The $100 Question: Traci from The Handmade Project Asks Five Favorites From Childhood

Yes I do have these cassettes stored somewhere! They certainly deserve to be included.

1. NKOTB
2. Debbie Gibson
3. Poison
4. Milli Vanilli
5. Duran Duran

Well, if you're talking about most of the 80's it would be top 5 cassettes, technically!

1. Michael Jackson
2. Bruce Springsteen
3. Paul Simon
4. Madonna
5. Bon Jovi

that must be included

1. He-Man
2. Transformers
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
4. Fraggle Rock
5. Jem

to the capsule:

1. Parachute Pants
2. Jelly Shoes
3. Hyper Color Sweatshirts
4. ice washed jeans
5. blue eyeshadow

John Hughes Movies:

1. Sixteen Candles
2. The Breakfast Club
3. Pretty in Pink
4. Weird Science
5. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

If you want to experience the bad fashions, the vernacular, and peculiar innocence of the 80's, you must watch these movies. Add these to the capsule!

Oh, wow, this is harder than I thought it would be:

1. Roll on Lip Smackers - bubble gum flavor
2. Wide tooth comb with handle (for the back pocket, so we could fix our feathered hair)
3. Jean jacket with a dozen band and goofy b3uttons on one lapel
4. Pegged jeans
5. Black jazz shoes

(I think I just described every outfit I wore in junior high. Wow.)

1. My softball glove
2. My lime green hip-huger, bell-bottom pants
3. My ID bracelet
4. The birdseed stuffed frog my Grandma made
5. The knitted bedroom slippers my Grandma would knit and my grandpa made big round fluffy bows for

1. My coin collection
2. My fall leaves scrapbook
3. JFK for President pin
4. Cowgirl outfit
5. Lincoln Library of Essential Information

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1. The entire set of Little House on The Praire books.

2. My cabbage patch doll.

3. My skateboard/bike.

4. My leather boots from High school.

5. All of my Def Leppard stuff :)

Mandy W.

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1. The fantastically sweat-inducing plastic shoes: JELLIES!!

2. The fantastically tacky JELLY BRACELETS!

3. Two words: ASPER GUM (Gum made with Aspirin that we chewed by the pack...can't have been good for us...)

4. HYPER COLOR t-shirts!

5. SCRUNCHIES!!!!

1. Rex Stout "Nero Wolfe" series
2. Bobbsey Twins
3. Dr. Suess
4. Little Women
5. My Friend Flicka

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1. My Little Ponies
2. Saved By The Bell
3. The Yearling
4. Friendship bracelets
5. My keychain collection

Must haves:

1. My rock collection
2. My rabbit fur handmuff with dollhead
3. Easy-Bake Oven
4. Picture of the brick house I lived in
5. My spelling bee trophy

1. My Cabbage Patch babies
2. Aquanet hairspray
3. Guns N Roses tape
4. Poster of Kirk Cameron
5. Stone washed jean jacket

Candance "It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen."--Dolly Parton

1. Slap bracelets. I remember running around the yard slapping them on things and friends.

2. Nancy Drew books. In the 5th Grade I read the entire series up to that date. I so wanted to be Nancy!

3. Chinese jump rope. It's amazing how a stretchy piece of string could bring hours of hand & feet fun.

4. My first softball glove. I was vigilant about that thing and would get mad if anyone tried to put their hand in it--it totally messed up my mold! I was pretty bratty even at the age of 8.

5. Everything Lisa Frank! When I started law school three years ago, I found some of my old stuff. Consulting my friend, I decided that I would show up with a Lisa Frank trapper keeper to gauge who had a sense of humor in my class.

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This is hard!

I'd choose:
Cabbage Patch Kids
an original Nintendo
a giant NKOTB button
banana cips
leg warmers

1. Books (Nancy Drew, Bobbsey Twins, Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden, any or all)
2. My paper dolls
3. My doll...Maribelle May was her name.
4. Pencils, crayons, paints...for art projects
5. Johnny Mathis songs

"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere"

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Elizabeth

1. My first Barbie, in the box, before I played with it, complete with striped bathing suit and platinum pony tail.
2. My first 45 Beatles single -
3. My tricyle which I rode vigorously
4. My skates and skate key
5.My collection of Seventeen Magazine from 1963, I was 14.

