Flashcubes, which allowed you to get four flashes per cube:
Columbia House mail-order music club, when you could order either vinyl or 8-track on it:
Dream kitchens that came in either Harvest Gold, Coppertone, or Avocado Green:
Metal ice cube trays:
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Alka-Seltzer when it came in glass containers:
Delicious, delicious Tang that came in glass jars:
And crocheted doll toilet paper holders that also coordinated with the bathroom
Pop-up telephone books that made looking for a friend or family member’s phone number easier:
And bubble gum cigarettes that looked a lot like real cigarettes because they had an almost similar “name-brand”:
When you needed two keys for your car; one to open the car doors and one to start the ignition:
Better Homes and Gardens Creative Cooking Library, which came with some, um, creative recipes in it that your mom would try to make:
Carbon paper for whenever you needed a copy of something you were typing:
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Big Sears catalogs that came in the mail several times a year: