Adults Are Revealing Childhood Experiences That Today's Kids Will Never Understand, And I'm Drowning In Pure Nostalgia

As a millennial, it feels weird to beryllium capable to accidental "Back successful my day," but... BACK IN MY DAY, things were conscionable a small spot much carefree, and I'm truthful gladsome that I was a kid erstwhile I was a kid. Lowkey, I benignant of consciousness atrocious for kids today. Does that marque maine old?

1. "The Sears Christmas catalog. That happening brought maine much joyousness than immoderate existent contiguous I ever got."

2. "Just showing up determination and hoping your person shows up, due to the fact that that was the statement erstwhile you past spoke to them yesterday."

—u/pluvio_fille

"Yeah, for me, I'll ne'er hide getting location from religion each Sunday and having to hop connected my motorcycle and thrust astir until I recovered everyone else's bikes piled up successful beforehand of 1 of my friends' houses."

—u/FrancisKey

3. "Having to aftermath up aboriginal connected a snowy time to cheque the quality to spot whether oregon not your schoolhouse was closed. If you missed it, you had to beryllium done the full database again until it got backmost to your city."

4. "Calling my ma 1-800-COLLECT from the schoolhouse wage telephone aft theatre rehearsal and erstwhile they said 'You person a cod telephone from _____' I’d accidental 'MomI’mDoneComePickMeUp!'"

—u/jesileighs

5. "Having an existent bounds connected things that adjacent your parents couldn't change. TV shows were connected erstwhile they were on, the shops oregon rental stores had what games they had, the toys that were disposable were the toys that were available, etc. Now, with streaming, Amazon, online gaming stores, etc., kids tin get astir thing they privation if their parents are consenting to pay."

6. "Being sent to the store with 10 bucks and a enactment for the cashier to bargain cigarettes for your parents."

—u/imacabooseman

7. "Privacy. We were near unsocial to our ain devices (not smartphones!) and survived the misadventures. No 1 recorded america doing dumb worldly and shared it with the world."

—u/crazyditzydiva

8. "It utilized to beryllium a punishment to beryllium indoors; present they deliberation it’s a punishment to beryllium outside."

9. "Leaving the location connected a summertime greeting and our parents having nary thought wherever we were and nary mode to interaction america until we showed backmost up for luncheon oregon meal with conifer sap successful our hairsbreadth and unusual rocks oregon small, confused critters successful our pockets."

—u/glossolalienne

"My ma hosed the ungraded disconnected maine successful the driveway much than once."

—u/Ikey_Pinwheel 

10. "Living for Saturday greeting cartoons and truly lone having that 1 time to ticker them! My kids can’t adjacent ideate however we lone had 4 channels (ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS) and that cartoons were connected for possibly 5 hours 1 time a week!"

11. "Using a cassette portion to grounds your favourite opus from the vigor (and hoping the DJ wasn’t talking done immoderate of it)."

—u/SimpleAcrobatic6275

"I called my vigor presumption 1 time to petition a opus and specifically asked them NOT to talk during the intro due to the fact that I wanted to grounds it."

—u/gh0st_n0te119

12. "Trying to pee during commercialized breaks, and your cousins screaming 'it's baaaaaaackkkkkkk' and having to tally backmost truthful you don’t miss 1 2nd of your show."

—u/bellabbr

13. "Waiting for photos to get developed, earthy and unfiltered."

14. "Your legs getting cooked by the damn metallic descent that was baking successful the sun. Also, that 'eek eek eek' dependable arsenic your tegument sticks to the metallic allllll the mode down. Did anybody other ever propulsion soil connected the descent to marque it a small little painful? Didn’t work, did it?"

—u/ImToo0ldForThisShit

15. "Calling a friend’s location and praying their parents didn’t prime up first."

—u/teen-cutie

"Right! Like calling a miss to inquire her retired and being acceptable to bent up if her begetter answers."

—u/greally

16. "Writing letters and passing notes successful people alternatively of texting oregon DMing instantly."

17. "They'll ne'er cognize the joyousness of a Toys "R" Us store being jam-packed with toys. My small niece was the past 1 successful our household to truly acquisition it, and that was 12 years ago. "

—u/Retro-scores

18. "Actually remembering everyone’s telephone numbers by heart."

—u/SafeIncrease7953

19. "Staying location sick from schoolhouse and watching Maury Povich. I conjecture they tin inactive ticker Price is Right, but it's conscionable not the same."

21. "Getting verbal directions to your friend's location and trying to find it without GPS."

—u/AtticThrowaway

22. "Setting a VCR to grounds a amusement and having to clip it conscionable right."

—u/AlValMeow

23. "Physical encyclopedias."

24. "Collecting pop/soda bottles for the deposit money."

—u/BrassKneck

25. "Calling your parents astatine work."

26. And finally, "Everyone could spend to spell to a performance successful the '80s. Tickets were $10 to $20. I saw David Bowie for $15."

—u/AlisonM66

Is determination thing from your puerility that kids contiguous volition ne'er get to experience? Tell maine successful the comments, oregon usage the anonymous signifier below! Your effect could beryllium utilized successful an upcoming BuzzFeed article!

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