It really was a hard knock life.
From Britpop to Billie Piper, the '90s were awesome.
Catharsis.
Only like 3 people will care about this, but this is REALLY important news! The singing group/TV sensations, S Club 7, reunited at some play or musical opening. What in the world happened to Paul?!?!?!
It's never the same after the first time.
Signs that you were raised in the greatest decade to be a kid: the '80s! Step aside, '90s kids. Just step aside.
I grew up before the Internet. When we had a research paper assigned at school, kids went to the library to look for information in books and the reference section -- and usually had a set of encyclopedias at home. In my family, we had The World Book Encyclopedia. I used it often for school reports, and sometimes just read at random about interesting topics like animals or dogs. I remember there were some pages that had acetate layers, so you could look, for instance, at parts of the body one layer at a time. My Mom still has this encyclopedia set at her home, and I still enjoy looking at it. We also got a yearly annual from World Book, with updates on current events and new information from the previous year. World Book is still around and published in both print edition and online resource -- visit World Book here. I found it heartening to know that this beloved encyclopedia is still around! Did you have an encyclopedia set when you were growing up? What do you remember about it? I'd love to hear from you in the comments, below.
Being born in the early '90s gave you the best of both worlds.
These '90s gifts are all that and a bag of chips.
"Is this a classroom or a fish market?"
Have we ever craved anything so much?
Wembley Fraggle is one of the five main Fraggle characters in Fraggle Rock. His skin is yellowish green. He has a long nose and big movable eyes, and a big tuft of yellow hair on his head. He usually wears a banana tree shirt. Wembley is the youngest Fraggle of the group. He is often cheerful and energetic, but also very insecure. He usually agrees with everybody at the same time, because he hates to argue. Wembley never seems to make up his mind: he even has trouble deciding which shirt to wear
I know some people think it’s gross or it’s a bad habit, but I love chewing gum. Yup, I admit it . . . I’m a chicle chomper. Although, these days you’d be hard pressed to find a commercially manufactured chewing gum in the United States made out of this natural latex. Nowadays, like many things, it’s cheaper to manufacture chewing gum out of a synthetic. I love to blow bubbles and, as annoying as it is to other people, I really love to snap my gum. My favorite bubble gum is Bubble Yum but I’ll settle for Bubblicious in a pinch. But, I don’t normally get bubble gum, only because its so loaded with sugar. I always keep some form of chewing gum at my disposal if for no other reasons than for a quick breath fresher upper or as a stop gap until I can get some food in my tummy. I learned very early on not to swallow my gum. most of us were told when we were kids that swallowed gum stay in our stomachs for up to seven years, since it’s not digestible. This is actually not true . . . gum will pass through your digestive system along food and make its exit with little or no fanfare at the end . . . or your end. My younger years were greatly influenced by gum chewers. Violet Beauregarde from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory fame was an avid gum chewer. Unfortunately, it was her love of the confection that was also her downfall. Violet is the third child to find a Golden Ticket and the second to be ejected from the tour. Her demise came when she swipes and then chews an experimental three-course meal gum. When it gets to the dessert, blueberry pie, she turns blue and begins to fill with juice, inflating into a human blueberry. Another was feisty, gum-popping red-head named Florence Jean Castleberry from Cowtown, Texas. Better known as Flo from the television series Alice. Flo was a waitress at Mel's Diner in Phoenix, Arizona. She was a seasoned waitress who was vivacious and flirty with the male customers. I loved Flo’s feisty attitude and her famous catch phrases . . . "Kiss mah grits!!!", "When donkeys fly!!!" and "You bet your sweet patoot!" Last, but certainly not least, was MacGyver. MacGyver rocked! He was as cute as the day is long and just as smart. Give him a Swiss Army Knife, a roll of duct tape, a stick of chewing gum, a paper clip and just about anything else you can think of and this guy can get you outta trouble !! He could make a bomb and once repaired a blown fuse using the aluminum wrapper of a stick of chewing gum to bridge the blown fuse. Did I mention he was cute? What’s super cool is the world record for the largest bubble ever blown. In 1994 Susan Montgomery Williams of Fresno, California stuck a bunch of gum in her mouth and blew a bubble. She blew and blew and blew until it became the largest bubblegum bubble in the world . . . a whopping 23 inches in diameter. You know what I hate though? Is when people stick their gum under tables and seat in public places. Come on, people! That’s just gross! Roast Beef, Mushrooms and Onions This is a great recipe to use for leftover roast beef. Yummly! 1/2 Lb Sliced Mushrooms 1 Medium Onions, Sliced 2 Tablespoons Butter 3 Cloves Garlic 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil 1 Tablespoon Cooking Sherry Roast Beef, Sliced Thin 1/2 Cup Shredded Fresh Parmesan Cheese Melt the butter and olive oil together in a frying pan over medium heat. Add the onions and season with Tony Chachere (or other seasoned salt); let them cook until they start to get soft. Then add the mushrooms until they start to get a little brown and the onions are nice and soft, about 15 minutes. Add the roast, sherry and salt. Cook until most of the moisture has evaporated. Mix in cheese and serve.
