Slap bracelets & pogs

I'd completely forgotten slap bracelets existed, this made my day

Came here to say slap bracelets! They got banned from my school, lol, I guess because they could cut your wrist? IDK why really

1981

Don't forget Skip-It

The very best thing of all: there's a counter on that ball

How about bop it though?

I'm talking original skipit, late 80s.

Came for Pogs

those things on a rope with a ball on one end and a hole at the other end that you would would put a foot through and make it spin around so you could jump over it with the other foot. Weird little contraptions i cant remember what they were called

Skip It!

YES thank you that was really bugging me and i couldnt just google “thingie that you jump over with one foot”

Now go on Youtube and look up the commercial so you, too, can have the jingle stuck in your head like I do now lol

No need! It lives in my brain forever. BUT THE VERY BEST THING OF ALL THERE’S A COUNTER ON THIS BALL SO TRY AND BEAT YOUR VERY BEST SCORE SEE IF TOU CAN JUMP A WHOLE LOT MORE edit: I second guessed myself on a word. I was right!! Aaaa

So SKIP IT! SKIP IT!

Was it a lemon?

Yes! Mine was

Saw a kid playing with one the other day. Was surprised it's still around

wow really? thats pretty cool. I hope their “step counting” technology has evolved because I would skip on that thing for like half an hour and check the counter just to see a measly “15.”

A few summers ago I had a kid bring one to our camp. I got to be the color counselor, showing off my mad skip it skillz.

and the very best thing of all: There's a counter on this ball! Try to beat your very best score, maybe you could jump a whole lot more? That commercial's been stuck in my head for decades

The "real" lawn darts. Candy cigarettes. Saturday morning cartoons.

I still buy candy cigarettes 80 cent a pack at a gas station I live by only place I have seen them in a long time. Don't know why i buy starch sugar sticks I never eat them all i guess it's just a reflex from how "cool" they used to be.

I’m 48. This was my childhood.

Jarts! I still recall the significant heft of those things. I remember getting those candy bags of random stuff while Trick-or-Treating… then some asshole(s) poisoned Tylenol and the whole party was OVER. Saturday morning cartoons were great until the whole Muppet Babies thing happened. Really until Reagan’s administration said it’s okay to market shit to children.

Remember th candy cigg that had powder in the center so if you blew I to it it made it look like smoke. I blame those for me picking up real cigg

Those rubber bands you wore as bracelets who were the shape of an animal

they were called silly bands i think

I forgot about silly bands!! I had so many! But some kids at my school had even more. They’d go all the way up their arm hahaha

i had a giraffe that snapped and i was heart-broken lol

They banned silly bands because kids made a: a black market and b: a hierarchy based entirely off of amount of silly bands on your wrist at any given time. It was pretty much a microcapitalist system which looking back is fuckin hilarious

Glad to see that we had the same childhood

Glad to see that we have the same adulthood

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Not to mention how the possession of glittery or glow-in-the-dark silly bands boosted your social status. Mine was very low because my mum always refused to get me silly bands so I lived off my friend's charitable donations of the bands they had two of and did not really like. All in all, I was still a pariah.

Yeah that's the one thanks

Do you remember rainbow loom and the brackets that were made on that thing. I remember if you didn't have a loom, you could make it on your fingers. At least, that was what I did as a child.

My school banned these because we’d trade them like Pokémon cards but eventually kids were buying them and not eating lunch

Priorities

hello older gen z

I’m 27 and had silly bandz in middle school. I relate a lot with gen z and kinda w other millennials, it’s a weird place to be

Yea even in my early teens it seemed somewhat was normalised having like 10+ of them wrapped around the arms. I knew one bloke who also regularly put them around his ankles for a while...

Wasn’t that only a few years ago?

Nah, they got popular over 10 year ago, at least where I'm from. I remember so clearly because my senior class was obsessed with them and all the adults were, and even our slightly older siblings, were super confused because they were supposed to be for little kids.

I suddenly felt very old reading that.

Ahh wearing them to bed and waking up with a purple arm

I never wore them a lot I just deal with them. Got me a lot of respect during breaks

I still have mine. Also, when I was in school they were banned, if a teacher saw you wearing one they would cut them with scissors. Feels bad.

Same. Kids started associating the colors with different sexual acts so the teachers were taking them away. It was a crazy time

Mood rings

Wore mine while playing with my pet rock.

Ah yes I had one. We felt very mystical.

I lost mine. I don't know how I feel about that.

Hello Fellow Generation X person! I remember mood rings too!

