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At 18, What Adorned Your Bedroom

by lanfear63
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Provided you were not chucked out by your parents, What was in your bedroom, did you have a TV, lots of tech of the time, pictures on the walls of bands you liked, action hero's, or hero's male and female of celebs that you identified with or had a crush on. What were your prized possessions.

Describe what may now feel embarrassing, or perhaps not.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    Nothing! At 18 I was in my second year at college....as I recall the only things hanging on my wall were a couple hooks for my riding hat and crop. I had two roommates and none of us was much of a decorator.
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    Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

    Provided you were not chucked out by your parents, What was in your bedroom, did you have a TV, lots of tech of the time, pictures on the walls of bands you liked, action hero's, or hero's male and female of celebs that you identified with or had a crush on. What were your prized possessions.

    Describe what may now feel embarrassing, or perhaps not.
    Had posters of basketball ball great Dr.J and football player Archie Manning. No tv or anything tech stuff. Did have a portable eight track player in 77' and blasted Led Zeppelin on it as much as possible (yes, even as a ten year old I could identify musical greats)
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  • Profile picture of the author KillerVirus
    At 18 I had been out of my parents (I chucked them BTW) house for two years. I rented a room in a buddy's apartment but I was so rarely there I don't even remember the wall color.

    I do know I had an old clock radio that survived being flung across the room into the wall about a dozen times. Ah...youth. (:
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    I do know I had an old clock radio that survived being flung across the room into the wall about a dozen times.

    I had one of those - they don't make them like that now....
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    • Profile picture of the author KillerVirus
      It had numbers that flipped over. The alarm worked really well, hence the early morning flights across the room.

      I remember the first digital one I had, it was nothing short of amazing.
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      • Profile picture of the author discrat
        Oh sorry it was 18 years old and what we had then.

        It was 1986 and I had the same posters I think. But had a standard radio with a cassette player. Still no tech gadgets or anything like that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
    What adorned my bedroom at 18? I don't remember....I just knew shining a black light into the room would make you think twice about entering.
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    • Profile picture of the author KillerVirus
      They had black lights in the 1800s?

      You learn something new every day! (:
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

      What adorned my bedroom at 18? I don't remember....I just knew shining a black light into the room would make you think twice about entering.
      If the smell did not get you first.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Riffle
    I moved out just over a month after I turned 18, went off to college, and never moved back.

    That said, there are still three posters on the walls in my old bedroom: a Captain America/Wolverine poster, a Jim Thome poster, and a Warren Zevon concert poster.

    Come to think of it, I should go get that Zevon poster.
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Originally Posted by Dan Riffle View Post

      I moved out just over a month after I turned 18, went off to college, and never moved back.
      Similar. I moved out the week after I graduate high school, didn't go back.

      If I remember correctly, I had a bookcase full of science fiction and philosophy books.

      I also had a complete collection of Conan The Barbarian paperbacks (written by Robert E. Howard) and a full set of Doc Savage paperbacks. One drawer of my dresser was full of a near complete collection of Daredevil comics.

      A few weeks before I graduated, my mom threw everything away. The word Daredevil had "Devil" in it...and the paperbacks...They gave me "Worldly ideas".

      One day, I came home from school, and the room was empty of all books and comics.

      A few week later, I graduated, and the next day got a job at a local machine shop. I moved out when I got my first check.
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      • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
        Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

        Similar. I moved out the week after I graduate high school, didn't go back.

        If I remember correctly, I had a bookcase full of science fiction and philosophy books.

        I also had a complete collection of Conan The Barbarian paperbacks (written by Robert E. Howard) and a full set of Doc Savage paperbacks. One drawer of my dresser was full of a near complete collection of Daredevil comics.

        A few weeks before I graduated, my mom threw everything away. The word Daredevil had "Devil" in it...and the paperbacks...They gave me "Worldly ideas".

        One day, I came home from school, and the room was empty of all books and comics.

        A few week later, I graduated, and the next day got a job at a local machine shop. I moved out when I got my first check.
        Would be interesting to look up todays re-sale value of those comic book sets. Collectors items. But, at the same time, depressing.
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        • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
          Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

          Would be interesting to look up todays re-sale value of those comic book sets. Collectors items. But, at the same time, depressing.
          Decades later, I just went on E-Bay and bought all the books she threw away. I may not even ever read them. Back then, paperback books cost maybe 75 cents each. So I may have spent a few hundred dollars on all the books. All from a newspaper route and selling various things door to door.

          The comics? Maybe several hundred dollars for the lot of them. The comics you see that are worth real money are the ones that were printed before anyone really collected them. In the 1930s to the 1950s.

          By 1967 or so (when I started collecting), collecting comics was common...for teenage male virgins. So a 12 cent comic I bought in 1967 may be worth $50 in good condition today. huge return on investment, but not real money.

          Forty years later, when my mom was in a nursing home, with Alzheimer disease.... she was telling me how she bought me all those books and comic books. And she asked me if I still had them. I just thanked her for buying them for me, and let it go.

          By the way, what really adorned my bedroom?

          I had a lithograph of a painting of Conan the Barbarian on the wall, framed. And I had a large aquarium with an iguana in it. The lithograph was also ripped up and thrown out....but I got to keep my iguana.
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          • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
            Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

            ....but I got to keep my iguana.

            Fact: Igwahnahz behind glass figure evrythin' they see beyond their confine is confined, an' it is them who is free.


            That is why they do nuthin' all day.
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            • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
              Originally Posted by Princess Balestra View Post

              Fact: Igwahnahz behind glass figure evrythin' they see beyond their confine is confined, an' it is them who is free.


              That is why they do nuthin' all day.
              My iguana read all day. When the books were gone, he moved out shortly after. Iggy was the quiet type. But he was a romantic at heart. We didn't speak....but I still have his love letters.

              Yes, that's right. My iguana read books, wrote me love letters....and we were in love.

              Love the one you're with.
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              • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
                Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

                My iguana read all day. When the books were gone, he moved out shortly after. Iggy was the quiet type. But he was a romantic at heart. We didn't speak....but I still have his love letters.

                Yes, that's right. My iguana read books, wrote me love letters....and we were in love.

                Love the one you're with.
                What a brilliant name you dreamed up for him. How did you ever come up with that one?

                He could have been a dinosaur because he was a Terrible Lizard.
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              • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
                Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post


                Love the one you're with.

                When the scales fall from your eyes, there'n always iguanae.


                They kinda do that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Odahh
    Most of that age it was boot camp barracks and air barracks. But my knees were not able to handle running because of a pre existing condition and ended up getting discharged.

    I remember not getting the same room I had before I left
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  • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
    1984, hmmm, had my own room by then, so it was a Cray Computer poster, a vision board, which l took down years later when nothing happened and umm, pretty sure there was at least one Empire Strikes back poster as well.

    All bluetacked onto the wall, and all tended to slide off during summer, unless l put a lot on then the wall paint came off with the poster.

    Also had a small Trinitron tv and Nintendo 64, but that was about 10 years later, so back then probably a Nintendo.., umm well the one with the cartridges and unbreakable joysticks plugged into the tv in the loungeroom and terrible graphics.

    We also had three cats back then and a dog, the dog stayed outside and the cats tended to hang around the open fireplace and slowly slow roasted when embers flared.
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  • Profile picture of the author DWolfe
    Had a small Black and White TV on one dresser. On another dresser, I had a Hitachi stereo that had AM/FM, Turn Table, and Cassette Player with 2 huge speakers. Also had a poster of a Top Fuel Dragster on the inside of the bedroom door. Some of the other stuff I do not remember.
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  • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
    Aw, that is such an easy question.

    Ansa is: Moi.

    Tellya, I adorned my bedroom like nuthin' before or since.

    I was so positively delish at 18, you coulda hung me up or laid me down anyplace -- an' I was too hinnercent to know the diffrence!

    Gotta say tho, I was marginally less tidy back then than my evolved productivity makes possible now.

    Panties as self-establishin' flip-flahps plucked from offa the carpet on muh way to the bathroom, kinda thing.

    Cain't believe how crazy it was before I Poppinsed out thusly.

    Tellya, I would wish always for my bedroom to reach out beyond her walls in a smoochily comfortable & curiawsly engagin' way.

    The snug of the familiar invitin' the propulse of the transformative.

    Gotta sit out up top inya favo room, I guess.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jessika Harris
    My bedroom growing up was full of all sorts of things! I had a TV, of course, and a lot of tech of the time, like a Gameboy and an old CD player. On my walls I had pictures of some of my favorite bands and singers, as well as posters of some action heroes. I also had a few posters of celebs that I had crushes on, and a few hero figures that I looked up to. My prized possessions were definitely my collection of books and comics, which I was very proud of. I also had a few collections of dolls, action figures, and stuffed animals that I had collected over the years. Looking back, these may seem a bit embarrassing but I was very proud of my collections at the time!
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    Duran Duran and Bee Gees posters.
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    I was delighted with the film Rocky that I had the walls in posters with him, so I also managed to hang a pear in the middle of the room, eh what times were ...
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Originally Posted by catic64297 View Post

      I was delighted with the film Rocky that I had the walls in posters with him, so I also managed to hang a pear in the middle of the room, eh what times were ...
      Did you hang your pear by the ceiling fan cord.? Was it a pair of pears, or just one?

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        Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

        Did you hang your pear by the ceiling fan cord.? Was it a pair of pears, or just one?

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    Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

    Provided you were not chucked out by your parents, What was in your bedroom, did you have a TV, lots of tech of the time, pictures on the walls of bands you liked, action hero's, or hero's male and female of celebs that you identified with or had a crush on. What were your prized possessions.

    Describe what may now feel embarrassing, or perhaps not.
    The year I was 18 i lived in four different places. El Salvador Central America as an exchange student. Mom's house in Plano TX, Dad's house starting community college. and into a male college friend's apartment.

    I remember having a gold necklace I was given by my father as an 18th birthday present, don't know where it is today. Jewelry and I don't mix well lol too many rooms to remember the decorations, but the room I had in the home in El Salvador, was very Salvadoran, walls, painted green with a parrot living right outside of it in the interior open roofed patio below. Mom's house: my sister probably had posters of celebs like Donny Osmond or David Cassidy maybe? Dad had two different houses that year, moving out of one into one he had built, and my stepmother didn't really want me living there and I sensed that so I quickly moved into a male friends apartment and there was absolutely no decoration on those walls lol

    But I do remember those clock radios with the numbers that flipped over! Lol that's a nice memory. Thanks for that.

    Progressive rock station playing out of it. I still love that era's top prog rock songs. Art. Absolute pieces of art. and no I'm not one for decoration either.
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  • Profile picture of the author Devilfish168
    Actually I don't like to put poster on my bedroom

    but decoration stuffs have.
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    1961 18 years old. 2 twin size beds. picture of girlfriend changed out ever 10 days to 2 weeks. Radio with volume turned very low. Moved out 36 days after turning 18 and never moved back in. Enlisted in the Marine Corps.
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