Cat-egories

When I was a kid….

There weren’t cartoons on all day , every day. I watched Reading Rainbow, 3-2-1 Contact, Square One TV, and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. Sometimes I would watch a Disney Afternoon, I could still go for some Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers or Tail Spin.

Pluto was a Planet

I spent 90 percent of my time outside. I don’t remember being supervised that often, but we did live in the middle of no where

I had maybe three pairs of shoes, sneakers, brown dress shoes and black dress shoes

I had my picture taken every year at school and at walmart

I loved my Polaroid camera

There was a chalk board in my classroom and sometimes you had to clean off the erasers by banging them on a rock or sidewalk

There wasn’t a phone in every classroom

We had three computers in our classroom and we used them to play Oregon Trail

I had a lunch box that came with a thermos. My first one was Care bears. My one after that was She-Ra

It was exciting to pick out a new Trapper Keeper at the beginning of every year. I especially remember my green one with puppies on it. I still remember exactly how a new Trapper Keeper smelled.

It wasn’t a matter of if I would get a Cabbage Patch kid at Christmas, but how many I would get.

I loved my rabbit fur coat

I looked like generic little white girl

People at school thought I was strange, and I realize now that I was

I loved playing kick ball and Frisbee

Slap bracelets became banned in our school after “incidents”

There was a think called the sissy test where you would use an eraser to rub a piece of skin off of the back of your hand. It became such a problem that there was a special assembly about it.

My hair was really long, then really short, then really long, and then medium length. There was this time that I was sick for a week with strep throat and my hair got super tangled. I decided to just cut a chunk of tangle out of it. When my mom saw it, I tried to convince her my hair was falling out. She quickly figured out the ruse.

Strawberry Shortcake toys were the best because they smelled good.

I loved my Rainbow Bright Doll and my Popples.

We had a Commodore 64. We typed a screen full of code to here it play La Cucaracha. I remember playing a baseball game and an alien game on the computer while eating red hots

You could buy candy cigarettes, and I thought they tasted good.

I bought a roll of Breath Savers just so I could break it down the middle just like the commercial

I though Zack the lego maniac was hot

Share your own random childhood memory.