Do you ever see something and it brings up memories of happy times, and years flown by. Just thought I would share some things that I loved as a child or remind me of those more relaxing days when what was important were our friends and who could ride their bike the fastest!
Cracker Jacks
Push Ups (not the gym kind)
Leaving the Nintendo on because their was no save button
Rewinding again and again write down the words (because there was no internet)
Going to the neighborhood store with $1 and coming home with a whole bag of candy
Garbage Pail Kids
When you had to get up to change the channel on the TV
When cartoons were only on Saturday mornings
I would love to hear some of your own things that spark childhood memories?
Meghan says
Those are pretty much my memories too. I remember watching The Banana Splits & Josie & The Pussycats. Having underoos and loving my Garanimals.
Anne - Mommy Has to Work says
Smurfs were the bomb!! LOL
Alicia K says
omgosh! such good memories in these products!
Jennifer says
oh my gosh, LOL. I always left the Nintendo on because there wasn’t a save button. Use to make me so mad when my parents would turn it off!
Colleen says
Totally! I was trying to beat Mario and we would leave on for days at a time LOL!
Dawn C says
We must be about the same age because I remember all of those.
Stephanie says
I remember all the songs we used to listen to over and over and over so we could write the lyrics down. We’d tape them from the radio and had books of their lyrics. Wow… I have so many happy memories with you 🙂 Trampoline, swimming, babysitting, ramen noodles after school…. thanks for the flashback!
Colleen says
LOL definitely girl! I can still picture your bedroom with all the posters and playing at the field.
I look at my kids now and wonder how they will remember their childhood. Hope you have a great day!
Canadian Mom Blogger says
I miss Saturday morning cartoons. It was such a big deal, and now kids can just watch cartoons 24-7 so they don’t get excited about it.
Peggy Bolling says
I remember coming home from school, kicking off my shoes, grabbing a snack and watching Dark Shadows with Barnabus Collins. Saturday mornings we suppose to be sleep in’s but that never worked. Grab a bowl of cereal watch smurfs, the banana splits, & looney tunes. Mom & dad would get up and run us off the t.v so they could play nintendo! their favorites was Dr Mario lol
Jeanni says
How scary is this? I remember using my tape player to “record” General Hospital and then I could listen to it back. That was back in the days when Rick Springfield was on!-somehow only listening wasn’t the greatest. 😉 I would have never thought about being able to tape it and watch it too!
Angie Adelman says
Seeing all of those things brought back so may good memories….I remember playing with these things as a kid. Thank you so much for the memories.
Julia Schemmer says
I love this post! 🙂
Sandra Schultz Hurt says
We had the best cartoons from the 60’s, much better than the stuff that’s on t.v. today. On a windy day we used to tie old sheets to our bikes to make a sail-bike so we could just cruise along.
Kim Getchell says
Saturday morning cartoons are some of my best memories. The cartoons today just aren’t the same as they were 30 years ago.
krista grandstaff says
I was just walking my daughter home from school yesterday, and talking about being a kid…staying out til the streetlights came on… one or two phones in the house, so if you wanted to talk to your friends and your parents wouldn’t let you on the phone, you hopped on your 10 speed and went..lol.. I told her that I remember our first cordless phone, microwave ( we made pb&j just so we could heat something up, and quickly found out that it would make the contents into MAGMA..lol..) vcr.. and cable… when we had 4 channels, and it used to go off late at night with the national anthem… she said I was “WEIRD”… 🙂
Leilani says
OMG! I love the Garbage Pail Kids!
Rebecca @RUtheMOMof says
LOL good to know I wasn’t the only one who would rewind a tape a million times to write down the words of a song.
BalancingMama (Julie) says
My mother HATED Garbage Pail Kids! I was never allowed to have any, but always laughed at the ones my friends had. Remember station wagons with the backward-facing seat that could pop up in the cargo area? (Wow, that was safe.)
Ty @ Mama of 3 Munchkins says
Don’t laugh! But, I have a huge box of Garbage Pail Kids Cards in my closet along with my original Nintendo, lol. Oh, and I still have some of my cassette tapes from the 90’s. So sad lol!
