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Ah, the good old days! There’s nothing like a taste of nostalgia to boost your mood whenever things get tough. You think back to your childhood and you realize how carefree you probably were. Not to mention how much simpler life used to be!
The ‘80s and 90s Babies Only’ social media project reminds everyone how great it was to grow up in the 1980s and 1990s. We’ve collected some of their top memes and pics for a blast from the past. Scroll down for a retro daydream that might inspire you to start working on that time machine.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Cute movie. I saw it in the theatre with my grandma when it came out. She loved it.
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LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
Our Father, who art in Calgary, Bobsled be thy name. Thy kingdom come, gold medals won, on Earth as it is in Turn Seven. With Liberty and Justice for Jamaica and Haile Selassie. Amen.
Jack Burton 1 year ago
When they carry the bobsleigh to just finish the race i'm crying. Every. Damn. Time. 😅
Phil Vaive 1 year ago
This was filmed in my city! The bar they shot in is down the street from where I went to high school
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Norwegian_Panda🇳🇴 1 year ago
My mom throw all my cassettes I recorded so many songs from radio and also recorded myself like a diary. Everything’s gone😔
Verena 1 year ago
If it is any consolation: The quality fades and most likely nothing besides squeals can be heard any more. This is the reason I threw mine out, finally.
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Oh, and the worst, after all the time spent waiting, was having the DJ blab over the song. At the beginning was bad enough, but at the end was beyond frustrating because you thought you had it.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
I actively use my computer and audio recording software to record tracks from Spotify. Then I burn a CD to listen to it in my 20 year old Camry.
T J R 1 year ago
My 9 year old Corolla has a CD player and I still keep my CD book in the car so I can listen to them. My car does have Bluetooth, but I like the nostalgia of listening to my CDs.
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Kelsie Marx 1 year ago (edited)
Kids these days, will never know how much easier their life is, than when we were their age🫤. And we all survived 😃!
Damiana De'Mon Rhoades 1 year ago
Omg I hadn't thought about that in ages. Gawd I do remember those days. Gawd forbid something interfered and screwed up your timing causing you to miss that perfect moment to hit record. You know, the one right between the commercial ending and the first note of the song you've been anxiously waiting on. That right there could totally destroy your entire weekend. Lol
Laura Coutts 1 year ago
Anyone remember "home taping is killing music. And it's illegal"" printed on the cassette.
Tiffany Marie 1 year ago
And the Grandpa chimes in saying.. at my age I didn't have a boom box.
Keisha 1 year ago
I was born in 1970 and remember this just like it was yesterday. But my kids know about this as I told them from a young age. My favorite thing to tell them how good they have it nowadays as they had remote controls for electronics. When I was growing up us kids were the remote control for our parents. My friends were all jealous when I got my 32" color tv for Christmas one year. It even had a jack to plug in wired earphones. I could watch it and hear it without getting in trouble because nobody else could gear it and they weren't aware of the feature.My old one was a 13" black & white with rabbit ears.
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Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
Both cant be had simultaneously? I love peeling glue off my still
Nannychachi 1 year ago
That paste in the white plastic jar that had the orange lid! Take off the lid and there was the orange stick on the inside. That was the best smelling stuff!
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Jinx (she/her) 1 year ago
we have glue in our first aid kit for cactus spine removal, so we sometimes still do this
Nostalgia can be incredibly lucrative. Lots of businesses and entrepreneurs recognize this and rely on nostalgia marketing. BBC Worklife reports that consumers are more likely to spend money on brands that evoke nostalgia.
There’s a lot of power in people’s emotions and how they think about the past.
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Norwegian_Panda🇳🇴 1 year ago
We were never bored. Always something weird stuff to do. Can’t remember I was bored at all like kids nowadays.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 1 year ago
Being bored leads to creativity. Being bored is important.
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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago (edited)
Another strange thing I remember doing as a child in school was putting a thin layer of glue on my hand and peeling it off. We didn’t have TikTok or Instagram to amuse ourselves. I also enjoyed talking into fans so my voice sounded like Darth Vader.
Bobert Robertson 1 year ago
Just missing passing your finger back and forth through the candle flame, then doing it with your fingernail down and it felt like your nail was bubbling
#5
Ropre 1 year ago
Considering that I played Pong as a kid, these games on my computer were amazing to me. Now I walk past my son's room while he's playing a game on his PlayStation 5 and I can't even tell it's a game. Looks like a movie with real people.
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
Indeed! Pong Gal here as well, I was a freakin' STAR on that thing and we were the first one's on the block to own one. I actually had a social life thanks to Pong, lol. Now, I can't tell you how many times I'm watching a trailer and thinking, "Man, this looks like a great movie!", only to find it's for a video game. I can feel my bones creaking!
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Maggie Fanelli 1 year ago
This is also “the internet is out because your sister is using the phone” starter pack
Nae who and where 1 year ago
I can actually remember when these programs/games first became available. I even got the pleasure of teaching my teachers how to use our new school computers since I'd had a custom built one for a year or so (from my bio dad). Ahhh, the 80s.
Norwegian_Panda🇳🇴 1 year ago
I have. I idea how much time I spend on minesweeper and those cards.
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Ge Po 1 year ago
The real fun is, about ten years ago my then 13 year old boy came to show me some cool music video he had found on Youtube. It was from a certain mister Hammer, who claimed you could not touch this.
WindySwede 1 year ago
And someone here on BP explained who Tony Hawk was, cause they had no idea and had to look it up.. 😅
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SonicAlchemy 1 year ago
I don't feel that music from the 80's and 90's should be defined as classic based on age, especially when specially called "classic rock". Classic rock, to me, is Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Who, Led Zeppelin, etc. 90's rock is just 90's rock by its own definition.
Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago
Yes, to us classic rock IS Zeppelin, Rush, etc. But gen z is in a different gen. To them, the 90s music IS the same equivalent to our classic rock. What was classic rock to us is now considered oldies to gen z. It's just how times passing works, yanno?
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Rachel 1 year ago
It occurred to me a few years ago that the stuff my dad listened to was actually closer in time than some of the 80s stuff I love. (Long story short, he died in 1993, I am now several years older than he lived to.) Also not trying to be depressing.
Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago
My mom died in '84 at age 39. I was a couple weeks til my 11th bday. I'm almost 51 now and it's crazy realizing just how YOUNG she was when she passed.
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Listening to Weezer and Nirvana today is the same time gap as listening to the Beetles and Stones in ‘94.
Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago
Exactly. So Weezer etc are now classic rock to gen z and to them, what we called classic rock are the Oldies.
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unfilteredCigarette73 1 year ago (edited)
Welp.. that's me in ten years...time to learn to embrace the weird I guess
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Radio music from when I was in college is now "classic rock". I am officially old.
Kelly Reno 1 year ago
My husband got so mad the day I told him the classic rock station just played Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
Meanwhile, CNN Business notes that more and more adults are buying toys to relive the past. Known as ‘kidults’ (‘kid adults’), they spent $6.4 billion on toys for themselves in June 2023.
That’s up $1.7 billion from June 2021. Part of this trend can be explained by the COVID-19 pandemic: people tend to be more nostalgic during times of crisis.
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Ms.GB 1 year ago
Yeah but chances are it'll sound warped at that one part
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LillieMean 1 year ago
I named mine the Cassette Eater. I was sure the cassettes were afraid of it. They were afraid of the approaching hand and were like no, tell my cassette wife that I love her! when I put the dreaded cassette in the device. (I had and still have too vivid an imagination). The current CD/cassette player from the early 2000s is called the old faithful because it has not destroyed a single cassette filled with memories.
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T J R 1 year ago
I worked at a movie theater when I was a teenager, I was thrilled when I got promoted and one of my jobs was to record the movie titles and playing times. I felt so cool.
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Liss Reins(Queen/YourMajesty) 1 year ago
And remember the dial tone when you picked up the phone? And the busy signal? I can still hear them...
The Other Guest 1 year ago
Threw a NYE party once, and as midnight neared we all got into a good-natured argument about whose clock/watch was the most accurate. To settle it, my at-the-time boyfriend called up the time - and it was precisely midnight. Much cheering commenced at that.
SMom 1 year ago
OMG! It works! and I called right as it beeped 11:00 so I watched the clock on my phone change that very second. THANK YOU!! 😄
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
And then I watched Grave of Fireflies and now I'll never be happy again.
Jack Burton 1 year ago
Dude please don't talk about massive mood destruction
Load More Replies... Thomas Hunt, Jr. 1 year ago
Sad yes....but there's a reason why I refuse to watch Old Yeller. Haven't watched it in 41 years.
T J R 1 year ago
Same. Watched it once as a kid and that was enough for me.
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the sixthgirl 1 year ago
It is unacceptable that you felt it was okay to bring this up. We're still not okay.
The Other Guest 1 year ago
Although the horse was never in danger, the actor (Noah Hathaway) was. He got his leg stuck on the platform that lowered the horse into the water & nearly drowned.
Nae who and where 1 year ago
I loved the Neverending Story, so much so I bought it on DVD so my son could watch it too lol
S Moran 1 year ago (edited)
It took until this or last year til I understood what that kid Bastian was shouting as the new name of the princess...His mom's name, Moonchild. It was the 80's.
Martinna Jaap 1 year ago
I didn't know that either. I always wondered too. Thank you.
Load More Replies...The ‘80s and 90s Babies Only’ project can be found on Instagram, where it has 47.7k followers. There’s also an active Facebook group with 26.9k loyal fans, as well as a now-defunct Tumblr account.
The people running the whole show invite everyone who was born between the ‘70s and ‘90s to follow their content. Meanwhile, if you have any suggestions for posts and memes, you can message the curators or share your own content on their Facebook group wall.
#10
SonicAlchemy 1 year ago (edited)
It was always the satisfaction of the collapse of the wood on the ridges from my teeth. Like eating corn on the cob.
David Brown 1 year ago
There was this one chick and her brother that would eat almost a full pencil a day. Their parents pulled them out of school because they thought the teachers should be stopping them. Super weird family.
Bubs (he/they) 1 year ago
again. people still do this. and again, just because you don't do it anymore, that doesn't mean that kids of today don't as well. it's not mutually exclusive. I'm not trying to sound negative here, just confused why people think this way.
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Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 1 year ago
I loved how they could change the weather by pushing a button where the whole house would rise above the clouds
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David Paterson 1 year ago
I still want a car that folds up into a briefcase.
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A. HAM 1 year ago
That’s the back cover. Most of my Little Golden Books from the 70’s had this back cover.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Pretty sure mine were older than this because there were no Sesame St. characters in mine. Just Disney.
L. Murphy 1 year ago
I still have a few of my faves. Scuppers the Sailor Dog and The Color Kittens.
T J R 1 year ago
Oh my goodness, "The Color Kittens" is one of my absolute favorites!!! I still have mine and read it to my daughter all the time when she was younger.
