1980s Guide to Quarantine

[@kroseandpen4671]

Ok so my mom was a born in 78 so she only got to experience a little 80’s. She already has super thick and curly hair, so when she told me she used to curl it I said “why! you already look like a lion!” And she said “ honey, in the 80’s the higher the hair the closer to heaven”

[@clairee.4692]

That’s so funny!

[@emmalineray8750]

😂😂😂

[@mackfam9798]

hey my name is makenzie too and that is funny lol

[@Aliciabpd]

Makenzie S hahahahahhaha that was the truth!!

[@donna5102]

This makes no sense they mean the 1980s not the 1970s

[@Bethmarie44]

“Nothing says I love you more than a mixed tape!” Hahaha Sooo true.

[@DaveBaldwin1]

A wave of memories came back with the mixed tape comment. I didn't have a lot of money to afford a double tape deck so I played my friends tape while I put a recorder in front of it to copy it. Ahhh, memories of the good ole days. Lol

[@WDBsirLocksight]

I would record songs from late night dance parties in the 90s. (I would say solid tape decks were better in the 80s but expensive; better solid-state in 90s.) I some how was able to use the automatic side select (allowable by double tape heads) to create mixes on both sides of the tape. I did it in such a way to remember the style, rhythm and beat of songs so that there would be similarity between pairs of songs. Long before the tape mixes, when I was 10 or 12, I was "recording engineer" for a story me and my brother made up. I some how figured out how to dub high-quality sound snippets from the VHS. I think I used TV out and adapters.

[@flamingpieherman9822]

I got two tapes...one from my boyfriend...and another from a guy in love with me. But that was late 80's. I was already out of high school.

[@chloeedmund4350]

We had mixed tapes growing up but it was made with iTunes. My mom would burn a CD and play them in the car during road-trips.

[@Tonya-gi1ms]

I grew up in late 80s and through the 90s. I remember rotary phones, cassettes, cd players, Walkman, VHS, record players, Apple Computers, floppy disks. I remember recording what came on the radio with my cassettes lol

[@WDBsirLocksight]

I still have my waterproof Walkman and acquired a HiFi tape deck recently, along with an a-Track. You forgot to mention mini-disk. I still have floppy from Gr5 (1994) where we were taught how to connect to the internet and I saved tons to my 5.5 incher. In late 90s I was hitting up record stors like the Record Baron for lps requesting custom pressed 60s garage funk from Belgium.

[@Iris_Collins]

Yup... turn on the recording, and everything on the radio in however long the cassette was, was what you got.

[@hotdog1214]

And if the tape got caught in the player, pull it out and manually wind it up with a pencil! Good times.

[@noahpartic7586]

Been there, done that.

[@joannalee4779]

I remember holding a cassette player up to the speaker of the radio (which was this gigantic piece of furniture) and pretty much recording the top forty every week

[@alexandraburton232]

Lola's look of horror at the bangs was equally hilarious and shocking. Now I wonder what Kim did with her bangs.

[@oliviaharrap4295]

Alex 😂

[@DeathGodRiku]

I felt bad for Lola at that point. She was traumatized

[@mycupoverflows7811]

We had a long, long talk with our kids the other day when they asked what "be kind, rewind" meant. 😂⏪

[@consumerwarrior1267]

You should get them to watch the movie titled "Be Kind Rewind." They'd get a good laugh out of that movie. Believe it or not, that movie came out as recently as 2008.

[@SarahLizDoan]

MyCup Overflows OMG......that’s funny! So true! I remember that!

[@lishamarie2752]

The struggle was real😆

[@BestAuntieEver]

I'm sure a picture book was involved.... 😂

[@holahello4428]

🤣🤣🤣

[@WinterLoveSpirit]

80's weren't really boring. We didn't have the things they have now in order to miss it. It was a way of life. We didn't have any inkling of what was to come.

[@MangoRageYT]

Bill Gates made computer Software to prevent himself from being Bored lmao

[@SicaGR]

You should totally watch or rewatch gremlins! I laughed so hard cause all those cooky inventions exist now and almost owned all of them at some point. LOL

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

I was extremely bored as a kid. So bored my brother would use screwdrivers to sing Bon Jovi's Living on a prayer. One was the mom, the other the baby.

[@StoopidMonkeysMomma]

Miss the arcades though

[@wonderfulhumanbeingwithagr6381]

@@MangoRageYT and he made a virus to lock us all in our homes and play with his stollen invention

[@mrsjenni1978]

Are we not even going to give props for dad's most excellent dance moves???? 🤘

[@buffaleen]

Yeah his break moves & the worm were excellent!

[@rcdaisydog9406]

ikr!

[@IAmLeePeace]

I busted out laughing bc it is so true! He did great!

[@rcdaisydog9406]

@@IAmLeePeace ikr!

[@IAmLeePeace]

@@rcdaisydog9406 great video and so true! 😄

[@chocolateart7069]

A lot of this applied to the 90s too. I had no cell phones, no internet, played outside from sun up until sundown, played the original Nintendo console and so much more.

[@ronaldjoseph9055]

Yes this applies up until the 1990s. This is how it pretty much was when I was a kid growing up in the 1980s and 1990s. I was born on May 25th, 1983. I grew up playing regular Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Genesis, Gameboy, Game Gear, and Nintendo 64. And when the weather was warm I will go outside and play. We didn’t have the Internet until I was 15 and I got my very first cellular phone when I was 18 and only had it for a couple of weeks and then it got lost and didn’t have one again until a year later when I was 19.

[@eval4495]

Pretty much, I'm a mid 80s baby. I didn't have a computer till the 6th grade and I didn't have internet service until I was in middle school. My first cell phone was a flip phone. 😂 I got it when I was 19. I also grew up playing Super Nintendo with my younger brother 😀

[@Paul_Sleeping]

Same here. My brother and I were teenagers for most of the 80s, and living in Socal means beautiful weather year-round. We were usually outside and didn't come home until dinner time. I think that really kept my parents' sanity, and maybe that's why they love us so much.

[@sk71569]

"Nothing says I love you more than a handmade mixtape."

[@natalieb6193]

If the poor child was that traumatized about getting her bangs cut, wait til we show her how we were going to style them. Girls, hand me The Dep Gel.

[@lochness3224]

it was the 3 cans of hairspray a week that I had to use, for those 80's perm curls .... Miss the 80's soooo much

[@natalieb6193]

loch ness .... And there was this hairspray cloud that hovered in the bathroom

[@pamelapainter3195]

The smell of home perm in the morning! When you actually did it the evening before!

[@natalieb6193]

Pamela Haling .... Ahh, yes. Nothing like the smell of rotten eggs first thing in the morning.

[@alanjbuddendeck186]

Hmm. ... I recall the ladies of our house using Dippity-Doo, pink sponge curlers, bobby pins, Aqua Net (lots, and lots of it), home perms (what a choking smell!), and curling irons -- that was from '65 through about '82 in my house.

[@callenharris2959]

I know if we had to have gone through all this in the 80s, no school, quarantine, stay at home our house would have been scrubbed multiple times because bored=chores.

[@jenniferjennings7402]

You got that right! Mom taught us really quick to NEVER say "I'm bored". No faster way to get put to work cleaning or pulling weeds or made to finish a latch hook rug.... the options were endless.

[@abbyz6614]

Every time my kids say they are bored, I list the chores they could do & they change their tune real quick!

[@homethatilove4595]

@@jenniferjennings7402 💯% right there!

[@beth8775]

My automatic response to "I'm bored" is "Great! The bath tub needs cleaned!"

[@callenharris2959]

@@beth8775 I use that as well....or the baseboards need a good scrub.

[@momfry1]

That moment when you finally managed to record your favorite songs and the boom box eats the tape. 🤦‍♀️

[@Kowen-gh8vt]

Ikr!?!? 😭😭😭😭

[@beth8775]

I felt that pain in my soul as I read it.

[@Jen-lc5yc]

@@beth8775 or your parents walk in as your recording the music so you have to re- record 😫

[@dfmpc6182]

Just have your #2 pencil or bic pen ready to rewind the cassette tape

[@Chrisssyism]

1frydmom 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@melissah287]

80's quarantine? You're grounded for the next two weeks! And don't say you're bored or you'll be doing dishes and mowing the yard.

[@ifthebeltiscrackedor]

Suddenly I realize why I don't get bored. Ever. I just don't have that in my emotional register. I mean it.

[@diorocksmetalon5993]

I spent so many weeks grounded. Corona is a piece of cake!

[@evangelicful]

....I kinda make the kids do that now🤣

[@michellem9444]

Yeah, we learned NEVER to complain to our parents about being bored! "Oh, you're bored? I've got something you can do." In fact, we always tried to look busy, even if we weren't. LOL

[@kimberlybahrs7165]

Yep

[@c.h.-j.5165]

The funny thing is I was born in the late 90s but I was raised on what my mom was raised on and I've never been so grateful for the things my mom taught me.

[@johnramirez5996]

My whole life was like that. No computer. Couldn't afford it. So we spent time in the woods by ourselves go tubing down rivers. My baby brother who was always with me passed from cancer 6 yrs ago jan 2. Wish he was here with me for our past to continue on. Exploring and adventure is what we did.

