Bedrooms, Beads & Blow-Up Chairs

Summary

You Had 2 Be There Episode: Bedrooms, Beads & Blow-Up Chairs
Hosts: Erin Miller, Kate Steinberg, Nicole Story Dent
Air Date: August 6, 2026

---

Episode Overview

This episode dives deep into the nostalgia of 1990s and 2000s bedroom décor, exploring the iconic trends, peculiar products, and personal stories that defined a generation’s personal spaces. Erin, Kate, and Nicole weave their signature humor with detailed reminiscence, swapping tales about canopy beds, blow-up chairs, sibling warfare, and the influence of teen pop culture on everything from wall colors to gadget choices. The episode’s tone is fun, spontaneous, and affectionately mocking of their younger selves, with frequent asides and playful debates about middle parts, magazine posters, and the ultimate dream bedrooms from TV and film.

---

Key Discussion Points & Insights

Early 2000s Bedroom Aesthetics

• The hosts mapped out the dominant color palettes (hot pink, lime green, baby blue, teal) and "vibes" that signified Y2K décor:

  • Nicole: “You were hot pink, you were lime, or you were baby blue or teal. Am I missing a color?” [06:35]
  • Kate: Relied on posters and Limited Too accessories to personalize otherwise bland rental bedrooms. [06:23]

• Styles were often defined by:

  • Statement walls in bold colors.
  • Canopy and day beds (with or without closable nets).
  • Inflatable (“blow-up”) chairs and butterfly chairs.
  • Beaded door curtains and stick-on glow-in-the-dark stars.
  • Posters of pop icons, bands, and sports figures (NSYNC, Spice Girls, Mia Hamm, etc.).

Sibling Rivalries and Room Defenses

• Host stories highlighted creative bedroom security:

  • Sibling-installed door alarms and even motion-sensing toys that mimicked the film “Toy Soldier.” [04:33, 04:56]
  • Fierce territoriality: Kate’s infamous “pinky incident”—slamming the door and (accidentally) chopping her baby brother’s pinky off. [10:43–12:04]
    • Kate: “Get out—choked the door, slammed it, cut his pinky off … that was my villain origin story.” [11:20, 12:03]

• Boys’ rooms described as: permanent army green, messier, filled with posters and knickknacks, less likely to have décor updates until adulthood. [22:43–23:24]

Iconic Childhood Gadgets & Décor

• Doorbells and Signs: From actual battery-operated doorbells to “Do Not Disturb” pillows. [03:49–04:14]
• Glow-in-the-dark Stars: A must-have, with stickiness challenged by popcorn ceilings; Nicole jokes about risking asbestos exposure. [15:40–16:39]
• CD Towers and Media Storage: CD, VHS towers as prized room fixtures. [32:32, 48:52]
• Phones and Electronics: Clear (see-through) phones, radios, and TVs were the zenith of cool. [48:28, 51:28]

Furniture & Space Solutions

• Loft Beds and Micro-Spaces: Nicole’s dad-built loft bed with an “apartment” set up underneath (TV, inflatable chair), with curtains for privacy. [17:03–18:23]
• Closet Hideouts: Erin and Nicole reminisced about converting closets into secret dens or offices, a nod to craving “micro spaces within my space.” [27:09]
• Trundle Beds: A luxury for sleepovers, never owned by the hosts but coveted for maximizing space. [48:01–48:13]
• Chairs: Evolution from blow-up chairs (short-lived, noisy) to butterfly and beanbag chairs; boys had more utilitarian “video game rockers.” [42:38–43:14]

Dream Bedrooms from Pop Culture

• TV/Film Influence:
  • Xenon: The Zequel: “Everything was just rounded edges and metallic silver … she had that built-in like reading nook in the wall.” [25:14]
  • Hey Arnold: “The whole ceiling was skylight. Get out of here!” [25:40]
  • Smart House—the “Bewitched” room, Lizzie McGuire, Spice World tour bus.
  • That’s So Raven (basement room), Clarissa Explains It All, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch (stained glass, celestial motifs). [27:46–28:17]

Decorating Practices & Rituals

• Posters Galore:

  • Hosts and listeners obsessed over magazine ripouts, collecting shopping bags, and creating collage walls. Kate: “I remember putting up shopping bags on my wall.” [31:21]
  • “First favorite before it was like, cute boys? It was all Spice Girls. I was determined to have every picture to have ever that ever existed of them on my wall.” – Nicole [32:38]
  • Some listeners signed friends’ names and messages on closet doors, “like a bar bathroom.” [47:13]

• Rearranging Furniture as Therapy:

  • Frequent, cathartic late-night rearrangements: “No one had more strength, reserve, motivation than 12 year old me at like 11pm on a Tuesday wanting to rearrange my room.” – Erin [34:55]
  • Graph paper “drafting” to plan layouts, a rite of passage for budding decorators. [49:55–50:15]

• Room Decor Trends:

  • Sand art, Victoria’s Secret Pink dogs, perfume bottles, picture frames, Claire’s and Limited Too knickknacks, fiber optic and lava lamps, themed lighting (aquarium lights, crayon lamps), and the ultimate prize—Abercrombie shopping bags as wall décor, even when “couldn’t afford Abercrombie growing up.” – Nicole [31:35]

Generational Reflections

• 90s/2000s kids spent all day in their bedrooms, whereas today’s kids are “living room kids.” [09:08]
• Posters and magazine culture have faded (“now there aren’t magazines to rip out anymore”)—replaced by digital media. [31:15]
• The hosts lovingly lampoon later trends and the way parental tolerance of holes in walls and eclectic design freed their creativity.

---

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Territorial Siblings:

  • Kate: “Get out—choked the door, slammed it, cut his pinky off … that’s my villain origin story.” [11:20–12:03]

• On Room as Sanctuary:

  • Kate: “That was, like, my little sanctuary. I would put on my Hilary Duff CD, Metamorphosis…play Polly Pockets...write in diaries, CDs to listen to. Never left unless it was for a snack.” [09:33]
  • Erin: “All day. Bedroom or bust, baby.” [09:30]

• On Dream TV Rooms:

  • Erin: “My two, like, Mount Rushmore bedrooms were number one Xenon from the zqual […] number two, Arnold's room in Hey Arnold. The whole ceiling was skylight. Get out of here.” [25:14–25:47]

• On Declaring ‘Middle Part’ Ownership:

  • Erin: “Stop saying a middle part is Gen Z. I have been with this middle part since 2009, because of my two founding fathers, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen.” [52:18]

• On Rearranging Rooms:

  • “No one had more strength, reserve, motivation than 12-year-old me at like 11 pm on a Tuesday wanting to rearrange my room.” – Erin [34:55]

---

Listener Stories (“ASL Anonymous Story Lounge”) [45:40]

• Cloud Room Disaster: Listener hot-glued cotton balls to painted clouds—ruined the wall, could never get glue off. [46:09]
• Laguna Beach Collage: One listener’s door was covered with printed photos, notes from friends, movie ticket stubs, friends would sign their closet door. [47:01]
• Trundle Bed Sleepover Mishaps: Adult use of trundle beds at bachelorette parties led to back pain and sleeping on plastic mattresses. [48:18]

---

Timestamps for Key Segments

• Halloween Decorating Tangent: [01:01–02:57]
• Y2K Bedroom Color Aesthetics: [05:18–07:17]
• Sibling Sabotage (“Pinky” Story): [10:43–12:15]
• Posters and Collaging: [15:41; 31:21–32:38]
• Dream TV/Movie Bedrooms: [24:52–28:44]
• Furniture, Chairs, and Room Gadgets: [34:55; 42:01–43:14]
• Listener Stories Segment: [45:40–50:47]

---

Thematic Highlights & Nostalgia Triggers

• Deep dives into specifics—textures (popcorn ceilings), types of beds (loft, daybed, trundle), and even the sensory memory of moving furniture on a whim.
• Genuine nostalgia for lost items—limited magazine posters, physical CD towers, eye-catching shopping bags.
• Shared empathy about noise sensitivity, messy vs. tidy rooms, and the slow passage to design autonomy as parental controls relaxed.

