25 Things ’80s Kids Could Do That Today’s Kids Can’t

Did you know there are a many things '80s kids could do that today's kids can't? Technology and culture has radically altered the way we do things. What once was pretty normal is now either old fashioned, taboo, out-dated, or weird. Get ready to travel back in time!
Here are 25 things '80s kids could do that today's kids can't.
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[@abbottckd2]

Keeping a blank tape in the cassette player to record songs off the radio.

[@maggiesue35]

And the DJ talks into the end of the song. Noone needed that 😉

[@mecongberlin]

More 70ies though I’d say. But still YEAH.

[@maggiesue35]

@Kate Jagger my husband is still astonished that I know so many 80th songs and the bands name. I lived for the music when I was a teenie. Did you made your best friend a tape, too?

[@maggiesue35]

@@marvincosby7060 or the worst case scenario, we in Germany called it "Band Salat" I don't know how you would call it in English, the moment your tape was in the player and it was out of the tape box and totally messy. Do you know what I mean. Everytime when that happened I had to pray that I could wind it back and it worked again and wasn't totally damaged.

[@mecongberlin]

maggiesue35 hahaha genau band salat und dann ne stunde mit nem kuli wieder aufwickeln - just talking about using a ballpen to wind back tape once it got loose.

[@fremontjablonski8577]

Kids today will never recognize the phrase "Be Kind, Rewind."

[@micheledevi5141]

Blockbuster baby!

[@lionsroar2512]

Show them a casset tape and a pencil, and watch the look of confusion spread across their faces

[@fremontjablonski8577]

@@lionsroar2512 Ahh, yes, that good old secrete - until you only have a circular-shaped pencil. Thanks for reminding me that!

[@lionsroar2512]

@Fremont Jablonski and they will never have the pleasure of hearing that particular warble the songs took on when you listened to that cassete so much that the tape started to stretch!

[@pipsumpter]

Lol at my video store they charged 50¢ if u didn't rewind! 😂 My mom was always sayin Rewind that tape!

[@FezzelwhigsForum]

I miss making mixed tapes, after school cartoons like Thundercats & He-Man, early morning cartoons like Robotech, and Saturday morning cartoons like Thundar The Barbarian, Dungeons & Dragons, & The Smurfs. I miss 80's TV ads and most of all, I just miss being a kid. Paying bills sucks.

[@KathieWhat]

1970s stuff ❤ We went outside and came back when it started getting dark. No computers, we had to go find something to do, like every kid before us. We had rules, and punishments when we broke them. We respected our elders.

[@desperadox7565]

I didn't. 😎

[@Styxswimmer]

Nah. The 80s had all that without the inflation and economic problems of the 70s. Plus, the 70s had the Vietnam War and the cold war. Yes, the cold war was going on in the 80s but relations with the USSR began to thaw. The 80s were way better

[@hellskitchen10036]

You should of been a kid in the 50's, Heaven on earth for us !!!

[@Thenogomogo-zo3un]

@@hellskitchen10036 You lucky b*******

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

@@Styxswimmer I think you're right, the 80s were way better than the 70s. More prosperous and cooler stuff in the stores, plus the energy crisis was mostly over. I can remember seeing Jimmy Carter making his speeches on TV. We all had a sense that he was this namby-pamby fool who couldn't get the hostages free. Everything on the radio was this soft rock, over produced, chick-singer BS. By the time Reagan came along we had punk, new wave, MTV, reggae, rap, and National Lampoon. It all seemed to exciting and fresh. Growing up in the bourgeois UES of New York we felt like characters in a John Hughes movie.

[@lennywright5655]

Things 80s kids could do today’s kids can’t 1. Go outside.

[@adawnhowell9256]

LOL To be honest comparing society of March-May 2020 to the entire 1980s is rather unfair. Spring 2020 is a strange time indeed, where many kids in urban areas weren't allowed to go to school, shopping, friends, or even literally outdoors.

[@justawhisperintheuniverse8257]

@@2isceez Ah, you mean we are meek and silent. NO!

[@andyv16012]

3. We didn't hyperventilate when we were grounded from the phone and call the Police claiming child abuse.

[@BassPlayerSusan]

@@2isceez I know. If I told my mom someone insulted me, she'd look at me and said, "You'll live".

[@sophiapollares7229]

I'm 16 today and I can relate to all of these things besides the old technology!!!

[@thomascocchiola7214]

Kids today will never know the feeling of being the remote for the TV

[@karenrussell7338]

Or holding the aerial in just the right position.

[@geoffwinstanley4468]

Lol I was going to say "being the remote control and TV aerial". I also remember being sent to the shops in the middle of ur program, and ur parents got u to do it by saying "I'll time u". I've tried it with my kids, and my friends with theirs, but kids are SOOOO different now. Pre Millennium was definitely better.

[@chrisholmes4037]

OMG the absolute funniest/truest comment. I would get called from downstairs by my mom just to go change the channel... and thought nothing of it. At least until I was a teenager. :)

[@MorphicStates]

God I hated being the remote for adults. The other thing I hated, at least when it came to us kids, is if you left the room the next kid who came into the room got to choose what to watch. I'd sit there till I damn near had to pee myself before getting up to finish The Dukes of Hazard, The Incredible Hulk, or Knight Rider. House full of girls. So go figure. On the bright side. It was better than the voting my parents implemented at first. Because I never got to watch anything I wanted with 3 girls outvoting me on a regular basis.

[@CViewer70]

D@mn, forgot about that! :-D. And like someone else said, moving the antenna around.... :-P

[@sherryherran8546]

Born in '69,I spent my childhood in the '70's and my teenage years in the '80's couldn't have been better.

[@GMCTIM]

With you there man ! Born in 70 !

[@mwfmtnman]

69'er here too. It was great

[@markthomas2651]

67 model here... Couldn't agree more.

[@abbiebeast]

1966 same here!

[@johncheetham4607]

🎉 69 here to. Great times growing up in West, East and South Africa. In between living in Britain.

[@mr.hopkins3574]

One of my favorite memories of the 80's (born in 1977 here) was going to a Video Game Arcade and losing yourself in hours of beat'em up and adventure games...and then realizing you spent your entire allowance on video games lol but MAN IT WAS WORTH IT!!

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

"I got a pocket fulla quarters and I'm headn to the AR-CADE!" Summer of `83 I got totally addicted to the game "Tutankhamun", which is the formal egyptian name for King Tut. That game had me hooked like it was crack!

[@florenciocandelaria5400]

80's kids sticks and stones may break my bones... 2020 kids Words are literally violence.

[@Mr_Green52]

Well yeah bullying and all that

[@eatdirtnetwork]

@@Mr_Green52 shut up fool

[@Sunsetdriver85]

I literally don't think anyone's opinion matters to me unless I value them in the first place (like friends and family). Some stranger or rude kid at school means nothing to me because they don't know me like those close to me do. Wish my generation (Gen Z) thought the same. Wish I had a time machine to take me to the 80s so I can live there.

[@chrismc410]

To be fair, some words, depending on usage tone, etc were, and still are verbal declarations of war and one responds accordingly ie: racial slurs, disparaging one's mom, sister, grandmother etc. even in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s

[@kennethclay3498]

@@eatdirtnetwork 😂

[@ixnine5698]

when being a musician meant you actually were talented

[@charlieme5150]

Reminds me of something I read this week. "Back when even though you were ugly you could still become a famous singer".

[@southsidemichael386]

I will totally second that!!!

[@danielrnjom458]

ix Nine your comment made me laugh out loud actually, after thinking about it for 5 seconds :D now everybody are musicians :p I make some music myself so its not like Im lauging of ya'll, but of the situation. peace and harmony all

[@Hvamp]

Yup and people could actually sing. A computer did not do it fir them or replace the band completely. Now their us no bang. The lip-synchro prerecorded music with no band in the back. It sucks.

[@dizzyheather]

Truth Sayer! Yassss!

[@BB_Axolotl]

Playing manhunt into the dark, sitting on mailboxes, slip and slide, birthday parties at peoples yards, rollerskate rinks, biking everywhere and pure FREEDOM

[@VengeDracul]

Born in 75, Grew up during the 80s and loved it. Saturday Mornings were the best time to be an 80s Kid. I remember everything mentioned on this list. I used collect Garbage Pail Kids cards. Sadly I wish I still had them to just look at. Kids today have no clue what many of had. I am still aiming to find all 80s Cartoons to own. Very hard to find most of them.

[@551slobo]

As an 80s kids we did this cool thing called talking. To each other. In person. As in face to face. W no distractions.

[@ritawashere5787]

And, when we send text or email, people can't read your emotion. Unless you insert emoticons. More than a few times, people have thought I was being short with them or they didn't get my sense of humor.😂

[@C.Church]

Except for jukeboxes.;)

[@Foxiz]

And fought each other outside, and not in video games!

[@Theonlyonestanding]

I remember almost every neighborhood kids played outside...I don't see that anymore 🏌️🏋️🤸⛹️🤾🚴🚵🤽🤹🤼

[@kmjacik8904]

😂 True

[@nhstorage]

Crank calling random numbers because no one had caller ID.

[@ebonylewis1680]

Lol so true

[@Predator2257]

You still can Just dial *67

[@sirslickrock]

Joshua Crispin that wasn’t a thing until the mid nineties.

[@mamanay5766]

Or calling 867-5309 and asking for Jenny!

[@foreignparticle1320]

"Is your fridge running?"

[@itsjuustmedontchaknow4163]

80s were the best time to live in. The best products, the best music, and freedom as a young one to not have to worry if someone was going to take you or do bad things to you. We could stay out all night and play ditch em down our whole block, which was basically hide and seek, and you had all the neighbors yards to hide in ❤️🇺🇸

[@Laidengizer011]

But kids did get abducted back then. They always did. Someone even tried to lure me into his vehicle when I was a young child.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

Yup, we had the permissiveness of the 70s, with the politics and prosperity of the 50s. And AIDS hadn't yet killed the party. AND no political correctness yet. At college you could yell the n-word at the top of your lungs and nobody gave a shit.

[@mattylamb9194]

@@Laidengizer011 - parents just weren't ridiculously paranoid about it back then. Thing is, it still happens now so parents' attempts at preventing their children from playing outside, etc are hardly working, are they?

[@Laidengizer011]

@@mattylamb9194 But are they happening in the same numbers??

[@fredneckteddy]

I was born in 1971 and one thing i completely remember as a 70's/80's kid that you don't hear about much anymore are sleepovers. I know my best friend back then would come over for a sleep over and we'd get into all kinds of mischief and in turn i would go to his house and we'd have a grand ole time.

[@iblockpuncheswithmyface1490]

I lived in the country, so I had to walk about 2 miles to my best friends place. We played Intellivison all night. Intellivision was state of the art back then. a big step up from TV tennis.

[@lisamcclure8456]

Never heard of a head lice back then.

[@yangthao1795]

Missed the days when kids were able to wander outside until it got dark.

[@Isabel-sr8ep]

Now my parents won’t even let me go for a walk And it’s not like it’s our parents fault People just have just changed and so as time we have creeps and weirdos and kids going missing nearly everyday so I see why parents would be a bit worried back in the early 2010s for some reason I had a bit more freedom when I was little I’m almost 15 now and I can’t really do anything Like that anymore it’s sad

[@LittleRockElevators]

Yes. Just as long as made it home before the street lights I was good.

[@tonyp9313]

Again this is not a good thing you are pointing out.

[@bassicallyraul5256]

i was born in 2006 and i used too and still play with the neighborhood kids until its dark we play soccer, hang out or bike racing

[@treemoon6394]

We played ghost in the graveyard until really dark. You could play it on the front sidewalk.

[@nbpraptor]

What about knowing 175 different phone numbers by heart?

[@leelongvideo]

Or use a address book.

[@skovol007]

I still remember my childhood phone number and my best friend's number from the time.

[@RudeDude2140]

How about using a telephone with a rotary dial?

[@reeceqbaskin9403]

Lol you nailed it with that one! So many numbers memorized

[@shadodragonette]

Not that many, but I still remember the number we had when I was in high school- and now the area code for that town is changed!

[@kenyaouko7388]

I remember High Top Fades, Rat tails hairstyle, Bucket Hat's, Punky Brewster, New Kids on the Block, Snow, Chico sticks, leaving to get lunch on Lunchbreak starting Middle school, Food Stamps currency, rope climbing, 25 cent chips, penny candy, and ACTUALLY playing outside through ALL seasons. I use to come in after playing in the 🌨️ from hours w my friends. I use to run my hand and feet under water to unthaw them! My kids hardly EVER go out side.

