As we millennials grapple with adult responsibilities, the memories of our carefree youth get buried under a growing mountain of corporate emails, bills, and laundry. So it's about time we refresh them!
Enter the Instagram account 'Childhood & Memes.' With 3.9 million followers, it regularly shares content for '90s and early 2000s kids that can instantly teleport us back to the good old days.
Whether it's a still from a classic video game, a picture of a beloved board game, or a joke about sibling relationships, continue scrolling for a healthy dose of nostalgia.
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Sure, but their "personality" was also charged with masking spills and messes =p
Load More Replies...You knew you was out with your mates and it was gonna be an awesome night!
I have a habit of counting all those little animations we get now before the movie. The record is eleven (in a Russian-made film). I suspect, one day we'll have a whole movie just of them.
Some of them are fantastic and better than the eventual movie.
Load More Replies...I liked the old Disney logo with tinker bell flying over the castle but the current cg is really not bad ... the castle sitting in a village like setting with the train in the background (and the most recent with the waterfall added)
My personal favorite has always been the Viking longship for Valhalla Entertainment.
Remember when everything was 3D before the boring flat style became all the rage? I miss that.
No wonder 'Childhood & Memes' has such a huge following. Krystine Batcho, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and professor at LeMoyne College and she believes that nostalgia is an emotional experience that unifies.
"One example of this is it helps to unite our sense of who we are, our self, our identity over time," Batcho explained.
"Because over time we change constantly, we change in incredible ways. We're not anywhere near the same as we were when we were three years old, for example. Nostalgia, by motivating us to remember the past in our own life, helps to unite us to that authentic self and remind us of who we have been and then compare that to who we feel we are today."
That gives us a sense of who we want to be down the road in the future as well.
I once swapped out a tin with sewing supplies, for one with cookies in - it was months before my kids realised there was a tin of cookies under their noses
A nations entire economic output ishortbread in blue tins with paper seperation. Imagine the wealth if they sold them with the sewing bits and the shortbread.
The nemesis of professional printers everywhere. Try running anything from Microsoft publisher with word art in it through an imagesetter or platemaker ripstation. This stuff was evil!
I'm young enough that I was older than 8 by the time we had a PC with a media player that had visuals but I loved it when we did. I wasn't smoking weed yet but still "tripped out" on it.
Hey, I'm so old, I blissed out to the 3-D pipe screensaver. Take that! 😂
I remember playing a song and the visuals matched the song. Twas a trance
We showed this to my tween nephew and he was fascinated by it, couldn't believe it was an ancient thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"The other way that nostalgia serves an essential psychological function is that it is a highly social emotion," Batcho added. "It connects us to other people"
Nostalgia does that in many beautiful ways, not just memes. "In the beginning, when we're very young, it's part of what bonds us to the most important people in our life, our parents, our siblings, our friends. As we go through life, it can broaden out and extend to a wider sphere of the people we interact with"
"It's a social connectedness phenomenon and nostalgia is in that sense a very healthy pro-social emotion," the psychologist added.
My parents realized I could read when I opened the childproof lock for one of these
One of my friends OD'ed on Flintstones vitamins when we were little. She had to be rushed to the hospital and treated for heavy metal poisoning.
Load More Replies...I can smell them. Salty dirt, with a hint of Splenda and herbs. Also, shame and a bit of parents knew they weren't feeding you well.
You described the smell perfectly! They also tasted the same. They tasted like you could identify each vitamin and whatnot in them.
Load More Replies...I absolutely hated these!!!!! Just looking at them makes me feel sick, even now, probably 30 years later.
My parents would buy a huge bottle of these like Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning ask me "how many did you eat?" ... Tuesday afternoon, repeat of Monday
But, also track suits, auto paint jobs, and many other things. This was the color palette of the 99’s. My mother had the track suit…
Load More Replies...It is also on the side of my 95 searay boat. Bright colors are awesome !!!
