80s throwback box - help!

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Hi all, for Christmas this year I'm planning on doing an 80s throwback box as he loves reminiscing and 80s is his favourite. He was born in 66. So far I have a Walkman, a few cassettes, couple of the tops films in the decade and a top of the pops disk as he's obsessed. The trouble is I'm only going off what I hear him speak about most as I'm only 20 (born in 2000) so I need help without directly asking him!

The idea is he opens the box and is thrown back in time. Those of you who were a similar age in the 80's - what were your favourite things/ what would you be happy to see in the box?

Thanks!

oh also there was a poster it was huge for the boys and men of the 80s..it was a tennis girl scratching her bum..you can still get them if you google. Erotic at the time truely was now just plain cheeky!

oh and the porkys film ! must have! going now sorry!!!

Clackers were early 70s. They were a short-lived fad, and vanished very quickly.
I disagree. I was born in '82 and I definitely had several, of different sizes and colours. I have memoris of walking round the market clacking it after buying it there, and that would have been about 90/91.

That's to the PP who mentioned the water hoop game. That was a lovely bit of nostalgia.

Um, the OP did ask about the 80s

I was born in the early 60s and a lot of these things are from my schooldays which ended in the mid-seventies.

Lovely idea though OP - although I am slightly chuckling at the thought of your Dad in dayglo mismatched socks, a pink cardigan and moussed up hair a la Kylie

Porkys! Haven't thought of that for ages, my late DH had that and the sequel on VHS!

Sodastream - but I think the machines are quite expensive so maybe not in the price range you're looking for.

Those executive games men had on their desks - I remember my dad had one that was silver balls suspended on strings - when you pulled one back and let it go, all the others moved.

Melody Maker, Smash Hits, Look In were all popular mags then.

A mini Pierrot?

Some random ideas...

Swatch watch
Pogo ball
Anything with Garfield
Sun-in
Nintendo Snoopy tennis
Salt & Shake crisps (I think they are still around?)
Letraset stationery sheets
Findus crispy pancakes
Shake & Vac
Half a penny coin
Fry’s turkish delight
Ready Brek
Sweets that look like cigarettes (they may have been 70’s?)

@Atalune

What’s the rise wine that comes in a weird draw caraf thing? It’s in a super wide round bottle too?

Mateus Rosé

A bottle of Old Spice

Wow, I've got a lot of eBay searching to do! Thanks for the suggestions, great help

What a lovely idea!

These have probably already been mentioned but...

Deely Boppers! I loved them and had several pairs as a youngster!

Denim aftershave....."for the man who doesn't have to try too hard" !! You can still get it on Amazon eBay etc. Google the adverts hilarious

oh a Vertical Dangler belt (i have no idea what they were called) to wear with the Fred Perry and peg-topped jeans/trousers. (and with white, towelling tube socks and loafer shoes)

A thin leather tie, preferably red but grey or electric blue at a push.

These golden nuggets were top!

And Posh Paws from Swap Shop. He was cutting edge at the time.

Stick on tash and mullet wig?

Just an updated on what I have ordered, socks with the stripe, smash hits magazine with Duran Duran as the cover from 82, 80s nostalgic tv adverts on DVD, a Bowie poster and I managed to find a replica model of his first car. You have all been massive help.

My next mission is to find out what aftershave he wore ,find some vintage sweets with old packaging and maybe add in a bottle of something.

I think 'Old Spice' and 'Denim' was the sort of aftershave my father wore in the 80s not my boyfriends.

Definitely Kouros or Drakkar Noir was for the young people.

Lots of ideas here:

My experience of being a teenager in the 80's was that there were a lot of subcultures with fairly rigid boundaries that didn't get on with each other.

You had casuals and new romantics and punks and goths and skins and rastas and two tone and metal and mods and a few other things and it was very important to be in one of these identifiable 'tribes' and to dislike all the others.

Then at the end of the 80s we got E and nobody gave a shit anymore.

Do you know what sort of music he was into back then?

@Pieceofpurplesky omg I used to love Gold Rush.

@LangClegsInSpace
He's into Duran Duran and Bowie which is new romantic, right? Then again he sings along to pretty much every song on old top of the pop episodes during the 80s..

Yeah pretty much, although Bowie transcends a few categories.

What about some Thatcher-era spitting image?

Blue Stratos
Kouros
Fahrenheit
Jazz

All aftershaves i remember my dad having during the 80s. My granddad had Brut.

@Atalune

What’s the rise wine that comes in a weird draw caraf thing? It’s in a super wide round bottle too?

Paul Masson California Carafe

Everyone seemed to watch Only Fools & Horses in the 80s (Del boy & Rodney in a yellow 3 wheel van). Eastenders started in 80 something. Both of those will give you an insight into the 80s fashions, music, etc. See if you can find a Filofax! It was a yuppy diary/notebook/phone book usually in a leather/faux leather holder.
I met my dh in late 80s & he liked Paco Robanne (sp?) aftershave. His dad used Old Spice.
As mentioned previously, Mateus Rose wine was popular then. And Hofmeister beer (brilliant ad campaign with a bear).

@Sparklingbrook

A bottle of Kouros aftershave. Still makes me weak at the knees.

Was going to say that Sparkling!