What I wouldn't give to go back to the 1980's and undo a lot of the decisions I made back then.

The 80s just had a vibe. I miss them so much. No other decade felt the same way. I'm proud to still have a sewing machine and a recipe box in my house. Some things shouldn't phase out.

Was in my 20s in the 1980s.. wouldn't trade a single MINUTE of that entire decade for ANYTHING!! Some of the best years of my life were spent having lots of fun in the '80s!

I wish I could go back to the 80s and relive every moment and appreciate every day with my mother now that she is in a nursing home with dementia I keep playing back my childhood

It's weird seeing a piece of my life in a historic context.

Married in 1980. My kids were born 82, 84, 86 and 90. The 80s were my decade of young motherhood and being a wife. Still happily married. And btw, not only do I have a sewing machine, I use it frequently and not just to mend things.

I still have my popcorn ceiling. 80's are hands down, the best decade ever... As far as the long phone cords... OMG.. I didn't know anyone who didn't have one that could span three rooms. Hilarious to think about that now.

I was in my 20s in the 80s, so I was young and broke. My place was full of thrift store furniture and appliances. For, at least, the first half of the 80s my place looked more like a cross between the 60s ;and 70s. My 1970s La Machine was my prized kitchen appliance. I still have it and it still works great.

Turned 18 in 1984 and loved the ‘80’s. The girls hair, the rock bands hair, me having hair. 😂

The world book encyclopedia was my introduction into everything science and space age in the 70s and 80s. I credit my grandparents for keeping those books current for me and my dad. Seriously, my knowledge of trivia is directly tied to those books I read over and over again.

Born in 75, the 80’s were THE BEST. I’d go back in a nanosecond! Man I miss those days.

The encyclopedias didn't get outdated too quick because, every year, a yearbook was sent out to owners . It updated the set with new current "discoveries" and such.

My family didn't have funds for Encyclopedia Britannica, so in the early 1960s they purchased a set of Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedias one a week from our local A&P.

As a child in the 80's I learned some of the best vulgarities, while watching my dad and his friend install a garage door opener.

I miss the eighties! That was the decade!! ❤️ Thank you for the trip down memory lane. So many great times 😊

I had a sewing machine then and made all our clothes. We couldn't have afforded them otherwise, and my workmanship was better than the stuff in stores. I still have a sewing machine, which I use.

My dad gave me a word processor typewriter when I started college in 1988. You could type out an entire sentence on the little screen, check it for typos, then "print" it on the page. I can't say that really saved any time, maybe paper 😅, but I used it for every assignment and essay. Loved that thing!

I'm remembering those big, square glass bricks that used to be everywhere. And so many public spaces like doctors' offices were decorated in purple and grey.

My parents bought me a set of World Books in 1975. A bit over a year later I had read all 22 of them cover-to-cover!

I still have a recipe box 🙂. Thank you for this fun look back

I grew up in the 80’s. Born 1980. We had every single thing mentioned here in my family home. Popcorn ceiling, floor to ceiling mirrors, sewing machine, cane chairs, big tv on the floor,even that exact same wallpaper with the brightly colored tulips, all of it!

I was one of those teen agers in the 80's. And I remembered everything in this video. It was a much much better time. I am now shopping for a hot tub time machine😁

My first child was born Dec. 26,1980 when I was 23. That was my decade of having children and trying to be an adult lol.

My mother got me a recipe box several years ago for Christmas and included all of our family’s favorite dishes from a couple of generations. ❤

I love my popcorn ceilings (sparkles in the living and dining rooms). Never need painting. Deaden sound. Hide dirt. They still look great after 55 years. I also have Formica counters, carpet and wallpaper. I could care less if my house is “dated”.

My mom was an expert sewing machine user. Wasn't anything she couldn't fix.

My father built our home in 1963 and we always had a wireless remote control garage door opener

I really miss the furniture televisions. They were often very good looking with really nice wood, and they were so much more homey looking than today'sTVs. They looked like they belonged in a living room, whereas today's TVs look like they belong in a store or an office.

As a kid, we were fairly poor, my mom made a LOT of our clothes. *all* of our Sunday clothes, jackets, vests, bow ties ... my sister's dresses .. all of our Halloween costumes, dolls for my sister. Plus any worn out clothes were cut apart, and used to make blankets, pillows, and toys, like puppets, Raggedy Anns, or whatnot. I remember fondly the clack-clack-clack-clack of the sewing machine in the other room as we kids went to sleep; mom making stuff to avoid buying stuff.

Strained my back moving many console TVs in my time.

Let's not forget the other kitchen appliances! The Rival Crock Pot in avocado green (still have it!) and the Presto Sandwich press that made all SORTS of stuffed sandwiches!

