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As a millennial, I can personally attest to all the memes and reels where people say it feels like the turn of the century was ten, max fifteen years ago. I am the same way, and can still name the addresses to my favorite Counter-Strike 1.5 servers. But it's been more than two decades and that world no longer exists. So to see just how much things have changed, let's take a look at the Instagram account Insta80s90s and all of the nostalgia it's been posting. Just don't be surprised if you get a sudden craving for Fruit Roll-Ups and Capri Sun.

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    We contacted the authors of the account and they agreed to tell us more about it. "Our content comes from various internet image sources and social media sites where we can find the particular memory we wish to share with our audience," the people behind Insta80s90s told Bored Panda.

    They're trying to keep the feed fresh. "We like to provide our followers with a mixture of memes, questions, and simple pictures of things related to era," they said.

    "This makes our page special as we don't focus entirely on comedy. We think the reason for our success is we try to cater to everyone's taste. Some prefer polls and questions that encourage high commenting, and some prefer a childhood meme."

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    DEW
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh yes. The all mighty projector that the teachers loved. This is your homework for tonight.

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    However, some of the posts do seem to receive slightly more engagement than others. "We have certainly noticed our followers tend to prefer the posts that ask them to answer questions about their personal experiences, for example: 'What 90’s song will you always turn up when you hear it on your car radio?'" the people in charge of the account added.

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    "Also, our followers like posts that highlight how today's kids don't know the struggle we had with things like portable CD players and having phones that only had the game Snake on it."

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    DEW
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I loved these! I loved the smell of them too. My kids played with them in the little guns. I just liked to hit them with a rock.

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    DEW
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes! My mom would come to the door and say I need the phone.

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    Kobe (she)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Have them in my freezer right now. Different brand, yet still the same idea. (Netherlands)

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    lisa m
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They are still all over our high schools

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    Reminiscence of this sort can serve several functions. "Our everyday is humdrum, often even absurd," psychiatrist and philosopher Neel Burton, M.D., writes.

    "Nostalgia can lend us much-needed context, perspective, and direction, reminding and reassuring us that our life is not as banal as it may seem, that it is rooted in a narrative, and that there have been, and will once again be meaningful moments and experiences."

    Perhaps it's no surprise then that nostalgia often visits us at times of change or uncertainty.

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    TheNewJenBrady
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Man I loved those things as a kid ..not to use in a bath but just to play with and squish until it broke open.

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    DEW
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes! It used to be in all the movies. The last movie I saw it in was The Princess Bride and in The Mummy.

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    Nimitz
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember how much those f*****g things could hurt you. Stepping on a Lego ain't nothing compared to stepping on one of those spiky bastards

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    Moltar
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    needed a second normal eraser to erase the mess these erasers made erasing

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    "It could be argued that nostalgia is a form of self-deception in that it invariably involves distortion and idealization of the past, not least because the bad or boring bits are erased from our memory, leaving only the peak experiences." Burton continues.

    "The Romans had a tag for this phenomenon that modern psychologists have come to call ‘rosy retrospection’: memoria præteritorum bonorum, ‘the past is always well remembered.’"

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    Firstname Lastname
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to have some but got rid of them during a move. My man just surprised me by putting up two packs the other day, because apparently I'm still not too old for glow stars.

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    John Dilligaf
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh Please. I had a portable 8-Track tape player.

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    Carilyn Beverly
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the crust was so much better back then; crispy and cooked through but not dry or burnt

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    The folks behind Insta80s90s agree that nostalgia is a very powerful emotion. "To us, it creates a happy feeling about the good times that we have experienced, and allows us to look back on the past with fond memories."

    "Whilst we can't turn back time, we see our account sort of like a time machine for people that belong to these generations and wish to do the same."

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    S. E. in Indiana
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And then afterwards you could play desk football with them.

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    DEW
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Those were good candies. You ate them so you weren't running around yelling for your watch. Saved a lot of time.

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    IlaTheRedheadBambooEater
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What... What is old about the slot car track?? My son got it at last Christmas.. and loves it!

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    DEW
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everything except the Canada dry. We had 7 up.

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    Cathy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can highly recommend taking an actual camera to festivals and such. Saves battery on your phone and you don't get distracted when you open it only to take a picture

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    DEW
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A book every child has read or had it read to them.

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    Julie S
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Didn't make any difference to me still loved it.

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    James016
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always used Nero Burning ROM. That made it easy.

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    Alvia Vseobecna
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    do you also have the ancient machine that goes with it??? :D

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    Jennifer Howe
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like the American version it's called Trouble. In the UK it's called Frustration which I think is more accurate!

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    LokisLilButterknife
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You forgot pouring glue on your hands and peeling it off. Times were simple before social media.

    Dan Collins
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How about taping a playing card to your bike so the spokes would make that cool noise.

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    DEW
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still put my hair clip on my lips. LOL!! The stick on the railing and the pin thru the skin.

    PrettyJoyBird
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Click a pen over and over. Our fidget toy those decades.

