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 realize you and your friends still do some of these things to this day . . .

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You Had to Plan Your Sleepover Around the Latest Disney Channel Original Movie

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Someone Always Arrived in a Denim Dress

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You Hopped on Your Bikes and Rode Past Your Crush's House

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Using *67 to Prank Call Your Classmates Was the Peak of the Night's Entertainment

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You All Gushed Over the Thought of These Two Being Together Forever

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If Someone Had a Crimper, You Knew the Drill

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You All Spent Hours Choosing a Song to Play as Your Outgoing Voicemail Messages

And recording it at just the right moment.

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You HAD to Give Each Other Makeovers

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You Showed Off Your Newest Low-Rise Jeans

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You All Pondered What You Should Say Back to Your Crush's "Hey" Text

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Everyone Organized Their Top Friends on MySpace With the People at the Sleepover First

It was never without drama.

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You Snapped Pics of Each Other All Night long

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And Quoted Mean Girls Religiously Because It Was Too Fetch Not To

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You Used Your Friend's Small Dog as an . . . Accessory?

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You Learned the Cheer Routines From Bring It On

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And Everyone Cringed When They Heard That Jessica Simpson Thought Tuna Was Chicken

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Someone Did Front Twists in Everyone Else's Hair

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Ordering Pizza Was the Highlight of the Night

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You Watched the Latest Drama Unfold on The O.C. With Your Friends

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You Covered Each Other in Your Finest Blue Eyeshadow Shades

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You Each Had Different-Colored Velour Tracksuits

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Everyone Played Snake on Their Nokia Cell Phones

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And You All Swapped Case Covers When Someone Got a New One

Nokia 5165 Vintage Cell Phone With USA Flag Design ($30)

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You and Your BFF Practiced the Routine to Lizzie and Paulo's Dance Number

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Everyone Flipped Through Their YM Magazine Looking For Juicy Tidbits of Celeb Gossip

YM Magazine ($38)

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You Swapped Gauchos With Everyone So You Had Fresh Styles to Wear to School

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Everyone Vowed to Stay Up All Night, but No One Actually Did

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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.”