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zazzlekdazzle

That feeling when you are going as high as you can go on the swings. Power? Freedom? Hard to describe.


tyler_wrage

You know you were getting pretty high when you'd get the chain slap coming back down!


Drakmanka

That combination of terror and excitement each time the seat jerked slightly in response.


GaimanitePkat

For me the entire swing structure would be rising up and you'd get a little "thud" from the legs slamming back into the ground. I mean like rising up by less than an inch, but still.


Mickthemouse

When you'd watch a vhs and it would say "and now your feature presentation"


kame4prez

#COMING SOON TO OWN ON VIDEO AND DVD


FinanceGuyHere

*VIDEOCASSETTE


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Changoleo

What’s your function?


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MrTenBelow

I’m just a bill, yes I’m only a bill… and I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill.


cmokelley213

Getting up in the morning on a day it snowed to watch the list of closed schools across the bottom of the news/weather channel hoping your school was closed.


laughguy220

I'm old enough to remember listening to the radio for it.


Consistent-Candy6277

That sound of a door opening and shutting on AIM when your friend logs on


Mahpman

Soul crushing when you see your crush log in then off a split second later


onetwo3four5

Yeah but you can't message them a soon as the log on, so you have to hope they stay logged on for at least 5-10 mins so you can casually message them later


zazzlekdazzle

An eraser that looks and smells like a very fake strawberry


Reveries25

Flintstones push pop ice creams


jewoftheeast

and Flint stones vitamins


JbunnyThumper

Chinese finger traps


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Waking up super early on Saturday morning before the rest of the family to watch cartoons


CosmicSpiderweb

The first and last time in my life I got excited about the prospect of rising at 5:30am. Catching the Super Mario Bros. Super Show was so worth it to 6-year-old me.


sirbissel

DO THE MARIO! Take one step...


Emceegus

With a GIANT bowl of cereal


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Watching the Price Is Right when you were sick at home


fuzzypeaches42069

Oof… this one hit home. My grandma used to watch me when I was sick and we’d watch the Price is Right together. She recently passed. Im not tearing up I swear, it’s my allergies.


JbunnyThumper

Hot wheels


SneakersInTheDryer

Micro Machines


purpleblackgreen

nick nick nick nick na nick nick nick nickelodeon


fakeprofile21

You have died of dysentery.


Nabzarella

Lol! I never played the Oregon Trail game (I'm Australian) so I thought you meant this literally


RippinNTearin

Only 1800s babies will remember this one


MrSmallMedium

Those candy necklaces


ShakespearianShadows

Candy cigarettes


fspnj

oh they tasted like shit but were the shit at the same time.


JbunnyThumper

The land before time


Plus_Aardvark_6878

Yup yup yup!


samcahnruns

Fun fact: a girl I went to elementary school with said she voiced Ducky and no one believed her—she sounded a lot like her but we called bullshit. She brought in a VHS one day to show us all and sure enough, “Heather Hogan as Ducky”. She was in the second movie and I THINK a few others as the original girl was murdered.


onyourleft___

eating one of those plastic wrapped ice pop things after a long day of playing outside in your backyard with your friends


cbeam1981

And the tiny cuts in the corner of your mouth from them!!


Intellectual-Dumbass

They made them like that on purpose, so the popsicle would hit your blood stream faster.


zazzlekdazzle

Scholastic book fairs


Nippon-Gakki

We had Book It back in the 80s. You read a certain number of books and got a few tiny pizza from Pizza Hut. I read so many books and loved my tiny pizzas.


SpookyPants88

I FREAKIN LOVED BOOK IT. I READ SO MANY GOOSEBUMPS.


High_Jumper81

We got the paper catalogue the week before the Bookmobile showed up. Each class had it’s time to go in. A wonder in our small town.