They even used this splash on the side of Ford Rangers, it really was everywhere!
They should put this on a t-shirt. How many Gen-Xers would buy it!
I was always too excited to see what goodies were brought home to throw on shoes to help with groceries. I grew up in the California desert so this involved stepping on hot dirt, jagged rocks and getting pierced with "goat heads", also known as "stickers".
I soooooooo remember stickers in S. Calif. Don't go barefoot in the summer!!!!
Load More Replies...My mom, born a daughter of an Harry and David peach and pear grower, always said, "I bought some beautiful fruit!"
Not true. All you needed was a chopstick, bamboo chopsticks, a piece of wire hanger, etc……
Load More Replies...I saw these at Staples a few weeks ago and was so excited, I dragged my SO over to show him. When we got to the car he tossed a pack of them into my lap with a little chuckle. Said he loved how excited these made me so he bought them when he 'wandered off to look at something'. Love that man!! Btw, I'm 49!! Lol
When I lost a piece from one of these things, I always kept the rest in order to replace any more lost pieces from others.
I always kept one I had lost a couple pieces to to replace other lost pieces.
I remember being so desperate to write with them at times that I’d hold one little nib between my fingers to write with it! Also, I had a colored pencil version where each nib was a different color. It really made coloring a chore due to having to change through several to get to the right color!! 😂
Nostalgia also helps us to unify what otherwise would be felt or experienced by us as conflicts.
"In itself, it is somewhat of a conflict because as I define it is a bitter-sweet emotion," Batcho noted. "It's sweet because we're remembering the best times, the good times of our life. The bitterness comes from the sense that we know for sure that we can never really regain them, they're gone forever."
The irreversibility of time means that there is no way to go back in time so it helps us to deal with the conflict of the bitter longing for what can never be again, together with the sweetness of having experienced it and being able to revisit it and relive it again.
8 ha 3 a younger brother. Had a neighbor boy. They were b3st friends at the time. Whenever they made pizza they would measure it before cutting g to make sure they each got exactly half.
Hell, both my parents even did that making sure they got their equal share - PARTICULARLY my dad!
Try holding a portable tape recorder to one speaker of mom and Dad's console stereo to catch the top 40. Hitting pause at just the right places to skip commercials and jabber...and remembering to turn it off! praying nobody comes in talking. That was a challenge.
I once rented a video and it was very obvious that someone had recorded in a theatre with a hand held video camera, at one point in the movie someone got up and walked in front of the camera.
Load More Replies...I used Napster up until limewire came out. Everyone was panicking when the news came out that you could be fined per downloaded song. If that were the case those fines would have bankrupted the world.
I do. I still burn mine. I use my family computer that is stuck in 2006
In the 80s I would say every girl and a few boys. Many parents were stupidly afraid that things like this and what your boys wore could "make them gay". I speak from personal bad experience with an entire church of stupid bigot parents like this.
Load More Replies...Yup! My 17-year-old still has them on his ceiling from when he was a toddler LOL.
Load More Replies...I still have these scattered across my bedroom as a full blown adult. I don't get much light in there so they hardly ever charge up but when they do, I ooh at them like the child I mentally still am.
As a teen, I painted my own on the ceiling with glow in the dark paint. Oddly enough, even after the room was repainted many years later, there was still a faint glow of those stars shining through.
I would tape them to dental floss and hang them from my ceiling with finishing nails. They would 'twinkle' when my fan was on.
My daughter has started playing UNO recently and she doesn't like playing with her daddy. She insists she plays sitting next to me and we team up against him! :D :D
It’s supposed to be evil, that’s the fun of it. But, for even more evil, find a game called “Mille Borne (sp)”. In terms of evil? UNO’s is a a piker. MB is the absolutely true and lasting evil!
Load More Replies...And now you draw 22 cards and your next card will better be a red one...
Holy smokes, I JUST taught my mom how to play this game and I warned her: since it’s just the two of us, don’t take what I’m about to do personally.
