In 1983, I was 13 & I covered my entire bedroom walls with Michael Jackson posters and kissed each one every night before I went to bed. And, I wore one glove to school and had Michael Jackson buttons on my jacket and was always doing the Moon walk ! Until I moved on to Madonna & started singing "Like A Virgin" to my horrified mother and Grandmother! And, then I moved on to Brooke Shields ' eye brows and then the "Bon Jovi" hair metal band look !😂 Love it! What a great decade to be a teenager! Gen - Xers rule!🕶️
I love this comment! You hit all the high points of the decade. I especially love the horrified mother and grandmother over being into Madonna. That really was a big deal back then and many parents were worried about that. My how things have changed. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us!
@@RhettyforHistory I still have my posters on wall from 80s metal plus I have lot of 80s original vinyl records, tapes and CDs. I have a music room in my house with old school HIFI stereo set up worth like 7k from back in days when I bought it.
That's really cool that you still have your posters. I don't have any of mine. I remember crumpling them up and throwing them out because I thought I was grown. Boy do I regret that.
@@RhettyforHistory OHHHH no I never threw anything away. I still have all my music, posters \, magazines like Hit Parader and all that I have my T-shirts too. I have my Rolling Stones magazines too. I have original cd and poster from 80s from The Lost Boys movie lol.
Pickle scented ones were my favorite! I especially loved a class that I had, when you got a good grade, this particular teacher put scratch and sniff stickers on our papers! Man did she rock!
I collected erasers, not the ones you’d want to actually use, but the fancy shaped ones that looked like foods, Sanrio characters, hearts, scooby doo, etc. In the 80s. I also had a collection of thrash metal band patches, a collection of Metallica stuff, a jacket covered entirely in Nuclear Assault things, and I even put posters and pages from RIP magazines and stuff on my ceiling. Those yellow Cabbage Patch kid stamps you showed at the end bright me back to a very specific and good memory, so thank you for that.
And I wonder why I’m such a collector now! Hey, it’s just natural for this 80’s girl! I collected magazine pictures of Duran Duran, The Police and Rick Springfield. I still follow Duran and have been to concerts down through the years. I also collected Hello Kitty and My Melody as well as Snoopy/Peanuts and Disney items. Today, I collect Pusheen items (guess the child in me is still there,) Snoopy/Peanuts and Fenton birds! Well, at least I have one adult interest! 😂 And much to my dismay, I end up hanging on to magazines even if I’ve read them already. My biggest collection of all are my books! My love of reading was ingrained in me at a very young age and my love for buying and keeping them hasn’t changed in 53 years! Love your channel! 💜💗❤️
Hello Kitty and Snoopy were certainly big items to collect! I love reading physical books as well and just can't bring myself to doing a digital book. I love the feel, the smell and the satisfaction of opening the book and hearing the pops when it is new and the sound of the pages when I turn them. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories. Sounds like you really collected some cool items!
It’s so nice to find another person who collects/collected the stuff I do! (With the exception of the birds!)😊❤Ended up becoming a Librarian because books are AWESOME!😁
Don't hear much about them anymore but I used to collect Marbles. For a couple years around 10yr old we used to go to school playground about 20min early to meet up an play marbles, was always about who won the best ones. - besides just hanging with friends before school started. Great vid/reminder.
I didn't really collect marbles but I did have a set because I enjoyed playing other kids. I don't think any of us did the deal where you keep the marbles you knock out. We gave them back so we could all play again. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Patrick!
@@RhettyforHistory YW. Oh ya, we were hard core, lol. Was never no fun loosing your fav. We did have 1 rule we made up, you had to claim 1 marble as your fav for the day, if you lost it in the game you got 1 chance to win it back the next day, after that the winner doesn't have to give you another chance. Was a pretty bid deal to about 20 of us rugrats lol.
@@Patrick42567that's awesome! We did the same thing. Keepsy's was kind of rough but we played that way...I remember a rule we made at one point that was called "everything in the book," lol (we made up all kinds of rules when playing anything). I still have my marbles, lol?! Anyways...I ended up finding a schoolyard later on when I was about twenty that had many on the property, and dug around and found piles in the dirt. I had a very technical job back then and had a cleanroom at my disposal, and used the ultrasonic bath to clean them up.
I collected stickers (had an album) and erasers. Unique erasers that you had to search for. I was in home goods a few months ago and saw erasers that reminded me of the ones I used to collect…my heart started racing. I see stickers and I still am drawn to buy them. Childhood likes never leave apparently.
Smurfs! You forgot the smurfs. I only had a few growing up in the 80s. I remember a friend of mine telling me that she knew a kid (a friend of a friend's cousin's girlfriend's type story, lol) who had a whole room full of smurf figurines. I remember thinking how awesome that would be. You were bang on with the stickers though - I remember having albums full of stickers and organizing them by type - just like you show someone doing your video.
Smurfs is definitely a big one to mention. I will have to place that in a part 2. Stickers were really popular and it seemed like you could get them anywhere. I don't see that sort of variety today. But they are there I guess. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us.
I still collect 80s toys when I can. Most of them are now priced out of the market for me now, so it's not a lot. Plus small things like novelty erasers, gumball machine toys, and various 80s stickers have become collected stuff too.
My bedroom walls were plastered with Joe McIntyre posts from NKOTB, and I had pins galore on my jacket. Each week, I would go to the store and look for teen mags with the New Kids on the covers just so I can tear out the posters and pics of Joe for my wall. I even had the huge door-sized poster of Joe.
They were brilliant in marketing and I don't think I have ever seen anything grip young girls and women like that since. Thank you for watching and sharing what you were into. Did you keep all of that?
I loved getting magazines. The magazine sections were huge and it was also fun to look thru different ones that you may not normally get. Now they seem so expensive and much smaller. Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you enjoyed.
I still have all my old Star Wars Action Figures, complete with guns and telescoping light sabers. I got them as soon as they were released. The Boba Fett action figure was obtained by collecting cereal box tops and sending away for it. I grew up in the 70s, and we collected Matchbox cars and Hot Wheels. I also collected baseball cars and still have a few, including the 1977 Reggie Jackson card, his first year with the Yankees, and the year he had the legendary Game 6 in the World Series - three plate appearances, three swings of the bat, and three home runs off three different pitchers.
I'm kind of jealous Greg! Sounds like you have some really cool things. I used to collect those little cars as well. More so Hot Wheels. I thought they rolled better at the time. I'm not sure how the are now. Seems like I see more older folks buying them than I do any kids. That's sad really.
I try to explain to my kids just how awesome being a kid in the 80s was. I don't think words could ever fully cover just how special of an era it was. It had a very unique feeling. It had to be experienced.
I have to ask. After lockdown we rescued a dog, (he's a puggle) when he sits facing away from me and turns his head to look at me with his big sad face he reminds me of one of the precious moments dogs. I have looked online to see if I can find it but no luck. Do you know what I'm talking about? Dark ears, tan body? I would need the name of the dog to find the right one.🤞👍💙🏴
Pound Puppies are my biggest collection but I still collect My Little Pony too. eBay is great for buying those things you wanted as a kid and didn’t have the money for!
STICKERS!!!!!! I still have most of my stuff. I LOVE it all!!!! I never got a Cabbage Patch. They were way too expensive. I was a little bummed about that. But I was really bummed to not get the doll that grew hair so you could cut it into different styles! I never liked the trolls and thought the twins on full house looked just like those dolls minus the crazy hair! I did like Rainbow Bright, Punky Brewster, Garfield My Little Pony and Care Bears. And of course Star Wars! I remember I had a sky blue T-shirt with Storm Troopers on it. I wonder what happened to that!🤔 And talk about stickers everywhere? I have an original Empire Strikes Back sticker stuck to my dad's bureau's mirror to this day. I thought once I could steam it off to put it somewhere better. Didn't work. Stuff was made to last back then, not like the cheap junk you get today and have to constantly replace over and over again. Ahhh, the good, OLD days! I'm so blessed to have grown up in the 80's!!!!!🎉🎉🎉
I do think you're right about the old adhesive on the old stickers. It was just stronger. Same could be said about bumper stickers too. Those were just super strong and not coming off. Thank you for watching and sharing some of the things that you loved.
Oh that's awesome! Those were huge during the 80s and every so often they sort of make a minor comeback. Thank you for watching and sharing what you collected!
Sticker albums, garbage pail kids, and cabbage patch we had. Posters were all over my walls. Thank you for reminding me of some of these. I have a lot of golden books for my granddaughter from when my kids and i were young.
Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you had Sandra. All of those things you had were huge. That is great that you still have some books. Those should never go out of style. At least in my opinion.
I was still collecting hot wheels from the ‘70s onto the 80’s. I had gotten some sets of garbage pail kids and scratch and sniff stickers. I bet most kids collected models to put them together and display them. I had tons of them! One could not see the plaster in my room since I had tons of stuff on my bedroom walls. Oh, I also collected hub caps that I would find on the side of the roads. I still have my hot wheels and the hubcaps today.
I have a hubcap collection from doing the same thing. The only issue with that is there aren't any good ones like the old days. I love the old metal ones and not the plastic ones. Thank you for watching and sharing what you love to collect!
We grew up poor so we didn't really have much and especially not enough for collecting. I did find my Rubik's cube from the 80's in a box last week though. Frustratingly enough I still can't solve the dang thing lol.
I'm not any good at those either. Not even with the cheat guide. Both of my brothers can solve them so I'm the only one that couldn't. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Brandi!
Scratch and sniff stickers , I loved those and still have my sticker books from then. I still collect strawberry shortcake dolls from the 80s. As an adult, I can buy all the ones my mom didn't buy me because I already had that one. I have all my New Kids On the Block stuff.Jon was my favorite. I have my fisher price little people, too.
I collected little flocked animal figurines that were sold at a mall chain store called CoachHouse Gifts -little fuzzy rabbits, squirrels and chipmunks that fit in the palm of your hand. They were made by a company called Josef. I also collected Breyer horses-almost all of my friends had at least one of those in the 70’s-80’s…
my parents had a big container of pins that they collected from decades and decades ago, there were just about everything in there, including some friendship pins with the cutest beads and charms i’ve ever seen. i remember just looking through, (almost getting pricked) and finding ones i really liked to put on my backpack. they are definitely the sole reason i have a knack for collecting and making pins!
Those friendship pins were huge and I forgot all about those. The charm bracelets and necklaces were also huge. Thank you for watching and sharing what you and your family were and are into.
I still collect Cabbage Patch Kids. I have around 50 mint condition ones. When people see my collection room I tell them ahead of time that I’m 100% aware that it is weird 😂
That's awesome that you still collect those. Sounds like an impressive collection. Do you have a whole room dedicated to them? Thank you for watching and sharing what you still collect.
I loved those little Pom Pom things with the eyes 👀 they were so cute. My bedroom walls were definitely plastered in huge posters, you are correct, there was no paint to be seen.😁 Most of mine were those huge ones we bought from the record store for $5.00 Australia money. That was quite a bit for back then. Thanks for the memories of the stick of pink gum inside the trading card packs, I had forgotten about that. You are so right, that gum lasted a couple of minutes tops. 😂 Great video Rhett. ❤Jodie 🇦🇺
Some of that gum was so hard that if you bought an old pack and tried to chew it then it felt like it could break a tooth. I eventually got to where I would give the gum away to someone else. Thank you for watching Jodie and sharing some of what you collected during the 80s. I don't even hardly see posters anymore like I used to.
Strange how that has happened huh? I know Taylor Swift has kind of revived it a little but kids just don't have the same places to get these posters. Many of the stores that sold them are either gone or just don't sell them. Record stores are mostly gone and magazines just don't do that anymore. Cereals sure don't put them in boxes anymore.
I had a son born in 1983 and every time we went to the grocery store I bought a Golden Book and had a huge collection. When he outgrew them, I gave it to a friend who had two children but had never bought any books even though she and her husband both had advanced degrees. One of the things that was huge was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and when they first came out it was easy to purchase the characters, then they came out with more and it became exponential with only a few certain characters in each shipment. I knew the names of all of them and parents whose children had just started collecting them where overwhelmed at the display. I had duplicates that my husband had bought and were still in their original package and I just gave them last month to a former neighbor who had a son several years ago and shares my birthdate. I still have a large box of all the TMNT as well as many sets of Legos. People in the family didn’t want the books, games or toys but the neighbor is thrilled. She wasn’t raised in the US so everything is new although her husband was and is just a few years younger than my son so gets excited that he can share those memories with his own son. I do remember ribbons being passed out to everyone on game day at school in the late 80’s with children throwing them on the ground. They told me that since everyone got one that they weren’t special.
A couple of things here in my 80's world - I went to a high school with a predominant Hispanic population (actually a predominant population of all races ( thank goodness) and they had Menudo pins and posters etc etc cute young Ricky Martin - In middle school Smurfs were a big thing - buying tiger beat magazine was huge because you got smaller posters and you would make an album, larger posters as you said you got at Spencer's or a record store we had called Sam Goodys - Last but not least THANK YOU talking about ribbons ..All you wanted was 1st,2nd,3rd and not everyone got them just those 3 lucky people... You didn't automatically get on a team, you tried out and you might not have made it , so you practiced so that you could get on it eventually!!! I remember Girl Scouts LOL I was on a team and we came in 4th shld have been 3rd but that is a whole other PTS story 😂 and they had a 4th place ribbon and I was like no thank you I wanted 1st,2nd,3rd 😊
Yep, collected a lot of these, remember Garbage Pail kids got so popular they banned them from school because it was a distraction. Still have the whole 3rd edition. Unfortunately, good ol' Dad tossed all of our old toys, and it's sad, just on the amount of original Star Wars we had alone is worth a fortune by now.
If your Dad knew what they would be worth today then he probably wouldn't have done that. But who knew? I sure didn't. Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you were into.
You know if I've would of known that all the toys that I played with in the 80's that was worth money today I would of NEVER played with them when I was little kid 😂
I didn't have a lot of posters since we shared rooms as kids but I remember my Catholic mom almost losing it when I hung a 3'x4' black Motley Crue pentagram flag on my wall lol.
Oh, I could see that happening. They caused quite the stir with that look. Of course, that was intentional. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories brandiwynter!
I didn't really collect anything in the 80s, but I held on to whatever I got. What I kept was video games and related stuff. Now, my collecting days are over for the older stuff since prices are absolutely crazy.
my dad being in the military in the 80s and 90s loved to collect shareware games from magazines the base would receive. he has boxes dedicated to all the games he would get for free and i think that's pretty cool that was one of his favorite hobbies.
What is even more cool is that he kept all of that. When you move around in the military it's difficult to keep things. Thank you for watching and sharing what you Dad was into.
I was really into Wacky Packages in the 70’s. I have two 50 something sisters who are still fighting over that Mickey Mouse phone they had from the 80’s. One of them went through the effort to reclaim it from the other’s basement just a couple years ago. Thanks for creating a Saturday morning diversion Rhetty…
You're welcome and thank you for watching and sharing what you were into. That is funny that your sisters love that phone so much. Are they mad at each other over it or is it in good fun?
You weren’t cool with your guy friends if you didn’t have sports illustrated models on your wall! Come on now I know most of us guys here had at least 2 magazines on their wall! 😂
I miss the 80s so much. I hope you continue making these fantastic videos. Your videos help me remember things i have forgotten in this fast-paced society we have now.
I was all about the collecting. It started in the late 70's with Star Wars cards, then Charlie's Angels cards and Wacky Packages stickers. I have original full boxes of the Wackys in my 'Retro Room' today. I always collected records, and then CDs, still do on both accounts. I used to collect Star Hits magazine, which was the cool music mag for kids who liked Alternative music in the 80s. I still have a pile of my original mags. We used to collect silly things like the days when McDonalds would offer glasses and cups with a new character each week. And of course, Atari and Intellivision video games, some of those originals I still have displayed in the Retro Room, complete with chew marks from the dogs we had 40 years ago.
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us. Sounds like you have collected a lot of cool things over the years. A retro room would be cool to have! I have quite a few atari games as well. I wish I had kept more of what I used to have like you did.
My friends and I definitely collected the Garbage pail kids cards but I also collected something just as passionately at the time. That was the little pink M.U.S.C.L.E. wrestling figures!!! I can’t even begin to explain how many I bought and or traded back and forth with friends trying to get them all. I even had the little wrestling ring that you could clip two of the figures in and battle each other with. Kind of like rock em sock em robots as you had a knob to control the figure you clipped in. If you could dislodge the other guy you won. Those were the days! Then we got older and started painting D&D lead figures. But that’s a whole nother story.
Hah I'm a female and I had cabbage patch kids and garbage pail kids. I was obsessed with both. I also collected charm necklaces stickers and care bear figurines.
Everything you named was huge! I definitely remember a lot of girls with the charm necklaces and bracelets. Thank you for watching and letting us know what you had!
7:30 I got my ribbons with the report cards in middle school. I remember two colors out of 3, the green and yellow. Yellow was the second best with A's and and a few B's.
In the late 80s and early 90 I had plenty of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, Dyna-Flites, and Skybusters for planes, plenty of Battle Beasts, and a Time Life book subscription to Voyage Through the Universe space books.
One of the first things I remember collecting was stickers that came with a chocolate waffle bar and was very popular back then. The kiosks where you could buy them provided you with an album to place the stickers. It was themed stickers and if I remember correctly the theme changed every season. It could be a popular cartoon show, or a Disney movie, or a specific character. The goal was to complete the album with all numbered stickers and then you post it to the company and receive a gift (in most cases was a Walkman) and you entered for a lottery to the big gift. I won a bicycle once. After that, I remember some small chocolate eggs that had tiny toys inside and I used to collect them for years. Some of them were intact pieces, but some others you had to assemble yourself and I loved those. They were more interactive. They still exist but I'm sure the toys won't have the same impact on nowadays children.
The toy market has definitely changed. The electronic market has sort of taken it's place. That sticker thing you had from the chocolate waffle bar sounds interesting. I didn't ever see that where I was but what a genius way of getting people to keep buying more. I know I would have gone for that. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us!
Great Videos! I collected Baseball Cards, Hot Wheels, and Wacky Packages; I still have about 50 cards. I also collected matchbooks, beer cans and stamps although that may have been late 70's. Keep making these great videos, it's so great going down memory lane. I also love the humor you put into them as well. Thank you.
Nudity?! I thought this was a family-friendly channel. 😂😂😂 I had a lot of these in the 80s and 90s. I also collected fun erasers, those plastic charms with little bells, Strawberry Shortcake everything, and McDonald's Happy Meal toys. The Little Golden Books we have at the library now are reprints of some of the classic titles, but the spines are yellow instead of gold. It's not quite the same, but they're sturdier.
I hope you are talking about the Cabbage Patch Kid doll? Nothing else slipped in did it? Thank you for watching and sharing what you used to collect kerrid.979!
I just wanted to make sure. I tried to screen those posters on the wall in the photos because I do have some that show too much! So, needless to say I won't be placing those in a video. I thought maybe one slipped thru that I didn't catch.
I started collecting TV Guides in 1984 when they were only 50 cents but they sure took up a lot of space. Unfortunately I got rid of them about 10 years later when we moved.
Love the poster segment. I'm a child of the 60s so mine started in the 70s with posters of David Cassidy, the Monkees, and the Bay City Rollers. I moved on to Rick Springfield and Duran Duran. In my freshman year of college, my roommate and I hung the poster of David Lee Roth on the ceiling of our dorm room. It was the one where he was on his knees with his hands tied up above his head.😂 Parents these days would probably have a s**t fit over that one, lol.
Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you were into Mick_Ts_Chick! The biggest post of all time definitely came out of the 70s. Any clue what it was?
I was a toddler for a good part of the 80's but i remember playing with GI Joe's,WWF and Tonka stuff with an older brother that wanted to destroy my stuff
I collected tons of posters in my youth in the 80's, Detroit athletes of course. Steve Yzerman Barry Sanders Kirk Gibson and many others I was like the biggest Detroit sports fanatic as a kid growing up and still till this day.
I had two Cabbage Patch Kids, collected Garbage Pail Kids, had a sticker book (our local mall had a sticker store!), owned some Barbie sized dolls of Han Solo, Princess Leia, and Luke Skywalker that had been my uncle's (cousin got Darth Vadet, C3PO, R2D2, and Obiwan Kenobi), had lots of posters (including a huge Michael J. Fox one, the Coreys, and several hair bands), had a jean jacket and pins, lots of Little Golden Books, but never like New Kids.
I was really young in the 80s but I had a bunch of stickers. When I got old enough I collected pogs, and beanie babies. Now I collect porcelain dolls which I have in a china cabinet.
What, no Beanie Babies?! I personally didn't have any, but man, people, young & older, really went nuts for those. Remember all the different ones? Holy moly.
Beanie Babies were a 90s thing for sure. The internet and all the chat rooms made people believe certain ones were going to make them rich. It was a big collecting item though. Thank you for watching!
I was born in 83...i had a green cabbage patch doll..i loved that thing..n yes I had posters on my walls but wwf posters..ive been a wrestling fan for almost 30 years..shirts,hats, magazines..n I still have them all..
