we used garbage bags as winter sleds because we couldn't afford sleds. or, i'd wrap a garbage bag around a piece of cardboard and use that instead (pretending it was a GT racer).
we had these instead of tablets.
VHS tapes were all the rage. who knew if rewinding VHS tapes actually wrecked your VHS player, but we had one of these anyway. the cool people who had money had these in the shape of red sports cars.
i actually had this...technology at it's best: dual cassette player!
we couldn't afford gaming systems so i'd spend all weekend at my cousins house playing this.
this was the actual remote for our tv....
...and this was our tv.
my dad had this car but it was silver and made of pure steel. we also didn't even have any car seats; my parents would let us ride up front - without seatbelts - or horse around in the back.
i loved saturday morning cartoons.
these were my favorite shows.
i did my homework on typewriters. when my dad came home with the brother word processor - you didn't have to manually push the lever to go to the next line AND you could type out a whole sentence first (and view it on that tiny screen) before you hit enter - we were thrilled.
then we upgraded to WordPerfect 3.1 and a slow-ass, single line print dot matrix printer that jammed every fucking time.
we didn't have the internet, google or wikipedia. we used microfiche, encyclopedias and either wrote all the information we needed by hand or photocopied the pages if there was too much to write.
i loved these books/series.
i had this removable stereo system for my car. it wasn't the face-plate that was removable (that was removable stereo system 2.0) but the entire unit came out of the dashboard. it even had a handle.
man, i feel old.
