Back when all you need was some pizza , a boombox , and a fewMTV ’s Party to GoCDs to throw an awing political party .
1.Fruit juice made from frozen concentrate that everyone just assumed was healthy because it was “juice”:
2.The oh-so-cool-for-like-a-week 3D posters that you could hang on your bedroom wall like artwork:
3.The charts inside your Trapper Keeper Portfolio folders, and then, forgetting they were even there and never using them:
4.MTV’s Party to Gocompilation CDs, which always featured music that was several months old and always the edited version of it:
5.And Time-Life Music’sSounds of the ‘80scollection, which they played commercials for all the time during daytime television:
6.The lumpy and worn-in armchairs you’d sit in at Barnes & Noble:
7.The listening kiosks at music stores, and the absolute struggle it was to be able to listen to the album you wanted to without it already being occupied:
8.Wow chips that were made with Olestra and gave peoplediarrhea:
9.Snapple’s Elements that came in glass containers and tasted oh-so delicious:
10.The magazine stamps and ordering forms that came in the Publishers Clearing House mailer:
11.The 75 folders you’d have to open up in Windows just so you could play Solitaire:
12.Country goose decorations and accessories, which moms loved to have all over their kitchen stuff:
13.Princess Dianacommemorative magazines, which your mom had displayed on her coffee table for months:
14.Bath oil beads in the bathroom that were purely decorative and nobody ever used…
15….and also in the bathroom, decorative coastal gel candles that were covered in a permanent layer of hair, grime, and dust:
16.These wicker paper plate holders, which had an 80% chance of pricking you whenever you used one:
17.Pepsi cans that came in this can design (primarily white and red with blue accents):
18.And Taco Bell sauce that came in packaging that looked like this:
19.McDonald’s Orange Drink (served at school functions) that used to come in this beverage cooler:
20.Mentadent toothpaste, which was the bougiest and messiest toothpaste you could get:
21.E!‘sWild Onseries, which was kinda soft core porn-ish:
22.20/20hosted by Hugh Downs andBarbara Walters. And also how every few months, your parents would interrogate you about something they saw that “kids and teens are doing.”
23.Mom-and-pop video stores that had adult sections behind curtains or saloon doors:
24.All the imitation CK One fragrances that were at every drugstore:
25.UsingEncartafor reports — and always hoping they had something or enough on the subject you were doing the report on:
26.The plastic strawberry baskets that you would make projects with at school — like forEasterbaskets:
27.Car stereos that had the removal faceplate (which everyone would usually just put under the seat):
28.Mr. Sketch scented markers that came in the Styrofoam holder and that would eventually start falling apart:
29.And lastly, this exact square radio alarm clock that everyone had in their bedroom and would wake you up to the ~sweet~ sounds of whatever station you had it on:
