- Rewinding your music tape with a pencil
- Collecting Pokemon cards and hoping to one day get that shiny Charizard.
- Collecting equally as many pogs.
- Playing Sonic on the Sega.
- Or even playing star raiders on an Atari!
- Chewing on golf ball gum.
- Owning a Nokia 3310 or even a 3210.
- Losing the lids off of your gel pens - multiple times.
- Watching any or all of the following - Hey Arnold, Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Laboratory and the very strange - Cow and Chicken. (Seriously - what was up with that?!)
- Wishing Jumanji was a real game.
- Having to come off of the phone because someone wanted to use the Internet, which took AGES to dial up and was very loud in doing so!
- Practising Spice Girls moves - we all did it!
- Buying Girl Talk or Mizz magazine.
- Owning a electronic secret diary, remember the pink oblong shaped ones?
- Spending hours learning to rollerblade.
- Sitting on your own inflatable furniture.. the armchairs specifically.
- Owning a Pollypocket.
- Trying to take care of your pet on your Tamagotchie, but mostly forgetting about it.
- Reading the very brilliant Goosebumps books and even watching the episodes on TV.
- Instead of texting.. passing hand written notes to people specifically at school and if you were brave enough even to your love interest ;)
- Making and playing games with folded up pieces of paper. Particularly the game where you would choose a colour, then unwrap the colour, then choose something else until you got right down to the bottom.
- Playing Guess Who - what a brilliant game!
- Wearing stick on earrings.
- Playing Solitaire because the dial up Internet decided it wasn't going to dial up that day.
- Spending pocket money on 'lucky bags' or if you didn't have enough money - penny sweets.
- Burning CD's and usually fitting about 21 songs on it.
- Taping songs of the radio - totally guilty of this.
- Practising tricks on your yoyo.
- Getting annoyed because the movie you rented from the video store hadn't been rewound by the person that rented it out before you!
What what your favourite item of your childhood?
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