---

Overall Tone & Takeaway

Spirited, self-deprecating, and rich with detail, this episode brings a generation’s private sanctuaries back to life. It’s both a tribute to—and a gentle roast of—the quirky, chaotic, and colorful bedrooms that shaped the childhoods of Millennial and Elder Gen Z listeners. Whether you remember meticulously planning furniture shifts on graph paper or hoarding Limited Too posters, “Bedrooms, Beads & Blow-Up Chairs” is a heartfelt (and hilarious) love letter to the era when your bedroom truly was your universe.

Transcript

[A]

You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby.

[B]

Welcome. You had to be there. I'm Erin.

[C]

I'm Kate.

[D]

I'm Nicole. If you're watching video, this is Grinder.

[B]

Aww.

[C]

Grinder.

[D]

Grinder is a kitty cat. We adopted her and my. My son. This is like my son's cat. So he calls it a boy because he doesn't want to have a girl cat. He wants a boy cat. And he named him Grinder, which autocorrects to Grindr. You.

[B]

His eyes.

[D]

I know. He just. She's a sweetie.

[B]

Oh, she.

[D]

Yeah, she. We call her a he just to appease my son, but.

[B]

Gotcha. Oh, my gosh.

[C]

That's funny.

[B]

What's the four one, one?

[C]

What is going on? Oh, I have something to grow.

[D]

Where is the love?

[B]

What?

[C]

We're still in the middle of summer and Halloween stuff. He's already out.

[B]

Oh, just. I just came across my first Halloween TikTok. Someone was like, decorate my home movie theater, which I'm like, that's a nice. There's a nice home movie for Halloween. I was like, what? Hello? Although I do love Halloween. Not gonna lie.

[C]

Yeah, but we're not. But can we just, like, hang on a second. Can we just enjoy the summer heat, people?

[B]

Can't.

[C]

We can't.

[D]

No, I get you, but. But, but as somebody who wins the art of the month every October. Whoa.

[B]

Are you serious?

[A]

Huh?

[B]

I go and we've never seen video photo.

[D]

You have to be competitive, though, because like, if that whenever they launch, like, the newest, like, skull coming out of the ground or like, oh, this time it's a 17 foot skeleton. Like, you have to run to Costco to get. And if you're not the first one to get. So I feel like it's happening earlier and earlier, but you got to be on top of it if you want to get that latest decoration.

[C]

I know I saw something at home. Goods at home's good. She's like, showing her getting this giant, like, fridge Frankenstein head. She's like, you'll never believe what just dropped. Like, are you the person that's going to T.J. maxx?

[D]

Like, Marshall, I'm sending my husband. Yeah, okay. I'm like, babe, get the truck. Get the truck. You have launched their skeleton.

[B]

You have that tall skeleton, don't you?

[D]

Then we have. We have four tall skeletons. I make them look like they're Climbing the house. I have a, like, ghoulie, like, pumpkin, like, 17 foot, and they fall over anytime the wind blows the wrong way. And then my neighbor just moved, and I was like, well, sell me. She also does, like, skeleton, like, of go in together and do, like, a skeleton theme. I'm like, well, you know who you're still on your vacation to. We wanted to do, like, spiders crawling, like, oversized spiders crawling from, like, my house to her house. I did a graveyard last year. My dream is to have, like, smoke, but, well, because this is my first time living in a neighborhood that, like, you can love that trick or treat in. Because I. I grew up, like, on acreage, and then our last house was on acreage. So this is. I feel like I've, like, for the first time, gotten into Halloween last couple years, because being in more of a traditional neighborhood that goes all out. It's really. It's so fun.

[B]

Oh, I love that. We hide in our basement and turn the lights off on Halloween because you

[D]

don't want anybody coming to your house.

[B]

We don't hand out candy. I don't know.

[C]

Oh, my God. I live for it. Like, I'm literally, like, on the sidewalk because no one comes.

[B]

I do like Halloween handing out candy. I don't think that many people. I don't think that many kids. Hot trick or treat in our ear. I don't know. But I do love Halloween.

[D]

My God, is she wearing the new Casey Couture?

[B]

Speaking of decorations, you guys, let's get in the chat room because. Oh, today.

[C]

No, you do it.

[B]

We are discussing Y2K bedroom decor.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

I'm so excited for this.

[B]

Whoa. We have little samples of what it could have possibly looked like. Right, you guys, before we go any further, do you know what this is?

[C]

Is that a doorbell?

[D]

Is that your poly? Oh, it's a doorbell.

[B]

Go away. You can't come in. Wait. That's incredible. This was not mine growing up, by the way. Like, please. I did not have a bedroom doorbell. I wish.

[C]

Oh, that's so cool, though. I had. I had a hanger on my door that said, like. Like, it was like a Princess from Limited 2 probably.

[B]

It was like, I know what you're talking about. Like, little pillow thing. Like, kind of pillowy pillow.

[C]

Yes. On my door.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[D]

It was like do not disturb versus, like.

[C]

Okay, you guys. Exactly.

[D]

I would lock my door. I would always get in trouble for locking my door.

[B]

Always locking my door. I would just get out of here.

[D]

My brother installed a alarm on his door that he would turn on if he ever left the house or something. Because we would. We would not stay out of each other's rooms. We were nightmares to each other. So he installed a obnoxiously loud alarm on his door. So if he opened it when it was turned on, it would just.

[C]

Why?

[B]

Damn.

[D]

Wow.

[C]

Did you guys ever see the movie Toy Soldier?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Or something. Like, it's such an old movie, but my brother like, like you, Nicole, had a toy and it had a sensor. So if you walk past, like the soldier, like, hey, get out. Like, I remember that. Like, he had it at his door.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

The brothers always had the alarm systems. But I'm curious, what was everyone's aesthetic? Like, if you could give it a vibe, like, what was your room?

[B]

We'll start.

[C]

Let's start younger.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, younger.

[D]

My first experience with a decorated room was the first time I got to. Because my mom painted it yellow because I don't think she knew what gender I was going to be. And then my. The first time I got to choose, I did a green wall, a purple wall, and a blue wall. And then just everything in the room was those three colors. This was probably like elementary school. So this, I would say this is like 90s, like pre Y2K.

[B]

Okay. Okay. Slay. Okay. Well, wait. Okay. I'm thinking like late night. Well, I. I had like floral wallpaper before I was like, chose to paint it like myself. Floral wallpaper and had like soccer posters. Mia ham was like a big thing, a lot of soccer. And then once I was able to do it myself, it was lime green and baby blue. Those are like my colors. And then like NSYNC and Backstreet Boys were above my canopy bed. I had canopy bed, sleigh and blow up chair. I mean, we'll get into it.

[C]

But when I was younger and I was living in California, my room was pink. I remember having a pink room. But then when to Chicago, I. My parents, we. We were renting a home. So it was always just like white walls.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

And. But then I think my room gets more fun as like. Aaron, you were saying like the blow up chair started to come into the room and like getting the posters on the wall was like my personality.

[D]

I feel like. And I feel like we've actually kind of. I feel like you were like one of in terms of like Y2K. You were one. You were hot pink. You were lime or you were like baby blue or teal. Am I missing a color? I feel like those were like three. Yeah. Like a teal.

[B]

Teal Yellow maybe.

[D]

Like, and then you were either like a cloud girl, a cheetah girl, a zebra girl, or like a Hawaiian flowers girl.

[C]

Yeah, like a.

[D]

Like a Trader Joe's girl.

[B]

Damn. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah, I was.

[D]

I was hot pink and zebra.

[B]

Okay, what year I was hot pink and zebra? Freshman year of college. Wow. That's when I transitioned to hot, pink and zebra.

[A]

Really?

[B]

Dorm room. Yeah. Was I what you. Would that have been because I was 2008.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Mine was like 22,002.

