The 80's

I love That 70s Show! Jackie has my high school wardrobe. I used to sneak off to the disco to dance a couple times a month. They would have barrd me permanently from the rock n roll bar if anyone found out!

I was a kid during the 80's, too! I had the jelly bracelets. I had a care bear, a cabage patch doll & my little ponys, too!:tounge2: I remember when Tiffany & Debbie Gibson were big, too.

Missy, I still have my Thumbelina doll. Her hair is mighty messed up, but she still moves. The music doesn't play anymore though. I have Sisterbelle that still talks and my Raggedy Ann doll. But boy, I wish I still had my Barbie, Midge, Skipper, Pepper, Dodi, Alan and Ken dolls, and all my Hummels I collected way back when....

I had barbies, too!

OMG!!! I remember alomost every single thing you guys have mentioned!!! :LOL:!! I LOVED Raninbow Bright, Smurfs, Care Bears (my sisters and I even mad a special "Care Bear club" in our garden shed!! :laughing: ) My Little Pony, Cabbage Patch kids, etc etc etc etc... :LOL: Fave though HAS to be Barbie!!!Have you SEEN the actual collectors Barbies?!?!? They are fantastic!! I also used to love "Keepers" - those weird plastic toys like snail or something thay had a key to open their shell with... anyone remember them or do I sound loony!??! and OMG - Judy Blume and Nancy Drew books!! I think I had every single one!! hahaha .... oh and what about The Enchanted Wood books? by Enid Blyton??? Best books ever! (Remember Silky, and Moonface and the Saucepan Man?!?! :LOL: ) Oh man I could go on for ever!!

At the risk of sounding totally dumb.... I just have to ask, do any of you remember "Orm and Cheep"?? Maybe it was just a UK thing I don't know.... but I used to love it when I was little...

I STILL freak out when I see a box of Boston Baked beans or the candy necklaces and boy do I remember the candy cigarettes. We thought we were soooo cool! OK - ....(dating myself here) How about early early TV? Sky King and his neice Penny? I had a Chatty Kathy Doll that I still have - the records were so good that you stuck in her side. How about mascara that came in a little tin and you had to wet it and then put it on your eyes with a small brush? Hula Hoops anyone??????
I still chuckle when I see the pic of my big brother with his first transister radio that was like the size of a big old kleenex box! Ran on batteries........ooohhhhhhhh!
Paper doll kits of Jackie Kennedy?
Metal tuucks and a sand box filled with little green plastic army men?
The original barbie?
A big old heavy pink (no less) Schwinn bike with fat tires and NO gears to shift........
Peddle pusher pants......
"Big" hair......

oh, I have to stop now!

Bodlover - I actually collect the collector's Barbies. You are right - they are beautiful. I guess I never outgrew Barbie after all!

And there were some horrible fashion trends in the 80s! Remember when florescent neon was big? And wearing 3 pairs of socks to match the outfit of course over your pants? Leg warmers - what were we thinking?? The 80s was all about layers like the whole Madonna thing. The bigger the hair the better it was. Makeup was heavy and generally blue - even the mascara!

Scary thing is that it is all starting to come back in style! Some things were better left in the 80s...

Heidi!! Thats cool!! Im still trying to convince hubby that they are NOT a kids toy.... :laughing: they're not, but he just see's them as dolls I almost bought an amazing one from ebay the other day, I think it was one from the Hollywood collection, she was fantstic, and Marylin Monroe one I think?? Anyway, someone out bid me and I couldn't justify paying out £80 for it... poo.... :LOL:

Let's see, I remember.......

Care Bears, I had 4 of them

Strawberry shortcake, I had several of the dolls and the strawberry trolly, a couple of the record read along books

Cabage Patch Kids, I had 2 of them and their pony

Rainbow Bright, I had the sheets and bed spread, the doll with sleeping accessories, and a couple of the sprites

