1980s Things That Kids No Longer Do! 

1980 those were the best years of life I wish I can go back in time and redo it all over again.

Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s was great! Life was simpler for kids back then.

Bittersweet nostalgia. I long for simpler times as these. They were wonderful in many ways.

"go outside and play" every parents most commonly spoken phrase back then.

One day we went on our very last bike ride with our friends and didn't even know it😢

Todays generation wouldn't survive the 80's.

The 80s were the greatest. I would love to go back.

The BMX bikes and being kicked out after Saturday morning cartoons is spot on. Thing is we wanted to be outside riding bikes unsupervised! I remember playing for hours, building forts, nearly drowning in streams etc. Then my mom yelling it was time to come in for supper. I also remember being bored stiff during summer vacation when my grandparents looked after us!! 😂

I used to ride my bike and listen to cassettes on my Walkman for hours. No helmet requirement, no headlight, just freedom.

I’m so glad I was a young boy at that time. Every single one of these images I swear were taken throughout my life. You kids nowadays have no idea what you missed. Sad that most kids won’t have memories like this.

I was born in 1974. My fondest memories of the 80s..? The whole totally awesome decade!! 😎❤

Many kids growing up in the 1970s and 1980s had blisters on their hands from playing on the equipment on school yards. Those later became calluses, and every scratch or scab was a mark of experience from physical play. Many school grounds no longer have swings, rings, or monkey bars due to liability issues. Thank you for your video presentation. Take care.

I almost wish that I could go back. Now I look at my grandkids and see all the fun stuff that they will never do. The 80's really were the best decade to be brought up in.

I graduated in 1990, so you definitely know I was an 80's kid. Awesome times.....

The 80's was the best of so many things! Movies, T.V. shows, fashion, hairstyles, activities, food/restaurants, vehicles, games, school... the list goes on! Such great time to remember.

Was a sophomore in high school 1980. We had an official smoking section on the side of the building! Teachers even smoked with the students!

"playgrounds today are soft"........ literally!! I love the old photos, looking in the background and thinking "hey, we had a lamp like that"😂 Thanks for the trip Rhetty👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The 80s was truly a magical time, Especially if you were a kid! I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE growing up in the 80s! The music, the food, the physical activities and the adventure! I never realized just how much more healthier and free we were until decades later and I see how kid's now don't get to do even half the things we did in the 80s. 😢

I'm missing the 80's more than ever these crazy days.

I was lucky enough to have been a teenager during the 80's! I miss it so very much! We could use a whole lot of those day in this crazy world, today!

I love these back down memory lane videos. I’m at 70s kid and 80s teenager. Every single scenario applies and brings great memories! What a great time to be a kid.

Starting school was a big popularity contest. Whoever had the coolest Trapper Keeper, best puffy gel stickers, or a pencil box with ten compartments were major talking points.

Having been born in 1978 and growing up in the 80s I can just soooooooo much relate - thanks for this quick and fun rollercoaster through my childhood! 🙏🏽

I tell my grown kids all kinds of stories about growing up in the 80's and they are absolutely mesmerized. What a magical time. Wouldn't trade the experience for anything.

A much simpler time...a much better time. The 80s were awesome.

Saturday morning was done when American Bandstand or Soul Train came on.

70s Baby/ 80s Kid right here. I had a lot of mixed memories from the 80s but still the decade will always have a special place in my heart.

😂😂😂 loved my unrestrained shop class in middle school! Seemed like every shop teacher was missing a finger.

I remember riding in the back windshield of our car lol. I'd lay there and nap. I also loved standing up in the front seat. Ahhh, the 80's 😊

Arcades, sugary breakfast cereals, Saturday morning cartoons on TV, salty snack foods, even Nintendo....how I miss those days. ☺️

I was only 8 years old when the 90s came and even I can vividly remember the change in energy - The 80s were cool happy and fun, 90s were more depressing and aggressive

I miss playing in the streets, riding bike across town, being outside all day, Saturday morning cartoons, and all my buddies. There's none of that in today's world, not a one of those everyday activities.

