- You’ve eaten ketchup in more than one color. Green, purple, you name it. You’ve had them all.
- You wished you grew up in a white house with a red door in San Francisco with an Uncle Jessie, Joey, and the rest of the "Full House" family.
- You owned a choker necklace. In multiple colors.
- You believed you would find your future boyfriend while playing the game “Mystery Date.”
- You owned a Super Nintendo. And then a Nintendo 64. And then a Gameboy Color. And then a Gameboy Advance.
- You thought jean mini skirts were the coolest bottoms to wear.
- Your basement was filled with Barbie, Ken, Kelly, their friends -- and their dream house of course.
- You had a collection of Beanie Babies. And Cabbage Patch Kids. And Ferbies.
- You thought you were the coolest person ever when your mom gave you her old cell phone to play with, even though it no longer worked.
- You were a master chef because of your Easy Bake Oven.
- When you wanted to watch a movie, you needed to rewind the VHS to the beginning because chances are the person before you didn’t.
- Your lunch table debates over hottest boy bands were between the Backstreet Boys and N’Sync.
- iPods didn’t exist. If you wanted to listen to music, you had to carry around your tape player, or your Walkman. One CD or tape at a time.
- You washed your hair with L’Oreal Kids shampoo and even though it says “no tears” on the bottle, it didn’t mean what you thought it meant because it burned your eyes like crazy.
- You traded Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards like you were a drug dealer.
- You wore scrunchies in your hair. And clips in every possible shape.
- You called your friends house and had to ask their parents, “Is so-and-so home?”
- During summertime, you rode bikes, played jump rope, and explored with your friends.
- Girls and boys played separately because they both had cooties.
- You owned the historical American Girl Dolls. Felicity, Samantha, Kirsten, Kit, etc.
- You made bookmarks by coloring on your pencil box and then putting glue over the color and waiting for it to dry.
- You wore those black platform sandals and thought you were so cool.
- The make-up you wore was lip smackers chap stick. In every flavor.
- You owned blow up furniture. Probably from Limited Two.
- You passed time in class by playing Heads Up 7 Up, MASH and making fortune tellers.
- You knew it was going to be a fun day in school when you saw your teacher wheeling in the TV.
- The TV probably showed an episode of "Bill Nye The Science Guy." Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!...
- Your favorite TV shows outside of school were "Rocket Power," "Rugrats," "Hey Arnold!," "Catdog," and "The Amanda Show."
- You owned every single Olsen twins movie (on VHS of course) and wished you had a twin because of it.
- There was a vending machine in your school that sold gel pens, and you owned every color.
- You used to play paper football at lunch.
- You went to the grocery store with your mom just so you could beg her to buy you a Baby Bottle Pop or Hubba Bubba Bubble Tape in the checkout line.
- You learned how to drive in a Barbie Jeep or Hot Wheels Car.
- You read the entire "Goosebumps" series by R.L. Stine (Ohio State Class of 1965!) and the entire Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Parks. “The B. stands for Beatrice, except I don't like Beatrice. I just like B. and that's all.”
- You finally felt like you were growing up when your parents set up your first email address on Kids AOL.
- You played cats cradle.
- You had a canopy over your bed.
- And beaded curtains in your doorway.
- You had one of those scrunchy shirts that were literally one size fits all.
- You owned a pair of toe socks. You could wear flip-flops with socks; what’s better than that?
- You had a bracelet or necklace that said best and your best friend had the matching one that said friend.
- You weren’t allowed to use the Internet when your parents had to use the phone because they couldn’t be used at the same time.
- You had Fisher Price roller skates, kneepads, and elbow pads. One day you upgraded to roller blades.
- You knew that drinking out of a curly straw would make your milk or juice more fun to drink.
- You only watched commercials on Nickelodeon in hopes that the monkey would appear and say, “Hi, I’m Paul.”
- You loved playing "school," "grocery store," and "pretend driving your mom’s car."
- You loved going to birthday parties because they usually involved giant ball pits or fast food restaurants with play areas.
- You spent hours on Disney Channel’s website playing games like Lilo and Stitch, Sandwich Stacker, and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody Tipton Trouble.
- You owned a sequined purse.
- You had an amazing childhood and grew up right.
This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator.
