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“I’ve Walked A Lot… I’m Tired”: 76 Posts To Make Gen X Remember The Good Old Days
Generation X refers to people born between 1965 and 1980, which means they grew up during a pretty eventful few decades. They saw Star Wars in theaters and watched the first Space Shuttle launch on TV. They listened to Led Zeppelin and Madonna on the radio. They rocked bell-bottoms before swapping them for acid-wash jeans, and embraced some seriously huge hair along the way.
It’s no wonder Gen Xers feel so nostalgic about those years. So, to bring back a few memories, we’ve rounded up some posts shared on the “Real Generation X” subreddit. Scroll down to check them out and see which ones hit especially close to home.
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#1
So True 👍
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#2
Generation X Learned So Much From These Amazing People
Googoo Gaga 1 week ago
Kindness and empathy have disappeared from this world and it is frightening.
#3
Did You Ever Go To A Keg Party?
#4
Can You Remember This Smell?
#5
Life Before Google
#6
Coolest Toy Ever
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 week ago
This was the gateway drúg to my entire childhood/lifetime spent playing video games XD
#7
Oh Yeah 😉
#8
Do You Remember These?
#9
Do You Remember These?
#10
Did You Put The Fries In The Top?
Salttypepper 1 week ago
For some reason they seem to taste better when they came like that , all their burgers did !!!! And they need to bring back the McDLT those were the shitt
#11
Does This Ring A Bell?
#12
Did You Ever Do This?
Elladine DesIsles 1 week ago
I had a whole little hidden workshop inside my desk, where I squeezed white glue into the moulded-in storage recesses, let it get semi-dry with occasional mixing, and then formed it into tiny animal figurines as if it were clay. And again, I somehow made it through school without ever being assessed for ADHD or autism. Being a "high-functioning" girl in the 80s was like having a magic cloak of neurodivergent invisibiity.
#13
Did You Like This Ice Cream
#14
I Would Say It’s A Fact
#15
Do You Remember?
#16
Did You Ever Eat Your Cereal Right Out Of The Box?
#17
McDonald's Ashtrays
#18
Did You Have Any Of These?
#19
Fragile Rock
#20
Every Kitchen Had One
Elladine DesIsles 1 week ago
Ours was more of a 70s yellow than 70s green, but yes, we did. I assume my parents got it as a wedding gift.
#21
Could You See The Pictures?
#22
It Was Like Watching For The Winning Lottery Numbers
#24
You Think You're Old? I'm Old!!
Giraffe Sitter 1 week ago
I grew up Los Angeles in the late ‘70s. Our grocery stores didn’t give green stamps, they gave Disneyland A/B/C tickets.
#25
Sanford King Size Markers… Ah That Smell
#26
Star Trek: First Contact
#27
We Used To Have To Work For A Cold Drink
Brian Droste 1 week ago (edited)
I remember this and I am a boomer. This was long before Gen X generation.
#28
Did You Have One Of These In Your Kitchen?
#29
Jerry Lewis Telethon
Bremusa4u 6 days ago
This was great. I was supposed to spend the summer of 82 in one of Jerry's camp but my new doctor told my Mom not let me because I really didn't have muscular dystrophy. It turned out I'd an autoimmune disease and it was very treatable. The doctor thought that seeing the children in the camp would be traumatic.
Googoo Gaga 1 week ago
I usually only watched towards the end, for the tally. I did give once.
#30
Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
#31
How Many Know It? High School Flashback
#32
Did You Ever Play With One Of These?
Colleen Glim 1 week ago
Had one for my children. They were terrified. It got donated shortly after
#33
Remembering The Best Flavor From A Gum That Would Last 60 Seconds
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 week ago
I was weirdly heartbroken to learn that Fruit Stripe gum was discontinued in 2024 :( I wish I'd had a chance to buy one last packet and be disappointed one last time in the flavor that lasted all of 1.5 seconds.