Man you are about to make me cry! 😢 Such beautiful memories. Thank you! 👍🏾

Being an 80’s kid was pretty awesome! One of my favorite memories, was each Saturday morning my dad would make pancakes, and I would eat them while watching Pee-wee’s Playhouse. Wish I could rewind time and relive those memories one last time 🥰

What memories! Being an 80's kid was awesome. We knew how to live. Setting off caps with rocks, throwing lawn darts, jumping ramps with our bikes without a helmet. Good times!!!

I'm 44 now and I had some of the best and worst times in the 80's. I wish I could just rewind and enjoy the good stuff but all the bad outweighed everything I went through. Why couldn't we just have fun? Nobody knows. ❣️😌

Oooh... I miss the cereals!..... Who am I kidding? I honestly miss all of it...

I grew up in the 80s, and EVERYTHING mentioned is absolutely true!! Good times!

Nothing will ever beat the 80's!

I had a huge permed hairstyle, lots of blue mascara, plastic earrings and bracelets. I was a real dish 🤣😂

I remember all of this, but the one thing they no longer have is the MTV music videos that I spent alot of time watching. I wish they would bring them back.

Concerts in the 80s. It didn't matter who was playing either. Rock, rap, pop, country... we had our preferences of course but we knew everything from Merle Haggard to The Bangles to Cool Moe Dee to Anthrax and everything in between. We had the best music, the loudest arenas and everyone had fun. Man, I miss Twisted Sister and Mr. Mister...

Born on 1972 and I must say that the eighties was such a great time to grow up and come to age.

I remember having the option of walking home or riding the bus. Starting in 2nd grade. Hard to believe we had that much autonomy. We made a lot of decisions from an early age. Seems wild compared to today

My favorite Saturday morning cartoons were Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo, and the Smurfs! 😃

I was an 80s kid and this video is 100% spot on!

I was born in 83, so I spent obviously the first 7 years of my life during this time, and yes it was magical. I would argue though that the 90's were still a great time as well to be a kid/teen in because we still did most of the things in this video. Cell phones didn't really become popular until the 2000's, kids had pagers/beepers. The internet didn't really take off until late 90's early 2000's. But what a great time to live in. Going outside, riding bikes, going to blockbuster, the movies every weekend because we actually had GOOD movies to go see (not the woke shit of today). Video games were still original/new feeling, getting your driver's license was a rite of passage and everyone did it immediately at the age of 16. Honestly today sucks, and I feel bad for my kids, but I do my best to keep them away from the poison of modern tech. No phones for my kids, or even tablets, and monitored internet usage. They mainly play with their toys or outside, and Nintendo Switch. I wish I could take them to the movies more often, or even have them watch Saturday morning cartoons, but those don't exist. I have to constantly make sure what they watch doesn't have any alphabet mafia propaganda in it. Bring back the 80's and 90's!

The entire summer being spent wandering the mall, using all my money on arcade games, eating Chick-fil-A in the food court then standing outside waiting for mom to pick us up - seriously the best days ever! Oh and the putt putt place with the go-karts. What lives we led! :)

This was my childhood! I wouldn’t change growing up in the 80s for anything!

Best time .Child in the 80's rite of passage in 1994-2004. Simpler,more present in the moment and unafraid to try things. Thx for uploading.

🎉 Retro greetings from coastal Mississippi. As a teenager in the early 80's....l remember all of these. You cannot recreate a memory only reflect on it❤

Saturday Morning were something I look forward to every week. Good ol days.

I remember those long phone extension cords that let you take the phone into your bedroom. But then your 20 foot cord would end up a 6 foot cord and you had to untangle it for a half hour or more. And who can still hear the screech of your skin on a hot steel slide and checking for missing skin when you landed?? Man I miss those days

80s and 90s was the best years of my life

Yes, I always remember my dad pushing us “too fast” on the metal merry go round . It would be spinning so fast, that we’d be holding on for our dear lives , lol . I was thrown off many times, but I survived . Great times 👌🏾

We raised our kids through the 80's! Thanks for the memories Rhetty!

