Throwback Thursday Link-Up: Taking You Back to 1988

Today, I am helping Megan host Throwback Thursday! I'm super excited to do this and to see all of your throwback posts :)

Welcome to the Throwback Thursday link up. Thank you to everyone who linked up with us two weeks ago!

What is Throwback Thursday?

Throwback Thursdays will be a day for you to link up anything from your past. It can be old pictures, old songs, old TV shows, old movies, your childhood crush, what was popular, your favorites, older fashion. Anything goes! Throwback Thursdays will be the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. 

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Rules:

In this link up, we simply ask that you visit your host and guest host. If you like what you see, we'd love to have you follow along. It will also make it easier for you to participate every time if you follow your host.

We also ask that you link back to Just a Small Town Girl in your TT post.

I hope you all enjoyed my TT post from two Thursday's ago. If you didn't get a chance to read it, or if you are new around here, you can see a bunch of old pictures of yours truly here.

We all know that the cost of EVERYTHING is crazy high now a days. 
Like everything. Especially gas.

So today, I want to send you on a little journey back in time and share some interesting things from the year I was born.

1988

For starters, Ronnie Reagan was Prezzy
and his bff/vice president 
was G. Bush.. the dad obviously. 

It cost about $138,000 to buy a home

A first class stamp was $0.22, 
but went up to $0.25 a week after I was born.

My Favorite: A gallon of gas was $1.08. 
{let that sink in for a minute when you pump gas later for $3.75}

A dozen eggs cost $0.89
Now: around $2.00

A gallon of milk was $2.30
Now: around $3.50

Average price of a car in 1988: $14,065
Now: about $30,000

Rain Man was the highest grossing movie
In 2012: The Avengers

Cost of a Superbowl ad in 1988: $645,000
Now: $4 million PLUS

Most popular TV show: The Cosby Show
In 2012: The Big Bang Theory

Billboard #1 song the day I was born: Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson
Now: Thrift Shop by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Prozac is introduced to the public

Doppler radar was invented by Christian Andreas Doppler.

A penny in your loafer and rolled up Levis were the fashion trend 

We are introduced to the greatness that was is "Push It" by Salt N Pepa 

We meet Julia Roberts in Mystic Pizza

and I share my birth year with these fun people:

Rihanna
Adele
Emma Stone
Julianne Hough
Jeremy Lin
Rupert Grint
Kevin Durant
and
Jessie J 
(who happens to share my actual day)

So far this year, the children of:
J. Simps, Fergie, Princess Catherine, Holly Madison, Kimye, & AC Slater Mario Lopez
will grace the 2013 b-day lists.

All facts can be found here and here and here 
(thanks Booneville HS class of 88 for that last link)
And I trusted my good friend Google to give you some current prices. 
You never can go wrong with Google!

So now that you have brushed up on your 1988 history
Have a happy Thursday and come link-up with us :)




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Today, I want you to meet Lex from Life by Lex!

Blog // Twitter // Instagram // Pinterest

Lex hosts two link-ups!

The first is Non-Scale Victories.

Here is what Lex has to say about the link-up:

"a link up for fitness and health promotion for any victory large or small that you have had this week that has nothing to do with the number on the scale. "

- this is every Thursday

The second is My Week in Instagram's

-this is every Friday