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Survive1014@reddit

5 Bedroom house for Gen X? You already failed the assignment. We had to share rooms with our little brothers/sisters.

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I didn't know anyone with a 5 bedroom house. Almost everyone had 3 bedrooms. If there were more than two kids, bedrooms were shared according to gender. The couple of families I knew who had 4 bedrooms all had at least 4 children, so kids were still bunking up.

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Existing-Leopard-212@reddit

We also had 4 bedrooms and 4 kids. I was always paired up.

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papa_swiftie@reddit

A house? You were lucky to have a house! We used to sleep in one room, 26 of us. And half the floor was missing. We were all huddled in one corner, for fear of falling.

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88questioner@reddit

Our house had 6 bedrooms (5 kids) but it was 100 years old and cold as hell. We plasticized the windows in winter. Brr.

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pogulup@reddit

Yup, we had five bedrooms but it was an old farmhouse that had been added onto a couple of times originally built 1880s ish. No heat upstairs to this very day. When it was -20 outside in January I did not want to get out of bed in the morning.

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barelybent@reddit

We had a 7 bedroom house for four of us. Not rich, my dad paid $5,000 for it in 1972.

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sungodly@reddit

Came here for this. Our house was larger than most of our peers and it had four bedrooms.

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COVFEFE-4U@reddit

You're going to need at least 1 water bed with a massive combination bookshelf / headboard / cabinet on it.

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AdditionalCow1974@reddit

Some of that eagle themed decor that everyone got in the 70s because of the bicentennial.

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flex_capacity@reddit

Plastic protector mat on the hallway carpet,

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Sherry0406@reddit

Fourteen year old girl's room needs posters of John Stamos plastered on the walls. (When he was Blackie from General Hospital). :)

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Flahdagal@reddit

A pet rock.

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twitch68@reddit

You can borrow mine. Still have it. Found it in old keepsake box recently. Gave me the giggles and a trip diwn memory lane.

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Flahdagal@reddit

Did you ask it to sit/stay?

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twitch68@reddit

I probably did, was very young when I got it. The things we had as fads.

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NomadFeet@reddit

I am only contributing to the rich people house, something I saw at my wealthy classmates house maybe 1979? and was so impressed and envious about-a whole house Nutone intercom system. In a strange twist of fate, my circa 1995 build home in Florida was apparently the "model home" and came with...wait for it...a whole house intercom system. It's an M&S brand one but the thing still works AND it has a cassette player. We mostly just use it to confuse our pets though.

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Local-Finance8389@reddit

My house was built in 1995 and has the Nutone intercom system! We also have the central vacuum system where you just plug the vacuum hose into the wall.

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Visible_Structure483@reddit

our 1984 build house had one of those, and my mom stashed a bunch of plastic trash bags on top of the central unit in the garage. A handy spot, until the motor got hot and melted the bags into it. Didn't catch fire, but damn that stunk forever.... and busted the vacuum. Back to the electrolux drag behind canister like god intended.

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NomadFeet@reddit

Those are also fascinating! As a kid, I would not have been excited by that but as an adult, very cool! Most of my neighbors have updated their homes and those with intercom systems have gotten rid of them. Even if we remodel, I kind of just want to keep it for nostalgia.

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D33m0n533d@reddit

Don't forget all the brown glass ashtrays in each room and the one giant one in the living room on the side table next to the TV dinner folding trays... Oh, and the yellowing plastic covers on all the furniture.

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TenuousOgre@reddit

On top of the television a set of silver antennas covered in aluminum foil. And a set of lawn darts.

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Thanatologist@reddit

Ralph Macchio and duran duran posters

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NoNameMcNameFace@reddit

Donating a fold out and light up Conair makeup mirror for the teenage girl's room

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Wolvansd@reddit

400 baud modem where you had to put the telephone handset in it.