[B]

So I'm a loser when I was great. No, I was like, it's fine. I was at Iowa. You know, we're like, sully, it's a game. It's fine.

[D]

I don't know.

[B]

I was so late to the zebra anyway. Yeah. But yeah, okay. I was lime green and baby blue. And then. Kate. Did you ever have color in your room, Kate, or.

[C]

No. So I was highly dependent on posters, like for personality. And also I had a canopy. Like my canopy.

[B]

You had one of those.

[C]

What was the net? What was the net, though? Like.

[B]

I know, I know.

[C]

That would go around like, that was like. That was like my safe space.

[B]

See, mine didn't close like that. I'm so, you know, it just was over the top and just. You know what I'm saying? And just hung a little bit.

[D]

Okay. Almost like a market. Like a. Like a market roof kind of.

[B]

Yeah, it was just a roof. It was a roof. It was a roof. It really wasn't a canopy because I could not close it. And I'm so jealous. You could like close it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Very raven back serve you.

[C]

But I was the one putting up on the ceiling, like without not waiting for my dad. So if you would look above my bed, it would have like a hundred holes in it. And then at night it would just like fall down on my face like this. Like the ikea.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

It was never put up properly. Like I was the one doing it.

[D]

Oh, we weren't worried about finding studs back then in the wall.

[B]

No, no, no. What's a stud?

[C]

Did you guys wasn't aware have a TV in your room? This is important. Like, were you.

[B]

No, no.

[D]

I did see my blow up chair

[B]

and glowing dark stars in a freaking dream. Okay. I don't know. I didn't have anything. Of course Nicole had a tv. A big flat screen on the wall. Not flat, pull down projection. Let me turn her clear phone in the corner.

[C]

God, Nicole really did have it all.

[D]

I was a bedroom kid and I think about this too. Like they say that one of the differences in, like, generations is like. And I'd never thought about this of like. Like, my kids are living room kids. Like, like, it's truly a punishment for them to be sent to their rooms. Really don't.

[A]

Really.

[D]

I was gonna bring that up and all I did. I never hung out in the living room. Did you guys hang out in the living room?

[C]

No, no, no.

[B]

All day. Bedroom or bust, baby. Yes.

[C]

That was like my little sanctuary. Like, I would put on my Hillary Duff CD Metamorphosis and just sit on my floor, play Polly Pockets and like, I had to dos of like, things to play throughout the day in that room. Diaries to write in, CDs to listen to.

[B]

Like, yes.

[C]

Shows to watch. I never left unless it was for, like, a snack or.

[B]

Yeah, I guess I only left to watch tv. But, like, I would talk on the phone in my room and obviously, yes, listen to music. I had a little basketball hoop on my closet door. Okay, so, like, shoe hoops

[C]

and like, you know.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I don't know.

[C]

Do you guys remember your first poster?

[B]

I don't remember my very first poster. It might have been it either soccer something to a soccer, or I did have a. I recently came across a photo of my bedroom door from the late 90s, and it had a tiger on it. And no, it was definitely not from this classic book fair. I wasn't getting anything eraser from there. I don't know where it was from, but it. I had a big old tiger on it. Did you guys decorate your doors? Now I'm skipping past the first poster.

[C]

No, this is good. I don't think I decorated my door besides, like, maybe like, Kate's room or like, get out. Oh, my God, you guys actually.

[B]

Get away.

[C]

This is I after. Okay, so. And when I was younger, like six years old, I was very territorial over my pink room when I. This is the pink room era. My younger brother was 1 years old, maybe not even a year old, and he wanted to come into my room. So he just started, like, he was crawling and he's, you know, he crawls up and holds onto my. The door, like, ledge. And I said, get out. Choked the door slammed it cut his pinky off. The pinky cut off. I don't know.

[B]

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know.

[C]

So I cut his pinky off, and my mom flies into the room, gets his pinky, puts it on ice. We go to the emergency room. They attach the pinky back on, but to this day, it is now crooked. I that. And that's when I became the evil child. I. That was. I was a bad kid from that. And I'm still trying to, like, not be the bad kid. But that was the very early stages of, like, I got a spicy side to me, Aaron. It is that crazy.

[D]

Like, they're like, did you feel remorse?

[C]

Oh, my God. I. I do feel like. No. I.

[D]

Villain origin story.

[C]

That is my villain origin story.

[B]

Ever heard of a villain origin story? No. The villain origin story is your brother getting his pinky cut off by the door. That should be his villain origin.

[D]

Well, I mean, he probably has no memory of it.

[C]

The seat does it. Like, I was expecting this story to go, like.

[D]

Instead of like, did they just take your door down immediately?

[C]

No, I just, like, never slammed a door after that. But, like, instead of, like, sometimes, like, flicking me off, like, he'll give me the pinky. So it's just kind of like, like,

[D]

you just owe him, like, you forevermore.

[B]

At least they were able to salvage it a little bit.

[D]

Something. That's crazy.

[B]

So do you actually remember that happening personally? You remember?

[C]

I have a vague memory of, like, being like, get out. Like, I remember. I remember him kind of, like, holding on to my door and being like, get out. I remember, like. And then I remember, like, after. Just, like, I forgot, like, what. I have to ask my parents because I think I was, like, telling people, like, it was just a weird thing for parents. I remember my parents. And it was weird, like, to have, like, this newborn in a full cast. Like, it did. It wasn't just, like, a good look as, like, a parent.

[D]

Right? Sure.

[B]

What happened?

[C]

Yeah, yeah, right.

[B]

And you're like, ask her.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Evil kid.

[C]

No, and it honestly started there because I. People don't believe me, but I was like, a. Like, a little nasty kid. Like, I would, like, Like, I remember that I got a. My. My grandparents, like, got me a beautiful, like, snow globe. And I was like. I just took it and smashed it. Like, I was like, I. I should break you guys. I should bring my diary. When I. When I come back from Denver, I should bring my diary. Have it.

[B]

God, you.

[C]

I do have it. My, like, child give anything me, but it's like, very dark things. It's like. I think I started reading when I'm on my stories. It was like, did you ever, like, have something, but then someone takes your world and flips it upside down? Like, I'm writing this at, like, 6 years old. It was very.

[B]

I was like, joey had a cute shirt on today, and he looked at Me.

[D]

Right.

[B]

Love, Aaron. Yeah.

[D]

Wait, you were a mid. You're a middle child, Kate, right?

[C]

Yes. An only girl.

[D]

Okay.

[C]

So I think there was this, like, need of, like, wanting attention for sure.

[D]

Right.

[C]

And not knowing how to like, express my feelings. So, like, anger was one of the ways that's still how I express myself. Okay, well, so. So who had beads on their door?

[B]

Oh, that might. You know, my bedroom was really at its peak when I had beaded curtains in my doorway.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

That was a highlight of my life. That was about as cool as my bedroom got.

[D]

Was it in your main doorway or like doorways open?

[B]

Main doorway, baby.

[D]

You could still close your door though, right?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

But you would have to, like, move the beads out of the way every time because they would just get stuck. Like, they were so annoying to have.

[B]

They were very annoying. They were very. But I just.

[D]

They were so annoying. It was great.

[B]

It was. I did love it a lot.

[D]

Do you guys ever use the, like, kind of earthy. What was that? Earth store? That, like.

[C]

Why do I feel like,

[B]

like her?

[D]

Right.

[C]

Like what?

[D]

Wow.

[B]

Okay. Interesting. What is this, 1972? No, they were.

[C]

They were having old school vibe, but they were like hippie vibe.

[D]

Right.

[B]

The way I would be.

[D]

Aaron's burning incense.

[B]

I was for sure. I. Yeah. No, but I. They were just stars and moons, you know, I think.

[C]

Oh, speaking of stars, did everybody sticky tack or ticky tack, whatever it's called. Stars to their ceiling to go in.

[B]

They're still in my childhood bedroom. That's the only thing.

[D]

They're still there.

