Wore my mother’s bell bottoms to school and they fell apart while I was at school. Everyone got to see my undies q.q
Did you have boots with the fur?
WITH THE FURRRRRRR
Why you always check for moth bites folks
Hot metal + arm = Smiley Face
I got some parachute pants when I was around 11 or 12 because I thought they were cool, and were the only fad I actually got excited about. Those were some comfy pants!
In high school grunge got popular, which worked out for since I was already wearing worn out jeans, tshirts, and flannel shirts due to living in a rural area. Not sure if trends catching up with me counts as being part of the fad, but I did like the music.
I wear parachute pants when I can, although I usually just wear a sarong, as those are even more comfortable than pants.
Remember that nirvana came from a rural area.
I dunno how much I’m about to date myself with this one but I still remember the heartbreak when my favorite squid shaped silly band snapped after I’d used it enough, whoever designed those was either a complete idiot for designing something that breakable for children, or a maniacal genius for designing something that would need to be replaced that often for children.
Either way, child targeted advertising should be completely illegal, that’s just hitting the parents with emotional blackmail.
JNCO
I’ll go one even further. Before JNCO existed we’d just go to the thrift store and buy the largest size pants we could find. Pair a 48" waist pant with a XXL tshirt when you were 28" and youth large and you were at the height of skate fashion.
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YOU TAKE THAT BACK
Atkins. The 00s low carb diet. How did people do it?
When I finally broke, I put steamed rice and French fries on a cheese pizza and rolled it up and ate it.
There’s a “modern” version of the Atkins diet, the keto diet. Same rules as far as I can tell, just rebranded. I went nuts. I couldn’t stop thinking about bread. Sound of it, smell of it, taste of it… He haunted me day and night. I’d often find myself looking up bread maker reviews, comparing different bread makers on Amazon… Don’t remember what I had when I finally gave up, wasn’t nearly as awesome what you did. But I can constantly tell you I did not buy a bread maker afterwards.
I did one of those Hey girls, did you know that um memes (and continued to make them) back in the day. Netted me niche internet micro celebrity status. I won’t tell you which one, though.
I made a meme too! It’s “If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.”
It’s a comment I made on a Louis Rossmann video!
I also did “capitalism doesn’t return the shopping cart”.
I had a WWJD bracelet at one point in time. The late 90s were weird like that.
The CCTV trend on imageai. Different celebrities or fictional characters stealing from target is just funny for some reason
Jams shorts in the 80s. A friend and I wore them after a wedding, with tuxedos.
Wearing super preppy clothes to school/college. I was mistaken for a teacher in 11th grade. In college, I once wore a pencil skirt, black tights, white sweater, and high heels… to a regular Tuesday afternoon class, just because I wanted to.
I love this and wish people would still get more dressed up to do random stuff.
If I had time and money I would invent dressy clothes that are practical, long-lasting and comfortable!
The problem was that I adopted the trend without thinking about my poor college student lifestyle (LOTS of bus-metro-walk and carrying heavy books). By the end of that day, the tights had runs, the heels were dirty and scuffed, and my feet were killing me. I looked and felt like crap.
Haha- it’s always the shoes, isn’t it? I walk a lot and it’s really driven my footwear choices over the years. There is little crossover between the truly comfortable (hello, plantar fasciitis) and fancy stylish.
Though back in the day I would wear heels and tights for my retail jobs. Definitely helped me sell more!
That college outfit doesn’t sound weird to me at all, but I went to college in Portland, so maybe I’m used to weird.
Doing something because you wanted to makes you way more grown up than the clothes.
Aw, thank you. I appreciate it but let’s be real: I know it was stupid. Like, I thought that dressing smart means I’m smart. I did enjoy the feeling of being put together, but wearing my heavy backpack with heels was atrociously stupid.
You looked nice and took pride in yourself. You should remember this time fondly.
Bro when I was a kid I was into it all. Tamagotchi, hyper colors everything, Pogs, Beanie Babies, Slap bracelets, scooters (not the razors scooters the earlier 80’s scooters), friendship bracelets, that kickball with the plastic ring you bounced on, moon shoes, Jams, Big Dawg, I’m a dude that loved him some Polly Pockets, windbreakers, bomber jackets, M.U.S.C.L.E, G.I. Joe, Pound Puppies, Garbage Pale Kids, those puffy monster balls you squeezed and their eyes popped out, Shrinky Dinks, and then by the late 90s I was walking around with 30" cuffs in my Kikwear and a Kangol.
“that kickball with the plastic ring you bounced on“
It was called a pogo-ball. I loved mine. I remember doing skate grabs etc with it. I also remember a trick where you spun it like a top with your feet, jumped up so your feet were disconnected from it, and then landed back on it to continue pogo balling. It was a weird but fun toy.
Your parents must’ve been wealthy because those are all the fun toys I remember in my childhood that all the other kids had. I didn’t have.
We were 80s middle class both parents worked. My dad sold insurance and my mom was a nurse.
Holy shit, most of that list covers me and I’m just now appreciating how dramatically much stuff counts as fads.
Bro, yo-yos, beyblade, robot dogs, Pokemon at school, pencil toppers, pop-its, razor scooters, and more!
Oh man this just awakened the memory of the “Big Dawg” stores. Actual stores that were ONLY big dawg merch shirts, hats, and pants.
If you can’t run with the big dog stay on the porch.
Remember those metal tubes with liquid plastic in them and came with a straw to blow balloons? (Super eleastic bubble plastic)
They’re back. Bought a tube of Bloonies for my daughter the other day.
Remember those silly rubber “Armstrong” wristbands? I had a million different ones and wore about 20 on each wrist to school and everywhere else. Yeah, I was pretty goddamn cool. 😎
Bitcoin. I mined some (might’ve even been on my CPU at the time) back when it was easy to mine it. Not a ton, but enough that now I have to explain that despite thinking blockchain is just straight up a scam, I do have some Bitcoin in a wallet on my hard drive somewhere. (That I’ve never done anything with.)
Can you get to that wallet? A Bitcoin is worth $60k now.
Yup. I can. I have around 1/20 of a Bitcoin, so the amount I have should be worth about $3,000 USD (unless the price has crashed since I started writing this post. 😈)
Cashing it in would make me feel dirty. It’s basically just handing the bag to the next bagholder. (Though, I’m not really a baholder per se. I’m not really invested to speak of. The only investment I made to get this Bitcoin is to leave my computer on for like a month or less.) Feeding the ponzi monster, as it were.
But then again, it’s $3,000.
As much as I hate myself for admitting it, the possibility that the price will climb a little higher is probably part of why I didn’t trade it for real money back in late 2021 when the price of a Bitcoin was so high.
But, yeah, you’re probably right I should just sell it. Maybe I’ll just make whoever I sell it to promise they’re not giving me next month’s rent or their kids’ college fund. Lol.
It’s crazy how this amount could actually change my life right now. At some point I did also have 1BTC but decided to gamble it all away because I thought it would never have any actual value so it didn’t matter.
If it’s any consolation, I just use bitcoin to convert to Monero to buy drugs. So in a way there is an actual use for it 😊
I bought $270 worth that is now worth about $1,700. I have no idea what to do with it.
You could donate it to some financial literacy nonprofit if you want to be rid of it without feeling dirty.