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The Pokey Little Puppy, Tootles the Train, Scrawny Tawny Lion, Scuffy the Tugboat and The Saggy Baggy Elephant.
David Brown 1 year ago
It makes me sad that all of my golden books were thrown away. They'd be worth a little something today. I'm pretty sure I had all of them.
Something that the administrators of the project want their followers to focus on is sharing original content.
They want everyone to “relive the good old days, reminiscing about anything and everything that reminds us of those happier times,” however, this doesn’t mean that folks should repost the same few images over and over again.
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LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
I was so spoiled, I actually got the talking Baby Sinclair toy for Christmas one year. Still have it, actually, in storage. Not the momma! Hello, fat boy!
Leviathan 1 year ago
i showed the ending to my brother, who grew up watching this but never watched the last ep.....all 3 of us siblings cryed finding out the ending..... Spoilers....... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnFjAkAs_q4
Norm Gilmore 1 year ago
"But it's so easy to take nature for granted because it's always there. And technology is so bright and shiny and new" Truer today than ever unfortunately...
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Lisa Kamman 1 year ago
How old were you when you found out that the baby and Elmo from Sesame Street are voiced by the same actor? 🤯
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Ka Se 1 year ago
Isn't it still this way? I sometimes see teenager hanging out in the park when we visit the playground.
Marla 1 year ago
Yup. My 16 year old confirms. Kids are in fact still kids and they do things
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Craig Curry 1 year ago
Yeah! But all their faces are usually stuck looking at the phone. Oblivious to the surroundings
David Brown 1 year ago
Now their running around doing dumbshit they see on tik Tok and YouTube.
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giku T 1 year ago
we still have these in Turkiye..in fancier shops, fancier shapes and fancier prices!they all taste the same though
HI, I'M A SHOUTY MAN 1 year ago
I used to have one at my local shops and the closest Ikea - until covid came and it was too risky.
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Orion Red 1 year ago
my first job ever, first day, first task... clean that display Woolworth's at the mall. I never ate out of one again.
Martinna Jaap 1 year ago
I could only imagine the things you would have found in there.
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Alex Boyd 1 year ago
We still had them when I was growing up in the 80's to 90's.
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Though nostalgia can be a lot of fun and incredibly useful, it’s a bit of a double-edged sword. When used responsibly and in moderation, it can energize us and inspire us to be more optimistic about the future.
However, if all we ever do is live in the past and view the present as a pale shadow of the ‘good old days,’ we’re doing ourselves a disservice.
#16
Noname 1 year ago
Before The Magic School Bus was Schoolhouse Rock! Lolly lolly lolly get your adverbs here!
DogsAreLife 1 year ago
That one episode taught me more about the human body than all of my health classes combined. Simply explained.
Jasmyn JAY 1 year ago
Well they better buckle up, and get ready for the sht show waiting to happen. 😂
Nae who and where 1 year ago
Lmao! I loved this show so much that when I had my son watch it too when he was younger
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Violet Radar 1 year ago
Then you'd try to reserve it and it was reserved for the next 8 days
Load More Replies... LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
And then lurking around the counter in the hopes that someone will return a copy before you have to leave.
Heather Menard 1 year ago
They always came out Tuesday mornings. I would be at the video store first thing
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Julia Mckinney 1 year ago (edited)
This is how old I am. I bought the original comic books when the writer/illustrators were shopping them around the sci-fi conventions in the early 80's. Unfortunately, they got stolen, along with my copies of the Batman "Dark Knight" limited series, out of my car in the early 90's.
No matter how you spin things, we still have to live in the present. No matter how amazing your childhood or youth might have been, this does not mean that it’s ‘all downhill’ from there.
You can live very meaningfully no matter how old you are. It all depends on the choices you make, the relationships you build, and your perspective.
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Ban-One 1 year ago
And a nice C3 Corvette in the back. My favourite generation when talking about the design. A Chevrolet Corvette L88 from 1968 would be my choice if money wasn't an issue.
Mbfsc63 1 year ago
Mine would be the '63 with the split rear window. So effing cool.....
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Raquel Mencke 1 year ago
Pattern blindness was a real struggle with those striped tube socks.
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Chewie Baron 1 year ago
The She-Ra version was so camp! Secrets were revealed to me…
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LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
Silly Putty: absolutely fascinating and entertaining for the first 5 minutes, a forgotten lump of smelly plastic the rest of its existence. That said, I used to chew my SP like gum. I was weird - still am, actually. 😄
For example, thinking that the world’s an incorrigibly messed up place and everything will only ever get worse is going to do more harm than good. Yes, the world is full of problems. These global issues change with every generation. But there’s never been a period of time in history without serious challenges. It’s good to be realistic, but you have to make sure that you’re not being pessimistic, jaded, and cynical.
Positive change is possible. Though, it takes tremendous, sustained effort for it to happen.
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Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
I inherited the one from my parents where the numbers, on panels, flipped
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ZombieRedfox 1 year ago
My parents had this radio clock...they still have it and it still works!
Maggie Fanelli 1 year ago
My parents had theirs until recently. It didn’t even break, they just replaced it. Those things last forever.
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
I only just recently got rid of mine... and totally regret it. I used to be able to fall asleep to the old one, but the lowest volume setting on my new clock radio is deafening - definitely not restful.
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Cathy G 1 year ago (edited)
A dye tablet used in schools in the U.S. to teach children proper dental hygiene. The dye sticks to the tartar on their teeth.