[@krisrooney2283]

What kid now an adult doesn't still remember the lyrics to snow - " informer" 😂

[@ASiteSee]

Being born in the late 80s, I was mostly a 90s kid. But still experienced most of what 80s kids did. My favorite memory took place during an elementary school dodgeball game where I showed my true colors to the other team. I did this by being able to dodge all the balls until I was the last one left on my team! An awkward moment though, as I had all the balls on my side and the other team had none.😂 So, one by one I just kept throwing balls to get my teammates back on the floor. Maybe my greatest sport moment ever!🎉

[@krokus1972]

I miss my dad putting his arm in front of me when he slammed on the brakes in the car. no seat belt, dads arm, all good.

[@shawnfairley6630]

My mom did that. Mom never really cared if us kids sat in front.

[@chrisgabbert658]

Riding in the back window deck 6 in the cab of pickup

[@Ashley0905]

Hahahaha.... same... I swear I have a bruise across my chest my entire childhood because of that damn arm... lol

[@GinaBlythe]

My mom did that and bruised my chest. All good. Yep.

[@rangel2001]

My dad would just let us go.

[@unlikeavirgin]

Getting mad at the radio DJ for talking over the beginning of your favorite song while you're trying to record it with the built in cassette player. D'OH!!

[@iammisanthrope7764]

OH Yea!!! That pissed me off greatly.

[@joshmerrel8846]

Ahh yess I remember that your Totally right.. Did you ever use that Cassette to play in the Car

[@alliehunkin1381]

Wonderful...thats made me chuckle...😍😜😜😜

[@mysteryninja5851]

Oh yeah! 😂😂

[@shagwellington]

I hated that. They would cut in at the end of the song too. It made us so mad!

[@spitwicked6188]

80's Hair Bands were the best. Long live the 80's!

[@firestream93]

Man. Watching all these videos of the 80s and Gen X has made me realize how much times have completely changed. It's fun giving a kid something we had in the 80s and asking them to use it. Have you ever seen the look on one of these kid's face when you show them a rotary dial phone?

[@jennifermoody6987]

Lmao.. I showed one to my daughter and her friend, when I was clearing some stuff outta my grandma's house after she passed, and their reactions were BEYOND EPICALLY HILARIOUS 🤣🤣🤯🤯😱😱😭😭😵😵

[@firestream93]

@@jennifermoody6987 There's a video on KZbin where it takes a kid 5 or 10 minutes to figure out how to use a rotary dial phone. 😆

[@Laidengizer011]

@@firestream93 Well you could easily mess up the dial. I always hated them.

[@firestream93]

@@Laidengizer011 True

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

@@Laidengizer011 Just spray it with DW40, it'll work jus fine

[@ufewl]

People would also take photos of other people rather than themselves.

[@kamuelalee]

It's true...it was more fun to take photos of others than of yourself.

[@BlackavarWD]

I don't think a single person took a picture of themselves! Ever!

[@souljahkin2017]

Blackavar WD you know why because many phones didint come with front facing cameras at the time and people would ask others to take photos of themselves still making it a selfie

[@BlackavarWD]

@@souljahkin2017 WHAT!? There was no such thing as " front facing cameras" HAHAHA If you had someone take your pic you were usually with someone. (You wanted a pic with them) Maybe someone took a pic in front of something by themself, but I never saw one IRL. Usually OTHER people made you stand somewhere and took your pic. Not a selfie.

[@alleycatalog]

Ah the good old days!!

[@annamurphy4993]

A lawn full of bikes let you know which house everyone was at, and who was there.

[@richb1576]

So true. And no 2 were ever the same

[@cadbane7780]

Ride to “the Barrens” I spit taked my coffee

[@forestrot666]

And you knew which kid was which because of their bike.

[@billcharlene1450]

😁yep

[@cpaoutdoors9926]

How about it

[@troyraiven9365]

There was also that awesome "illness" we all caught in the early 80s known as Pac-Man Fever 😂

[@marywatkins9438]

Another thing: Many radio stations did not have 24 hour programming. Those stations were only licensed to play until midnight. Then you’d hear the national anthem play before those stations went off the air for the night. The same thing happened at midnight on many TV stations, hence the popularity of VHS and movie rentals back then.

[@iblockpuncheswithmyface1490]

The TV stations shut down around 11 o' clock. At least the 2 stations we had did. We watched them on a little 12 inch black, and white with the tinfoil on the rabbit ears.

[@livvyweimar7362]

Answering the phone with no clue who was calling lol

[@jerrysmith3516]

Party lines/Private lines

[@hudsonja]

*Phone rings* 5yo me: hello? Caller: Hi, is [mom's name] there? Me: Are you a salesman? Caller: Yes, is your mothe- Me: my Mom doesn't like salesman *click* Mom: wtf lolololol

[@danae5578]

Telemarketing was a thing

[@pdarn27]

Prank calls

[@wildoneizzy]

@@pdarn27 That was totally one I thought would go on the list.

[@jackhammer1185]

Who remembers buying the cereal you didn't like just for the toy inside.

[@monicapyle]

Hell yeah. I hated Count Chocula but his toys were good. Same with Smack (the cereal with the frog on the front and it tastes like styrofoam coated with fake honey). I still see Smack in grocery stores and I can't believe its lasted this long.🤢

[@livquue]

OMG yess

[@WilliamHollinger2019]

I remember that when Microsoft was advertising on cereal boxes. for xbox 360 and had small hand on made in china little games and it around my little sister was born. We found them by accident in a box of corn pops.

[@Benjamin_Lees_]

Even in the 2010s i miss that

[@josephperkins4080]

I did

[@paullarussa7501]

When MTV wasn't a reality show, not going to the hospital unless something was broken, getting dirty bc you wanted too & not just bc you're poor, making toys last bc it's all you had, watching reading rainbow, spending all day outside playing, & so many countless days being a 80's kid was awesome..

[@jacksonjohnson9674]

You glossed right over the MALL, and the MOVIES I remember the uncomfortable seats in the theater and the nasty sticky floors, if you dropped something on the floor at the theatre, then it was dead to you. And the ARCADE, and going to the music store to buy the latest cassette of you favorite rockers!!!!! Hello?!

[@georgeecheveste6545]

Who else remembers getting thirsty and drinking from a hot hose on a hot day? No bottled water for us.

[@kipwhite6532]

Who doesn't? Especially if you have a well.