Makes my heart ache to grab my family and go back in time. 🧡🧡🧡

I remember my childhood in the 80s. I wasn't allowed in the "good living room" and I didn't dare mess up the carpet lines from the sweeper.

My mom still has a box of recipes on the kitchen counter, but I think it's probably from the 70's. It's a bright yellow plastic box, and the recipe cards have a picture of the food on the front, with the recipe printed on the back.

Love the shot of the old recipe cards which also show how we sadly aren't taught cursive handwriting anymore. I still remember my Mom's and Grandma's beautiful handwriting. I try to keep it up but mine will never look as pretty because we just don't write much anymore!

I don't believe something is outdated if you like it use it I don't know who decides what's outdated if I want something and I like it I'll use it ‼️😊

Well out of all the things from the 80's my family had all of it. I got my own phone on Christmas and it was in my room. My closet along with my parents had mirrors. Air popcorn, the table and chairs, encyclopedias, TV, garage door opener, and many other things we had in the 80's. It was such a wonderful time to live in. My high school friends and I talk about it whenever we all get together which is quite a bit. If only we could go back in time I wouldn't change a thing. Thank you for the memories

I feel like you made this episode just for me. I am currently researching home interiors from 'life before the internet' and I overlooked the sewing machine and recipe box. The wallpaper was also inspiring for my pet project. The encyclopaedia I had considered along with the dictionary but the full set is what I needed to see! You might want to do a 'life before the internet' episode because there is a lot that can be done with that. The hallway has the phone, phone books, newspaper on the door mat, glass milk bottles to put on the front step, notepad by the phone and personally written letters. The mobile phone has replaced much of this. Please keep this series going and do not be shy to borrow my 'life before the internet' suggestion, I for one will be watching. Thanks again!

Those answering machines were so important. I had a good lol at recording and re-recording the message! Good vid, thanks.

Popcorn ceilings are still a thing,. Sometimes the texture varies but we still install them.

A component stereo rack system with two large tower speakers was in every upbeat 80s home

I remember when we had a VCR with a wired remote that was just long enough to make it to the big cozy chair, I'd get into a Snug Sack during the cold months and watch a movie and the only thing I had to ever get up for was to put in a new movie or take a bathroom break.

Wireless technology was available for garage door operators in the 1950s. My father was in the garage door business. In early 1960s I went on repair jobs with him and later with my uncle. There were plastic tuning rods that tuned the frequency of the indoor operator to the hand operator that you kept in your car.

My mother in law left us her house and we moved into it in 1989. I still have the popcorn ceiling in my kitchen.

I entered college in 85 and my parents bought me an electric typewriter. I thought technology just went as far as it could. In 83, Dad installed floor to ceiling mirrors in the dining area to make everything look bigger and by 86, they added white carpet. Both really hard to clean. After all these years, I am in my 50s in the same home, I put wainscoat panels half from the floor with the mirrors because they cracked, the white carpet got so dirty and brown, it was pulled out in 04 and replaced with laminate wood. Yes the 80s was a unique decade.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Back then, life seemed more innocent and a simpler times. I was in my middle school years.

Loved this. Brought back so many memories. The 80s were a great time.

My favourite shortwave radio was a product of the 1980s. Panasonic made a bunch of different ones. And most were large compared to smaller ones today.

The 1980's were great times !!

I got one of those air poppers for my birthday one year. It sat in the kitchen and was probably the most used kitchen device we had.

I still have these from the 1980's. Trapper Keeper Transformer toys Transformer lunchbox, never used Star Wars action figures & toys A working Commodore 64 with many games on 5 1/4 floppies. Magnavox clock radio model 3090; which every morning in 1986-87, the local radio station would be playing Crowded House - Don't Dream it's Over.

Sewing machines... My mother and grand-mother had the entire basement converted into a sewing "room". It had 2 machines, a surger, a large area for cloth storage, a filing cabinet with patterns, a huge cutting table in the center, and various other craft-oriented work stations around the perimeter. It was quite the set-up. I spent a lot of hours in that room as a kid, reading books, doing homework, and working on my model train. Good memories!

Only the more expensive homes had glitter in the popcorn ceilings beginning in the early 70s. My grandparents built a house in 1971 and the first night I stayed there, it gave me a nightmare. Of course I was only 6 years old.

Born in 63. Graduated from HS in 81. I remember them all and the nation would be well served to return to those days immediately!

6:25 Greater than 75 % of the information in Encyclopedias did not change or were not invalid even across decades of time. As a solution to obsolescence you simply bought yearbooks each year to keep track of the majority of the items that would be updated in that given year.