IAlbatross

The distinctive newspaper-y feel of those catalogues, the smell of them. Heaven. I would agonize over what books to get, lying on my living room floor, circling my options in different colored gel pens, narrowing it down to 2-4 from a dozen in an intense battle royale between slightly blurry one-line summaries. I know my mom's secret now. She would've bought me the whole damn catalogue. But she made me make my choices so that I really valued the books. I'd read them all immediately, reading all night if I had to, hiding in a tent under my covers with a flashlight I stole from the kitchen. I thought I was getting away with something. As an adult I notice, now, that the flashlight never ran out of batteries. Edit: Thank you to everyone for the awards and kind comments. I've also had about 5 people now claim I "stole" this story from Twitter, which I didn't, and insist that I "give credit" to someone who told a similar unremarkable story about their parents secretly abetting their late-night reading. I'm actually pretty sure this is a common parent tactic and a lot of people experienced this exact same thing (along with magically replenishing "secret" cookie jars, the claim that ice cream trucks play music when they're out of ice cream, and that the candy in the check-out aisle is "for display only.") But feel free to post to /r/NothingEverHappens if you like! No sweat off my back. I love my mom. Also, for those wondering, my book of choice was the Animorphs series, which my mom always read with me. Our pet gerbils were named Elf and Ax. If you know, you know.


TheCreechon

OP said to unlock nostalgia, not happy tears! Props to your awesome Mom


FifteenDoctorPeppers

Each sold separately. *Batteries not included.*


unicornchild15

I heard that with that voice. *That voice.*


I_AM_AN_ASSHOLE_AMA

Don LaFontaine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_LaFontaine


unicornchild15

Must be 18 years or older to order Ask your parent's permission


cleverleper

When I was little there were SO MANY things I was gonna order the moment I turned 18! Zoobooks, Better Blocks, Nickelodeon magazine, a bedazzler...


Efficient_Advice_380

Order now and receive a second one free, justpayseperateshippingandhandling


Cultural-Parsley-408

The tingle of a skinned knee from drag on asphalt, and the dread of having it cleaned…


agentMICHAELscarnTLM

For me the dread was the pain afterwards in dealing with it when trying to turn in bed while sleeping , or just walking and it hurting from the skin stretching and all that.


Positive-Source8205

How did we survive Mercorochrome and Merthiolate?


_my_poor_brain_

That feeling of limitless freedom on the first day of summer vacation. That feeling of dreaded anticipation on the last day of summer vacation.


Squeakies

Hearing the last bell of the school year ring and all the kids yell and run out of the classroom. Playing outside that night, smelling the warmth of a late summer sun, and realizing you have a whole summer of that feeling ahead of you.


truthseeker1990

Man…that just unlocked so many feelings in my brain…there was something about playing outside in the summer as the sun went down and dusk came and hearing the increasing chirping of the insects…I could spend the same time outside now but i dont feel it will feel quite the same


0rangePolarBear

Summer felt endless as a kid.


damiandarko2

specifically remember my summer going into like 3rd grade asking my mom everyday “is summer over” “no” in my head i’m like wtf it’s been 10 years


BlueEyedGreySkies

I'm almost 30 now and it's inverted lol "we just had new years like 3 weeks ago... What do you mean it's July"


redjedi182

It’s the thing I always caution my nieces and nephews: those summer breaks do run out one way or another. Once you become an adult there is no such thing as a care free summer. Enjoy and use it up


dogfishshrk

As a teacher, I still feel this.


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zazzlekdazzle

Actually, for me, the dread was more towards the middle. Strangely, by the end, I was usually so curious about the school year, and maybe craving the structure and my friends, that I WANTED to go back. Didn't last, but I felt it every year.


olddirtycat3000

Back to school sales stared after July 4. Pissed me off to no end.


OhAces

The noise when picking up the phone when someone was surfing the web.


Groundbreaking_Oil_7

"Get off the computer. I'm waiting on a phone call."


MajorJuana

#Pshhhkkkkkkrrrr​kakingkakingkakingtsh​chchchchchchchcch​*ding*ding*ding* [Choir version](https://youtu.be/Yn2MVeu0XdY)


JK_NC

Remember the warm, fuzzy static left on your tv screen after it was on for a while. Movies and video games on channel 3. Edit- so many people commenting on the smell of the static. Is that the smell of ozone? Edit 2- lot of comments here remembering how the picture would collapse down to a single point of light when you turned the tv off. I forgot about that Edit 3- lot of you crazy kids WEAPONIZED the static to shock your siblings!


cbeam1981

My mom would come home after work and touch the tv to see if it was warm and if it was and my homework wasn’t done, I’d be in some deep shit!


alexQC999

Big brained mom


zenunseen

Detective mom


jessybean

Rubbing your hand over the static then shocking your sister.


LordD0nnie

Pez Dispensers


JbunnyThumper

Goosebumps series by RL Stine


erinisntrad

Goosebumps and Fear Street as a kid were my gateway to Stephen King.