[B]

They're still there. That's. It's. It's been totally changed into like a guest bedroom. But my stars are still on that ceiling. Yeah.

[C]

Proud. I'm proud.

[B]

I love it. Every. Yeah.

[D]

I don't know.

[C]

There's something. I don't know why I'm jealous.

[B]

Because we're the stars.

[D]

I had popcorn ceilings. Our. Our house was built in the 70s, the house I grew up in. So there were popcorn ceilings. It's just like asbestos dust. So the stars didn't stick very well. So mine are popcorn ceilings. Pop ceilings having to reappear.

[A]

I don't know.

[D]

Maybe it's just our house.

[B]

I probably super glued them on there. I don't know. It's shocking how they're still up there because. Yeah, it's. They're popcorn ceilings.

[A]

I don't know.

[C]

The texture of a popcorn ceiling was so hard to stick anything. I had those on my wall. It was just so cool. Like when naive. So peaceful. I should probably put them, put them back on my wall, to be honest.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

I was about to say, I'm going to do that in my daughter's room. Or do it.

[B]

They're magical.

[D]

There's just a level of magic to it.

[B]

Totally.

[C]

We were like risking our life, lives though to like put those on our ceiling though.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

I was like standing on the top of my bunk.

[B]

Had a bunk bed. You had a bunk bed?

[D]

Guys, wait, please.

[B]

Are you. I know what you're about to tell me. You had one of the elevated beds with a desk underneath, didn't you?

[D]

So my dad. Yes. Had a loft bed my dad built at any time that was. I will say my dad needed any, any, any excuse. I was like, hey, dad, I need to use your tools. He was like, let's. And he would over engineer everything and it would always take way longer. But he. Any idea I had, my dad was down to go to Home Depot together and build it together. So he built me. This was my loft bed.

[C]

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

[B]

We have f. We have a photo. We have a photo.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

We have a look at that CD tower.

[D]

We'll put it up on screen. I know. Yeah, that's. Yeah, that's the Sway CD tower right there. And I was obsessed with Merl Monroe. That's why there's a Mel Monroe cut out butterfly chair. Butterfly chair zebra. But the way I treated under that loft bed like it was its own apartment.

[B]

A thousand people

[C]

hanging fedoras.

[D]

Yeah, they are from the dollar store.

[B]

They were pink fedora.

[C]

No big deal.

[B]

The way a loft bed. Oh my God. Yeah, it was very adult.

[D]

At one point I put up curtains too so I could like close myself in. And I had a T. That's where my TV was. Was underneath there. I know I had a inflatable chair under there at one point and it was just my own world underneath.

[C]

That's really cool. And know it's also. I'm. What's gonna happen is I'm gonna screenshot that and one day you're just gonna see that as the background of one of my skits.

[B]

Yeah. Can you send me that photo or.

[D]

No, I use it in mine. I use it in mine sometimes. If I ever can. And nobody's ever been like, oh, that room. Like, yeah. It was my actual so awesome childhood bedroom.

[C]

Oh.

[D]

And then one wall. I'll show you. Speaking of my. My parents, like, luckily they let me do whatever I wanted. They really were super cool. They were not like me putting holes in my walls.

[C]

That's nice.

[D]

That's Cool. Let me go to my bedroom. I had a whole wall that was upholstered in black and white. Like it's plywood with batting and then like stapled fabric around it. So this whole wall is.

[C]

Look at that dark wooden door as well.

[D]

That's so early 2000s now. Oh, so that's fab on my door. There's a note on my door. Probably something really mean to my brother.

[B]

Is your brother older or younger?

[D]

He's older. He was two and a half years older.

[C]

Two and a half years, that's incredible.

[B]

So you're young. The youngest.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Okay.

[D]

But that, it's like when I think of like my, my main bedroom, that's the bedroom I think of is that hot pink and zebra bedroom.

[C]

Aaron, as someone who had an older sister, was there a lot of like battles over bedrooms? Like sneaking into your sister's bedroom or just like, I don't know. I've only had brothers, so like, I don't know, like, were you hanging out in your sister's bedroom? Like, what, what did sisters do?

[B]

I was not hanging out her room. She wasn't hanging out my. No, no, we were not hanging out in each other's rooms. When we got older, I would just sneak in there to steal clothes. That was about it. We weren't the same shoe size. She's like 6 inches shorter than me. But I would steal her clothes and she'd be like, did you take my shirt?

[C]

You know, you're like, that's why you were a bigfoot. You got that Bigfoot. That's your screen name if you listen.

[D]

So were your styles the same or was it important that your bedrooms were very different?

[B]

That's a good question. They're probably similar like growing up now. They're very different. But yeah, I could find some stuff in her closet for sure. But yeah, we really didn't hang out in each other's rooms. Like you guys were hanging out in your siblings rooms, you know, Right? No, no.

[C]

We would meet in the basement to play like Nintendo 64 and then that would be like the only time we're hanging out. But I will say being the only girl was a perk because I got my own room and my older brother and younger brother shared a room and they, and they had a bunk bed. But the difference was my older brother was in high school and my younger brother was like in fifth grade. So they still talk about to this day.

[D]

Wow.

[C]

It's like they're in two different stages of life. Like my brother would come. My older brother Would come home at night, and my younger brother's, like, playing Digimon on the floor. Like, it just was like. He's like. He's like, has a girlfriend, and he's, like, talking to my younger brother, like. Like, hey, how's recess? Like, it just was like, they had

[B]

such a. Yeah, it was kind of tricky.

[C]

I do feel bad. And I was like, the princess. But they would. We had TVs, and the walls were so thin, and I. And this is looking back, like, this is early stages of very, like, severe, like, anxiety over stimulation sound, like, auditory issues. Because, like, I would get so upset if I could hear their TV at night when I'm falling asleep. So I would army crawl from my room to their room with a remote, and I would turn down their tv, and then I would army crawl back, and then they would turn it up. Like, they would gaslight me because then they would turn it up, and then when I would run over, they would turn it back down. They're like, we didn't touch it. We didn't touch it. That would just. Like, they would mess with me, like, and I. And I'm still to this way. Still to this day. The same way, like, if I hear noises while I sleep, like, I can't sleep.

[B]

Really.

[D]

We talked about my brother, like, because I shared a wall. One of our one wall was a shared wall. So he was always banging on that wall. He also. Our doors were, like, in a corner of the house. Like, he would tie. He would leave his room, and he would tie a string from my doorknob to his doorknob and so that I couldn't get out of my room. Because, again, we were home all summer long. My parents, like, sometimes we get babysitters, but a lot of times we were just home, the two of us. And, yeah, he would lock me in my room, and I'd have to go out my window and, like, break back into the house.

[C]

Yeah, Boys were so, like, they. They were like Inspector Gadget in their rooms. I don't know.

[B]

I was gonna say. I don't.

[A]

What.

[B]

What were your brothers like? What was boy decor? I'm not super familiar with what guys were doing in their rooms. They're not doing anything. Okay, what were they?

[D]

I don't think my brother changed the decor of his room from what my mom.

[B]

Were they into it?

[D]

I think it was, like, army green from the day he was born to the day he left.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

So you had color. Like, again, we had no color on our walls, but it was a lot of posters like, it was. I feel like it was a lot of, like, soccer posters. Like, I remember seeing like, Chicago Fire. A lot of like, just like autograph stuff. And then I just remember seeing like, Tony Hawk. A lot of Tony Hawk, Pokemon stuff. It was just like a bunch of knickknacks and toys. It was messy. I had the clean room. They were just so messy all the time.

[B]

I was. My room was messy. Now I'm a clean freak, but my room was messy. According to my mom, she's always like, your room is like a pigsty. I'm just ignoring you. But I guess by clothe, like, I would just have like, clothes all over the place.

[D]

I think I would try on 17 outfits before school every morning and none of them were hung back up. But I'd be like, but like, mom, it's. It's not dirty. I know exactly where everything is. Like, yes, you can't see that I have carpet, but I know exactly where everything is.

