1. Care Bears cards that your grandma or aunt would always get you for holidays and birthdays:
2. Apple Paperbacks, which were the publishers of all those creepy books that kept you up at night:
3. Wacky Packages stickers, which you would always stick on your wall for some reason:
4. Souvenirs (like this flag pennant) that you would get whenever you would go see an Ice Capades show:
5. Cabbage Patch Kids posable PVC figures, which were just as creepy as the dolls and would hurt like hell if you chucked them at someone:
6. The occasional TV Guide that would come with cartoons or TV characters that you liked on the cover — which immediately made it a must-read:
7. Garfield books that you would always get for your birthday from relatives you weren't close with (but who assumed you liked Garfield):
8. This exact dictionary that every kid owned:
9. Mickey and Minnie merchandise (from when they tried to be hip):
10. Metal trash cans in your bedroom that featured your favorite cartoon characters:
11. And metal character TV trays:
12. The big red lips novelty telephone, which you thought was so, so cool and chic:
13. This exact Godzilla toy that you never knew how you acquired (just was in your toy box one day):
14. Hugga Bunch books, which, much like the Godzilla toy, you just found in your bookshelf one day and never knew how they got there:
15. Muppet Babies comics, which were so much fun to read:
16. These cups that you would drink out of at McDonald's:
17. And Ronald McDonald plastic hand puppets — which made your hand all sweaty if you played with them:
18. The bendable hand key chain that would start falling apart within a month:
19. Ben Cooper character Halloween costumes, which were just a plastic smock with a mask you could barely see and breath out of:
20. Picture discs that had your favorite cartoon characters on it and were almost too pretty to play:
21. The Fisher-Price Little People Family Farm, which would make a "moo" sound whenever you opened the barn doors:
22. Play tents, which was really the most perfect place to hide in:
23. Nancy Regan and her "Just Say No" campaign:
24. Portable TVs that were black and white and required 17 Double D batteries to run:
25. And finally, the Dennis the Menace cartoon, which — like almost all '80s cartoons — had an awesome theme song:
