What was the best thing about being a teenager in the 80's

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  • Leola2011
    Leola2011 Posts: 192
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    I still have my concert T's! Rolled jeans.

    Taking weeks to make a mixed tape that consisted of music recorded off the radio. Waiting all night for that one song to come on and being ready for it and nabbing it right at the beginning.

    Bands that were not auto-tuned and played real instruments with their own music that wasn't sampled off of someone else. I miss those days. =)


    YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Waiting for the Quiet Storm to come on so you could call in a request and hoping that you'd cued the tape right so you wouldn't mess up the song before it.

    Parachute pants
    Watching people break dance in the halls between the class bell (and gangs that would battle with their dance moves instead of with 9mm)
    Members Only jackets
    GIGANTIC boom boxes
  • Leola2011
    Leola2011 Posts: 192
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    Spray painting my Pumas gold and break dancing!

    Adidas!
  • kimr41
    kimr41 Posts: 219 Member
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    John Bon Jovi
  • Leola2011
    Leola2011 Posts: 192
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    the BEST movies.

    Dirty Dancing!
  • Nursebeachnut
    Nursebeachnut Posts: 83
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    EVERYTHING!!! love love love the 80's...I think i am still there!!!!
  • kwest_4_fitness
    kwest_4_fitness Posts: 819 Member
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    I loved the BIG Hair!!!!!


    I still have it, lol, and a teasing comb and a can of Rave 3 (because for some odd reason, they don't make Rave 4 anymore).
  • dee74
    dee74 Posts: 62 Member
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    Roller rink
    Bowling alley
    British knights sneakers
    ALL the hair metal bands
    Zuba pants
    Frosted jeans
    Concert tees
    High school dances always seemed to end with stairway to heaven.
  • kwest_4_fitness
    kwest_4_fitness Posts: 819 Member
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    Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles (Long Duc Dong). Ferris and Footloose, bad fashion and concerts that cost $20.
  • Sheri3851
    Sheri3851 Posts: 70 Member
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    Kegs parties in the woods!
    And when they got busted we were told to go home and the cops took the beer

    We must have grown up in the same town. Those were the days!
  • SLaw4215
    SLaw4215 Posts: 596 Member
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    AQUANET HAIRSPRAY!!!
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
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    The feeling that the future was bright and full of promise. :drinker: Now, everything is based in uncertainty and doom and gloom. It must be scary to be a kid right now. :cry:
  • Helloitsdan
    Helloitsdan Posts: 5,564 Member
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    Spray painting my Pumas gold and break dancing!

    Adidas!

    I couldnt afford them! I lived in the "shady" part of town!
    The freaks come out at night...the feaks come out at niiiiiggggghhhhhtttttt!
  • Sheri3851
    Sheri3851 Posts: 70 Member
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    We must have grown up in the same town! Those were the days!
  • midwifekelley2350
    midwifekelley2350 Posts: 337 Member
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    being able to drink 3.2 beer at 18 in ohio (might have drank it before 18!)
  • engineman312
    engineman312 Posts: 3,450 Member
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    the best thing about the 80's is that it ended.
  • midwifekelley2350
    midwifekelley2350 Posts: 337 Member
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    Kegs parties in the woods!
    And when they got busted we were told to go home and the cops took the beer

    We must have grown up in the same town. Those were the days!

    we did it in a corn field!!!
  • thejen75
    thejen75 Posts: 90
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    Sooo many things made the 80's cool. I remember collecting jelly bracelets - i had a TON. And the plastic necklaces with charms you could buy for them, way cool. And who could forget leg warmers? I had every color!!!
  • JoJoDoerr
    JoJoDoerr Posts: 173 Member
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    stirrup pants, banana clips, rat tails, friendship bracelets and pins, MC Hammer pants , rolling your jeans -- the tighter the better , leg warmers, alligator clips with feathers, wearing your collar up, Huge hair, wearing bright blue mascara and eyeliner...and bright pink eye shadow, boom boxes, hair bands......I could go on forever! The 80's were good times!
  • shastacrystal
    shastacrystal Posts: 262
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    The New Kids On the Block for sure!!! <3:love:
  • prbyjennyd
    prbyjennyd Posts: 25 Member
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    99 luft baloons :)

    LOVE!!!!!

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