Ok, so I’m going through my post-adolescent idealistic phase I think, and because of this, I have become EXTREMELY nostaglic for things of my childhood, mainly the crap that you totally forget about because it’s really not important, but really makes you want to buy the junk at flea markets–ie Flight Time Barbie, Fraggle Rock McDonald’s toys, etc.
So in the nature of all things related, you can only imagine the thrill I got when I stumbled upon the Branded in the 80s blog section devoted entirely to stickers from the 80s. Stickers were something that seriously drove my childhood existance, until, maybe the invention of the Super Nintendo. I had stickers of everything and if I remember right, that was mostly because THEY WERE EVERYWHERE.
And there were all different types: puffy, glow in the dark, vinyl, those really thin paper/plastic ones, the ones that came in those baseball card packs, etc. We would even get stickers from the doctor’s office, and they were given to us by the sheets at school, Easter, birthdays, etc. And those books where you collected the stickers from the Topps packs and stuck them in the book. My mom and I worked for a whole summer to complete a Tiny Toons Adventures sticker book. And those certain books where you would have the sheet and you would match the person’s face or their dog up with the dotted place in the coloring book…oh man. And those were usually more like giant stamps, that you had to lick like an envelope to get to stick….
Ok, I seriously go on forever on this one, so I won’t. But now I know what I’m going to do at lunch today–watch tiny toon on Surfthechannel….dang.