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LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
Now I can remember going to a dental health assembly in our school's auditorium sometime around the 4th grade and getting a free toothbrush, but I don't think they did this.
marianne eliza 1 year ago
The whole class had to line up on both sides of cafeteria tables, chew the tablet, look at our selves in mirrors, watch a demonstration on proper tooth care, then actually brush our teeth. That got the dye off.
Amanda Rose 1 year ago
I had completely forgotten about these. It was weird that this was a thing.
David Brown 1 year ago
And they tasted like c**p. We also had to do this clear green liquid fluoride stuff called swish. It was as horrible as it sounds.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 1 year ago
Unnecessarily Humiliating pretty much sums up the 80s.
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LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
Me, too. Getting the "non-smoking" section in a restaurant, only to be seated by the barrier and choking on smoke. Strange how the cigarette smoke didn't understand which section to stay in! 🤪😂
Robert LaTurner 1 year ago
Smoking downstairs, non smoking upstairs. How did that make sense?
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Gwen LeMay 1 year ago
I checked into the hospital in 1973 to have my baby and was asked if I wanted a smoking or non-smoking ward. they brought babies into nurse while you and others were smoking.
Lotekguy 1 year ago
Smoke was largely accepted as a reasonable part of the environment, or even considered an aroma - especially from pipes - by many until people started smoking less. The health concerns for the smokers and those around them started mixing the olfactory with morality, making a tolerable part of the air noxious. Now that exposure to others' smoke has become rare, even former puffers are usually more bothered than nostalgic about it.
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
Me too. I seem to recall that the back of the ashtray - the side not shown in the photo - was gold colored.
Load More Replies... Maggie Fanelli 1 year ago
My parents and most relatives smoked so cigarettes in a McDonalds didn’t seem out of place to me in the least. I think I just assumed that everyone smoked.
On top of that, if you’re constantly mumbling about how swell life used to be decades ago, you’re potentially cutting yourself off from awesome opportunities in the present. There are lots of great people to meet, plenty of interesting activities, and places to travel to here and now.
Yearning for the comforts of the past and your glory days is toxic if all you ever do is daydream about them without taking action. However, if all of that nostalgia spurs you into action to get fit, value your loved ones more, and follow your passions, then embrace that!
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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago
My irrational childhood fear was the pool drain in the deep end. There was many the urban legend that the pool drain would suck children down to a watery grave if they touched it. Needless to say we all had to dare each other to touch it.
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
Saw Jaws as a youngster and spent the next 10 years convinced that a shark hid in the shadows of any swimming pool I used. Swimming alone was a test of courage for me. 😂
Bewarethere@gmail.com 1 year ago
Same!!! Till this days and I watched decades ago
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 1 year ago
Today's irrational fear is Hispanic people invading from Mexico. Fear brought to you thanks to FOX News fiction.
Historyharlot93 1 year ago
Don’t forget piranhas. Every strange body of water could harbor them. In college they found a piranha in one of the decorative ponds. Obviously dumped, but I felt my childhood fears were justified.
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majandess 1 year ago
I am on the board of a music education non-profit, and we hand these out at the local festivals.
Load More Replies... S Moran 1 year ago
What about candy cigarettes that had powder in them you had to blow out really hard. Good grief.
David Brown 1 year ago
They were amazing and crappy at the same time. The new ones don't taste as good.
Lauren Caswell 1 year ago
Remember them? I still remember the jingle from the ad 😅 "Shooby dooby doo wop, it's all around, it's melody pops, yeah!"
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A. HAM 1 year ago
The 80’s, not the most exorbitant decade, but definitely the most absorbent!
Jill Rhodry 1 year ago
80s - are we sure - I'm thinking this is more 70s?
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S Moran 1 year ago
Or when you waited till the last second when playing to come in to go to the bathroom, it was a downright emergency.
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Mama K K 1 year ago
And when you have a long torso and that thing rode up your crack *all* *damn* *day*
Say No to Downvoting 1 year ago
Wanted one of those SO BAD. But mum wouldn’t let me and said they were horrible. She was a bit right.
UpQuarkDownQuark (he/him) 1 year ago
I swear my mom’s best friend’s entire wardrobe was terry cloth. I wouldn’t be surprised if she got married in a terry cloth wedding dress.
However, it’s not necessarily childhood that people are nostalgic about. Broadly speaking, we yearn for the periods in our lives when we felt the happiest, carefree, or driven.
If you had a loving upbringing, that might be your childhood. But for someone else, it might be their early or even late adulthood when they finally started crafting the life they wanted with their own hands.
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Nikole 1 year ago
Nuh-uh. I always got mine via Book It at dinner time (late 80s).
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Emily Busch 1 year ago
They are still doing it actually, my brother uses it with his kids (he homeschools them) but it is not as advertise as it was in the 90s for those who would like to enroll - https://www.bookitprogram.com/
Michelle C 1 year ago
My elementary school would make a big deal about it and I would always earn a pizza. I still love to read and am grateful Mom read to me from day one!
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
In Australia we had (still have) the MS read-a-thon. People sponsored you per book or a lump sum that went to the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation. We also had the Premier's reading challenge, where you had t read books from a particular list and all you got was recognition (iirc).
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
I did that wayyy back in the mid-70's! I ended up being the regional Washington (state not city in the US) champion. My dad pledged $1 per book and was very good natured about having to pay out $100. I won a boom box (radio/cassette player) and a bunch of other things.