[@wonderlandisalanguage9646]

I'm so sorry for your loss ❤

[@tanyakasim3988]

Mine told me and my sisters to go play outside back then.

[@Uapa500]

💖

[@karisgranger6013]

I am so sorry for your loss 🙏🙏

[@kjw79]

Yes those memories of exploring through your own back woods with a brother are irreplaceable and cherished.

[@Octavus5]

The 80s were better than the 2000s. Kids had more fun. They went out and played ALL DAY.

[@capricornlife5778]

Octavus5 yes I was a teenager in the 80s

[@trinitywright7122]

Octavus5 yes

[@TheShift1313]

Yup. Leave in the morning. Grab food at any friend's house and be back by dark. Times were way different....

[@thisistheaccountname]

That was before children had to take on adult responsibilities.

[@beth8775]

@@thisistheaccountname The oldest child has always been the oldest child. What changed was more people's awareness of how often kids disappeared.

[@Lena2light]

I don’t know about anyone else, but I was outside all the time. I didn’t care about TV. I just wanted to be outdoors on my skateboard or bike or jump rope.

[@PavelGuarisma]

Right? I was outside as much as possible and watched some TV at night and on the weekends.

[@lishamarie2752]

Same!

[@LindaC616]

On my bike or in the lake . TV on Sundays was the worst. Just mass, Davey and Goliath, and then either golf or Nascar.

[@robjeanbras1130]

My neighbors and I made stilts and walked around the neighborhood on them. It got to be a contest who could raise their stilts higher until one of the kids fell and broke his arm. Same kid broke his arm again skateboarding down a hill on a fairly busy road. It's a wonder we lived.

[@elina6564]

I love these 80's videos please never stop making them!

[@GinaBlythe]

Is it bad that I really really REALLY miss the 80s? 😁

[@tjsogmc]

I miss the 80s every single day.

[@marc_leblanc]

They were simpler times for sure.

[@smittyde]

The 1980's had the best music.

[@lorettatomplait4979]

Yep! It absolutely did!

[@kidnow_squidnow]

I wasn't alive in the 80s, but my mom was, and yes. The music is grEAT

[@melissacooper4482]

I loved the music videos of the 1980s!

[@shawndunaway5950]

80’s music is the BEST!! I wish they would have put something in their video about watching MTV! 😂 THAT’S how we learned to dance. We recorded the videos on the VCR, and wear the tape out rewinding and watching it a million times. Oh, the good old days!

[@annaya529]

True!

[@JennyBenny318]

I was born in 83 and I remember so much of the 80’s.

[@loveycat5474]

When I was in high school you learned how to dance from watching soul train and American band stand.🕺🕺💃💃

[@salemdesigns65]

Yup. 😄

[@Irish381]

Don't forget solid Gold

[@salemdesigns65]

@@Irish381 Oh snap! I forgot about that show!....haha I just remembered - Dance Fever! Ahh, Daney Terrio, back in the day. 😄

[@diorocksmetalon5993]

Yep!

[@paigeburke6870]

“We had Breakin’ and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. So true😂 Kids today really missed out on that gem😂😂😂

[@noahpartic7586]

Don't forget Beat Street.

[@allymonte7295]

Hilarious! I grew up in the seventies. We had 1 TV. We played outside with a jump rope, a ball and bat, a bike and an imagination.

[@abbienormals1669]

When talking about the VCRs, don't forget the tracking! Sometimes, tapes wouldn't play right. They'd have these lines all through them, squiggly ones through the whole screen, and you'd have these 'tracking' buttons (< or >) on either the VCR or the controller that you'd have to randomly press for like two minutes until the tape got minutely clearer.

[@samanthasowell6350]

Minutely clearer??? Honey I was a tracking queen! I could dial that sucker in crystal clear..... "clear" being a somewhat relative term used here describing "clear" for back then. Lol but I missed alot of the first parts of the movies and I didn't realize it until me and my husband went on an old movie binge watch. The movies would start and I'd say, "Are you sure this is *add old movie title here* I've never seen this???" Only to get about 20 minutes in and say AAAAH! Yeah I remember this! LOL

[@CSS916]

Oh my gosh, I forgot about tracking!

[@nictheartist]

I remember a movie magazine listing the benefits of the big screen over VHS. And one obvious benefit was image quality, because the cinema screen image was way sharper than anything on the small screen. Nowadays, even some of the old TV shows have been digitally remastered and probably look a hundred times better than they did back then. But we knew no better, so that was ok.

[@GiGiVB]

Omg, tracking! Forgot about that. My parents would get mad at the picture and I'd be like "Adjust the tracking." Guess the younger generation always helps with tech. I can't play Fortnite with my kids to save my life. Too many controls/actions. Ha!

