Things 90's kids will remember

Hello!

Right now I am feeling nostalgic and looking back at things that people who are around my age will remember. These are things we had back in the late 80's and 90's that aren't available now.

We saved our important documents and files on floppy disks.

We purchased and recorded music on audio tapes

Today, we have DVD's but back then we watched movies on VHS cassettes.

A lot of us remember these stores where we could rent movies to watch. It was quite sad when they closed but with YouTube, Netflix and downloading options, they weren't needed much.

Word Art was an easy way to make assignments look attractive. I remember spending a lot of time choosing one of these for title pages.

The kids TV shows back then were great. Anyone remember Mr Squiggle and Hey Arnold?

School lunch orders might actually still be a thing now.Whenever we had to buy lunch from the school canteen, we wrote our name, class and order on a brown paper bag, put the money in it and placed it in a basket in our classroom. Then at lunchtime we would collect it from the canteen and the change would be in the bag. Sausage rolls were my favourite.

There are some snack foods we had that I wish were still available now, like fruit roll ups and dunkaroos. There was also these packets of chips called Burger Men which I loved.

For a while, it seemed like every kid had these electronic pets called Tamagotchi's. A lot of us treated them like our babies but sadly they didn't last long. Tamagotchi's are actually returning. I know some Typo stores have these in stock.

Before iPhone and smartphones we had these.

There are so many other things that can be added to this list which I might look into soon.

Have a great week everyone!

Vishi xoxo

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