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[emmagrant01]

You may have seen this email several times already, as it often makes the rounds, but it's pretty cute. Ack, so many of these are true for me!


You were a little girl in the 70s if...

You wore a rainbow shirt that was half-sleeves, and the rainbow went up one sleeve, across your chest, and down the other.

You made baby chocolate cakes in your Easy Bake Oven and washed them down with snow cones from your Snoopy Snow Cone Machine.

You had that Fisher Price Doctor's Kit with a stethoscope that actually worked.

You owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a plastic basket with flowers on it.

You learned to skate with actual skates (not roller blades) that had metal wheels.

You thought Gopher from Love Boat was cute (admit it!)

You had nightmares after watching Fantasy Island.

You had rubber boots for rainy days and Moon boots for snowy days.

You had either a "bowl cut" or "pixie," not to mention the "Dorothy Hamill" because your Mom was sick of braiding your hair. People sometimes thought you were a boy.

Your Holly Hobbie sleeping bag was your most prized possession.

You wore a poncho, gauchos, and knickers.

You begged Santa for the electronic game, Simon.

You had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple satiny shredded outfits.

You spent hours in your backyard on your metal swing set with the trapeze. The swing set tipped over at least once.

You had homemade ribbon barrettes in every imaginable color.

You had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard sole & the buckle). You also had a pair of salt-water sandals.

You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad; you wore that Little House on the Prairie-inspired plaid, ruffle shirt with the high neck in at least one school picture; and you despised Nellie Olson!

You wanted your first kiss to be at a roller rink.

Your hairstyle was described as having "wings" or "feathers" and you kept it "pretty" with the comb you kept in your back pocket.

You know who Strawberry Shortcake is, as well as her friends, Blueberry Muffin and Huckleberry Pie.

You carried a Muppets lunch box to school and it was metal, not plastic.

You and your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of Hazzard was your boyfriend.

Every now ! and then "It's a Hard Knock Life" from the movie, "Annie" will pop into your brain and you can't stop singing it the whole day.

YOU had Star Wars action figures, too!

It was a big event in your household each year when the "Wizard of Oz" would come on TV. Your mom would break out the popcorn and sleeping bags!

You often asked your Magic-8 ball the question: "Who will I marry -Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett (in or out of jail?), or Rick Springfield?"

You completely wore out your Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and Fame soundtrack record album.

You tried to do lots of arts and crafts, like yarn and Popsicle-stick God's eyes, decoupage, or those weird potholders made on a plastic loom.

You made Shrinky-Dinks and put iron-on kittens on your t-shirts!

You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape player up to the speaker.

You couldn't wait to get the free animal poster that came when you ordered books from the Weekly Reader book club. Double score if it was a teddy bear dressed in clothing.

You learned everything you needed to know about girl issues from Judy Blume books (Are you there God, It's me, Margaret.)

You thought Olivia Newton John's song "Physical" was about aerobics.

You wore friendship pins on your tennis shoes, or shoelaces with heart or rainbow designs.

You wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer.

You had a Big Wheel with a brake on the side, and a Sit-n-Spin.

You had subscriptions to Dynamite and Tiger Beat.

You spent all your allowance on smurfs and stickers for your sticker album!

Comments

[fatale.livejournal.com]

What are 'Moon Boots'?

[krissielee.livejournal.com]

Only the best toy ever! They're like, big clunky things held together by giant rubber bands so when you step...you bounce. Kind of like walking on the moon, if you will. *works at a toy store. forgive the geekage*

[splix.livejournal.com]

You had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple satiny shredded outfits.

OMG yes. And the big heads and sharky grins.

Christ, so many of these apply - hee!

[sciencegeek.livejournal.com]

Heh. Solid Gold is a strip club here. And, while not a 70's child, some of these definitly apply...

[elizabeth-rice.livejournal.com]

Some of these apply to me - and I wasn't even born in the 70s! :D

[tarotemp.livejournal.com]

You had either a "bowl cut" or "pixie," not to mention the "Dorothy Hamill" because your Mom was sick of braiding your hair. People sometimes thought you were a boy.
Had the “pixie” – and people DID ask if I was a boy all the time.

You had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple satiny shredded outfits.
Still have them. And they are CREEPY.

You had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard sole & the buckle).
I miss those shoes, dammit!!!

YOU had Star Wars action figures, too!
Don’t I wish… the folks were too cheap to buy them for me.

You couldn't wait to get the free animal poster that came when you ordered books from the Weekly Reader book club. Double score if it was a teddy bear dressed in clothing.
My personal fav: The kitten clinging to a rope with: ’Hang on, Friday’s coming!'

You had subscriptions to Dynamite and Tiger Beat.
Dynamite for me. I didn’t like Tiger Beat because it always had ‘Chachie’ from Happy Days on the cover too much. (good Lord… how do I remember that?!?!)

[jamoche]

You had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard sole & the buckle).
I miss those shoes, dammit!!!

They still make them :)

I was a girl in the 70s, but I didn't do much of that stuff. From what I've heard of Judy Blume, though, it may have been more scarring than helpful. (Is there *really* a rhyme about "improve my bust" in those books? Ew!)

