79 Things People Remember From Their Childhood That Might Unlock Your Own Memories

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

Remember the warm, fuzzy static left on your tv screen after it was on for a while.

Movies and video games on channel 3.

Edit- so many people commenting on the smell of the static. Is that the smell of ozone?

Edit 2- lot of comments here remembering how the picture would collapse down to a single point of light when you turned the tv off. I forgot about that

Edit 3- lot of you crazy kids WEAPONIZED the static to shock your siblings!

Those candy necklaces.

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

Reading the news paper for movie times.

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

Collecting stickers.

Listening to distant thunder out your window late at night as you smell the rain in the air.

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

Those colourful stick on earrings shaped like stars, hearts, etc.

Calling the time and temperature guy.

A phone made out of two cups and a string.

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



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

Waiting until after 7 p.m. to call long distance.

Watching the Price Is Right when you were sick at home.

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

Chinese finger traps.

Sleep overs with a group of friends.

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.

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.