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bravenewwhorl@reddit

Popcorn air popper, next to an enormous microwave with a dial button

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According-Gazelle362@reddit

The microwave! I have a little memory vignette of us doing our first official cook in that thing. Hot chocolate. Appliance the size of an ottoman for a mug of hot chocolate. The popcorn popper with the metal butter melter. Good times.

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winston198451@reddit

Forget contributing an item, I want to know how I make reservations for a week's stay!

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boringlesbian@reddit

Ferns in macrame hanging planters.

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ShelbyDriver@reddit

And string art on nails on black velvet.

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Gomertaxi@reddit

Oh god, yes. My parents had a string-art sailboat and penny-farthing bicycle hanging in their bedroom.

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cvaldez74@reddit

Velvet bullfighter painting.

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International1466@reddit

You need some of those plush couches with the covered wagons on them.

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NJ_Tal@reddit

A coffee can on the back of the stove. Half filled with 5 years worth of bacon grease

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CynicalLogik@reddit

We used a mason jar.

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010011010110010101@reddit

I still save bacon grease - makes for nostalgic popcorn!

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jvlpdillon@reddit

Star Wars sheets for a twin bed.

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Dekay172@reddit

I still have mine and use my starwars blanket nightly as my blanket since the 2020s feel just like the 80s. I thought I needed more support from my childhood. It seems to work.

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Princessferfs@reddit

With matching Star Wars curtains

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Ouakha@reddit

My brother and I were big time readers. Sci-fi and fantasy. Our shared bedroom had at least two large posters by the illustrator Rodney Matthews.

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sharksandwich70@reddit

A rotary dial or push button telephone mounted on the wall (probably in the kitchen).

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Osiristhedog1969@reddit

With one of those 20' curly phone cords

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immersemeinnature@reddit

That's all messed up and will never untangle

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Sorry_Nobody1552@reddit

![gif](giphy|jx1YEC2I8dkcdUw7pu|downsized)

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immersemeinnature@reddit

So many varieties 😂

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rockjones@reddit

[Send Help! ](https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2009/08_w34/173008/Picture-10.png)

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pdx_yankee@reddit

Avocado 70's green

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SayYesToGuac@reddit

Or burnt orange with 911 sticker on the back

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cvaldez74@reddit

And 2 phone books - the white pages and the yellow pages.

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Queasy-Security-6648@reddit

You will need to ensure that the line is a "party line," and halfway through that call to your girlfriend, your neighbor hops on and says, "Are you done yet .. I need to call xxxxx?"

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tilbib@reddit

Above the phone is one of those wood paper holders that one of us made in woodshop.

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iwantmy-2dollars@reddit

Adding machine tape for paper

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Alovingcynic@reddit

Kitchen counter radio.

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OryxTempel@reddit

It has to be undermounted to the kitchen cabinet

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Alovingcynic@reddit

It should be, but my parents were too lazy! :)

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SayYesToGuac@reddit

Lava lamp. The original kind that were big. Macramé owl… my mother collected (cultivated?) dust the way some people collect stamps. I’m sure that owl did not help alleviate my frequent, Benadryl-induced comas.

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Cuddles_McRampage@reddit

Teenage girl's bedroom has posters (or pictures torn out of Tiger Beat). Options include Duran Duran, Adam Ant, Michael Jackson, any hair band, Harrison Ford (Indy or Han), Pierce Brosnan, Ralph Macchio, John Schneider/Tom Wopat, or others I can't think of right now.

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DeadDirtFarm@reddit

Plus a curling iron and hair crimper. Can of Aquanet nearby.

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KnotMadameDeFarge@reddit

Or rave!

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lilesj130@reddit

Kirk Cameron, Ricky Schroeder & the entire cast of The Outsiders early on. Later add in Luke Perry & Jason Priestly.

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010011010110010101@reddit

I’ll do the teenage boys bedroom: posters of cars - a Lamborghini or Ferrari is mandatory. Music posters or tees - minimum 50% of which must be early heavy metal bands - AC/DC, Def Leppard, KISS, Ozzy, etc. Pictures of female celebrities, doesn’t matter so much who, as long as they looked hot (with a couple exceptions I can’t remember), aaaand the stubs from every single concert you’ve been to tucked into the mirror or somewhere

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raisinghellwithtrees@reddit

I'm a younger Gen x than you, and I offer menudo and the outsiders posters.

