50 Things Literally Everyone Used To Have In Their Home 30 Years Ago That I Can Guarantee No One Has Anymore

30 years ago, pretty much everyone had...

1.A big giant TV that weighed 300 pounds:

An old TV

2.A room in the house with walls exactly like this:

Wood-paneled walls
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3.A jar full of candy completely stuck together that no one had any idea how old it was:

A bowl of candy

4.A phone you'd have to come barreling down the stairs to answer in time:

A landline phone

5.This type of furniture in a room that probably smelled a bit like cigarette smoke:

Old furniture

6.One of these chairs that always seemed to get stickier the hotter it got outside:

A lawn chair

7.A kitchen with this kind of floor:

Detailed image of a linoleum tile background from the 1970s
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8.A literal book you'd have to bring to the bank with you:

A checkbook

9.This blender that seemed to last decades:

A blender

10.The greatest toy ever...The Moo Box:

A Moo Box

11.A list of phone numbers on a sheet of paper tucked away in some drawer:

phone number list
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12.This exact crockpot:

old fashioned crockpot

13.This alarm clock:

An alarm clock

14.This exact carpet:

carpet with a sewn-in pattern

15.A big ol' ball of needles:

sewing pin cushion
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16.A big fruit log in your freezer:

juice from concentrate

17.This EXACT blanket:

old orange and brown blanket

18.That you'd have to set the TV to channel 3 to watch movies:

A television set

19.This exact dresser:

A dresser

20.One of these in the bathroom:

A bathroom TV

21.This wooden bowl that was most likely used for a crisp, cool iceberg salad:

wooden bowl

22.A kitchen table that looks exactly like this:

A diner-style table

23.A container that could only be opened with a knife or a spoon:

nesquik container

24.These things that could class up any dish served on a paper plate:

hatched plate

25.One of these things that was probably not filled with what it was originally intended to be filled with:

camera film bottle

26.One of these boxes that held a surprise within:

A box with a lock and key

27.This dish that was perfect for any food:

old school quart dish

28.The ultimate piece of toy technology:

parking garage toy

29.And the other ultimate toy:

Fisher Price Activity Center

30.A big binder filled to the brim with CDs, or just CDs in general:

A CD booklet

31.One of these right next to your phone:

A device with letters on it
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32.This peeler:

peeler

33.This exact masher:

A potato masher
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34.And this type of grill:

70s grill

35.One of these in the bathroom:

toilet paper doll

36.One set of these around the holidays:

nutcrackers

37.Two sets of keys for one single car:

Two keys

38.A pile of these left out on the floor:

pile of jax

39.A sifter made out of metal:

A metal sifter
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40.One of these:

A washboard
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41.A bunch of these lying around the house:

viewmaster slides

42.A bottle of this very, very painful stuff:

mercurochrome medicine

43.These coffee-making tools:

old fashioned coffee maker

44.Countless VHS holders:

vhs case

45.One of these in your freezer:

An old ice tray

46.And one of these in your kitchen:

A heater

47.This exact can opener:

An old can opener
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48.One of these to fix wear and tear:

An old case

49.This fool-proof opener:

An opener

50.And a whole bunch of silly putty:

silly putty copying a newspaper