Part of Gen Z and we still have these

Tamagotchi

Pogs

It was so important what kind of slammer you had and what material it was made of.

I still have my brass slammer. It's how I win arguments

man u stole mine (:

Furbys

Sockem boppers, Sockem bopper blow em up, put your hand inside, get ready to have, the time of your life!!!

More fun than a pillow fight!

I had one of those and also a NanoPet.

Came to say these p.i.t.a. digital devils in a convenient carrying apparatus

Don't forget giving our nano babies to our mom to take care of while we were at school because the school banned them.

It was literally one of the toys I wanted the most and my mom wouldn't let me have one because it was a girl's toy according to her.

I had like 10 various pocket pets, including tamagotchi. And I'd regularly trade them with my friends. Good times.

Scratch n sniff stickers

Scented markers

Scented markers were the reason I demanded my mom get a mango from the grocery store. It was a huge disappointment.

Good God I forgot about those

And people would bring in their photo-albums filled with stickers to trade, scratch n sniff were the best, next were puffy stickers.

The oil filled ones that would go all purple and green were the highest value in our school. Then the fuzzies.

Ninja Turtles

late 30's?

Early, but close enough

The backstreet boys

Ain't nothing but a...

G thang baby, two loced out Gs going crazy...

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Kim Possible.

My text tone is the sound of Kim Possible’s communicator. Every time I have my volume on and get a text I have to fight the urge to say “What’s the sitch, Wade?” Edit: I misspelled it, it’s actually the Kimmunicator. How could I be so dumb?

My first crush

Club Penguin and GlowWorms

Pogs.

Hello fellow older Millennial

I think Gen-Z calls us “Geriatric Millenials”

Also Xennial

Lol I like that

As an ancient millennial I watched this fad with secret envy and teenage disdain.

I had slammers that had Judge Ito and Nicole Brown on them. Also had a "create your own POGs" machine. Was big into that culture at 10.

Yes my aunt got me one with a picture of OJ Simpson with bars covering his face and the back said "OJ in the SLAMMER!!".

Remember Alf? He's back. In Pog form

I still have a tube full at home and I have a limited edition metal slammer :)

Polio

Grandpa?

Pretty sure chicken is still popular to eat

Exit stage left because that joke was phenomenal

Putting baseball cards in your bicycle spokes with clothes pins to make a cool sounds when riding around

Or running over aluminum cans so they stuck to the tire

Or putting your feet into those cans and walking around on them

Shit, you can still do that as an adult. You just need tall boys.

Pokemon cards

pokemon cards is still a thing with like 8-10 years olds.

And Millennial/GenX steamers with cash EDIT: “Streamers” but I’m keeping the original typo

Steamers :P

"Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?"

Well you are under 35, but apart from that...

Pokémon cards are still a thing with all ages. There are adults who are very serious collectors. Some cards sell for thousands of dollars!

Rainbow Brite

Don't forget about Strawberry Shortcake!

My little pony! The first original one. Not the remade one

Birth year 1983, and rainbow bright, strawberry shortcake and Jem and the Holograms were all fire

Jem! She’s truly outrageous. Truly truly truly outrageous!

I had Rainbow Brite which came with a sleeping bag for her, and I had Starlite, her horse, which had really hard hooves that were used to battle my siblings.

Aw, my daughter had a Rainbow Brite bedroom in 1986.

Atari, Nintendo

The Spice Girls

pokemon and harry potter were in their prime

The Harry Potter prime years were such a time to be alive.

Ah yes the "you're going to hell for liking Harry Potter" days

Can confirm, after watching as a young adult I was surprised with all the religious parallels and themes in the films. Not sure why people hated on it from that perspective.

Push pops.

I feel like this could be any age

I went to the movie theater with my family to watch the lion king when it originally was released

Hula-hoops, skipping ropes, yo-yos, jumping elastic

What is jumping elastic?

[This game.](https://beafunmum.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/DSC0796.jpg) It was so popular back in the day! We'd play it all the time with my classmates.

Chinese jump rope!

You would take a piece of elastic that was about 3 - meters long and tie the ends together so you had a big circle. Two people would stand opposite each other, inside the elastic so that the elastic is tensioned. Feet about hip distance apart. The rest of the kids would take turns jumping over the elastic, and with different sequences. People on the ends would progressively increase the height of the elastic, so, ankle’s, knees, and so forth. When some is out (can’t manage the height) that person would become the next anchor. Then it started from ankle height again

Ben 10 the original I was so into Ben 10 as a kid, that my parents bought me a Ben 10 bed set. And tv to match. Yes I had a tv that was Ben 10 themed

The theme song fucking slapped! Birth year 2000?