Going to school on Friday for show and tell LOL.

The 1980's was my childhood(I was born n 1978). I still remember getting up early on weekends - often before the rest of the family - just to catch the morning cartoons. My family had a rule that if it's nice outside, you go outside.

I remember all of this stuff. I really miss the 80s.

Rhett, you covered my entire childhood in 1 video. I feel bad for our kids not knowing what unconnected really is. I have been late for work because I forgot my cell, and turned around to get it. How did we survive? Lol

Don't forget the amazing tire playgrounds with hot rubber and wasp nests inside of the tires! Lol

The 90s in the UK was still very much like it was in the 80s for us because even though computers had just hit the mainstream we still proffered to go out on adventures with our friends. Hop on our bikes and just ride until it started getting dark, then we'd turn around and head back. We'd get lost all the time but we found some sweet spots and cool areas in the woods to build bases.

Thank you. Life for kids was so much better. I miss it

The 80s and into my teenage years through the early 90s was awesome. I swear we were the last generation to truly live. Everything in the video is accurate, even the street lights. Id give 5 years of my life for one more 1988.

I still have my old broken strap Swatch watch, 🤣🤣🤣. And I remember going on family trips and sleeping in the floorboards. 👍

I sometimes wonder how I survived the glorious 70s and 80s. The vibe was so liberating and colourful. Remember video weekends? Getting a bunch of friends and family together for a sleepover with mattresses covering the floor and 5 or more videos to watch. We were lucky to experience the 80s.

This just summed up my childhood. I miss my dad’s station wagon, hanging out with my neighborhood friends…everything you basically mentioned was a blast for me. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world for those fond memories. 😊

I really miss this time. I was a kid in the 80s and I remember many of these things. My biggest memory was I was ALWAYS playing outside. We were creative and used to make up our own games. I literally was outside until the street lights came on. Being a kid in the 80s was so much fun! I am so greatful I got to experience life before computers took over everything in our society

I remember my friends running back home for their aquanet and scrunchies!scrunched! We found ways to entertain ourselves without the need for money! We also earned our money for county fairs, carnivals and school trips! Thank you for sharing these cherished memories ❤️

I am so grateful that I grew up in the 70's/80s and I am part of Gen X! We had things available to us that kids today will never do and do not have some things that are also a benefit. We learned to be resourceful and to build things and fix things on our own and we stayed out of the house all day and played with our friends out in the fresh air while our parents often times didn't know where we were. We were trusted. We were happy.

80's life was the best life for alot of ppl and yes Saturday's were the ultimate rewards 👍

Born in 1980 so didn't get to do the teenage stuff but I remember riding all over town on my bike, even being able to go into bars to play arcade games, "driving" the car around on my dad's lap. One thing I really miss that I don't see many people mention, also applied to the 90s was finding paper money on the ground. Especially if it was something like a 10 or a 20.

Love it! Grew up in the 80’s and LOVED Saturday morning cartoons, then going outside to play. A day far gone. Thanks for the memories!

I miss the 80’s watching my favorite show on tv. Going outside to play with my friends go bike riding. It was a simpler time back then. I miss the 80’s

This was my childhood thanks for the memory

As you said - it was a beautiful time.

In the 80's, we had the best cartoons, the best toys and you always knew whose house your friends were at by looking for their bikes in the driveway. Such a great time to grow up!

I absolutely miss the 80s. It was the best time in my life. I tell my daughter how we used to ride our bikes miles away from home. Mom and Dad let us do almost anything, and we were safe doing anything anywhere outside. We LOVED being outside going on “Goonies” adventures! What an amazing decade.

In the 1980's hanging out with friends was everything. We were always going to each other's houses or driving around town. Now it seems like kids never leave their rooms.

All my 3 kids were born in the 80's. So I been through all of it. Thanks for the memories ❤❤❤

I was born in 1987, and I consider myself a 90's kid as I was 3 to 13 that decade. But even still, a lot of the stuff mentioned in this video hit me pretty close.

