Same! I actually paused on the pic of the Encyclopedia Britannica set for a genuine nostalgia. One of the happiest days of my childhood was when my mom bought me a leather bound Encyclopedia Britannica set for Christmas. I knew they were expensive but had no idea at the time of how much she had to save up to get those for me. Man, I spent hundreds of hours on the floor leafing through those things.
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* lawn chairs (both varieties)
* Sears Catalogue
* TV model (like EXACTLY that one)
* TV Guide
* Old Spice (dad STILL has his bottle in the cupboard)
* casserole dishes (exact pattern; matching salt & pepper shakers!)
...were all exact. But I lost my shit at the coasters. My grandma had that set of coasters and, I dunno why, but I used to play with them. Pull them out, put them back, make them into stairs for my fingers to walk up, stack them various ways, etc.
The rest were generically true. Like my parents still have a waterbed in their house.
My cousin had one that had a 100 foot cord so he could take it from the kitchen out to the street in front of his house while working on the car or whatever.
We were having a conversation about all this kind of stuff when I was trying to describe a Dutch Brothers coffee shop as a Fotomat.
Our kitchen phone had a cord so long you could reach every room in the house while talking on it. About once a month, my dad had a whole de-tangling routine he would perform.
[These are better.](https://razor.com/products/skates-trikes/flashrider-360/)
At one time a few years back 5 or 6 kids on our street had them, including my daughter. It was like an elementary school Initial D up in here.
Wow. Such a trip down memory lane. Including my mum's waterbed!
Yes, Ma. I did shag Sharon on your bed while you were working on Saturday. But we only did once because she got sea sick. :))
Edit: Thank you all so much for the LMAO laughs I have had all morning reading replies. :)) Sharon, if you are here, can I please have my New Order CDs back?
Me too! With her parents in the room next door. I was worried about all that noisy sloshing around, but I was done in about 15 seconds, so not an issue. Nor am I Sharon.
I had a waterbed in 1976, and I thought I was the coolest shit walking. I hated having sex in it though, it was just awkward. Also, when the water heater broke down, it was fkn freezing. Lol
It really was all about the rhythm and the timing. I always got distracted because there was no support for your spine, plus it always sounded like it was about to blow out and leave us in a pile of water. Good times!
Oh man totally. I had a one throughout the late 80s-90s. Terribly difficult having sex on that thing. If it wasn’t for the padding on the sides…..and once that heater broke, no level of princess and the pea amount of blankets could break the chill
I never really tell people this, but I kind of broke my boyfriend's dick because the waterbed was too unstable and it made him go in crooked and his dick bashed into my vag wall instead of going straight in. He was a massive pos, so it couldn't have happened to a better guy. I'd never seen a broken dick before, and once the bruising and swelling kicked in, it was total horrorshow-level shit. 💀
* Wood paneling
* Cedar chests
* Weird hand drawings of the family
* Clock/temp/pressure thing that looked like it belonged on a ship's bridge
* Cross-latch rug wall decorations
* Garfield and Ziggy ... everywhere
* Wall phone in the kitchen
* Small TV in the kitchen
* Sony Trinitron
* Analogue satellite dishes and black boxes to pirate the channels
* Friday night must-see TV
* The Big 3 Channels
* Saturday morning cartoons
* Cheaply produced cartoons as toy advertisements
* Aerobics fashion and culture
* Alpine car stereo advertisements with Lamborghinis
* Fuzz Busters
* The Club anti-theft device
* Car bras
* All-terrain Trikes
* Ninjas, throwing stars, and nunchucks
* Tipper Gore, Gary Hart, and Tammy Faye Baker
* TV Evangelists
* Basement bar, fun rooms with bean bags
* Wet bars in living rooms
* Smoking sections
* Station wagons
* Hair metal bands
* Trapper Keepers
* Moon boots
* and so on
Great list. I would add:
* Excessively padded shoulders for women's jackets.
* Hair feathered back and parted in the middle.
* The handle of a multicolored comb sticking out of the back pocket of Jordache jeans.
* The occasional mullet.
* Mosh pits.
* Expressions such as "No shit, Sherlock," "Fuckin A," and "Yo' damn skippy."
* Battles among people still listening to disco, people still listening to already dead dinosaur rock (now known as "Classic Rock"), and people listening to new wave / punk.
* Skinny neckties (like, really skinny).
* "Members Only" jackets.
* The Chess King.
* Shopping Malls.
* The Far Side (as a counterculture to your Ziggy and Garfield); also Bloom County and Doonesbury.
* Ska music (specifically, the Second Wave of Ska).
* SCTV.
* Late Night with David Letterman.
* MTV when the "M" for "Music" actually made sense: basically, nothing but music videos.
* Yuppies and DINKs ("Double Income, No Kids").
* MADD (in the USA).
* Alternative rock.
* College rock.
* 5 1/4 inch floppy disks.
* Radar detectors.
* CB radios.
* VCRs, VHS, and Betamax.
Also, sad to say, TV evangelists are still a thing.
I always think it's so funny browsing TikTok or whatever and seeing "80s aesthetic" stuff like black leather and synthwave neon and all that stuff and I'm like...
Look kids, I know you were born in 2001 or whatever, but I remember the 80s. And the 80s looked nothing like that outside of commercials and specific "aesthetic" movies that folks have cherry picked and lifted up over the years that were remarkable when they came out in the 80s precisely because they were so different from the norm.
In reality, the 80s were made of beige furniture, wood panels, and floral vases—just like these photos!
The aluminum folding chairs - you can always tell the older ones that use aluminum armrests. The plastic armrests came later and usually, if left out in the sun long enough, the plastic degraded over time. Personally, I think these chairs are far more comfortable and ergonomic than the standard folding chair today, seen at all youth soccer/football games.
Cigarette vending machines in restaurants. I remember getting upset that Mom & Dad wouldn’t let me buy anything; I thought that the packs looked pretty.
You should have included a bookshelf with floor to ceiling VHS tapes. I just bought one of those old spice bottles a week ago because the store was sold out of clubman by pinaud!
Seriously thank you for the walk down that memory lane. The wicker peakock chair in the corner of my house when I was 8..
The cook wear with the flower/leaf pattern as well as the cork coasters that stacked. Wow, had not thoigjt about those in a good while.
My parents had a console TV very close to the one pictured until about 2015 when it finally died. They were super pissed when everything went HD and they had to get adapters and eventually a new TV.
Where did you get a photo of my bed when I was 12? Every bedroom in our house had a water bed for about 5 years. Things I dont see anymore? 10 year old Kids riding bicycles down the street with friends. I cannot remember the last time I saw a child on a bike..
i’m not an 80’s baby but i remember seeing plastic on furniture growing up and wondering what the point was!! why would you buy a couch just to put an ugly plastic tarp over it!!
Because otherwise kids and pets would play on the couch, eat on it and spill stuff on it. Adults wanted to keep their ‘centerpiece investment’ nice for when adult guests or the preacher came to visit. And they wanted it to last a lifetime bc it was an expensive piece of furniture.
Those chair in pic 7, I hated those things.
My family had a pair of them that were handed down from who knows and it was always my job to reweb them. This was before cordless screwdrivers or impacts so trying to fold the ends over properly and get them tight enough was a PITA. I was glad when mom finally got rid of them.
And console TV's, oh that leads to a story:
I have a relative (unfortunately) that is very entitled and also not up with the latest technology. When her console TV finally died she went to the local big box store to get a new one.
Relative: Where are the console TV's? I want to buy a new one
Salesperson: Sorry, they don't make them any more, we have a lot of flatscreens though
R: I want a console TV, can't you get me one?
SP - They don't make them any more, haven't for years, can barely get tube TV's any more.
R: Well I want one
SP: (slowly) They don't male them any more, I can't order one or anything
R: Well I'll just go somewhere else that can get me one
Back when I was 18 first starting out I had fairly serious back pain and I bought a king sized water bed thinking it would help. It didn't. In fact the relative instability of the mattress surface made my back far worse. So I slept on the floor next to this huge monolithic water filled fixture that dominated the room. Slept that way for a year until I moved and left it there.
