• @Hubi
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    Whenever people think they know what a specific decade was like that they didn’t live through, they think all the furniture was brand new and just bought from a catalogue. In reality you have a style mix of at least 2+ decades at any point in time.

    • @MrJameGumb
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      My house has stuff from like 8 different decades in it right now lol

      • @RGB3x3
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        You maybe should put great great great grandpa in the ground by now, he’s starting to smell.

    • AggressivelyPassive
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      You’re pretty much stuck at whatever style was cool when you’re 20-30ish. So your parents are probably stuck at around the time you were born.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yep. People underestimate how much money you can save by just… not buying new furniture. Thrift shops and hand me downs from elderly family members downsizing make up the overwhelming majority of the furniture in my house.

      Do I sometimes wish I could have a different style? Sure. Do I want it bad enough to spend hundreds of dollars on it? No.

      The only exceptions is stuff you rest on. Chairs, couches, beds. Don’t skimp on those or your body will hate you even more than usual.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        Do I want it bad enough to spend hundreds of dollars on it? No.

        You’re off by at least one order of magnitude. I went to a furniture shop recently and shit’s expensive, yo.

  • @ummthatguy
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    Left was definitely the case for most Taco Bells:

  • @MrJameGumb
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    The first picture is what the mall looked like lol

    • @I_Fart_Glitter
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      Pretty spot on for the skate rink in my town, if the carpet was black with neon blobs and squiggles.

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        The skating rink here was built before I was born. I think it was from the 70s or maybe even the late 60s. The decore was mostly maroon and brown carpeting and wood paneling on the walls. At some point they updated the concession area so it looked more like the restaurant from Saved By The Bell though lol! I think they completely renovated it in the early 2000s and it’s an ice skating rink now

  • @Apeman42
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    I remember a lot more of those stick-on glow in the dark plastic stars, if nothing else.

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      Everywhere. Living room, bathrooms, heck even McDonald’s booths. Those little barely glowing stars were all over.

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          Oh man, you reminded me of LED magnetic throwies, just little homemade LEDs with a watch battery and a magnet. Throw em wherever they’ll stick, they’re like $.50 to make. Seems like the 00s version, if a little less ubiquitous

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            We just wanted to bring a little light into this dark world with pretty glowing stickers, if anyone killed it, it was these damn boomers and their rock and roll music.

        • @AnalogyAddict
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          Hey, my kids both have them. I put them up as the night sky when they were born, so all the constellations are more or less in the right place.

  • @Ballistic_86
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    How dare you take a picture of my grandparents house! Have some respect for the dead.

    It is funny how the 80s/90s were portrayed in media. Crazy colors and styles. The reality is everything was brown and was purchased/furnished in the 70s.

    • @[email protected]
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      Big differences between fashion aesthetic and average Joe’s home decor. There was certainly a bit more subtlety to it than what media boild it down to.

  • Swordgeek
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    So people think the '90s looked like the '80s, but they actually looked like the early '70s?

    Weird.

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        And yet somehow in my memory, the mall looked like the mall, and my grandma’s house looked like my grandma’s house.

        My recollection of the 90s is that we definitely had more than one place, so different places looked different…kinda like now.

        But maybe this is a rose colored glasses situation.

  • downpunxx
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    If you lived in Pennsylvania in the 90’s it looked like the right side of the photo, if you lived in Miami Beach in the 90’s it looked like the left

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      The left image existed in the home of wealthy people, or their kids’, living in trendy, high end, neighborhoods. The black and white minimalism, and the Memphis School style, was out there. It was in Manhattan penthouses, and LA hills mansions.

    • @LifeOfChance
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      I’m glad someone pointed this out. Left is 90’s arcades, bowling allies, skating rinks, and a few malls. The right is at home.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    Yup! The picture on the right is exactly how all of my friend’s parents houses looked. The picture on the left reminds me more of public spaces in the 80’s. In the 90’s everything was grunged out after grunge took off.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah early 90s had a lot of the “big hair” and clothes we call 80s as well. Decades have a about a 5-year lag time, give or take

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      but even then, maybe like an arcade in the back of a mini putt that was going out of business in three weeks.

  • @candybrie
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    The one on the right is what my grandma’s dining room still looks like. Exact chairs and all.

  • @Tikiporch
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    The 90s only looked like that on film sets and at rich people’s homes.