My little pony, I was very sad that I never got any

The Get-a-long Gang, I had the sleeping bag

Jellies

Leg warmers

Michael Jackson

Hissey, My mother's friend gave me her old Bobsey Twins' book. I thought the illustrations looked old fashioned. I got more out of the library, though. When I got older I looked at the book again. The copyright was cerca 1920! Of course, many to the Nancy Drew books were written in the '30's, but it didn't matter to me or my daughters.
My daughter had Thumbelina, Pretzel Jetzel, a pogo stick, and later, a bed full of Care Bears. The older daughter was a real Smurfs fan, and has a huge collection. She doesn't display it any more, though. She's into crystal. Gee, it was cheaper to buy Smurfs!
I was in college in the 80's, majoring in music ed. I've always loved classical music, especially Verdi and Beethoven. (Yes, I know that's not cool! It wasn't cool when I went to high school either!) Anyway, I was an adult. The professor gave us the assignment of transcribing the Ghostbusters theme, assigning the correct instruments to the different parts, etc., so I had to listen to it repeatedly. This was ear training, of course. Eventually, my 8 year old said, "That's your favorite song, isn't it, Mommy?" I didn't want to hurt his feelings, so I said, "One of them!!"

Talk about a trip down Memory Lane!

Pegging and rolling your pants (Did between '85 and '92)

Parachute pants (When I was into Metal)

Howard Jones (Didn't really start listening until '88 and I am stil listening to him as he is still pumping out albums!
www.howardjones.com )

Beastie Boys and RUN DMC!!

Mullets

This one was done for a very short time (about 1987)...

Guys wearing socks that matched their dress shirts!
(Maybe just a CA thing?)

Oh ya...I forgot to mention those Bonnie Belle Lip Smackers (the big ones, about 5 inches long and as big around as a quarter) anybody remember those??? My favorite was the Dr. Pepper one, but I had a whole bunch of them....it was the "in" thing to collect back then!

I had a root beer flavoured Bonne Belle Lipsmackers lip gloss... my first cosmetic, I believe.

Also I had a Cabbage Patch Kid, a stuffed Garfield the Cat and several pairs of neon bobby socks to match sweatshirts with the neck cut out of them.

They still make the lip smakers, I think, Debby! I liked the Dr.Pepper one, too.

Did anyone have the charm bracelets & necklaces ? They were made up of chain-linked plastic & you could buy the charms that clipped onto them?

don't forget "pound puppies" and "pound purries"! i still have mine. the original big ones, not the remakes from a couple years ago. i boight a beanie "pound puppy" on clearance a while ago. talk about a trip down memory lane...was it a prelude to pet rescue?

does anyone remember "golden girl"? i had her instead of the she-ra dolls. i used to have them ride around on my "my little ponies". did anyone have the castles, or other things for their ponies?

i remember cabbage patch dolls too. i was never really into them or barbie though. but i had a couple barbies and cabbage patch dolls.

i love 80s metal too. big hair bands, lol!

How about Gem? She was the barbiedoll type with the hair streaked with a light pink. She even had her own cartoon!

I have a small pound puppy.

Speaking of dolls, this actually wouldn't have been in the 80's, it would have been in the early 70's...but I used to have these dolls, that were way bigger than barbies, that had hair that came out of a big hole in the top of their heads, and there was a little knob on their backs, you could turn to make their hair really short or really long....I had two...Mia and Velvet (the blonde & the brunette)....I still have them both and in their original dresses...one even has the box. Wonder if they are worth anything? They had a redhead one too, I believe her name was Chrissy, but I didn't have her. I loved those dolls!

As a European, I'll bring other names... Modern Talking, Pet Shop Boys, Samantha Fox, Sabrina, Bad Boys Blue, Tiffany, Sandra... At tv: Miami Vice, McGyver, Hollywood Beat.

Litteraven - I had the " My Little Pony" Castle, Grooming palour, Carriage and some other things too - that I can't remember, it was amazing!! Me and my sisters used to spend HOURS playing with them!! We even had the board game!! :LOL:

Oh my gosh! This brings back so many memories...lets see what I remember...I had alot of these things...my little pony, cabage patch kids, lite brite, easy bake oven, care bears, rainbow bright, sorry, chutes and ladders, life, strawberry shortcake, neon colored socks (worn over the pants of course!), jelly bracelets, candy cigarettes (I wasn't allowed to have those though because my mom said that smoking was bad), ...I could go on and on...I had tons of barbies, the house and all the furniture, accessories, etc., chinese jump rope, candy bracelets and necklaces, boston baked beans ( I lived right near the factory that made those ), pound puppies, lipsmakers, pogo sticks, punky brewster, the box car children books...I remember EVERYTHING!!!

I wasn't allowed to watch the smurfs though because my parents thought that it was a bad show. I still to this day have probably only seen 1 or 2 episodes. Does anyone remember those things that look like a no smoking sign that you put the end of your t-shirt through or sidewalk chalk?