For the past couple of weeks, my roommate has been obsessed with a video game. Using his boyfriend’s handheld video game console, he’s been playing a Zelda video game nonstop and hearing him play it has been making me feel nostalgic. It brings me back to the days of my youth when I had my beloved, red Nintendo DS and I would play games such as Mario Kart and Super Monkey Ball endlessly.

Thinking about my DS has also been making me think of all the other things that I loved as a child, so I decided to revisit some of the items that I was obsessed with and remember just how silly it was that I thought I would die without some of them.

If you grew up as child during the early 2000’s, or even if you were a parent during that time period, then you probably remember a few of these things…

1. Nintendo DS - Pictochat was the original way to text your friends in school.
2. Webkinz - Each day after school, this was always the first place I went.
3. Livestrong Bracelets - What was the point of wearing more than one of these at a time?
4. Silly Bandz - It's weird to think that there were two colorful bracelet fads in one generation.
5. Tamagotchi - These pets always died if you left them alone for like five seconds!
6. Duck keychains - Did anyone else have those weird school fundraisers where they made you collect these ducks?
7. Watches/pedometers - Counting your steps in elementary school was THE hip thing to do.
8. Heelys - We should bring these back into style.
9. Flip phone - I miss having a texting signature and recording the songs I wanted as my ringtone with my phone's microphone.
10. Razor scooters - My friends and I looked cool as hell riding down the streets on these.

These were just a few of the items that my friends and I obsessed over while we were kids in school.

What are some of the fads that you remember from your childhood??