Wanting a waterbed because they were the coolest thing ever. Also, they were the funnest things to jump on:
Knowing that any good battery-operated toy required at least half a dozen C or D batteries:
Seeing cigarette ads everywhere and not even thinking twice about it:
And there being unsupervised cigarette machines everywhere and not even thinking twice about it:
The huge confusion over there being two cartoons called Ghostbusters — it just did not make sense in your mind:
Being inspired to draw by just looking at the cover of a Mead Académie Sketch Pad:
Being very tempted to eat Crest Sparkle because it tasted like minty candy. Oh so, so sweet:
How the illustrations from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark were actually more frightening than the stories. Okay, yes the stories were very creepy too, FTR:
Watching Gremlins and thinking you were going to watch a cute movie about a rabbit-chinchilla creature and not a frightening horror movie about monsters that terrorize a small town during Christmas:
Having a collection of Disney Read-Along Storybook and cassette books, which you'd sometimes play just for the songs they included in them:
That every kid owned these rainbow flip-flops — that were also super painful, since the nylon on the straps would rub against your toes:
That every kid owned a pair of these Fisher-Price roller skates that were actually impossible to skate in:
That either you owned or knew someone who owned a Cabbage Patch doll whose name was immediately changed after they "adopted" it:
And that either you owned or knew someone who owned a Rainbow Brite doll that ended up covered in crayon marks and with the yarn hair all undone:
Collecting shiny Sandylion stickers that you'd get from a craft store or stationery shop:
And, of course, displaying your collection in sticker books:
How gross the stickers you had to lick tasted in Sticker Fun books. Also, how they dried all wrinkly and never stuck right in the book:
How these Coca-Cola cups left a waxy taste in your Coke (or at least in your mind it did):
And how these were the design of the default disposable cups that everyone's family used at picnics and BBQs:
And getting hungry whenever you played the Pizza Party game:
Playing with those sliding puzzles and eventually getting frustrated with it and just pulling out all the pieces and putting them back together correctly:
The absolute disappointment you felt anytime you made shaved ice with the Snoopy Sno Cone Maker and only ended up with a slushy mess:
And knowing that if you went to the store with your parents, they'd nine times out of ten give you a quarter to get a prize from the lucky eggs machine:
Finally, being completely traumatized by that episode of Punky Brewster where Cherie almost died after being locked in the abandoned fridge:
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And I grew up in a different decade apparently.
Agreed. I was born in 80 and remember almost all of these so it points to the middle-end of the decade.