[@Sixica]

Remembering one night with friends when we r e n t e d a V C R to watch a favorite movie, played with the thing for about an hour to get it to stop flipping and snowing enough to show the picture at all... and then would only show up in black and white, plus whatever part of the picture was red. "Come on, guys! It's not that bad! At least we get to WATCH THE MOVIE!"

[@bubzilla6137]

Nice! I didn't realize you could still find VCRs! Ok, that's not true. I knew you could. You can find ANYTHING if you look hard enough... That was pretty accurate, but most of that carried into the 90s too. Oregon Trail was the best game ever at the time. I couldn't wait to play it at school on those really old IBM computers.... Oh man, the memories! Also, I'm impressed with your worm, Penn! You still got it!!! 🤗💙💪🤗💙🤗

[@sweetie664]

All my children but I would love to go back to those days miss the 80s and 90s

[@TheGuitarman1968]

I graduated from high school in 1986. I remember and miss those great times so much. This world today is insane. Our motto back in the 80's was "If you are BORED then you are BORING!" Back then you had to be "creative" and find things to do, or your parents would find something for you to do. Most likely yard work or house work. There is no creativity today. Everything is done for you already. Bring back the good ol' days! Oh, and 80's music IS, and will always BE the BEST!

[@JeffFrmJoisey]

If this was the 60s, at this point of quarantine I'd be reading the Psych, History & Mystery books from my Dad's bookcases!! Then the Golden Book Encyclopedia from my bookcase! When those ran out, I probably would have tried to read the "Phone Book" - a story with a million cast members and absolutely NO PLOT!!! At least living near NYC, I had 7 TV channels to watch (2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, & 13), but make that 5, because I rarely watched Channel 9, except for "Lassie" & "The Million Dollar Movie" or Channel 13!!!!

[@consumerwarrior1267]

That's pretty much how it was in the 1970s and the early 1980s. If you lived in some remote town in Indiana or some other less densely populated part of our nation, you only got three television stations. However, if you lived near a major metropolitan area, you picked up a whole myriad of television stations. I remember the Metromedia Network that was only in certain cities, including New York City and Los Angeles.

[@klskin]

Elementary school age in the 70’s - we had American Bandstand and Soul Train for dance lessons!

[@sandraolson8635]

klskin I learned to dance with American Bandstand in the late 50s

[@klskin]

Sandra Olson Great show!

[@simeonbaumel7293]

Ah, the 70s.... Started them in high school, finished them in university, with army service in the middle...

[@JNoMooreNumbers]

Then MTV when it was all video.

[@RadPuppies]

You guys had it soooo good in the 80s.... WE, in the 70s, had to spend our teenage years without V.C.R., without video games, except PONG and Super Star Trek, and Zork... and WE had Black & White TVs, none of this *color* stuff... and DISCO was cool back then...

[@ronaldjoseph9055]

Yes I agree. I was born in 1983 and Disco is my favorite genre of music. The late 1970s and early 1980s to me had the best music ever.

[@Flinabin]

@@ronaldjoseph9055 Me too, I was born in 1980 and disco is my kind of music💃🕺.

[@hermancleopatra141]

Hi Holderness family!! You’re the best!! 🥳

[@oliviaharrap4295]

Herman Cleopatra I agree

[@jgclark45]

not knowing what the busy signal is. bahahahaha

[@salemdesigns65]

Ohh... and how to use a rotary phone. My 23 year old was amazed! Haha

[@salemdesigns65]

@@hypnodance My grandparents bakelite rotary phone was the coolest thing. It weighed a ton! If you dropped it, you may break a toe. You didnt want to be on the phone long because the handset was soooo heavy. I could remember when you needed to call the operator (dial O) first, to connect your call. She would ask for the number; two letters and four numbers like WE - 8934. She could tell you if someone was on that line or not. By the mid 70s, you didnt need the operator...wow memories! 😀

[@martok2112]

Lola's responses are hilarious

[@partytimekid6306]

salemdesigns65 I still have nightmares about trying to call out for help in an emergency situation...but keep sticking my finger in the wrong holes or not turning right to that metal stopper thingy and never getting the number dialed... so frightening! 🙀

[@WDBsirLocksight]

@@partytimekid6306 Yes and getting my finger stuck somehow under the hole of the rotary dial.

[@devlinadams4166]

Yep i grew up in the 80's I miss the land phones aka: house phone's , the telephone booth's. Beeper's , the answering machines Atrari , video game hangout places.

[@sleekoduck]

Beepers??? There was a surgeon at synagogue who had one, but I don't remember those things catching on until the 90s.

