Nostalgia is an incredibly powerful force! The past is an often enticing place where the world seemed like it was far better, with fewer problems, better products and services, happier people, tastier food, and the like. Of course, a big part of this is your rose-colored interpretation of everything. But that’s not to say that earlier decades don’t have their unique charm—they do!
The 1980s had a very particular vibe, and our team at Bored Panda wanted to show you exactly what it was like. So, we’ve collected photos from that decade that show the atmosphere of everyday life, including some of the things—from furniture and technology to toys and knickknacks—that many people owned back in the ’80s. Scroll down for a trip into the past.
#1 Who Had A Spirograph Growing Up?
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#2 This Stereo System And Glass Case
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#3 Blank Vhs Tapes
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#4 Anybody Remember The Fisher Price Toy Barns That Make The Moo Sound When You Open The Door?
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#5 The Puffiness Made Them Better
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#6 The Ge Alarm Clock That Everyone Seemed To Have
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#7 Pencils With Cartridges
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#8 The Casserole Dish That Every Family Had
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#9 Who Remembers The Waterful Ring Toss Game As A Kid? It Was So Simple, But So Much Fun To Me
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#10 Who All Had These, Candy Cigarettes Growing Up ?
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#11 Turned My Spare Bedroom Into A Nostalgia Oasis
My house is a 4 br built in 2007. I was born in 1981 and was trying to recreate the feeling of growing up in the 80s middle class home. Needed a project after my wife passed and it was so much fun putting it together. My teenage girls would let me convert the whole basement.
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#12 Tupperware Just Filed For Bankruptcy. Rip To That Set Of Bowls All Our Grandma’s Had
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#13 Did Anyone Else Sleep In One Of These? I Think I Would Have To Be Helped Out Of It Today
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#14 Removing The Faceplate Of Your Car Stereo So It Wouldn’t Get Stolen
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#15 Pizza Hut’s Drinking Glasses From The 80s And 90s!
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#16 I Don’t Know About You Folk. But, This Was Core 80’s For Me
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#17 Who Else Grew Up With These?
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#18 Beach Chairs From The 80s. Get A Tan And First Degree Burns At The Same Time
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#19 A Classic
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#20 Trivial Pursuit ’81, Spent So Many Winter Weekends Playing This Game
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#21 Almost Every House In The 1980s Had A Room That Looked Like This
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#22 Who Else Destroyed Their Bedroom Walls, Taping Posters Directly To Them?
You say destroyed. I say decorated.
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#23 The Tomato Pincushion Our Grandmothers, Mothers, And Aunts Had
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#24 How Many Of You Owned This Bad Boy??
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#25 Electric Carving Knife
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#26 Fantastic Setup
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#27 If You’re Interested In Dust, Here’s A Quaint Little Piece From The 1980s, It’s Called A Dustbuster
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#28 Making Orange Juice From A Frozen Paper Can
I can remember my mom getting this out of the freezer, into a Tupperware gallon jug, adding water and you you had to stir it all up.
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#29 If You Know, You Know. If Not Then I Feel Sorry For You
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#30 Tape Recorded Answering Machines
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#31 In The 80s Lots Of Us Learnt To Type With A Manual Typewriter. I Used To Dream Of Becoming A Writer And Even Folded Pages And Used To Craft Handmade Books
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#32 Old Polaroid We Found From The 80s
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#33 I’m This Old
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#34 Who Remembers Bristle Blocks?
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#35 Anybody Old Enough To Remember The Whee-Lo?
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#36 What Was It Like Growing Up In The 80s? The 80s:
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#37 Humble Beginnings
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#38 Slap Bracelets
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#39 No Early 80’s Kitchen Was Complete Without A Set Of These Bad Boys:
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#40 Visiting The Cousin’s House Circa 1986-88
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#41 Radio Shack’s New All-Electronic Cordless Phone (1982)
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#42 The Clapper
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#43 This LEGO Windshield
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#44 Atari
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#45 Finger Monsters
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#46 Who Remembers These Switchblade Combs?
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#47 Anyone Else Still Have A Cabbage Patch Kid Lying Around?
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#48 These Cereal Bowls I Used To Eat Out Of As A Kid
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#49 You Guys Hate Carpet In The Bathroom? I Can One Up That. My Parents Have A Bathroom With Carpet That Goes Up The Bathtub Walls! Bonus Points For The Terrible Wallpaper
That is impressive preservation of 80s interior design.
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#50 Remembering A Time When People Would Debate Over Fullscreen vs. Widescreen Vhs Tapes For Movie Releases
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