[C]

You were talking about, like, picking out outfits and stuff. What gave me unreal, unrealistic expectations of a bedroom was Smart House. Like, I thought their bedrooms in Smart House were the coolest. Like the way I would die for a bewitched entire wall of just like a music video, you guys. Or like, get your outfits picked out.

[B]

I was going to say we need to talk about what your were your ultimate, like, TV movie dream bedrooms. Like, I have two that were my favorite from shows and movies.

[D]

They were all like. What came to my mind was the bedroom in Full House that Stephanie and the oldest one, they shared a room, right?

[B]

Dj, dj.

[D]

DJ And Stephanie shared a room, right? And it was like 40ft wide. It was like the size of bigger than my living room, you know, because for filming purposes. So I think I always, like, imagined that, like having a whole, like the size of an apartment. And my room was like nine by nine growing up. It was tiny.

[C]

They were in that huge San Francisco mansion. But was their room kind of like in an attic? Almost like it was like this huge? Or am I crazy? I can't remember.

[B]

Everyone always had vaulted ceilings. It's just, you know, they were either above a garage, which was a dream to be above the garage, or in the basement.

[D]

They always had their own full size private space.

[B]

My two, like Mount Rushmore bedrooms were number one xenon from the zqual. Okay. Everything was just rounded edges and metallic silver. And she had that built in, like reading nook in the wall that had like red fabric around it and had like red stairs up to it. And it Was so futuristic and it was so cool. And number two, Arnold's room in. Hey, Arnold.

[C]

Okay, that ceiling, you want, like, a nice. The whole ceiling's a skylight. Get out of here.

[B]

I don't know what it was. He was like an attic, loft apartment room. And like, he had built in shelving and so good that, like, orange cool, like, carpet. But the whole ceiling was skylight. And I just.

[C]

Oh, wow. That's a good one. That's a really good one.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

What were your guys's.

[B]

I mean, I have a whole list I could go through.

[C]

I'd say my Mount Rushmore is. It would start with, of course, the girl in Smart House. The Bewitched room.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

The second room is Liz McGuire. I just thought when she would be talking on the phone with Miranda, I thought that was so good. Wait, there was just one I had in my head. Oh. Oh. At one point in my life, I did have different sections of my room because of Spice World, the tour bus. Like, the rooms, like how baby had her own, like, a swing in her room. And Victoria. Like, I wanted a toy. I just wanted a room with, like, different, like, spaces.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

You mentioned a nook. And the way that I, like, there was no space. That was claustrophobia. Did not exist in my brain at that age. I would make. I turned my closet into a room at one point because I don't know what it was about, like, craving, like, micro spaces within my space. I would put up curtains and I would use, like, bookshelves to make little walls. Like, I loved a nook or a cranny that I could.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Turn into a whole moment.

[C]

Yeah, that's so real. I, I now I do feel like I did hide in my closet too, and, like, read because I just needed my own, like, little space.

[B]

I didn't have a big enough closet to do that shit. I'm so I had a weirdly big

[D]

closet at one point. I made really my move. My computer in there. I cleared off, like, one of my shelves and I put my computer in there. So that was my, like, little. I made my own little, like, office. And I paint everything black. But I also think it was, like, a way to have double entry. Like, I could hear my parent coming through my main door.

[B]

Yep.

[D]

And you're like, would come to my closet door. So it gave me more time to exit out of whatever I probably should be doing.

[B]

That's okay. So wait quickly. I want to just go through the other bedrooms and see if you. These resonate with you guys at all these other bedrooms. Okay, so ravens. And that's so Raven. Specifically, when she moved down to the basement, if you guys remember that her bed was, like, hanging from the ceiling. She had a whole seating area with a couch and chairs. And she had the elevated area with her, like, sewing. Sewing machine. Having an elevated area. Clarissa explains it all. Yeah. Okay.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Sabrina's.

[D]

Sabrina.

[B]

Stained glass windows. Hello. Also, that goes into the. What was that trend with like, the moon and the stars? What's that called?

[D]

Yeah, Celestial.

[B]

Celestial. Is that how you say it? That whole thing. Okay. Oh, Mia and Princess Diaries. Hello. She had a spiral staircase up to, like, a sliding door that took her to a tower.

[D]

Like, get out of here. You know, none of them are realistic. None of them. Not a single.

[B]

No, of course not. I have a few more. Oh, have you guys seen. Get a clue. This is my last bedroom.

[C]

I want to talk about not in forever.

[B]

Okay. The opening scene with Lindsay Lohan and Brenda Song where they're like, on. They're talking to each other on their computers on, like, webcam or something. They have headsets on. You can see they do a whole thing of like, Lindsay Lohan's bedroom. Re. Watch it. It's like the opening scene. It's the SO Y2K.

[C]

It's so cool.

[B]

Anyway. Okay, thank you.

[C]

Those are so good. Like, I love my family, but, like, what Mia and her mom had going on in that. In that apartment or that home was insane sick. Like, that's. Sorry, I just have to bring up this room. Little princess's room. And little princess.

[D]

Oh, wow.

[C]

Also that Nicole, remember, it was like she had like a butler. Like, she.

[B]

That's like the Secret Garden. Same thing. She had like a bed.

[D]

Yeah, Yeah. I think secretly we were all hoping that we were adoptive and our parents weren't actually our parents and we said

[B]

some secret princess, basically.

[C]

Nicole, what's your daughter's room like now as a parent? Like, what are you letting her do her thing? I know you're very artsy too. So are you built.

[D]

Like, I'm forcing her to. Like, I'm reliving. Like, she has no choice in me. Like, we redecorate. We've redecorated her room like three times. And she's in her eight years currently. I'm super excited. So I paint it like it's like this, like, lilacy purple. Like, it's like a pinky purple. And then we're right now building her. So we just got. She just moved up from a twin bed to a full size bed. She was ready to have a big girl bed. And we put shelves, like, floor to ceiling at the end of her bed and a curtain on the other side of it so she can close her curtain and have her own little cocoon. I know. And she's got a stuffed animal hammock with fairy lights on it.

[B]

Oh, stuffed animal hammocks. Oh,

[D]

stuffed animal hammock. I had one of those growing up. I remember.

[B]

Oh, my gosh.

[D]

One of my friends gave me one of her stuffed animals, and we. Then she got lice, and we found out that the stuffed animal she gave me had lice in it. And I had to get rid of all of my stuffed animals because they had lice.

[C]

Evil.

[D]

So sad. So sad.

[C]

Wow. Yeah. Okay, Rip.

[D]

But no, it's so fun getting to do that. She does the poster thing, though. Like, she. She's not into.

[B]

Yeah, our kids magazines don't exist.

[D]

No, because, like, she'll, like, the grocery stores will sell. Like, there'll be random, like, places to get posters. But, like, we used to go to, like, I remember going to Spencer's.

[B]

Spencers would have the posters go through the poster thing.

[C]

You have the flipping. The flippy rack.

[D]

So good.

[C]

I would go to, like, Target and Walmart for that. That was, like, where you went to go look at the posters.

[B]

No, but you're right. Like, magazines contributed so much to what we hung on our walls, and now they're on magazines. So.

[D]

Right. Like, there's nothing to rip out anymore. Or do you guys. We would put shopping bags on our wall. Do you ever put shopping bags on your wall? Yeah, yeah, I remember.

[B]

Well, you had some Abercrombie bags, didn't you? I knew it.

[D]

But what's funny is, I couldn't afford Abercrombie growing up, but I would, like, go get, like, a pair of socks or something and be like, hey, could I get a. Could I get a big bag? I would have to beg them to give me a big bag just so that I could put it on my wall.

[C]

You know what's crazy, though? That feeling of collecting bags still happens as an adult. Like, I bought one thing from Mew Mew, and I have not thrown away that bag from, like.

[B]

Oh, I have so many bags.

[D]

Yeah. I have boxes the purses came in. I'm like, what?

