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Waking up for school felt unbearable, but getting up early on a Saturday for cartoons was somehow the easiest thing in the world. Summer vacation seemed endless, candy necklaces were worth risking your teeth for, and trading stickers with friends could take up an entire afternoon without anyone getting bored.
Back then, these were just ordinary parts of childhood. Now, they’re the kinds of memories that hit you right in the feels. So when one Redditor asked users to share the little things that remind them of being a kid, they came through with plenty of answers that are sure to stir up some nostalgia. Scroll down to read them and teleport yourself back to a simpler time.
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#1
Remember the warm, fuzzy static left on your tv screen after it was on for a while.
Movies and video games on channel 3.
Edit- so many people commenting on the smell of the static. Is that the smell of ozone?
Edit 2- lot of comments here remembering how the picture would collapse down to a single point of light when you turned the tv off. I forgot about that
Edit 3- lot of you crazy kids WEAPONIZED the static to shock your siblings!
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#2
Collecting stickers.
Upstaged75 1 hour ago
I was recently thinking about how awesome my sticker book was back in the 80's. I loved that thing. I wonder if kids still do that? I'd love to get my 6 year old niece started with one!
#3
Waking up super early on Saturday morning before the rest of the family to watch cartoons.
#7
Those candy necklaces.
#9
An eraser that looks and smells like a very fake strawberry.
#11
The noise when picking up the phone when someone was surfing the web.
#12
The tingle of a skinned knee from drag on asphalt, and the dread of having it cleaned….
Upstaged75 1 hour ago
That's not nostalgia for me unfortunately. I tripped and fell in a parking lot back in December. Scraped the heck out of my knee.
#13
That feeling when you are going as high as you can go on the swings. Power? Freedom? Hard to describe.
August West 45 minutes ago
Of course always trying to do a full loop but having to settle for just creating a bit of slack in the chain at the apex
#14
Waiting until after 7 p.m. to call long distance.
#16
Somewhere between blowing on some cartridges and pressing the cartridge down and up in the NES to get it to play.
#18
The TV Guide channel. You had to sit through and watch as the channels slowing went by so we could see what was on. It blew getting distracted by the infomercial in the corner and then realizing you barely just missed what you were waiting for so had to wait for it to start all over.
Rali Meyer 49 minutes ago
we had a TV magazine. Well, actually our neighbors. We couldn't afford it
#19
Eating one of those plastic wrapped ice pop things after a long day of playing outside in your backyard with your friends.
#20
Sleep overs with a group of friends.
#21
Light Bright. I barely remember it myself but you’d take a charcoal-black board and poke different colored pegs through it. You plug it in to the electrical outlet and all the pegs light up creating whatever shape you made in lights.
Upstaged75 1 hour ago
The black paper had dots on it that you use as a guide to make the different images. They'd fall apart after you'd poked the lights through a few times. Light Bright is digital now - I got it for my niece last year.
#22
You have a collect call from, "Mom I'm done can you come pick me up?" Would you like to accept?
Rali Meyer 48 minutes ago
and on paid calls the operator chimed in that you need to top up to carry on talking. Even after you ended the call!
#23
Getting up in the morning on a day it snowed to watch the list of closed schools across the bottom of the news/weather channel hoping your school was closed.
#25
You knew it was gonna be a good day when you walk into PE class and see that huge colorful parachute.
#27
What rolls down stairs
alone or in pairs,
and over your neighbor's dog?
What's great for a snack,
And fits on your back?
It's log, log, log.
#29
That feeling of limitless freedom on the first day of summer vacation.
That feeling of dreaded anticipation on the last day of summer vacation.
#31
Watching Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
There was something so special about the intro where he would sing Won't You Be My Neighbor while he changed his jacket and shoes. I loved every second of it, and would watch in utter content and fascination each time as if I'd never before seen him zip his cardigan up and back down to the right spot and change his shoes with the little toss of a shoe from one hand to the other.
August West 36 minutes ago
He started feeding the fish every episode because a viewer contacted them worried that the fish were hungry
#32
For those a little older, watching Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, TailSpin and Darkwing Duck.
#33
Polly Pocket.
#37
When I was a kid, in order to watch Dukes of Hazzard you needed to hold the antenna a certain way. Me and my brother would trade off holding the antenna between commercial breaks.
#41
Those crystals you could grow in a jar.
#43
Highlights magazine!!! I begged my parents for a subscription. It was the best thing ever.
Upstaged75 1 hour ago
The Adventures of Goofus and Gallant! 😁 They still make this magazine - I gave a subscription to my nephew a few years ago.
#45
The Video Store.
The smell of of the plastic cases. Walking past the Horror section and being terrified of all the awesome VHS cover art. The Games section.
There was such a naivety to it all, whatever you rented you had to take home and watch and it made the content much more precious.
#46
Sea Monkeys!
What kid didn’t fall prey to that scam?
#47
Glow in the dark stars.
Upstaged75 1 hour ago
After I moved out for college my parents had to have the ceiling in my bedroom redone because the stick on stars messed up the paint. 😊 I think I put them up there when I was around 10 years old.
#49
Setting your favorite lyrics as your MySpace name ~* wRiTen liike tHiS *~.
Reading your friends’ new bulletin space posts, your messages and page comments.
Talking to your crush for hours on msn messenger.
#56
Dad reminding everyone in the car that he isn't stopping again, while the sibling next to you draws an invisible line that your elbow may not cross.
#62
Listening to distant thunder out your window late at night as you smell the rain in the air.
#64
BILLY MAYS HERE!
anyone else watch infomercials on your parents tv after waking up from nightmares as a kid??
#66
Sitting in class at your giant box desk that opens with all your things inside of it scattered around. Loose papers, dirty as hell pencil box, staring at the chalk board while the teacher messes with a projector placing those colored plastic small pieces to highlight certain things. Also, standing for the pledge every morning.
#68
I had to go to bed when Dallas came on and I swear to Pavlov's dog you can play that theme song and I'll yawn and head upstairs.
#69
Who did you pick: Bulbasaur, squirtle or charmander?
#77
Recees puffs,recees puffs, WHAT penutbutter chocolate great when separate but when they combine they make the morning time epic! Recees PUFFS.
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