Now that we're all muddling our way through the limbo stage between high school and real adulthood, middle school seems like it was light years away. In fact, it was only about 6 or 7 years ago. That being said, it's pretty strange that the things we loved in middle school are no longer important to us. The websites, clothing trends and other things we worshipped are now lucky if they get a Twitter meme dedicated to them. Not to mention that the school work was a million times easier. In the midst of procrastinating the large pile of work I have yet to do, I've decided to take a trip down memory lane to count down all the awesome things we loved in middle school.
1. Gaucho Pants
AKA the original leggings. These pants paired with wedged tennis shoes were the LOOK.
2. Lip Smacker Lip Gloss
They came in about a million different flavors and they were amazing. Lip Smackers were the first makeup our parents let us wear and we wore it down to the last swipe.
3. Webkinz
Maybe you outgrew this in elementary school, or maybe you just want to seem cool and pretend you didn't play Webkinz until 8th-grade graduation. Either way, Webkinz was our first internet addiction before Twitter. Now the plush animals sell for pretty cheap which is annoying considering we had to beg our parents for just one.
4. Thick Headbands
No one really knew how to style their hair in middle school so these headbands were the go to when you were running late, or when you wanted to pull those awful side bangs out of your face.
5. Crocs
In my school Crocs got made fun of more than anything, but you'd be lying if you said you didn't have a pair hidden in your closet behind your Skechers.
6. Silly Bandz
Okay, these things took the WORLD by storm. These weird little animal and object shaped rubber bands were the only jewelry that mattered.
7. These enormous contraptions.
Looking back it was pretty economical to keep all of your class folders in one place so you never lost them. Towards the end of the school year they were ripped and not reusable because we let our friends write all over them.
8. The song "Bottoms Up" by Trey Songz and Nicki Minaj
If you didn't know the words to this song you were lost when it came on at the dance. Also who allowed this song to be played at a middle school dance?
9. Going to the mall to hangout.
Why did we do this? We didn't have any money back then so we'd just spend hours walking around.
10. Wearing Aeropostale.
If it didn't have Aero written across the chest you didn't even bother to look at it. This rule applied to Hollister and Abercrombie as well.
11. Over-editing literally every picture you ever took.
Picnik was the culprit for all of these embarrassing selfies and group photo edits.
