Because I can't sit here and watch Bolt for the 8,000th time, let's take a trip down memory lane!
Curly shoe laces.
Ahh real monsters.
Angry beavers.
I had a non skip CD player. (Top of the line.)
Does anyone remember those toys from McDonald's where it's like a Walkman thing. And you'd get like a cassette to put in it with like 3 songs on it. I had destinys child, *NSYNC, and brittney spears.
When video stores rented both VHS and Betamax tapes
Pom Poms on the front of my roller skates
Moonlight skate and hoping you get asked
Lining up quarters on the arcade game for next up
When the family car seated 6 easily and the sedan was the size of a small boat
Ginormous satellite dishes that turned and made noise when changing the channel
Clothes pinning a playing card to you bike tire so t sounded like a motor cycle!
Omg these are bringing me back!!! Chinese jump rope was the best!!!
Some of these tv shoes listed I totally forgot about!! What a great post!!!
ETA my 4 year old was watching home alone and they have a VCR in the movie. My son says mom what's that thing in the tv?!? It was a tv with the VCR attached lol my husband and I were cracking up lol
I love some of these ? they're making me so nostalgic
-original Polly Pocket (the one that actually fit in your pocket)
-Out of This World tv show
-Family Matters
-TGIF tv shows for that matter (boy meets world, etc)
-hyper color shirts
-bell sleeves with ruffles on the end
-jellies
-corded landline phones
-rotary phones
-this is your brain commercials with the frying eggs
-after school specials on TV
-board game commercials
-the wave bang hairdo
*My "tricked out" bicycle:
You were so cool if you ran over a can with your bicycle and it made that noise. And girl, if you had a banana seat with those fringes on the handles, you were IT! ?. Those colored plastic things on the spokes of your tires were pretty cool too! ?
*Did anyone jump rope (double dutch) at recess in Grade School?
(Eta: I haven't read the comments yet. I'll be back if something comes to mind)
* Lite Brite (The toy)
* Teddy Ruxpin
* Stretch Armstrong(I use to play with my little brothers)
* Atari
* I LOVED New Kids on the Block
* When you thought Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was scary. ?
* disposable cameras where you had to get the film developed
* the Slinky
* When kids actually played outside because they were no such thing as a computer.
* "The Muppet Babies"
* "Alf"
* "Ghostbusters"
* Keds (the shoes)
* VHS
* spandex biker shorts
* "Just say NO"
* My Little Buddy (toy)
* all the "Rocky" movies
* "Crocodile Dundee"
* "Honey I Shrunk the Kids"
* "E.T."
* When you would act up in public and your mom would tell you she's going to bust your butt when you got home... and she actually did it!!!
* getting Chicken Pox! (my mom would rub me down with calamine lotion and put me in the dark room. I got to play Atari for a few days straight until it cleared up)
* Saturday morning cartoons
* Sitting at the table as a family to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
@Klugo I love my childhood! That list is awesome.
I'll come back to add.
Madeleine
Saturday morning cartoons
Mood rings
Lanyard
Reebok high top sneakers
L.A. Gear sneakers
Fanny packs
Jogging suits/wind breakers
Hair net spray can
Moon shoes
Battleship
Rock em sock em boppers
Hair barrettes/ bobos/ ribbons
Punky Brewster
Lamb chops
Camp inowana
Ace of Base
Quantum Leap
Disastrous snow storms, every other week?
"I'm too sexy" Right said Fred ?
Budweiser "Waaasuuup!" Commercials
Beanie Babies
Battery Testers
Warnings to "Be kind please rewind."
Giant pull down maps in class
The Macerena
Beepers
Talkboy (toy)
Nintendo 64
Cheers
National Anthem before the tv went off
Passing notes
"Hey, yeah i wanna shoop baby"?
On the last day of school everyone signing your shirt because you probably didn't buy a yearbook
Love connection lol
Mtv Singled Out/Next/Room Raiders
Tether ball and beating ppl with moves like popcorn, around the world etc
Wax lips
Giving letters to your friends and writing w/b on the front
Mudd jeans
Pj sparkles
Glitter batons
Getting a bag of brach's candy at the store
Mentos commercial
Hide n seek(eeny meeny miney mo)
"Talk to the hand"✋
Rotary phones
TVs with dials to adjust the volume and change the channel. I was the remote.
No microwaves
Record players
8 tracks
All cars had roll down Windows
The bionic woman and 6 million dollar man (the shows and the dolls)
Love Boat and Fantasy Island
Weebles
Kiss dolls
The original Barbie dream house
Seeing Grease at the movie theater
Playing pong on Atari
Reading comics in the newspaper.
Getting movie times from the newspaper.
Just missing the channel you were looking for on the TV guide and having to wait for it to scroll alllll the way back around again on the tv. Then sometimes just saying eff it and getting out the TV guide book.