1. My box of shiny things: beads, crystals, rhinestones, studs, sequins, etc.

2. Beatles albums

3. My blue Smith-Corona typewriter

4. My Kodak X15 camera

5. My purple crushed velvet coat from Sears

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1. To Kill a Mockingbird movie
2. A Girl of the Limberlost
3. Davy Jones poster
4. A year's worth of Highlights
5. Wile E. Coyote

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1. ALF doll

2. Jelly bracelets/shoes

3. Candy cigarettes

4. Atari 2600

5. Michael Jackson's Thriller ALBUM

1) Swatch watches
2) Barbie dolls
3) Hello Kitty stickers
4) Pop Rocks or Ring Pops
5) Root beer float

1. Chatty Cathy doll
2. My baby book
3. My 1st photo album w/pics taken at age 9
4. My 45 collection
5. My grandfather's watch fob

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Definitely Cabbage Patch dolls and My Little Ponies. Plus a tape of the "Punky Brewster" episode about tap dancing lessons.

Okay, childhood is going to span here a bit but:

1. My Weebles treehouse
2. My Charlie's Angels dolls (in their fashionable jumpsuits, boots and scarves!)
3. A Donny & Marie Album (yes, vinyl)
4. My Garfield telephone
5. And my "Grease" collection (album, VHS, and photobook!)

Ah...youth...

Stacey
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1. Password game
2. My paper dolls
3. Highlights magazines
4. Red wax lips
5. Sun-in

1) Dog collars from my two dachshunds who joined me on almost every childhood adventure.
2) My yellow Schwinn 10-speed bike that my much younger legs pumped up and down the biggest hills in my hometown.
3) An ancient Betty Crocker cookie cookbook I used to make a gazillion sweet treats.
4) My sketch books that chronicled my childhood's good days and not so good days.
5) A small box that I kept concert ticket stubs, my old season passes from the ski area down the street, Polaroids of my family and friends.

or totally interpret it wrong.. i got all excited thinking this was about what kind of crafts and shit we did as kids that i loved.. and so i was all prepared to come in here and tell you that i loved it when every thanksgiving at school we would have to draw a turkey by tracing our hand and then going from there. and that was alwayhs the best for me because lord knows i can't draw at all, so if i can trace a freaking body part that already exists and is super easy to trace, i'm all for it! oh how i miss the hand turkeys.

but um... that wasn't what this post was about at all, so um.. carry on

5. walkman

4. roller racer

3. nancy drew

2. caboodle

1. lite brite

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1. My Cabbage Patch Kid - her name was CariAnn

2. My favorite outfit - skin tight acid washed jeans that zipped in the back, my green and white striped Benetton Rugby in a men's XL, bunchy socks and keds.

3. Aquanet hairspray

4. Atari

5. Swatch Watch

1) Snuggle doll - a light yellow soft-bodied doll wearing whose head moved when you pulled the string on her back.
2) The Game Perfection - Seen here: http://is.gd/bOCGi
3) Atari - oh video games have come a long way....but Atari was fantastic!
4) Jetson cartoons
5) T-shirts - Tye Dyed and ones with sayings: Frankie Says Relax - Don't Do It

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1) Inchworm- my sister and I each had one of those InchWorms and we'd take them outside and have InchWorm races down our driveway.

2) Jody the Country-Girl Doll- I still sing the theme song for that doll. She came with this open dollhouse kitchen complete with a tiny cat and faux cast-iron pots. "Jody, Oh Jody, she's a country girl doll. Sweet, pretty Jody, the country girl doll".

3) My 8-track tape collection including the Bay City Rollers!

4) These awful high-heeled sneaker shoes I just *had* to have- they killed my feet every time I wore them.

5) A pair of orange corduroys my mother bought me in 7th grade; I wore them until they had holes in the back and I patched them with butterfly patches myself.