Does anyone remember M.u.s.c.l.e.s. figurines? I don't remember them lasting long, but they were neat! I think I remember them coming in a clear trashcan.
I collected Smurfs, after waking up with one 8n my bed one morning, the guy next door worked in the petrol (gas) station we could get them from. Had posters of TV shows on my walls. Erasers, pens, pencils and rulers were other items I collected then and still have them all.
Remember those sticker storybooks you had to collect the stickers to complete the story. I had star wars, masters of the universe and a few others. I also collected hot wheels cars and dinky toy cars
I collected baseball cards, stickers, and even those ink stamps things. Mine were mostly of dinosaurs but some were of race cars or sports themed. I don’t have these anymore, but I *still* have all my Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi era Star Wars toys! I’m not parting with those!
You were smart to keep those! I sold mine before I went into the military and I wish I hadn't. I thought I made money off of them at the time but little did I know the franchise would continue. Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you were into.
I had the poster for Star Wars Empire Strikes Back taped to my window to block out the light, and it hung there for like a decade I think. When we moved, I went to take it down, and it disintegrated in my hands. I was so bummed.😢 And I remember the puffy stickers and the scratch n sniff stickers. In fact, I still have them in my old sticker album somewhere.
Oh that's awesome you still have your sticker album. Not too many people do. That is sad on that poster but I wouldn't have guessed it would have done that. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Shannon.
Wow! I was just thinking about all my old stickers earlier today! lol I loved them. Still do. lol I still have my three pins from the 1980’s - two Monkees pins and a Star Trek “Beam me up, Scotty” pin my brother bought for me. I also still have the Weepul the optometrist gave me. My prize possession out of this list is the Cabbage Patch Kid style doll my aunt sewed for me. I got really sick with encephalitis/meningitis in 1984 and had a very long recovery. That doll came in the mail and sat by my side through it all. She’s still here with me.
That is great that you still have some of these old items. That was really sweet of your aunt and I can definitely see why you kept that. Not many people have something like that. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us!
In 1983, I was 13 & I covered my entire bedroom walls with Michael Jackson posters and kissed each one every night before I went to bed. And, I wore one glove to school and had Michael Jackson buttons on my jacket and was always doing the Moon walk ! Until I moved on to Madonna & started singing "Like A Virgin" to my horrified mother and Grandmother! And, then I moved on to Brooke Shields ' eye brows and then the "Bon Jovi" hair metal band look !😂 Love it! What a great decade to be a teenager! Gen - Xers rule!🕶️
I love this comment! You hit all the high points of the decade. I especially love the horrified mother and grandmother over being into Madonna. That really was a big deal back then and many parents were worried about that. My how things have changed. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us!
😂 It was the truth! I love your channel!😎
Thank you and I'm happy to know you are enjoying the channel!
In 1983 I was nothing. I wasn't born.
You kissed each one every night? Damn 😂 that’s some dedication lol
Another fun walk, down memory lane,
Thank you for watching and I'm happy to hear you enjoyed this one johnmcjunkin4613!
Rhetty, helps curb my mid-life crisis( ' )
I'm glad I can help a little sg51psd04.
Those good 80s metal days love it. Posters on walls!!!
They were sure popular along with patches and pins of your favorite band. Thank you for watching Roman!
@@RhettyforHistory I still have my posters on wall from 80s metal plus I have lot of 80s original vinyl records, tapes and CDs. I have a music room in my house with old school HIFI stereo set up worth like 7k from back in days when I bought it.
That's really cool that you still have your posters. I don't have any of mine. I remember crumpling them up and throwing them out because I thought I was grown. Boy do I regret that.
@@RhettyforHistory OHHHH no I never threw anything away. I still have all my music, posters \, magazines like Hit Parader and all that I have my T-shirts too. I have my Rolling Stones magazines too. I have original cd and poster from 80s from The Lost Boys movie lol.
I sure wish I had kept more of what I had.
Scratch and sniff stickers. We went nuts over collecting and trading.
They were a lot of fun! So were the scented markers. Thank you for watching bellamaz1972!
Pickle scented ones were my favorite! I especially loved a class that I had, when you got a good grade, this particular teacher put scratch and sniff stickers on our papers! Man did she rock!
I collected erasers, not the ones you’d want to actually use, but the fancy shaped ones that looked like foods, Sanrio characters, hearts, scooby doo, etc. In the 80s. I also had a collection of thrash metal band patches, a collection of Metallica stuff, a jacket covered entirely in Nuclear Assault things, and I even put posters and pages from RIP magazines and stuff on my ceiling.
Those yellow Cabbage Patch kid stamps you showed at the end bright me back to a very specific and good memory, so thank you for that.
And I wonder why I’m such a collector now! Hey, it’s just natural for this 80’s girl! I collected magazine pictures of Duran Duran, The Police and Rick Springfield. I still follow Duran and have been to concerts down through the years. I also collected Hello Kitty and My Melody as well as Snoopy/Peanuts and Disney items.
Today, I collect Pusheen items (guess the child in me is still there,) Snoopy/Peanuts and Fenton birds! Well, at least I have one adult interest! 😂 And much to my dismay, I end up hanging on to magazines even if I’ve read them already.
My biggest collection of all are my books! My love of reading was ingrained in me at a very young age and my love for buying and keeping them hasn’t changed in 53 years! Love your channel! 💜💗❤️
Hello Kitty and Snoopy were certainly big items to collect! I love reading physical books as well and just can't bring myself to doing a digital book. I love the feel, the smell and the satisfaction of opening the book and hearing the pops when it is new and the sound of the pages when I turn them. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories. Sounds like you really collected some cool items!
Awesome...Totally concur with the books.
Same here - lots of books! 😊
Same! Absolutely nothing like turning the pages..
Major book reader here..
It’s so nice to find another person who collects/collected the stuff I do! (With the exception of the birds!)😊❤Ended up becoming a Librarian because books are AWESOME!😁
Don't hear much about them anymore but I used to collect Marbles. For a couple years around 10yr old we used to go to school playground about 20min early to meet up an play marbles, was always about who won the best ones. - besides just hanging with friends before school started. Great vid/reminder.
I didn't really collect marbles but I did have a set because I enjoyed playing other kids. I don't think any of us did the deal where you keep the marbles you knock out. We gave them back so we could all play again. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Patrick!
@@RhettyforHistory YW. Oh ya, we were hard core, lol. Was never no fun loosing your fav. We did have 1 rule we made up, you had to claim 1 marble as your fav for the day, if you lost it in the game you got 1 chance to win it back the next day, after that the winner doesn't have to give you another chance. Was a pretty bid deal to about 20 of us rugrats lol.
That would be a big deal to both the loser and the one that is getting everyone's marbles.
@@Patrick42567that's awesome! We did the same thing. Keepsy's was kind of rough but we played that way...I remember a rule we made at one point that was called "everything in the book," lol (we made up all kinds of rules when playing anything). I still have my marbles, lol?! Anyways...I ended up finding a schoolyard later on when I was about twenty that had many on the property, and dug around and found piles in the dirt. I had a very technical job back then and had a cleanroom at my disposal, and used the ultrasonic bath to clean them up.
