25 Bits of Nostalgia Sure to Excite Boomers

1.

You knew it was gonna be a good day when you walk into PE class and see that huge colorful parachute.

2.

That feeling of limitless freedom on the first day of summer vacation. That feeling of dreaded anticipation on the last day of summer vacation.

3.

Each sold separately. Batteries not included.

4.

That feeling when you are going as high as you can go on the swings. Power? Freedom? Hard to describe.

5.

Conjunction Junction.

6.

Getting up in the morning on a day it snowed to watch the list of closed schools across the bottom of the news/weather channel, hoping your school was closed.

7.

An eraser that looks and smells like a very fake strawberry.

8.

Chinese finger traps.

9.

Flintstones push pop ice creams.

10.

Waking up super early on Saturday morning before the rest of the family to watch cartoons.

11.

Watching 'The Price Is Right' when you were sick at home.

12.

Nick nick nick nick na nick nick nick Nickelodeon.

13.

You have died of dysentery.

14.

Those candy necklaces.

15.

Eating one of those plastic-wrapped ice pop things after a long day of playing outside in your backyard with your friends.

16.

Scholastic book fairs.

17.

The tingle of a skinned knee from asphalt, and the dread of having it cleaned.

18.

The noise when picking up the phone when someone was surfing the web.

19.

That sound of a door opening and shutting on AIM when your friend logs on.

20.

Movies and video games on channel 3.

21.

Sleepovers with a group of friends.

22.

When you'd watch a VHS and it would say, "And now your feature presentation."

23.

Blockbuster. The smell. The smell of that place was unique and still lingers in a very dusty space of my brain.

24.

Light Bright. I barely remember it myself but you’d take a charcoal-black board and poke different colored pegs through it. You plug it in to the electrical outlet and all the pegs light up creating whatever shape you made in lights.

25.

The TV Guide channel. You had to sit through and watch as the channels slowly went by so we could see what was on. It blew getting distracted by the infomercial in the corner and then realizing you barely just missed what you were waiting for so had to wait for it to start all over.