You were a Girl in the 70's & 80'f if...

You wore a rainbow shirt that had half-sleeves; the rainbow went up one sleeve, across your chest, and down the other.

You made baby chocolate cakes in your Easy Bake Oven and washed them down with snow cones from your Snoopy Snow Cone Machine.
You begged Santa for the electronic game Simon.

You had that Fisher Price Doctor's Kit with a stethoscope that actually worked.
You owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a plastic basket with flowers on it.
You learned to skate with actual skates (not roller blades) that had metal wheels.
You thought Gopher from the Love Boat was cute! (Admit it!)

You had nightmares after watching Fantasy Island.
You had rubber boots for rainy days and Moon boots for snowy days.
You had either a "bowl cut" or "pixie," not to mention the "Dorothy Hamill" because your Mom was sick of braiding your hair. People sometimes thought you were a boy.
Your Holly Hobbie sleeping bag was your most prized possession

You wore a poncho, gauchos, and knickers.
You could spend hours playing Pong!

You had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple satiny shredded outfits.
You spent hours in your backyard on your metal swing set with the trapeze. (The swing set tipped over at least once!)

You were really into ping pong and pogo sticks.
You had homemade ribbon barrettes in every imaginable color.

Your hairstyle was described as having "wings" or "feathers" and you kept it "pretty" with the comb you kept in your back pocket.
You had to make sure that no boys would grab the comb out of your back pocket and skate away at the roller rink!

You know who Strawberry Shortcake is, as well as her friends, Blueberry,Muffin and Huckleberry Pie.
You often asked your Magic-8 ball the question: "Who will I marry. Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, or Andy Gibb?"

You carried a lunch box to school and it was metal, not plastic.

You and your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of Hazzard, was your boyfriend.
Every now and then "It's a Hard Knock Life" from the movie, "Annie" will pop into your brain and you can't stop singing it the whole day.

YOU had Star Wars action figures, too!
You had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard sole &the buckle).

You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad; you wore that Little House on the Prairie-inspired plaid, ruffle shirt with the high neck in at least one school picture; and you despised Nellie Olson!

It was a big event in your household each year when the "Wizard of Oz"
would come on TV. Your mom would break out the popcorn and sleeping bags!

You completely wore out your Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and Fame soundtrack record albums.

You tried to do lots of arts and crafts,like yarn and Popsicle-stick God's eyes, decoupage, or those weird potholders made on a plastic loom.

You thought Olivia Newton John's song "Physical" was about aerobics.

You wore friendship pins on your tennis shoes, or shoelaces with heart or rainbow designs.
You wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer.

You couldn't wait to get the free animal poster that came when you ordered books from the Scholastic book club. Double score if it was a teddy bear dressed in clothing. And the posters always had permanent creases because they came folded!

You learned everything you needed to know about "the facts of life" from Judy Blume books.

You wanted your first kiss to be at a roller rink.
You had a Big Wheel with a brake on the side, and a Sit-n-Spin.

You made Shrinky-Dinks and put iron-on kittens on your t-shirts!

You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape player up to the speaker.

Ahhh the Good Old Days. ..

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MichaSpurling wrote:I don't know anything from your list :(. Either too old or wrong country or both....

Not too old.. I think just the wrong country.. :)

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LoveUAlways wrote:HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Love this! I remember everything here. What a riot. My goodness we were dorks. lmao!

Not dorks at the time.. More like cool LOL.

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Ghost_Writer37 wrote:You learned to skate with actual skates (not roller blades) that had metal wheels.

hahahahaha,i had them too,and they were adjustable! lol

very funny Di

I've got a brand new pair of roller skates.. You got a brand new key.. I think that we should get together and try them on to see LOLOLOL la la la la

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ladylikepsych wrote:haha....love that Di...I remember that stuff....and Andy Gibb was my pick ;o) (I was so upset when he died)

I was into David Cassidy.. And that didn't end until the 90's LOL.

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AmiQ wrote:hahahah I tell people I wore gauchos and they don't even know what the heck they are hahahaha!

I loved mine.. I wore them with boots and thought I was just so cool LOL

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LOL I am a major shoe freak and I wore these LOL. Good thing styles have changed..

You had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard sole &the buckle).

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Well let's face it the clothing style left a lot to be desired ...I am not even sure what the style was in the 70's other than bell bottoms and guacho's

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Ghost_Writer37 wrote:ok,listen,and dont laugh,I had Jordache jeans when I was in middle school that I actually sat in a tub with to make them tight! how corny is that? lmao

LOL Patrick.. We all did something to our jeans. If they looked too new.. We would try to fade them. Too big try to shrink them.. Our poor Mothers.

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rokin1 wrote:cool , i got away with it lol

ahh you think so? LOL

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lizareja wrote:definitely the wrong country...I was a 70s child in New Zealand.
platforms, bellbottoms, shiny satin shirts and I went to so much pains trying to get my hair curled up on both sides.
I was in love with Davey Jones from the Monkees and David Cassidy.
gawd...Ponchos were sooo the rage then and boots and miniskirts. isnt it funny watching all those things come back in?
*sigh...memories

How could have loved both Davy Jones and David Cassidy?

No comparison. David was it.. He was hot. He was cute. He looked like a girl now that I look back at pictures of him LOL. But I met him in the late 80's .. He was in a show on Broadway.. He put on some weight. His hair was dyed lighter for the role. And his eyes were as blue as the ocean.. Then from the shock of meeting him,. I made a fool out of myself. I backed into a water fountain and got my silk blouse soaked.

What a dork. :)

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You had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard sole &the buckle).DON'T even mention them! My mum made me wear hers to school one day when My shoes had broken & I have never got over it! The embarrassment!
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I actually liked them.. They just were hard to walk in.. And they were suppose to be good for your feet. Go figure..

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Yup wooden and shaped funny .. I think the inner soles had shaped into the wood where your toes were to go..

I don't remember the color I had.. I do know I had more than one pair LOL. The pattern for my shoe habit was already forming. LOL

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Mishamay wrote:This was soooooooo me! I was born in 1970...my first crush was on Donny Osmond, second was on Shaun Cassidy, I had a Strawberry Shortcake doll that smelled like strawberries...hmmm...my first bike I got for grading day in 1976 and it had a banana seat and a bell.

Judy Blume is still my favorite author and me and all my friends learned alot from her book "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret?"

I saw Grease in 1977 or 78 whenever it was out with my family and I was only 7 and had not wanted to go, but simply LOVED it and played my mother's record album over and over afterwards obsessively.

I loved ordering books from the Scholastic book club and how they smelled when new...lol.

I got a tape recorder for Christmas in 1979 and began holding it up to the radio to record the top 10 after that, as well as going around interviewing people, not to mention taping my family without telling them then playing back to their surprise...lol.

Ahhh the good old days ;)

WellI am oler than all of your gals.. I was more a young teen in the 70's .. Not a kid. But my sister had the easy bake oven so she shared LOL

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They had these in assorted colors lol

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lizareja wrote:

LadyDi821 wrote:

Mishamay wrote:This was soooooooo me! I was born in 1970...my first crush was on Donny Osmond, second was on Shaun Cassidy, I had a Strawberry Shortcake doll that smelled like strawberries...hmmm...my first bike I got for grading day in 1976 and it had a banana seat and a bell.

Judy Blume is still my favorite author and me and all my friends learned alot from her book "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret?"

I saw Grease in 1977 or 78 whenever it was out with my family and I was only 7 and had not wanted to go, but simply LOVED it and played my mother's record album over and over afterwards obsessively.

I loved ordering books from the Scholastic book club and how they smelled when new...lol.

I got a tape recorder for Christmas in 1979 and began holding it up to the radio to record the top 10 after that, as well as going around interviewing people, not to mention taping my family without telling them then playing back to their surprise...lol.

Ahhh the good old days ;)

WellI am oler than all of your gals.. I was more a young teen in the 70's .. Not a kid. But my sister had the easy bake oven so she shared LOL

I was born in the late 50s....so by the time the 70s rolled around I was 13...a true 70s teen. I loved ALL the music and still do. I still remember before I was 13...liking all the 60s fashions and getting the "beehive" hairdo for school dances when I was 12.
But the 70s was definitely the most memorable time for me.

Just a tad younger than you.. A tad LOL

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angimac wrote:Not only do recall all of that, I made 2 sets of those ribbon barrettes in our school colors for homecoming spirit last year! Forgot I had them in this year after the game and went to the store, had 3 people stop me and ask about my barrettes...

I had long straight hair. I also wore barrettes.. Then I got brave by 1973 and got my first hair style.. A shag ...

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rokin1 wrote:yall are killing me with this stuff , but what a way to go lol

You are easily amused aren't you. LOL :))

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AmiQ wrote:hahaha yup thats them ..my favorite shoes ever ...okay I loved jelley shoes too but they didn't clunk whan you walked!!

Oh I will look for jelly shoes. LOL

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When it was popular: '80s
Description: Clear shoes that little girls wore. Came mostly in clear or pink, and, if you were lucky, sparkly. Usually worn with socks that had beads at the tops so when you folded them it would produce a jingle-bead effect. All the rage in pre-k, but everyone soon caught on.

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