@@RhettyforHistoryoh yeah, there were tears and fights sometimes.
I collected stickers (had an album) and erasers. Unique erasers that you had to search for. I was in home goods a few months ago and saw erasers that reminded me of the ones I used to collect…my heart started racing. I see stickers and I still am drawn to buy them. Childhood likes never leave apparently.
Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you collected!
Smurfs! You forgot the smurfs. I only had a few growing up in the 80s. I remember a friend of mine telling me that she knew a kid (a friend of a friend's cousin's girlfriend's type story, lol) who had a whole room full of smurf figurines. I remember thinking how awesome that would be. You were bang on with the stickers though - I remember having albums full of stickers and organizing them by type - just like you show someone doing your video.
Smurfs is definitely a big one to mention. I will have to place that in a part 2. Stickers were really popular and it seemed like you could get them anywhere. I don't see that sort of variety today. But they are there I guess. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us.
thats the 1st thing i thought of when i saw the title
@@RhettyforHistoryWe called my boyfriend's roommate in college Smurf because he was so short. Used to piss him off royally! 😅
Oh, I bet it would!
Loved Mad Magazine.😊
Thank you for watching and sharing what you loved BusDriversLife!
I still collect 80s toys when I can. Most of them are now priced out of the market for me now, so it's not a lot. Plus small things like novelty erasers, gumball machine toys, and various 80s stickers have become collected stuff too.
They really have gotten high. I try to keep an eye out for those things too. Thank you for watching 3Storms!
My bedroom walls were plastered with Joe McIntyre posts from NKOTB, and I had pins galore on my jacket. Each week, I would go to the store and look for teen mags with the New Kids on the covers just so I can tear out the posters and pics of Joe for my wall. I even had the huge door-sized poster of Joe.
They were brilliant in marketing and I don't think I have ever seen anything grip young girls and women like that since. Thank you for watching and sharing what you were into. Did you keep all of that?
I collected teen magazines& and at 15 , in 1985, I started collecting Cosmopolitan magazines! ( And sunglasses!) 🕶️ & Madonna bracelets!
I loved getting magazines. The magazine sections were huge and it was also fun to look thru different ones that you may not normally get. Now they seem so expensive and much smaller. Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you enjoyed.
Teen Beat!!
@@kristyp2585 Amen! 😎😀
As a 70’s and 80’s kid, I loved building, shooting off and collecting model rockets.
Thank you for watching JAT922 and sharing your memories!
Thanks Rhetty for another walk down memory lane.
You're welcome and thank you for watching janedee6488!
What about the glass mirrors you won at carnivals. They usually had a band logo on them. So cool!
I do remember those being a big deal and I haven't seen anything like them in years. Thank you for watching!
I still have all my old Star Wars Action Figures, complete with guns and telescoping light sabers. I got them as soon as they were released. The Boba Fett action figure was obtained by collecting cereal box tops and sending away for it. I grew up in the 70s, and we collected Matchbox cars and Hot Wheels. I also collected baseball cars and still have a few, including the 1977 Reggie Jackson card, his first year with the Yankees, and the year he had the legendary Game 6 in the World Series - three plate appearances, three swings of the bat, and three home runs off three different pitchers.
I'm kind of jealous Greg! Sounds like you have some really cool things. I used to collect those little cars as well. More so Hot Wheels. I thought they rolled better at the time. I'm not sure how the are now. Seems like I see more older folks buying them than I do any kids. That's sad really.
Garbage pail kids and MAD magazine
Both were really big in the 80s! Did you collect both of those Tammie? Thank you for watching!
@@RhettyforHistory as I watch the video I seem to remember having at least one or tons of everything in it
And Wacky Packages!
Did we share a BFF ❤️ necklace or what?! Me too. Those are my 2 faves.
Loved Alfred E. Newman!
I try to explain to my kids just how awesome being a kid in the 80s was. I don't think words could ever fully cover just how special of an era it was. It had a very unique feeling. It had to be experienced.
I collected Precious moments that I still have to this day😊♥️
Awesome Maggie! Thank you for watching and sharing what you collect!
I have to ask. After lockdown we rescued a dog, (he's a puggle) when he sits facing away from me and turns his head to look at me with his big sad face he reminds me of one of the precious moments dogs. I have looked online to see if I can find it but no luck. Do you know what I'm talking about? Dark ears, tan body? I would need the name of the dog to find the right one.🤞👍💙🏴
I remember EVERYTHING in this video! Thanks for the memories! God, the 80s was such a great time to grow up! 😊
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Pound Puppies are my biggest collection but I still collect My Little Pony too. eBay is great for buying those things you wanted as a kid and didn’t have the money for!
I was a huge baseball and football card collector in the 80's. Still have a few of them today.
Thank you for watching and sharing what you collected Joe. That's great that you still have some of them!
STICKERS!!!!!! I still have most of my stuff. I LOVE it all!!!! I never got a Cabbage Patch. They were way too expensive. I was a little bummed about that. But I was really bummed to not get the doll that grew hair so you could cut it into different styles! I never liked the trolls and thought the twins on full house looked just like those dolls minus the crazy hair! I did like Rainbow Bright, Punky Brewster, Garfield My Little Pony and Care Bears. And of course Star Wars! I remember I had a sky blue T-shirt with Storm Troopers on it. I wonder what happened to that!🤔 And talk about stickers everywhere? I have an original Empire Strikes Back sticker stuck to my dad's bureau's mirror to this day. I thought once I could steam it off to put it somewhere better. Didn't work. Stuff was made to last back then, not like the cheap junk you get today and have to constantly replace over and over again. Ahhh, the good, OLD days! I'm so blessed to have grown up in the 80's!!!!!🎉🎉🎉
I do think you're right about the old adhesive on the old stickers. It was just stronger. Same could be said about bumper stickers too. Those were just super strong and not coming off. Thank you for watching and sharing some of the things that you loved.
Lol, my brother still has his Return of the Jedi stickers on his bedframe. We've offered to buy him a new bed but he doesn't want one.
I still have my sticker book, too! Lisa Frank stickers, scratch and sniff, hologram, weird oil filled ones? Most were unicorns and cats. 😂
I'd take the see through phone over that Mickey phone any day of the week. I've got one in the man cave. My kids love it.
Those are cool phones. I remember TVs like that as well. Thank you for watching and sharing what you have.
Jelly Bracelets were fun.
Those were certainly popular!
I still have my collection of my little ponies from the 80s
Oh that's awesome! Those were huge during the 80s and every so often they sort of make a minor comeback. Thank you for watching and sharing what you collected!
Me too, my 5yr old plays with them now, and my old barbies:)
Wow I remember all of these! What a great time to be a kid 😊
Thank you for watching thetruthstand!
Oh the 80's< you got to love that decade.!
Thank you for watching Mike and Pam!
Sticker albums, garbage pail kids, and cabbage patch we had. Posters were all over my walls. Thank you for reminding me of some of these. I have a lot of golden books for my granddaughter from when my kids and i were young.
Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you had Sandra. All of those things you had were huge. That is great that you still have some books. Those should never go out of style. At least in my opinion.