[@terafarnum9576]

George Echeveste I love to do that

[@HentoeGames]

Heck yeah

[@hillc2]

Just remember to let it run first ... otherwise you’d burn your mouth!

[@retrogameroom9019]

Mmm that metal tint.....loved it

[@michaelmellon45]

When MTV actually played music.

[@lorigilbert6811]

And having to practically wait all day just see a video you've been looking forward to seeing. 🙄🙄😊

[@notsureiL]

Lol and then it became a maternal channel.

[@jonanderson4474]

First time seeing thuggish ruggish bone was on mtv

[@tamarasauls8855]

I remember having to stay up really late to watch Michael Jackson videos.

[@martinyarbrough1609]

Yo! MTV Raps &. Headbangers Ball

[@Perykvaal]

So much nostalgia. Rolling back the clock, 40 years, it's like we lived in another world entirely. In fairness, some things are a lot better, now, but...some things were a lot better then. You kind of had to live it to really get it. As great as "Stranger Things" is, most of us just got to enjoy the '80s without, well, supernatural weirdness interrupting our bike rides.

[@willschexnider5424]

I’m from the eighties and I miss riding my bicycle everywhere. It was my car back then. And of course the music we had the best music and concerts.

[@troypurnell7479]

How many ever rode in back of a pick up truck? On the highway.

[@kenbray5682]

Troy Purnell We did , they'd hit a bump you'd all go flying up in the air lol...it was great till someone would fly out but it never happened so awesome.....

[@brandonpage7087]

I did! Was a fun experience! Good Times!

[@duosbabymama]

I did and it was awesome!!!

[@thomasanderson3459]

Yup!😂

[@peterunnels3311]

I did! We rode in the back sitting on lawn chairs drinking cocktails on our way to see the tall ships! Hey who saw the tall ships

[@grasshopper1153]

Strangers actually talked to one another more in the 80's, which was great. Now everyone has their nose in their phones.

[@meganluck4352]

We knew everyone on our block and in our neighborhood back then.

[@magnificentmuttley154]

💯% agreed. Just to have everyone at the same dinner table (not just on holidays); Watching TV in front of the SAME TV; Walking the block (with the family dog, or followed by the cat) to have spontaneous conversation with neighbors; Tennis or volleyball matches at the local park; Playing LP's & 45's until midnight Saturday night while playing "Tank" or "Asteroids" on Atari; A night socializing at the town hub (in my hometown it was burgers & shakes at Braum's Ice Cream Store, or Frito pies at an old Taco Bueno); or Friday or Saturday nights having burgers on the patio while the adults played cards & dominos at our house or a neighbor's house :') It's terrific that the Internet has us chatting with our British, French, Italian, Greek, & even Russian neighbors worldwide. But to not even know the people living on the same street with you, or in your same town? That's pitiful I haven't forgotten the "old" ways of socializing, but it sure is harder to get people together in the same place at the same time, these days. What a sad social dichotomy where young folks only seem to want to communicate through electronics! I must believe that eventually, as they mature, they'll finally put those contraptions down & realize there's no substitute for just BEING THERE. Your physical presence is infinitely better than your image on a video or an impersonal text typed through a computer!

[@jimmyduncan7650]

That's still weird to me when you're in a waiting room and everyones trying to be invisible.

[@magnificentmuttley154]

@@jimmyduncan7650 4 or 5 'teens & 20-somethings sitting in the same living room, chatting to one another through their phones instead of simply talking 🤷

[@aaronwilson5508]

Thats because everyone started suing everyone else for everything and nothing ALL AT THE SAME TIME so people dont interact with strangers much anymore. Its too socially risky.

[@beckiferrucci4097]

This list brought back SO many memories, lol! ♥️

[@janetlawson4482]

I was a 70/80’s kid, the days of party lines where you had to wait your turn to use the phone, I loved to pick up the phone and listen to the older ladies talking, I didn’t have anyone to call, we all just gathered outside and played. Pre VCR days were awesome in certain ways, the excitement build up to Christmas when the kids Christmas shows came on only one time a year, it really was such a wonderful experience leading up to a favorite holiday, speaking of holiday, The Sears Wishbook, this glorious catalog was a huge collection of all of the toys for girls and boys, we would anxiously await the arrival of this book and pick out things we hoped Santa would bring us. I really cherish those days, we had something to look forward to, we were very social and active, we had imaginations.❤😢

[@VitoVeccia]

You asked a girl for her number, and she gave you the house number, because nobody had cell phones. anytime you called, a family member picked up. And you were always polite to whomever pickups the phone, because proper manners where essential.

[@Phoenixlightning369]

Then we lied about our names so we couldn't be tracked

[@montanaliving4769]

We in the early 70s actually had a phone etiquette class!

[@Ron_EZ]

Don't forget, your house was almost never locked & you could play in the yard (neighborhood) w/o adult supervision

[@VitoVeccia]

@@Ron_EZ we grew up on a dead end street. There were train tracks and high voltage power lines, running behind the back end of the street. My older brother forbid me from climbing the massive tower for the power lines, but we did have fun putting pennies on the train tracks, and watching them get flattened. Now I think back, and say my God, my parents would have been put in jail for us doing shit like that nowadays.

[@stevenporter6903]

And my voice was so low in middle school, I never had a girlfriend who’s mom was very suspicious.

[@ugaais]

Born in 1970 I look back and smile a kid in the 70’s, a teen in the 80’s, and in my 20’s in the 1990’s great time to be alive...

[@joemedina3532]

Fk YEAH..The Final Frontier before the pansies era.

[@lisagroeger1301]

I agree joel.

[@lhuntley4577]

1971 here.....absolutely agree!!

[@bradstover8889]

Me too totally agree best time to live.

[@Astrianaut]

Lucky !!!

[@TomBoyChic79]

We also knew how to take care of ourselves. We were taught self independence and reliance. We were taught to use our own brains by parents and teachers not who to borrow your neighbor's. We also had important decisions to make like "Is this worth the butt whoopin' I know I'll get for doing this?!?". Don't forget the all nighters at the roller rink. Or Secret Santa's workshops that came around Christmas in elementary school, how exited did you get to be able to buy your family presents at that age😊? I miss back then and wish I could provide that level of security and childhood to my children and grandchildren. There was messed up things back then but it wasn't today that's for sure. Loved this video! Had to ramble😂

[@lauriea2971]

Wow that list makes me feel old. I remember doing 95% of that list. Lots of love from Canada 🇨🇦

[@Komaki198]

Knocking on a friends door to see if they could play.

