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___________________________________________________ | __ | _____________________________ | _______________________ | Health & Appearance
cosmetically speaking
- Lasik eye surgery
- breast implants
- soft disposable contacts
- liposuction
- skin laser resurfacing
- chemical peels
- collagen lip injections
- Rogaine
- colored contact lenses
fitness
home fitness equipment
working out, keeping fit
- fitness club memberships
- Thighmaster
- power walking
videos
meal plans
| | Susan Powter: Stop The Insanity!
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spending money
All the cards! Debit cards, credit cards, preferred cards, gift cards....doesn't anyone use cash anymore?
Before the 1990s, gift certificates were just small slips of paper indicating how much money the bearer was entitled to spend at the issuing store. Modern debit card technology entered the industry in 1994 when Blockbuster Entertainment issued the first magnetized gift cards. They came into wider usage in 1998, and have since revolutionized the retail industry.
"Is that real money?" That's what my eight-year-old niece said when she saw one of the new $20 bills. The $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 bills were all redesigned between 1996 and 1999. Not only did they look like Monopoly money, but now all the laundromat change machines had to be reprogrammed!
The 50 State Quarters Program was launched by the United States Mint in 1999. Over the next ten years, quarters celebrating each state would be released in the order they were admitted to the Union.
shopping
- craft fairs
- computerized gift registries
- home shopping networks
- infomercials
- online shopping
electronic funds
- debit cards
- check cards
- gift cards
- "maxing out" your credit card
Visit my Products & Technology section to learn about home shopping!
| | phone numbers The 800 area code was first used for toll-free phone numbers in 1967. By 1996, all available numbers had been assigned, and new toll-free area codes were established. We began using the 888 area code in 1996, the 877 area code in 1998 and the 866 area code in 2000.
relationships
- prenuptual agreements
- safe sex
- gay & lesbian commitment ceremonies
- celebrities "coming out"
slang & fun phrases
- Kick him to the curb!
- Wazzup?
- She's all that and a bag of chips.
- 24/7
- N'um sayin'?
- As if!
- Whatever....
- I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
the not-so-good
Hang up and drive! --gabbing on your cell phone while driving...a sure cause for road rage!
...and let's not forget the customer who sued McDonalds because she was burned when her coffee spilled while she was driving.
- road rage
- drive-by shootings
- gangs
- metal detectors in school
- CDs with "parental advisory" warning labels
- school shootings
- child abductions
- lawsuit-mania
- ecstasy drug use
- car-jackings
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in the office
- workstations
- PCs connected to servers
- fax machines
- smoke-free offices
- cubicles
communication
- conference calling
- putting calls on speakerphone
the working world
- the downtown commuter look:
skirt, briefcase & sneakers
- carpal-tunnel syndrome
- automatic deposit of paychecks
| | At work, the old-fashioned metal and wooden desks were gone....now we had workstations.
The average office became a maze of cubicles
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____________________________________________________________ | __ | _____________________________ | ______________ | Holidays
In the 1990s, it became popular to decorate your house for holidays other than Christmas. Many people decorated trees with tiny Easter ornaments and set up elaborate Halloween scenes in their front yards.
Christmas
Halloween
- elaborate Halloween decorations
- daylight trick-or-treating hours
- no unwrapped candy
other holidays
It's A Wonderful Life was released in 1946. After the copyright expired in 1973, TV stations could show the movie without paying royalties. And boy, did they show it! By the mid 1980s, you couldn't turn on the TV during the Christmas season without seeing George Bailey, Clarence or little Zu Zu and her flower petals. In 1993, the film's owner regained copyright control and began charging royalties. Gradually, the number of showings decreased to just two per season.
In the 1990s, cable TV and video rental gave new life to a modest little film from 1983 known as A Christmas Story. TNT aired the first 24-hour marathon in 1997, making the movie a certified holiday classic.
"Turkey for me, turkey for you...." In 1992, Saturday Night Live songmeister Adam Sandler first performed The Thanksgiving Song. It was followed two years later by the immensely popular Hanukkah Song. Among other things, the song references the hottest topic of 1994.....O.J. Simpson, not a Jew!
Thanksgiving Song Hanukkah Song
| | Pre-lit trees and fiber-optic trees were introduced in the late 1990s
We loved to collect Hallmark keepsake ornaments in the 1990s. Hallmark introduced their first series in 1973.
Icicle lights
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