BEST DECADE EVER! Today feels so EMPTY and social media makes everyone into a ZOMBIE! No heart anymore!
Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts Kent!
Miss these old days 😁
Thank you for watching DelilahKeller-kx5rq!
I was still collecting hot wheels from the ‘70s onto the 80’s. I had gotten some sets of garbage pail kids and scratch and sniff stickers. I bet most kids collected models to put them together and display them. I had tons of them! One could not see the plaster in my room since I had tons of stuff on my bedroom walls. Oh, I also collected hub caps that I would find on the side of the roads. I still have my hot wheels and the hubcaps today.
I have a hubcap collection from doing the same thing. The only issue with that is there aren't any good ones like the old days. I love the old metal ones and not the plastic ones. Thank you for watching and sharing what you love to collect!
I have the metal one! A few plastics.
The metals ones are definitely hard to come by now unless you want to pay a pretty price at an antique store.
We grew up poor so we didn't really have much and especially not enough for collecting. I did find my Rubik's cube from the 80's in a box last week though. Frustratingly enough I still can't solve the dang thing lol.
I'm not any good at those either. Not even with the cheat guide. Both of my brothers can solve them so I'm the only one that couldn't. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Brandi!
Thank you Rhetty for the memories ❤
You're welcome and thank you so much for watching monikameza4107!
Scratch and sniff stickers , I loved those and still have my sticker books from then. I still collect strawberry shortcake dolls from the 80s. As an adult, I can buy all the ones my mom didn't buy me because I already had that one. I have all my New Kids On the Block stuff.Jon was my favorite. I have my fisher price little people, too.
Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you enjoy collecting. It sounds like you have quite a bit which is really cool!
I collected little flocked animal figurines that were sold at a mall chain store called CoachHouse Gifts -little fuzzy rabbits, squirrels and chipmunks that fit in the palm of your hand. They were made by a company called Josef. I also collected Breyer horses-almost all of my friends had at least one of those in the 70’s-80’s…
Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you collected user-fw8rm1yv3i!
I still have my cabbage patch dolls today. Big & the small ones. 😊
Oh that's awesome yamil.343! Thank you for watching and sharing what you still have!
You forgot comic books, t-shirts (with band names &tour dates), hot wheels & matchbox cars!
Those were all big items and there are definitely more items that I can squeeze in a part two. Thank you for watching TeddyStrongBear!
my parents had a big container of pins that they collected from decades and decades ago, there were just about everything in there, including some friendship pins with the cutest beads and charms i’ve ever seen. i remember just looking through, (almost getting pricked) and finding ones i really liked to put on my backpack. they are definitely the sole reason i have a knack for collecting and making pins!
Those friendship pins were huge and I forgot all about those. The charm bracelets and necklaces were also huge. Thank you for watching and sharing what you and your family were and are into.
I love pins too, and still have a bunch of mine. My daughter gave me one that says "I'm the cool mom."
It makes me happy to see the G-n-R shirts in this. I wore mine too but that was the early 90's.
Thank you for watching ronaldnoble9694!
@@RhettyforHistory for the algorithm 👍
Anyone else Remeber those Smiley pins and stickers? Tshirts, cups etc
Absolutely! The original emojis. They may have started in the 70s but they remained popular in the 80s. Thank you for watching!
I still collect Cabbage Patch Kids. I have around 50 mint condition ones. When people see my collection room I tell them ahead of time that I’m 100% aware that it is weird 😂
That's awesome that you still collect those. Sounds like an impressive collection. Do you have a whole room dedicated to them? Thank you for watching and sharing what you still collect.
I do! They are all displayed on shelves in their own room haha
I love that!
I loved those little Pom Pom things with the eyes 👀 they were so cute.
My bedroom walls were definitely plastered in huge posters, you are correct, there was no paint to be seen.😁 Most of mine were those huge ones we bought from the record store for $5.00 Australia money. That was quite a bit for back then. Thanks for the memories of the stick of pink gum inside the trading card packs, I had forgotten about that. You are so right, that gum lasted a couple of minutes tops. 😂 Great video Rhett. ❤Jodie 🇦🇺
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Some of that gum was so hard that if you bought an old pack and tried to chew it then it felt like it could break a tooth. I eventually got to where I would give the gum away to someone else. Thank you for watching Jodie and sharing some of what you collected during the 80s. I don't even hardly see posters anymore like I used to.
@@RhettyforHistory that’s so true Rhett, now that I think about my kids never had or wanted any posters on their walls. Must have died out.
Strange how that has happened huh? I know Taylor Swift has kind of revived it a little but kids just don't have the same places to get these posters. Many of the stores that sold them are either gone or just don't sell them. Record stores are mostly gone and magazines just don't do that anymore. Cereals sure don't put them in boxes anymore.
I had a son born in 1983 and every time we went to the grocery store I bought a Golden Book and had a huge collection. When he outgrew them, I gave it to a friend who had two children but had never bought any books even though she and her husband both had advanced degrees. One of the things that was huge was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and when they first came out it was easy to purchase the characters, then they came out with more and it became exponential with only a few certain characters in each shipment. I knew the names of all of them and parents whose children had just started collecting them where overwhelmed at the display. I had duplicates that my husband had bought and were still in their original package and I just gave them last month to a former neighbor who had a son several years ago and shares my birthdate. I still have a large box of all the TMNT as well as many sets of Legos. People in the family didn’t want the books, games or toys but the neighbor is thrilled. She wasn’t raised in the US so everything is new although her husband was and is just a few years younger than my son so gets excited that he can share those memories with his own son. I do remember ribbons being passed out to everyone on game day at school in the late 80’s with children throwing them on the ground. They told me that since everyone got one that they weren’t special.
Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories with us tastx3142!
I used to sniff the Golden Books 😂 weird, I know, but they had a smell that I loved. Pokie Little Puppy was my favorite Golden Book.
Smurfs was my favourite to collect 😊
That was a big one too. Thank you for watching and sharing what you enjoyed collecting.
A couple of things here in my 80's world
- I went to a high school with a predominant Hispanic population (actually a predominant population of all races ( thank goodness) and they had Menudo pins and posters etc etc cute young Ricky Martin
- In middle school Smurfs were a big thing
- buying tiger beat magazine was huge because you got smaller posters and you would make an album, larger posters as you said you got at Spencer's or a record store we had called Sam Goodys
- Last but not least THANK YOU talking about ribbons ..All you wanted was 1st,2nd,3rd and not everyone got them just those 3 lucky people...
You didn't automatically get on a team, you tried out and you might not have made it , so you practiced so that you could get on it eventually!!!
I remember Girl Scouts LOL I was on a team and we came in 4th shld have been 3rd but that is a whole other PTS story 😂 and they had a 4th place ribbon and I was like no thank you I wanted 1st,2nd,3rd 😊
Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories with us kristinholsapple2587!
Yep, collected a lot of these, remember Garbage Pail kids got so popular they banned them from school because it was a distraction. Still have the whole 3rd edition. Unfortunately, good ol' Dad tossed all of our old toys, and it's sad, just on the amount of original Star Wars we had alone is worth a fortune by now.