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Does any remember when pan pizzas first came out that Pizza Hut would reward you free one if they didn't serve you one with in a certain time frame. I believe it was like 5 mins.
Amanda Beveridge 1 year ago
Now it's online. I do the Book It all year for my three homeschoolers!
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LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
I miss my Trapper Keepers - getting a new one every couple of years was the only good thing about going back to school. That, and the satisfying *riiiipppp* of the Velcro closure. 💗
Stephanie Fay 1 year ago
I seriously think about my old unicorn Trapper Keeper on the regular. Le sigh.
InfiniteZeek 1 year ago
Duuuuuuude, these were awesome. Everyone tried to outdo each other with their customizations.
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Norwegian_Panda🇳🇴 1 year ago
Yeah every day! Also same song more than one time if it was a song I really loved! I miss those times.
BrownTabby 1 year ago
For me it just became part of the song. There are some songs that don’t sound right to me without Andrew Leiataua’s voice at the beginning/end.
Load More Replies... Jo Ellen Hyde 1 year ago
Try the 70s. We had a separate tape recorder and radio, which meant that, if you called in to request a song to be played, you had to sit there and wait for the song, and hope that you hit 'record' on the tape recorder, while you made sure that everything around you came to a complete and silent halt for the duration.
Richard Roy 1 year ago
Casey Kasem weekend top 40 was gold, but how many recordings had snippets of his voice, the beginning of our generation's anxietys
Lyn Schellenberg 1 year ago
It was really a horrible when you could only get half the song and then had a had to wait half a day to hear it again! And You sworn that you won't miss it the next time! Then sadly enough You missed it the very beginning of the song once again.
How many of you Pandas reading this miss the ‘80s and ‘90s? Or maybe there’s a whole different decade you remember even more fondly? What do you miss the most about the past? Real talk: would you like to go back to the past if time machines existed? Why (not)? We’d love to hear your thoughts on this, so if you have a moment, scroll down to the comment section to reminisce.
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 1 year ago
I was out of high school when this was on and I still watched the hell out of it. LOL.
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
Madness that this isn't streaming anywhere, but you can watch the whole series on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0L7ZPi2gzWI79_DzDYHlNiJHGuyPdXyw
Maggie Magpie 1 year ago
I'm watching Frasier right now, literally at the moment while I'm typing this. I was middle-aged until I learned Wishbone was Eddie.
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Ban-One 1 year ago
That's where to good old walkman was superior. Here's the pic of the very last one I've ever owned: 333670068-...15ddab.jpg 
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
Not my struggle. Even with its No Skip feature, mine would skip if looked at funny. So I could only play it on a super flat surface - even the bed made my Discman tetchy.
Marley Nachi 1 year ago
the CD would also skip sections in the song when you were walking. So in reality, the 'walkman' was better to use when sitting
Marcellus II 1 year ago
You’re thinking of a discman — like the Phillips copy on pic — but Walkman is cassettes.
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Nae who and where 1 year ago
I remember getting a discman that I came with a clip, although it still skipped non-stop....I thought the struggle was over....it wasn't😂
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Mama K K 1 year ago
I still have them and am saving them for the grandkids. And at least one had a somewhat chewed lid.
T J R 1 year ago
My mom saved ours and my daughter got to use it when she started drinking from a "big kid" cup. The lids are long gone though.
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I heart Boo-BI-es 1 year ago
I remember my sister's and I would chew the top sippy hole part in order to make the opening bigger to get more drink out of each sip. Lol
Load More Replies... nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
I have several of these in my kitchen cabinet. Some with sippy lids, some with plain lids.
fan of phish 1 year ago
I immediately could smell them. Wow, hadn’t thought of these or their distinct smell in YEARS.
M O'Connell 1 year ago
I am nearly certain my mother still has these, though she probably threw out the sippy lids 30 years ago.
Tigara Akimoto 1 year ago
We had multiple sets of these things, but there again, my grandparents had 5 kids and 18 grandkids
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Layla Holston 1 year ago
I played this last year in 7th garde homeroom class
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Liss Reins(Queen/YourMajesty) 1 year ago
I vaguely remember this have but can you explain how it was played? What did the thumbs up mean?
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Pheebs 1 year ago
Same. This game was an early indicator of popularity. If you never got chosen here, you could guarantee there’d be no valentines.
Load More Replies... Jaya 1 year ago
Guess as a Dutch person I've never lived life. I've never even heard of this game.
MagicJacket 1 year ago (edited)
Did this in grade school back in the 70s. "Duck Duck Goose" too. Had to do something for recess when it rained.
Martinna Jaap 1 year ago
Did everyone else try to cheat by looking at the people's shoes when you had your head down as they walked by? Oh was that only me? Lol
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Emerald Joanna 1 year ago
We used to turn it upside down on PURPOSE to take turns egging each other on to run across it & squeal in pain!
Brian bell 1 year ago
Ok, so I suppose maybe we were a little weird back then...
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It's plastic that you roll down the hallway so that the carpet doesn't get worn or dirty. Everybody's Grandma had them come kind of like plastic couch covers
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My grandma puts it upside down on her couch to keep the dog off
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Pauly Donahue 1 year ago
As the oldest, I felt it was my duty to flip ours over. God help me if the parents were the first to find out.
YetAnotherSarah 1 year ago
And now my grown-a*s self bought a mat covered in tiny spikes designed for a person to intentionally lie upon, nerve stimulation whatnot.
