You know you're a child of the '90s when...

Thanks to ftmichael, evinboy, and baileyjordan…

  1. You’ve ever ended a sentence with the word “PSYCH!”
  2. You watched the Pound Puppies.
  3. You can sing the rap to the “Fresh Prince of Bel Air.”
  4. You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish.
  5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby Sitters Club and tried to start a club of your own.
  6. You owned those little Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.
  7. You know that “WHOA” comes from Joey on “Blossom.”
  8. Two words: M.C. Hammer
  9. If you ever watched “Fraggle Rock.”
  10. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars.
  11. You can sing the entire theme song to “Duck Tales.”
  12. You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
  13. You wore a ponytail on the side [back] of your head.
  14. You saw the original “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” on the big screen.
  15. You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail Day in computer class at school.
  16. You played the game “MASH.” (Mansion Apartment Shack House)
  17. You wore a Jordache Jean jacket and you were proud of it.
  18. L.A. Gear
  19. You wanted to change your name to “JEM” in Kindergarten.
  20. You remember reading Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and all the Ramona books.
  21. You know the profound meaning of “WAX ON, WAX OFF.”
  22. You wanted to be a Goonie. Truffle Shuffle! Boodie Trap!
  23. You ever wore flourescent clothing.
  24. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off.
  25. You have pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
  26. **You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school. **
  27. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets. oh, the heartbreak.
  28. You still get the urge to say “NOT” after (almost) every sentence
  29. You remember Hypercolor T-shirts.
  30. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band.
  31. You thought She-Ra and He-Man should hook up.
  32. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged friendship bracelets.
  33. You owned a pair of jelly sandals.
  34. After you saw “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure” you kept saying “I know what you are, but what am I?”
  35. You remember “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”
  36. You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates.
  37. You even got seriously injured on a Slip ‘n’ Slide.
  38. You have ever played with a Skip-It.
  39. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonald’s.
  40. You’ve gone through this list occasionally saying “awesome.”
  41. You remember Popples.
  42. “Don’t worry, be happy.”
  43. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights.
  44. You wore socks scrunched down.
  45. “Miss Mary MACK MACK MACK, all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK, with silver BUTTONS, BUTTONS, BUTTONS all down her BACK, BACK, BACK!”
  46. You remember boom boxes vs. CD players.
  47. You remember watching both “Gremlins” movies.
  48. You knew what it meant to say “Care Bear Stare!”
  49. You remember watching “Rainbow Brite” and “My Little Ponies.”
  50. You thought Doogie Howser was hot.
  51. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
  52. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool.
  53. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on “Saved By the Bell.”
  54. You know all the words to Bon Jovi.
  55. You played and/or collected “Pogs.”
  56. You used to pretend that you could transform into a Power Ranger. (I remember when they were cool, even)
  57. You had a variety of colors for Buddha beads.
  58. “Where’s Waldo?” was a big hit
  59. “Lean on me … when you’re not strong … and I’ll be your friend. I’ll help you carrrryyyy onnnn.”
  60. The GREY Nintendo Gameboys
  61. Besides gameboy, you remember Gamegear
  62. You owned a Furby.
  63. Your friends had a group where each girl was a Spice Girl
  64. Chuck E Cheese Parties. (And before that, Showbiz Pizza)
  65. Discovery Zone was better than Chuck E. Cheese
  66. You watched American Gladiators
  67. You played with Stretch Armstrong
  68. You played with Crash Dummies
  69. When thinking about gummy bears you imagine them in a line, dancing into their bag.
  70. You read almost every single copy of R.L. Stiens “goosebumps”.
  71. So we were, like, going, like, to that, like, place, like, where, like, people do, like, stuff.
  72. You can hum the mario bros. theme song in three part harmony with friends.
  73. You watched Eek the Cat
  74. Garfield, Odie, Jon Arbuckle ring a bell
  75. “Take Chances, get messy, make mistakes.” “I know I should have stayed home today.” “Okay bus, do your stuff”

I am such a child of the mid-eighties. Good god. I even beat baileyjordan.