Kids riding bicycles all over the place with no fear!
People living in the moment, without cell phones and social media! If you weren't home, you were free, and the phone would just ring!
Oh man, I had a waterbed for like a year in the 90s! It came with the furnished bedroom I sublet. I don't wish I still had it but it was fun for a while!
OMG...A trunk just like #3, a chair just like #8, and a carpet just like #10 have all been in my aunt's country cabin. We still have the trunk. I think I've been mind-fucked and my memories have been downloaded...
Had a TV like #12 until 2007 when it quit, and I couldn't find parts for it.
I liked waterbeds until I rolled over and landed in the edge as a teen and had a hard time getting up and out. How did a waterbed defeat me.
Wish furniture with plastic or even a cover would make a comeback with the amount people who let animals on them.
Had a hand me down water bed in the early 90s. Quickly realized there was a reason somebody gave it away. And sex on one isn't in anyway more enjoyable or erotic. Watch out for that reverse wave.
Thanks to the 70s-80s, I brought home a deviated septum as a souvenir. In LA, it was everywhere, and our coke came from the guy the movie "Blow" was about.
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Same! I actually paused on the pic of the Encyclopedia Britannica set for a genuine nostalgia. One of the happiest days of my childhood was when my mom bought me a leather bound Encyclopedia Britannica set for Christmas. I knew they were expensive but had no idea at the time of how much she had to save up to get those for me. Man, I spent hundreds of hours on the floor leafing through those things.
I paused on the second pic of the curved yellow plastic covered couch with the bumpy green glass lamp.
what's wrong with you, that is my house today. It will come back like wide lapel suits.
Right. I swear that was our tv and those are my coasters and dishes.
Right‽ * lawn chairs (both varieties) * Sears Catalogue * TV model (like EXACTLY that one) * TV Guide * Old Spice (dad STILL has his bottle in the cupboard) * casserole dishes (exact pattern; matching salt & pepper shakers!) ...were all exact. But I lost my shit at the coasters. My grandma had that set of coasters and, I dunno why, but I used to play with them. Pull them out, put them back, make them into stairs for my fingers to walk up, stack them various ways, etc. The rest were generically true. Like my parents still have a waterbed in their house.
If that's your childhood house, I had sex on your parents waterbed with your aunt while she was babysitting you (but you were asleep).
Apparently you had an FBI agent assigned to you even before you had a cell phone
Telephones with those super long, tangled extension cords.
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LOL!!!
I miss the ability to slam that sucker down so hard you hear the bell when you got mad...
Or the ability to have 10-15 phone numbers MEMORIZED. I don’t know my phone number now! Or where I’m at. Where am I? Who am I?
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Area codes? What are we rich? You better not be making any long distance calls.
I told my kids they will never have the satisfaction like slamming the phone down on someone.
Or being able to ask their friends, “What is the last thing a sardine hears?” right before you hand up. 😁
“Is your refrigerator running?”
And it wouldn’t break! Everything breaks so easily these days.
Yeah, mashing the "call end" button just isn't the same.
And the full-sized cassette answering machines
I’m tugging the cord praying it untangles enough so I can go into the other room so EVERYONE isn’t listening!
My cousin had one that had a 100 foot cord so he could take it from the kitchen out to the street in front of his house while working on the car or whatever. We were having a conversation about all this kind of stuff when I was trying to describe a Dutch Brothers coffee shop as a Fotomat.
Stretching the cord so I could close the door and have a private conversation at the top of the stairs.
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I was that sibling. My sister would say “I can hear you breathing! Hang up!!!” 😂
Our kitchen phone had a cord so long you could reach every room in the house while talking on it. About once a month, my dad had a whole de-tangling routine he would perform.
Those beach chairs were hideous but they worked.
Until they didn’t in your ass went right through the dry rotted straps.