Giraffy Window 1 year ago (edited)
NAH. Forget THAT. When your parents were changing out the carpet and every doorway and floor division had that metal strip with the carpet-gripping teeth. I'd take the carpet mat over those human-grade tire traps any day. Especially since the mat was meant to be the other way around to grip the freshly-cleaned carpet, and not to be a caltrop strip.
Yes, I'm serious 1 year ago
My Nonna had these in her house......along with plastic on the furniture!
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SCP 4666 1 year ago (edited)
Smash it with your fist until it starts working again. Today's TVs are sooo sensitive
Fat Harry 1 year ago
That's a test card... smashing it won't change the fact that the network are broadcasting a test card.
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Noname 1 year ago
Lol, this was what was broadcast on TV by networks when they finished broadcast after they played the national anthem at 1 am. Yeah, tv networks used to have a time off from broadcasting-it wasn't 24/7 until the early 1990s.
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
I recall premium channels 247 in the early 80s though.
Load More Replies... David Brown 1 year ago
My grandma had one like this that she bought brand new. Paid a small fortune for it too. She had it until she passed away. It still worked when we had to clean her house out.
Anna Meyers 1 year ago
We never had color TV. My dad kept offering us a choice, "Do you want to get a color TV this year or..." and the other choice was always better, central air, a vacation to the ocean, new carpet in the family room. One day he got smart. He just went to the department store and bought a color tv.
Rusty Lewis 1 year ago
A couple of smacks on the left side of the cabinet and you were good to go!!
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Molly Whuppie 1 year ago
I had one of these. the button the kid is pressing at the back was a pump, you pressed it repeatedly to make bubbles in the jacuzzi.
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
Yup. There was also a Barbie shower, iirc, which dribbled water at the press of a button. Had them both (I was spoiled rotten. 😄)
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Tell me about it! I was over the moon when I got the Barbie Camper as a kid. Now, the b***h has a jacuzzi and a freakin' boat, wtf?! Barbie-Boa...2c490d.jpg 
rullyman 1 year ago
I had the Sindy 4×4 camper and it was my favourite thing ever. The back had bunk beds in!
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Stephanie Case 1 year ago
I used to pump the hell out of this thing, the bubbles still only lasted for 3 seconds.
BPisaddictive 🇮🇹 🤌 1 year ago
Why does Divorced Barbie cost so much more than the other Barbies? Because it comes with Ken's House, Ken's Boat, Ken's Camper, Ken's Plane...
Lucky2BAlive 1 year ago
The original Barbie was a brunette with bouffant, and seriously unrealistic bod …. But Ken was still broke as ***k
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giku T 1 year ago
i remember the pain; the balls hitting your scalp when they slipped from your moms hand while tying your hair; the bands and the metal part in the middle caused tiny bald spots pulling your hair while untying..
Mary Hiers 1 year ago
These made decent short-range weapons if you knew what you were doing. Source: I had an older brother I needed to annoy 100% of the time.
Llama_flower93 1 year ago
Yeah just don't hit your own thumb while firing them. Ouch.
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L. Murphy 1 year ago
Stimpy: Hey Ren? Ren: WHAT EZ IT MAN? Stimpy: A noise came out of my butt.
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Wisco_MKE 1 year ago
I recently tried rewatching this. After five minutes I stopped, called my parents, and apologized for making them endure this show. It does NOT hold up. (Except for Log. That will hold up for eternity.)
Hydro Keychain 1 year ago
Frank Zappa was the voice of the pope in powdered toast man.
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Stephanie Goadsby 1 year ago
My cousins were obsessed with this show. Loved everything about it and had all the toys. I understood it, but thought it was just so very annoying and terribly animated that I just wouldn't watch it. Spongebob has that same vibe to me. Sorry to the fans out there.
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FrogMan 1 year ago
Anyone else ever get the cap that said “please play again” and then put it back on the bottle tight, and take it off again “just in case” or was that just me?
I'll think of something 1 year ago
Once me, my brother, and my cousin got one each, my brother got "get 1 free", so we went back and got it. It happened 2 more times. One of the best days of my life. (My brother had four Dr. Pepper's that day)
Darian Starfrog 1 year ago
A had a whole season of art school with free cokes because of this promotion
Historyharlot93 1 year ago
We’d pry these out of the caps and throw them around for some reason. On the level of putting glue on your hand and peeling it off. Absolutely no rational reason to do so, but very satisfying.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My sister got numerous paddle pops (ice cream on a stick) for free when her friends bought one and the stick said free paddle pop.
Martinna Jaap 1 year ago
I remember people looking at the bar code on the lid before they bought one and could tell which were the winners and which weren't. I was never that smart. Lol
Anna Meyers 1 year ago
We used to drink Jolly Good Soda. It had a joke in the bottom of the can,
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Me. Just Me. 1 year ago
I forgot about this until seeing this picture. I had one although I don't remember which version it was.
Liss Reins(Queen/YourMajesty) 1 year ago
I had completely forgotten about these! I loved them so much. I loved playing all the different songs
Jarl Freydis Frith-hammer 1 year ago
3, 3, 3, - 3, 3, 3, - 3, 5, 1, 2, 3, - 4, 4, 4, 4..... That's how you play the beginning of 'Jingle Bells' on this teeny piano.
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Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
As a custodian, whoever invented these should be summarily executed
Load More Replies... Molly Whuppie 1 year ago
omg and the scratch and sniff ones, that part of the store smelled so good.
Tessa 1 year ago
Oh wow! This picture and then this remark! It all came back in a split second. I loved this!
