Get ready to dive into a nostalgia-packed journey, fellow millennials! We’re revisiting those unmistakable ’90s gems hidden in every nook of our parents’ houses. Imagine the living room shrine featuring a colossal boxy TV, that sacred sofa no one could sit on unless it was for a photo, and the kitchen fridge, a mosaic of magnets from family vacations past.
These snapshots aren’t just memories; they’re a hilarious homage to a time when dial-up internet was the peak of technology, and recording TV shows required a VHS tape and perfect timing.
So, strap on your nostalgia goggles and let’s take a whimsical trip down memory lane, revisiting the quirks of ’90s home life that every millennial will remember with a laugh.
1. This frozen orange juice that your parents would over-water down.
2. WebMD before it was just a website that told you everything is cancer.
3. Little Tikes Picnic Table
4. This phone was everything. First one after the rotary phone.
5. Answering machine tapes.
6. Pretty sure these only came in “food” and “geese”
7. And this never had cookies in it.
8. Glade Plug-Ins with the gel packs that would get covered in pet hair.
9. Corn corn holders. Still have ’em.
10. The fancy Mexican art plate no one could use but sat on the dining room table your whole life.
11. The Rubbermaid hamper my brother would put me in and sit on top of. The are indeed unbreakable.
12. These dusty-ass fake grapes.
13. Why did it have wheels. Why was it so share and at shin height. Why?
14. Those fake decoupage cardboard boxes.
15. Bath beads. Not for the bath. Tastes like crap.
16. Again. Baskets, but never use them.
17. Soup mugs were the best.
18. The fancy banker lamp.
19. These candle holders always made me sad.
20. Ah, the ol’ bubble clock.
21. These frames.
22. And every embarrassing picture of you in one place.
23. We use to be a polite society. We were rubber stamp people.
24. Again, absolutely covered in dust.
25. Heart baskets full of trash.
26. These pretty candles that would collapse on themselves and make a mess.
27. The Disney glasses we all loved.
28. This oak dining set I think every parent was required to have.
Mike Primavera is a Chicago-based comedy writer even though he doesn't HAVE to work. He lives comfortably off of his family's pasta fortune. Follow him on all social media at @primawesome