[B]

This is a nice bag. I can't,

[C]

like, exactly.

[D]

Good.

[C]

Once it's good packaging, like, it becomes part of my room. Like that shoebox.

[D]

Yeah. I mean, it was art.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was art. Like, yeah, it is. Oh, my God.

[D]

Okay, okay. The other thing we were putting on our walls is Got mail Cats.

[C]

Yes, yes, yes, exactly.

[B]

Oh, yeah. You have some right behind you.

[D]

I have some. Oh, really? I've got Lindsay. I've got Geller, Brittany.

[B]

I have the Olsen twins over there.

[C]

We were so thirsty. We were so. We were just like.

[D]

I would say my. My first favorite before it was like, cute boys. It was all Spice Girls. It was every. I wish I so badly had a picture of my room whenever I was into the Spice Girls because I would go search online. I was determined to have every picture to have ever that ever existed of them on my wall. So I would print things out.

[B]

Yep.

[D]

That's what I remember being cut off from the family printer so many times because I couldn't stop and I would do it wrong so I'd have to print again.

[B]

Yep.

[D]

And I. So I would print so many things for my wall.

[C]

This poster, I feel like a lot of people had this one on the Britney.

[B]

Yeah, I have it in my room over my thing right over there. Yeah, that was an iconic poster.

[D]

I was gonna ask if your brother Kate ever went into like, a sexy girls on the wall phase.

[C]

Probably not.

[D]

A five year old in his room.

[C]

Our family is just like, literally so innocent that, like, my brother got a girlfriend in high school. It literally was like the biggest scandal in our family.

[D]

Like, because I feel like that's what boys. Boys were doing eventually.

[B]

Yeah, a lot of boys were probably doing.

[D]

No.

[C]

There was like, no.

[B]

Sexy. Yeah. Who did they. I wonder. I wish. Like, who did guys have on their wall? I don't even want to ask. Like, I'm Jessica Alba. Jessica Alba.

[D]

Anything. Sports Illustrated. I feel like it was all. It was always, like, Sports Illustrated posters.

[C]

Yeah, right?

[B]

Yeah. Oh, did you guys ever take, like, photos of your room? Like, I found these photos. No. By foot, sorry. Not photos of your room. Photos of, like, dolls and your stuffed animals. I found these creepy photos I took in my room from the 90s where I have, like, my American Girl doll, Samantha propped up on my windowsill. And it's like really dark and grainy. And then I have one of her, like, on my bed with all my stuffed animals. And they are the scariest photos. We'll pop them up on the screen that you've ever seen, like from an episode of Are you afraid of the dark? I'm telling they're the creepiest photos ever.

[D]

But you guys, you just had like a photo shoot with them in your room. I guess with a disposal.

[C]

You were the original. This is why you were a blogger though, at first. Like, you had the eye, you had the vision. So you guys were taking photos of your stuffed animals. I was taking selfies and explains a lot.

[D]

I rather take photos of my room.

[B]

Yeah, I wish I took more of my room. I have me too. Some of my room, but not.

[D]

And I remember making my parents. Anytime I rearranged, I'd be like, mom and dad, come look.

[B]

Oh my God, you guys rearrange. Like, no one had more strength, reserve, motivation than 12 year old me at like 11pm on a Tuesday wanting to rearrange my room. Like literally moving my bed by myself.

[D]

By yourself.

[B]

What?

[D]

New room furniture was sturdy back then too.

[B]

That's what I'm saying.

[D]

Sturdy.

[C]

How was I moving everything around? Our parents weren't helping us. Like we would just do it, but

[D]

they were out there trying to survive a recession and we're in our rooms rearranging for the seventh time that day.

[B]

Excuse me. My bed's on a different wall. Can you come look?

[C]

It was the coolest thing though. Like when your bed, you face a new direction. And going to sleep that night, like

[D]

facing your window, you were a new woman.

[B]

New woman.

[D]

It was a new life.

[C]

That was therapy. Yeah.

[D]

It was like before there was like cutting a bot. Like instead of chopping my hair off, I would just rearrange my room. I was just like having an existential Crisis at like 11. I was like, I just need to. I just need to. I just need a fresh look.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Nicole, you brought it up. Trading Spaces. I feel like that was a big, like a big moment for us of like changing your space was a lot of it was inspired by this show that would like, you would trust your neighbor to redecorate your entire basement. And it would be like a circus theme.

[D]

It was horrible. Well, and it also gave me the courage to think, like, I could do anything right with a thousand. Some of my favorite, my favorite episodes because I, my mom and I would always watch that show together. That was like one of our things we would watch together. Design on a Dime was the other one. And it was always. Their budgets were like nothing.

[B]

So now the Design on a Dime clips that come up on TikTok, oh, they're so good.

[D]

They, they made like, that lady's like, living room look like Panera bread. It was like me to milk after I've had a hearty bowl of soup. And her whole living room just looks like a Panera.

[C]

It's just crazy though, because they would be like taking like velour and stapling it over a couch and like, taking a pill. Like, they were just doing so bad.

[B]

Like, but it was only $5. It's like, well, right.

[C]

You could take fabric.

[D]

But they also.

[B]

I feel like it got to the

[D]

point where it became such a gag that it. They were like, what's the worst? How do we make this homeowner cry?

[B]

Honestly?

[D]

Like, I remember they. They glued straw to somebody's wall. They would take like this. It was almost like pimp my ride. They would take the smallest thing or somebody be like, oh, yeah, I enjoy spending time outside. So they're like, well, let's slather. Let's. Let's cover every wall with like living things or straw or.

[C]

Did they ever stand? Am I crazy? Do they ever.

[D]

No, they did. Yeah. Some lady was like, oh, I enjoy going to the beach every now and then. And they filled her living room with sand. I think you're right.

[B]

Are you talking about Trading Space?

[D]

Here it is. Trading Spaces.

[C]

You guys. Here's the photo.

[D]

Uh huh.

[B]

It's like a dream.

[D]

It was always okay. And Doug, I see.

[B]

I didn't really watch Trading Spaces and I think I came across a clip on. Is that this show where the lady has, like, short blonde hair here and she, she. Is that the show where there's. She showed a. A room to a couple and the. They started like, the, the wife, like, started freaking out and crying and they

[D]

had a lot of.

[B]

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay.

[C]

I watched.

[B]

What was the other one with Ty? Whatever. Ty. Extreme home makeover.

[D]

He came from Trading Spaces. He was the car on Trading Spaces. Okay.

[B]

Makeover. And they would do the same thing with the, like, kids room. They'd be like, o babies. And then it would be the whole. Yeah, it was crazy.

[C]

Wasn't there something, though, to it with the Extreme Makeover Home one? Like, he would give people these extravagant homes and then they would, like, leave. And then it's like, these people can't afford the taxes on the home. I forgot what it is.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

No, that was like, there's a whole

[B]

thing to sell it. Yes.

[D]

Wow. Because they didn't think about that part.

[C]

Like, hello.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But I, I've always. I. I did want my home on Trading Spaces growing up. I thought there'd be like, nothing cooler.

[D]

Oh my gosh.

[C]

Here's a redesign.

[D]

Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were done.

[C]

No, go. I want to see this one.

[D]

They covered the wall in fake flowers like hot glue.

[C]

Hot glue.

[B]

So you're stuck with that Baby. Oh, sorry. The walls.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

They didn't care how it, like, you would get it down, long as they got it up. That was like their main motto is,

[B]

like, they didn't give a. They were in and out of there at 12 hours. They're like, see ya.

[D]

I remember learning to sponge paint. Remember when sponge painting was big?

[B]

Oh, my God. Yeah.

[D]

I can see my mom's not really into design. Like, my mom still is. Like, Nicole, help me. Like, I.

[B]

She just.

[D]

I just had to pick some tile for her. Like, she just doesn't have like a design sense. And so she's always asked. And so she would let me do whatever I wanted in the house too. So I remember sponge painting our office, our computer room, and I sponge painted it. It was like a. Oh, Pier 1. Do you remember Pier 1?