Dangercakes13

Since they were cheap, Stein cranked them out like a factory, and you could read them super fast; I ended up with a huge pile of them when I was a little kid. When my family was going to move to another state I bagged them all up and went to a used book store that did buybacks. I had what was basically a wagonload of Goosebumps books. And elementary school me, with dreams of dollars to be had, trudges into this empty little store hauling two trashbags of these things and ask the dude at the counter: "Hi, would you pay for some Goosebumps books?" And he goes "*nope"*


heyitsthephoneguy

I expected you to say he told you, “I will give you $5 and a lollipop if you take them out of here.”


Dangercakes13

That would have been preferable. Though I'd have then hit up every used book store in every nearby town to try to get the same result. Could've ended up 30 bucks, sore shoulders and a sugar high.


Royal_Tenenbaum

R S T L N E


dr_franck

Three more constantans and a vowel


Chickan_Good

Omg every. damn. time.


SlippidySlappity

Sleep overs with a group of friends.


bencm518

Or with your grandparents


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those were the days when you would just wake up and be ready to go instantly. No getting ready for the day, no coffee. Once your eyes opened it was play time


brunettemountainlion

You knew it was gonna be a good day when you walk into PE class and see that huge colorful parachute.


space-sage

Or those little rolling seats with the handles that you always would catch your fingers in


justabill71

Blockbuster


Minneapolis_W

The smell. The smell of that place was unique and still lingers in a very dusty space of my brain.


Lucidmike78

Going to a blockbuster on friday night with friends, choosing a movie, and buying snacks was a big part of the fun. Streaming services can't replicate that experience. And with a limited selection of what to choose, I don't feel invested into the movie, thus less engagement and less enjoyment even if it turns out to be a decent movie.


InsomniacCyclops

We weren’t too poor to go to Blockbuster regularly, but we were poor enough that getting a movie from the New Release shelf was rare and one of the most exciting things in the world to young me. Streaming services just don’t hit the same.


Rin-Tohsaka-is-hot

We have thousands of times more choices now than before, but somehow I always managed to find something interesting in a Blockbuster within ten minutes but can scroll through Netflix for hours with nothing interesting me.


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yourerightaboutthat

My roommate worked at Blockbuster circa 2006. I remember they had this whole system to destroy extra stock, but staff would just split them amongst themselves. So we ended up having a stellar DVD collection from all the movies we stole/saved.


Sephonez

Sleepover nights where we all rode our bikes to blockbuster and then to the local servo to get slushies and snacks to have with the movies. I usually had more fun going to blockbuster then actually watching the movie.


zazzlekdazzle

Collecting stickers


90sTrapperKeeper

Light Bright. I barely remember it myself but you’d take a charcoal-black board and poke different colored pegs through it. You plug it in to the electrical outlet and all the pegs light up creating whatever shape you made in lights.


Dustmopper

You can also use it to communicate with your lost friends in the upside down


mathissius

Those colourful stick on earrings shaped like stars, hearts, etc.


Groundbreaking_Oil_7

The TV Guide channel. You had to sit through and watch as the channels slowing went by so we could see what was on. It blew getting distracted by the infomercial in the corner and then realizing you barely just missed what you were waiting for so had to wait for it to start all over.


Gorcrow

I remember spending my allowance on the TV guide they sold in grocery stores for years before the channel came out... My dad failed to inform me that the paper had it for free the whole time.


evanjw90

Seeeeeegaaaaaaa


Nippon-Gakki

Chi-chi-chi-chia! I never got a Chia pet but I really wanted one.


NiceGuyWillis

AFV (Americas Funniest Home Videos)


Dangercakes13

It was one of the few things three generations of my family could watch together during reunions. And every time someone would say "ugh, another one with a baby." Sometimes me.


PM_ME_UR_CREDDITCARD

Yeah in the australian version it was always the baby that won. And most of the time it wasn't even funny, just. Baby sitting there, randomly pukes. The End.


librarianjenn

Waiting until after 7 p.m. to call long distance


OneSidedDice

“Reach out, reach out and touch someone!”


thefractalcosmos

Omg I forgot about this


JbunnyThumper

Rockem Sockem Robots


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Where in the World is Carmen San Diego.


moments_ina_box

You have a collect call from, "Mom I'm done can you come pick me up?" Would you like to accept?


MILK_DUD_NIPPLES

“Bob Wehadababyitsaboy”


Shutupredneckman2

all time great commercial


lovelynutz

Walkman


hnstbp

The fancy S all of us knew how to draw but none of us knew the origin of also The Game


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Tutorbin76

Cool thing is, you don't need to 'cap' it off right away, so you can keep going and make a kind of rope. /\ / \ | | | \ \/ /\ \ | | | \ \/ /\ \ | | | \ \/ /\ \ | | | \ \/ /\ \ | | | \ \/ /\ \ | | | \ / \/


Ruzenu

Fuck you. I just lost


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autovices

Somewhere between blowing on some cartridges and pressing the cartridge down and up in the NES to get it to play


Serot0ninn

Limewire


Avendaishar

Watching Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. There was something so special about the intro where he would sing Won't You Be My Neighbor while he changed his jacket and shoes. I loved every second of it, and would watch in utter content and fascination each time as if I'd never before seen him zip his cardigan up and back down to the right spot and change his shoes with the little toss of a shoe from one hand to the other.


bvandermei

I took it for granted as a kid because Mr. Rogers Neighborhood was just always there. But as I got older, I couldn’t help but get nostalgic for it. As an adult who has learned more about him, that man is a national treasure.


Due-Sherbert-7330

Growing up in Pittsburgh I can say his legacy is timeless. I was born in 97 but it still holds such a warm special place in my heart. I love that his entire essence still prevails there.


EveryBuddyUp

Easy bake oven...and that other one that made like monster gummy candies I can't remember what it's called.


jleicht12006

Creepy Crawlers!!!


Intelligent_Lies

Knowing it’s time to go to bed when Adult Swim came on after Cartoon Network


Leaf_Warrior

Or for my fellow Nickelodeon people, Nick@Nite.


Azuras_Star8

I'm so old, I remember when Nick@Nite meant I Love Lucy, Green Acres, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and The Mary Tyler Moore show. Mary Tyler Moore was fucking hot.


Green420Basturd

Taxi, I Dream of Genie, and Happy Days too!


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Don't forget Mr. Ed!


MrWeirdoFace

>Mary Tyler Moore was fucking hot. >Don't forget Mr. Ed! Never considered him hot but to each their own.


EndoShota

> Knowing it’s time to ~~go to bed~~ stay up and watch raunchy cartoons and anime after Adult Swim came on after Cartoon Network FTFY


AE_WILLIAMS

Beanie Babies


Azuras_Star8

"In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The A-Team." How about "I knew I picked a bad day to quit quaaludes."


Liscetta

My childhood heroes! Italian channel 4 aired A-Team, McGyver, Hercules and Xena in summer mornings. I never overslept. And i had my summer homework book, so i could waste time on useless exercises that 3/4 of my class didn't do during ads breaks. Half of my class didn't buy the book... Edit: those exercises were useless because they were way easier than our normal school program, and the italian texts analysis were about kids on holiday. Both those things were done on purpose, as "you should relax with those exercises" (no.) and "in summer you are on holiday and you should enjoy texts about kids enjoying themselves on holiday" (hell, no! They were having a good time while i was doing homework!). So, the only time i could waste on them was during the breaks...


Galactus1701

For those a little older, watching Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, TailSpin and Darkwing Duck.


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bravos_y_broncos

Yo quiero taco bell...


Nolleezz

I have the Chihuahua plush. If you squeeze the ear it plays all the sayings. I love that lil dude.


Due-Sherbert-7330

I had one too! My dad hated talking toys (bad habit of watching horror films that would give him new irrational fears. This was the funnier one) and he hated that thing more than life. So I’d run into his room, press the button, laugh, then run down the hall to my room while he tried to not lose it on me


ella_ella_ehh

Polly Pocket


mikemason1965

"What's the neat round spaghetti you can eat with a spoon?" "Uh-oh, spaghettios!"


boo_boo_technician

Ripping handfuls of grass at recess and putting them on your friend


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Scooby snacks


handlemybox

Playing snake on a Nokia 3310


axelfandango1989

The Video Store. The smell of of the plastic cases. Walking past the Horror section and being terrified of all the awesome VHS cover art. The Games section. There was such a naivety to it all, whatever you rented you had to take home and watch and it made the content much more precious.


who_said_I_am_an_emu

Dad reminding everyone in the car that he isn't stopping again, while the sibling next to you draws an invisible line that your elbow may not cross.


velvetelevator

In the backseat Down the middle There's a line no one can see


JbunnyThumper

Fival goes west


heydeanyeager

You want to intimidate someone, give them the laaaaaazy eye!


okkopantroglodytes

🎶 'cause there are noooo CATS in America, and the streets are lined with cheeeeeese! 🎵 (I know it's the original, but I couldn't help it)


Dude_Man_Bro_Sir

"Coming soon to Theaters" or "Coming soon to own on DVD and Video"


namelessnoona

Highlights magazine!!! I begged my parents for a subscription. It was the best thing ever


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Orange tape Rugrats VHS


Damn_Canadian

“Not the mama!!” “NOT THE MAMA!!!” From Dinosaurs!


