Things you totally remember from back in the day......

mytime60

Bell bottom jeans mid driff tops and of course mini skirts. ha ha I remember the school dress code stated the dress had to be long enough so that if you reached for the top shelf of your locker your underwear couldn't be seen.

Oh yeah and earth shoes... your heel was lower than the rest of your foot so you could tone your calf.

daybyday

Sesame Street (ok I admit to watching this sometimes even though my kids are older but it's not the same)
Party lines - where 1 or 2 of your neighbors were on the same telephone line and you could hear their conversations
Farming before all of the pesticides we have now
When my PARENTS would actually call me on the telephone and NOT text me for crying out loud!!

mytime60

Sesame Street (ok I admit to watching this sometimes even though my kids are older but it's not the same)
Party lines - where 1 or 2 of your neighbors were on the same telephone line and you could hear their conversations
Farming before all of the pesticides we have now
When my PARENTS would actually call me on the telephone and NOT text me for crying out loud!!

I remember party lines ... so fun when you were a kid....not when you were dating.

I also remember our house was a long distance number from the school, so we would call collect from the school and ask to speak to ourselves. It was our sign it was time to pick us up at school without having to pay for the long distance call.

hayskylar

TRL on MTV.
Doodle Bears.
Giga Pets.

Elizabeth_C34

New Kids on the Block

MTV actually playing music videos

Beavis and Butthead (the original)

Junco jeans

snowfox92

shoulder pads!!!!!!!!!!!

beautyreaps

Socks that fit toes (like mittens for feet)
Charm bracelets
Crazy hair day (apparently it doesn't happen anymore - kids are missing out)
1D animation in all movies and shows (Loony Toons)
Pez
Mighty Beans
Finger Skateboards
Stacey - Barbie's cousin.
Denim overalls
Cell phones that were the size of boots and that's before they unfolded.
Answering machines with cassettes
Old School Kettles (because instantly warming up water with a boiler didn't happen)
Bright One Color Track Suits
Reboot (the show)

oh and tamagotchis!

Cr357

Reggie Jackson candy bars
Micheal Jackson zipper jackets
A card in your bicycle spokes

azsuzi

Playing cards clipped to bicycle spokes to sound like an "engine"
Roller skate keys
NO air conditioning anywhere except in some department stores
25 cents for a pack of cigarettes - and anyone could buy them out of the machine - even kids
The Beatles
peace and love - groovy man....

mizjohnston

I'm an 80's baby I can go on forever lol

Jean Jackets in acid wash with shoulder pads of course lol
Black shiny shoes for girls with laces that look like see through ribbon
Buster Brown Shoes
Neon laces
Members Only Jackets
Pro Wings
Double tongue Reeboks
Headbands
Big shiny bows for the back of your hair
Clamps that go on the edge of your t-shirt so you can tie it on one side. Had those in all neon colors with Diamonds lmbo

Give me a Break
What's happening
Facts of Life
Different Strokes
Webster
Mr T
Night Rider
Silver Spoons
Saved by the Bell
Peewee's Playhouse
Small Wonder
The Wuzzles
Jam
Romp a Room

Madonna
Bobby Brown
Debbie Gibson
Whitney Houston
New Kids on the Block
New Edition

Don't even get me started on the 90's lol

MsChievous7

My old Sony Walkman cd player...usually had metallica or tool pumping all the way to school and on the way home in the afternoon.

Rotary dial phones
8 tracks....my parents had a pretty sweet 8 track player back in the day.
car windows that you manually roll down....I miss those
mtv....when they actually played music :grumble:

oh yeah my old garbage pail kids stickers and X-Men card collection

Remember the stick of gum with the garbage pails kid cards?

cdc33

Huge bangs lots of hairspray, the onesided ponytail, florecent everything, Jean skirts of all sorts, stir-up pants and jeans so tight you had camel hoof, scrunchies and slouchy socks, keds or cheap canvas shoes, Large hoop earings and lots of bangles. SHOULDER PADS. Road around all day (with no supervision) on my Pink Banana seat bike named the misty. Had to take my little brother everywhere with me. Parents just said be home before dark. yellow sony cassette player not even dvd player listening to new kids on the block and millie Vanillie and Vanilla Ice. Then on to Doc Martins and Vans, guess jeans and club monico sweat shirts and plaid shirts. Good times Good times

mizjohnston

Huge bangs lots of hairspray, the onesided ponytail, florecent everything, Jean skirts of all sorts, stir-up pants and jeans so tight you had camel hoof, scrunchies and slouchy socks, keds or cheap canvas shoes, Large hoop earings and lots of bangles. SHOULDER PADS. Road around all day (with no supervision) on my Pink Banana seat bike named the misty. Had to take my little brother everywhere with me. Parents just said be home before dark. yellow sony cassette player not even dvd player listening to new kids on the block and millie Vanillie and Vanilla Ice. Then on to Doc Martins and Vans, guess jeans and club monico sweat shirts and plaid shirts. Good times Good times

Those were the days weren't they? lol

Contrarian

I remember everything.

ogosun

hairspray that really glued your hair... yukkkk

TCWE

car phones and dunkaroos

jayliospecky

safety pins up the sides of our jeans to make them into "skinny jeans"

earrings shaped like telephones

pen pals

Aha "Take on me"

jfluchere

My caboodle

BrendaSwetland

Big hair, banana clips, leg warmers, spandex pants, oakleys, swatch watches, jean jackets, leather jackets, cassette players, boom boxes, rollar skating, rock concerts-whitesnake, tesla, motley cue, kiss, bon jovi, all the big haired bands rocked.
being my parents remote control, actually playing outside without being told, charlies angels, tv dinner out of an aluminum tray.
rainbow sweaters, kangaroo shoes, friendship pins. So many great things to remember.

