“Do You Remember When”: 50 Pics That Might Not Make Any Sense If You’re Too Young (New Pics)
A walk through one’s old bedroom or visiting a mall you used to go to can hit you with a wave of nostalgia and memories that you often didn’t even know existed. Without these reminders, it can be hard to sometimes remember how things have changed.
The “Do You Remember When” Facebook page is dedicated to images, memes, and even ads that might jog some deeply buried memory. From plywood furnishings to pogo sticks, these posts are a real blast from the past, so get comfortable as you scroll through, be sure to upvote your favorites and comment your thoughts below.
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Pictures That Make You Feel Old
Gum And Comic For A Penny
Love It!
“Getting old” can be a pretty relative term. While most of us would agree that pensioners are “old,” you can also be hit by a wave of “oldness” when you first realize that you aren’t quite as up-to-date with popular culture. Or perhaps you overhear the younger generation (whose existence is already a sign) refer to the films you watch or music you listen to as “retro.”
Despite our best efforts, there is no escape from getting older. Of all the processes on this planet, the passage of time is the one we can’t even start to influence. Realistically, people need to make peace with the fact that every second they fight aging, they age regardless. Instead, images like the ones in this post serve to remind and perhaps educate beyond anything else.
I Have Several, Two Of Which I Inherited From My Parents!
It's also where we keep the restaurant menus, scotch tape and batteries. 🫣
Had A Datsun B210
Who just learned that Datsun became Nissan, and that they’re not mutually exclusive car brands? 🙋🏻♀️
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
I remember when we first got a phone that had a speakerphone function. That was groundbreaking.
In much of the world, aging is actually celebrated. In Korea, when one turns 60, they will have a special party called a hwangap. Part of this celebration’s history comes from the fact that many people in the pre-modern era did not even reach the age of 60. As a result, Koreans have also started to celebrate “Gohi” or “Chilsun” when they turn 70 and “Palsun” when they reach the venerable age of 80.
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
Division Was Goesinto
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
One reason to make your peace with aging is that it can actually help you live longer. A positive self-perception of health in old age appears to be directly correlated with longer lifespans. So if living as long as possible is really important, then it’s almost as vital to believe it will happen. Worrying just wastes time for little-to-no gain.
This Brings Back So Many Memories (Of Getting Thorned)
I Remember Swinging So High That The Poles Came Out Of The Ground. What Do You Remember?
It Was Much More Rewarding. I Miss Researching And Enjoy Reading My Encyclopedias!
After my parents bought me a set of Encyclopedias at the age of 11, I announced that I would no longer be going to school since I could now look up anything I needed to know!
Memory plays just as important a part. We tend to have a lot of what scientists call “flashbulb” memories, itself a reference to older cameras that would provide lighting with a bright flash from a lightbulb. These are instances, moments, and events that feel “burned” into our memories. Traumatic or important events are often featured, particularly if it was something shared with many people. Witnesses of 9/11 would be an example of “flashbulb” memories.
And When A Person Gets Older.....you Lose Them, In More Ways Than One! Lol
Tin Kaleidoscope Toy
That's my favorite toy. I enjoy all the colors and shapes and the way they change.
Yep, And My Dad Would Criticize My Teachers Handwriting For Being Illegible!
We do tend to remember our firsts, as they set the standards and expectations for most events. First kisses, first days of school, and first day on a job all feature here, even though subsequent ones will often be forgotten very quickly. Try to imagine a specific day in fourth grade in November and most of us will draw a blank, even though in the abstract we have an idea of what could have happened and what the classroom may have looked like.
Hey Boo Boo!
I Did It Way Back When When I Was In School And Then Made Them For My Kids!
Once my mom decided to bless me with extra fancy covers and she somehow found some sort of translucent neon green stuff that was sticky on one side, and she covered all my schoolbooks in that one year. I was the envy of the class that year. She had some left over and decided to cover some of my normal personal books, too. So, I still have a copy of Stephen King's The Waste Land with neon-green see-through sticky plastic c**p on it XD (yes, my dad gave me a Stephen King book when I was 10... I don't know what he was thinking, lol)
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Odd ends of wallpaper worked too but trying to write your name and subject on woodchip was not easy.
We used left over wrapping paper from xmas or birthdays
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yeah! Wax paper works! and it's bio degradable and uses sustainable materials. I firmly maintain that a LOT of items should come in waxed paper containers instead of plastics.