Load More Replies... Nae who and where 1 year ago
Does anyone else remember the sticker books? Collecting stickers was absolutely a thing
Richard Roy 1 year ago
Whats hillarious is back in those days the girls loved their stickers and they were everywhere, now, decades later, I am a grown man with 2 tool chests coverd in stickers collected over the last 20 years. The embarassing dissapointing part is when I spend $500 on parts and DONT get a sticker.
Daune Tullina 1 year ago
I still have my sticker book collection. 43 years later the scratch and sniff still habe scent
shopgirl0270 1 year ago
I ABSOLUTELY LOVED the sticker store in the mall... NOW this one brought back a flood of memories!!
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Norwegian_Panda🇳🇴 1 year ago
I had a huge bowl full of these. They were awesome and the smell was always weird and nice at the same time.
BarkingSpider 1 year ago
My daughter was just talking about biting these. Some things never die.
Maggie Fanelli 1 year ago
The fact that we all put these in our mouths just shows what major choking hazards they are. My kids have a ton of these too.
Thomas Hunt, Jr. 1 year ago
I once made the mistake of biting through one. I can still feel the texture in my mouth.. **shudders**
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
I desperately wanted the fashion plates set, never got it.
Melissa Robinson 1 year ago
I had the fashion plates, never the fashion faces though
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I still have one and I took it into the afterschool program I work at and the kids were amazed!
fan of phish 1 year ago
OMG! Totally forgot about these. They were so weird but oddly satisfying
Omima mimi miki 1 year ago
I loved this and the fashion design for clothes! it was really fun. ANd i always had paper dolls too
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LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
Can't believe how much hate this movie got when it's so obviously awesome! Ruf-fi-o!
Tigara Akimoto 1 year ago
"You're a double maggot burger with everything on it and flies on the side!" "Oh, Rufio, if I'm a maggot burger, why don't you just eat me!?"
Stephanie Goadsby 1 year ago
My favourite Peter Pan. I loved the meticulous detail involved in the pirates costumes. Back when physical detail of real things prevailed in movies. So much time and effort into every scene. The Goonies has the same attention to detail that just makes it so much more authentic.
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Charlie the Cat 1 year ago
There's my childhood right there. Still got all my Star Wars figures from the 80's
Jo Ellen Hyde 1 year ago
Save them another 47 years, then sell - you'll be rich!
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François Carré 1 year ago
My brother and I used to have a full box of them. It was quite an impressive and valuable collection, but in the early 90's we had grown up and didn't really play with them anymore, so the box was left in a barn where we casually stored all kind of old stuff from the house (I grew up in a farm). One day kids from a summer camp asked if they could plant their tents in our field for the night because they had no better place to sleep, and my mother allowed them. We didn't think much of it at the moment, but some time later we realized the box in the barn was empty and our collection was gone. One of the greatest disappointments of my childhood.
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3 Otters 🦦 1 year ago
I miss it. Ours just remodeled to dull boring brown. At least it’s not cold inside anymore. Bored to death now but warm!
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Cee 1 year ago (edited)
Not gonna lie, I loved the outfits of The Misfits
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Mike Conway 1 year ago
There's a street in my town called Kimber St, and I think every time I pass it, I think that it's a crying shame that the two streets past it aren't called Aja and Shana.
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Ban-One 1 year ago
Any Bud Spencer & Terrence Hill movie. Taped my own in bad quality from one of the few TV channels. I remember my very first VCR only had a PLAY function without the possibility of recording. It was just a lot cheaper.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago (edited)
You can find a lot of those on YouTube now. Whoever owns the rights to those never bothers to enforce them. I just watched Double Trouble.
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Tree P 1 year ago
Used to have a Kmart across the main road from our house. It's a U-haul now. I miss the Kmart.
Load More Replies... LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
I can smell the plastic and feel the sweat collecting under it. But, damn - I was Wonder Woman! Made all the discomfort worth it.
David Brown 1 year ago
Those hot sticky costumes with the mask you couldn't see out of or breath. And our generation turned out just fine.
Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
I worked at k-mart for a few months. I was a k-13. Basically getting carts in the parking lot.
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Liss Reins(Queen/YourMajesty) 1 year ago
And jello pudding pops the swirl ones and Mickey mouse/Donald duck Popsicles!!!
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My brother had a long mohawk in 2010 and it took him hours to spike it in the morning
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
We still have some in Australia and they are free. There is one at the end of my street that is used fairly often. Others have free wifi.
UpQuarkDownQuark (he/him) 1 year ago
I remember holding the greasy receiver a foot from my ear. They were so dirty!
Liss Reins(Queen/YourMajesty) 1 year ago
They costed a quarter and we used to page our friends and call violent to leave messages! I freaking love the nostalgic memories this whole list is bringing me!
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
That's how we used to hook up drugs back in the day. "Stevo, we'll be waiting at the payphone at teh sevvy-levvy call and we'll be right over".
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Jaya 1 year ago
If you're straight, white and cisgender, then yes. But for the rest of us, nope. Those were very unsafe times for LGBTQI+ people, and racism was so high too.
LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago
Sadly, it is getting really scary and unsafe again for LGBTQIA+ people in some parts of the world. Parts of the U.S. are banning and censoring LGBTQIA+ literature and content and making it next to impossible for children and teens to receive gender affirming care.
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Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
Cheat code for a Super Nintendo game. You tap those into the pad, you’ll end up with a new character or move in a game like Tekken.
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Sky Render 1 year ago
I prefer B A B A up down B A left right B A Start. 9 lives and stage select on TMNT2 NES!