Remember popsicles? If I recall they came in cherry, orange, grape, lime, banana and root beer. As a child, I remember that my Grandma Rose always had several flavors in her freezer for us when we …
Try some paper weaving and colouring to make an Elmer picture! Activity: Paper weaving & colouring Age: Yr 1 - Yr 6 (See tip at the bottom for how to adapt to use with older children) Resources: Black paper, Strips of coloured paper, glue scissors What to do: 1) Measure and draw a 2 cm border inside an A4 sheet of thick paper or card. 2) Measure 2cm lines across the inside of the border and cut slits following each one with a craft knife and ruler or fold the paper lengthways and use scissors to cut them from the middle, stopping at the border. 3) Cut 2 cm strips of coloured paper lengthways. 4) Weave your strips through your A4 paper lengthways, being sure to to start each strip the opposite of the last one e.g. 'over, under' 'under, over'. 5) Finish weaving and stick down the end of each strip on the front and the back of the paper. 6) Now you can either draw Elmer over the top of your weaving or draw and colour him in and then cut him out and glue him on top of your paper weaving background. (I will add an Elmer shape for you to use at the bottom of the post) Add a googly eye if you have one! TIP: Older children love to do paper weaving. Here is an example of year 5/6 work. This was achieved by folding the paper lengthways, after drawing the border, then drawing curvy lines, instead of straight ones, and cutting up to the border while still folded, then open out. The strips used to weave are different widths.
In 3 years the 90's will be 30 years ago, feel old yet?
Remember when hitting up your school's book fair was the most exciting event of the year? As every former child bookworm knows, there was nothing better than rushing into your school's library and seeing all of the books, just waiting for you to…
For the girl who has everything, I give you JC: still hot.
These '90s gifts are all that and a bag of chips.
Listen up, the queen is speaking.
Once upon a time, Happy Meal toys are what drove people to McDonald's. If they were something good, you were there. A lot. People also got multiples of each one and never took them out of the wrapper, hoping one day they'd be worth something. I think it's finally become "one day." These are the toys you should remember, and how much they're worth today. I think my family literally collected at least 20 of these dalmatians, which is only 1/5 of them! There were actually 102 different ones, and totally one of my top 3 ever. All of them: $187 McDonald's Changeables were the first Transformers in my life. Who knew fast food items could be so COOL?! On sale for a couple dollars each Disney Masterpiece collection were little figurines from the biggest movies that came in mini VHS boxes. Sweet Pocahontas came with a brush so her hair didn't get all nappy. $5 average per toy When it was Barbie time, I was a happy girl. For some reason, I still won't really let my mom throw any of them out. $2 a piece Let's not forget the other half of Barbie week: HOT WHEELS week! I'm pretty sure it's where my brother got the coolest of his collection. Trying to be sold for $10, probably another one worth about $2 I totally forgot about these things! The "Fry Kids!" Just little figurines that look like pompoms, but I loved 'em. Older ones going for $10 Oh yes, Furbies made their way to McDonald's with even creepier eyes and barely moving toes and ears. If you want 81 of them, it's $480. For Halloween, you got a sweet trick-or-treeting bucket! SCORE! And those McNugget buddies were basically a baby made by a dress-up doll and Mr. Potato Head. BUCKETS: $10 BUDDIES: $6 each When Muppets: Treasure Island came out, we got the neatest bathtime toys. You betta believe Kermit shot his water cannon at Miss Piggy. $2 each What better way to celebrate the Mighty Ducks than to have your own puck that rolled around on regular hard floors?! Pretty sure we still own a couple of these, too. $2 each I'm not sure why anyone would ever buy the regular version when you could just shoot these into the sky. Oh, that's right. The real ones had glitter. $30 for the entire set Tamagotchi hit the drive thru with locket keychains filled with figures of the creatures you raised on the real technologically advanced keyrings. $3 each Can't fill a court without a full team! So of course you wanted to get all the pieces of the Space Jam puzzle, who all did fancy tricks! $10 for all 8 When I saw/remembered these, I geeked out. The Tiny Toons flip-cars raced along and switched drivers whenever yours was sucking. Again about $2 each Mulan tops! It wasn't just Mulan, but any top that was of this kind was the ish. All you had to do was swipe it on the floor a couple times; You didn't have to worry about balance. $4 new/in the wrapper And of course, the Ty Teenie Beanies! Not only did you have to collect bags of the original ones, but now these, that were pretty crappy and made of felt, to be honest. Sorry, but only $2-5 each. Considering each one is only worth about $2, and that's if people are buying them from eBay, you should probably just throw them out if you're saving them. It's been at least 15 years since most of these came out and they're worth about the same or a dollar more. Yeah, that's pretty disappointing... But back to happy! That was a blast from the past, right?! love, elizabethany PS FYI: It is currently Barbie/HEXBug [?] time! Tweet
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Remember when your biggest complaint was that there wasn’t enough frosting in the packet of Dunkaroo’s?
Go The F*uck to Sleep is a very interesting twist on parenting, kids and bedtime stories. LeVar Burton reading it is icing on the cake!
Time to put 'Harry Potter' aside for these kids fantasy books starring LGBTQ+ and POC kids.
Dafuq Did I Just Read? - Funny WTF Pictures gathered from the farthest corners of the internet for the sole purpose of making you laugh.
Take a look at these old TV shows and go back on a nostalgic trip down memory lane to having no responsibility and not having to book your own doctors appointment.