Ugh. My dad donated all my saved treasures from my childhood. I have just a few things left.
If your Dad knew what they would be worth today then he probably wouldn't have done that. But who knew? I sure didn't. Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you were into.
I also still have my sticker album from the 6th grade. My walls and ceiling was covered with posters from mainly bands I listened to at the time..
Thank you for watching and letting us know what you were into KattMurr! That's awesome you still have your sticker albums!
You know if I've would of known that all the toys that I played with in the 80's that was worth money today I would of NEVER played with them when I was little kid 😂
I hear you on that rikkiross7691! I sure wish I would have kept what I had. Thank you for watching!
I didn't have a lot of posters since we shared rooms as kids but I remember my Catholic mom almost losing it when I hung a 3'x4' black Motley Crue pentagram flag on my wall lol.
Oh, I could see that happening. They caused quite the stir with that look. Of course, that was intentional. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories brandiwynter!
TMNT & Heman. And of course various trading cards and stickers.
Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you were into Lone-wolf-1982!
My friend and I chewing up that awful gum and trading garbage cards as fast as we could before our parents caught us!🤭
Thank you for watching and sharing a memory with us williamwright9079!
I didn't really collect anything in the 80s, but I held on to whatever I got. What I kept was video games and related stuff. Now, my collecting days are over for the older stuff since prices are absolutely crazy.
my dad being in the military in the 80s and 90s loved to collect shareware games from magazines the base would receive. he has boxes dedicated to all the games he would get for free and i think that's pretty cool that was one of his favorite hobbies.
What is even more cool is that he kept all of that. When you move around in the military it's difficult to keep things. Thank you for watching and sharing what you Dad was into.
I have always collected fountain pens.
Thank you for watching and sharing what you collect massmike11!
I was really into Wacky Packages in the 70’s. I have two 50 something sisters who are still fighting over that Mickey Mouse phone they had from the 80’s. One of them went through the effort to reclaim it from the other’s basement just a couple years ago. Thanks for creating a Saturday morning diversion Rhetty…
You're welcome and thank you for watching and sharing what you were into. That is funny that your sisters love that phone so much. Are they mad at each other over it or is it in good fun?
I loved Wacky Packages. I still have some too! Uncle Bum's Convicted Rice springs to mind.
You weren’t cool with your guy friends if you didn’t have sports illustrated models on your wall! Come on now I know most of us guys here had at least 2 magazines on their wall! 😂
I had some posters for sure. Thank you for watching and sharing what you had.
I miss the 80s so much. I hope you continue making these fantastic videos. Your videos help me remember things i have forgotten in this fast-paced society we have now.
I collected post cards, frienship pins, stickers and those little stuffed clips that were koala bears.
Oh, I forgot about the friendship pins! I remember those showing up on jean jackets as well. Thank you for watching and jarring my memory on those!
I was all about the collecting. It started in the late 70's with Star Wars cards, then Charlie's Angels cards and Wacky Packages stickers. I have original full boxes of the Wackys in my 'Retro Room' today. I always collected records, and then CDs, still do on both accounts. I used to collect Star Hits magazine, which was the cool music mag for kids who liked Alternative music in the 80s. I still have a pile of my original mags. We used to collect silly things like the days when McDonalds would offer glasses and cups with a new character each week. And of course, Atari and Intellivision video games, some of those originals I still have displayed in the Retro Room, complete with chew marks from the dogs we had 40 years ago.
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us. Sounds like you have collected a lot of cool things over the years. A retro room would be cool to have! I have quite a few atari games as well. I wish I had kept more of what I used to have like you did.
My friends and I definitely collected the Garbage pail kids cards but I also collected something just as passionately at the time. That was the little pink M.U.S.C.L.E. wrestling figures!!! I can’t even begin to explain how many I bought and or traded back and forth with friends trying to get them all. I even had the little wrestling ring that you could clip two of the figures in and battle each other with. Kind of like rock em sock em robots as you had a knob to control the figure you clipped in. If you could dislodge the other guy you won. Those were the days! Then we got older and started painting D&D lead figures. But that’s a whole nother story.
There were tons of those little M.U.S.C.L.E. guys to collect. Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you were into Nate!
I'm 47 and still have all my cabbage patch kids❤
Thank you for watching and sharing what you still have Christina!
Puffy, googly-eyed stickers. Ribbons. Ahh, the memories. Also, I loved Madballs!
Thank you for watching dreamsinthree!
I look forward too all these videos! 80'S Retro is the best! Great voice also! 👍🏻🇺🇲
Thank you for watching and I'm happy to hear you are enjoying the videos!
Hah I'm a female and I had cabbage patch kids and garbage pail kids. I was obsessed with both. I also collected charm necklaces stickers and care bear figurines.
Everything you named was huge! I definitely remember a lot of girls with the charm necklaces and bracelets. Thank you for watching and letting us know what you had!
7:30 I got my ribbons with the report cards in middle school. I remember two colors out of 3, the green and yellow. Yellow was the second best with A's and and a few B's.
Thank you for watching LuisDonado! It's great to hear your memories!
In the late 80s and early 90 I had plenty of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, Dyna-Flites, and Skybusters for planes, plenty of Battle Beasts, and a Time Life book subscription to Voyage Through the Universe space books.
Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you had normangarza6624!
Thanks for the 80's videos. Always brings a smile to my face, even after a bad day.
You're welcome and I'm happy to hear you are enjoying the videos clintparrish2452. Thank you for watching!
80’s Vintage
One of the first things I remember collecting was stickers that came with a chocolate waffle bar and was very popular back then. The kiosks where you could buy them provided you with an album to place the stickers. It was themed stickers and if I remember correctly the theme changed every season. It could be a popular cartoon show, or a Disney movie, or a specific character. The goal was to complete the album with all numbered stickers and then you post it to the company and receive a gift (in most cases was a Walkman) and you entered for a lottery to the big gift. I won a bicycle once. After that, I remember some small chocolate eggs that had tiny toys inside and I used to collect them for years. Some of them were intact pieces, but some others you had to assemble yourself and I loved those. They were more interactive. They still exist but I'm sure the toys won't have the same impact on nowadays children.
The toy market has definitely changed. The electronic market has sort of taken it's place. That sticker thing you had from the chocolate waffle bar sounds interesting. I didn't ever see that where I was but what a genius way of getting people to keep buying more. I know I would have gone for that. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us!
Smurfs where the best I had a lot in the 1980s and now I got a room full of them.
Thank you for watching and sharing what you collect helenmonk6187!
I still have my Heather Thomas and Samantha Fox posters, but these days they hang in my garage. 😊
Thank you for watching and sharing what you still have displacedyankee7819!
Great Videos!
I collected Baseball Cards, Hot Wheels, and Wacky Packages; I still have about 50 cards. I also collected matchbooks, beer cans and stamps although that may have been late 70's. Keep making these great videos, it's so great going down memory lane. I also love the humor you put into them as well. Thank you.
You're welcome and thank you for watching Kevin. I appreciate you sharing some of what you have collected!
Nudity?! I thought this was a family-friendly channel. 😂😂😂
I had a lot of these in the 80s and 90s. I also collected fun erasers, those plastic charms with little bells, Strawberry Shortcake everything, and McDonald's Happy Meal toys.
