Throwback to our Childhood

lc07 · September 2014

Love the threads about how fashion is coming back around from the 90s.

Earlier today I remembered when I was in elementary school, colorfully dyed rabbit foot keychains were popular. (What the?)

What other throwbacks you got?

afox007 · September 2014

Inspired by the earlier thread I'm rocking my sparkly nsync tank top that I got at a concert in 4th grade. It fits like a sports bra now but I'm just happy I still have it.

lc07 · September 2014

Stick on earrings! Do kids still wear those? I wasn't allowed to get my ears pierced until I was 11. So I had the stick ons. I remember being super jealous of my friend who had pierced ears. And there I was having to worry about my earrings ending up stuck in my hair or on my sweatshirt.

slothiegal · September 2014

Lisa Frank, bitches.

luckya23 · September 2014

Slap bracelets, when they were still potentially lethal.

beethery · September 2014

BLOSSOM HATS!

I had a huge one with a ginormous sunflower, and a velvet patchwork one for ~special occasions~ like fancy dinner in ATL with my parents and the neighbors.

pinkcow13 · September 2014

I was (and still am) a major bookworm. I used to read so much that I used to get in trouble during class for reading my books! Since I was not paying attention to the teacher actually teaching. Anyways my best friend and I LOVED The Baby Sitters Club and Sweet Valley Twins books as kids. In fact, once of the gifts she (now my MOH) got me as part of the bridesmaids engagement party gift was a copy of a BSC book! I also loved Goosebumps, Fear Street, and Sweet Valley High!

hellohkb · September 2014

*opens Nostalgia pinterest board and cracks knuckles*

lc07 · September 2014

pinkcow - I loved all of those books, too! Except I'm not familiar with Fear Street.

beethery - bahahah I had forgotten about the blossom hats. I didn't have any but my friend with the pierced ears had a bunch. She was obviously very cool.

beethery · September 2014

pinkcow13 said:

I was (and still am) a major bookworm. I used to read so much that I used to get in trouble during class for reading my books! Since I was not paying attention to the teacher actually teaching. Anyways my best friend and I LOVED The Baby Sitters Club and Sweet Valley Twins books as kids. In fact, once of the gifts she (now my MOH) got me as part of the bridesmaids engagement party gift was a copy of a BSC book! I also loved Goosebumps, Fear Street, and Sweet Valley High!

Little House series for yeeeeaaaars, and Goosebumps and Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark. Reading or drawing at all times was my jam.

pinkcow13 · September 2014

Fear street was written by the same author as Goosebumps - RL Stine! It was like the teenage version of Goosebumps. @beethery I also dabbled in drawing but I sucked at it. I actually also loved to write. I forgot I wrote this awesome short story in the 5th grade - Attack of the Killer Meatballs. It featured every single person in my class at the time. We used to have to read our stories out loud, it was quite a hit! Sigh. I should have never let go of that...

beethery · September 2014

OH SHIT FEAR STREET! For some reason I could never get the first 3, so whenever I tried to pick them up I was missing the whole beginning.

Did you ever read any Christopher Pike books? I used to tear through one a day in 8th grade.

slothiegal · September 2014

Lemme drop a truth bomb: whenever DH and I go on road trips, I bust out some Sweet Valley High books to read aloud. It started out as a joke, but he's gotten super invested in the characters (his favorite is Bruce).

emcme22 · September 2014

@hellokellybean‌ I still have 2 of those bracelets haha. And I think a necklace like that. I dabbled in reading Sweet Valley High and loved the babysitters club and little house on the prairie. I was also a big reader, does anyone remember the Alice series by Phyllis Naylor?

hellohkb · September 2014

@emcmac87 I may buy a necklace like that again on Etsy. Jealous that you still have yours.

Did anyone read Babysitters Club Little Sisters? I always found those more fun than the actual Babysitters Club books, although those were good too. Dear America were probably my favorite book series, American Girl was in my top 10.

emcme22 · September 2014

hellokellybean said:
@emcmac87 I may buy a necklace like that again on Etsy. Jealous that you still have yours.

Did anyone read Babysitters Club Little Sisters? I always found those more fun than the actual Babysitters Club books, although those were good too. Dear America were probably my favorite book series, American Girl was in my top 10.

I'm pretty sure the one I have isn't even mine, it was my cousins that she gave me when she cleaned out her jewelry box because she wanted it to be more mature or some crap. I will have to look at my parents to see if it's still in my room there haha

Omg I forgot about the Dear America books, loved those. I lent one to a friend then she pretended she had given it back and the identical one at her house was one she bought. I was not pleased, damn she was a bitch haha

Oh nostalgia

doeydo · September 2014

Beanie babies, though they might be making a comeback by kind of copying WebKinz. I saw some at a store the other day.

Furbies; I had a white one with kind of shiny bits too.