Amanda Rose 1 year ago
Bringing up memories of playing video games after school with my brother (he is 12 years older than me).
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James016 1 year ago
I loved European Vacation. Was the brief for the bottom photo to look in a random direction?
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I think in the bottom photo they're all refusing to look at Chevy Chase. Their reasons are well known.
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The Griswold’s❤️❤️❤️ got the movies on dvd. The Christmas movie is a must seen every Christmas for us.
Jenny Galbraith 1 year ago (edited)
Best movie!! Audrey, after the car flies off the cliff and slams into the ground: "I think I started my period."
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Karin Nachtkrapp 1 year ago
Did anyone else remember the Missing Kids posters they used to put on arcade machines? They would play when the different insert coin slides showed sometimes (Coming from gen Z)
I heart Boo-BI-es 1 year ago
I absolutely loved this game as a kid. I had the little hand held game console of Paperboy, it was made of a white plastic iirc. Thanks for the nostalgia BP!
Me. Just Me. 1 year ago
Oh and the pure satisfaction you felt when you had every house on the street as a customer! Or the pure destruction of hitting every customer's window.
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Liss Reins(Queen/YourMajesty) 1 year ago
I had a clear plastic change purse with water and glitter and seashells inside trapped between! Did anybody remember what I'm talking about? I can't find any pictures of that one
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Ent Hugger 1 year ago
eh i was a babysitters club girl myself but sweet valley high was a'ight :)
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ShaZam 1 year ago
don't get behind the kid who wraps his lips around the top of the fountain ... and drips the rest on it ... it's amazing we lived this long
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
this is why I never used these throughout school/college
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Wysteria_Rose 1 year ago
There was always that one water fountain everyone hated b/c the water was always luke warm and the one that felt like you were drinking from a rocky mountain spring.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Yep. And everyone else too. Never could figure what they were for.
Bisha Moten 1 year ago
In theory, it kept you from wearing a path in the carpet. Typically saw them in high traffic areas.
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Liss Reins(Queen/YourMajesty) 1 year ago
The white sharks were the BEST!!! and the shark chill aid! Why did they take these away from us?
Ashlie Dearest 1 year ago
Shark Bites Betty Crocker continued to sell these for a while, but once they vowed to no longer include artificial flavors or colors in any of their products (aka bye-bye white sharks), people lost interest, and they were discontinued.
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Marcos Zambrano 1 year ago
Eye of the tiger x Survivor. Also I would'd been the only 5 yo with car (a real car).
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 1 year ago
Doesn'T matter what it starts out as - it will end up being Queen: Greatest hits. So might as well start with "Bohemian Rhapsody"
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Robert T 1 year ago
I'd been living in my own house for 3 years by then! LOL
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Mike F 1 year ago
The folks used to get these for my baby sister. The damned things were bigger than her, lol.
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J-Stryker666 1 year ago
Most definitely would get rid of 90210 and not even bat an eye! Never liked that show
Becky's Display Name 1 year ago
Family Matters. Weird for me because I loved it as a kid, but as an adult Urkel drives me bananas.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Dumbo's Circus on the Disney Channel. Mid '80s. The koala bear is Fair Dinkum, he's the ringmaster. That is literally all I can remember about that show.
CheshirePhrogg 1 year ago
I can remember the theme song and I have no idea why
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Liss Reins(Queen/YourMajesty) 1 year ago
And the little white dog on a pink leash that "walked"
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Ent Hugger 1 year ago
where is en vogue?! jodeci?! swv??! too much awesome-ness in '93 to fit in one square i guess!
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Jaya 1 year ago
I wish you had those lists for specifically my country, because most are American and a lot of that stuff we just didn't have.
Nonya Business 1 year ago
As a US citizen I would be fascinated to see a list from any other (group of) culture(s)! I am pretty sure all of this is harvested from Reddit, where it would be nice if someone created a subReddit for each of various cultures.
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Kristy Nelson 1 year ago
Some of these are definitely older, but it's still a pretty good list!
Steve Hall 1 year ago
Several of these things were around in the 70s and a few were here in the 60s.
Ginger Grumpybunny 1 year ago
Let me get this straight - Bored Panda is citing the example of phoning a radio station, waiting on hold to request a song, then waiting for a long time to record it on cassette (and no doubt get frustrated at the DJ talking over the intro/ outro) if you were lucky enough to have it played (in contrast to just asking the smart speaker to play it nowadays) and other "kids these days don't know the struggle" type posts as evidence that life was simpler back then? *Laughs in Gen X*
Jaya 1 year ago
I wish you had those lists for specifically my country, because most are American and a lot of that stuff we just didn't have.
Nonya Business 1 year ago
As a US citizen I would be fascinated to see a list from any other (group of) culture(s)! I am pretty sure all of this is harvested from Reddit, where it would be nice if someone created a subReddit for each of various cultures.
Load More Replies... Kristy Nelson 1 year ago
Some of these are definitely older, but it's still a pretty good list!
Steve Hall 1 year ago
Several of these things were around in the 70s and a few were here in the 60s.
Ginger Grumpybunny 1 year ago
Let me get this straight - Bored Panda is citing the example of phoning a radio station, waiting on hold to request a song, then waiting for a long time to record it on cassette (and no doubt get frustrated at the DJ talking over the intro/ outro) if you were lucky enough to have it played (in contrast to just asking the smart speaker to play it nowadays) and other "kids these days don't know the struggle" type posts as evidence that life was simpler back then? *Laughs in Gen X*
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