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    7 days ago

    I got some parachute pants when I was around 11 or 12 because I thought they were cool, and were the only fad I actually got excited about. Those were some comfy pants!

    In high school grunge got popular, which worked out for since I was already wearing worn out jeans, tshirts, and flannel shirts due to living in a rural area. Not sure if trends catching up with me counts as being part of the fad, but I did like the music.

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    Atkins. The 00s low carb diet. How did people do it?

    When I finally broke, I put steamed rice and French fries on a cheese pizza and rolled it up and ate it.

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      There’s a “modern” version of the Atkins diet, the keto diet. Same rules as far as I can tell, just rebranded. I went nuts. I couldn’t stop thinking about bread. Sound of it, smell of it, taste of it… It haunted me day and night. I’d often find myself looking up bread maker reviews, comparing different bread makers on Amazon… Don’t remember what I had when I finally gave up, wasn’t nearly as awesome what you did. But I can tell you I did not buy a bread maker afterwards.

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    Remember those silly rubber “Armstrong” wristbands? I had a million different ones and wore about 20 on each wrist to school and everywhere else. Yeah, I was pretty goddamn cool. 😎

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    I don’t usually go along with trends, so my worst one is the starbucks planner thing where you collect stickers for every coffee you buy and you get a planner notebook for the coming year. Most expensive notebook I ever bought, and a waste of money. Also feels disgusting giving all that money to starbucks. This was like15 years ago though.

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      I still don’t even know where they came from or why they existed but I did have a big tube of them and a nice brass slammer. Clearly I needed to fit in with my older brothers and that’s basically all I know about them.

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        They came from Hawaii, milk bottles or containers of some kind had the cardboard circle under the cap, and kid’s made up this game with them at the breakfast table

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          Interesting. I was speaking more to my personal collection than anything else—Guess it’s time to go down the rabbit hole of Pog history haha. Surprised they haven’t resurfaced as an app (unless they have, I haven’t checked).

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    Wore my mother’s bell bottoms to school and they fell apart while I was at school. Everyone got to see my undies q.q

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    I dunno how much I’m about to date myself with this one but I still remember the heartbreak when my favorite squid shaped silly band snapped after I’d used it enough, whoever designed those was either a complete idiot for designing something that breakable for children, or a maniacal genius for designing something that would need to be replaced that often for children.

    Either way, child targeted advertising should be completely illegal, that’s just hitting the parents with emotional blackmail.

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    Tight-rolled jeans with rolled-down socks.
    Also, aforementioned backwards clothes - even trained my Grandma to reply “jump, jump?” 😁

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        I don’t know if or when it came back (there seems to be a 30 year cycle for fashion where everything old is new again) or if you are just your own individual who doesn’t care if it’s in, just doing it because you like it.

        Or maybe you’re rockabilly. Or too punk to care.

        Or maybe I stopped noticing it and it never actually went out of fashion - it was me who went out of fashion!
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