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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
Waking up super early on Saturday morning before the rest of the family to watch cartoons.
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#3
That feeling when you are going as high as you can go on the swings. Power? Freedom? Hard to describe.
August West 15 hours 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
#4
Reading the news paper for movie times.
That’s all what I yam 14 hours ago
Yep! And calling the movie theater to hear the recording of the times of the movies.
#5
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!
#7
Collecting stickers.
Upstaged75 16 hours 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!
#8
Calling the time and temperature guy.
#9
A phone made out of two cups and a string.
That’s all what I yam 14 hours ago
I remember trying to get them to work - never happened. The only thing I heard was the other person talking into their cup 20 feet away : - )
#10
Watching the Price Is Right when you were sick at home.
#11
The noise when picking up the phone when someone was surfing the web.
#12
Those colourful stick on earrings shaped like stars, hearts, etc.
#13
Listening to distant thunder out your window late at night as you smell the rain in the air.
#14
That feeling of limitless freedom on the first day of summer vacation.
That feeling of dreaded anticipation on the last day of summer vacation.
Geoffrey Scott 10 hours ago
The first one comes back the first day of retirement. All that worry leading up to it, and we still have $ left before our next check and have not hit savings too hard.
#15
The tingle of a skinned knee from drag on asphalt, and the dread of having it cleaned….
Upstaged75 16 hours 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.
#16
Sleep overs with a group of friends.
#18
Waiting until after 7 p.m. to call long distance.
#19
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.
#20
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 16 hours 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.
#21
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.
#22
For those a little older, watching Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, TailSpin and Darkwing Duck.
Nicole Weymann 11 hours ago
"A little older" 😭 My heroes were Bugy Bunny, Pink Panther, and Count Duckula!
#23
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.
#24
You have a collect call from, "Mom I'm done can you come pick me up?" Would you like to accept?
#25
AFV (Americas Funniest Home Videos).
#27
Glow in the dark stars.
Upstaged75 15 hours 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.
#28
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.
#29
Somewhere between blowing on some cartridges and pressing the cartridge down and up in the NES to get it to play.
Rick Murray 5 hours ago
Pressing Play on the tape recorder and NOT MOVING for the several minutes it took to load. Because if you moved and it caused the wire to wiggle, the load would fail and you'd need to start over again.
#30
Always loved the cartoon ‘The Jetsons’….
nottheactualphoto 14 hours ago
I was always bitter as an adult, because I never got my robot maid or my flying car.
#32
Scholastic book fairs.
#34
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 15 hours ago
we had a TV magazine. Well, actually our neighbors. We couldn't afford it
#35
The fancy S all of us knew how to draw but none of us knew the origin of
also The Game.
#41
Highlights magazine!!! I begged my parents for a subscription. It was the best thing ever.
That’s all what I yam 14 hours ago
My dentist had them in his office. I loved the Hidden Pictures!
#43
BILLY MAYS HERE!
anyone else watch infomercials on your parents tv after waking up from nightmares as a kid??
That’s all what I yam 13 hours ago
I remember Billy Mays hawking a car wax. During his pitch, he demonstrated that it was so good, it could protect against something as harsh a lighter fluid (pouring it on the hood), even when lit (lit it). In the last few seconds before it cut, you could see the paint start to bubble. That was so funny!
#45
Eating one of those plastic wrapped ice pop things after a long day of playing outside in your backyard with your friends.
#50
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.
#51
Lisa Frank stickers, notebooks, etc.
#54
Recording over and over on the same vhs tape.
#55
Berry flavored kool-aid in weird wax bottles.
#57
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.
#58
You knew it was gonna be a good day when you walk into PE class and see that huge colorful parachute.
#60
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.
#63
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.
#64
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.
#66
Knowing it’s time to go to bed when Adult Swim came on after Cartoon Network.
#68
That sound of a door opening and shutting on AIM when your friend logs on.
#71
Who did you pick: Bulbasaur, squirtle or charmander?
#73
"What's the neat round spaghetti you can eat with a spoon?"
"Uh-oh, spaghettios!".
That’s all what I yam 13 hours ago
My daughter, not remembering its name, described it as like cheerios, only in tomato sauce.
#74
There's 104 days of summer vacation and school comes along just to end it.
Huddo's sister 1 hour ago (edited)
We never had that long off for summer. When there were three terms instead of four there would have been a few more weeks maybe. In Australia since then (I think QLD might still have three terms), it's always December 20ish until the day after Australia Day, so about 4-5 weeks.
#79
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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UnclePanda 9 hours ago
When I started 1st grade, we were still doing duck-and-cover nuclear drills but by 3rd grade, they became tornado drills.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 11 hours ago
Yeah, a few of these were slightly nostalgic, but they're overwhelmingly American.
UnclePanda 9 hours ago
When I started 1st grade, we were still doing duck-and-cover nuclear drills but by 3rd grade, they became tornado drills.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 11 hours ago
Yeah, a few of these were slightly nostalgic, but they're overwhelmingly American.
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