1. Giggles....a doll that laughed when you raised her arms.

2. Clackers....they'll put your eye out.

3. Easy Bake Oven....I think the burn center has a deal working with this item.

4. Slip N Slide....hours of fun sliding into what inevitably becomes a mud puddle.

5. Wheel-O.....I was easily amused.

Oh I would have to say, my 'My Friend Mandy' doll - she was well-loved all through my childhood. And definitely a Barbie (or two). Plus my cassette tape Walkman, a copy of Anne McCaffrey's 'Dragonsong' book, and my blue Huffy 10-speed bike. :)

Deb - Mom of 3 Girls

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My five favorite childhood things were:

1) Anything related to the Jackson Five

2) Archie comic books

3) Building dollhouses made out of Pamper Boxes (I made high-rise townhouses and apartments out of my baby brother's diaper boxes)

4) Clothing that my mother made for me, especially my Easter outfits

5) My Barbie camper with the pull-out dining table and orange sleeping bags.

I would cut furniture from Sears catalogs and arrange rooms all over my floor and then cut out Archie, Betty and Veronica for my people.

I would put in:

1. Mrs. Beasley doll

2. my 1st bike - it was from Western Auto, purple, had a banana seat with flowers on it, the long chopper looking handlebars w/purple, pink, white fringe coming out of the handgrips. A white basket on the front w/flowers on it & the orange safety pole w/flag on the top on the back. It was cool!

3. books - Swallows & Amazons series (British) & Little House on the Prairie series

4. Holly Hobby EZ Bake oven - it looked one of the old fashioned cast iron ovens.

5. Kodak 110 camera & film - I got one in 4th grade for my birthday & have been taking pictures ever since.

Elizabeth

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1. my favorite doll
2. Three Musketeers book
3. jumping rope
4. bathrobe i made myself
5. my first lipstick

I'd put a Rainbow Brite doll, an Anne of Green Gables box set, a Nintendo, a picture of me and my sister playing together with our play kitchen, and a troll doll!

Man this is hard!

Lip Smackers are definitely up there along with jelly shoes, anything NKOTB, t-shirt ties, and KEDS!! haha!

My collection of Janet Lambert books - all the male characters went to West Point - and guess what - I grew up and married a West Point grad!

I would also put paper dolls which entertained me forever - I would cut furniture from Sears catalogs and arrange rooms all over my floor and then cut out Archie, Betty and Veronica for my people.

My scrapbooks - which may not really be a tool, but I worked on them a lot and there ARE a lot!

My diaries - see above!

Trolls

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http://thenestempties.blogspot.com

1. stone-washed stretch jeans
2. frosted lipstick
3. Any Molly Ringwald movie on VHS tape (take your pick..."16 Candles", "Breakfast Club", "Pretty in Pink")
4. A copy of Bop or Tiger Beat magazine with the Coreys on the cover
5. A tape of the "He-Man" or "She-ra" cartoons

1. Barbie doll
2. Pez dispenser
3. Nancy Drew books
4. Clip on roller skates w/key
5. A bag of penny candy! 50 cents bought a whole bunch of it.

Guess I'm dating myself now. Ha!

As I got to be an older child, these 5 would work for a time capsule:

1. curling iron/crimper
2. aerosol hair spray
3. black jelly bracelets
4. scrunchy socks (usually worn doubled up or even tripled up to match my outfit!)
5. New Kids on the Block cassette tape

Leg Warmers

My dolls and stuffed animals

My bicycle

Friendship bracelets that we'd make

And my jelly shoes! :-)

I was born in late 1975 (I refuse to accept the fact that I'm turning 35 later this year). My 5 from early childhood:

- Cabbage Patch dolls
- Soundtrack from the movie "Annie"
- Speak & Spell by Texas Instruments
- Leg warmers
- Banana clips

1. A Tiny Tears doll

2. A Little Ricky Doll (modeled after Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball's baby)

3. A Copy of Little Women

4. A red wagon

5. A super jumbo box of crayolas in every imaginable color

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