[B]

Yes. Store.

[D]

It was pretty much. There was like a. A elephant mask, like all this probably culturally inappropriate stuff all over the wall from Pier 1. And I sponge painted the whole room red and purple together.

[B]

Okay, that was a choice.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

She was actually really proud of it. She was actually really proud of it.

[C]

Was it a room or a bathroom at the time?

[D]

No, this was like our. The first room you see.

[C]

Office.

[B]

Wow.

[D]

Was our office. Yeah. Wow. Those poor people at our house.

[B]

That's a color combo.

[C]

Know what I thought was the way you knew a bedroom was going to be really good was when your. When you walked into a home and they had like a very nice Tuscan kitchen, like, that was like the setup to like, oh, this kid's room is going to be like.

[B]

Yeah, they have Pottery Barn kids in

[C]

their room for sure. Also the, the mean girls room. Did you say that earlier?

[B]

I did not. But because I try to cut off. That's later two, but. Oh, no, that's mid 2000.

[C]

But again, it was an elevated platform. Like if you had a step going down.

[B]

She had a. A fireplace, I think.

[C]

Yes. Nicole, also, you said your daughter has a full size bed. I had a twin bed until I was 24.

[B]

Me too.

[D]

I don't think I had anything other than a twin. It wouldn't have fit in my room after college.

[C]

I had a twin bed for way too long in my studio.

[D]

Did you guys ever try to convince you? I remember trying to convince my parents to just let me have a couch in my room instead of a bed. My brother had a futon in his room. Those things that you could fold from a bed to a couch.

[B]

He had a futon.

[C]

Yeah, I had.

[B]

That's cool.

[C]

Mine was like a bed it was a twin bed, but the back, it was like a rail. So it looked like a day bed.

[B]

Like a day bed.

[D]

Day beds were always there. That's cool.

[C]

So, like, I would put pillows against the back and be like, I'm on a couch.

[D]

Now is it couch or is it a bed?

[C]

Yeah, you don't know. I thank God. I feel like every, like, little girl had a day bed for some reason with like this white metal, like, rail.

[B]

Now I just want to talk about, like, all the decor. I mean, just think about, like going down my list, like all of the different chairs. Blow up chair, the high heel chair, Butterfly papasan chairs.

[C]

Like

[D]

what papasan chairs do you know?

[B]

Those are.

[D]

It's like the round base and then it's like a bowl that sits on top of the bowl.

[B]

Oh, this?

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Maybe.

[B]

Did you have one?

[D]

Our office had one. My Pier 1 room from Pier 1 had a papasan chair from Pier 1.

[C]

Oh, my God. I'll never forget trying my first love sack at Northbrook Court Mall. That was the future to me. Those were so expensive. We never had one, but I would just go to the mall to sit on a love sack.

[B]

Damn. I don't blame you. So what'd you guys. So I had a blew up blow up chair and I do have a photo of it. Did you. What'd you guys have?

[D]

A blow up chair, blow up chair and a butterfly chair. I feel like I upgraded to a butterfly chair whenever I became too mature. Inflatable. Well, also these. Those inflatable chairs would last.

[B]

I know. I wonder how long mine lasted. Yeah, I know. I loved it though.

[D]

And it would sound like you're farting every time you moved. Yeah. Did anybody have a beanbag? I feel like beanbag chairs were like the guy room.

[B]

Yeah, I didn't, but yeah. To sit and play video games on, like. No, I never had a beanbag chair.

[C]

But we also had like this like, rocking chair. It was like a video game chair that would like, rock. I don't know, it just was. That was like a guy's chair. Lava lamps.

[B]

Well, just like lava lamps. Fiber optic lights. I'm looking around my room. Those, those. The stoplight lights. The. What are those? Squishy fabric lights. There was like a dolphin one and a flower one.

[C]

What are those? I want to chew it.

[B]

The crayon lights on it. There was just the little.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

The crayon. And then the little aquarium ones with the fish would just like go in a circle. I. The lights. There's just so many different Lights. I had this like, blue sparkly push lamp that I think I got from I don't know where, which I've been trying to find on. I can't find a photo of anything online about. It was my favorite little.

[C]

Did you guys have. Did you like, have your dressers filled with, like, sand, like, colorful sand in, like, those. In those little vases? Oh, yeah, that was like vacation peak room decor.

[B]

Sand art.

[C]

Sand art.

[B]

Have you seen that meme where it's like. Like make the, like, do this with my ashes?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Honestly.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

But then I felt like. Then as I got older, the sand art was. Was replaced by the Victoria's Secret pink dogs. Like, that was also room decor. Like, those dogs also like, I feel like in high school then, like, perfume bottles were my room decor. And like, just like little.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Picture frames everywhere.

[B]

Picture frames. The picture frames from Claire's. It's like Best Friends Forever. Yeah. Yes. A lot of picture frames. A lot of trinkets. Again from Claire's. Those little, like, trinket boxes they had.

[C]

Remember, Limited, too, was like the Mecca for, like, room decor. I just felt like they had so much like, they just cutesy 2000s things, but it was so expensive. I never bought one.

[B]

I know they're. Remember the little lockers? They sold that one for a video. The little lockers.

[C]

The little lockers. What I would do.

[B]

Did you guys ever have black light posters or. My sister had, like, this really cool black light poster. What you put on the black. I had a black light in my room. I just remembered. And it would light up the black. Like, if you had your black light on, you turn all the lights off. You could only see your black light poster would be like, lit up. She had like a Pink Floyd black light poster. I was like, you're so cool.

[D]

You're so alternative.

[C]

That's sick.

[B]

Oh, yeah, you need to Google it. I had them in college. I had a black light room or black light in my room in college. Was like, so embarrassing.

[D]

My God, is she wearing the new fancy couture? You guys want to hear some stories?

[B]

Oh, yeah, let's. Yeah.

[D]

Okay. Welcome to ASL Anonymous Story Lounge. We asked you guys to share with our. You had to be there POD account. Any stories, specific memories you remember about your bedrooms growing up. And let's see. Just. Just jump into it. This first one. My mom got remarried in 2000 when I was 6, so I spent a lot of time in Bed, Bath and Beyond when she was registering. I remember cloud decor was huge and I fell in Love. I was convinced my mom to repaint clouds on my walls. And one night I decided to hot glue gun cotton balls to the clouds. They got all dirty when the pieces came off the wall looked disgusting. And we could never get the hot glue off.

[A]

No.

[D]

Did you guys have any instances like that where you just went rogue?

[C]

No, but that's hilarious. I bet you I've thought of like hot gluing like cotton balls to a wall. But like the mess.

[B]

Also the. The cloud era. Like the cloud pajamas from Limited two were like my dream. Like, we were so obsessed with clouds.

[C]

I think I still am. I have a cloud robe. Like, I just love it.

[B]

Oh, you do. Send me the link.

[C]

Amazon.

[B]

Oh my God. So cute.

[C]

It's so cute.

[D]

Lots of printer ink was used to print off pictures of the cast of Laguna Beach. Jessica Simpson, Hot celebrity guys. My entire door had notes and drawings for my friends taped to it, four by six pictures of my friends, movie ticket stubs taped to the wall. And all my friends. If you came over, you would sign and draw on the inside of my closet door. How cool is that?

[C]

Oh, that's cute.

[B]

Like a.

[D]

Like a bar bathroom.

[B]

Okay. Are we in a movie? Like, I love that. I wonder if it's still there. I hope it's still there. Like untouched.

[C]

That'd be fun. Awesome. You should have your dad. Like, that is a good idea. Or like have like a little chalkboard.

[B]

I don't know, like something. Yeah.

[C]

You be the coolest mom. Mama.

[D]

Truly. I know she does. I. I do get lots of cred for my daughter's room. She's always like, she'll. She'll act like it's not a big deal, but then like the first thing she says whenever somebody comes over to me, which I remember saying this as a kid. You have a friend come over like, hey, you want to see my room? You want to see my room? She's so. Which makes me proud. Okay. Day beds with trundles for sleepovers. Do you remember those?

