15 years ago I started this site as a way of focusing my creative yearnings into a project that made a lot of sense to me at the time. It was 2006, I was 29 years-old and an intensely nostalgic g...
https://brandedinthe80s.com/19437/branded-in-the-80s-is-done
Of all the expired and long gone junk food products over the past 30-40 years there is one stand out that is probably the most popular and loved item by an entire generation of 80s obsessed kids-...
https://brandedinthe80s.com/19412/before-after-ecto-cooler-there-was-ecto-cooler
Pretty sure I’ve addressed this a million times on this site, but one of the aspects that makes me so hungry for revisiting my childhood is the simple fact that so much of what I had as a kid l...
https://brandedinthe80s.com/19389/peel-here-138-reconstructing-my-childhood-sticker-collection
So, these Dumpster Diving pieces were not essays I had planned to write, and they’re more or less the equivalent of me sitting at my PC, looking around the office and then just letting letting ...
https://brandedinthe80s.com/19375/dumpster-diving-for-nostalgia-part-3
In the last part I talked a bit about how I came to a point where I started trying to pick up some 30-40 year old food packaging, and shared a scan of a box of DC Super Heroes cookies I acquired ...
https://brandedinthe80s.com/19362/dumpster-diving-for-nostalgia-part-2
When it comes to collecting and nostalgia, there is almost nothing that’s off the table. We all have our own personal reasons for curating the collections we cherish, and because obsession is a...
https://brandedinthe80s.com/19357/dumpster-diving-for-nostalgia-part-1
I love The Monster Squad. It’s no secret, and if you’ve at all familiar with this site than it’s probably becoming annoying to always hear me blathering on about the movie, the filmmakers a...
https://brandedinthe80s.com/19336/is-frankenstein-the-monster-or-the-man-who-made-him
About five years ago I stumbled upon an item in an antique shop that took my breath away. It’s a shop that I adore over in the old Havre de Grace main street area just off of the Susquehanna ri...
The late 80s was a weird time for me, toy and collecting-wise, because I was racing into my awkward preteen years and the idea of playing with toys was starting to become the epitome of uncool. I...
About a million year ago, when I first started writing about stickers here at Branded, there was one style of sticker that I wanted to cover more than any other because it was one that, more than...
https://brandedinthe80s.com/19256/peel-here-137-transformers-lenticular-bliss