tattoos by the End of It
Pillow Fights Were Bound to Happen
Let's Face It: Sleepovers With Your "Homeskillits" Were Just Off the Hook
