1980s Guide to Quarantine

Listen up, kids. Everything we learned about being bored we learned in the 80s. Whatever you do, don't give yourself bangs. We know social distancing is hard. #StayHome and laugh #WithUs - we will be making songs, skits, and vlogs to keep you smiling! #1980sQuarantine

Thanks for being here! We’re Kim and Penn Holderness of The Holderness Family. We create original music, song parodies, and skits to poke fun of ourselves, the world we live in, and (hopefully) make you laugh.

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[kroseandpen]

Ok so my mom was a born in 78 so she only got to experience a little 80’s. She already has super thick and curly hair, so when she told me she used to curl it I said “why! you already look like a lion!” And she said “ honey, in the 80’s the higher the hair the closer to heaven”

[Bethmarie]

“Nothing says I love you more than a mixed tape!” Hahaha
Sooo true.

[WinterLoveSpirit]

80's weren't really boring. We didn't have the things they have now in order to miss it. It was a way of life. We didn't have any inkling of what was to come.

[alexandraburton]

Lola's look of horror at the bangs was equally hilarious and shocking. Now I wonder what Kim did with her bangs.

[Tonya-gims]

I grew up in late 80s and through the 90s.
I remember rotary phones, cassettes, cd players, Walkman, VHS, record players, Apple Computers, floppy disks.
I remember recording what came on the radio with my cassettes lol

[mycupoverflows]

We had a long, long talk with our kids the other day when they asked what "be kind, rewind" meant. 😂⏪

[AfroPrincessDiaries]

A lot of this applied to the 90s too. I had no cell phones, no internet, played outside from sun up until sundown, played the original Nintendo console and so much more.

[mrsjenni]

Are we not even going to give props for dad's most excellent dance moves???? 🤘

[melissah]

80's quarantine? You're grounded for the next two weeks! And don't say you're bored or you'll be doing dishes and mowing the yard.

[vdc]

If the poor child was that traumatized about getting her bangs cut, wait til we show her how we were going to style them. Girls, hand me The Dep Gel.

[callenharris]

I know if we had to have gone through all this in the 80s, no school, quarantine, stay at home our house would have been scrubbed multiple times because bored=chores.

[bubzilla]

Nice! I didn't realize you could still find VCRs! Ok, that's not true. I knew you could. You can find ANYTHING if you look hard enough... That was pretty accurate, but most of that carried into the 90s too. Oregon Trail was the best game ever at the time. I couldn't wait to play it at school on those really old IBM computers.... Oh man, the memories! Also, I'm impressed with your worm, Penn! You still got it!!! 🤗💙💪🤗💙🤗

[TheGuitarman]

I graduated from high school in 1986. I remember and miss those great times so much. This world today is insane. Our motto back in the 80's was "If you are BORED then you are BORING!" Back then you had to be "creative" and find things to do, or your parents would find something for you to do. Most likely yard work or house work. There is no creativity today. Everything is done for you already. Bring back the good ol' days! Oh, and 80's music IS, and will always BE the BEST!

[momfry]

That moment when you finally managed to record your favorite songs and the boom box eats the tape. 🤦‍♀️

[elina]

I love these 80's videos please never stop making them!

[johnramirez]

My whole life was like that. No computer. Couldn't afford it. So we spent time in the woods by ourselves go tubing down rivers. My baby brother who was always with me passed from cancer 6 yrs ago jan 2. Wish he was here with me for our past to continue on. Exploring and adventure is what we did.

[c.h.-j.]

The funny thing is I was born in the late 90s but I was raised on what my mom was raised on and I've never been so grateful for the things my mom taught me.

[candacebex]

I was born in 1970. We had phonographs, records with read a long stories, only 3 channels on tv and no remotes. The television station went off the air at night and my brother and I would get up so early on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons that the station hadn’t come on air yet! Tv wasn’t worth watching most of the day and once a year you got to watch a holiday special so you parked yourself in front of that tv. But we were geniuses at entertaining ourselves. My friends and I created all kinds of games and pretend situations. We hardly ever spent time inside because inside was so boring. We lived in Taiwan from 1978 to 1982 and we were very isolated from American pop culture. But we had a VCR in 1978 and we watched tapes of recorded shows sent over from the states. My Dad worked in electronics and I’m pretty sure we were one of the first to get an Atari. That was BIG FUN. We sent letters via air mail back home and getting letters was EPIC.

[loveycat]

When I was in high school you learned how to dance from watching soul train and American band stand.🕺🕺💃💃

[abbienormals]

When talking about the VCRs, don't forget the tracking! Sometimes, tapes wouldn't play right. They'd have these lines all through them, squiggly ones through the whole screen, and you'd have these 'tracking' buttons (< or >) on either the VCR or the controller that you'd have to randomly press for like two minutes until the tape got minutely clearer.