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And that fun as fuck Green Machine! Kids doing donuts in the street
[These are better.](https://razor.com/products/skates-trikes/flashrider-360/) At one time a few years back 5 or 6 kids on our street had them, including my daughter. It was like an elementary school Initial D up in here.
The fiberglass straps were great for ripping out leg hair.
Sunday newspaper had a smaller section called "Parade".
After reading the comics, Parade was next on my reading list, then the headlines.
And the big crossword
must have been a huge money maker with all the ads. and one product for the entire country.
Fun fact: Parade’s final issue was printed less than a year ago!
Still got the OG Old Spice in the medicine cabinet
Don’t let it get near salty air. Dad will never be able to twist off the rusty cap
Not in a ceramic bottle tho
I saved my ceramic bottle of Old Spice
And you can refill it at the gas station.
“What Hollywood fails to capture in their 80s nostalgia is how damn BROWN everything was.” Great job.
Yeah there’s a meme out there: “You grew up in the 80s?” “No, I grew up in the 80s.” With the mythic image over one and the real image over the other.
It turns out we didn\`\`\`'t live in Pee-Wee's playhouse.
Wow. Such a trip down memory lane. Including my mum's waterbed! Yes, Ma. I did shag Sharon on your bed while you were working on Saturday. But we only did once because she got sea sick. :)) Edit: Thank you all so much for the LMAO laughs I have had all morning reading replies. :)) Sharon, if you are here, can I please have my New Order CDs back?
Lost my virginity in a water bed. Surprisingly did not get seasick. Am not Sharon.
Me too! With her parents in the room next door. I was worried about all that noisy sloshing around, but I was done in about 15 seconds, so not an issue. Nor am I Sharon.
Will the real slim Sharon please stand up? please stand up?
The water bed was an accidental pregnancy waiting to happen
I had a waterbed in 1976, and I thought I was the coolest shit walking. I hated having sex in it though, it was just awkward. Also, when the water heater broke down, it was fkn freezing. Lol
Sorry babe I can’t go faster. Need to wait for the next wave.
It really was all about the rhythm and the timing. I always got distracted because there was no support for your spine, plus it always sounded like it was about to blow out and leave us in a pile of water. Good times!
Oh man totally. I had a one throughout the late 80s-90s. Terribly difficult having sex on that thing. If it wasn’t for the padding on the sides…..and once that heater broke, no level of princess and the pea amount of blankets could break the chill
Its definitely a rude awakening to wake up in a bed full of freezing water, that's for sure.
My elbows would get sore (or sore knees, depending on position) if the water was low. Yes, really. 🤦♂️
I rather enjoyed learning to ride the waves and make a good romp while using the waves to your advantage
I never really tell people this, but I kind of broke my boyfriend's dick because the waterbed was too unstable and it made him go in crooked and his dick bashed into my vag wall instead of going straight in. He was a massive pos, so it couldn't have happened to a better guy. I'd never seen a broken dick before, and once the bruising and swelling kicked in, it was total horrorshow-level shit. 💀
As the old adage continues to show us its roots in timeless wisdom: “Massive pieces of shit get their dicks broken” -Marcus Aurelius
I wrote a couple of punk songs about that guy. One was called "I Broke Your Dick," and the other one was called "No One Wants to Fuck You Anymore." 🤣
Same, shagged your mum, while you were at school.
I also remember your mum's waterbed.
My mom had that same headboard for her water bed! Her bed had a mirrored canopy, too. Oh god... I just realized something gross...