The Little Golden Books we have at the library now are reprints of some of the classic titles, but the spines are yellow instead of gold. It's not quite the same, but they're sturdier.
I hope you are talking about the Cabbage Patch Kid doll? Nothing else slipped in did it? Thank you for watching and sharing what you used to collect kerrid.979!
@@RhettyforHistory Yes, it was the Cabbage Patch doll. I was just being silly. 😁
I just wanted to make sure. I tried to screen those posters on the wall in the photos because I do have some that show too much! So, needless to say I won't be placing those in a video. I thought maybe one slipped thru that I didn't catch.
Snap bracelets
Thank you for watching Retrogameplayer8000!
I can't wait for more videos this was a good one. You do it better than all the similar history TH-cam channels
Thank you and I appreciate you watching Tyler!
Awesome best decade ever ❤❤❤❤
Thank you for watching user-hb6vn9ym6e!
@@RhettyforHistory your welcome
You forgot SWATCH watches.
Those were definitely big. I never had more than one. But I do remember some kids having 3 or so. Thank you for watching btceth4717!
Don't forget us 90s kids! I had Disney posters and little golden books too 😁 Dad had a chef troll.
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories of the 90s!
I don't even want to speculate what my comic book collection would be worth today😢. I was one of those people that kept them in plastic.
I sure it would be a lot. Thank you for watching and sharing what you collected Gerald!
I started collecting TV Guides in 1984 when they were only 50 cents but they sure took up a lot of space. Unfortunately I got rid of them about 10 years later when we moved.
Love the poster segment. I'm a child of the 60s so mine started in the 70s with posters of David Cassidy, the Monkees, and the Bay City Rollers. I moved on to Rick Springfield and Duran Duran. In my freshman year of college, my roommate and I hung the poster of David Lee Roth on the ceiling of our dorm room. It was the one where he was on his knees with his hands tied up above his head.😂 Parents these days would probably have a s**t fit over that one, lol.
Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you were into Mick_Ts_Chick! The biggest post of all time definitely came out of the 70s. Any clue what it was?
@@RhettyforHistory probably the Farrah Fawcett bathing suit one. Some of my male friends had that.
I was a toddler for a good part of the 80's but i remember playing with GI Joe's,WWF and Tonka stuff with an older brother that wanted to destroy my stuff
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us masterroshi9942!
I was collecting comics in the 80's. Had bin after bin with those.
Thank you for watching and sharing what you collected slimbombur7922!
I collected tons of posters in my youth in the 80's, Detroit athletes of course.
Steve Yzerman
Barry Sanders
Kirk Gibson
and many others
I was like the biggest Detroit sports fanatic as a kid growing up and still till this day.
Thank you for watching and sharing what you enjoyed collecting Albert!
I had two Cabbage Patch Kids, collected Garbage Pail Kids, had a sticker book (our local mall had a sticker store!), owned some Barbie sized dolls of Han Solo, Princess Leia, and Luke Skywalker that had been my uncle's (cousin got Darth Vadet, C3PO, R2D2, and Obiwan Kenobi), had lots of posters (including a huge Michael J. Fox one, the Coreys, and several hair bands), had a jean jacket and pins, lots of Little Golden Books, but never like New Kids.
Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you enjoyed collecting TH-hy9kr! Sounds like you really had some cool items!
The sticker album section brought back so many memories! I had those same exact stickers!
I was really young in the 80s but I had a bunch of stickers. When I got old enough I collected pogs, and beanie babies. Now I collect porcelain dolls which I have in a china cabinet.
Thank you for watching and sharing what you collected and still collect. I'm curious how many dolls you have?
@@RhettyforHistory 19, it's hard to find them now, I can sometimes find them at thrift stores now
Yeah they really don't make them that way as much anymore.
Loved it Rhett !! You always bring it. Thanks so much !! Oh the memories 😊👍❣️
Thank you for watching Lisa and I'm happy to hear you enjoyed the video!
Who remebers the pound puppy or the water weenie
I tty and let people know but they look at me like im crazy
I remember the pound puppy and the pound kitty but not the water weenie. Thank you for watching Michael!
What, no Beanie Babies?! I personally didn't have any, but man, people, young & older, really went nuts for those. Remember all the different ones? Holy moly.
Beanie Babies were a 90s thing for sure. The internet and all the chat rooms made people believe certain ones were going to make them rich. It was a big collecting item though. Thank you for watching!
I was born in 83...i had a green cabbage patch doll..i loved that thing..n yes I had posters on my walls but wwf posters..ive been a wrestling fan for almost 30 years..shirts,hats, magazines..n I still have them all..
Sounds like you probably have quite a bit after 30 years of collecting. Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you are into.
Does anyone remember M.u.s.c.l.e.s. figurines? I don't remember them lasting long, but they were neat! I think I remember them coming in a clear trashcan.
They were pretty popular. I do have them in one of my other 80s videos. Thank you for watching and sharing what you were into.
I collected Smurfs, after waking up with one 8n my bed one morning, the guy next door worked in the petrol (gas) station we could get them from. Had posters of TV shows on my walls. Erasers, pens, pencils and rulers were other items I collected then and still have them all.
Thank you for watching and sharing what you had sherylangel8217!
Remember those sticker storybooks you had to collect the stickers to complete the story. I had star wars, masters of the universe and a few others. I also collected hot wheels cars and dinky toy cars
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories Jay! It's always interesting to hear about what others collected!!
I collected baseball cards, stickers, and even those ink stamps things. Mine were mostly of dinosaurs but some were of race cars or sports themed. I don’t have these anymore, but I *still* have all my Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi era Star Wars toys! I’m not parting with those!
You were smart to keep those! I sold mine before I went into the military and I wish I hadn't. I thought I made money off of them at the time but little did I know the franchise would continue. Thank you for watching and sharing some of what you were into.
I had the poster for Star Wars Empire Strikes Back taped to my window to block out the light, and it hung there for like a decade I think. When we moved, I went to take it down, and it disintegrated in my hands. I was so bummed.😢 And I remember the puffy stickers and the scratch n sniff stickers. In fact, I still have them in my old sticker album somewhere.
Oh that's awesome you still have your sticker album. Not too many people do. That is sad on that poster but I wouldn't have guessed it would have done that. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Shannon.
Wow! I was just thinking about all my old stickers earlier today! lol I loved them. Still do. lol
I still have my three pins from the 1980’s - two Monkees pins and a Star Trek “Beam me up, Scotty” pin my brother bought for me. I also still have the Weepul the optometrist gave me.
My prize possession out of this list is the Cabbage Patch Kid style doll my aunt sewed for me. I got really sick with encephalitis/meningitis in 1984 and had a very long recovery. That doll came in the mail and sat by my side through it all. She’s still here with me.
That is great that you still have some of these old items. That was really sweet of your aunt and I can definitely see why you kept that. Not many people have something like that. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us!
Born in '71....still to this day, I put stickers on everything 😂😂....love ya Rhetty ❤️ 💯
I have a sticker collection on the backboard for my dartboard. Thank you for watching and sharing what you collect.