[A]

Yes.

[D]

Did you ever have a friend that had trundle bed?

[B]

Is that when you pulled out from the bottom?

[D]

Yeah. So it would be like, like a swing bed and you could pull out a whole ass mattress from underneath.

[B]

Damn. No, I didn't know anyone with that.

[D]

And whoever was on top would like ro the bed onto the person who

[B]

was on the bottom.

[C]

I just slept on one of those for a bachelorette party. It messed my back has still not recovered. This was two months ago. It was the worst experience of my

[B]

life at an Airbnb Yeah.

[D]

I feel like Airbnbs. That's a way that they try to lay. They're like, oh, sleep's 12, but it's really just six.

[C]

And I was like. I sounded like I was like in a pops, like in a chip bag. Like, I was. It was like covered with plastic. I was like, why am I drenched in sweat at night? It's because it was like this plastic I'm sleeping on. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine.

[B]

I just need to go to the chiropractor.

[C]

Yeah, exactly.

[D]

She also had mentioned in inflatable sparkly furniture. Posters everywhere. Oh, and VHS behind the door, storage rack. I feel like store. Yeah, we had to store our digital assets back then, whether it was a CD tower where the VHS were gonna go.

[C]

We loved a tower.

[B]

We loved it.

[D]

We really did. Okay, I'll just read the beginning of this one because this made me think too. This one says I took an interior design class in high school. I remember taking an interior design class in high school too. Did you guys have that offered at your high school?

[C]

No, no, just Home ec.

[B]

Yeah, just homemade and I think how

[D]

to bake cookies part of Home ec. Maybe it was just like a segment. I don't know that mine was like a whole semester. But I remember really enjoying. I would have loved interior design class in high school.

[C]

No, but I do remember, like, printing out now, like, it's just a square on Microsoft. And then like, like making my dream room. Like, you don't. Like, you put that. Like how the grid paper. Yes. Yes. What? What is that? Why do we do that?

[D]

It's graph.

[B]

Graph paper.

[D]

Graph paper.

[C]

Yes.

[D]

And you would measure your room and then you would count like, okay, if my room's nine by nine, it's gonna be nine squares by nine squares. And you would like measure your furniture and you would make. So, like rearrange your room on paper before you committed to it in real life.

[B]

Yes, yes.

[D]

You guys, I would do that too.

[C]

I forgot.

[D]

That would be so fun. I forgot about that because in my head everything could fit. And then I would do it on that and be like, oh, I actually have like 6 inches to walk through my room.

[C]

That's so crazy.

[D]

All right, next one. I had beaded curtains outside my door, but I also had a doorbell. I think it was from Claire's. And it had some pre recorded sounds and messages. Or you could record your own message.

[C]

That's.

[D]

I did not get. I didn't. I don't remember doorbells growing up outside of I would have loved one.

[C]

Like, I remember what Aaron has. Like, I remember like that at limited two or something.

[B]

I think this is was a limited two, although it doesn't say limited to. And you'd think it would say it somewhere. But that's crazy.

[C]

You could record the word yeah yourself.

[B]

Get out. Yeah,

[C]

that's what I needed when I was five years old. So my brother, get the hell out of here.

[D]

Yeah. Instead of chopping his pinky off.

[C]

There's just alternatives.

[B]

And you know what?

[C]

It really just goes to show what one toy or what one thing can make a difference. I need to stop joking about this because my parents are going to hear it and it's going to bring back

[B]

woes and like, hey, that wasn't funny.

[C]

Yeah, like, you took this podcast too far.

[D]

She also mentions that she had a clear see through phone and a clear see through radio and CD player and that she was just living the dream. And I agree. I know a clear radio.

[B]

That was a thing. Okay. You know what I just randomly remembered was the people who would have the big pop bottles, Coke bottles, or the big, what do you call it? Coin things.

[D]

The oversight for spare change.

[B]

Just full of change. And you'd be like, It'd be like a Coca Cola bottle filled to the brim with quarters. And you're like, damn. I'm trying to remember being jealous. I remember.

[C]

Yes.

[D]

My God, is she wearing the new couture?

[C]

Oh, yeah, today.

[B]

I am so stupid. No, it's not. I think I can get through without stumbling over my words.

[C]

Do it.

[A]

You have 30s.

[B]

Like, hear me out. Stop saying a middle part is Gen Z. I am not trying to fit in with Gen Z with this middle part, okay? I have been with this middle part since the year 2009. Why, you might ask? Because of my two founding fathers, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. Okay. Especially Mary Kate's grunge style in the late 2000s, early 2010s. It is something I think about daily. Also see Rachel Green, specifically Stephen Six of Friends, Penny Lane, Almost Famous, and Liv Tyler in Lord of the Rings. You can part your hair however you want.

[C]

Thank you. With one second to go, like you had time.

[B]

I get comments a lot about my middle part. I don't know if this ever happens.

[D]

You guys really.

[B]

Actually just recently saw it on something on our podcast saying, like, all three, three elder millennials, but they all have a middle part. Trying to be something about Gen Z. And I. And I, I see people, you know, they associate the middle part with Gen Z. And I just Want to make it clear. Hi. Gen Z didn't invent the middle part. And some of us have been doing it for a lot longer than Gen Z has been here. Okay.

[C]

So anyway, yeah, if I were to do a side part again, I would look like Secretary of State. Like, it looks like I'm running for office with my short hair. I look like I. No, I like. No, you wore it. You. You did like us.

[B]

I liked it.

[C]

No, we'll do it.

[B]

I think I swap it in and out.

[D]

I think it's this. Oh,

[B]

you did it recently for something and it looked cute. I don't know if it. What it was for, but it looked cute. You had it, like, wavy or something like that. It looked cute. But I'll do my hair a lot on the side when I wear my hair curly. Anyway, though, I just wanted to say. I just wanted to make that announcement, so. Stop it.

[C]

Which one do you guys honestly like better? This part. It's the middle part.

[D]

Yeah, middle, middle.

[B]

With your hair straighten and flipped out like that. Middle part. Yes.

[D]

It's the symmetry. The symmetry is nice.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It all depends how you're wearing your hair, you know?

[D]

Well, and when I think about kind of like Y2K side part, I don't think about a bouncy volume.

[B]

Like, we.

[D]

I don't. We were not concerned with volume. We were concerned with how close to my eyes.

[B]

Yeah, it's totally different.

[D]

Can I get my. It's a different side part totally. Than your cute, bouncy.

[B]

You're so right. Yeah. Now when I do a side part, it's more of like a woo. I just, like, threw it to the side. It's not.

[D]

It's.

[B]

Yeah, exactly.

[C]

So I agree with you, Aaron. I thank you. Do anything that's like, I'm not.

[B]

Another super hot take from Aaron.

[C]

Agreeable takes with Aaron.

[D]

Agreeable takes with. Yeah.

[B]

Wow, Aaron, that was a really crazy take. Let me think about it. Okay. I swear, one day I'm gonna come with something that's controversial.

[C]

Commercial. There will be somebody. I. I know there will be somebody out there who will defend and be like, oh, no, that's Gen Z. Like, Gen Z owns the middle part.

[B]

I don't know.

[C]

Everyone's gonna. Well, thanks.

[B]

Thanks for listening to. You had to be there, you guys. This exclusive club to unlock your most chaotic memories. So may your stories vote in the polls. Follow us on socials, leave a review.

[C]

Ta ta. Log off, touch grass, and we'll see you next week.

[A]

You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby. You had to be there, baby.

[C]

Thanks for listening to you had to Be There with Kate, Nicole and Erin. You had to Be There is produced by Sickbird Productions Deanna DaCosta, Kayla Foreman and Rachel Derbyshire. If this episode unlocked a core memory, subscribe wherever you eat your podcast and leave us a five star rating. See you next week for another trip down memory lane.