When I was a kid in the 80s, we had an old Encyclopedia set from 1963 that I often used to help me with science or history reports, etc.

One of the drawbacks to popcorn ceilings was how sharp the points were. If you got a helium balloon and let it loose it would get popped really fast on that ceiling, making a very unhappy child!

HELL NOOOO!! Popcorn ceilings are gonna' make a comeback!!! (They better, I don't feel like scraping my ceilings.)

I still have a sewing machine. Even if I don't use it as often, I just couldn't be without. I recently bought an air popper that I need to use.

Love this, brings back so many good memories

I was born in 61. Of all the decades of my life the 1980s had the best music hands down.

Oh the 80's. Wish I could go back!! I remember us kids doing our homework on our new electric typewriter! Lol

I graduated high school in 1986. One time, I told a friend (who's the same age as me) that I wished I could go back to that decade and he asked: "Why would you want to go through high school again?" I said: "Who said anything about going back to high school?? I just want to live in the '80s again!". Life, the world, and just about everything else was a lot better than it is now.

I still use the last sewing machine shown all the time to sew my own clothes! They made things to last back then.

This doesn't feel very long ago. I inherited my childhood home so I still have my mom's sewing machine, have all her handwritten recipes on index cards, she passed away in 2015 but I'm lucky to still have her recorded message on the answering machine. Oh, and you'll find a few popcorn ceilings thru out the house leftover from my childhood. 🥰

So much pink and turquoise. And so much brass. Watching just made my heart ache with nostalgia.

Omg! This video just made me soooooo happy and nostalgic!

World Book Encyclopedia sent out an annual update every year with tabs to be placed in the original set for reference.

My parents added onto their home in the late 80s for my paternal grandparents to live in. This addition was actually a self-contained rancher attached to the main house with a laundry-sewing room in between. That room was outfitted with a built-in ironing board and lots of low counter space on one side for sewing. My mom still has the sewing machine she got when they got married. My dad did clothing repairs and alterations, while my mom made some articles of clothing for my sister. Our encyclopedia was purchased in 1964 and was an Americana. They also got the annuals and science annuals, year after year, for many years. We also had a huge unabridged dictionary which they purchased in 1964 also.

This was my early parenting decade. Answering machines were a godsend to Girl Scout leaders! I still have my Brother sewing machine and hauled it out to make masks in the Covid lockdown. I also still have my grandmother's Singer from the 1920s that I learned to sew on when I was a 1960s teenager. Phones with a loooong cord, cassette tapes, air poppers, yup, and video stores were a staple. The first home computers came out in the mid-80s, and they were glorified typewriters that could print - my kids loved to print Snoopy banners on the long rolls of printer paper. Internet came later ... memories.

I still use a sewing machine. I typed my husband’s graduate school papers on a typewriter. My mom owned an interior designer business and we had patterned wallpaper and bedding. I still use my recipe box by Longaberger. Oh the answering machine lol… My parents had floor to ceiling mirrors in their sunken living room. My kids laugh that we had to go to the library to study in college. Great trip down memory lane!

I loved the 80s! I grew up in the 80s. I would absolutely go back to that time.

6:21 - The Encyclopedia Brittanica Kid is Donavan Freberg, son of Stan Freberg, who wrote, directed, and narrated those commercials.

That was much better than I was anticipating...most of the 80's tribute videos miss the mark.... this one was pretty spot on. One side note, my grandfather and his brother invented the machine that sprayed on the acoustic ceilings....

Was a kid in the 80s. So many good memories

OMG, what a blast from the past!

The main purpose of “popcorn” ceilings was really quite practical. They helped cancel noise echos off the ceiling.

The stereo systems in the 60s,70s, and 80s kicked serious butt.Even my 70 year old grandma had a marantz receiver that would blow out the windows

My parents gave my sister a sewing machine as a high school graduation gift (1984). I have my mother’s old sewing machine that had been given to her as a wedding present in 1963. It is built into a table and has a knee pedal instead of a foot pedal. My legs were too short to reach it when I was first learning, so I’d pile up encyclopedia volumes to get my leg high enough. Another good use for encyclopedias. lol

Sewing is popular for quilters. We have a designated room too

I live in an apartment building that was built in 1992. Every unit has a popcorn ceiling.

That brown glass cookware. We had a skillet and several pots made of brown glass. Everything stuck to it. Even water would burn.