Amy Green says
The playplace at McDonald’s with all of the McDonaldLand characters,, the “Nick Rocks” music video countdown on Nickelodeon, She-Ra: Princess of Power, California Raisins toys from Hardee’s, Fruit Roll-Ups (they even came out in chocolate), fruit scented markers, Trapper Keepers, new shoelaces, The Get Along Gang books, Jem, “Beverly Hills Teens”, and Rose Petal Place
Amy Green says
“Spider Man and His Amazing Friends” (I LOVED Firestar-I thought she looked just like me), Bubble Yum, Return of the Jedi stickers at the vending machines just outside the supermarket, when Luis and Maria got married on Sesame Street, the Barbie spin-off dolls: The Heart Family
Jo-Ann Brightman says
I remember when the television sets were so small you needed to sit up close to them
Toni says
Every one of those things reminds me of my child hood LOL. I need to do a post like this 🙂
Christi @ The Thriftynistas says
I still love push-ups!
Mom Foodie says
I’m a little older than you. Cassettes were the “new thing” when I was a kid, we had mostly 8 tracks & Pong was our first video game… wow I’m old…lol
Louetta Carpenter says
I love seeing things that bring up memories. All those pictures I remember growing up. It is great to have memories it lets you remember so many wonderful things about life you may have forgotten.
Danita Vojta says
Whenever I see a porcelain doll from China it reminds me of the one I got from my dad one year for Christmas as a child Oh how Ioved that doll,and it was my very first China Doll too.
Colleen says
What an awesome memory. I love how items can invoke such memories.
meegan says
I remember smurf, care bears, gummi bears, my little pony and all of the old cartoons and i look them up on youtube to show my nieces and nephews the originals since some have come out again.
Colleen says
Funny how My Little Pony came around again how about Rainbow Brite?
Suzanne Deleon says
LOL, You must be the same age as my daughter, because these are some of her favorite things!
When I was a kid, you had to have a key to tighten your metal wheeled roller skates, and 8 track tapes were in. The big and first video game was Atari and the game was called Pong. I do remember being given a nickel and you could get a whole bag of candy at the corner grocery store, a loaf of bread was 5 cents and a double dip of ice cream was 14 cents at the neighborhood soda fountain. Boy those were the good old days! And of course, those good ole Cracker Jacks have been around for ever. It seems to me though, when I was a kid, they had better surprises inside the box than they do now. I remember getting rings a lot! Thanks for bringing back a flood of great memories with your article! 🙂
Colleen says
I did have an Atari I remember those as well, Loved Frogger and QBert. And agree about the Cracker Jacks prizes
Gina H. says
Oh the Push Ups remind me of my Grandma. She always had them for us. Such sweet memories!
Colleen says
I had one over the weekend at Boomers but it was rainbow I want just plain old ORANGE!
valerie says
All of those really bring back memories! I also remember the Pound Puppies, the original cabbage patch dolls, and my Cindi doll.
Colleen says
Totally remember Pound Puppies and I remember the HUGE Cabbage Kids craze!
Marty Harris says
I remember all those and they take me back
Penelope (NYC Blogger) says
I remember it all!
Billie says
Aww, I love all this stuff. Especially Nintendo!
Colleen says
I know I love looking at things from the past.
Debra Mahadeo says
Yes, I remember!
Amy Green says
Ms. Pac-Man, Christmas catalogs, “The Wonder Years”, Golden(TM) Sticker Fun books,”The Tracey Ullmann Show”, Lee Press-On Nails, Bill Cosby doing Coca-Cola, Kodak film, and Jell-O pudding, Just Say No, Whitney Houston on “Silver Spoons”, Elton John getting married!
Lindsay Lee says
Awwww! I remember all of these things! That makes me feel really old! I miss all of those things!
Kathaleen says
Your Cracker Jack Post reminded me of my Father many years ago . He would bring my Brother and I a surprise when he came home sometimes, one day it was Cracker Jacks. It’s funny that this isn’t a big deal now -a -days, for something like this, but thanks. We were silly about the the surprise at the end of the box.
Kathaleen says
Thanks for the Cracker Jack post. This brought back a memory!
Blessie Nelson says
The cassette tape really brings tears to my eyes…I had rooms full of them and had to leave them!