48 Photos Of Things We Had In Our Homes In The 1980s You Can't Soon Forget About No Matter How Much Time Has Passed
The 1980s feel like a different century, rather than just a different decade.
For anyone who grew up in the 1980s, the decade still feels close enough to touch. The clothes were louder, the gadgets were chunkier, and the things people kept in their homes had a kind of charm that is hard to explain now.
This roundup brings back the everyday items that once sat in kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, and living rooms across the 80s. From bright plastic storage to cassette players and novelty decor, these are the objects that made homes feel unmistakably of their time.
Some of them are funny, some are oddly stylish, and all of them are pure nostalgia. Read on and see how many you remember.
1. Sodastream
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4. Eternal Beau
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5. Everyone Back Then Had This Hornsea Pottery
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6. These Recipe Cards Were in Every Kitchen in the 70s and 80s
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7. Chipper for Those Who Loved Eggs, Chips, and Beans
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8. Potato Crimper
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9. People Had This Bush Radio Then
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10. Electric Knife
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11. You Could Find This Soap On A Rope in Every Shape
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12. Matey Bubble Bath
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13. Before Liquid Hand Washes, There Were These Soaps
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14. Avon Bubble Bath
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15. Character Bubble Bath
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16. Coordinating Bathroom Sets
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17. Vosene
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18. Colorful Bath Towels
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19. Toilet Roll Holder
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And if you love home-bred oddities, this matches the incredible collections curated from everyday people with wildly specific tastes.
20. Coloured Toilet Roll
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21. Pierrot Bedding Set
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22. Care Bear Wallpaper
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23. Keypers
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24. Stereo Radio Cassette
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25. Tinkerbell Make-Up
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26. Banana Clips to Put Your Hair Up
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27. One of the Best-Selling Posters of the 80s - L’Enfant Poster
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28. Sweet Valley High Books
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29. Rainbow Brite
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30. Smash Hits Magazine
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31. Action Figures
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32. Coca-Cola Came Out with These Russell Spinners in the 80s
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33. Garbage Pail Kids
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34. Character Bedding
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35. Panini Football Sticker Album
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36. Matchbox Cars
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37. Beano and Dandy
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38. This Race ‘n’ Chase Powertrack Set Called Slot Cars (Scalextric)
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39. This Old Television
40. Commodore 64 Micro Computer
41. Vintage Country Kitchen Ceramic Chicken/Hen Egg Basket
42. Vintage Alarm Clock
43. Vintage Silverware
44. These Fragrances
45. 2016 Bentley Continental GT Convertible
46. This Casserole Dish
47. Glass Fish Ornaments
48. This Bottle of Milk
It is really fun to engage in some harmless nostalgic memories, especially when that nostalgia involves showing kids pictures of now-obsolete items that used to be part of our everyday life decades ago. It’s in sci-fi movies that we have the luxury of time machines and travel to go back in time to the 1970s and 1980s.
In real life, photos of these items in our homes in the 1980s serve as time machines. They never fail to put us in the mood for nostalgia!
Want more “built different” family chaos? Check out these vintage photos proving your grandparents treated safety like a suggestion.