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deathproofbich@reddit

Nicotine stained paneling on the walls

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hoIygrail@reddit

Kitchen canister set featuring geese with blue ribbons around their necks

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gunni070@reddit

My Evel Knievel crank up stunt cycle with posable action figure.

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Ok_Depth_6476@reddit

Atari 2600.

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pdx_yankee@reddit

Intellevision

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Ok_Depth_6476@reddit

That's an acceptable substitute!

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buzznumbnuts@reddit

I love Intellivision. Love the games, but the controllers leave a little to be desired

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jvlpdillon@reddit

Connected to a 13" television.

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Ok_Depth_6476@reddit

Make sure it's on channel 3.

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010011010110010101@reddit

With rabbit ears cocked at odd angles

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NoExcuseForFascism@reddit

One of them broken a segment or two down replaced with a coat hanger and/or foil.

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Sorry_Nobody1552@reddit

I was gonna say foil...lol

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-DethLok-@reddit

I'm early Gen X and I don't think I ever heard of a 5 bedroom home as a child! And wall to wall carpet? I saw the ads for that on tv, but can't recall visiting any home that had it. And when I bought my house, about a decade later I ripped up all the cheap crappy carpet and had it replaced with laminated wood look flooring - best upgrade ever.

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pdx_yankee@reddit

Parked in the driveway A 1978 Datsun 810 A 1979 AMC Gremlin

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twitch68@reddit

The Datsun has to be poo brown.

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RadHawtLuv77@reddit

Mismatched Tupperware. https://preview.redd.it/kta9tbn5sj0d1.jpeg?width=1078&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7738ae103d8b41421a496ff34257ffd0283af234

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twitch68@reddit

I still have that olive one with the lid (pinched off my mother).

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twitch68@reddit

My Walkman and Atari (with Pong and a few other games). Plus a Boris the Black Knight mug, bowl and plate (for the Australians on here).

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floofymonstercat@reddit

X-Wing toy with Luke Skywalker Action Figure

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Reasonable_Smell_854@reddit

I think I had a land speeder since it was likely the cheapest toy

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floofymonstercat@reddit

me too

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seersucker205@reddit

Boom box

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greatswitcheroo@reddit

Not only that, but an interactive exhibit where you get to copy a cassette, capture radio or record your voice.

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vinegar@reddit

On the coffee table, a clear cube to display 5 photos. Some are Polaroids.

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VegetableRound2819@reddit

Tie-out chain or cable for the dog.

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052-NVA@reddit

Those wired cable boxes with the row of buttons and a switch that would triple the choices. Brown wood finish. The ones some of your friends had but your parents would be fucked if they got cable before you moved out.

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Prestigious_Fox213@reddit

I actually remember when we got ours. I was ten years old. Our black and white tv finally broke down, so my mum decided to replace it with a colour set, and got the remote at the same time. First show I watched on it was The Brady Bunch.

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runawaystars14@reddit

You know my parents?

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052-NVA@reddit

Ha! I guess a little bit

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Rich-Air-5287@reddit

Avocado green appliances in the kitchen

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sixpackshaker@reddit

And no one knew what an Avocado was.

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Prestigious_Fox213@reddit

Avocado was obviously the name of the colour - just a nonsense word made up by appliance manufacturers. (Grew up in Canada thinking bananas were exotic fruits…)

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Lily_V_@reddit

We had them because we lived in California.

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LVMom@reddit

Agree. Although we were a Harvest Gold family

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FurryFreeloader@reddit

Harvest gold for the win!

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Saint909@reddit

That’s one of the few colors that I’m glad is forever stuck in the early 80’s.

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FurryFreeloader@reddit

But it’s back! I was in a model home in a community being built across the street from me and it was done in harvest gold, avocado green and rust. Personally, I despised rust and we had carpet that color which was hideous.

