r/blunderyears • • 8h ago

Throwback to when I told my mom I wanted to be a “potato” for Halloween and I ended up a ballsack

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r/blunderyears • • 8h ago

Rocking the JNCO jeans in 1999 at 14! it wasn’t just a phase mom !

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me at 14 then me at 41 with my 17 year old daughter! 😮‍💨😬🥺
My fav article of clothing I’ve ever owned!


r/blunderyears • • 2h ago

My ugly duckling phase

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I have normal teeth now for the record


r/blunderyears • • 1h ago

Dressed Up Fancy in 2007 For M'Ladies

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Unearthed this in a family album. Sideways styled fedora and a threadbare cashmere scarf because ✨️fashion✨️ is for sheeple. And so is smiling. I was a very proud undiagnosed autist non-confomist


r/blunderyears • • 12h ago

They told me to smile with teeth 96 or 97

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497 Upvotes

r/blunderyears • • 8h ago

Juvenile delinquent activities

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123 Upvotes

Fun fact this couch was actually a bong 😆


r/blunderyears • • 3h ago

When you make stupid faces to (try and) fit in...(2009-2013)

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For context: I used to make dumb faces to try to make people laugh, it never had the effect I hoped for though unfortunately...

Ppl thought I was a moron

They might have been right tbh

Good news is: All dumb faces have been officially retired (growing up is a trip)

I actually sent that Xmas Card out in 2013 to family & friends....

What was I thinking?? 🤦🏻‍♂️


r/blunderyears • • 1h ago

I had some interesting fits when my mom started letting me dress myself.

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The gauchos, white tights, orange crocs, and a poncho was an interesting combination lol.


r/blunderyears • • 1d ago

The picture my momma sent to my grandma to tell her we bought a kitten, 2016

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I feel like they knew from this moment exactly how I'm gonna do in life lmao


r/blunderyears • • 2d ago

Me with my friend buying our first jelly shoes

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r/blunderyears • • 2d ago

Triple Malfunction

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The teddy bears on our sweaters are having a better day than any of us. They got knitted into a nightmare but at least they didn’t have bowl cuts


r/blunderyears • • 3d ago

I dressed up as Hunter S Thompson for 10th grade Halloween dress up day, and then got upset when no one knew who I was.

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My friend was Tyler Durden. I cropped half of him out for privacy.

Technically it was "Mole Day", but it fell around halloween. 16 years ago!


r/blunderyears • • 3d ago

“Don’t Trust a Hoe” Homemade Music Video 2009

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r/blunderyears • • 3d ago

I wrote a tell-all for my HS senior project (2005)

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426 Upvotes

It's 44 pages long.


r/blunderyears • • 5d ago

I apparently thought that trigger discipline was optional.

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Living life on the edge. 2009-20012ish Unleash your worst 🫣

Edit: I posted a blunder and accidentally opened an international discussion about how gun crazed Americans are. Plz don’t take my stupid ass teenage pics as a representation of all Americans lmao


r/blunderyears • • 5d ago

First day of school early '90s

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They are so high up my belly button is 6 ft under.


r/blunderyears • • 7d ago

Emo and awkward as hell, the school photo makes me cringe hahaha added a recent one at the very end! Still a metal head.

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r/blunderyears • • 7d ago

My Diary-of-a-Wimpy-Kid-style journal entry detailing the outcome of Superbowl XLVI. I was in 3rd grade.

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597 Upvotes

r/blunderyears • • 9d ago

2 weeks into puberty..his smile and optimism...gone. 🥀 (2003>2005>2009>10 minutes ago)

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I'm still cringe and that's ok :)


r/blunderyears • • 9d ago

12 Years old. Addicted to wearing crocs and fedoras…

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938 Upvotes

And my parents think the autism diagnosis came out of nowhere 😭


r/blunderyears • • 10d ago

Goth girl gets a new puppy, circa 1996.

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Picking up the new puppy in 1996 with my grandmother. Even amongst the cuteness it was illegal to smile.


r/blunderyears • • 11d ago

No, it did not occur to me that my brother's beach wedding would not be the time for black. Or a full face of make up. Or Karen hair. On a boy.

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This was just a phase.

My sister in law isn't in the picture but she isn't well. I thought I'd post this throwback to the edgy of seventeen, 2007, with this stunning display of goth/gay/gay goth. See if we get a good laugh out of it...


r/blunderyears • • 11d ago

I was too poor for Hot Topic

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Once I had a pair of Chucks but my mom tossed em the instant they got grungy. In her defense, I hated socks as a kid. Shopped outta goodwills and those giant mystery bags from our cousins wirh money. So my blunder years were "punk/emo in spirit". I'm 39 graduated 2005 my favorite band then was Blink 182 and my favorite band now is The Talking Heads. It was never a phase just a matter of refining.


r/blunderyears • • 11d ago

I watched one episode of The Last Kingdom and decided Uhtred had the best hair

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373 Upvotes

Was 19 or 20 at the time in university. The messy ponytail lasted all of a month before I got tired of it.

I definitely miss that hairline, though.


r/blunderyears • • 11d ago

17 years old at a Phish show in 2012.

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I still chuckle every time I see this picture. I thought I was so cool 😅