You think you have me... But I don't know YOU! UNO REVERSE!!!!
Change, whether it's good or bad, is stressful. That's mostly because we're not 100 percent sure how much of it is within our control.
So when things begin to change, either very substantially, such as major events in a person's life, getting married or getting divorced, getting a new career, going back to school or graduating from school, it's comforting to have a nostalgic feeling for the past that reminds us that although we don't know what the future is going to bring, what we do know is that we know who we have been and who we are.
I remember going to the craft store and someone had broken open a bag of these all over the floor (clear & blue). Blue was my 4-year old autistic son's favorite color so while I was looking at other things he quietly filled his pockets - which I didn't discover till strapping him into his car seat. He was so sad when I explained he had technically stolen them.
Only got him on a technicality; bc everyone knows if it's scattered all over the floor like pinata candy, it's fair game!! Lol
Load More Replies...One Christmas, I was sick and tired, so instead of decorating I filled glass bowl with Christmas ornaments and called it a day. Does it count?
Excellent. Small space planning win right there. Like an office
Load More Replies...I remember playing an actual game with these stones in different colors, it was called Mancala.
Load More Replies...I used to have one, until my cat knocked it down and somehow broke every individual pebble
We used to use these at the pottery club when we were kids and teens. We would add them when applying the glaze. The glass melts during the firing process and cracks when cooling down, creating some very nice patterns.
Anyone remember that deep fried apple pie stick they used to sell. I swear the inside was hotter than the sun.
They still sell them in the UK and they are still just as hot.
Load More Replies...Am I the only one wondering WHO saved all these, and WHY!?!? Don't get me wrong, I appreciate them, just WHY.....???
I distinctly remember the breakfast box in the lower right. It was the treat for being good in the car on the halfway point of our annual family journey to Michigan.
Where were you traveling from to go to Michigan, Ilve in Indiana now but grew up in Michigan. Thinking about moving back to Michigan.
Load More Replies...I could go for a McDLT. One day, they just disappeared. And i havent been the same since.
You still stay up late..... Late is just different now. For instance, my new late is 9:30 🤣🤣🤣
Load More Replies...When I turned 40 we sat outside talking till 4am and I felt really young. But than I woke up six hours later...
Absolutely. That table was always filled from center to edge with half full and empty cheap beer cans and bottles, a pack of cigarettes with a lighter sitting on top, a metal weed pipe and a dime of "stress" in cigarette pack cellophane next to it, someone's keys they've been looking for for hours and all the great vibes and memories of being young, poor and having the time of my life with the homies.
These pictures bring us back to the times when we were accepted and loved unconditionally.
"That is such a powerfully comforting phenomenon, knowing that there was a time in life when we didn't have to earn our love, or we didn't deserve it because we earned a certain amount of money or we were successful in a certain venue," Batcho said.
"Our parents, for example, or our siblings, or our friends simply loved us unconditionally. That is a wonderfully comforting feeling when we're undergoing any kind of turmoil in our personal lives."
So if you want to indulge in it a little more, check out these 50 Nostalgia-Instilling Posts For Kids Of The ’80s, ’90s And ’00s.
Yes, but when I was in my 20s, everyone liked things "ironically."
Wait till your 40s. You'll like still the same things but they won't be the same anymore.
As a dude who's currently marathoning Digimon at 28, I can totally confirm that.
I remember watching that with my brother 20 years ago (I'm 45 so I was "old" to be watching it then also).
Load More Replies...I never lost my kid. I’m 60, and my teenage likes/loves are still with me! D&D still rules, for instance!
And having money to buy the things for yourself! My sister and I went through a huge Barbie kick in our early 20’s and got all the coolest outfits and accessories!
google "voice of Ducky" for a sad story about her. :(
Load More Replies...Oooo, those are the "fancy" icons 😄 . They didn't look like that in Windows 95.