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Saint909@reddit

NOOOOO!! Ugh. What’s next? Lacquered furniture?

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foetusized@reddit

My first apartment (1993) came with an earth brown stove, avocado dishwasher, and harvest gold refrigerator. It was the trifecta of 70s appliance colours.

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FurryFreeloader@reddit

My parents remodeled kitchen in late 70s and we had harvest gold kitchen and dishwasher but we had a brushed steel stove. My early childhood home was recently for sale and the brushed steel stove was still there and looked great. My mom complimented the harvest gold with a wallpaper with gold and avocado green pattern and crisp white curtains and a random owl.

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runawaystars14@reddit

Yes, with dark brown cabinets and orange walls.

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Prestigious_Fox213@reddit

Is there a semi-finished basement? If so, I will happily provide some orange shag carpeting and a ping-pong table.

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AvidHarpy@reddit

A set of 4 tv trays on a stand and if they are differnet patterns, the kids will fight over a favourite one. Different colours of faux wood panelling in the basement rec room, the old living room furniture and a framed velvet painting (bullfighter or Spanish dancers or a semi-abstract city scape) on the wall..perhaps some complimentary string art pictures.

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heat-wave-222@reddit

For those great 80s hairdos: Aquanet, curling iron, hot rollers and crimping iron

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Benjamin_Grimm@reddit

Wood paneling for the den

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Scabbedwings207@reddit

*shudder* I'm highly convinced that is one of the causes of my depression.

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Lily_V_@reddit

With a naugahyde couch

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DerDoobs@reddit

We have wood paneling in our ‘60s house. Love it.

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SnooSnooSnuSnu@reddit

Hah, beat me. I had wood panel in my room too.

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steveh_2o@reddit

I see a few people have donated an Atari. I have one of those antenna/game switch boxes for the back of the TV. About the size of a pack of cigarettes. It's sort of clapped out with tape holding it together and the Y terminals are gone, so the wires are stripped back and looped where you hook it to the TV ...but it works with a bit of jiggling.

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Cyrus_Imperative@reddit

>it works with a bit of jiggling kind of like some of us Gen-Xers, huh?

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010011010110010101@reddit

So, 100% authentic and true to the era then? This is how I remember all of them being!

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CriticalEngineering@reddit

Brown plaid woven high backed sofa that no one liked but everyone agreed to.

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runawaystars14@reddit

Covered by a crochet afghan.

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robhutten@reddit

No word of a lie, I miss a good crocheted afghan.

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AffectionateDraw4416@reddit

Learning to crochet isn't too hard. I learned from a book. It's more a late fall and winter hobby , damn hot flashes.

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gofargogo@reddit

I used to watch the scary aliens in Star Trek through the holes in that afghan.

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CriticalEngineering@reddit

Oh, you came to visit.

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runawaystars14@reddit

And I brought tater-tot casserole.

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Pepper_Pfieffer@reddit

That's a current thing in Minnesota.

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CHILLAS317@reddit

I think you mean "hot dish"

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raisinghellwithtrees@reddit

The Illinois State museum in my town had a Gen X exhibit last year (I think it may still be showing elsewhere in Illinois). The couch was glorious--everything was amazing, really. My kid got to sit on the brown couch with the same generic pictures of country scenes on the walls, and play duck hunt on the Nintendo. Good times. There was a lot more to the exhibit and I'm so glad I got to see it!

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Sorry_Nobody1552@reddit

Toto will play "Africa" Bless the rain down in Afrricaaaa.....

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Cranky_Uncle@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/pjh72q6n4i0d1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b81d2ec7f8e9c68bd93139a913519c8e51af8614 (Little Professor has entered the chat)

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WildlyBewildering@reddit

My mom JUST FOUND one of these in a box! I don't know which of my siblings left it - my contribution to that box was a 2XL.

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PenniesDime@reddit

Merlin and that red line football handheld game join him.

