Stop the world! I need to get back to the 80’s!!

[RhodaCamel]

A light-hearted and easy thread (hopefully) but my 47 year old brain can’t take much more of what is going on in the world right now.
Been listening to 80’s music on YouTube and thinking that atm I would quite happily jump at the chance to step back into the 80’s (or 70’s or 90’s), where I didn’t have a care in the world. The childcare, cooking, cleaning, finances, working, worry/stress and keeping up with world affairs etc was all down to my parents and my role life seemed to be to have fun, listen to great 80’s music, watch tv, roller skate, ride my bike, wear hideous 80’s fashion and make up, frazzle my hair with tons of hairspray, eat copious amounts of sweets and E numbers and generally live life to the full.
Anyone feel the same right now? Do you feel modern life has lost its colour and we need some over the top 80’s sparkle back?
What do you miss? What would you like to be doing right now if you were back in your childhood?

What a great thread. I'm with you, minus the hairspray.
Roller blades, leg warmers, out all day til it got dark. Disco on a friday, loads of snogging. Yep, those were the days all right!
Oh and used to spend actual hours on phone to friends, actual speaking pre-mobiles and endless bloody texting.
Arranging to meet people and having to be there on time as no way of texting to say you'd be late!

I loved the 80s. I had so much money I couldn't spend it fast enough! Alas, things have changed. I miss being a Yuppie.
The clothes were awful though!

God I miss snogging

Ra ra skirts!!

I miss taping the Top 40 on a Sunday.

And getting out the latest film on VHS from the video hire shop round the corner.

And I really miss Woolworths pick n mix. The ones these days just aren’t the same for some reason.

You wouldn’t have Mumsnet though!

There's just one problem with the 80's.

Margaret Thatcher.

They played I Could be Happy by Altered Images on the radio the other day and that sent me right back.