Tamagotchis; why aren't they still selling these? I would totally buy one, don't judge me.

These dolls that you put in this thing and pulled a string and then it would fly up like a helicopter-fairy thing.

These plastic little cat and dog figurines that you could buy at Canadian Tire that would have a little blurb about the animal. I did some googling, I think they might have been called Puppy in my Pockets.

Pretty Pretty Princess board game. You get more jewelry as the game goes on, and when you win, you get the crown/tiara.

Popples; I had a blue one.

chibiyui · September 2014

Polly Pocket and Popples are the shit!

Also @doeydo I just downloaded a tamagotchi app for my phone. And they apparently did some sort of offfical re release.

climbingsingle · September 2014

I had a pair of these in the 80s that I pretty much wore with everything.

arrippa · September 2014

pinkcow13 said:

I was (and still am) a major bookworm. I used to read so much that I used to get in trouble during class for reading my books! Since I was not paying attention to the teacher actually teaching. Anyways my best friend and I LOVED The Baby Sitters Club and Sweet Valley Twins books as kids. In fact, once of the gifts she (now my MOH) got me as part of the bridesmaids engagement party gift was a copy of a BSC book! I also loved Goosebumps, Fear Street, and Sweet Valley High!

Ann M Martin, of the Baby Sitters Club will be at the Boston Bookfest. I will be first in line with some of my old copies of the book to get signed. I am much more excited than I should be!

pinkcow13 · September 2014

@arrippa - Omg are you serous?? I wonder if she will make an appearance in NYC anytime soon! My regret is letting my mom give away all my BSC books to my younger cousin. I also sold a few before I started college to make some extra spending money to take with me. Biggest regret.

beethery - Christopher Pike!!! I forgot about his books, I used to devour his books also!

slothiegal - That is so awesome, I feel like I should do that with FI! Did you know that a new Sweet Valley High book came out? Sweet Valley Confidential, it's supposed to take place 10 years later. I haven't read it, and it doesn't have great reviews, but after this thread, I think I'll read it after I'm done with my current book lol.

http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Valley-Confidential-Years-Later/dp/B007SRX9C4

ElcaB · September 2014

Rabbit foot key chains? I LOVED THOSE!

I was always obsessed with Jellies. Shoe shopping? "Yes, I'd like 10 pairs of Jellies please and thank you."

Also, Bubble Tape was my jam.

lurkergirl · September 2014

Actual photos of my actual bedroom circa 1994-95. Note the troll doll topper on the sand art bottle and the chia pet. The corded phone and the Goosebumps books. And of course all my awesome Bop posters. I like the kitten posters. Apparently silly cats are not just an internet thing.

I have no idea why I took these photos. I was a strange child...

ETA Also the souvenir king kong photo from Universal that's serving as my nice family portrait.

falsara · September 2014

Backstreet Boys, Lite Brite, Harry Potter, Baby Bottle Pop, Neopets. Laser Disc. Disney on VHS. TV shows- Arthur, Doug, Hey Arnold, Loony Tools on Saturday, Dragon Ball Z And Sailor Moon,

lc07 · September 2014

Oh, Jonathan Taylor Thomas. What WERE we thinking?

SmileDamnit · September 2014

Oh, nostalgia...how I love thee! I was a child of the 80s/90s so here goes...

LOVED me some Lisa Frank! Babysitters Club & Christopher Pike books were the shit.

Toys/goods wise, loved, Sweet Secrets, Care Bears, Pound Puppies, Lite-Brite, Weebles (...wobble but they don't fall down!), Snoopy Snow Cone Maker, color forms & fashion plates, pogo ball, anything jelly (bracelets, shoes), Pogo ball, trapper keepers, Garbage Pail Kids, anything with puff paint, wax candy & tear jerkers, easy bake oven.

Cartoon/movieTV faves were Rainbow Brite, Jem, Fragle Rock, The Neverending Story, Labyrinth, Adventures in Babysitting, Annie, Dark Crystal, Kate & Ally.

Lord, I could go on & on & on!

emmaaa · September 2014

lc07 said:

Oh, Jonathan Taylor Thomas. What WERE we thinking?

JTT! He was soooo dreamyyyy

climbingsingle · September 2014

Some of you guys are making me feel old. Backstreet Boys were popular like, after I graduated high school.

JCbride2015 · September 2014

JTT is actually hotter now than he was then. I think he grew into his lips.

SmileDamnit · September 2014

ClimbingBrideNY said:

Some of you guys are making me feel old. Backstreet Boys were popular like, after I graduated high school.

Right?!

smalfrie19 · September 2014

Full Disclosure.. I still have ALL of my Beanie Babies... and I have moved 3 times since was 19. Every time we move FI is like "Why do you keep these?" I don't really have an answer. I just have a hard time getting rid of them. And its not like I use them or display them. They are in an airtight crate in our storage.....

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