[@chrisgeorgallis7746]

Playing Knock and run

[@iamjustamomdoingthebestica6999]

My kids and their friends do that still.

[@sgtnutnut2466]

Lol I still say that 2day. I will send a message 2 a bud on ps4 and be like " hey bud you coming out 2 play 2nite, need 1 more for the raid" and he would send back what r we 10 now".

[@iamjustamomdoingthebestica6999]

@@sgtnutnut2466 I'd be like yes! Yes we are! Now get your butt over here! I have hot pockets and jolt!😎🤣

[@milesc.anthony2811]

Being able to go all the way across town on foot or bike. You still can. It's different now, though.

[@fremontjablonski8577]

"Do you want 'Smoking or Non-smoking,' Sir?" (in a sit-down restaurant environment)

[@dgeneeknapp3168]

Oh man, I STILL catch myself getting ready to ask for ", non-smoking" tables in restaurants. Thank heavens most if the wait staff greeting customers today are in too much if a hurry to get you to table and out of their faces. If given 3 seconds more, I KNOW I would be asking for non-smoking everytime...just ingrained in me.

[@brandonvanbrocklin9239]

I remember going into arcades and seeing ashtrays screwed into the games kids were expected to smoke

[@dr.zombiex]

Cigarette vending machines!

[@markclason2717]

I used to steal ash trays from fast food joints; my one man war against smoking.

[@dianeorr8937]

Airplanes too. Hospital Rooms too!

[@lamp8112]

I graduated high school in 1981 and soon was married and had a son who grew up in the 80's. I remember so much of this stuff, but the 60's and 70's had a lot of the same stuff like Saturday morning cartoons, sugary cereals, exploring on your bike, dodgeball, sipping your parents wine, etc. People were a lot more relaxed. Now we have paranoia everywhere. Granted, the cereal was unhealthy but kids got to be kids and not worry so much. I had 3 children and tried to let them be kids as long as possible. Having a great childhood helps us be healthier adults. The playground thing is so true! Thank goodness there were no broken arms.

[@DavidSisson-kc1ez]

Remember when it got hot. Parents would break out the sprinkler. Kids would play in water.

[@johnsalazard6659]

the 80s, when your friends were actually real and not some request from some random person on a computer

[@jaysmith2151]

Or a app

[@johnsalazard6659]

exactly

[@onbdnigga3886]

I agree but I actually had real friends so at the same time I don’t agree there many people Ik who has bunch of friends aswell and not from the internet.

[@geni2906]

And who's to blame for that? We are. We had our childhoods then we ruined our kids childhoods by giving them anything to keep them quiet!!

[@johnsalazard6659]

only the stupid lazy ones are the ones to blame, people like me raise our kids the way our parents raised us and not cater to every need when they start crying

[@jpsplace1219831]

One of my fondest memories of being an 80's kid is going to an actual Pizza Hut. They had a a pizza buffet, arcade games, and a salad bar. The adults could even get beer. Ahh those were the days.

[@VSS32542]

True

[@timothyduffy3905]

Shakies Pizza?

[@list25]

Book-It!

[@VSS32542]

@@list25 yes

[@lancedees8072]

We still had a dine-in PH in my hometown right up until COVID. It was great.

[@juliyar1670]

I was a 90s kid but I remember experiencing most of these Such nostalgia 😭 but I have to say I’m happy to have had that type of childhood rather than one with technology

[@NinjaMonkey5161]

I’m glad that as a 90s baby my parents made sure I experienced basically all of this. I was born right before the cusp of things changing, I miss childhood sm

[@reneesheavenlysentbabies8622]

Born in 68 and grew up in the 70’s and 80’s . You forgot about boom boxes, tape recorders, and the great music of the 80s

[@scottyellis3442]

I was born in 68 also & remember most of this from the 70's.

[@ameliad5802]

Recording mix tapes from songs on the radio.

[@mikenekosama4426]

@@scottyellis3442 '68 was the best year for contemporary music.

[@lorddanzig1329]

80s metal music was awesome.

[@Nan-59]

And great music of the '70's! ✌🏻

[@sicmaggot82004]

you forgot about when MTV was actually music videos and not stupid shows like "i'm 16 and pregnant".

[@Zzt62]

Or worrying that your girlfriend would get pregnant at 16 and your Dad would knock you into next week.

[@wnerko7484]

yeah.new shows on mtv.im 16 and prolapsed

[@DRAKKENFIRE22]

Amen!

[@jenniferw6192]

TDM, good rockin tonight, stue jeffries, Samantha taylor.

[@edwardmurphy6346]

They had shows but they were like Beavis and Butthead and Headbangers ball the goodshit yo

[@sigsin1]

I’m a 60s/70s kid. I loved riding in the back of pickup trucks. And listening in on the party lines. Not just family but all of the neighbors shared a phone line. It’s sad kids can’t play outside anymore. I used to be gone from morning until night. I destroyed my knee on the monkey bars when I was 10. It never did heal right. I’ve had it replaced twice. We didn’t have computers or microwaves.

[@ashton5493]

As a 2000s kid I’m happy to experience at least some of these things, sadly I had a helicopter dad though and and I wasn’t even able to go down the street on my own until I was 17. My little brother on the other hand was able to go as young as 10 years old. Now that I have a son of my own I wanna find a way for him to experience at least some of these things. He’s a toddler now so I have a lot of time to think about it but once he’s old enough I would like to have him have some kind of freedom to explore but still stay. I also wish they still had Saturday Morning cartoons but they don’t, so on Saturdays I would just let him watch cartoons that I grew up on like Ninja Turtles, Tom and Jerry, and Scooby Doo, etc. Idk if there is a better way to do that though.

[@Zenas521]

What ever you do, don't pore out three pixie sticks into your Peanut Butter Captain Crunch, mistakes were made. Eat sugar cereal in the eighties, have diabetes in the twenties. It might be best to make sugar cereal only a Saturday morning thing, and avoid pixie sticks on Saturday.

[@ashton5493]

@@Zenas521 That’s what I was thinking, lol

[@fedupwithfed4047]

When we DIDN'T have a school shooting every other week....

[@linseydickson7782]

That is because most of us had a rifle in the gun rack in the truck, in the school parking lot!

[@johnp139]

We don’t have them now either.