    Lindsey Turner
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still do some of these as a 38 year old 😂

    Angelshark
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Okay, someone WAS watching me grow up.

    Lene
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was pregnant I would crawl up the stairs when I felt extra awful because of the pregnancy. So I think that all the crawling up stairs as a kid prepared me for the pregnant adult me. 😬

    Gracie Mae
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This would be my Gus--especially the hair clip on the lips...

    Meredith McAlpine
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm a teenager, and we still do these things, but we just do them when the adults aren't around.

    somnomania (she/her, queer)
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    also sticking your hand out the car window and moving it like a wing or whatever

    lonelyone
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Open and close the battery compartment of the TV remote control again, and again, and again... 😇

    Subaru645
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don’t forget the balloon between the bike spokes

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    Who remembers these?

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    DEW
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think I had that exact one or one of my kids did.

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    TheNewJenBrady
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have not thought about these for decades! I had one and forgot all about it until just now🤍

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    Mimi M
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, I read this as a kid. The Incredible Journey.

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    Colleen Glim
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My youngest still has one of these in a closet somewhere

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    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a kid we used to get water-activated stick-on tattoos, officially known as 'transfers' a bit like the ones we used on Airfix models. I think they're still going strong all these decades later.

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    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🎶Toot-sweet, toot-sweet, the food you can whistle, the flute that you eat..

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    Kylie
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they took up so much room in kitchen cupboards.

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    Lost Panda
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Forget diamonds, Ruby Rhod is a girl’s best friend!

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    Lost Panda
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Captain Planet, he's our hero Gonna take polution down to zero

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    She who must not be named
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They still sell these in certain shops in the UK. I've definitely found packs in Home Bargains. They're mine and my daughters favourite sweets

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    Shark bait hoo haha
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was the Vampire one. I can still remember how it smelled when you put on. Also all of the slobber all over the place from trying to talk in them. Good Times!

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    Icedragocat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I recognize two of them! Beavus and Butthead and the The Simpsons. Can I have a senior discount! (im a minor lol XD)

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    DEW
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's the Never ending story?

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    DEW
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I probably have brain damage from smelling these. I loved the cherry, the brown cinnamon, the orange. So this is why I'm the way I am.LOL!!

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    S. E. in Indiana
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It all folded up into a carry case. Loved the Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars.

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    Me
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I actually won a GameBoy Pocket from a Sprite bottle cap when I was young. I still have the GameBoy too! Only thing I've ever won.

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    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait a minute, I'm sure these are still common on supermarket shelves...

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    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Point of order: these were not real floppies. This is a real floppy disk 16uidzxp.jpg 16uidzxp.jpg

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    Spencer's slave no longer
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is Alan A Dale, the minstrel from Disney's 1974 Robin Hood movie.

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    DEW
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just had Wendy's for dinner tonight. I usually get a vanilla frosty but got chocolate one and they must of changed it. It tasted like a brownie. I completely forgot about the yellow faze. It just takes you back.

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    Lost Panda
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I got Toy Soldiers and Small Soldiers mixed up one time... 10ish year old me was shocked, but ended up loving Toy Soldiers

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    CrazyKnitter
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And my husband wonders why I love pizza so much

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    Mumma Cass
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Freestyler, rock the microphone (if that was correct)

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    DEW
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fruit punch and birthday cake were the party.

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    Crystal Knight
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We drank out of old jam jars at our Granny's house

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    CrazyKnitter
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    YES!!! I STILL HAVE MY LOONEY TOONS COMFORTER!! It was actually our "sick blanket" and we'd be wrapped up snuggly in it when we had the flu, a cold, ext.

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    Mimi M
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a waterbed. It sprung a leak and we had to empty it out through the window. PS: I lived in a high-rise apt. Fun times.

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    Julie S
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only ever had orange minute maid. Wish we had had cheery Mmmmmm

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    James016
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Back in 1990 I got very sick with what the doctors called a glandular fever type virus but they never diagnosed what it actually was. We had also just got Sky TV so spent my days laying on the sofa watching MTV as it was good back then. I also did watch the trashy talk shows as they were very entertaining. I was off school for 2 months and missed and entire half term.

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    Historyharlot93
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I loved the big concrete geese on porches that could be dressed in different outfits. It was a craft fair staple to have a table selling little dresses and bonnets for those geese

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    Marie BellaDonna
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh I had the older version of the Talking Whiz Kid. It was brown and cream colored. I LOVED that thing. But it stopped working right, and my thoughtless father let my sister destroy it with a sledgehammer. I was so sad. Then years later, as an adult, I found another one at a thrift store, and was so excited that the clerk laughed at me lol! Of course it came home with me!

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    ShaZam
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    .... or wear 4 pairs of socks with each one showing a different color. My friend had to buy tennis shoes 1 bigger size for her epic socks.

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    DEW
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Those little lip gloss. They smelled so good.

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    Alvia Vseobecna
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ROLLERCOASTER, greatest game ever... planned a themepark vacation based on the rides :D

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    Lost Panda
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember them, remember the movie, cannot for the life of me remember the name

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