#34
A True American Hero
#35
Spuds Mckenzie The Original Party Animal
#36
Lunch Is Served
#37
Do You Know What This Is?
#38
In The 70s You Could Go To A Concert For 10 Bucks
#39
Did You Listen To This?
Multa Nocte (she/her 8647) 1 week ago
🎶 Clap for the Wolfman - He gonna rate your record high 🎶
#40
It Was So Much Fun To Go There
VisuallyChallengedPew 4 days ago
I once said to my nieces and nephew, "Yeah, we would climb into a giant, plastic cheeseburger and pretend we were in jail."
#41
Some Of You Are Here Today Because Of The Hard Work Of These 2 Hero's
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 week ago
We do not use the R-word any more. It is now considered an offensive slur and is no longer a proper, accepted term for people with intellectual disabilities. That being said, it WAS an accepted term to refer to those with intellectual disabilities back in the day, and we should not judge the past by our modern sensibilities in that regard.
#42
It's 10 P.m. Do You Know Where Your Children Are?
#43
The Giant Strawberries In The Land Of The Lost
#44
Star Search With Ed Mcmahon .. Agt Of Our Time
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 week ago
My mom wanted my sister and I to go on this show SO badly. She was living her own "missed out on" dreams vicariously through the two us. It was kind of rough, tbh XD
#45
If You Know This House , You Are Gen X
#46
Ready For A Car Ride
Auntriarch 1 week ago
My guess is that wasn't to save the baby from harm in a crash, it was to stop her climbing around and getting in the way of the driver.
#47
Remember This Movie?
#48
Noooooow Here's A Little Story I've Got To Tell
#49
Where My Rivetheads At?
#50
Iykyk
#51
My First Computer
#53
Did You Ever Drink This?
Geoffrey Scott 1 week ago
Pierce the top with a full travel, just barely pierce the other side. The ones we got were the large can though. That and Hawaiian Punch.
#54
Did Any Of You Wear One Of These In The 80s?
#56
Christmas Catalog Dreaming.. What Was Yours?
#57
If This Was In Your House, Yep
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 week ago
Ours matched my mom's wooden salad serving things, which looked like claws and always terrified me XD I would pretend that the giant wooden spoon and fork on the wall were actually a dragon's eating utensils, though!
#58
If You Know Who This Hat Belongs To
#59
Who Remembers These Guys
#60
TV Shows And Movies In The 80s Had Some Memorable And Iconic Vehicles. It's Your Lucky Day, You Have Been Chosen To Use One Of These Vehicles For A Month
Googoo Gaga 1 week ago
A very guy question. The General Lee was a character I watched occasionally, but I am really only interested in Tom Selleck's legs.
#61
Kirby, Not Just A Vacuum It's An Adventure
#62
First Car ?
#63
Who Had One?
#64
I Know Y’all Are Hearing This Theme Song Right Now
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 week ago
My buddy (my buddy) my buddy my buddy, wherever I go, HE goes! My buddy and meeee!
#66
Don't Forget The Gravy
#67
Who Else Still Wears These Socks?
VisuallyChallengedPew 4 days ago
Add polyester shorts with two snaps, a trucker hat, and a whistle and you got yourself a high school PE coach.
#68
Did Your Vcr Remote Have A Cord?
#69
Franco American And The Mile Long Noodle In A Can
#70
No Difference That I Can See
#71
I Am This Old
VisuallyChallengedPew 4 days ago
If I remember right, you needed a PhD to program and operate the thing.
#72
What’s The Oldest Music T-Shirt You Still Own?
