This Page Is Dedicated To Sentimental Nostalgia, And Here’s 30 Of Their Best Posts (New Pics)

Walk it off

I can smell the warm metal.

Wails of anguish and laughter. There, fixed it. Funny how we KNEW we were going to get F'd up but it was the ultimate adrenaline rush for a kid!

You know I see these posts and... we're now the adults. It's us bubble wrapping everything and insisting on playdates. Just sayin'

Back when having fun meant a hint of danger and no one was bubble wrapped lol.

Who remembers taping songs off of the radio because you couldn't afford to buy a cassette, LP or 45?

The rel problem was when your dad only had two tapes in the car, and both of them you hated. Then you grow up and hear one of those songs and it suddenly triggers good memories.

Struggle you say? Try no FM radio in your area(early 70's), unless you like Family Life Radio, country, or easy listening.

Ahhh... the fine art of tape splicing interior cassette surgury

What sacrilege to a Led Zeppelin tape...

Add a BASF tape, and I have poker.

Yep. Used to record cartoons on Saturdays. Wish I still had those. It's really nostalgic when you get a couple hours of saturday morning cartoons complete with vintage commercials and bumpers. I can find them on YouTube sometimes.

Absolutely! I used to tape movies when they came on TV onto them. 1-2 per tape and then I'd beg my parents to buy more because I couldn't record over what I had lol

Ii remember my cousins being super annoyed when they came to ireland that they couldn't play any of their videos! Apparently we had different ones than they had! If I remember correctly the American one were slightly smaller.

Anyone remember the singing skeleton for Scotch tapes: I'm going to tell you how it's going to be.....with Scotch's lifetime guarantee......Tape what you want both night and day...then re-record not fade away, re-record not fade away, re-record not fade away....

Theses are the right diameter for a stack of quarters. I'd drive around with them, for tolls and parking meters. And had a couple for weed storage too, of course.

There were also almost-transparent ones. Well, there are, in my basement, filled with sand, as a souvenir, labeled.

I have the metal ones. I'm that old

Not only were film canisters great for protecting film. But, we were taught how to use them as mini rescue kits for survival, that and metal bandaid containers.....I miss both to be honest.

Ok, I confess.

I used to love drawing all over those. I hated it when the school would pass out those lame pre-made ones with the school mascot and ads for local businesses. Much preferred simple paper-bag covers.

Yeah, me too. Our local market had bags printed with folding instructions

Then we would decorate our covers however we saw fit. I did some very intricate drawings on some of mine, I hated pulling them off at the end of the school year lol

Everyone could see what awful wallpaper you had at home

I loved making these for all of my books! I loved to doodle (sometimes I still do!). Couldn't get into trouble for drawing on the paper covers. Draw, doodle, anything one can think of!

I can still remember the sound the printer made..

The trick was to fold it on the perforation once or twice before trying to tear off a sheet. Worked perfectly 95% of the time. #uselesslifeskills

Once you dropped that awful s**t it was just nightmare.

My dad once built a case around the printer, made of wood and plexiglass to make it "super silent". Holy c**p, those things made a terrible noise!

Dating myself, this gives me PTSD from my days as a paralegal preparing hundreds of thousands of pages of this type of paper for production to the SEC in response to their “everything but the kitchen sink” subpoenas to the law firm’s client, a large Wall St. securities clearing firm. The client printed the documents on this type of paper and the paralegals’ very important job was to separate each sheet, tear off the holes on the side that made the pages too big to fit in a copier machine, send the pages out for copying and numbering (Bates numbers to those who care), and then QC each page that came back before sending it on the the SEC. Enormous effort expended on documents that were unlikely to ever have been used by anyone thereafter…

Growing up we had a friend who's dad worked at the View-Master Company in Oregon. We always got the new discs before anyone else. He would bring home the test discs of pictures not released. The guys in R&D would put nudes in them for themselves as a joke. We got a stack of them by accident, but if course we didn't tell him. They worth their weight in GOLD to other kids, Ha Ha!! Traded better than baseball cards!!!

My grandparents brought one from Hajj. I could only see holy places but still 3D view was very interesting.