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He was racist
Before they had the butthole logo
I ALMOST DIED GOING TO A TOYS R US it was my 4th birthday and we were going to get me a bike and somebody ran into us
I had her- I was so happy
Because of this movie I wanted a border collie named Fly
I didn’t have these but my mom did
My pillow pet has had a lasting and terrible affect on me
Nessie tax- EDIT ok to clarify I’m 20. The old media is all stuff my mom showed me from her childhood
StNickCage
I got older as I scrolled.
salunatics
#44 core memory unlocked
JinxRocks
#1 I think of all the businesses that have disappeared, all the places that have been reinvented, and all the good food and products in general that have turned to crap. And then I think of all the stories my parents and grandparents told of the same from their generation as I was growing up. Its just how it goes.
monkey484
Well this post unlocked a shit load of memories I didn't realize had been locked away
nietzchebomb
Omg, #43, I had a flashback!
ChicksDigTrucks
#27 I remember being terrified of Lady Elaine Fairchilde.
Arthinins
@op What terrible and lasting effects did the pillow pet have?
lordnequam
#10 - Asked my last girlfriend out in one of the towers on a playground like that, after a couple of our friends corralled us in there and wouldn't let us leave until we worked out our VERY obvious attraction to one another. We were juniors in college at the time.
We broke up not quite a year later, because I was too young and stupid to really understand the work it took to maintain a relationship.
It's been a long 24 years since then...
welcometothedystopia
#18 I have been refilling that same cute bottle of softsoap for maybe 20 years?
Disposable plastics my ass.
Abersade
Me too!
lindsaygoldstein24
#24 ramona quimbey.
bastardInABasket
I'm too old to understand some of these.
Natwitch
#10 Other people had castle parks growing up? That's crazy
ELKronos
I'm extremely concerned there is no Scruffy, Lisa Jane, or Froggy tax. You owe back taxes @op
Totallyscrewedinaustin
That'll do, pig, that'll do
miked854
#5
MGellyGelly
"Old media". Stuff your *mum* showed you. Thanks OP, I'll just be curling up in the corner and turning into an old desiccated corpse now.
ImLurkingOnImgur
Yeah. That hurt almost as much as my back.
jennytornado
Oof right in the childhood
TheAbominableToastMan
#25 the Fragals still exist. Not just in your hearts, but apparently with Ms. Rachel
Totallyscrewedinaustin
#8 had so many tapes of the different SoundScapes, Celtic River, Scottish Moors, the thunderstorm one....helped me go to sleep as a kid!
SwissScars
#1 The past is an ever-changing part of you: as you grow older, your memory will carefully craft it to a narrative you can live with.
astrangehop
And people forget toys R Us sucked — it was pretty cool to be in a place with lots of toys, but they charged 30-70 percent more than other places for high ticket items. If you left with a bike or Nintendo, you might have noticed your parent confused or annoyed.
SwissScars
We went to Hamley's when I was a child. My children went to Zolli Bolli, but they're foreign, so you'd expect a degree of strangeness.
mandathensome12
#49 omg i had Lisa frank EVERYTHING when i was little 🥺🥹
CanIGetSomeExtraSalt
TheAbominableToastMan
#7 i STILL whistle that song from those "smiley-face" commercials
TheAbominableToastMan
#10 McKinley Park!!!
KeredRednaxela
I had a playground like this in middle school. One day I went down the slide with my hand on the rail and a toothpick sized piece of wood went through my glove and like 2 inches into my palm kinda sideways. That scar still acts up sometimes.
TalaayaCosplay
AAAAAAH
maday1br
"Stuff my mom showed me from her childhood.* I was already feeling old when I realized at least half of this was from AFTER my childhood.
eromitlab
#46 We wasted it trying to become adults, only to find out that adulting sucks.
JayDeeDubs
#20
Odincdaj522004
"Just look at me. I had to buy new eyes and shit. Don't let those bastards tell you any damn thing."
miked854
JayDeeDubs
PickleRiiiiiiiiiiiiick
R-E-A-D AYY B-O-O-KAY! READ A BOOK! READ A BOOK! READ A MOTHERFUCKIN BOOK! Not no sports page. Not a magazine! A fuckin' book, ni99a, a fuckin' book, ni99a!!
bearstrap
BRUSH YO TEEF BRUSH YOU TEEF BRUSH YO GODDAMNED TEEF
PickleRiiiiiiiiiiiiick
BUY SOME LAND BUY SOME LAND! FUCK SPINNIN RIMS!! WEAR DEODORANT NI99A WEAR DEODORANT NI99A! ITS CALLED SPEED STICK! ITS NOT EXPENSIVE!
UserMCP
#7 Fun Fact: the last number of pricing for live fish let the associate know which fish were compatible! I never learned the system, but I
UserMCP
Remember hearing about it when I worked there '06-'16
Elliotblet
No Trapper Keeper? Are you even fuckin trying!
Shrekonomics
I grew up in a Caboodle family
mothmam
Caboodle was a gateway to Swatch
CyanideBreathMint
Swatch is still around
mothmam
Really? I had no idea.
pfrazier21044
What is crazy is that they still make the Trapper Keepers... I remember mine was a Knight Rider Trapper Keeper with Kitt on the front LOL
danat101
I’m 20- I didn’t have those
LeMegachonk
Well now's your chance, they're making them again with distinctly 80s-90s "pastel laser chic" motifs.
pdonettes
#10 thise were great fir playing tag+the floor is lava
AvailingCow8
Still have this exactly 3 miles from my house
20MB13
Even better now. The one 2 miles from my house they replaced the wood chips with rubber chips. On super hot days kids have been burned.
pdonettes
A1ekazam
This is terrifying to me and I don't know why.
decarnatedame
Aww. That's just Ramona Quimby.
A1ekazam
Her gaze is haunting.
decarnatedame
Growing up with a big sister is awfully hard.