2. Everyone wanted 'Tubby Toast' for breakfast
3. Games in the school playground usually involved 'pogs' and 'tazos'
4. The tape coming out of your video was always a distressing time
5. Everyone had at least one of these in their pencil case
6. As well as some smelly gel pens
7. We were all expert fortune tellers thanks to these
8. Everyone was obsessed with these
9. You sent your tamagotchi to work with your parents because you couldn't have it at school and you couldn't let it die
11. The excitement of renting a video from here
12. Your game didn't work? Just blow in it!
13. You couldn't drink orangeade without doing this...
14. These guys were the reason to get up early on a Saturday morning
15. You still have a box somewhere full of these
16. You always wished you could make a 'big Art Attack'
17. You remember Furby from the first time round
18. This was the must-have for every bathroom
19. There were new episodes of Friends that you hadn't seen before
20. You had to clear your inbox to receive more texts
21. You had a pair of these the first time round
22. The Fresh Prince of Bel Air song
23. You remember Opal Fruits being around
24. You always wanted to take these for your dinner, even though they were horrible
25. These were the best thing your mum could come home from the supermarket with
26. Your first real emotional involvement in a film
27. These were the boys
28. These never had babies
29. It was effort to get a good ringtone
30. Having to delete characters and spaces in your messages so it didn't cost you an extra 10p
31. The first thing you did when you bought a new CD was check you had the lyric book so you could learn all the words
32. This, a microphone and a blank tape meant hours of fun making your own radio shows
33. Everyone wanted a Bernard's Watch
34. The 'grown-up' film that even you could watch
35. Everyone wanted to go on this show and take on the travelator
36. Robbie leaving Take That
37. The decade of the boybands
38. Blobby, Blobby, Blobby!
39. Everyone wanted to go on this
40. The cool glittery skipping ball which looked strangely like a ball and chain
41. Kinder Eggs weren't ridiculously over-priced and actually contained a good toy
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A great post, good to see some of these things again. Have to be honest I don't remember skip rope??
ReplyDeleteThank you! Ah don't you? Every girl (and some boys!) had them in our playground at primary school :) x
ReplyDeleteI was there. Its so true. We all had one.
DeleteThis is amazing, so many memories
ReplyDeleteLove this!!
ReplyDeleteLove this! My 3 year old son loves rugrats so I still get to watch it :D great memories here
ReplyDeleteAww that's a great excuse!! :) xx
DeleteAh Rugrats...Chuckie was voiced by a woman, who was surprisingly pretty. She also voice the pig Babe in the movies...useless fact of the day there :) What the hell wqas Froofoo. And don't think ever lusted after a pocket watch. Still, all good memories :)
DeleteThat's so weird, I actually read an article about the Chuckie/Babe voice lady last week!
DeleteFrufoos were yoghurts with a toy in the middle and yoghurt and sprinkles around the edge - total rubbish but the best thing ever as a kid haha!
Taken back to my childhood!
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Sweet post :D and don't forget the series 'Saved by the bell' :D
ReplyDeleteAnd Sabrina! They don't make tv like they used to :( x
DeleteWell do they make anything like they used to not really to be fair things must change
DeleteHahaha so many memories. Especially of me sulking because I wasnt allowed to take a lunchable into school even tho I hated them, hey I only wanted to show off to my friends lol
ReplyDeleteAnd OMG it was like an unwritten rule, who ever knows how to create the simpsons ringtone, is basically god of the playground :D
I was exactly the same - hated the cheese but was desperate to take them to school instead of a boring sandwich ha! x
DeleteGameboy is missing and british bulldogs the game ofcourse , hopefully i need not explain that , and collecting conkers i know we did that in my school :P
Deleteyes yes yes yes and yes - -frufoo's OMG totally forgot about those.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad someone else remembers them - I was starting to think it was just me haha x
DeleteYou missed out go go's they were out round about the same time as the pog craze
ReplyDeleteAmazing! Literally smiled the way through reading this!
ReplyDeletealso the monster munch that turned ur tounge blue
ReplyDeleteI remember a limited edition ketchup that was snot green colour, safe to say Heinz didn't make that again as far as I'm aware.
ReplyDeleteLoved this. Check out my 6 ways your teen self skirted with the law https://johnpaulwilson1.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/6-ways-your-teen-self-skirted-with-the-law/
ReplyDeleteIt would also be good to have a regular facial if your budget allows.
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