50 Very, Very Specific ’80s Kids Things That Elder Millennials And Young Gen X’ers Have Definitely Forgotten About

50 Very, Very Specific ’80s Kids Things That Elder Millennials And Young Gen X’ers Have Definitely Forgotten About A quick hit of quiet nostalgia for ’80s kids only!!! 1. Geodesic jungle gyms that were made of galvanized steel, and not only were they dangerous to fall from, but they would also burn your hands on very hot days: 2. Clay ashtrays you would make for your grandparents or parents as a gift in elementary school: 3. These rainbow flip flops, which had a nylon toe post strap that would rub the skin between your big toe and index toe raw: 4. Square One, which, let’s be honest, everyone just really watched for “Mathnet”: 5. And The Inside Story with Slim Goodbody TV series, which was lowkey creepy because of the “exposed inner body”: 6. Mr. Owl from the Tootsie Pop commercial, who, let’s be honest, was a pompous asshole: 7. Sugary, sugary cereals that were tied to movies or TV shows: 8. PSAs aimed at kids to remind them and their parents to wear seatbelts (because basically, people thought seatbelt laws were government overreach and unnecessary): 9. Toys “R” Us signs that looked like this: 10. And the top of Toys “R” Us’s shelves being stocked with even more toys (and also ENTIRE aisles of the store being devoted to just one toy line): 11. Hostess Ding Dongs that came wrapped in foil: 12. And Nestle Quik that came in metal tins: 13. The Mead Académie Sketch Pad, which made you feel like an artiste anytime you used it to sketch something: 14. These plastic boats your parents would get you at the supermarket, and that you would use anytime you took a bath or when you went to the pool: 15. These Chuck E. Cheese hats that you would wear at every birthday party you attended there: 16. My Pet Monster, which was cute for a monster (well, except for its nose, which hurt like hell if you accidentally hit yourself in the face with it): 17. This Hanna-Barbera logo: 18. This exact Pyrex casserole dish that every ’80s mom owned: 19. And this Crock-Pot with flowers that every mom owned, too: 20. Kitchen trash compactors that were so much fun to play with: 21. Those plastic smock and face mask (that were hard to see from) Halloween costumes that would tear and fall apart before you were even done trick-or-treating: 22. TV’s Bloopers & Practical Jokes, which was hosted by Dick Clark and Ed McMahon: 23. Mr. Belvedere, which had the catchiest theme song, but also made you wonder how this family could afford an English butler: 24. And Beverly Hills Teens, which also had a super catchy theme song, and featured teens that were supposed to be so rich that, in retrospect, their parents would have to be multi-billionaires: 25. The Fisher-Price cash register. 26. and the Fisher-Price record player, which you would play with at your grandma’s house: 27. Also, going to your grandma’s and always seeing the same old bowl of nuts with a nutcracker on her coffee table: 28. General Foods International Coffee, which you thought was the fanciest coffee ever something you’d serve with a Viennetta cake, of course: 29. Random scratch-and-sniff stickers that smelled gross on purpose and made you wonder why they thought any kid would want it: 30. The weirdly waxy wrappers that Garbage Pail Kids cards came in, and the hardest piece of gum that came included inside of them: 31. Judy Blume paperback books that came with these covers: 32. Shirt Tales stuffed animals, which your grandma would get you from Hallmark: 33. Those vending machines with the very large plastic push buttons: 34. Nancy Regan and her “Just Say No” campaign: 35. The Punky Brewster cartoon that ran on Saturday mornings on NBC: 36. The vinyl E. T. stuffed animals that got icky because they began peeling after a couple of years: 37. Sloppy Joes that you ate once a week during lunch at school: 38. And, which you washed down with a chocolate milk (which is not an appetizing combo in retrospect): 39. Kenner’s Tree Tots Family Tree House, which nobody could convince you wasn’t part of the Fisher-Price’s Little People collection: 40. Itchy, synthetic PJs (which sometimes came with even more itchy lace details) that were probably way more flammable than they should have been: 41. Game switches that you had to install in the back of your TV so that you could connect your Nintendo to the TV: 42. The terrifying (in retrospect) McDonald’s commercials that featured come-to-life singing Chicken McNuggets: 43. Old cars from the ’70s that had huge and heavy doors that took all your strength to open and close: 44. The Snorks which was just a rip-off of The Smurfs: 45. Filmation’s Ghostbusters cartoon that really confused kids everywhere why there were two cartoons called Ghostbusters: 46. That “Milk, It Does A Body Good!” commercial where the guy tries to impress an older girl by drinking milk and growing: 47. The highway patrol toy that lit up and made noises that every kid seemed to own at some point: 48. The Mousercise album, ’cause even Mickey Mouse jumped onto the aerobics craze: 49. Disney Pops, which tasted like pure sugar and fruit concentrate: 50. And lastly, the orange sherbet push pops that came in that cardboard tubbing that would get soggy and make you feel like you were eating wet toilet paper roll:.
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