[@ralphkennard3770]

Riding your bike to the store to get your dad a pack of cigarettes.

[@Phoenixlightning369]

YES it was my MOM's smokes, but I took a few for myself after she opened them...LOL

[@montanaliving4769]

Lmao!! I have quit but I did that for my mom then mine did that for me, then I had to start writing them notes, then it just stopped! Ileagle! Might be why I quit!

[@evied8139]

Yup I remember going to 7 11 with my note from my mom for Benson and Hedges menthol lights! 🤣🤷🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

[@montanaliving4769]

@@evied8139 lmao, could you imagine that today! Would be like sending them to the liquor store lol!

[@evied8139]

@@montanaliving4769 yup 💯🤣🤣🤣

[@MultiBoomer77]

In the 80's parents could send kids to the store with a note to buy smokes .

[@macroevolve]

The 70's-80's were the golden age of Malls. Hanging out at the Mall for no nefarious reasons.

[@yabbadabba1975]

You could literally leave the house at 7am and do pretty much whatever you wanted. as long ss you were home in time for dinner.

[@p.d.l7023]

Street lights come on = We best be on our way home. Also, the city was treacherous but certainly not dangerous. Maybe there were some stabbings, but I never remember all the fatal shooting that we have now.

[@lisastevens-davis5511]

Home before the street lights came on

[@YoungFrankMatthews]

All facts dinner time and street lights was literally a alarm clock for us in the 80’s my fuckin kid wont even leave the damn house let alone come in at a certain time Smfh

[@cherrysdiy5005]

I remember my childhood being that way (in the 2000's). I guess in some areas of the US, we hadn't yet moved on to the newer aspects. Just ride bikes with neighborhood kids all day, buy sodas at the cornerstore (literally on corner lol), play hide 'n' go seek, play tag. Big difference here, we'd eventually go back to my house or another friends house to play Gamecube games. If you had a videogame system, you were the cool kid 😎

[@Just-Nikki]

Street lights meant come home

[@robertajill3070]

We could do incredibly stupid and inappropriate stuff without the fear that it would end up on the internet.

[@kingonduty2825]

Today, kids do stupid & inappropriate stuff without fear of it ending up on the internet, only for it to happen anyway.

[@lemondude6174]

Today’s kids do stupid and inappropriate stuff TO have it end up on the internet

[@kingonduty2825]

Somewhat.

[@Ellusia]

Yep! Rarely got caught either!

[@John.Doe-OG]

Lemondude617 Yeah, they eat tidepods.

[@mackelly4581]

Class of ‘84! You can google the 80’s all you want kids, but you really had to be there. Seriously though, I enjoy your content:)

[@afriendlyfaceinthecrowd]

"Drunk or sober Dead or alive We're the class Of '85!"

[@crisl9079]

I loved Carmen SanDiego!🤓 I used watch the tv show and guess along with the contestants…looking back on it, that was a brilliant way to teach geography. Carmen needs to make a comeback…from what I’ve seen, Gen Z REALLY needs her.😬

[@razumtazum3246]

Here's a good one: My cousins and I would run around our neighborhood, through other people's yards, playing hide and seek with realistic looking toy guns and we never got the cops called on us.

[@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602]

Razum I remember when the fucking NRA and the feds outlawed Super-Soaker plastic water guns, claiming these large, bright, multi-colored fake guns were dangerous and could be mistaken for the real thing. Typical hypocrites.

[@teamcougars]

We played outside ALL day and came home when the street lights came on 😂

[@catlady6687]

@@teamcougars same here. We walked or rode bikes all over town and no one thought anything bad of it.

[@incorporeal7614]

Why would you play hide and seek with the guns?

[@c182SkylaneRG]

@@incorporeal7614 Hide and seek/cops and robbers. Kids are creative. They'll mix it up. :) Call it an early form of laser tag, but without the lasers, or the admission fee. :)

[@oo0RECON0oo]

Going to peoples houses when they didn’t answer their phone.

[@_____________8447]

Man, up until a couple years ago, I still did that!

[@Lindsay-nx5sv]

Man, those were the days.

[@yorgunsamuray]

Even further, going to a person's house when no pay phone available and you had to call somewhere. Heck, in my country not all houses had a (landline) phone and you used your neighbor's. Mostly a neighboring shop and some of them had a phone for people's use for a fee.

[@montanaliving4769]

Walking to thier house instead of calling. Heck we didn't have a phone for half of the 80s!

[@aaronwilson5508]

Thats rude... Totally used to do it all the time tho haha

[@timmyg831]

I’m an 80s kid and the saddest part I miss is in our society is #4 that kids can’t bike alone anymore. With all the kidnapping etc it’s just too dangerous. I also miss arcade video games of the 80s-90s. I miss the music, it was the best then. But what I miss probably most of all even today is seeing kids play outside, like we used to in the 80s.

[@lorireece1970]

MTV absolutely ROCKED in the 80s! Now it’s practically back to back to back reality crap, maybe with a few crappy post 80s videos thrown in. Thank goodness for the MTV Classic channel.

[@jilllogan1288]

waiting all night to record a song off the radio with a cassette

[@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi]

and then when they play the station name or talk over the start grrrrr hahaha

[@wiseguy9202]

The start(for the first 2 minutes) and the end of the song(last 2 minutes) about the next song, he'd talk through.

[@blup1sx991]

Did this a lot especially when I was lucky enough for the dj to announce they were going to play one of my favorite song(s) next

[@allthebluelights1604]

😂Im from the 90s and did that as well lol

[@hotdogwater7037]

oh my god yes

[@sanchezjr13]

My favorite thing to do as an 80s kid was riding my bike with all my friends. Good times man, good times.

[@KarstenJohansson]

Me and two neighbour kids used to ride about a half-hour away from home to a bridge where we could catch crayfish and that sort of thing. And in the winter, we'd bring our skates to the middle of the woods and play ball hockey on the ice clearings. Nary an adult in sight.

[@charlesritter6640]

And NOBODY wore a helmet.

[@sanchezjr13]

@@charlesritter6640 Exactly! Good point!

[@sasapetroski981]

Me too with my 4 friends

[@greenrangerx]

We actually went on adventures. We would ride all around town or to the woods and hang out. After cartoons on Saturday we would go fishing. I miss those days.

[@kevinhayes1656]

I went to school all through the 1980s and I graduated in 1989 and I’ll tell you that we used to do some pretty stupid stuff that you could never get away with today.

