My parents never had cable when I was growing up so those extra options made all the difference. But definitely not on stormy days 
The only reason my parents have cable now is bc when they moved into my grandmothers house, after she died, they never canceled it.
Local TV affiliates actually produced programs and would sometimes air locally produced programs from sister stations in other markets. The late night classic horror movies hosted by a station employee or small-time actor in vampire or ghoul costume. We had Chiller, which aired from 12-1am on Saturday nights. Saturday afternoon we had Creature Double-Feature. There were bowling for dollars shows. Ours was “candlepins for cash”, which was cool because it was broadcast from the bowling lanes I frequented. There was local kids programs. The PBS affiliate in Boston produced ZOOM, which aired nationally.
Same could be said about radio. We had our favorite stations and DJ’s who were celebrities. You could call them and request songs. The late night guys might even talk to you on the air. Music from local bands got major play. In my area it was Aerosmith, Boston, The Cars, and the J. Giels Band.
Now it’s all big corporate stuff, syndicated and simulcast. No regional flavor.
I remember my parents using this to pay with a credit card at a store.
These celebrity calendars were a big thing in the 90s. A diary, daily calendar, school timetable, friends’ book and address book celeb pics all combined with loads of pics of popular culture icons.
Oh what a fun!
I loved video libraries, mixtapes (and the struggle they often came with lol), going to the movie theater, making pictures with a (real) camera, way less humans everywhere, we had tons of books bc there was no internet, vinyl!
Less airplanes, the bread and ice cream tasted awesome, our time to go home was when the street lights went on, street maps made of paper and the struggle of folding it again after unfolding, telephone booths, no tv remote (I was the remote lol), only very limited tv time (go out and play with the kids instead of sitting in front of the tv) and so much more I forgot.
born in 95 and was gifted or found i don’t remember but a type writer i thought it was the coolest thing on earth and dial up internet 
And I still love old vintage items to my core along with music 
We called it poesiealbum which means both poetry-book (spelled poëzie and pronounced po-e-zie album) and kitty-book (pronounced as pussy) 
It was a girls thing, my sis had one around 1970. I was fascinated by it (like everything my 4 year older sister had and did) and tried to look inside but it was locked…
Well, these ones are from the 90s 
yeah, it’s called Poesiealbum here as well.
I had a diary that I wrote in especially around age 9 and 10. It was a red leather book/journal and had a lock on it. I was thinking about this when I read @anon74766472 post. My older brother wrote some really yucky things in it when he was in his teens.
I tore out a lot of the pages and later wished I knew what was on them
( exactly).
A dime for a pay phone call, then it went to a quarter !!
20 years old, I had a job delivering rental furniture all over northeast Ohio, about a quarter of the state. We could cover 200 miles a day. We had an atlas of the state, each page covering maybe 40 square miles. And quarters for the payphone to call in our progress. Oh, and a vibration responsive card dial, sort of like a seismograph, bored under the driver’s seat so the boss could see, by time of day, when the truck was moving and not. Had to put in a fresh card and wind the thing up every day.
Go to meetings the phone was on the corner big red thing that was my mobile
I had to check the newspaper for tv listings
Or call the movie theater and listen to the automated system list them all off
