Adult movie tickets were $3.25, kid tickets were $1.25 and the quart sized soda cup was something you only purchased if you had three people to share it.

Wow, I'd go to the movie with a buck in my pocket. It was fifty cents to get in and the other fifty cents would buy enough Milk Duds and popcorn to fill me up.

When I was a kid there were cartoons worth waking up early Saturday morning to watch.

I only read that part, I was like wah....

When I was a kid we were all exposed to classical music from watching Bugs Bunny cartoons. Didn't realize it though until decades later.

When I was a kid it was possible if you shopped very carefully, to buy over 125 candies with your $.25 allowance. Candy bananas and black licorice shoelaces were big back then. So were wax lips, black cat gum, candy cigarettes, shoe button candy, jawbreakers, tootsie rolls and pixisticks. I used to dream of having $1 cuz I would have so much candy everyone would envy me and want to be my friend.

All boys had extensive hot-wheels collections and girls had barbie collections and your social world was determined by the desirability of your collection. No hot stuff, no friends. Even if you didn't like barbie and hot wheels you owned them.

It took us forever to figure out the boys were trying to see our panties on the swingset as we all wore skirts back then. Girls weren't even allowed to wear pants at all until I was in the 11th grade.

Boys and girls each had their own side of the playground and would get detention for crossing over to the wrong gender side during recess.

King of the Hill on the mountainous snowbanks plowed up was the best game at school ever.

when I was your age.. the economy wasn't so bad.

That's odd, it seems like common sense to have girls wear shorts or thick stockings under their dresses.

I'm not old enough to say 'when I was your age...'
So you go on...

When I was your age, phone numbers started out with names like Fairfax and Baxter, and the phones had rotary dials.

We had to look up facts in Britannica Encyclopedias or other books at the library, and you had to find those by looking up the number of the book on little 3x5 cards.

Instead of racking up points in video games, we counted how many times we could bounce on a pogo stick without falling off.

Speaking of video games...
Pong was the s**t when it first came out.

When I was your age, we had buttons.

There were 3 channels on the TV and they all closed down for the night around midnight. I remember when channel 4 came into existence I was not allowed to watch it as my Mother thought it was too radical and subversive.

(Might not make sense to anyone outside UK)

Me too,

but I remember we didn't even receive it at first as we were outside of the broadcast area or something, had to wait some time to get it.

Talking on the phone with your friends was a special privilege since there was only one phone in the house. That's right - one phone/household.
And the phone number was Defender 5-6474. And, sigh, area code 212.

Was the phone hardwired into the wall? none of this plug it in anywhere nonsense.

That and the fact that the phone was one supplied by the telephone company, you couldn't take it with you when you moved house.

Mine looked like this

I didn't know anyone who ate fast food more than once a month.

When I was your age, I got to ride my bicycle without a helmet, my roller skates without knee/elbow pads and play ball in the streets...

And if I fell and skinned my knee/elbow, All I got was a wound wash with alcohol/peroxide and rub some red mercury liquid (that stung like hell, mind you) and I was to tough it up and chalk it to life experience and return outside to play...

heh...

Run up to parents in tears, they'd look you over and say "I don't see any blood, what are you crying about?"

If you DID have bloody wounds, they were rinsed off, a bandaid slapped on, and off you went.

Well, sometimes. Most of my truly bloody wounds required stitches, with my older sister in the background saying "It's not my fault she fell!"

You got a bandaid? I didn't even get that... :/

You couldn't walk and listen to music.