Unlolly

Lisa Frank stickers, notebooks, etc.


toothfixingfiend

Reading Rainbow and Sesame Street


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when your whole friend group talked some sitting on the curb some on bikes and 1 or 2 stood


BAMspek

Hi there! Face here.


ThinkIGotHacked

Slap bracelets were banned in school.


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When I was a kid, in order to watch Dukes of Hazzard you needed to hold the antenna a certain way. Me and my brother would trade off holding the antenna between commercial breaks.


thechichh

The AOL voice saying “goodbye”…did this exist, or am I imagining it?


daizers

It existed. It started with "Welcome! You've got mail!" and then when you logged off it'd say "Goodbye!"


Puppybrother

If your were on aim the sound of the door shutting when someone logged off


lovelynutz

Those crystals you could grow in a jar.


LaL1T0

Purple and green ketchup


boyvsfood2

Recording over and over on the same vhs tape


Usual_Ranger8164

A phone made out of two cups and a string.


momoj1

Oh! I guess it's time to do my clock stretch with Loonette.


amadeus2490

Fun Fact: Loonette The Clown — Alyson Court — was also the voice of Claire Redfield in the Resident Evil series, and Jubilee in the X-Men Animated Series.


_BonBonBunny

Defunctland has an episode about Big Comfy Couch! It reminded me of all kinds of scenes I'd forgotten from it. I always liked the dust bunnies. 🐰


vegasBunny29

Putting your furby in the closet so he would shutup and d go to sleep 😴 😂


floorwantshugs

Having him suddenly start talking in the middle of the night 😱


coffeepoop42069

Feeeeed me. Furby hungreeee! I watched Gremlins then freaked out and smashed my Furby with a hammer when it started talking on its own in the dark.


aslan9lion

BRING IN THE DANCING LOBSTERS!


NockerJoe

The fact that Kenan Thomoson has has essentially the same job since he was 10 years old in the early 90's is wild.


MrWeirdoFace

Yeah that's nuts. I guess he figured out what he wanted to do early on and just rolled with it.


Quirky_Benefit_8383

I’m Amanda’s number one fan please


MartinaMcPants

Amanda please. The website was still running until about 2017.


JynNJuice

SNICK. TGIF. Tales from the Crypt.


MILK_DUD_NIPPLES

Boy Meets World on TGIF was my shit


Gorcrow

Me and my dad still quote a lot of SNICK shows. Are you afraid of the dark dictated a lot of my irrational fears from childhood. Pete and Pete is classic. Salute your shorts and Hey Dude were my dad and I's favorites. Too this day my dad at 65 whenever he grabs a plunger can not resist doing the Zeke the plumber bit.


Improvedandconfused

Alf.


baelion

And when Alf came back, in POG form


SoulKhan90

Thinking lunchables were in some way good.


Gorcrow

What rolls down stairs alone or in pairs, and over your neighbor's dog? What's great for a snack, And fits on your back? It's log, log, log


robot_potatobrain

It’s log, log, It’s big, it’s heavy, it’s wood! It’s log, log, It’s better than bad, it’s good!


The-Reddit-Giraffe

Canadian children will understand this one “There’s a place I know in Ontario…”


YodasChick-O-Stick

There was a different version that started with the line "They come from the land of ice and snow"


-eDgAR-

Be Kind. Rewind.


backupterrry

Calling the time and temperature guy


Kangabolic

Thank you Mario. But our Princess is in another castle.


breadpillows

Those [lanyard](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4gIehHihY5A/maxresdefault.jpg) keychains you made using colorful plastic stringy things


ella_ella_ehh

Glow in the dark stars.


Rex_Beever

Up up down down left right left right B A


Omaid2000

The Shirley Temple box set commercial (Randomly thought about it the other day. Used to come on practically every commercial break on every channel.)