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GlossyBuckslip@reddit

A junk drawer full of dead batteries, keys that no one knows what open, lighters in various states of full or empty, novelty coasters, bread ties and those Hefty bag zip ties and the general flotsam of a household.

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WildlyBewildering@reddit

Wait - did you just look in my house for ideas, just now?

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WhiplashMotorbreath@reddit

The felt like band posters that you put a black light under. you'd buy at spencers

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Rude_Veterinarian639@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/b661rs4ftg0d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c53371d2626a8be924bbc0fa5ed35264b4ac7fcf

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TheodoreQDuck@reddit

Or, if you want to upgrade, a 1984 Sony Trinitron. Same size, and as fabulously heavy.

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UnivScvm@reddit

Upgrade only allowed if the Trinitron uses the console TV as a base.

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Rude_Veterinarian639@reddit

Funny thing is - my parents floor TV lasted all the way into the early 2000's. Even figured out how to hook a Rogers box to it. When they left that house for a condo that didn't need mowing or shoveling - it was too heavy for my brother to pick up and the movers wouldn't and they left it behind. I can still see and hear and smell that room. The rocking chair dad sat in, right off the kitchen. Next to the fireplace. Now y'all have my crying. I miss that house. And my dad.

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ElKristy@reddit

🩷

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Lily_V_@reddit

Grandma’s was broken so she had a little black & white one on top of it!

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TheGOODSh-tCo@reddit

I had a wall sized Swatch watch clock in my bedroom. I’d put that.

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GozerDestructor@reddit

Pastel toilet paper, coordinated to match the bathroom's wallpaper.

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nothingToSeeHere_987@reddit

One set of outdated Encyclopedia Britanica

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GozerDestructor@reddit

Or a *World Book* Encyclopedia. My family had the 1979 edition, which had a lovely "Human Body" article, printed on eight or so sheets of transparent plastic, each major bodily system (circulatory, skeletal, etc.) on its own layer.

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bu11fr0g@reddit

missing a couple letters

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sixpackshaker@reddit

World Book came with yearly updates.

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NoExcuseForFascism@reddit

Ours were 10 years or so out of date, given to us by my grandparents when they bought a new set.

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Fun_Meat_1654@reddit

Three foot pile of Sunday newspapers that Mom promised she’d get around to reading. Clipped coupons nearby.

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Seachica@reddit

Walkman in the teenage girls bedroom. And a ballerina jewelry box on the dresser of the 8 year old girls room

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socialworker5870@reddit

That played the theme from "Love Story."

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gettin@reddit

Waterbed

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OryxTempel@reddit

The world’s largest microwave. It could cook a turkey on thanksgiving!

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Ilikechickenwings1@reddit

we had carpet in our kitchen

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RootHogOrDieTrying@reddit

A box for green stamps on the kitchen wall.

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Ilikechickenwings1@reddit

bean bag chairs

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Ilikechickenwings1@reddit

don't forget the paneling the darker the better

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Ilikechickenwings1@reddit

fake fern plants https://preview.redd.it/xja0n3z1bi0d1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9de1bc8484ee8ec37296c3babe3030a25da2e646

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OddnessWeirdness@reddit

One of those little record players for kids that folded up into a case. A Nintendo game system. Teen Beat magazines for the adolescent girl… or boy.

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Breklin76@reddit

My Darth Vader head action figure case and a collection of 1976 Encyclopedia Brittanica.

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d_rob_70@reddit

A bean bag chair.

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ChrisRiley_42@reddit

The Hildebrandt poster for Star Wars: A New Hope

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bu11fr0g@reddit

mcDonald’s Looney Tunes glassware

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Strangewhine88@reddit

Popcorn walls and popcorn ceilings. You get brush burns from the walls.

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onceinablueberrymoon@reddit

cheap paneling in the bedrooms, paper covered masonite.

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Dazzling_Trouble4036@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/31mj9tj75i0d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36ab9f43d404802bd17e52b2cd9003012d90f0dc the bathroom has this on the counter for sure

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TheQuadBlazer@reddit

Pork Chops in the fridge.