#73
It Was Either This Or A Zippo
#74
Ok Guys And Gals, Imagine It's Prom Time!🥂
Googoo Gaga 1 week ago
Phoebe Cates was a best selling poster dream from the bathing suit scene. Brooke Shields was a beautiful child, but she was irresponsibly marketed for someone her age (greedy mother syndrome). I suspect predatory adult men liked her more than teenage boys. Kelly Lebrock was too old to be a prom date and Molly Ringwald was marketed as nerdy. Jennifer Conolly is also very pretty but who remembers her at this age? (I think that's her, correct me if I am wrong). Was Alyssa Milano prom material? Cute, but teenage boy dreamy? Too young back then, imo. Christina Applegate had a slutty character so let's not go there, lol. The rest - meh. Just my opinion as an 80's girl. Don't shoot.
#75
Uncanny X-Men #268
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 week ago
The X-Men have always been my most beloved comic book heroes. I had such a huge crush on Gambit and would cut up mittens so I could have gloves that "matched" his XD I also had pet lizards named Rogue, Gambit, Wolverine, and Jubilee. I even pestered my dad to take me to Pizza Hut one time because they were having a special giveaway for an X-Men comic book you could only get at Pizza Hut. I still have that comic to this day! It has a hilarious ad for Stridex zit pads in the back, where Magneto helps some teenagers fight acne, for some reason XD
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Cerulean 1 week ago
When you come right down to it, the concept of unitary "Generations" is silly anyway. Across class, race, nations, language, gender, etc etc? Doesn't make sense. It's only good for publishing books and getting clicks. But nostalgia is a real force. Homer wrote of it. Some of these things would be nostalgic fir multiple "generations," some of whom encountered them as adults, some as kids, some as "something at Grandma's house."
Load More Replies... Googoo Gaga 1 week ago
Brits - Try explaining Seaman Staines to the rest of the world. When my husband first showed it to me, I couldn't stop laughing.
Forrest Hobbs 1 week ago (edited)
Googoo Gaga: Captain Pugwash didn't have any rude character names. 'The crew of The Black Pig were: Captain Pugwash, Master Mate, Pirate Barnabas, Pirate W***y, and Tom the cabin boy.' but 'It's possible that, on occasion, the name "Master Mate" was slyly altered to "Master Bate". In the episode Fair Exchange (BBC video, "Seafaring Tales"), the final line, spoken by Pugwash, sounds like "I certainly did Master Bate." Pugwash's voice is rather indistinct, so it's hard to be sure.' Links follow.
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Bald Eagle 1 week ago
nostalgia posts are low hanging fruit peddling brand recognition as warm, fuzzy memories
Cerulean 1 week ago
Ooooh, cynical! 😄 But if the brands are gone, capitalism is no longer served, and we are simply remembering the minutiae of our childhoods, which is human and universal.
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Cerulean 1 week ago
When you come right down to it, the concept of unitary "Generations" is silly anyway. Across class, race, nations, language, gender, etc etc? Doesn't make sense. It's only good for publishing books and getting clicks. But nostalgia is a real force. Homer wrote of it. Some of these things would be nostalgic fir multiple "generations," some of whom encountered them as adults, some as kids, some as "something at Grandma's house."
Load More Replies... Googoo Gaga 1 week ago
Brits - Try explaining Seaman Staines to the rest of the world. When my husband first showed it to me, I couldn't stop laughing.
Forrest Hobbs 1 week ago (edited)
Googoo Gaga: Captain Pugwash didn't have any rude character names. 'The crew of The Black Pig were: Captain Pugwash, Master Mate, Pirate Barnabas, Pirate W***y, and Tom the cabin boy.' but 'It's possible that, on occasion, the name "Master Mate" was slyly altered to "Master Bate". In the episode Fair Exchange (BBC video, "Seafaring Tales"), the final line, spoken by Pugwash, sounds like "I certainly did Master Bate." Pugwash's voice is rather indistinct, so it's hard to be sure.' Links follow.
Load More Replies... Bald Eagle 1 week ago
nostalgia posts are low hanging fruit peddling brand recognition as warm, fuzzy memories
Cerulean 1 week ago
Ooooh, cynical! 😄 But if the brands are gone, capitalism is no longer served, and we are simply remembering the minutiae of our childhoods, which is human and universal.
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