Even though I was in high school in the 90's, it was such a boring decade. .....I mean really the 90's didn't have too much going on. Baggy pants, grunge style, and the whole goth thing. Eww...... Dull and boring. I don't miss too much from the 90's... but man I miss so much about the 80's!! The 80's were awesome! It was such a fun decade to grow up in. I think if I had to come up with a list of the things I miss most about the 80's it would be something like this:
1. Colorforms! .....Oh man! So simple, but I loved these things as a kid! Mork and Mindy colorforms, Smurfs colorforms, and of course the completely awesome Barbie Dreamhouse colorform!! That one was special!....The Holly Hobby one at my Grandma and Grandpas house was also super cool since you only got to play with it when you would visit them, and I think that one even had glow in the dark house lamps. COLORFORMS ROCK!
2. Olivia Newton John. You can't get much more awesome than ONJ. I remember my sister and I playing her record over and over again (of course there was always that skip on the record in the same part of the song). Olivia was especially cool in Xanadu ... rockin the roller skates and the shoelaces in her hair. That chick had style.
3. Punky Brewster. I wished that girl was my BFF.
4. The store GREAT NEWS! .....Oh man I miss that little shop! This place was the most awesomest store ever!! Half an aisle full of all kinds of awesome candy that you can hardly find anymore. Like gum cigarettes with real puffing smoke, cinnamon toothpicks, candy buttons, bit-o-honey, Abba Zabba etc. They also always sold those awesome NEON lights, like the pink flamingos and neon green palm trees. So trendy. I think I always got my favorite cabbage patch & smurf figurines there too. What a store! I wish that place never went out of business! :(
5. Latchhook. Remember these things? I loved getting a brand new box of latchhook!! (probably got them at Great News too). I don't know if I ever really finished an entire latchhook rug though. It was always fun at first, but it would get boring after awhile. It was always exciting when you finally got to switch yarn colors!
6.MINI ARCADE GAMES! SO much fun. Qbert, Pacman, Donkey Kong, Frogger. SUPER HIGH TECH for the 80's!
7. Choose Your Own Adventure books. What an awesome idea!! Why don't they make these anymore?? Your best bet with these books was to choose the scariest option and face your battles head on. ...If you chose the "run away from the scary monster" or especially the "run and get help" option, you were almost certainly going to die some horrible death by a freak of nature accident on your way to go get help. Go figure.
8. Jelly shoes! ... On second thought, maybe I don't really miss these things or the the nasty blisters these shoes would leave on your heels. But you HAD to rock a pair of jelly shoes if you wanted to look cool! And there was no way at my age that my parents would have allowed me to rock the MADONNA style. So neon colors and jelly shoes was about as far as I could go with the 80's fashion statement. (And of course maybe the side ponytail).
9. George Michael, Faith Video. Self Explanatory.
10. John Hughes movies. They just don't make em like that anymore. It was definitely was a sad day when he died. Some Kind of Wonderful, 16 candles, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Thankfully his movies can be watched over and over again, but the 80's (thanks to John Hughes) was definitely a great movie making era.
SO many great things from the 80s!.... Rubix Cube, Big Wheel, Pee-Wee's playhouse, mixed tapes, shrinky dinks, Merlin, Simon, INTELLIVISION (yes even before the Atari) , Big hair, Gemco, bangles & loads of bracelets, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince.
Man I miss the 80s.
