1980s Things That Kids No Longer Do!

42 thoughts on “1980s Things That Kids No Longer Do!”

1. The packaging of candy and potato chips were papery back then. And the bottles… glass, all of them, return for refund — seems more sensible than trying to recycle impossible plastics. Toothpaste tubes were metal. Caulking tubes were cardboard. And so on.

2. Ohhh man I wanna go back

3. I remember back then was the nostalgia for the 50’s and how our parents always said they wish they could turn back time I wonder 30 years from now if people will say that about growing up now

4. We had a teacher who would throw the the blackboard eraser at you’re head if you weren’t listening. 😂

5. The 70s and 80s were a unbelievable fun time growing up.

6. Me and my grandfather unironically called a cab at a payphone and this was like back in 2015 or something.

7. I remember using a chalkboard in elementary school in the 2010s actually, yes, writing with chalk, not markers. But they probably have mostly switched to whiteboards and smartboards by now.

8. I had that exact model of calculator watch until I broke it..

9. "No longer allow this game to be played", what?? Our school did and I remember the jocks saving me for last or whatever to pummel me and this wasn't the '80s or '90s. I find the fact that some schools don't allow it to be weird. These days they mostly use foam balls, but I remember getting the rubber ones out of the gym closet.

10. In our village we have lots of those old playgroudns with metal slides and everything. They are the tallest slides I've been on.

11. I’m an 80’s kid and now I’m buried in my phone watching these videos, reminiscing of the good old days.

12. road hockey

13. As a 2010’s kid, playgrounds have been changing around my area to include wheelchair playgrounds with fidgets on the railings, and chair sized swings that look and feel like chairs. Nobody uses the playgrounds except toddlers, and the old, good playgrounds are gone.

14. I feel bad for kids these days because they can't have any fun and just be kids. We've taken that away from them in the name of "safety".

15. Well I started my adult life in 80. Summer of 1980 I went to Connecticut for summer job through school to pick tobacco I was 15. Back home same year I left Tampa and showed up on my brother's doorstep in Houston. Got there 12/31/1980 a Friday hung out with brother through weekend and had job Monday. Memory lane

16. A lot of this was either available or happened into the early 2000s

17. I thought you were going to show the crafts we did in school with the paper strips from the sides of the dot matrix printer paper.

18. dang, so they had the noob bowling lane on the right in the 80s? 8:57 as all bowling allys seen its always been all the really good players on far right and the noobs on the left.

19. I had plenty of sugary cereal when I was a kid but never ketchup on cartoons.

20. The 80;s is when Nintendo came out!

21. I have to say that there was a level of trust that kids earned back then to be able to do what we did. "Where will you be?" was the typical question and you told your plans. If going to a friend's house, you went and, at least for me, I didn't have to call to let them know I arrived. If I was going to be late coming home, then I called or apologized and explained. Break that trust…..oooo boy you felt like dirt as your privileges were taken away. Freedom was up to you.

    We, at least myself and my peers, were taught street smarts. We had "stranger danger" but what we had to do was hammered into our brains both at home and at school. Some parents set up code words if a stranger came up and gave a plausible reason for you yo be picked up (like a family emergency where it's a relative or co-worker you may not know personally).

    It was a great time that I think really instilled some great life lessons and skills (at least to some degree). Then came the helicopter parenting, probably from the new adults who didn't want their kids to be latch key or had to grow up like they did….much like what happens with every generation.

    One comment on the cereal: we STILL have all those options and then some! I have a lot of kids and I do get a few sugary ones as part of the "cereal run".

    And peanut allergies: can anyone from back then remember a peer with such an allergy? I know through all the schools I went to (due to moving a lot) it never came up. Asthma and general allergies but never a food related one. I never heard about a nut allergy until it was used to weaponize toast in some movie I saw in the mid 90's. The person ground the peanuts up to almost a fine powder and filled as many holes in the toast as possible.

22. Everything now is soft and has rubber edges so you can be soft and protected fake America

23. Definitely simpler times compared to present times

24. We used to see how many rolls of string we could get on a kite.

25. FAFO !!!

26. Got my first (and only) waterbed when I was 8. I was shown ONE time how to put it together. That would come in handy after the first hole I put in the mattress. The I was shown ONE time how to disassemble and patch it. 7 years later when I got rid of it, that thing looked like one of those quilts made entirely of patches.

27. 8:55 Is that Candice Cameron in the pink shirt?

28. I got my first warerbed in 1985 when I was 14. I slept on it until I moved out at 36.

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30. The tornado slide, tall metal swings and slides, twirling on the metal bars, bmx tracks, merry go round, it was epic. Todays crappy playgrounds are a joke.

31. We weren’t allowed to eat the dessert cereals. The most sugary we got was Golden Grahams and Cinnamon Life, two of my favorites! Had to sleepover a friend’s house to get Lucky Charms or Coco Puffs. 😮

32. We used to be able to listen in on phone conversations now just the alphabet departments do.

33. They seriously don’t allow dodge ball anymore!

34. We would make pipes and bongs in art class 😂

35. Things that were normal in the 80s are considered dangerous now

36. The 80s for the best times! Yes we played in the streets until night until our parents came and got us to go to bed. We read books we played outside we ate outside we lived outside basically. All the kids in the 80s looked up now all the kids are looking down on the screen all day long they don't have an idea what anything looks like out there all they know is how to push a button on a screen that's it. At that time we had a lot of fun I really miss those times. I do love my laptop in my phone but do not let technology takeover my life. I really wish we could go back to those times they were good times. Life was simple but beautiful!!!😢 The 80s were the best times of my life!!

37. Peanut allergies come from all the shots you get at birth and when you are little ,Don't let your kids get messed up by the poison the government is trying to push

38. I’ll never forget my 9 month pregnant aunt laying on the water bed. Terrible idea!

39. Your killing me with the gift is an ashtray. Lmao

40. So glad I grew up in the 80's, what an amazing time to be a kid.

41. Dodgeball was so much fun. So lame they don't let kids play it in school anymore. And they wonder why kids are overweight and not very tough anymore.

42. My parents didnt have to worry about me. If we where out of school, i could stay out as long as i wanted. I was responsible, i started working for extra money at 9 yrs old. I even brought food home. The family didnt need it but i was a go getter.

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