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I had a teacher in elementary school who made us insert cardboard between the brown paper and the book so that if we doodled it wouldn't leave an impression on the book. He personally inspected each student's book to make sure we did this.
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I loved making my own book covers. I got to decorate them and make them special.
Before my time. We got brown paper for covering school books off a roll.
Worse Than that, the next generation had to back exercise books with sticky back plastic. What satanic demon decided that was a good idea?
My parents didn't want to buy book covers, so brown paper bags were all we used.
I used to try and get the comic pages out of the newspaper for mine. If I had the brown paper bag then I would try to decorate it because only the "poor kids" couldn't afford the fancy book covers.
We also had to sand the edges of the pages so they looked like new.
Our parents were definitely resourceful and mechanical. S**t! I couldn't do that today to save my life for my kids.
Dam. Yes. I did. Did u live with us? How do u know this stuff??
We used wallpaper. But I do remember taking 2 custard creams to school in a brown paper bag, and by playtime the grease from the icing had made the brown paper greasy
Yes!! My husband made me a sheet of paper with my favorite actor on it. I took it and got a big book and covered it in The brown bags and then put the big sheet of the actor's photo's on to the outside of the book. I then put clear tape on. Right now that book is under my laptop. LOL! We used to have to do it or lose points in class. You only had to the first weekend. By Monday they all better be covered. My gosh I'm old!!
The biggest problem was how to decorate it. I would re-cover it when I didn't like it anymore.
By the middle of the school year mom had to recover them because the book covers got torn. And I was sometimes bummed beca I had my best Lisa Frank stickers on them !!! Lol Does anyone else remember Lisa Frank ?
We either used wrapping paper or we bought stickers with our favourite pop stars that included the label part for writing your name and subject.
I was given brown paper to cover my school books. I was gutted as I wanted to use posters but my parents would not let me
How old do you have to be for this one? I'm 46 and I've never heard of it.
I'm 41 and we definitely did this in at least one of the UK schools I went to. And I think the general premise was to protect it for the following year, which made sense I suppose - hand it back in better condition than if it hasn't been looked after.
Load More Replies... I grew up in Argentina in the 70s-80s. There was a special paper everybody had to use to cover all schoolbooks and notebooks. It was thick and a little glossy, navy blue, with embossed spiders and cobwebs all over. It was called "papel azul araña", spider blue paper. Why spiders? I haven't a clue. I hadn't realised until this very moment it was wierd.
I used wallpaper, as my great uncle was a decorator and it was free ))
Why? Why was this required? The textbooks were 15 years old.
This is so funny. One of my older cousins taught me how. She was in Highschool at the time. We found the grocery bags and started crafting.
Yes. It was required. And, all the snooty girls used Abercrombie and Fitch bags. 🙄
Required for one year at the school I attended, but because some of the boys (and girls) decided to "decorate" theirs with pornographic, gang-related, and racist images (most hand-drawn, but some cut from magazines or other sources), the school decided to discontinue the practice as required, but they still provided the bags or colored paper (the kind they used for the big wall boards) for those who wanted to continue the practice (they made us sign a paper stating we wouldn't put anything inappropriate on our book covers)
Yes, but once in high school we could buy book covers from the school. They had the school colors, name and mascot on them. They also had some kind of shiny coating on them so they lasted longer and could sometimes be re-used for another book during the following semester.
My friends and I used wallpaper - usually from leftovers at our homes. Wallpaper was pretty snazzy in the 60s/70s.
Yep, homemade book covers. Also used sometimes as wrapping paper.
One of my teachers went to the DIY shop and got samples of wallpaper for us to use.
Yes, although my family and I opted for stretchy polyester cloth ones instead as I got older!
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
You got dropped off? We would take ourselves there by bus or bike. (From about 10 years old.)
That being said, memories do degrade with the passing of time. Most “unimportant” memories disappear after the first couple of days unless there is a reminder or we convince ourselves to keep track of something. So if many of the things seen here are the first time you’ve thought of them in years, that’s a normal function of how our memory works. This “whiplash” of seeing something the brain has purposefully forgotten is also why these images might make someone feel “old.”
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
"I'm Strong To The Finich, Cause I Eats Me Spinach, I'm Popeye The Sailor Man!"
Drying My Hands In A Public Restroom, 1975
Of course, a lack of attention also plays a part. If you stop to carefully look around you, there are a lot of dates. Colors, shapes, textures. Remember, every place you have ever gone has an abundance of information that, thankfully, our brain filters out. It’s enough to know in the abstract that most walls have some sort of coat of paint without systematically categorizing every wall you have ever seen. It could be a cool party trick, but realistically you would just get overwhelmed.
Remember These Days ?
Eugene Levy, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Rosemary Radcliffe, And John Candy, 1974, Sctv Cast
The Good Old Days Puts A Big Smile On My Face
Plus, as you age you take in a lot of new memories and information. Like building on top of a ruin, new memories “push back” older ones and make them harder to retain. The deeper these ideas are buried, the “older” one feels when they are rediscovered through the images here, or visiting a once-familiar place after a long time.
And The Sound Of Music Too!!
Just A Random Question
Can still find cans that open like this now. Corned beef comes to mind.
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
What also causes these feelings of “being old” is the fact that, despite what we often think, our memories are not actually recordings. We can misremember all sorts of details, falsify memories, and remove or add things that never actually happened. This only becomes apparent when we encounter images such as these that serve as a reminder that a lot of things we think we remember don’t actually look the way they did.
Kurt Russell And Goldie Hawn...40 Years Together
Instead of talking about how they look ... consider that they have loved each other for 40 fckn years. Most of you have NO idea what it is like to be with someone that long. ( been with my hubby 46yrs)
What A Truly Incredible Snapshot To A Simpler Time
The Flavor Only Lasted For Like A Second.. But It Was Super Delicious
But don’t despair, just because you can’t recall the precise model of a neighbor's car doesn’t mean that this memory is lost forever. Somehow, somewhere, you will probably come across something that will jog your memory into place, and you’ll get that little rush as a bit of your past rematerializes in your head. So if you are trying to unlock as many memories as possible, Bored Panda has got you covered, check out our other articles here and here.
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
I mean, anyone who camps or backpacks still mows what a percolator is.
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
WRONG! Ozzy and Harriet did it first and the stars were a real married couple and they insisted they were shown in bed together in 1952. So not animated but definitely "otherwise".
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
I Love The First Three Seasons Of The Show The Most. The Writing Was Really Sharp And Funny
I Absolutely Loved These!! Forgot About Them! The Tropical One Was My Favorite!
Look Out!!
Cue the coughing if somebody clapped these together and you were standing fairly close to that person for any reason!
Esp The All You Can Eat Buffet -- Absolutely The Best Bread Sticks In The World
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
Heck - This Was A Snack When I Was Growing Up
I Wonder What Happened To Mine
Meanwhile, my Norwegian grandparents had the old fashioned trolls...and I never fully recovered.
Childhood In A Jug! They Were Essential To Camping And Picnics!
Accurate As Heck
We Remember Baby Cribs That Looked Like This
U Only Had To Remember 4 Numbers The First 3 Were The Same Everywhere Near
My Mama Made Some Of The Best Fried Chicken Ive Ever Had In This Baby!!!
Cheech & Chong.... What Comes To Mind?
'scooby-Doo, Where Are You' (1969-75)
Only until Scrappy came along. Scrappy ruined Scooby Doo. If they ever make a Roger Rabbit 2 I hope Scrappy gets the DIP.
Never Seen This In My Life, Definitely Never Put Any In Any Toilets
My Husband Got Me One As I Was Always Cutting Up My Legs
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A lot of these are still around. Should change the title to nostalgia or something.
Yeah. I could do without the age baiting. I'm here for the memories, not the put-downs for the whippersnappers.
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I'm Gen Z and I've done/had/seen most of these??? Hello?? I don't get these articles
To be fair, most of them has become pop culture icons, so yeah of course most people would've done/had/seen them. Like the Flintstones, it's not aired anymore, but everybody knows them. Or the stupid alarm clock, it's not being sold anymore, but since EVERYBODY had them, the chance that you've seen them is pretty huge.
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It was a delight to see examples even 5 to 10 years older than I am. I'm not so old after all. Also a delight that most of these are international, not just limited to the USA.
Well, this was a waste of time. Did you mean: when I see these things, I think back to my youth? Or did you mean things that don't exist anymore (because epic fail)? Or, like the pictures of Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell and Cheech and Chong make me feel old? I don't get it: I looked at the FB page from which the "writers" compiled this mess, and there were so many choices that were actually true to the theme--how hard did they have to search for this mess?
The best part about a lot of these is they span a decent amount of generations. I’m a millennial and some of the older stuff (rotary phone, the crib, the electric counter top grill) were a regular part of my childhood because those products lasted so long. Also my dad worked for the phone company which explains why we had a working rotary phone at home into the 90’s.
Not my parent's house. Never one spec of paneling. Ever. Way to go, mom and dad!!!
I understand this post is just supposed to be nostalgic but I think it's funny that I understand/relate to over half of these and I'm only 17
61, and remember almost all of these. Life was better in many ways back then, but not in all ways.
Mimeograph! Microfiche! Card catalog! Dewey decimal system! Pop-o-matic bubble! "Calgon, Take me away!" "Ancient Chinese secret huh?" Lawn Darts! Mean Jo Green! "Where's the beef!?"
Horseshoe games that were actually horseshoes. Transistor radios! Ball and jacks, those were some great times for me! (We actually had a chance to attend church while in school; not sure if everyone was given this opportunity-I was raised in the Midwest)
Load More Replies... Sorry, I just glanced before I posted the last. Of course Sunbeam made them too!
This is a wierd article - you can still do these things, and you are better than someone else because you did them and they didn't/ couldn't...
Typical gen z.... Offended because they feel left out 😅
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If you drank from a water hose in the US as a child your probably still doing OK today because of it.
Some young person who just discovered these, thinks no one else has never seen them either.
I l’île thinking about today’s kids looking at an article like this in 40 years. “Remember when we all carried a phone in our POCKETS?! How crazy was that!? And we had drones hat delivered our orders! It seems insane now, but people really lived like that!”
I'm not American, and I remember most of these things from my childhood (except the bubblegum and the TV ones). I grew up in Africa and spent childhood holidays in England.
Load More Replies... A lot of these are still around. Should change the title to nostalgia or something.
Yeah. I could do without the age baiting. I'm here for the memories, not the put-downs for the whippersnappers.
Load More Replies... I'm Gen Z and I've done/had/seen most of these??? Hello?? I don't get these articles
To be fair, most of them has become pop culture icons, so yeah of course most people would've done/had/seen them. Like the Flintstones, it's not aired anymore, but everybody knows them. Or the stupid alarm clock, it's not being sold anymore, but since EVERYBODY had them, the chance that you've seen them is pretty huge.
Load More Replies... It was a delight to see examples even 5 to 10 years older than I am. I'm not so old after all. Also a delight that most of these are international, not just limited to the USA.
Well, this was a waste of time. Did you mean: when I see these things, I think back to my youth? Or did you mean things that don't exist anymore (because epic fail)? Or, like the pictures of Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell and Cheech and Chong make me feel old? I don't get it: I looked at the FB page from which the "writers" compiled this mess, and there were so many choices that were actually true to the theme--how hard did they have to search for this mess?
The best part about a lot of these is they span a decent amount of generations. I’m a millennial and some of the older stuff (rotary phone, the crib, the electric counter top grill) were a regular part of my childhood because those products lasted so long. Also my dad worked for the phone company which explains why we had a working rotary phone at home into the 90’s.
Not my parent's house. Never one spec of paneling. Ever. Way to go, mom and dad!!!
I understand this post is just supposed to be nostalgic but I think it's funny that I understand/relate to over half of these and I'm only 17
61, and remember almost all of these. Life was better in many ways back then, but not in all ways.
Mimeograph! Microfiche! Card catalog! Dewey decimal system! Pop-o-matic bubble! "Calgon, Take me away!" "Ancient Chinese secret huh?" Lawn Darts! Mean Jo Green! "Where's the beef!?"
Horseshoe games that were actually horseshoes. Transistor radios! Ball and jacks, those were some great times for me! (We actually had a chance to attend church while in school; not sure if everyone was given this opportunity-I was raised in the Midwest)
Load More Replies... Sorry, I just glanced before I posted the last. Of course Sunbeam made them too!
This is a wierd article - you can still do these things, and you are better than someone else because you did them and they didn't/ couldn't...
Typical gen z.... Offended because they feel left out 😅
Load More Replies... If you drank from a water hose in the US as a child your probably still doing OK today because of it.
Some young person who just discovered these, thinks no one else has never seen them either.
I l’île thinking about today’s kids looking at an article like this in 40 years. “Remember when we all carried a phone in our POCKETS?! How crazy was that!? And we had drones hat delivered our orders! It seems insane now, but people really lived like that!”
I'm not American, and I remember most of these things from my childhood (except the bubblegum and the TV ones). I grew up in Africa and spent childhood holidays in England.
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