[@devlinadams4166]

@@sleekoduck : Beepers were aka " pager's' in the 80's it's just that the beeping sound was added in the 90's. There was a different sound for pavers in the 80's

[@sleekoduck]

They were generally only for doctors back then. One of my parents' friends had one. It went off during services once and everyone freaked out.

[@devlinadams4166]

@JoJo Skye : I Agree 900%😀😀

[@nictheartist]

@@devlinadams4166 I only learned about pagers/ beepers in the mid 90s. I suspect pagers were used more widely by emergency staff back in the 80s.

[@anna-sg4oj]

Lola, has changed so much omg. 😂

[@awesomeglitterunicornag]

Ikr, she has!

[@sharonholdren7588]

I love this family. Live long and prosper.

[@lilianobsidian1413]

Lola’s reaction to a fringe was good! Nobody should ever want them!

[@smittyde]

Since the Coronavirus, my new rap name is: 2 Ply.

[@ladyofthewoods2448]

smittyde How Witty is that ! Hahahahaha

[@candacebex4370]

I was born in 1970. We had phonographs, records with read a long stories, only 3 channels on tv and no remotes. The television station went off the air at night and my brother and I would get up so early on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons that the station hadn’t come on air yet! Tv wasn’t worth watching most of the day and once a year you got to watch a holiday special so you parked yourself in front of that tv. But we were geniuses at entertaining ourselves. My friends and I created all kinds of games and pretend situations. We hardly ever spent time inside because inside was so boring. We lived in Taiwan from 1978 to 1982 and we were very isolated from American pop culture. But we had a VCR in 1978 and we watched tapes of recorded shows sent over from the states. My Dad worked in electronics and I’m pretty sure we were one of the first to get an Atari. That was BIG FUN. We sent letters via air mail back home and getting letters was EPIC.

[@user-pk3fl8rq1v]

Wow, I kinda miss the positivity of the early quarantine. Everyone supporting everyone..."you're doing great staying at home!" Just makes me miss that we were all working together for those few short months. Love your videos. Love you guys!

[@beckyobeck]

lol!!!!! We used to color our hair with markers. we were so punk core

[@capricornlife5778]

Kool aid tooo it dryed my hair out though

[@loki6253]

Sharpies all the way

[@klaritydawn]

Orrrr.....when we were trying to write down words to a song! Rewind, Stop, Write and REPEAT a Million times. lol! This was AGAIN Another FANTASTIC Video! Pretty good Break dancing there kiddos! I sooo thought you were going to Style her hair with lots of Aqua Net or Rave hairspray!! Her reaction to the bangs was sooo funny!

[@marenkuether-ulberg3311]

Oh yes. And all the girls were trying to get that Farrah Faucet (I forget how to spell her name!) hairstyle . You got everything right - for some reason it was important to write lyrics down and MIX tapes were golden works of dedication : spending hours waiting for that perfect song on the radio or going reel to reel with borrowed tapes to fill a theme. I can’t think of the last time I saw cassette tapes, a VCR, even a radio. I remember in college our friends crowding around our friend’s tiny PC to watch early video games. And how about the phone booth? The last time I saw one of those was in a small village in Crete (Greece) - there was one public one; that you bought pay cards from a tiny street side cigarette/cola/newspaper booth; only three or four computers that i knew of (two were were I worked and the lag time was so long that could make a cup of tea during bufferings) ;and a couple public TVs - ones that the whole village gathered at to watch soccer matches at the pub in the plaka. “Back in my day...” ;)

[@LindaC616]

@@marenkuether-ulberg3311 I was so sad that my curly frizzy hair wouldn't feather like Farah Fawcett's

[@Rayyvyn]

LMFAO I have whole notebooks of song lyrics I learned that way !!

[@LindaC616]

@@Rayyvyn Lol, when I look up song lyrics online, and they're not official, I still think "no, that's not right "!

[@Rayyvyn]

@@LindaC616 that's because hf the time they're not,esp with artists that never put lyrics on albums,(now)online,sang songs differently on final recordings so don't match "official" lyrics or,like Seal,who rarely puts out lyrics,saying he'd rather ppl sing what they hear in THEIR hearts,lol

[@jessicaloree9033]

How can an entire family be so hilarious?!?! 👏👏👏🤣🤣🤣

[@retrodee4126]

The 80’s rocked!! Best music and movies!!

[@astrid_hofferson2068]

I actually miss school. . . I took it for granted

[@kroseandpen4671]

I think we all did. We all talk about how much we hate it but then when it’s not there we all want to go back.

[@heliagrey]

Song parody idea: ABBAs Take a Chance on Me changed to “Put your pants on please”.

[@grant2929]

Yes!!!!

