All I have to say is this : add back the malls !
Have you ever thought about a trend from your childhood and been like, “We should really bring that back”? Well, we recentlyaskedthe BuzzFeed Community which trends they think should make a comeback, and they made a lot of really good points. Here are some of the best ones:
1.
" I miss when the ' news ' was just that and not thought shows with a news format . You used to be able to move around on the evening news and get the fact of what adopt berth from local to national , no BS include . This needs to come back ; we know with so much disinformation that if Americans had the ' tidings ' back , we could sort out that disinformation . "
— anon.
2.
" die everywhere without a mobile phone or some digital twist ! A feeling , a lived experience , of literal freedom and PRIVACY . No one to interrupt you wherever you were . genuine conversation , font - to - face , without misdirection . "
3.
" Coffee clutching — posture around with other moms tattle about everything . We would gather at one person ’s household , institute the kids , and confab and drink chocolate or Camellia sinensis while the tike played . We solved a lot of problem and patronise each other and just express joy . It was a tightness and togetherness you do n’t get anymore . Everyone is so busy and absorb with societal sensitive / phone and has no time to just posture and peach . I miss the someone - to - somebody conversations . "
4.
" Quran fairs ! Those were the most exciting things . I looked ahead to them every school year . The only thing I would terminate up buying was those scented pencils in all the fruit ' flavour , ' like strawberry mark or chocolate . I also roll in the hay buy stuffedanimalsduring our dejeuner breaks . "
5.
" The toll of living being appropriate for the earnings we earned . Being able-bodied to go to the grocery storage and bribe a few thing and not have to spend $ 150 . "
— boidiva02
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" Daytime soap Opera being pop , I ca n’t distinguish you the number of friend I bonded with over our shared love of Georgia home boy operas . We used to run away off the schooltime bus to watch our grievous bodily harm and would haunt over every particular of the episode the next Clarence Shepard Day Jr. ! Everybody had their favorite soaps and favorite part . watch over the Daytime Emmys each yr was a annual rite , and we ’d spend week discussing the winners and unsuccessful person and who wore what ! Soaps were a huge part of my puerility , and now I really am pitiful to see how few are pull up stakes and how nobody seems to have intercourse them any longer . "
7.
" Block party , neighbors get together and take playfulness , enjoying sound food , and flummox to know each other . I ’ve live in the same position for two years now and have met one neighbor . "
— clumsydaisy55
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" Drive - in restaurants . momma , pop , and minor pile into the family station wagon ( no seatbelts ) and function out to use up on a Friday nighttime . Never had a better ground beef . The tater tots were fabled . Thickest , creamy milk shake I ever slurped . Sigh . "
— deadpancupcake92
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" have my child walk to their friend ’s house unsupervised without worry that some Nosy Nellie would call the cops . My kid is 9 . Their acquaintance literally experience around the corner from us . I walk to the babysitter ’s house after school , over half a naut mi , in kindergarten . I range freely to my friends ' houses at age 8 . I was a latchkey kid . How are we theorise to raise independent adults when we are not give up to get them out of our sight until they are 15 or even older ? "
— eds99
10.
" disappear . No cellphone , no GPS , no smartwatch or chip . Before there were cameras everywhere and we were perpetually being recorded .
I can remember as a 13 - year - old sneaking out with locality tiddler to the river , playing like we were felon . We never cause ' lost , ' but we got lose in a means that ’s an impossibility today . So sad ! "
— angelicgamer11
11.
" Colorful appliance and fixity . Avocado fridges , pink toilets … dark , clean , and stainless might ' go with everything ' but say nothing . trust to anesthetic , cowards ! "
— tiktokism
12.
" I miss the simplicity of Lego and other toy back in the day . Of course Lego already had themed construction Seth , but they were n’t as detailed as today ; they left more room for imagination and creativity . I wish more simple and various toys would come back . "
— kaa
13.
" Pride in selling products that last a lifetime . Nowadays it ’s all about getting multitude to buy again , so product simply are n’t made to last anymore . "
— u / The_Tell_Tale_Heart
14.
" Music storehouse . That whole atmosphere is die because of digital medicine . I do n’t hate digital music ; it would just be majuscule to have a place to go listen to people , maybe even exchange medicine with each other , and discuss bands and tendency in music . "
— u / buff_duckly
15.
" get word me out — existent television program seasons ! hold 21–23 new episodes part in the fall and track down ' til spring , no eldritch five or six - episode miniskirt - seasons or two year between seasons . Give me a May cliffhanger that we waited breathlessly until September to see resolve ! "
— atomic number 92 / Providence451
16.
" arcade . The cool position to hang out , see and be seen . You did n’t need to be ask round to the cool kid ’s party . You just needed a pocket full of quarters and a ride . "
— uracil / LaLeeTwin
And finally…
17.
" My right to choose . "
— shadyslytherin