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srgh207@reddit

Are we talking about a Gen X exhibit or just the time period? Nothing would represent the house I grew up in more than empty kitchen cabinets and refrigerator.

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useless169@reddit

Dad’s chair-the one no one would sit in if he were home or expected home anytime soon-finished with genuine Naugahyde!

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Neat_Youth470@reddit

The brown and yellow Barbie house.

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Lily_V_@reddit

My parents had a hip bead curtain in a part of their bedroom. Example: https://preview.redd.it/85v1fy4r1i0d1.jpeg?width=570&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=681761052a5ffaaed6921a4cd87be00d93ea0fec

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LaLaLaLateBar@reddit

Creepy doll in the bathroom with a crocheted dress that covered the extra toilet paper roll.

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amygdala23@reddit

An Idle-Tyme Rolling Ball Clock

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lilsqueakers@reddit

Decorative soaps and embroidered hand towels for the fancy bathroom no one gets to use.

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Princessferfs@reddit

The soaps are rose-scented

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lilsqueakers@reddit

Probably still wrapped in plastic!

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HectorsMascara@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/o46d035eyh0d1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b0fef3d757a1ae87260533fc93def65626701ed0

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Apprehensive-Mine656@reddit

Set of Pac-Man sheets for a twin bed.

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WarrenMulaney@reddit

Brown glass ashtray

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NoExcuseForFascism@reddit

Dark green is also acceptable.

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PurfuitOfHappineff@reddit

“Tot Finder” stickers on the kids’ bedroom windows

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nerudite@reddit

Gold birdcage-looking thing with dripping oil strands.

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NoExcuseForFascism@reddit

Need a chain lamp running a wall somewhere as well.

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Reasonable_Smell_854@reddit

5 bedrooms? Y’all were fancy as fuck… 🤣. We had 5 people in 3 bedrooms / 1 bath and were living typical amongst my peers. I was shocked when I found my childhood home on Zillow and saw that 1,300 sq ft figure. Anyways I’m rambling Back to the question at hand. I’ll contribute the entertainment system: gigantic walnut record player, am/fm stereo, black and white 20” TV and a radio shack pong game https://preview.redd.it/5rlf3mhncg0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48c979bae56c4d2dbe1e6fb1c41ffaa2a939469e

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cvaldez74@reddit

With 8 track player

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FurryFreeloader@reddit

Lived in 1400 sq ft. home with 6 people.

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holybucketsitscrazy@reddit

1800 sq feet with 9. 7 kids plus mom and dad. 1 bathroom with no shower. We set up a shower in the unfinished basement. Oh don't forget a wringer wash machine!

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mr_oof@reddit

Adolescent boy has ripped-out pages from last years’ Sears Catalogue (underwear section!) tucked into a book or hidden in a show box at the bottom of the closet. Also, Lamborghini poster or framed print.

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4eva28@reddit

The Sears catalog says it all

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Reasonable_Smell_854@reddit

My wife grew up in a cult and had to magic marker the sears underwear ads so “the boys don’t sin”

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jfdonohoe@reddit

Ashtrays... everywhere

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blackhorse15A@reddit

But no one who lives there smokes.....yet the ashtrays are obviously used.

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OtherwiseWafer1269@reddit

Teen girl room: gonna have to be caboodles

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assylemdivas@reddit

Mr potato head toy that was made of sharp metal because you had to push it into a real potato.

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KookyComfortable6709@reddit

A pet rock

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outhere@reddit

Farrah Fawcett poster

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KookyComfortable6709@reddit

Shawn Cassidy poster for the girls!

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Queasy-Security-6648@reddit

Mine shared the wall with Loni Anderson

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cowboyjohnny@reddit

Ah yes. "THE" poster.

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outhere@reddit

Hey! Where's my upvote?!!

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cowboyjohnny@reddit

Mea culpa.

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outhere@reddit

I got you.