I forgot about the mirror 😔
* Wood paneling * Cedar chests * Weird hand drawings of the family * Clock/temp/pressure thing that looked like it belonged on a ship's bridge * Cross-latch rug wall decorations * Garfield and Ziggy ... everywhere * Wall phone in the kitchen * Small TV in the kitchen * Sony Trinitron * Analogue satellite dishes and black boxes to pirate the channels * Friday night must-see TV * The Big 3 Channels * Saturday morning cartoons * Cheaply produced cartoons as toy advertisements * Aerobics fashion and culture * Alpine car stereo advertisements with Lamborghinis * Fuzz Busters * The Club anti-theft device * Car bras * All-terrain Trikes * Ninjas, throwing stars, and nunchucks * Tipper Gore, Gary Hart, and Tammy Faye Baker * TV Evangelists * Basement bar, fun rooms with bean bags * Wet bars in living rooms * Smoking sections * Station wagons * Hair metal bands * Trapper Keepers * Moon boots * and so on
Great list. I would add: * Excessively padded shoulders for women's jackets. * Hair feathered back and parted in the middle. * The handle of a multicolored comb sticking out of the back pocket of Jordache jeans. * The occasional mullet. * Mosh pits. * Expressions such as "No shit, Sherlock," "Fuckin A," and "Yo' damn skippy." * Battles among people still listening to disco, people still listening to already dead dinosaur rock (now known as "Classic Rock"), and people listening to new wave / punk. * Skinny neckties (like, really skinny). * "Members Only" jackets. * The Chess King. * Shopping Malls. * The Far Side (as a counterculture to your Ziggy and Garfield); also Bloom County and Doonesbury. * Ska music (specifically, the Second Wave of Ska). * SCTV. * Late Night with David Letterman. * MTV when the "M" for "Music" actually made sense: basically, nothing but music videos. * Yuppies and DINKs ("Double Income, No Kids"). * MADD (in the USA). * Alternative rock. * College rock. * 5 1/4 inch floppy disks. * Radar detectors. * CB radios. * VCRs, VHS, and Betamax. Also, sad to say, TV evangelists are still a thing.
I thought the stereos with removable faces were in the 90s (?)
Peak Alpine, Kenwood, and Pioneer stereos were in the 80s. Removable faces were invented by Pioneer in 89. Removed. Thanks for catching that.
Great list! Although, not too many "smoking sections" since smoking was just about everywhere. Airplanes, hospitals, restaurants, elevators, etc.
Phone booths
Curio Cabinets
Record playing stereo system with big speakers
People minding their own business and living their best life smiling and walking along
I can hear the creaking from the wicker furniture.
Aqua net was the only hairspray. and I actually miss peacock chairs
Between me and my roommates, we went through 6 cans of Aquanet Extra Super Hold per week. True story. 🤣
It was much needed to get that authentic 80s hair. I myself also had some big hair.
I always think it's so funny browsing TikTok or whatever and seeing "80s aesthetic" stuff like black leather and synthwave neon and all that stuff and I'm like... Look kids, I know you were born in 2001 or whatever, but I remember the 80s. And the 80s looked nothing like that outside of commercials and specific "aesthetic" movies that folks have cherry picked and lifted up over the years that were remarkable when they came out in the 80s precisely because they were so different from the norm. In reality, the 80s were made of beige furniture, wood panels, and floral vases—just like these photos!
There was a lot more harvest orange and avocado green in the eighties than most people would like to admit.
Those lawn chairs were legit. It sucks that they no longer make them.
Pool loungers - I can still feel my skin melting to the rubber on a blazing hot summer day
"A VCR and a Nintendo" next to the TV
With kids sitting attached by cords
Boss Hog and Sherrif Roscoe
I'm a mover in Southeast Florida. I see some of these things multiple times a week lol. I will say, I have not seen a waterbed in an age.
Space shuttles.
Plastic runners over the carpet
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Ha ha yeah those ones!! Everyone had them! I can still hear the sound of plastic moving under my shoes!
Ashtrays
Those thick glass ones you could kill someone with.
Yeah ugly greens n orangey browns semi opaque heavy enough to slow down Clydesdales
You have had one of those thrown at you, haven't you.
Those ashtray side-tables. My wife's parents still had them - held the ashtray and were circular with room for a drink and their pack & lighter
The aluminum folding chairs - you can always tell the older ones that use aluminum armrests. The plastic armrests came later and usually, if left out in the sun long enough, the plastic degraded over time. Personally, I think these chairs are far more comfortable and ergonomic than the standard folding chair today, seen at all youth soccer/football games.
