How to Relive Your 1980s Teenage Years
Remember the 1980s, those high school wonder years? Or maybe you'd rather not. It's hard to separate the media memory of the '80s and its techno-pop culture from your own. But here are some tips to give you a starting point.
Step
1
Squeeze yourself into the tightest jeans imaginable--no boot cut, flare leg or relaxed fits here. If they are not tight enough, take apart the seam and sew them tighter.
Step
2
Dance to Michael Jackson, who was everywhere with "Thriller," "Billie Jean, "Ebony and Ivory" and "Say say say." Do robot-type dancing to "Whip It" and Blondie's hits. Get into the B52s. Frolic to the girl bands like the Go-Gos, and dance to Cyndi Lauper's anthem, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." Finish with WHAM's "Wake me up before you go go."
Step
3
Watch "Flashdance" and start wearing ripped sleeves on your shirts. Bop around athletically like Jennifer Beals. Recall how your friends used to dress like Boy George.
Step
4
Enjoy "The
Breakfast
Club," "Sixteen Candles" and all those Molly Ringwald favorites where the Brat Pack worked out '80s teenage angst. So many stars to idolize.
Step
5
If you are the type, buy "The Preppy Handbook" and follow their fashion trends. Wear pink and green, buy rubber moccasins from L.L. Bean and
sport
Izod shirts (with the little alligator patch).
Step
6
You are a teenager. Pay no attention to the grandfatherly man in the Oval Office from 1980 to 1988, whose policies will affect you later. Have no idea that you are growing up in a conservative era, and what that will do to your life, lifestyle and politics in future years.
Step
7
Get an electric typewriter for your high school graduation and be happy about it.
Tips & Warnings
Remain completely ignorant of the incredibly low college tuition you pay. It's still possible
get a job
in college and pay your own way, graduating with $5000 or less debt. Not bad.
Your telephone receiver is still connected to your phone. Communicate this way or by regular mail. If you are not home when someone calls, the phone rings off the hook. The caller will just have to call again.
http://www.ehow.com/how_2173272_relive-s-teenage-years.html
Remember the 1980s, those high school wonder years? Or maybe you'd rather not. It's hard to separate the media memory of the '80s and its techno-pop culture from your own. But here are some tips to give you a starting point.
Step
1
Squeeze yourself into the tightest jeans imaginable--no boot cut, flare leg or relaxed fits here. If they are not tight enough, take apart the seam and sew them tighter.
Step
2
Dance to Michael Jackson, who was everywhere with "Thriller," "Billie Jean, "Ebony and Ivory" and "Say say say." Do robot-type dancing to "Whip It" and Blondie's hits. Get into the B52s. Frolic to the girl bands like the Go-Gos, and dance to Cyndi Lauper's anthem, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." Finish with WHAM's "Wake me up before you go go."
Step
3
Watch "Flashdance" and start wearing ripped sleeves on your shirts. Bop around athletically like Jennifer Beals. Recall how your friends used to dress like Boy George.
Step
4
Enjoy "The
Breakfast
Club," "Sixteen Candles" and all those Molly Ringwald favorites where the Brat Pack worked out '80s teenage angst. So many stars to idolize.
Step
5
If you are the type, buy "The Preppy Handbook" and follow their fashion trends. Wear pink and green, buy rubber moccasins from L.L. Bean and
sport
Izod shirts (with the little alligator patch).
Step
6
You are a teenager. Pay no attention to the grandfatherly man in the Oval Office from 1980 to 1988, whose policies will affect you later. Have no idea that you are growing up in a conservative era, and what that will do to your life, lifestyle and politics in future years.
Step
7
Get an electric typewriter for your high school graduation and be happy about it.
Tips & Warnings
Remain completely ignorant of the incredibly low college tuition you pay. It's still possible
get a job
in college and pay your own way, graduating with $5000 or less debt. Not bad.
Your telephone receiver is still connected to your phone. Communicate this way or by regular mail. If you are not home when someone calls, the phone rings off the hook. The caller will just have to call again.
http://www.ehow.com/how_2173272_relive-s-teenage-years.html
