My childhood

Dearest Sandra mentioned shopping for school supplies which just inspired me to come up with this random list of youth related things so blame her...

-Trapper Keepers (a new one every year. duh!)
-The acompanying folders that only fit into said Trapper Keepers
-Mead
-# 2 Pencils
-Marble composition notebooks (bonus points if you could get the colored ones)
-Book protectors/wrappers
-Anything prominently featuring Keroppi or Hello Kitty (not for me of course)
-Metal lunchboxes with thermoses (mine was Annie)
-'Scratch and sniff' anything
-Bazooka (and you have to share/swap the comics with friends)
-Think Michael Jackson and Prince were the same person (I did!)
-Own a headband
-Wax on wax off
-Color Me Badd
-Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
-Know how to properly spell "Sike!"
-Tamagotchis
-Cabbage Patch Kids and Garbage Pail Kids
-Neon clothing
-TGIF (AND the jingle)
-Alf (i had the hand puppet)
-Know who Balki Bartokomouse is (hello Perfect Strangers!)
-Mr. Belvedere
-'Picture it...Sicily 1949...'
-Hogan's Family
-227
-Know who was "movin' on up to the east side, into a deeeelux apartment in the skyyyy"
-Empty Nest
-Nurses
-The Smurfs and the Snorks
-He Man
-Transformers
-Thundercats
-Know that it's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and not TMNT as it is known today
-8 bit Nintendo (knowing the duck hunt gun had to be ON the tv screen to work and blowing on the cartridge to get the game working)
-"only $19.99 plus shipping and handling"
-Landlines
-Walkman
-Love Phones with Dr. Judy on zzzzzzz100
-Making tapes (including diving at the stereo/hi-fi to stop recording from the radio once the song ended)
-Hate Barney
-You brought Trolls to school
- "___________ & ____________ sitting in a tree, KISSING, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage!"
-MASH (the show and the game)
-The fine art of making fortune tellers
-Have they found Carmen Sandiego yet?
-Small Wonder
-Be confused by the Macarena
-Slap bracelets
-PeeWee's Playhouse

Last but not least, be prepared to discuss the previous night's episode of 90210, Melrose Place, Cheers, Seinfeld, Fresh Prince, Blossom, Full House, Dawson's Creek, Different Strokes, and/or Friends. Only discuss Golden Girls with VERY close friends. Oh and have people make fun of you because you weren't allowed to go see movies which resulted in you missing crucial avant-garde cinema such as Pretty in Pink, Space Balls, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off and relevant references stemming from those films (ie., Bueller!) until much later in life. Oh wait, that was just me.

we've got some additions!

Tube socks (neon color=bonus points)
Scrunchies (had way too many of these)
Zinc sun protection (wore this at camp...I remember the bright pink)
Slip 'n Slide (loved that thing in the summer- although it killed the grass on my lawn...)
MC Hammer Pants
Cosby Show
Family Ties
Rainbow Bright
She-Ra (had to mention her if you mentioned He-man)
Carebears
Cabbage Patch Kids (I recall one that burped)
Pepsi Clear
Goonies
Zest commercials (those "zestfully clean" commercials were catchy)
Tie Dye Shirts
Bleaching jeans
those hideous colorful "rings" you tied up your long t-shirts with