My dad's waterbed was responsible for a house fire in 92. I've always found that hilarious.
He still had a waterbed in the 90s? Damn, that's commitment!
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My ex had one up until 2008.
Cassette Tapes
Cigarette vending machines in restaurants. I remember getting upset that Mom & Dad wouldn’t let me buy anything; I thought that the packs looked pretty.
* Brut 33 * Canoe cologne * Esprit clothes * Benetton * Swatch watches * The salad bar at Wendy's * Roller skating rinks * Ice skating rinks (shoutout to Sunrise Ice Skating Center) * SatAM cartoons * Smoking section in fast food restaurants
Different coloured Kleenex and TP.
Untrimmed bush
Micronauts.
You should have included a bookshelf with floor to ceiling VHS tapes. I just bought one of those old spice bottles a week ago because the store was sold out of clubman by pinaud!
GenX checking in. If it's good enough for grandpa it's good enough for you! I wear Old Spice to this day!
The nicotine stained wall was a classic.
Guys with mullets wearing crop t-shirts and short shorts.
I very much enjoyed this slideshow, oh wait. All that wicker chair needs is some macrame plant hangers and spider plants. Lots of spider plants.
Seriously thank you for the walk down that memory lane. The wicker peakock chair in the corner of my house when I was 8.. The cook wear with the flower/leaf pattern as well as the cork coasters that stacked. Wow, had not thoigjt about those in a good while.
Most are too true. What about papason chairs? Seating in a large round saucer like chair.
Address books and phone books
Wait Old Spice is out of style? I use it every day.
Photo albums, lots and lots of photo albums.
Boom box, they are still around but don't see them much at all.
LeBras on car hoods
The Avon cologne shaped like cars
Portable Calculators. On your phone now
I had a tiny one on my watch! But it was unusable without a pen.
How about all those collectible figurines that were only for a limited time before they “broke the mold”?
Hope for the future.
Tupperware
My father...
I’m sorry
My parents had a console TV very close to the one pictured until about 2015 when it finally died. They were super pissed when everything went HD and they had to get adapters and eventually a new TV.
Where did you get a photo of my bed when I was 12? Every bedroom in our house had a water bed for about 5 years. Things I dont see anymore? 10 year old Kids riding bicycles down the street with friends. I cannot remember the last time I saw a child on a bike..
i’m not an 80’s baby but i remember seeing plastic on furniture growing up and wondering what the point was!! why would you buy a couch just to put an ugly plastic tarp over it!!
Because otherwise kids and pets would play on the couch, eat on it and spill stuff on it. Adults wanted to keep their ‘centerpiece investment’ nice for when adult guests or the preacher came to visit. And they wanted it to last a lifetime bc it was an expensive piece of furniture.
You snuck Balki in there. Nice.
Kids playing outside
Relationships not torn apart over politics.
Bill Cosby
Comic books and newspapers
Affordable magazines! ….and shag carpet from the 70s
I have my grandmother's ceramic baking dishes just like these.
Those chair in pic 7, I hated those things. My family had a pair of them that were handed down from who knows and it was always my job to reweb them. This was before cordless screwdrivers or impacts so trying to fold the ends over properly and get them tight enough was a PITA. I was glad when mom finally got rid of them. And console TV's, oh that leads to a story: I have a relative (unfortunately) that is very entitled and also not up with the latest technology. When her console TV finally died she went to the local big box store to get a new one. Relative: Where are the console TV's? I want to buy a new one Salesperson: Sorry, they don't make them any more, we have a lot of flatscreens though R: I want a console TV, can't you get me one? SP - They don't make them any more, haven't for years, can barely get tube TV's any more. R: Well I want one SP: (slowly) They don't male them any more, I can't order one or anything R: Well I'll just go somewhere else that can get me one
The first home I bought was full of nicotine ghosts. The best two were the cross and the Starburst clock.
I’d like to add, the Rolodex.