[@Pipsqueaker88]

ooh i love ABBA

[@LindaC616]

And the video starts with a Zoom call

[@lauraarldt8139]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@jayamilapersson4030]

Orginal lyrics If you change your mind Im the first in line Honey im still free Take a chance on me If you need me, let me know Gonna be around If you got no place to go When you feelig down If you're all alone When the pretty Birds have flown Honey, im still free Take a chance on me Gonna do my very best And it aint no lie If you put me to the test If you let me try Take a chance on me Thats all I ask of you honey Take a chance on me We can go dancing, oh We can go walking, yeah As long as we're together, Long as we're together Listen to some music, oh Maybe just talking, yeah Get to know you better Cause you know I've got So much that I wanna do When I dream I'm alone with you, its magic You want me to leave you there Afraid of a love affair, but I think you know That I can't let go If you change your mind Im the first in line Honey, im still free Take a chance on me If you need me, let me know Gonna be around If you got no place to go When you feeling down If you're all alone when the pretty birds have flown ... Altenative lyrics: If you go outside Better get it right Honey, there still time Put your pants on, please You'll need them, Im sure you know Im just making sure If you got a place to go When you had your shot If you feel alright When you're free to walk outside Honey, there still time Put your pants on, please like we did before

[@bldavis5825]

Good morning doctors thank you for the constant diversions....we all need this. The scavenger hunt was a hoot. In the rural parts of the '80's they still had party lines and rotary dial phones...oh, I almost had a stroke (somebody take the scissors from Dr. Kim....I can't cope if she cuts Lola's hair). They still had 19 inch black and white TV's in the 1980's. The first time I deployed to Holland the Dutch thought we all lived in big houses and had pools in the back yard. Apparently they thought The Beverly Hillbillies was everyday life. I don't think we even had a pool on the base...anyway...that was funny. We hooked up our video/DVD player too. Wait, were you allowed to listen to your music....or your parents music. I am grateful for your family and everyone who is healing hearts. I am grateful that birthday parties are getting creative.....children need the mental break. This is the part therapist don't get right...kids are dealing with divorce...parents deployed...school is out so their support systems are hurting...kids won't tell grown ups their fears....society is helping like they never have. I am grateful for the Veterans who came before me who had the wisdom to save Lowe's and Home Depot for us....some of us can't handle the VFW or American Legion....we needed a place to go when days or nights were tough. So I appreciate the safe place to go when I get a panic attack... and the military, Veterans, and military family members who work there and know what to do for us. It was a great gift. I can't imagine what we can do for the next generation of Veterans. Did you know that military families put up Christmas trees in the middle of summer???? Sometimes you just have to do what heals your family....politically correct or not. Thank you for posting and staying positive, healthy, and safe. Dr. Karen might like to know that Mikey's Funnies says you should tithe your toilet paper...so Dr. Karen....your neighbor with the garage full of toilet paper needs to tithe 10% of that. Since churches are closed...maybe she can donate it to a battered woman's shelter instead. Peace be with you

[@JennyG.COW5]

Yep! We also had a lot of this in the 90's. We did have CD's that started in the mid to late 90's, so we had an option besides cassette tapes. 😊

[@patrickgober7506]

Awesome job guys... lmao... I was born 1980 , this brings back memories...

[@melanieczoka]

Yesss! Counting this as a history lesson, for my kids. 😂 I was lucky enough to get a phone in my room, but my mom listened in. 😂

[@joannalee4779]

Yes!!! Anyone could pick up another line and listen in.

[@joannalee4779]

Born in 73 !! So i remember going to school in bell-bottoms, 8 track tapes, the huge piece of furniture that had the radio, record player and 8 track tape player, i used to curl my bangs with a curling iron.... spray it with hair spray... leave it for a second and pull it out. It left a hard ring in my hair that I pulled a brush through so it had that perfect sky high bangs, pull the rest back in a banana clip and i was ready for highschool. My curling iron had this permanent white film from the hair spray. Im not sure how i didn't start a fire

[@grant2929]

I wasn't a 80's kids but I basically grew up in the 80's. We had an OLD computer for LONG time and yes my sibling and I loved play Carmen San Diego and the Oregon Trail. We did not even know what Facebook was until 2013 and we never used or new about Myspace. Despite not having tech like most kids had in the 2000's we had lot of fun together and I would never change a thing.

[@d.s.3551]

Creativity lies on the other side of boredom. This is probably the best thing that could happen to a lot of kids. If the parents would actually limit their electronics.

[@tracisucharski1185]

I'm a child of the 80's and when you mentioned Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo, I almost lost it! I freaking loved that movie! Why can't we resolve our differences with breakdance-off? 😂😂

[@anataylor2257]

This is like saying "sorry, not sorry". This was SO on point! Loved it!!

[@chriscampbell6272]

I miss the 80s so much. Best decade ever.

