I just pulled the old phone electrical base out of the kitchen wall yesterday!!! Mudded it and smoothed the wall. Myself!! I thought I was showing my children how handy mommy can be. Nope. It turned into the tale of the corded phone, a mystical time before Netflix, and you couldn't even have your groceries delivered!! Wow. Getting a phone in your room for your thirteenth birthday has been replaced by a smart phone at 8yo. I miss punk zeens. |
Wearing men's boxer shorts as shorts under the Limited or Benneton shaker knit sweaters -- and hair sprayed bangs. |
although I hated it at the time, learning about hard work, discipline, and non-materialism from parents who were born during WWII |
la pièce de résistance "feminism" |
Atari ran ads on TV to show that you could pause a video game to go eat dinner. (Before that ... You couldn't stop playing or you lost your game)
Bells ran ads touting call waiting. Both were mind blowing at the time. |
Friendship pins. |
Trapper Keepers
Those barrettes woven with ribbon Peek a boo earrings Legwarmers Not having to worry about social media! Thank god all my embarrassing moments are on snapshots stuffed into shoe boxes in the back of a closet. |
Sun In spray
Love's Baby Soft Roller ball lip gloss with flavors like Passionfruit and Bubble Gum Bonne Bell everything |
I am still traumatized by having found that book in my parents' room when I was a kid. |
Erol's Video
Wacky Packages BEST and W.Bell stores Record stores Chicken mcNuggets being new the Royal Wedding Walkman |
The original SEGA
Atari 2600 As someone else said on page 1, riding around by yourself on a bike for miles on end. |
I was born in July of 1961. Do you think I should consider myself a late Boomer or an early Gen X'er? My siblings were born in '65 and '67 and all of us identify with a lot of these memories. I don't really think those of us born around then identify with Baby Boomers. For instance, I don't remember when (either) Kennedy was shot. |
I'm not pp, but she is absolutely right. I was born in 1984 , and by most definitions I have seen that makes me a millennia and all of what was mentioned was part of my childhood. |
Mood lipstick.
Solid perfume. Bonnie Bell lip gloss. |
Peg leg jeans with multiple socks scrunched up.
High bangs Scrunchie hair bands "Going with" someone meant you were boyfriend/girlfriend |