Whether you are a 90’s or 00’s kid, or the parent of one, you’ll most likely experience a pang of nostalgia at this list. Here are a few things to remind you of a simpler time, without the hindering of student loans or finding a career path. Instead, you could come home from school, grab a granola bar, and just chill out watching afternoon television. No matter where we are in life now, we will always have the memories of …
The TV shows
Hey Arnold, Zoboomafoo, Dragon Tales, the Wild Thornberrys, Jimmy Neutron, Kim Possible, Suite Life of Zach & Cody- let’s not forget The Amanda Show, featuring Totally Kyle, Moody’s Point, the dancing lobsters, and Debbie, who really just enjoyed eggs.
MASH
This was basically how everyone determined the rest of their life.
Word Art
What was your presentation on the President or Sweden without some flashy three-dimensional WordArt?
That Really Cool ‘S’
You know, this one…
The Razor Scooter
The amazingly thin scooter that somehow managed to tear up your ankles every time you picked it up.
Push-Up Pops
An utterly delicious frozen treat. Like a popsicle, but with a slight taste of cardboard.
Gym Class Jump Ropes
For some reason, schools everywhere decided that these plastic jump ropes were better than the cotton ones and that resulted in the extremely traumatic pain you experienced if you didn’t jump high enough.
Seven Up
Half-day? Chill substitute teacher? The Friday before vacation? “Heads down, thumbs up!” Let’s be honest, we all peeked at who pushed down our thumb, otherwise we developed a sixth sense to identify the individual sounds of our classmates and pick them out of a line-up.
Barnum’s Animals Animal Crackers
You know that cute little box with the convenient string handle and the exotic animals inhumanely trapped in small cages? This is how we learned morals- if you ate the head of the animal cracker first, you would allow the poor creature a quick death. Then there’s some of you that had to go bite all the limbs off first.
The Books
Amelia Bedelia, The Rainbow Fish, Corduroy, Magic Tree House, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Junie B. Jones (RIP Barbara Park).
Silly Bandz
Effectively banned from all schools due to their potential as weaponry.
Those Ice Cream Cups With The Wooden Spoons
And then you chewed on that wood spoon.
Candy Necklaces
The first unisex necklace! You could eat some of it, then save some for later as a stylish-but-slightly-moist-with-spittle necklace.
Silly Putty
For some reason, I only remember chewing on this.
Pippi Longstocking
Somehow this freakishly independent girl lived on her own and managed to take care of her horizontal hairdo as well as a monkey and a horse. She was also strong enough to lift this horse. Goals.