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SquirellyMofo@reddit

I got all ya

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Ok_Initial_2063@reddit

A hi fi stereo in a wooden cabinet.

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PlantMystic@reddit

5 bedrooms? I did not know anyone who had that. Not realistic imo. Kitchen had a wall phone with a long cord. Hi-fi stereo furniture thing.

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Key_Tower3959@reddit

1 Cathode Ray TV for household. Size 19-27". TV antenna for reception. 7 channels to pick from. TV guide or newspaper freebie for show selection.

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Queasy-Security-6648@reddit

Oh, you must be in one of those super super swanky places with your 7 channels .. we had 3(maybe 4) abc,nbc,cbs. I think the public broadcast channel existed, but I'm not sure if it was ever on.

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Siouxzanna_Banana@reddit

It needs to be a wood console TV. If it isn’t a piece of furniture, it isn’t a GenX television. 📺

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MeatsackKY@reddit

Look at Mr Cable over here! My family could only get 4 on the old aluminum rabbit ears. ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. FOX didn't come around until the 80s. Then we had 5! (My parents finally got cable when I went off to college. That stung.)

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PlasticPalm@reddit

Alyminum foil on the antenna to get better reception

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lawstandaloan@reddit

> My family could only get 4 on the old aluminum rabbit ears. ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. We only got PBS when the weather was bad. I couldn't watch Sesame Street unless it was raining.

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raisinghellwithtrees@reddit

Same here. We only had NBC until Fox started with all the old movies, afternoon syndicated reruns and weird ass originals like Small Wonder. Really late at night, the Spanish wrestling station would come in.

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foetusized@reddit

Walnut cabinet?

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HarveyMushman72@reddit

The Heather Thomas pink bikini poster. Tiger Beat Magazine. A macrame owl.

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Queasy-Security-6648@reddit

Gold plush raised wallpaper in some funky swirly shapes on a beige background

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MowBooVee@reddit

Toy box with Lincoln Logs, a Light Bright, and a Barbie “head” for styling hair/makeup

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010011010110010101@reddit

Don’t forget legos!

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the_spinetingler@reddit

console TV/stereo

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Princessferfs@reddit

A set of Little House on the Prairie books

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Drunken_Dwarf12@reddit

Publishers Clearing House envelope on the kitchen table.

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SquirellyMofo@reddit

Ceramic Christmas tree with the little plastic Lights.

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classicsat@reddit

I don't think museum patrons would get my Franken Stereo. Anyhow, big speakers, proper turntable, cassette deck, lots of Maxell UDXLIIs, and a couple milk crates of LP records of harder rock/metal/punk. Maybe the artier covers on the wall, plus that Maxell ad and Countach poster.

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otterfeets@reddit

A wood framed “mirror” of a hair metal band album cover that was won at a church festival.

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fierohink@reddit

That’s a coke mirror, sir

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otterfeets@reddit

Really? Makes it even more amusing that it came from a church festival.

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bophed@reddit

Fist thing that comes to mind is Guns N Roses Lies poster. https://preview.redd.it/umui82e5eh0d1.jpeg?width=608&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b1a2c2a535ba91226910cab13905e300d437e07

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littleheaterlulu@reddit

I can go on Etsy and get a collection of ashtrays together. I hope to find at least one of those on the tall brass stand that gets knocked over every now and then.

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iwantmy-2dollars@reddit

I have a tall brass stand, matchbox holder side car lol

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iBadJuJu@reddit

VCR with a wired remote.

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theePedestrian@reddit

A king size water bed. ![gif](giphy|l4hLDa4NNmPZWcT7i)

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iBadJuJu@reddit

Pay phone and a beeper.

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Nighthawk378@reddit

White dog shit in the yard

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StringFartet@reddit

Wall to wall shag carpet and carpet in the bathroom. The bathroom smells like cigarettes and the rest of the house wet dog and cigarettes. The Gen X house of nightmares. Like less than a dozen in a fair sized city. The one with the sunken living room was cool enough but not even practical really.

