The mind can really play tricks on you

Memory can be a slippery thing . They say that whenever you remember something, you're not actually remembering the thing itself, but rather the last time you remembered it. So by this logic, the quality of the information slowly degrades with time-- a photograph of a photograph for years and years until it's just fuzz. So it's not so easily relied upon. This is especially true when you're a kid. Memory is so hard to access from that time that someone could tell you a story about yourself and y…

Remember playing hopscotch and not feeling the weight of adulthood?

A time for dial-up internet, AOL chatrooms, getting way too into flannel, and hurting your ankle with a Skip-It

Whatever you say!

We see you, you're not invisible!

You've gotta be cousin me

Who's Pauly Shore?

90s kids rule!

Lucille Ball deserves applause

Defying the laws of adulting

90s kids can relate

If you know, you know. Growing up without a lot of money is a pretty specific experience. Obviously, the degree to which you experienced financial woe is a sliding scale. No one person's experience is the same as the next. The main things that I remember, at least from childhood, are things like utilizing the free lunch program at school, receiving ridicule for what I was dressed in, never taking a vacation, living off the least expensive food possible, and having the not-so-quality house that…

This one's for y'all

RIP AOL chat rooms

I think I know more about American Girl Dolls than you do, genius, and I really do mean that! I was an American Girl Doll stan as a child, and even though I haven't fully gotten to the adult doll collector stage of life, I wouldn't be surprised if I get there at some point. I spent many moons thumbing through the American Girl catalog as a kid, imagining what it would be like to have an ice cream bar for my doll for only $250! Even though I loved the Girl of The Year dolls and the look-alike do…