I still have my pink Popple. My daughter plays with it and even brought it to school for show-and-tell. The kids thought it was some weird looking Squishmallow😂
Back when Easter meant a killer basket with a VHS of The Last Starfighter and a chocolate bunny that definitely had a bite taken out of it by "the Easter bunny" aka dad at 2am.
I suspect that society got chaotic once our carpets and sofas stopped being badonkulously complex patterns. Now that we're no longer blinded by carpet and upholstery, we have too much energy
I see we were all doing the same things in 1985. Same pajamas, same Easter baskets with the fake plastic green grass, same TVs, same style dens/family rooms.
It was probably around this same time that my mom gave my sister and I live chicks for easter morning - she immediately gave them to our cousin who lived on a farm when she realized having baby chickens in the house was a bad idea.
bedtimedoesntsuitme@reddit
You got a Popple?! So jealous.
DramaticErraticism@reddit
Seems unreal how different life was just 40 years ago. Then I think about 1985 and 40 years before that was 1945.
I'll be 84 in another 40 years, what will life be like then.
e0nblue@reddit
I can smell these photos.
RedRedKrovy@reddit
Stale cigarettes was my immediate thought too.
Lost-Wanderer-405@reddit
Popples! I loved those things.
Forsaken_Marzipan536@reddit
I still have my pink Popple. My daughter plays with it and even brought it to school for show-and-tell. The kids thought it was some weird looking Squishmallow😂
JaneDoe93130@reddit
Same 🤩
jackfaire@reddit
The gift thing always strikes me as odd. We did egg hunts, candy, chocolates but no toys or anything.
beeurd@reddit
Young people never believe me when I tell them how brown the 80s were.
SiphonTheFern@reddit
My parents had that same ugly carpet in 83-84 😅
actualelainebenes@reddit
I was obsessed with Popples
Immediate_Clock_8774@reddit
Stop staring at the little girls chest, jeffrey
Puzzleheaded-Seat950@reddit
This just hit real hard
wtbnerds@reddit
My first thought was, who’s in my childhood living room?!
sanguinious@reddit
Did we just all have the same living room? Carpet and all?!?
wtbnerds@reddit
I think so o swear 3 of my friends growing up had the same couch and tv as I had, and 1 of them still has the same couch in his basement
wtbnerds@reddit
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTkzLNWfitk6iIlqaObiSAMB3ENpt8y
ResurgentClusterfuck@reddit
My head hurts looking at that (I must have bashed my head on the edges of one of those a dozen times)
sanguinious@reddit
I had that coffee table for ages after it came from my Granny's
Eledridan@reddit
OP has another pic series in their profile that hits all the nostalgia. Makes me sad thinking about what we lost.
Bibblegead1412@reddit
Did we all have this carpet?
KBO_Winston@reddit
Yes.
legsjohnson@reddit
I broke a tooth on one of those 50 ton tvs
Frequent-Interest796@reddit
I can hear that tv turn on and off!
V3gaMyst@reddit
Back when Easter meant a killer basket with a VHS of The Last Starfighter and a chocolate bunny that definitely had a bite taken out of it by "the Easter bunny" aka dad at 2am.
Drcornelius1983@reddit
I wish you could still get that carpet
SnooGoats7476@reddit
Popples 🤩
ShortBrownAndUgly@reddit
I remember that style of basket. My mom used ours for years when we were in elementary school
Xenograth@reddit
Not even joking on 100% accuracy here, I had to double check this wasn’t my childhood 😂
unlovelyladybartleby@reddit
I suspect that society got chaotic once our carpets and sofas stopped being badonkulously complex patterns. Now that we're no longer blinded by carpet and upholstery, we have too much energy
probablyatargaryen@reddit
This theory holds water. Once our visual cortexes were no longer sufficiently stimulated, we invented shit like social media.
The lack of davenports took us to hell in a hand basket
Winter_Dimension8107@reddit
That carpet though. My gawd!
portagenaybur@reddit
A+ on the user name
PackageNorth8984@reddit
Get a haircut, hippy!
RoundTheBend6@reddit
That carpet
cranberries87@reddit
I see we were all doing the same things in 1985. Same pajamas, same Easter baskets with the fake plastic green grass, same TVs, same style dens/family rooms.
pixeequeen84@reddit
There has to be an entire genre of photos of "kids who don't know how to smile for a photo". I know there are a ton from my own childhood. I love it.
FoppyRETURNS@reddit
My grandmother had that carpet!
GenghisConnieChung@reddit
The carpet in the 2nd pic is incredible.
Eledridan@reddit
We had that TV and when it broke we put another TV on top of it.
NewKidOnTheBloc@reddit
I’m surprised the floor could support two 80s TVs.
Independent_Step9574@reddit
It was probably around this same time that my mom gave my sister and I live chicks for easter morning - she immediately gave them to our cousin who lived on a farm when she realized having baby chickens in the house was a bad idea.
kayla622@reddit
I had that same yellow Popples. I think I may still have it somewhere. In the 90s sometime, my dog bit its nose off.
barefootincozumel@reddit
I love my Popples! I had a few
barefootincozumel@reddit
Man am I homesick for a bygone era
Mom2Dos@reddit
The Strawberry Shortcake, ET, Alvin and Smurf figures!! ♥️
LineImpossible3958@reddit
I have basically the same photos
cat_at_the_keyboard@reddit
That carpet is a thing of beauty
Turbomattk@reddit
Do the drapes match the carpet?
marxistopportunist@reddit
Nice CRT
PhysicsStock2247@reddit
I wanna go back.
TheAngerMonkey@reddit
Oh man, those VERY specific Easter baskets!