[aviss.livejournal.com]

Heh, I recieved not long ago a similar one about growing up in Spain in the 70s and early 80s, and even if they are different they are the same.

My old skates with metal wheels! My rubber boots! And Grease! So many good memories...

[poetheather.livejournal.com]

I wasn't a girl yet then but I have done most of those and had most of those things. I always wanted the Dorothy Hamil Haircut but that never happened. Most of that list is so familiar and that is scarry.

[rachecho.livejournal.com]

goodness, i wasn't born in the 70s, but i sure had/did some of the things on the list. haha! the good old days... what happened?

[mizbean.livejournal.com]

You had either a "bowl cut" or "pixie," not to mention the "Dorothy Hamill" because your Mom was sick of braiding your hair. People sometimes thought you were a boy.

Yes!! My mom cut all my hair off when I was 6 and wouldn't let my have long hair until I was 10. I can't tell you how many times people took me for a boy. It probably also had to do with me hating to wear dresses.

Oddly, I have long hair now and wear skirts all the time. It's also why I won't cut my daughters hair even if it tangles a lot, just because I really hated being called a boy.

[lauramcewan.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. Far too many of those apply. I never did have the rainbow shirt, though (OH the HUMANITY!) but I did have a pair of the Mork from Ork rainbow suspenders!

[helens78]

A ton of these apply to me too (even though I'm a little young to remember the '70s), but this is my favorite:

You thought Olivia Newton John's song "Physical" was about aerobics.

I still thought that a few years ago. >_>

[robriki.livejournal.com]

Hm. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, well, you get the picture! Okay, now I need to go watch 'Annie' again, which makes me nostalgic as well, since the mansion they used for Daddy Warbucks' mansion is on my college campus. Sigh.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

You went to Monmouth?

[canellaphile.livejournal.com]

You wore a rainbow shirt that was half-sleeves, and the rainbow went up one sleeve, across your chest, and down the other.

I want that shirt NOW. ;)

[brightsun301.livejournal.com]

I was late-70's, early-80's. So many apply, but some I've never heard of. For instance... I only read 'Are you there god? It's me Margaret' this past year. But I love Shrinky-Dinks. ;) And that speaker + recorder = music, so doesn't work. :)

"It was a big event in your household each year when the "Wizard of Oz" would come on TV. Your mom would break out the popcorn and sleeping bags!"

It still it. It's my moms favorite movie. :)

*loves Strawberry Shortcake (The original), Simon, and was called 'a boy in a polka-dotted dress'* I don't wear dresses anymore. ;)

[brightsun301.livejournal.com]

*It still is.

I kin speel.

[pervert-bitch.livejournal.com]

Oh. I had one like that... but it was about growin up in the 80s.. :)

[babi-yami1639.livejournal.com]

Oh dear..I was a child of the 80's, but my older sis wasn't....and I had her hand me downs and loved 'em.....even the moon boots.....

[brockssnow.livejournal.com]

Oh I had Donny and Marie dolls, a Holly Hobbie Pillow case and many rainbow shirts.

[galdralag.livejournal.com]

Apparently I wasn't a little girl in the 70's. I could have sworn I was.

It comes down to where you grew up - all we got in my neck of the woods was Strawberry Shortcake (didn't like that) and moonboots (had screaming fit when mum bought me a pair, she returned the evil boots of doom).

Oh, and hi. I fangirl your fics, so I friended your journal.

[hearts-n-roses.livejournal.com]

OMG! I was born in '68...so needless to say you just described my childhood...lol. I lived in the UK until '79 so not all of this applied then, but around '80, '81...yup. Definitely...HAHAHA!

I remember the safety pins with beads on my shoes and funky shoelaces with hearts on them. And our metal swing set tipped over on a regular basis. Half the fun was trying to swing hard enough to tip it...lol. So much for all the safety measures of today. We had a blast.

[novembersnow.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite old enough to remember the '70s, but even so, about half the things on this list apply to me. Oh, nostalgia! ;)

[moonglow-girl.livejournal.com]

I find that even though I was an 80's child, I still think that a lot of these apply to me.

Early 80's Child.

[ladyfalcon.livejournal.com]

I often wonder if Nellie Olson was a real person Laura Ingalls knew as a little girl, and what she would think if she had known then that many years after her death people would absolutely despise her, like the Judas of little girls, for some things she may or may not have actually done.

Actually, 'often' is a misnomer. I just thought of that. But it's sort of arresting.

I was born in '85 and grew up mostly in the early '90's, and some of this still applied to me!

[allysonsedai.livejournal.com]

I often wonder if Nellie Olson was a real person Laura Ingalls knew as a little girl

Well, she is in the books... But, yeah, I wonder what *her* family thinks about it all. Or were the names changed to protect the innocent? :))

[coiledsoul.livejournal.com]

OMG! Holly Hobbie freaks unite! Thanks for this, I'm gonna post it in my blog too.

[slytherincesss.livejournal.com]

I still have my sticker albums :>

[allysonsedai.livejournal.com]

Me too. ♥

[fungus-files.livejournal.com]

Gopher from Love Boat WAS cute, dammit! :D

*still owns Muppets lunchbox* And I'll never let it go.