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"I was so excited when I heard that Celebrity Apprentice star Debbie Gibson was doing a live VIP Facebook chat for Glamour today at 1:30 pm ET. As a kid, I wore out her album Out of the Blue and cried for days when I couldn&amp;#x27;t get tickets to her sold out concert. I&amp;#x27;m so happy to see Debbie back in the spotlight (I watched her and my other &amp;#x27;80s pop star fave Tiffany DUET on Good Morning America over the summer and it was almost too much for my inner &amp;#x27;80s child to handle. Watch that goodness here!). And so, indulge me for this post and may I present to you the ten things (in no particular order) I miss most from the &amp;#x27;80s! 1. Debbie Gibson&amp;#x27;s Electric Youth Perfume This fragrance taught me an important lesson in the &amp;#x27;80s . . . less is always more. I was just so excited to have DEBBIE GIBSON PERFUME that I spritzed it all over (and over and over). My family would choke if they walked into the bathroom after me and the kids in carpool would fight over who had to sit next to me. I didn&amp;#x27;t care though and spritzed away until it was no longer available. 2. Alex P. Keaton Family Ties was my favorite show, Alex P. Keaton the first character that made me laugh out loud and a poster of Michael J. Fox was the first to adorn my bedroom wall. 3. Garbage Pail Kids These cards were so disgusting yet I could not get enough. I spent hours after school trading them with my friends--and making our parents drive from store to store looking for the sets we didn&amp;#x27;t have. Do kids today collect anything this ridiculous? 4. Punky Brewster I still have &amp;quot;Punky Power&amp;quot; to this very day! I tried to wear mix matched shoes and tie my hair up in pigtails with different colored hair ties but I could just never quite pull it off the same way! 5. Clip-On Charm Necklaces I would weigh myself down with these necklaces, piling on more charms than could fit on the dinky plastic chain! Every birthday for a good three years in the mid-&amp;#x27;80s I would just have everyone get me the latest charm I was coveting. I wish I still had my necklaces as they were quite impressive--though you can still get them on Ebay. Not going to tell you that I haven&amp;#x27;t considered putting in a bid! 6. The Facts of Life store Over Our Heads I LOVED Facts of Life--I watched it every Saturday night with my baby-sitter. But when Edna&amp;#x27;s Edibles burned down and the girls at Eastland opened up Over Our Heads--the neon, kitschy, bright store that sold every quintessential &amp;#x27;80s novelty from blow-up palm trees to t-shirts with cool slogans (Frankie Says Relax, anyone?), I just assumed when I went away to school one day that I could get a job at a store just like this in my dorm! 7. Madonna (During her Like a Virgin days) I definitely tried to recreate a version of this look for Halloween in the third grade. I may or may not have tried to wear a &amp;quot;mole&amp;quot; over the right side of my lip one weekend too . . . that was until my mom realized it wasn&amp;#x27;t a scab and that I broke into her make-up. 8. Different Strokes I could watch this opening all day long (and sorry if you&amp;#x27;re going to have the theme song stuck in your head too!) 9. John Hughes, Molly Ringwald and the Brat Pack First of all, I love watching old trailers so I hope you just enjoyed the original one for the Breakfast Club. Second of all, movies like the Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller&amp;#x27;s Day Off spoke to me back in the &amp;#x27;80s and still speak to me today. Not a lot of movies stay with you in such a poignant way but John Hughes had that magic gift! Plus, show of hands of who else thought Molly Ringwald would make the greatest BFF? 10. &amp;#x27;80s Hair Bands From Guns n Roses to Bon Jovi to Motley Crue . . . the bigger the hair, the more epic the ballad, the tighter the leather pants . . . the bigger the smile on my face in the &amp;#x27;80s and now! So, do we miss the same things or was your time in the &amp;#x27;80s a totally different world? Fill me in--what&amp;#x27;s do YOU miss most about the &amp;#x27;80s? More things we&amp;#x27;re nostalgic for! * Warning: You WILL Want a Snack After Reading This Post About the Oreo Cookie Turning 100 * Here&amp;#x27;s a Gem: John Stamos Advises Women On Leg Hair Removal In This Old School Ad. (If Nothing Else, Click To See His Hair!) * We Bet You&amp;#x27;ve Seen This Iconic &amp;#x27;80s Movie a Million Times and Never Realized that Jane Krakowski (Or Her Eyebrows) Was In It--Until Now! Photos: Getty Images, Ebay and YouTube Videos: YouTube "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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