The Good Old Days V's Now

[712xx]

I remember Cabbage Patch dolls-I lost mine and I want another one.

I still have 2 CP dolls and a Koosa doll. I'm not especially attached to them. You can have them if you want? Maybe to be safe I could send them to one of the admins here and they can pass it on to you?

 

[Jen93]

Thank you for the offer 71xx. I think that I will just hug Mary. She's as good as any Cabbage patch kid! :) I also believe that dolls are always comfort, to give one away is like giving away a photo you love-a memory and a friend.

 

[712xx]

They don't hold any special memories for me. If you change your mind, just ask. :)

 

[catjudo]

 

[wife of]

Summer of '76 best year ever to be five...long hot days..tons of fun lining up for water at standpipes...bathed in the sink..learnt to ride a scooter and wore hand me down shorts n ts all summer while building a den wirh my best mate.

Could do with a few days back there...

 

[712xx]

Being a teen in the 90's ... hmm, well I'm sure there were some things unique to us (but I'm afraid to admit most of them.) I may have liked Vanilla Ice -- but only for a few minutes I swear. :cool: I was on heavy seditives at the time, so I wasn't thinking clearly.

We were the 1st generation to learn how to use a computer at school. The first to have mass availability video games at home rather than having to go to an arcade. I wonder if the quarter distribution dropped because of this?

We had car phones, pagers (1st to get them on the banned list at school), air bags became more standard in our cars, environmental issues became more mainstream and taught to us in school and by the media.

Let us not forget Punky Brewster (as a kid of the 80's). May her mismatched sneakers make it to the Smithsonian one day.

Edit Addition: I wouldn't call my past the "good ol' days" though. As bad as I feel most days, I still would rather keep living in today and moving forward -- as far away from the past as I can manage. Although, some days I feel like I have a bungee cord tied around my waist and I get jerked backward from time to time.

 

[KP the nut]

Summer of '76 best year ever to be five....

Oh, I am so with you on this one. I was 16 and did my O' Levels that year. So much free time, it was an amazing summer.

 

[KP the nut]

Can anyone else remember buying the 'Bunty' and cutting out the clothes which had little tabs which would fold over paper dolls?

 

[wife of]

Teen in tge 80's..wham..Duran Duran...Spandau ballet..Paul Young..Ultravox..and soo many more..

Rara skirts,bubble skirts,duster coats,leg warmers and enough hairspray to kill the ozone layer on the back combed hair...

 

[wife of]

Our alternative to Anthony would if been "dear Cathy and Clair" in the Jackie..

 

[catjudo]

Can anyone else remember buying the 'Bunty' and cutting out the clothes which had little tabs which would fold over paper dolls?

I'm not sure what the "Bunty" is but a couple of weeks ago (as part of her Easter basket) I got my daughter a book of paper dolls and clothes with the tabs to fold over. Simple fun but very exciting for her.

 

[KP the nut]

Oh my, I used to love Jackie. I once wrote to Cathy, I'm too embarrassed to say what about :oops:.