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Nighthawk378@reddit

A big wooden spoon and fork on the wall

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eleventy5thRejection@reddit

Adolescent = Teenager....so 4 bedrooms for ages 13-19 ?

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insane_social_worker@reddit

Avocado wall phone with small light up round push button numbers to dial. Any combo of orange, burnt orange, avocado, corn yellow, or pink for curtains, appliances, and bathroom rugs (don't forget the matching set that included the fuzzy toilet lid cover!).

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VexBoxx@reddit

Carpet in the kitchen and bathrooms.

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dngdzzo@reddit

Bug zapper

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Starbuck522@reddit

Pong?

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Sassinake@reddit

that electric carving knife for the Sunday roast. or the electric can opener. Or the first channel changer with 4 button that clicked.

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FawnLeib0witz@reddit

When my dad used to the electric carving knife, it would mess up the picture on the TV.

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Sassinake@reddit

oh yeah!

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PlasticPalm@reddit

Sony clock radio where you could hear the click as the tile for each minute dropped.

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Molbiodude@reddit

Ancient memory reinitialized.

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Molbiodude@reddit

Ancient memory unlocked.

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Roo831@reddit

I'll provide the life-sized ceramic cats to sit at the corners of the console TV and other assorted ceramic knickknacks.

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auntiepink007@reddit

My grandparents had a huge ceramic toad that lit up so that the plastic inserts would shine - like the Christmas trees only the toad's were all yellow and gold. I wonder what happened to that thing.

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Roo831@reddit

Me too! I'd buy it from you because it sounds amazing!

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auntiepink007@reddit

I think my brother may have inherited it...regardless, as long as one of us who remembers it being on top of the old console TV is alive, it's staying in the family.

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smaltwater@reddit

A stretched out glass Coke bottle filled with blue water that was won at the county fair.

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foetusized@reddit

4 foot tall giant wooden spoon and fork hung on the wall.

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Saint909@reddit

A Nagel print for dad’s office or garage.

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Designer_Astronomer9@reddit

Rubix’s Cube

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PhilanthropistOff@reddit

A set of leg warmers with matching headband or a Flashdancesque cut-up sweatshirt.

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immersemeinnature@reddit

Red white and blue shag carpeting?

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casade7gatos@reddit

One bottle of hair mousse for the bathroom. I think I used VO5.

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Gitxsan@reddit

Copper gelatin molds

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zsreport@reddit

An all in one turntable, cassette player, and AM/FM tuner from Sears.

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Ill_Dig_9759@reddit

My bunk bed water beds.

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hannibalsmommy@reddit

Record player

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tragiccosmicaccident@reddit

Can't remember what the house looked like, spent all my time outside

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sd_glokta@reddit

The Snake Eyes action figure from G. I. Joe

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cowboyjohnny@reddit

And Duke's helmet lost under the sofa.

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cowboyjohnny@reddit

A brown Billy bookshelf full of VHS tapes, Nintendo cartridges, and Readers Digests.

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DrBlankslate@reddit

Kidney-shaped in-ground pool in the back yard, ideally with a slide and a diving board.

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cmt38@reddit

A set of these on the wall. https://preview.redd.it/i4u7z43vpg0d1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46e6cfaabf3cfe96c92d9b74761c8eb42a3002d4

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superchief13@reddit

A Commodore 64 on a plastic laminate wood desk in a corner.

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cmt38@reddit

One of those freebie bamboo calendars chinese restaurants gave out, for the kitchen.

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Fritz5678@reddit

Mr. Coffee drip coffee maker. Next to it the wooden mug/cup holder.

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NoDanaOnlyZuuI@reddit

Sony Walkman

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Wytch78@reddit

Dad’s home grow out back.

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TJ_Fox@reddit

Both the teenagers' rooms have hidey-holes to stash their cigarettes, lighters, weed and any other illicit items from their parents and younger siblings. Visitors to the museum might or might not be able to see the hidey-holes, but they have to be there anyway.

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