Sharont213

I remember the a tv "remote" first came out.. it was a huge box with push numbers attached to a long cord attached to the TV. We used to slide it across the floor when someone said "pass me the remote"..
My phone number when I was a kid was Bellvue 3- 2262
Sponge toffee was my favorite candy followed closely by Barrets Sherbert.
In my early 20's I was obsessed with Disco dancing every Thursday ..
I watched the first episodes of One Life to Live, Young and Restless, Dark Shadows, My Children.

I remember back in the day was pretty good

Bet_Lynch

Girls World (dolls head to do hair and put make up on)

Ghetto Blasters

Having a head full of braids with beads on the ends, then catching head lice at primary school and having them all taken out :sad: :sad: :sad:

White gloves, whistle, horn and glow sticks at Hardcore Heaven rave back in the 90's :bigsmile:

Wearing leather straps around my wrists cos I luved Ah-Ha at the time

Getting a superman tattoo on my arm just like Jon Bon jovi's :embarassed: :bigsmile:

Acid House t-shirts with the big smilie face

Oh and watching Star wars and Wizard of Oz on our cool Betamax video player

daybyday

I watched the first episodes of One Life to Live, Young and Restless
Too bad soap operas are becoming a thing in the past!! I tape Y&R now and I watched Guiding Light & As the World Turns (they are off the air now)

I remember back in the day was pretty good
I miss those days!! Somehow I really think we were better off then

shellimus

Atari PONG!

midwifekelley2350

those ponytail holders with the hard plastic balls on the ends that my mom would regularly crack me in the head with!

magic 8 ball!

dls06

Sitting in 2nd grade class and the nuns telling us JFK was just assassinated.

vaderandbill

I still have Live Aid on Betamax and the player in storage

FitN50s

I just sold my 1980 Granada and the switch for the high beams was on the floor!

Marathon was a candy bar.

when SNL was funny

typewriters

OMG... anyone remember those awful metallic colored shiny pants/tops that were popular in the late 70s/early 80s disco era

Staying out all day and not coming home until dinner
Riding our bikes, everywhere, for hours at a time, our parents not knowing where we were and not being worried about it

Bell bottom jeans mid driff tops and of course mini skirts. ha ha I remember the school dress code stated the dress had to be long enough so that if you reached for the top shelf of your locker your underwear couldn't be seen.

I watched the first episodes of One Life to Live, Young and Restless, Dark Shadows ,All My Children.

And my favorite so far - Purple Socks for Donny Osmond!!

One thing I remember that I wish we still had - Charm classes at school. Girls and boys were in separate rooms and we were taught manners and how to act in social situations. Of course, I grew up in the south in the 60's, lol.

1prettysmile

I'm an 80's baby I can go on forever lol

Jean Jackets in acid wash with shoulder pads of course lol
Black shiny shoes for girls with laces that look like see through ribbon
Buster Brown Shoes
Neon laces
Members Only Jackets
Pro Wings
Double tongue Reeboks
Headbands
Big shiny bows for the back of your hair
Clamps that go on the edge of your t-shirt so you can tie it on one side. Had those in all neon colors with Diamonds lmbo

Give me a Break
What's happening
Facts of Life
Different Strokes
Webster
Mr T
Night Rider
Silver Spoons
Saved by the Bell
Peewee's Playhouse
Small Wonder
The Wuzzles
Jam
Romp a Room

Madonna
Bobby Brown
Debbie Gibson
Whitney Houston
New Kids on the Block
New Edition

Don't even get me started on the 90's lol

YES! YES! YES!

Plus...

The Smurfs (I still have a cereal bowl with a matching cup)
View Finder
Lisa Frank folders for my Trapper Keeper
Jean Nate body splash
Recording songs on cassette tapes from the radio
Penny candy and freeze cups from the neighborhood Candy Store/House
Bike-riding with my friends all over town until dark without a care in the world

vaderandbill

Purple Passion. Was this wine/wine cooler or some other alcohol drink?

When computers were the size of a small car, had a black screen with green letters and you had to program everything

I loved going outside at 9am and not going home til dark w/o having a parent in sight.

Hampton Beach half shirts

itsgood

Stores were not open on Sundays, and t.v. stations went off the air...test patterns and snow! Air raid drills. Metal roller skates that went over your shoes...and we always kept losing the key! The paper boy came around "collecting" and left those tiny little tear-off tickets as receipts.

Later on, mood rings, smocks, bell-bottoms and Dr. Scholls. Those clear plastic umbrellas that you stood inside of - I forget the name. Toe socks and pet rocks.

Those were good times!