Brings back some of the best memories! Growing up in the 70's&80's was the best!

I was born in the middle of 1987 so I don't remember the last 2 years of the 80s that well. All I can say is that I am glad to have been a 90s kid. It was also the last decade that we 90s kids had a lot of freedom. When I would spend a weekend or summer with my grandpa I would ride my bike anywhere around town as long as I said I was going out.

It never even dawned on me till watching this that classrooms no longer have chalk boards. they still had them in the 90s, well in 1990 the year I graduated. it's been almost 40 years ago, so hard to believe it's been so long ago. Time really does fly by

I love this video so much. It just took me back to yesteryear and I would love to go back to the 80s and just relive everything I did all the kids I met going to the arcade playing video games hanging out with friends there going rollerskating on a Friday night, everything was just the best life ever kids nowadays don’t know how much they missed out on such a great time in life and the best part was when that street light came on. You had five minutes to get into the house or else your ass was grass and it was so normal to be running to the house and you look down the street and see other kids running as fast as they can to get to the house, look back at it now and think it’s so funny but back then it was just a normal thing to do so all of you kids that were in the 80s. I think you will agree with everything I just said and God bless all you guys.

The 80's was the greatest Decade to be a kid, i loved it. My first BMX was my pride and joy, the sense of freedom going out all day with my friends on our bikes was liberating. Playing Football (Soccer to North Americans) with all your mates was brilliant, i even participated in a 25 a side game on occasion...if you know, you know. Wrapping the telephone wire around your head/face while on the phone was practically manditory, and so much fun. Saturday morning cartoons was the weekly event everyone seemed to watch. Horror movies (and Sci-Fi) was the big thing to be into back then, just about everyone i knew had watched all the big franchises, though the real cool kids were fans of Italian Horror movies, and of course there's the classic Universal Monster movies that were usually on TV on a Saturday night that everyone had seen. Good times. Cheers.

The kids back then used to touch grass, we need to bring these back and toughen up today's kids with them

I remember the Christmas we got our first ever VCR, which by the way had a corded not an infrared remote control. We also got about five movies on VHS. After opening up Christmas gifts we had brunch and then spent the rest of the day watching those tapes. It was such a magical thing to watch movies at home back then. I mean we all take it for granted now, but then it felt so futuristic! That began the tradition of the family movie night, which my family still does to this day. Unfortunately my youngest nephews find movies boring, preferring to play video games instead. According to them it's because they like how interactive video games are. They can't control the characters in a regular movie lol.

Great video. 80s was the best time growing up. It was an in-between time....between little tech and computers everywhere. The freedom to play and not think about danger around every corner. We only play on computers now and are too paranoid to go outside these days. 80s was the best.

I really enjoyed this walk down memory lane! I'll never forget growing up in the 80's. Not mention here were the start of all the scary slasher movies franchises and all the trendy toys of the 80's all the great music too! Thank you for putting this video together!

Dang i miss dodge ball!!! I can smell it right now 😂

Ahhh what a wonderful time. Thanks Rhetty for history.

Man does that video bring back so many great memories. There was nothing like riding in the back of your dad's truck on the weekends!

Great video and memories! Speaking of what we did with phones before cell phones, earlier today I was just thinking about the fun we had with prank calls.

Saturday morning cartoons should come back one day. 😀👍

It's amazing how we survived

It's interesting to see little snippets of what childhood would have looked like for my parents, though I wouldn't change growing up in the 2000s/2010s for anything. I figure we all have nostalgia for our childhoods

So nostalgic. I'm a 1981 baby and this video brings back so many memories. Thanks so much. Subbed

My grandparents must have been before their time because I had a car seat and was born in 1980, I wasn't allowed to go anywhere without letting them know exactly where I was and I didn't play outside by myself till I was in middle school but still had to tell them who I was with and where.

“Sit down and shut up”, lol. That’s so true. Our parents didn’t want us to remind them they had kids.