24 Throwbacks to When You Were a Cool 80s Kid

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Jul 10, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

Ok, chances that you were a cool 80s kid are very slim, at least if you are going by the levels of cool that kids achieve today. Because in the 80s, and pretty much through the 90s, us kids were basically seamstress dolls for the myriad of neighborhood hand-me-downs that got passed around the community. Essentially making every child a random assortment of the local fashion choices, which to begin with were nothing to be proud off. But you know what, we did make the best of it.

We played outside with no rules or limitations, we used our imaginations on a daily basis to defeat monsters and save princesses. We lived our childhoods with the freedom and curiosity that a child deserves to have. And when all is said and done, we may not have looked or technically been cool, but in our on minds we were the coolest kids. So enjoy this trip down memory lane as we buzz through the 1980s.

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    HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM THE KIDS TABLE
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  • There is something about the kids table that feels so outdated in this day and age. Which is strange considering the fact that it probably solved a heck of a lot of problems and actually gave the grown ups more than two minutes of peace and quiet over the holiday season. On the other hand, any time the kids table was well behaved it was usually because we were plotting something devious…

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    Your mom thought you were riding your bike around the block for 8 hours. But in that time you went 5 miles away, explored an abandoned house, jumped over some garage roofs, attempted a ouija board, built a den in the woods and made your own fire.
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    Shoutout to the original Black Friday mom gangsters of the 1984 Cabbage Patch Dolls stampede
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    Kids today will never know the struggle of sweating their faces off for a box of raisins 80skidsrule
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    Aww I love finding baby pics of my sister RAZE
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    Back then, our phones were attached to walls, our music was portable only if you had batteries, and our instant messages were notes folded into tiny squares. AN 80skidsrule
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  • Not going to lie, this is making us consider setting up summer camps for families who want to live like they did in the 80s. No mobile phones, no internet, music can only be played from a boom box. Movies are displayed exclusively at the camp’s private drive in cinema and the lake has absolutely no lifeguard to ruin the fun when things get good.

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    DEAR COOL PEOPLE, THEY DIDN'T NAME A CANDY AFTER YOU, DID THEY? SINCERELY, NERDS
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    THO 2024 Me 80s
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    DE "THE GOOD OL' DAYS"
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    Anyone who knows what this is, has lived more than 40 years
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    I love a group that recognizes a random picture and knows exactly where it's from.
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    Everyone wants a Jetson Car. Nope, not me. I want Rosie to clean my house.
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    HOW DECISIONS WERE MADE
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    You have a collect call from: "It'stimetopickmeup Fromtheskatingrink"
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    I'M THIS OLD For your eyes only To You From Me 11
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    McDonald's really dropped the hardest cap of all time back in 1982. McDonald's
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    Sandy SPI
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