1) You wore a rainbow shirt that was half-sleeves, and the rainbow went up one sleeve, across your chest, and down the other.
yellow half-sleeved shirt with a multi-coloerd (but not a rainbow) stripe that went across the chest and looped around...2) Or did you have a unicorn?
that was my BROTHER'S thing3) You made baby chocolate cakes in your Easy Bake Oven or snow cones from your Snoopy Snow Cone Machine?
i got a Snoopy Snow Cons Machine for a HS graduation gift!4) You had that Fisher Price Doctor's Kit with a stethoscope that actually worked?
no5) You owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a plastic basket with flowers on it.
bannana seat had flowers, but no basket6) You learned to skate with actual skates (not roller blades) that had metal wheels.
the roller rink did't allow metal wheels, and we roller-skated to Disco Star Wars and the Music Box Dancer, thankyouverymuch!7) You thought Gopher from Love Boat was cute (admit it!)
watched it, but i had a crush on Charo8) You had nightmares after watching Fantasy Island.
didn't watch it9) You had rubber boots for rainy days or Moon boots for snowy days?
we wore bread bags over our feet inside our snow boots... how's THAT for cracker?10) You had either a "bowl cut" or "pixie", not to mention the "Dorothy Hamil" because your Mom was sick of braiding your hair. People sometimes thought you were a boy.
i wouldn't get a haircut until i was 13... so i went straight from long plain hair to 80's hair...11) Your Holly Hobbie sleeping bag was your most prized possession.
Holly Hobby was Devil's spawn. i cast her out with the powers above...12) You wore a poncho, gauchos, and knickers.
i was a late-comer to the knickers fad, but not by my choice. i was still wearing mostly my brother's hand-me downs (sans unicorns...)13) You begged Santa for the electronic game, Simon.
i didn't need it. my cousins had it14) You had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple satiny shredded outfits.
*shudder* ...no...15) You spent hours in your backyard on your metal swing set with the trapeze. The swing set tipped over at least once.
ours was well anchored so it never fell over, but that didn't stop me from falling OFF of IT...16) You had homemade ribbon barrettes in every imaginable color.
once i turned 5 i no longer had to wear barrettes17) You had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard sole and the buckle).
i would have had combat boots in Kindergarten if i had been allowed...18) You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad; you wore that Little House on the Prairie-inspired plaid, ruffle shirt with the high neck in at least one school picture; and you despised Nellie Olson!
ruffles-- once again, Devil's Spawn. i don't know who Nellie Olson is...19) You wanted your first kiss to be at a roller rink. Of course.
i didn't care WHERE it was as long as i could be kissing Lynda Carter!20) Your hairstyle was described as having "wings" or "feathers" and you kept it pretty with the comb you kept in your back pocket.
yeah, we had those combs that they always gave you on picture day, but no feathers or wings...21) You know who Strawberry Shortcake is, as well as her friends, Blueberry Muffin and Huckleberry Pie. And don't forget Apple Dumpling!
i learned the Strawberry Shortcake characters just last year (2004) when my friends went as the "Naughty Adult" versions of the main characters22) You carried a Muppets lunch box to school and it was metal, not plastic.
i was SO CHEATED. my lunchbox was probably the last one on the bargain table, i bet, and it was a plastic JABBER JAW lunchbox... i'm still scarred...
23) You and your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of Hazzard was your boyfriend.
it was all about the car, dude. and i had guy-friends at the time, not girl-friends.23) Every now and then "It's a Hard Knock Life" from the movie, Annie will pop into your brain and you can't stop singing it the whole day.
i guess...24) YOU had Star Wars action figures, too!
not only did i have Star Wars figures, i remeber that the Jawas originally came with PLASTIC capes, not cloth capes!
25) It was a big event in your household each year when the Wizard of Oz would come on TV. Your mom would break out the popcorn and sleeping bags!
i totally forgot the part about watching it in sleeping bags!26) You often asked your Magic-8 ball the question: "Who will I marry. Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, or Rick Springfield?"
ick, ick, and ick... even if i DID like guys...27) You completely wore out your Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and Fame soundtrack record album.
Xanadu. Even saw it in the theater. Twice.28) You tried to do lots of arts and crafts, like yarn and Popsicle-stick God's eyes, decoupage, or those weird potholders made on a plastic loom.
today all that is called "recycling"29) You made Shrinky-Dinks and put iron-on kittens on your t-shirts!
we made our own iron-ons (draw on typing paper in reverse with crayons and that's your iron-on) and i had the COOLEST glow-in-the-dark Shrinky Dinks that had skulls and skeletons.30) You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape player up to the speaker.
we did that to songs on MTV... back when MTV played music and was commercial-free31) You couldn't wait to get the free animal poster that came when you ordered books from the Weekly Reader book club. Double score if it was a teddy bear dressed in clothing.
um... no... i didn't read as a kid. i played outside...32) You learned everything you needed to know about girl issues from Judy Blume books.
um, actually my brother read those... hmm... 33) You thought Olivia Newton John's song "Physical" was about aerobics.
wait... what's it REALLY ABOUT?34) You wore friendship pins on your tennis shoes, or shoelaces with heart or rainbow designs
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i didn't have friends... that cared about stuff like that...35) You wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer. Still do!
i think my brother and i played "Solid Gold Dancer" as a game...36) You had a Big Wheel with a brake on the side, and a Sit-n-Spin.
my neigbors had the sit-n-spin. we weren't allowed Big Wheels, but we had real bikes pretty early37) You had subscriptions to Dynamite and Tiger Beat.
I had a subscription to Star Hits which was the American sister magazine to a British teen-music magazine called Smash Hits. but when we were younger we had WOW and Bananas magazines38) You spent all your allowance on smurfs and stickers for your sticker album!
yeah, we bought Smurfs before the cartoon came out. i spent my allowance on Hot Wheels, too...
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