Anonymous
Post 07/04/2016 08:56     Subject: Re:Generation X
Anonymous wrote:Esprit sweatshirts
Atari
Writing notes and folding them in some kind of crazy origami type shape (no texts or phones)


Anonymous
Post 07/04/2016 08:56     Subject: Generation X
Anonymous wrote:Watching the following movies when 9-11 yrs old:
- Porki's
- Revenge of the Nerds
- Purple Rain

Need I say more.


Also Meatballs and Friday the 13th, completely inappropriate for a tween but I watched them at that age, I think when it aired on HBO.

I also had a pet rock.
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2016 08:56     Subject: Generation X
Anonymous wrote:I think we called them huggies. http://littlehug.com

Bug juice was Kool-Aid.



We called the neon stuff bug juice because no one wanted the green ones. Kool aid was just Kool aid. What about Hawaiian Punch? Donnie and Marie hawked that.
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2016 08:54     Subject: Re:Generation X
Mood rings and pop rocks. Everyone also remembers hearing that Mikey from the Life commercial died eating pop rocks and coke. There were some great urban legends.

I also remember Saturday nights babysitting and watching Love Boat and Fantasy Island after the kids went to bed.

Anonymous
Post 07/04/2016 08:52     Subject: Generation X
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Microfiche
Ditto machines
Sticker books
Actually knowing the phone numbers of your friends
Appointment tv
Knowing how to handle boredom as a kid
Car trip games that didn't involve a screen
That weird neon drink that came in a grenade shaped bottle that public schools would pass out on field day
TCBY
Jelly shoes


LOL, I completely forgot about those drinks!

I'll add
Kangaroo shoes. I used to keep my my quarter in the small little pocket to get ice cream at school on Fridays.
Latchkey kids. With the string/yarn around the neck.
MTV!! When they actually played music videos.
Atari


We called that stuff bug juice, came in a barrel plastic thing with a top you had to peal off

Cabbage patch kids
Scratch and sniff stickers
Not having cable, so having to wait on Friday nights after the late news to see 30 minutes of music videos
Tv being off the air late at night
Casey kasem 10 40
Solid gold
Recording your favorite song by putting a tape recorder against the radio
Kool aid
Knowing all the words to REM end of the world as we know it
John Hughes movies
Getting excited to finally have call waiting


Jack FM plays old American Top 40 broadcasts from the 80's on Sunday nights! It's glorious.
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2016 08:50     Subject: Re:Generation X
Esprit sweatshirts
Atari
Writing notes and folding them in some kind of crazy origami type shape (no texts or phones)
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2016 08:48     Subject: Re:Generation X
Ziggy

Anonymous
Post 07/04/2016 08:41     Subject: Re:Generation X
Anonymous wrote:layered jelly bracelets like Ricky Schroeder on Silver Spoons


Rrrrrr Ricky
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2016 08:40     Subject: Re:Generation X
layered jelly bracelets like Ricky Schroeder on Silver Spoons
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2016 08:30     Subject: Generation X
Watching the following movies when 9-11 yrs old:
- Porki's
- Revenge of the Nerds
- Purple Rain

Need I say more.
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2016 08:26     Subject: Generation X
The Pink Panther - Peter Sellers
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2016 08:24     Subject: Generation X
I think we called them huggies. http://littlehug.com

Bug juice was Kool-Aid.

Anonymous
Post 07/04/2016 08:19     Subject: Generation X
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Microfiche
Ditto machines
Sticker books
Actually knowing the phone numbers of your friends
Appointment tv
Knowing how to handle boredom as a kid
Car trip games that didn't involve a screen
That weird neon drink that came in a grenade shaped bottle that public schools would pass out on field day
TCBY
Jelly shoes


LOL, I completely forgot about those drinks!

I'll add
Kangaroo shoes. I used to keep my my quarter in the small little pocket to get ice cream at school on Fridays.
Latchkey kids. With the string/yarn around the neck.
MTV!! When they actually played music videos.
Atari


We called that stuff bug juice, came in a barrel plastic thing with a top you had to peal off

Cabbage patch kids
Scratch and sniff stickers
Not having cable, so having to wait on Friday nights after the late news to see 30 minutes of music videos
Tv being off the air late at night
Casey kasem 10 40
Solid gold
Recording your favorite song by putting a tape recorder against the radio
Kool aid
Knowing all the words to REM end of the world as we know it
John Hughes movies
Getting excited to finally have call waiting
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2016 08:18     Subject: Generation X
Layering socks
Stickers: puff, oilies, scratch n sniff
Garbage pail kid cards
She-ra
Cabbage patch kids
Making mix tapes
Anonymous
Post 07/04/2016 08:18     Subject: Generation X
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Most of these apply to the older millennials as well. People born before 90 or so.


Nice try, older millennials.


No, they're right. That was my childhood stuff, too.

- '80 baby