[@nataliegottler-bowen5290]

I was so excited when you did #2 and even did the song with you at the same time lol. Too bad you forgot The Orgeon Trail. I remember it all and even told my kids about what they never got to do like we did. I miss those days

[@mikepierce4739]

Parents allowed you to try and fail. That's callled learning.

[@thomasjeffries9608]

Learning from experience.

[@rjjcms1]

None of this helicoptering then.

[@Phoenixlightning369]

That is so true. Back then we actually had three prizes first second and third place and if you didn't win you didn't get a prize. Now with these millennials they get a prize for showing up so they have no idea about what it's like to have strive

[@tdotsmooth]

THIS

[@mikepierce4739]

@@tdotsmooth ok then

[@johnossendorf9979]

When we were 10 years old, walking out of the house to play at 7 AM, riding our bikes miles from home and no one excepting see you again until dinner time.

[@gofast3209]

Same here!! My god the miles I put on my bike!!

[@hippychikforever]

And no phone, but you had a dime/quarter just in case.

[@spirituallysafe]

Exactly. With just 10p in the pocket for your Funny Feet break.

[@Legion831]

As an 80s kid, you forgot to mention, jumping over fences and avoiding getting bit by the dog and screamed at by an old man😂😂😂😂😂

[@doeduckie7818]

Who remembers disabling their call waiting so they wouldn't get booted offline?😂

[@kevintheundeadlord767]

I miss the 80's. Leaving the house at 10am and not coming home till the street lights come on and no one knew where you were. No smart phone, cellphone or pager.

[@DMS-pq8]

I had to be home by the time Dad got home because if he had to come find me it would be very bad

[@jayhoyt9063]

loved those days

[@spiritworker903]

Its like the Invasion of the Body Snatchers happened. Kids are not allowed to play outside anymore. How many hold kite fights anymore? . :(

[@informationoverload2487]

80's had cell phones and pagers.

[@kevintheundeadlord767]

@@informationoverload2487 ya but not everyone and especially not kids

[@roberthouseholder7633]

Going to a gas station with only $1 and buying enough candy to fill a small, paper sack

[@reb1050]

Reach even further back and take $1 to the movies, get the large "coke", large popcorn, and a candy bar and still come home with change in your pocket.

[@frankparker1191]

And WWF Icecream Bars remember them?

[@NERVE-DAMAGE]

He days when they HAS penny candy

[@Marlockie]

do they still make those orange push pop orange sherbert like thing? or those triangle minutemade popcicles?

[@nathangagnon701]

I miss the 2 for a nickel candy bins.

[@Midevlmod52]

I miss my Mongoose bike, garbage pail kids cards, light off our own fireworks, no parents around( now my kids say I’m strict) just want the best for them.

[@theervinalliance6339]

I miss it all and wish I could take my kids back to the 80’s for a week so they could see just how easy they truly have things

[@Styxswimmer]

I told my son about the 80s. He wishes he could experience my childhood. He hates this generation. He wishes to be a feral child like we were. The freedom we had was phenomenal.

[@phildodson6141]

46 and proud to be an 80s kid! Goonies never say die!

[@breadless_crust5445]

I’m 14 and love that movie

[@phildodson6141]

I'm 46 and I'm still 10 when I watch that movie! Saw it in Michigan summer 85 on a family vacation . great times to be a kid .......80s had it all! New and cool too....not remakes !

[@breadless_crust5445]

@@phildodson6141 I really don’t care, but was I was saying is that kids these days still like the content you 80s kids like

[@phildodson6141]

Yeah I know ....i get ya!

[@breadless_crust5445]

@@phildodson6141 𓆏

[@JerzyPR50]

I remember when we all played outdoors till the streetlights came on and our parents called us in

[@peterbone3753]

Those were the best days

[@84montecarlonazi]

Every day all day yes sir!!

[@frankcastle4435]

Mrs Russ, I wish things were like that now, I am 41 now and have two teenage daughters, who have no clue what to do without their stupid cellphones. The world was a much better place

[@bigdbigooo7829]

Yup once that light went off it's like all the kids in the neighborhood knew and we all scattered home. And All the moms had dinner ready at the same time..

[@kinneyman1627]

I mean I’m 13 and still do

[@janeprepper177]

The station wagon! 😜 We'd take our baths and get in our pajamas, and GO TO THE DRIVE-IN!😅 we'd lay in the back watching the movie. If we fell asleep, no problem...we were already ready for bed.😂

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

One of my favorite Christmas presents was a chalkboard that my dad bought from a flea market. It was from a school. My brothers and sister all loved it. That was hours of entertainment. But we quickly realized that bad words didn't erase very easily.😂

[@danceswithcritters]

80's kids could read and write .

[@chickenpermissionart4711]

Please tell me you're joking...

[@larzman651]

Read and write cursive and tell time on an analog clock

[@willwillisproductions159]

Larz Man that’s true man. I just turned 16. 80s sounds fun man

[@des-cc3dd]

stfu

[@des-cc3dd]

Larz Man not important to do

[@reginadisbrow4486]

Ahhh… the good old days. When you were taught how to actually use your brain. Correct spelling was expected, respect for others and good manners were taught and enforced.

[@HannibalLekta-qg2ip]

Awwww Regina....i just got flashbacks of the wooden spoon....hahaha...awesome times

[@jondough7777777]

🤣 right! I still don’t get how people use “loose” and “loosing” for “lose” and “losing”? 🤔 And sometimes you wanna say something but in context, it could still work 🤣

[@Jen39x]

And you had to write legibly

[@sweet_pea1188]

Yes !!

[@americanpatriot8996]

Regina Disbrow yeah kids today are pussies. We used to drink out of a garden hose , I know right the nerve of our parents actually telling us to drink that crap. And yet we all turned out fine. They pussified the nation and our children.

[@looloo_007]

I was a teenager in the 80’s and it was wonderful. I wish kids these days could experience the way life was back then.

[@nataliestaheli51602]

I was a 80s kid, and everything you mentioned was spot on! From riding in the VERY back of the car, multiple kids using 1 seatbelt, and especially the phone cord!! Not only was it fun to get twisted up in the phone cord, but also put it around your finger over and over again! So much fun that sadly isn't safe to do anymore! Especially riding your bike anywhere and told to be home when the street light on the corner turned on!