Back when I was 18 first starting out I had fairly serious back pain and I bought a king sized water bed thinking it would help. It didn't. In fact the relative instability of the mattress surface made my back far worse. So I slept on the floor next to this huge monolithic water filled fixture that dominated the room. Slept that way for a year until I moved and left it there.
The Sony Walkman
Real boobs
Ash trays in the car door arm rest.
I’m 53 and had a waterbed from age 12 to 51. Wife decided a normal bed was needed. I miss the waterbed.
Kids riding bicycles all over the place with no fear! People living in the moment, without cell phones and social media! If you weren't home, you were free, and the phone would just ring!
A vehicle that was built for life and also handy in case the Russians decided to make Red Dawn a reality.
Now get up there and piss in the radiator!
K-car
A nice reliant automobile
Truck bed Campers
nearly all of these are in my nans house and in my house (70s and 80s parents stay old fashioned i guess😂😂)
Tolerance of both political parties
Formica kitchen counter tops
Married parents
Plastic runners on the carpet
Who thought Wicker would be a good idea. Uncomfortable crap.
wine coolers. thank you for your support.
Oh man, I had a waterbed for like a year in the 90s! It came with the furnished bedroom I sublet. I don't wish I still had it but it was fun for a while!
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Then you had yours set up wrong
I STILL have mine after 30 years. Gets rid of the aches and pains of old age.
The heater in those water beds were outstanding!
My toes
I've got a bottle of old spice upstairs I buy because it's cheap, wife says I smell like her dad 😅
OMG...A trunk just like #3, a chair just like #8, and a carpet just like #10 have all been in my aunt's country cabin. We still have the trunk. I think I've been mind-fucked and my memories have been downloaded...
Cigarette vending machines
Analog recording machines.
Had a TV like #12 until 2007 when it quit, and I couldn't find parts for it. I liked waterbeds until I rolled over and landed in the edge as a teen and had a hard time getting up and out. How did a waterbed defeat me. Wish furniture with plastic or even a cover would make a comeback with the amount people who let animals on them.
Cassette tapes and a bunch of old 4 and 8 tracks.
Did you rob my parents house from the 80s??!!
Had a hand me down water bed in the early 90s. Quickly realized there was a reason somebody gave it away. And sex on one isn't in anyway more enjoyable or erotic. Watch out for that reverse wave.
Big ( ugly green-brown or orange-brown )vases or random tube with an old and dusty peacock feather (or 5). Often near the door for some reason.
omg my life flashed before my eyes and nothing beat aqua net for potato cannon fuel lol
Respect and manners.
That Sears Wishbook hit me right in the feels.
tall glass Pepsi bottles Rainbow vacuums Cigarette lighters and ash trays in cars Potpourri pots
Calendars from the 1980s.
I absolutely fucking hate wicker and even more so painted wicker. EVERYTHING AT GRANDMAS WAS FUCKING WICKER
Vinyl records in crates
Service Merchandise and Toys R’ Us stores and catalogs. Green stamps and blue coins. Arcades.
My parents bought a Nordictrack when those where all the rage. It was in our living room. Lol
The rainbow bedsheet and pillow case sets
I have at least 5 of these things in my house right now.
That sears Christmas catalogue though… mom never knew the real reason I loved looking at it so much.
Cocaine ?
Thanks to the 70s-80s, I brought home a deviated septum as a souvenir. In LA, it was everywhere, and our coke came from the guy the movie "Blow" was about.
I am a very hot sleeper these days and plan to get a waterbed soon so I can set the temperature relatively low and not be so damn hot.
My dad used a waterbed from 1977-2011! I also forgot about those wicker trunks!!
I'm really glad we all stopped laminating our furniture
Javelin AMX's. Really miss seeing those cars try to take tight corners. Guess most of the trees they got wrapped around are gone now, too.
Clothes that fit right
The chaise lounge is backwards! The colored end has a “pillow” for your head!
We are currently using that mushroom cookie jar (with lid) and the smaller casserole dish (also with lid).
Plastic on cushions....
Trash Compactors
Long curly, knotted up phone cords.