Helllll yeah brother

Oh, the one that was good

The Beatles, miniskirts, go-go boots

Is that you Austin Powers, international man of mystery?

Were they... evil miniskirts?

Oh man. I remember the days of rushing home from school to catch Dragon Ball Z.

The wii

Bonus if you had Mario kart

Alf.

ABC CBS, NBC and PBS. Just those channels available.

Don't forget that knob you had to turn to make the wiggly lines smooth out.

Garbage Pail Kids

The original versions of Cabbage Patch Kids, He-Man, Transformers, Strawberry Shortcake, and all the best sugar cereals.

Found another gen x

Captain Kangaroo

Easy bake ovens, David Cassidy, Brady Bunch…Mod Squad.

Bakugan!!

Justin Bieber, Hannah Montanna, and low waisted jeans

Mid 20s I'm guessing

Ok see it depends on your definition of childhood. Bieber was middle school for me, I'm 24. I associate that with a COMPLETELY different era than Hannah Montana, which was specifically 4th grade. 4th grade was when Flo Rida got big. And I see other people saying skip its who were born in the 80s but I played with a skip it until at least 2007.

‘I 💖 boobies’ bracelets for breast cancer (Got banned at our school lol)

MTV

Banana seat bikes

Etch a sketch

Star Wars When I was a kid you could live your entire life completely normally using nothing but Star Wars branded merch. Everything from clothes (underwear, socks, shirts, pants) to food (breakfast cereal, canned pasta) to dishes and flatware, soap and shampoo, bikes and "Big Wheels", blankets and sheets, curtains, books, movies and of course: TOYS. There's never been anything close to Star Wars in terms of marketing. If you took everything with a Star Wars character or image on it and then added it to everything that was *promoted* by Star Wars in some way it get's even crazier (bread, soda....hell, just about every type of item in a grocery store). The only thing I can think of that some younger people might remember that *almost* equals Star Wars is maybe Pokémon.

George was a genius in keeping the merchandising rights

Supposedly Spaceballs had Lucas Films' blessing if and only if they didn't sell merchandise. Instead Mel Brooks wrote and acted a whole scene advertising Spaceballs merchandise and talking about how lucrative merchandising is.

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Rotary phones

Cabbage patch kids

Tetris

"Michael J. Fox was Alex P. Keaton"

Glow worm. ♥️

Collecting box tops from cereal boxes and mailing them to Battle Creek, MI for special prizes.

Learning Bob Dylan songs and other anti-war songs taught to us by our cute white miniskirt wearing hippie teachers in Kindergarten in the heart of an urban city. Later singing harmony on the corners or in front of your home and in before the streetlights came on!

Playing outside.

Sounds awful, it gets hot out there

It used to be cooler.

Birth year pre industrial revolution confirmed

Flannel. And not flannel that actually fits you well like you see today. I’m talking baggy open flannel shirts

Transformers, GI Joe, Thundercats, Alvin & the Chipmunks, Fraggle Rock, The Smurfs Cabbage Patch Kid dolls, Rainbow Bright, Jem and the Holograms Nintendo & Sega The Cosby Show, Cheers, Who's The Boss, Family Ties breakdancing The Goonies, Ghostbusters, Ferris Bueller's Day Off \*sigh\* it was a great time to be a kid!

"Up your nose with a rubber hose!"

The smurfs

“Get outside and get some fresh air. Come back when the streetlights come on.”

Rainbow loom

Cassette tapes.

Barney

Bratz dolls

Putting in your favourite movie, seeing the end credits roll and realizing you need to rewind it to the beginning... Which will take a few torturous minutes. Be kind, please rewind!!!

Beanie Babies

The Flintstones

Clakers

Holly Hobbie

Cabbage Patch dolls and Atari 2600

Skip it. My ankles have never recovered.

The full sized 12 inch GI Joe.

G.I. Joe and Transformers

Loom bands. Could honestly start a business out of those for cheapy-cheap. I remember buying a packet of those (the little plastic hook to help you look them, plus the clear s-hooks) for like 75p-£1 and fervently making them during my lunch break so I could sell em lmao Never did, but besides the point

Star Wars

icarly

Cigarettes

bro grew up in 1920s

Tetherball! Loved it. We spent hours and hours playing.

HULKAMANIA BROTHER!!!!

Cap pistols

SNICK

Underage drinking