Popcorn ceilings were awful. I had a Brother electric typewriter. Thank you for the video 😄

I grew up in the 80s. By 1984 I was 18, and in the USN. After being discharged in '88, in college and on my own. One thing that I remember, was how much phone bills were. Long distance calls, which in some places, could be only a couple miles away, but in the next area code. Would cost a fortune for the time. Then when Big Bell was deregulated, and you were free to choose your phone company. Other long distance carriers started popping up, offering plans for 25 cents a minute, if you called during certain hours, usually late at night. Still a 20 min phone call could cost $5.00. The wasvery limited cell phones. No text messaging, or unlimited calling to anywhere in the US. If you weren't careful, you could easily end up with $200.00 phone bill

Glass bricks, halogen torchiere lamps, phone books, electric adding machines with little paper rolls, those classic blue and white casserole dishes with lids, "His" and "Her" monogrammed towels, digital alarm clocks with red glowing numbers or clock radios with flip numbers, stackable component stereo systems in those clear glass cases or the more budget cassette radio boom boxes, monthly selections from Columbia House, hot rollers and crimping irons, the first fridges with ice dispensers in the door, sun tea jars on the back porch, ginzu knives somebody bought from an infomercial, TV Guide and Readers Digest on the coffee table next to an ash tray and a little bowl of scented potpourri, a pantry with cans of spaghetti-Os and Chicken a la King and canisters of General Foods International Coffee, boxes of Capn Crunch, frozen Lean Cuisines and pudding pops in the freezer, Johnny Carson on late TV, those corded early cable channel changers that made a zipping/click clicking sound as you slid the lever... I'm nostalgic!

I turned 10 in 1979 and remember all these things. What the article missed was that air popped popcorn was part of the low fat craze that started in the 1980's. Although microwaves did exist, they were cost prohibitive in the early 1980's, so most people popped corn on the stove ala "Jiffy Pop." This popping method required butter or oil to prevent the popcorn from burning.

This video is great. My wife and I grew up in the 70's and early 80's. Brings back a lot of great memories.

Except for the floor-to-ceiling mirrors and the popcorn ceilings, I ticked all the other boxes during my 80's youth! I especially remember this massive RCA color TV we had in the living room that looked like a piece of furniture to which a GE VHS player was hooked up. Upstairs was a smaller color TV to which I hooked up my home gaming systems. And many an 80's schoolwork assignment was typed up on a Smith Corona electric typewriter

I remember when the hand blender came out in the late 80's. It looked so futuristic that it appeared in Total Recall.

Re all these "forgotten" things, with times being as they are right now, with prices rising, maybe more people staying home and not running around in their cars for fun, you can definitely learn how to do some things for yourself. Just check out the DIY channels right here on you tube regarding sewing, rehabbing, cooking, car repair, cutting your own hair, how to manage your finances better, you name it. I really enjoy watching the DIY and how to be frugal type channels even though I may not be into everything I'm watching. I enjoyed the 80s and was in my 30s then, frankly my best decade all the way around.

Awesome vid. Another item I remember being popular in the 80's (from the 70's) were waterbeds. I never understood how anyone could find them comfortable...LOL.

My first answering machine was one of those Radio Shack models. It worked really well, and I liked having saved messages on a cassette.

My sister used to run three videos stores and you could buy a VHS reminder for like 10 bucks so you wouldn't have to pay the fee to get to VHS rewound when you returned it

In the home I lived in in the 1980s, most of what you mentioned we didn't have. We did have 2 sets of encyclopedias. One set was very old and given to us by an aunt the other Mom bought but ended in 1963. I do have a recipe box but it's metal and I got it from Nabisco, it's shape like the box that their shredded wheat came in. I did watch the Golden Girls that you showed near the end of your video. I never saw a home with ceiling to floor mirrors. Used to have a sewing machine but it was never in the laundry room. Electric typewriters were available in the 1960s. I know I took a typing class when I was in high school and learned to type on one, though I wasn't very good at it as I wasn't fast enough. Thank you. God bless.

My mom had a black Singer Sewing Machine. We had telephones in the kitchen, living room, and my parents master bedroom. 👗 ☎

We didn’t have an electric popcorn machine in our house my parents popped popcorn the old fashioned way on the stove in a tiny pot that had melted butter in it we also use to go the old A&W restaurant and get ice cream to make root beer floats I miss the simpleness of the 80s wish we could go back to the way things used to be

In The 1980's I had a popcorn kettle. It consisted of a stovetop kettle with stirring paddles in the kettle with a crank on the top. When done 1/2 the cover would lift up to dump out the popcorn. To me, it made better popcorn than the air-popper.

Growing up in the 80s we didn't have a lot as my parents were on a fixed income, but I loved that decade & really wish i could go back & stay there. Thanks for sharing.

Sewing machines are making a comeback. I was looking at a $17,000 CNC one at JoAnn Fabrics

The 80s were such a great time movies and music was good it was the last decade before so many negative influences started invading media .