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Newtwood ( member #21154) posted at 12:56 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Depends on what you mean "kid"...Childhood it would have to be Barbie, Jingle (the "early" version of Skip it)and the Easybake oven.My brother had the Thingmaker...it's a wonder we didn't burn our house down between us! 
High school pet rocks, mood rings, platforms, jumpsuits, hot pants with suspenders and Earth shoes. Anything labeled PEASANT-dresses, shirts, skirts etc.
Faithful Wife of 24+ yrs: Me
WS: Him
OW(s): AFF Skanks/GRANDMOTHERS!!!
Status: Struggling Everday to
Survive
what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another-Anatole France
willowiris ( member #5372) posted at 1:07 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
In elementary: Prairie style blouses, feathered hair, camaros, ooh..did anyone else have a fake plastic lemon on a plastic thingie. You put the plastic ring around your ankle, swing the lemon and jump over it?
Middle school:
Rubik's cube
Jordace/calvin klein jeans
Van halen
denim jackets.
high school:
Argyle sweaters
big hair
aqua net to get big hair.
shaker sweaters.
leg warmers (might have been middle)
Neon socks. (also might have been middle. The eighties blended together)
Jelly bracelets.
D-day 09/2004
Filed for divorce 9/2006
We accept the love we think we deserve. "The Perks of Being a Wallflower."
Defiance ( member #8265) posted at 1:18 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Well, in hindsight these were stupid, but I loved them.
Boomerangs. Yes, you could actually buy one and have your very own lethal weapon to wreak havoc with.
Jawbreakers. Those giant sized choking hazards that broke teeth faster than a hammer.
I have to say that Superballs were also lethal, in the wrong hands.
-D
Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
darkbeast ( member #19220) posted at 1:26 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
This was when I was in Elementary School:
Rainbow Suspenders (like Mork from Ork)
I thought I'd be more awesome.
MovingUpward ( member #14866) posted at 1:27 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Pop Rocks and Fun Dip
There was a lightly carbonated beverage called "Rondo" similar to Mello Yello sold in at least Minnesota.
Roller skating
hopelessromantic ( member #25415) posted at 1:32 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Big hair
rolled up cuffs on your jeans
boom boxes
parachute pants
jean jackets
BS-Me FWS-him (bigdog)
D-Day 5/3/09 TT til 6/22/09
Behind every woman scorned is a man who made her that way.
refuz2bavictim ( member #27176) posted at 1:34 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
darkbeast ( member #19220) posted at 1:35 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
I thought I'd be more awesome.
scared&stronger ( member #15942) posted at 1:37 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Disco, jeri curls, leg warmers(thank you Jennifer Beale)satin pants(satin anything 
) The Steel Curtain.
WS 45
BS 43
Met when we were 17 and 15. Together since 1983, married since 1985. Two kids, B21, G15.
d-day 4-3-07
Life has a way of making us get our panties in a wad.....I refuse to wear panties ever again.
UR_AN_IDIOT ( member #18764) posted at 2:18 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
You know what else was "in"? Littering. Seriously. It's embarrassing now, but back then it was nothing to chuck trash out the car window. Done with your milkshake? Throw it out the window. Ashtray overflowing? Throw it out the window. WTH were we thinking?
Really??? Was this why they made the commercial with the American Indian and the big tear running down his face?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM
Also the Smokey the Bear commercials confused me because I lived in the inner city with nothing but concrete and blacktop. There were no trees to burn down so I didn't get it until my 7th grade class trip to the Pocono mountains.
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Me: BW 56
FWH: 58
Married 33 years
DD 31 DS 28
Reconciled
mom of 2 ( member #11214) posted at 2:28 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Yes, it really was that common and no one even blinked an eye about it.
I remember that commercial! There were several PSAs about littering that came out.
Again not proud of it, but it was very commonplace. 
Me: BW
Divorced after 23 years of M thanks to XH's truth trickle.
Status: Recovering and healing. It's going to be a long hard road.
Update November 2013: It only took seven years but I finally turned a corner. :)
dreamlife ( member #8142) posted at 2:29 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
denim overalls
snazzy jogging suits
~XWH told me what I wanted to hear but he always did whatever he wanted to do~
"He called me a bitch.
I called him an ambulance."
Linda H.)
sullymeishadomi ( member #16305) posted at 2:43 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
those stupid leashes with a harness so you could pretend to have a dog.
(please tell me someone remembers those!)
Uhmmm....I...uhhhmmmmm....I had one of those.
PerpleNerple ( member #3224) posted at 2:44 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
I recognize some - some I don't.
I was born in 1980.
When I think of "in" things from my younger days....
Headbanger's Ball - I used to watch it with my babysitter - this was after my mom got ready to go out for a night of dancing while listening to Milli Vanilli or however you spell it
Pinch rolling the legs of my stonewash jeans.
Crimped hair.
2 pairs of socks - that color coordinated with the shirts/pants I was wearing.
Ponytail on the side of my head. 
NKOTB - I had the sheets - the books - the magazine posters etc etc etc
I did the flannel shirt baggy pants I wanna be grungy like Nirvana thing in high school.
I was still buying cassette tapes when I got my first car and got me some Spice Girls (what was I thinking??)
"Unconditional love does not mean unconditional crap absorption"
~Oh, what tangled webs we weave, when first we practice to deceive~ Sir Walter Scott
sullymeishadomi ( member #16305) posted at 2:56 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
PINK
Pink eyeshadow, pink lipgloss/lipstick.
Long flowing cowboy type skirts to go with those praire tops.
Feathers. Can't forget those. (The hair and farrah ripped off the neighborhoods. Sorry.)
Roach clips with the feathers we'd clip to our hair.
Spoon bracelets.
Black rubber band things. We'd wrap two together to make the bracelet.
Remember those tennies. Blue with three white stripes on the sides? Think late 80's.
Quiet Riot In one h.s. I went to in CA there were a handfull of guys that dressed in the same type of clothes as Quiet Riot. The skin tight pants, the ripped shirt and that hair!!!!
Long sleeved valor shirts with vneck.
CHiPS (my fav show).
Fantasy Island.
Love Boat.
After shcool teenage shows. Family somthing or other.
School house rock.
Shazaam/Isis
The chipmuncks (they'd take popular songs and the chipmunks would sing them...this was in elementary school).
New Wave. So into Souixie and The Banshee's, Billie Idol, Duran Duran....
Too nostalgic here.
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UR_AN_IDIOT ( member #18764) posted at 3:11 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
The theme from American Gigolo....I still hear it in my head...wasn't it a Blondie song?
Also, straight leg jeans rolled up.
Saturday Night Fever
having a vent brush sticking out of your back pocket and a bandanna tied around the thigh.
cut up sweatshirts to look like Irene Cara in Flashdance.
stick pins
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Me: BW 56
FWH: 58
Married 33 years
DD 31 DS 28
Reconciled
faithhopeandlove ( member #28482) posted at 3:30 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Blow Pops! We used to sell them in the hallways at school.
Aqua net hair spray, I practically had wings in the 8th grade.
Friendship pins!
traicionada ( member #10310) posted at 3:32 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
MTV...Back in the day when they actually showed music videos
Real love is a CHOICE, NOT a feeling...
Defiance ( member #8265) posted at 3:33 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Not stupid at all, but something I just remembered.
POW or MIA bracelets for the men and women missing in Vietnam, each with the name of that person.
I saw far too many of those.
-D
Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
authenticnow ( member #16024) posted at 3:42 AM on Friday, September 3rd, 2010
POW or MIA bracelets for the men and women missing in Vietnam, each with the name of that person
My sister and I wore those.
DS, you are forever in my heart. Thank you for sharing your beautiful spirit with me. I will always try to live by the example you have set. I love you and miss you every day and am sorry you had to go so soon, it just doesn't seem fair.
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