Wasn't it called Space Cadet or 3D space Cadet? IIRC 🤔
Load More Replies...Right? Have never heard of or seen that before.
Load More Replies...Shaggy, by a long shot. Fun, lanky, easy going, good appetite and can handle his high. Scooby would be 1st, but let's face facts. WTF can that dog talk about? Anything? He's a dog, if that. He might just be a lab animal that gained the ability to speak English or something weirder. I'm not to get high with that. The others are insufferable.
Family dramas minus a personality puts Daphne 4th with Freddy last, because... why is he there at all? He's the driver of the van and he wears an ascot. He has less to say than the dog does. Just no.
Load More Replies...There's an incredibly detailed Reddit thread about this, just Google "Home Alone pizza prices" and it should be the first result. Basically the family orders 10 pizzas at a rounded average of 12.50 each, which is about right for 1990. So, not really "comical", more realistic.
LOL I literally paid $120 for 2 large, an order of wings and an order of garlic knots this past weekend!!!!!
Yeah, some places really are ripping people off these days! For years, we had a $5 pizza place just down the road from us until the little Mom & Pop shop mall owners got bought out by the notorious big box store (And you know who I'm talking about if it happened in your town too).
Load More Replies...That's also a comically large amount for 4 pizza in 2024, at least in Germany. We pay above 8€ to 12€ for a pizza right now...
I need to know what state you live in, because I'm going to bankrupt you on pizza
Load More Replies...If I go to the local Pizza place it's like $35 per pizza, or less than 10 at Costco
Wow, that's crazy high, no? I'm in New Jersey , and our local place is like $15-18 for a large plain pie.
Load More Replies...Way to fancy for me. We mixed our kool-aid packets in a pitcher and drank from (reusable) plastic cups.
Yeah, nah. Our juice was called mini sips. It came in a clear plastic bag that you stabbed with a straw. Once you finished your drink, you would blow into the straw, fill the bag with air and stick the straw out the other side to make yourself a balloon. The dumber kids would bust this balloon and spray juice crumbs all over themselves.
Who remembers the colored sugar water barrels with the aluminum lid that was REALLY HARD to peel off?
Too expensive! From what this little farm girl thought, those were only for rich kids.
Anyone ever use the tear-off caps as starships and have a battle afterwards if you had more than one?
I love making the embroidery thread bracelets! My wrists are littered with them
Load More Replies...A girl in my grade had a whole business on these. $1 to get it started, $5 for a keychain, $10 for a bracelet. I am willing to bet that it paid her 1st year of college, ngl.
I still make these! Luckily for me I have daughters that like making them. 'How do you know how to do this!?' 'Oh child, this ain't nothing new' 😂
It’s coming back among teens. I could never do it and am pleased to see my students are enjoying their success in that activity. 😀
My daughter is really creative at making things. What are the chances I just looked on Amazon, found them, put them in the cart, went to checkout and thinking in my head... hmmm I have a gift card as a credit for a return. I wonder how much it'll take off... $14.92 with a balance charged to my card of... $14.92! If that's not a sign to buy them... 🤣
Not the amounts being directly under each other in the same line on my phone (mobile version) either.... 🤣🤣
Load More Replies...Just had a flashback and apparently I know exactly how to start those! Haven't done one in 55 years.
After getting tricked once, my extra a*s went and bought one myself and trained(?) until I barely flinched when I pulled it. Same with the pen. I remembered feeling truly invincible lol
No. I drank this and it didn't help my joints at all. But my BMs are smooooooooove.
Does this mean I won't hear 30 tendons snap every time I stand up?
Now I know what to buy my dad - he uses WD-40 and Formula 409 for EVERYTHING.
I'm older than that. I used to watch over the air TV signal B&W with a 4 inch camping TV which ran off six D batteries...
I'm too old for this. I remember when we switched from listening to kids programs on the radio (or the wireless as we called it) to black and white tv with a screen so small, blink and you'd miss it!
