You know you were born in the 70's and 80's if..........

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  • jamja
    jamja Posts: 190
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    We can't forget....the mood ring!
  • liftingbro
    liftingbro Posts: 2,029 Member
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    can't believe no one has said Mix Tapes yet!!!

    Or making tapes off of the radio broadcasts instead of buying tapes.

    Hell, my first car still had an 8-track player in it.
  • meldaniel
    meldaniel Posts: 111
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    Oh...and SUN-IN spray on hair! That stuff was TERRIBLE! Completely ruined so many heads of hair! Well, that and all the Aqua-Net!
  • gdr1976
    gdr1976 Posts: 460 Member
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    Saturday Night's Main Event (WWF)
  • jamja
    jamja Posts: 190
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    Saturday morning cartoons.
  • meldaniel
    meldaniel Posts: 111
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    records/record players
    cassettes and boomboxes
    Garbage Pail Kids
    Star Search
    Solid Gold
    The Facts of Life
    clear telephones that light up
    shoulder pads
    Tab
    The Walkman
    The Breakfast Club
    Sixteen Candles
    break dancing
    Sun-in spray


    Girl stuff:

    Cabbage Patch Kids
    Sweet Valley Twins/High
    My Little Pony
    Jem and the Holograms
    Barbie and the Rockers
    high heels with socks (the foldover frilly kind)
    feathered hair
    Girls Just Want to Have Fun
    jelly bracelets

    Boy (and girls who are less gendered) stuff:

    He-Man
    Thundercats
    Transformers
    BMX bikes
    Vans slip-ons
    "surfer hair" (long bangs, short everywhere else, bangs dyed blonde sometimes)

    Gonna stop now

    ooh and Rainbow Brite.

    Those all are great ones! Sweet Valley High.....Oh how I loved the Wakefield twins! Jessica and Elizabeth....the most perfect girls in the world...hahaha!
  • paradog
    paradog Posts: 378 Member
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    your family had a stationwagon not a minivan
    lunch boxes were made of tin and so were the food cans
  • highdesertgirl
    highdesertgirl Posts: 72
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    OP cordoroy shorts, Dolphin shorts,
  • mrmarius
    mrmarius Posts: 1,802 Member
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    you were a kid with a gheri curl
  • bjohs
    bjohs Posts: 1,225 Member
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    Labyrinth. The greatest movie EVER, besides The Lost Boys and Legend and the Dark Crystal. =D

    Still love Labyrinth! We have the DVD and my kids love it now too. :)
  • Queen_JessieA
    Queen_JessieA Posts: 1,059 Member
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    I remember RAVE hairspray being HUGE!! My little ponies were big, Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Bright, She-Ra PRINCESS OF POWER!!!
  • bjohs
    bjohs Posts: 1,225 Member
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    You stayed up late to watch Friday Night Videos!

    would this be MTV's "headbangers ball"? I remember watching it and swooning over Bret Micheals and Sebastian Bach. Boy, did they turn out to be trainwrecks or what??? LOL

    Nope. It was on regular network TV. It was music videos for those of us who had parent's too cheap to get cable and MTV. LOL!
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
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    Yo MTV Raps
    Downtown Julie Brown
  • bjohs
    bjohs Posts: 1,225 Member
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    You ever used Breck shampoo and wore Love's Baby Soft!
  • Namaste1983
    Namaste1983 Posts: 603 Member
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    Oh. My. God... I totally forgot about MASH!!!
    Remember those dumb circle things we would loop our shirts though or the curly shoelaces?
    I am so glad that is over
  • liftingbro
    liftingbro Posts: 2,029 Member
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    I remember RAVE hairspray being HUGE!! My little ponies were big, Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Bright, She-Ra PRINCESS OF POWER!!!

    I remember my cousin damn near killing me with her overkill Aqua Net Hair Spray use.
  • meldaniel
    meldaniel Posts: 111
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    Yo MTV Raps
    Downtown Julie Brown

    Yeah...Back when MTV was MUSIC Television...not reality television. I really miss that one! :(
  • reddcat
    reddcat Posts: 314 Member
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    Leg warmers.
  • tiffwhit16
    tiffwhit16 Posts: 76
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    Big, big hair!!
    Side pony tail
    scrunchies were good for your hair or to tie your T-shirt to the side.
    Plastic clips in different colors and shapes to pull T-shirt to side.
    Wearing coveralls with just one strap fastened.
    Different colored Keds.
    Pinch folded jeans
    slap bracelets
    colored wire bracelets
    friendship bracelets
    friendship pins
    renting movies on VHS at the video store (and wondering why there was a certain room at all those stores where kids couldn't go)
    BETA
    gas .79/gallon at Race Track
    parachute pants
    guess jeans
    THUNDERCATS, THUNDERCATS, THUNDERCATS...HOOOOOOOO!
    Plastic lunchboxes with a cartoon character on the front and a matching thermos
    paper folded fortune teller

    I could go on and on...what's bad is that a lot of these trends are coming back!! I see students at the high school with pinch folded jeans all the time!
  • thumper44
    thumper44 Posts: 1,464 Member
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    Loading in games from cassette on the Vic 20.
    Typing in machine language code from a computer magazine to program(create) a game on the commodore 64.
    connecting to a computer BBS with 300 baud modem. (today's phone modems are 56k = 56,000 baud)

    playing atari - space invaders, missle command.
    playing intellivision

    How many remember when you had to get up and change the channel on the TV. :laugh:

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