[@fionachenault1733]

"Oh look! Andy has dysentery. Sweet, I wonder how long he has to live! Well- oh no, he's dead now." I DIED 😂

[@molls127]

Fiona Chenault from dysentery?

[@fionachenault1733]

@@molls127 lol

[@WDBsirLocksight]

Oregon Trail was awesome but frustrating. Its a classic. We used the game in history class I think.

[@WDBsirLocksight]

@Icy Rock Atari was at my aunts. Had to rip myself from pong to go to mall.

[@attitudeproblem6462]

They just dropped like flies...I made it to the end once, but I was the only survivor. I figured, the more food there is, the better everyone’s health, right? So I made sure to hunt often, but I was still by myself at the end. Probably insane from all the trauma and death.

[@dorahale6582]

Children, children. Picture trying to sleep on HUGE plastic rollers with dippity doo (older version of Dep day glo pink) to straighten your hair. There were smaller rollers for curls or waves for us curly girls. Or sleeping on brush rollers..ouch. For those with long hair, you put it on an ironing board and ironed your hair until it was straight or you smelled something burning, whichever came first. Ah, the 60s ,y'all had it good.

[@TheBridget272]

My mom ironed my hair for me in the '90s because the good hair straighteners that could actually straighten my hair cost about a hundred dollars. Straighteners have come a long way!

[@capricornlife5778]

Dippity do. 🤣😂

[@JSB12345]

All those curlers went back to the 1950-60's, depending on where u lived maybe.

[@SeanCwilich]

I lived in the 80's, I was 4-13 in that decade. I played Oregon Trail when I was in school, I still have a cassette playing radio, but I used it to record comedy shows off the radio & I still use a vcr to record shows from the tv.

[@markieharper9991]

You guys are seriously the best family!!!

[@EZequestrian88]

You guys are my absolute largest fans. I first discovered your channel with where is my phone. I would be absolutely 199% honored if you did a shout out to me. I would cherish it forever. THANK YOU!

[@robynedward125]

I love this I remember the 80s was born in 1979 lol such memories lol KZbin is getting me through covid I'm working on the front lines still, but watching this is helping lol

[@missnaomi613]

❤️🙏

[@Cfb2987]

Really enjoyed the wholesomeness of the parents sharing their 80's childhoods with kids who seemed interested. - Also, Oregon trail was the bomb, especially hunting. ☺ - Also, nice worm dance dad 😆 👍 (I'm legit impressed)

[@gachaartz8815]

I miss the 80’s!!! 💕

[@dolphiniz1754]

This is why i am happy for everyone that this is happening now and not 40 years ago

[@nazmunnahar1163]

At least we wouldn't have online classes.

[@smogfry2005]

Right, like i am sad for my daughter because she loves school and her birthday party was cancelled because of this, but her friends did drop off presents for her on her porch and they video call regularly. Plus her class uses zoom to get together once a week in the evening. Some days during video calls her and her friends all get craft supplies together then sit and do crafts together through video chats. Technology makes this all so much more bearable. I told her the other day back when I was her age if something like this would have happened I would have had to have my mom look up my friends number then call their mom to see if we could talk on the phone. If their number was unlisted then it couldnt be done. There was no facebook, facetime, Skype, or zoom...there wasnt even google back then.

[@edennis8578]

Forty years ago, people had spines. They would have told the government to shove it.

[@kristalsky3538]

Clicked on this video and what started playing was an add for Mr Cool DIY with Penn. Nice work. When the actual video finally played I enjoyed that too.

[@douglasstevenson6181]

Loved this! Grew up in the 80s, I remember all this stuff

[@milenaseymour446]

Omg 80s were sooo much more fun for kids ! We stayed outside from morning til night! I had a getto blaster and we used our IMAGIMATION!

[@jenniferwholey3339]

You guys are awesome..thank you for being so nice and understanding about the situation. There is too much negativity out there

[@cherylhall6570]

*laughing* suggestion for future stay at home: At Home Prom featuring Styx-Babe being sung? :)

[@bellat5721]

Break dancing cracked me up, I'm still crying with laughter. Love it.

[@noahpartic7586]

I remember why they call it Breakdancing...Sooner or later, something or someone BROKE, like Penn's back for instance😱.

[@RR-iq8ze]

The part with dad doing the breakdance on the cardboard was totally hilarious! The part about missing the beginning of the song was so true. Not just that, but the radio dj would speak over the beginning and ruin it. Let's live regular life. LOL

[@beacoelho741]

when she said don’t cut ur own bangs my sister literally did that like 2 days ago lol

[@Sarp01lock]

I remember that machine for the tv.

[@krisgraves7018]

That machine? A VCR😂😂😂

[@ineedamirroroferised2844]

I never got bored indoors unless I didn't have books. I never got bored outdoors, period. Even when I couldn't sleep I entertained myself, by visualizing nature scenery.

[@jennyrice2216]

Loved this! The memories it brought back! Ha, ha!

[@dllilly30]

Lmao - I said how is his back rt when penn did the first worm!! Impressed u could still do the spin

[@adisynnefransen1066]

“It’s not the 80’s anymore why can’t we just live normal life” after seeing stranger things I would love to live in the 80’s

[@rinstorm]

“Nobody should be cutting their own bangs right now” Everyone watching this in quarantine: *awkward silence

[@bloofan06]

1986 high school graduate here. OMG, this is making me feel old!

[@sadfaery]

So relatable for those of us who grew up in the 80s.

[@ellorial]

80's phone upgrade, want longer distance, more privacy? install longer twisty phone line code! 😆

[@MidnightSonnet]

My mother hated long cords. XD She was ecstatic when cordless phones were invented.

[@chadcook3709]

Best days ever. Times were slower but simpler.

[@tylerbartel4841]

Positivity, love it. Need more of this in world!!!!!!!!

[@oliviaharrap4295]

Back in my day...

[@simeonbaumel7293]

Back in my day, when I was young, we went dinosaur hunting.....

[@audreyodipo9695]

Oh my goodness, the bold and the beautiful 🤣🤣🤣

[@imagemaker8268]

Hey the dad actually had great break dancing moves 👌🏾👍🏾👍🏾. You guys are hilarious. Thanks.

[@uphillhomestead6188]

I was a child of the 70s!! I remember when the phone you showed was first introduced!

[@pamelapainter3195]

Haha, I literally was explaining phone evolution to my grandson just a few days ago. And now Penn, you aren’t being quite honest about tv when you were a kid. You had 4 channels when you count PBS. Lol.

[@sleekoduck]

PBS was great. If you timed it right, you could watch your homework assignment instead of having to read it.

[@Octavus5]

I think we had dozens of channels even in the 70s via antennae. Cable came out in the 80s and there were lots of channels. MTV and CNN dubuted in the 80s.

[@pamelapainter3195]

Octavus5 but we also walked to school in three feet of snow uphill both ways. 😏

[@sarahk5412]

Sleekoduck I've been doing exactly that with my college assignments! :-D Re-Entry student - I graduated high school in 2000 and now I'm in college with all these kiddos.

[@Octavus5]

@@pamelapainter3195 I walked to school everyday, rain or shine. And so did all the other kids. I don't think kids are allowed to walk anywhere alone these days. They have chauffeurs now.

[@astridbishop3965]

Hi I love this❤️

[@oliviaharrap4295]

Astrid Bishop me to

[@traczebabe]

I was a kid in the sixties and seventies. So no video games at all! Three channels on the tv. I was the clicker. We were outside all the time! Pong (first video game) came out when I was a teenager. 😂 we used to cut our own hair. Especially bangs. Who wanted to wait to go to a stylist?!

[@LeBonesCreations]

I absolutely love this family! I am so enjoying these videos! I wish I could meet you all! Yiu guys are the best!

[@allicoughlan7461]

Hey this is the earliest ive ever been😂

[@haleyanne86]

It's sad that these younger kids don't know what it was like "back in the day..." lol. I mean, I'm young (born in 86), but I remember growing up having to learn all these things like vhs, mixtapes, tvs, etc. I don't think my girls (I have 3) will ever know about this kind of stuff

[@belle16117]

Haley Kofford just wait until you hit your 50s. It is surreal!

[@haleyanne86]

@@belle16117 😂🤣😂

[@paul8956]

The Break Dancing killed me! Lmao! You guys are hilarious. Class of 84' here.

[@lhead7226]

I graduated in 89, I remember everything and loved every minute of it, someone pass the aquanet....

[@laurab4112]

An idea for a song parody: "My Corona" to the tune of "My Sharona" by The Knack.

[@consumerwarrior1267]

That high-gun Michigan lawyer Geoffrey Fieger had a brother who sang in that group. He was the late Doug Fieger, and I believe that he was the lead singer of The Knack.

[@MaidMirawyn]

There’s already a “My Corona”! Search for it-definitely worth watching.

[@Guernsey576]

There are already at least two.

[@LuluDumpling]

Laura B Check out the one by Chris Mann!

[@JNoMooreNumbers]

There's a few already.

[@maciemclaughlin8486]

This is funny hahahahahah

[@shutupshelley1793]

Penn break-dancing on the flattened cardboard box is seriously the funniest shit I've seen on KZbin thus far...all day! 😂

[@loki6253]

This was great. Class of '87 here and this is all so true...