When we got married (30 years ago) my husband and I used to go to McD's on Friday night and we could get two extra value meals for $6.37 (tax included) and sometimes we got two pies for $1 for dessert.
Load More Replies...Do they not still sell those things? (Sorry, I haven't been to McD's for probably 10 years now. It just looks like standard stuff they always sold?)
Yeah, I can still rattle off the 70s Big Mac jingle: Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun. Where's the nearest nursing home?
How old am I? I remember their TV commercial back in the 60's " Feed a family of four for under $5.00". 4 cheeseburgers, 4 small fries and 4 drinks were less than $5. No dining room's just a white and red tiled exterior with built in bench seats. This was before the 1967 debut of the Big Mac
Thats modern. Where are the foam boxes. And the fried chicken pieces. Nuggets are modern mcdonalds
If we're not going to bring back items , at least bring back the prices from the nineties!
The more you know you know. (No, I know: that's a different star.)
I don't mean to ruin the mood but Rainbow road is in literally every iteration of Maro cart for every Nintendo console that has ever existed AND it's even in the new Mario movie. You would have to have to have avoided a massive chunk of video games and pop culture for the last 40 years to not have a clue with this one.
I mean... in their defence, N64 Rainbow Road is generally considered the hardest outside of Wii's.
Load More Replies...Used to drive me up the wall this level. I'd do so well and then just slip or be knocked of the bloody road pffttt!
You literally can't even fall of the track on this version of Rainbow Road.
Load More Replies...If he's only waking up mom because he missed the bus that means, in theory, he had already been up on his own, showered and dressed, fed himself, brushed his teeth, was ready to go and mom would still be asleep after. I want that.
thats the point, when we grew up it was the era of latch key kids, we raised ourselves, and on the weekends you do not wake them up! you quietly got up went to the kitchen got yourself a bowl of cereal and sat 3 feet from the tv watching saturday morning cartoons on low volume until your parents got up and kicked you out of the house for the day to play with your friends.
Load More Replies...I remember laying in bed awake and realising my mum had forgot to set the alarm. I'd lie there until 9am,when school starts, then wake her up saying we both slept in. It was the best way to get a day off without faking a sore stomach, plus u could go outside and play because it was her fault for not setting the alarm.
I only did that once or twice, because I would get there insanely early, otherwise I got too anxious. I did walk home a number of times because a migraine started on my way to the bus stop. Mum would never be in bed though, too busy wrangling my younger siblings!
I think both Up and Inside Out were after Disney "absorbed" Pixar.
Load More Replies...Ol' Yeller?? or are they just talking about animations? I have never watched Ol' Yeller after reading the Disney book from the movie,.
No love for Gergy? smh Guess he was right, master has many friends, Gergy has no friends.
The rule in my house (growing up for me and I enforced it with my kids) was that you had to be involved with some type of extracurricular activity of your own choosing. What activity it was changed but if you quit one you had to replace it with something else. It worked out well for me and it's worked out for both of my kids being able to explore different things and find out what you really like and are passionate about.
I'm technically a millennial by the designated birth years but I was 21 in 2002 so I don't really get this one. Anyone that does, please explain?
Scooby doo movie (with Sarah Michelle Gellar) had this disco ball in it. It was super cool.
Load More Replies...the only thing that is discontinued here is the graham slam
Load More Replies...i can still get smiley faces and mozzarella sticks, are they not a thing in usa anymore?
They are. I'm in the US & I buy them for the grandkids.
Load More Replies...20+ of 41 that had nothing to do with millenials. I'm so tired of BP lists not bothering to match the title of the article. I want the nostalgia they promised, dammit.
They did just say "good ol days", not millenials in particular
Load More Replies...20+ of 41 that had nothing to do with millenials. I'm so tired of BP lists not bothering to match the title of the article. I want the nostalgia they promised, dammit.
They did just say "good ol days", not millenials in particular
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