*TV shows that weren't trashy reality shows like today's
-Silver Spoons
-Diff'rent Strokes
-The Snorks
-The Smurfs
-Punky Brewster
-Today's Special
-Little House on the Prairie
-Facts of Life
-Golden Girls
-Mama's Family
-Designing Women
-Blossom
-Good Morning Miss Bliss (later named Saved by the Bell)
-ThunderCats
-Mork and Mindy
-Alf
-Growing Pains
-Full House
-Family Matters
*Toys!
-Atari!!!!!!!!
-Cabbage Patch
-Rainbow Brite
-Glo Worm
-Pound Puppies
-she-ra
-Strawberry Shortcake
-Care Bears
-Etch-a-sketch
-Polly Pocket
-Quints
-Skip-it
-My Buddy
-Fisher Price Little People
-Garbage Pail Kids trading cards
-Moon Shoes
-Pillow Pals
-marbles
-Army Men
-G.I. Joe
-TMNT
*Movies
-Mannequin
-Sixteen Candles
-Pretty in Pink
-Breakfast Club
-Ferris Bueller's Day Off
-Teen Wolf
-ET
-Can't Buy me Love
-Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
-Uncle Buck
-Home Alone
-Revenge of the Nerds
-Stand and Deliver
-Caddyshack
-The Goonies
-Stand by Me
-Adventures in Babysitting
-Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
-Back to the Future
-Gremlins
-Howard the Duck
-The Karate Kid
-Terminator
-A Christmas Story
-Ghostbusters
-Poltergeist
-Nightmare on Elm Street
-Friday the 13th
-Halloween
-Pet Sematary
*Lisa Frank
*The Outsiders (book)
I could go on for days. What a beautiful childhood I had. Doors didn't have to be locked at night and I could ride my bike for hours without my parents worrying about my safety. I can't say the same for my kids.
Rainbow Brite
Sharon, Lois and Bram(skinnamarinkydinkydink)
Jenny Jones/Ricky lake
Picture Page
Reading rainbow
Rescue 911
David the gnome& family
Cinnaburst
Soda shoes you wore with bell bottoms and a smiley face back pack
Super market sweep
Before a cordless house phone you had that extremely long phone cord that went around the house
The world book encyclopedias
Choosing a background for those pictures you get done at the mall
Gumby
Scam(to make out)
When Jtt and Devon sawa were the finest thing
Down down baby down by the rollercoaster..
Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack..
Apple sticks you make me sick
Highlights magazine
Bug juice camp
Ghost writer
Small wonder
Figure it Out
Legends of the hidden temple
Book it(get all gold stars and you'll get a personal size pizza)
D.A.R.E
View masters
The chicken machine at the front of the grocery store
Lil miss magic hair doll
MASH game lol
"I put my hand up on your hip when I dip you dip we dip"?
Lucas candy
Eureekas castle
Heathcliff and the gang
Heads up seven up
Mother may I
Red light green light
Mickeysmousercise
"I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight" ? lol
Playing The Oregon Trail computer game at school.
Legends of the Hidden Temple.
Jelly Sandals.
Bell bottoms.
French Toast Crunch cereal (before it came back in 2014).
Kenan and Kell.
Clarissa explains it all.
Going to book fairs at school and begging your parents for money the night before.
Having to ask for permission to sharpen your pencil and making so much noise with the manual sharpener that was attached to the wall.
Playing 7 up at school.
The movie Matilda.
Those school pictures with the laser backgrounds lol.
Atari, M.C Hammer pants (parachute pants), when cell phones came out and the internet was introduced to the world (we've come a long, long way?) and to add to that one, when encyclopedias were sold door to door. Coming home from school and watching The Golden Girls, Mama's Family, Sanford and Son, Saturday morning cartoons when Mickey Mouse was a real cartoon not this clubhouse crap and MTV played actual videos. I've got so many more, probably older ones too but those are the ones that came to mind ?
(These aren't necessarily things a younger person wouldn't understand, just things I loved growing up).
Eta sea monkeys and jumping beans!!
punky brewster
Duck Hunt
Care Bears
fraggle rock
Strawberry Shortcake
Pound Puppies
rat tail haircut- yup I had one lol
Baby Jessica- fell in the well
Garbage Pail Kids
Cabbage Patch kids- loved them
New Kids On The Block
Pillow pets the square ones
Double dare
Pee-wee’s Playhouse
MR T- I pity the fool
My buddy and kid sister
Nick At Night
Trapper Keeper
Slap bracelet
erasable pens
Donkey king country was my favorite. The level in the mine kart, oh man - that was the BESSTTT!
"Talk to the hand"✋
"See ya and wouldn't wanna be ya"
"Poof be gone"
"All that and a bag of chips"