We used to make our own halter tops out of bandannas and scarves. We sewed colorful fabric inserts into our pant legs to make them flare even more. We wore our jeans out and then put fun patches on the holes.

I must have been living under a rock, because about half of these {or more} I never heard of...

The lunch boxes are worth thousands of dollars today, 2024. The Pet Rocks was priceless. Just the best of our times growing up. Born in 1963, it was the most cherished memories.❤

The Butter nut candy bars was the candy to buy in East Texas, then, the Pay day, they had Chocolate Pay day candy bars too! And the Zero was the next candy bar. I never heard of the other candy bars named, Milkshake candy bars. Yes, I remember those candy bars, but the Milkshake. I never heard of it. I do remember the Mars bar and the Milky Way candy bars. Children was in silence in eating these candy bars. They enjoyed eating them.

Not a cookie but anyone else miss banana dreamboats or ocean spray hard candies?

I miss the chocolate wafter. My family used to make a pie with them

Born in 63 and did most of the things in this video. One year my best friend and i slept outside in a tent in the yard all summer through storms and heat. Built a snow tunnel a block long inside of the snow piled up by a snow plow. Also built a tree house down by the creek that mom and dad didn’t know about. Those were the days!!

Glade Spinfresh would have never been in my mom's house. All the toilet paper dispensers in each room were hand-made with simple wooden dowels to hold the rolls in place. A spray can of Lysol was always handy to cover up the occasional foul odor. Coffee was always brewed by the pot just about every morning. Mom never had single-cup brewers in her kitchen. Make a full pot, and that would last you all day. Black-and-white portable TV's were in just about every upstairs bedroom, and the gigantic RCA color TV was for the main family room downstairs. If the antennas accidentally broke off, a new one would be fashioned out of an old wire clothes hanger, and there you go. The 80's were also the last stand for the rotary-dial, wall-mounted telephones with the long curly cords that could stretch for 20 feet or so into the next room. Who knew that landlines would be practically obsolete nearly 40 years later? I would even go so far as to say the 80's were the last time analog thermostats were used to adjust the heat or a/c levels in one's house. Before you knew it, digital took over, and voice commands could turn your systems on or off at any given time.

Oh how I miss Sunshine’s “Lemon Coolers”!!!! Please come back!

Our parents didn't use us to clean house.

This video is spot on! I was born in 1970 and I was never bored in the 80's. Always something to do!

Brachs maple nut goodies were the best.

thank you

I loved Terry Staffords music. This view into Staffords successful career in music writing was very interesting. I wish he had recorded more of those he wrote.

*- Drinks soda after pouring a bee out of it -* “Hey we all eat honey, that’s from bee butts, right?” 👈😂 Oklahoma logic Keep it real, Rhett! Never a dull moment. 😄

Those Snackwells devil's food cookies were the best!

The best Toy ever… Outside. Hide n seek,kick the can,forts and the playground.

Who remembers Babbages where you could get computer supplies and games as well?

Giant stereo systems from Soundesign and others that had the 4 ft tall floor speakers and sound equalizer sliders. They all had dual cassette decks so you could make pirate copies of tapes for your friends.

Why would you have toys and never play with them

remember as a child , if you collected 15 sugar daddy wrappers and mailed them in , you would be send a giant sugar daddy candy bar

The pedals “travel up your leg like a vegetable peeler” 😂🤣 Gets me every time & is incredibly spot-on. I still have the dents in my shins.

orange julius was great, loved those orange shakes. i remember them having regular hot dogs and chili dogs, not hamburgers, however. one thing that unfortunately turned out to be a fad, but i loved them was frozen chocolate bananas topped with crushed peanuts. those were the bomb!

Still have 7-11's in the Chicago area.

Did y’all have Helen Gallagher’s Kaleidoscope? We had them in Cincinnati. They were a sort of hippie/counterculture place, kind of like Spencer’s… and had all this ‘black light stuff’ (like velvet posters and signs and crap) way in the back of the store.

Jack Hobbs record store, Woolworths, Ingram's ❤

I grew up in the 70's no health and safety as a child i loved it and still here im 59 years old

Val Kilmer should have got Oscar he gave the role style pizazz nobody tops Val Kilmers Doc.

Oh man it was so awesome and the 80's was definitely a time completely different because the style and the neon it was a time of fun and seldom boredom because there was always something crazy coming out that just made us smile.

1980*s were just more *HAPPY* 🥳✨🌟💫🌞❤️💘💝💖👄🌈🌞🪐🍿🧊🍭🍬

Good news on Souplantation/Sweet Tomatoes (where I live) They had reopened up a Sweet Tomatoes in Tuscon, AZ, back in April, and it seems to be thriving! I plan on making the drive from Phoenix to reunite with my favorite restaurant ever 😁

My favorite candy of the early 1960s was the "Mason Mint", it fell out of favor with the introduction of the " York Peppermint Paddy" I preferred the Mason Mint because it was sweeter and creamier.

See what they took from us!!!

Eh? I thought landline phone jack are still common though being repurposed for internet?

Yea I'm Dead😐

Life then was just better

I was born in 1974, so I was a child into early teenager during the entire 80’s. Everything the narrator was saying, I was saying: “Yup” “Yup” “Yup” lol, man I miss the 80’s so much

The people in that area have always been a little short on intelligence... especially the engineers.

the good old day's man I feel old lol

0:10 what a GIRL 😁💋💖. 4:41 oufff !!! 😵👍💕

Got my drivers license in 1968. First car was a '56 Chevy. I'm so fortunate to have lived during that time, it was THE BEST, especially compared to now. Wish I had a time machine to go back there.

Dear Rhetty, What you're going through/have been through with your mom, I went through with my dad. Dementia is a terrible dragon. It eats everything as time goes on. I'm so sorry you're having to deal with it. Please, never feel badly that you need to take care of your family. We're all going to be here when you have time and energy. My very best wishes for your whole family 💐♥️

Thanks for the update and great to see what you look like! Your channel is my favorite and something I can relate to. Looking forward to more videos.

You also used the pencil to rewind your cassette tapes so you didn't wear out your 6 D batteries in your boombox.😊

Loved the fact that we finally got cable in the 80s. We went from 4 channels to 22. We didn't have to wait 3 minutes to change the channel as we turned the rooftop VHF antenna.

I still remember going out to dinner at the Ponderosa restaurant and hurrying to finish so we could catch the Knight Rider premier on TV.

That big hair of the 80s ain't coming back without destroying the ozone layer😊

I’m in my ‘60s, and have eaten at Sbarro maybe 20 times, usually under duress - shortest line at the airport, no other option, etc. I have been disappointed every time. How Sbarro manages to survive while decent places like Farrell disappears is beyond me.

Great memories with this short video ,you made Rhett .thank you for sharing .

Zima means winter in Polish