[@tyrone42ful]

Renember when kids could read and write in cursive

[@SonOfTheDawn515]

I learned cursive in fourth grade and promptly forgot it. To this day I can barely read the shit but luckily almost no one uses it anymore. We aren't using quills to write anymore so cursive isn't necessary. It's like calligraphy, it may look good (subjective) but it isn't needed.

[@matthewsmith2979]

@@SonOfTheDawn515 most historical documents were written in cursive. Its important to be able to read them

[@SonOfTheDawn515]

@@matthewsmith2979 Absolutely. Cursive doesn't have a real use today, though. It's more of an elective thing, like calligraphy, and doesn't have modern use.

[@matthewsmith2979]

@@SonOfTheDawn515 true, but it does look good

[@SonOfTheDawn515]

@@matthewsmith2979 That's subjective. I'm not a fan of it although I like the appearance of some calligraphy.

[@ieatcaribou7852]

Hands down the world wasn’t obsessed with being politically correct.

[@trumanburbank4291]

Ronald Reagan speaking at the U.N. about world diversity and how an alien invasion could unite the world?

[@trumanburbank4291]

I hear your point though

[@iamjackalope]

@@trumanburbank4291 I remember that. Then came daddy Bush with his new world order.

[@MICHELLE-gu2qc]

Or selfies

[@samuelodonoughoe1091]

No win no fee didn’t exist either...common sense prevailed back then..

[@nelliemesser4119]

The 80’s were so much more simpler. People were closer and worked harder at making sure the ones they liked knew it, and didn’t care how the others felt. It wasn’t a constant worry of hurting someone’s feelings.

[@marywatkins9438]

And when we weren’t recording playlists in tape decks, we were listening to music on the radio. Before the Walkman was a thing, people in my neighborhood walked around carrying a huge boombox on their shoulder. Those boomboxes were called Ghetto Blasters. Kids laid cardboard down on the sidewalk and breakdanced to the music playing from those Ghetto Blasters. Breakdancing was essentially a precursor to poppin’ and lockin’.

[@kushkingla7385]

The pleasure to see in grade school when the TV cart wheeled in.

[@eyesthatsee2708]

I remember the projector! Being half blinded when the film was over and the tape ran out...the brightest light ever!!! 😂😂

[@despicablemonster]

That was the 90's in school too

[@lvlupent.7334]

that was early 2000s school too

[@magnificentmuttley154]

Right- - the 16mm projector was a pleasure. Or if you were pre-80s the self-contained projector. It was just like a big screen TV on wheels. Our schools used them from the 50s through the 70s. By the early 80s they were gone, replaced by VCRs the size of a small coffee table... When the SLIDE projector came into the classroom we knew it would be instructional & boring 😴

[@jimn7390]

I forgot about this ;)

[@ED80s]

Going to the library to sign out a book for a school report and praying no one has already signed out the books you needed

[@pinsolomons]

Yeah, I remember the book cards inside the covers that the librarians stamped when you checked the book out.

[@nataleeisjustchilling2737]

That’s what we did in elementary school in the early 2010s

[@wedgelewis7903]

Lol I forgot about that one.

[@777RocketS]

Omg so true!! You had to have a second report picked out just in case.

[@Laidengizer011]

I'd be surprised if slap bracelets never came back at all. They were fun. Never needed to go away.

[@Voletta1000]

You forgot riding your bike with NO helmet or safety gear even when jumping homemade ramps. You know, ramps made of scrap planks and cinder blocks all the kids could find.

[@clubbyvasighn4615]

My dad bent his bicycle pedals when he was a kid doing that. He was the only one who could ride it afterwards. Lol

[@turquoisebubbles2042]

Lol I gave up ridding a bike when the helmet law came in ...... I didn’t want to mess my hair up 😂😂

[@jcbass2u]

I once jumped my friends BMX over my mom's car from a plywood ramp....broke the chain on the landing, but the bike and the car both survived, as did I with no injuries. Let's see em try that one, and there wasn't a helmet in sight.

[@scarletlightening9569]

My youngest son is 14 and still does this

[@rayjohnson2387]

Me and a friend of mine did that all the time ..one time he landed on his front tire...the gooseneck broke and went into his thigh...that was 45 years ago and he still has the scar 😐

[@dougp5044]

80's kids didn't get offended by every little thing they didn't agree wirh

[@Nightwalker973]

Ok boomer

[@chris_h1990]

That shit started with kids born in the late '90s and early '00s! Thank God I was born in 1990, and was raised like a kid in the '80s!

[@thenameosborntremaine1661]

Right, you knew that you wouldn't always get your way and that everyone wasn't always going to agree or be like you.

[@tonyh2500]

Ohhh you got that right. These kids today are a bunch of pansies ( I'm being polite).

[@theuglybeing4673]

Yeah because it was less depression and insecurity

[@staceyl.thienel1499]

Crazy it's been 30 years!! I loved roller skating under the black lights decked out in neon!!

[@70s_GenLover]

40 years*

[@marieknight7295]

I've watched, played, etc with 98% of this stuff, even into the 90s. Granted I was born in 83, so there's that lol. Thank you for the memories 😊😊. I haven't thought of some of these in a long time.

[@herward1047]

I was born in '71. I miss everything...all of it. The music, Saturday morning cartoons, After school specials,American Bandstand, Solid Gold. The clothes and hair styles the under age dance clubs, adult dance clubs not having to worry about getting roofied. School, I loved school. It was a safe place. Hanging out in arcades, roaming around the neighborhood. Getting older sucks and our kids these days...I have a 19 year old son and I can't imagine what kind of world he is growing up in. We were so lucky to have been able to be kids when we were kids. Great times!

[@tonyrains8822]

I hear that ,I totally agree , everything you mentioned is everything I loved and miss today about those times,I personally wished that my kids would be able to enjoy all of those things but it's all been banned,removed ,buried,and steered away from ,these poor kids these days just aren't living,nor are they educated.

[@tonyrains8822]

As well I was born in 72

[@kimbreleymora699]

I was born in '73, so I feel ya! I think my favorite thing was getting to take offon my bike with all my friends who had bikes, and LITERALLY roam for miles around our side of town! As long as we were home when the streetlights came on, none of our parents cared what we did and where we went, as long as they didnt get any complaints from the neighbors about our "manners"!

[@monkeynumbernine]

Totally agree

[@Sunny-jz3dy]

I'm with you! I miss all that stuff!