This post is dedicated to all my peeps born around 1985 who also love The Baby Sitter’s Club.
When I was about 9 years old {?}, I thought The Baby Sitter’s Club was the coolest thing to have ever been made. I was a member of the book // fan club, I watched the movie when it came out in 1995, and hello! I *was* a babysitter. Back then, I wanted to be just like these girls…
Any time a package came in the mail from TBC {which was never as often as I needed it to}, I would tear it open and start reading all 3 books at the same time. My dad would get so irritated with me — I tried to help him understand, but he just didn’t. Pre-teens, who can understand them?! *wink*
I remember thinking, These girls are just so cool, I want to be them. And really, now that some time has passed, I think my life was a lot like these girls lives. We rode bikes around town, through the neighborhood streets to each others houses. We had sleepovers, ate ice-cream, went on adventures while camping. We had silly boy crushes, got angry with our parents, and had little side jobs. The only difference is no one made a movie about us.
Andriana, Allyssa, Andrea and me. We were our own club of awesomeness ♥
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This “remembering memories” post is part of a new series inspired by photos that spark a memory from my life — a fun way to get to know a little more about Gussy ♥
Oh my goodness! My friends and I LOVED babysitter’s club! In fact, (can’t believe i’m about to admit this), we started our own babysitter’s club! Our mom’s made us take a CPR class because the knew no none would hire us being that young if we didn’t! ha ha! But, we got calls and babysat all the time! I remember one time, we may q-pons and sent them to our “clients” in the mail saying they could have $10 off if they used us. People actually used them! HA! great post. I’m new to your blog! Nice to “meet” you. xo, cat (Constant in Chaos)
OMG! I haven’t thought about the BSC in a long time! You just described my childhood! LOVE! I was also a fan of the Sweet Valley High books. This takes me back!
OH MY WORD!! I was totally a huge fan!! How did I miss the movie?? Thanks for he walk down memory lane!! Got to share this post w/ my sis (who was also in the club!) :)
I loved those books so much when I was in “tween!” Never watched the movie, but love, love, loved the books, although I did skip that page and a half where they described all the characters at the beginning of each book after a while.
I definitely had my own babysitting kit just like the baby sitters club; I thought I was the coolest thing on two legs! Haha! Claudia was my favorite because she was the “artsy” one. Love it, great post!
I was born in 77 but I still loved these books. I tried to get my older daughters to like them, now that my youngest daughter is old enought to read I will try to get her interested. I guess I was not aware that there was a movie made. I am so excited, I am going to try to find it on netflix for our movie night tonight!!
Not only did I love these too but now Im stocking up on them for my girls! Ive so enjoyed finding the books, one by one, at thrift stores(in great condition!) & for like 29 cents a piece I cant go wrong.
Im also getting the Boxcar children series for them, have found a Girl Scout series I didnt know existed, and others. As you can tell, we’re big readers in our home:) And these series are much better than the dark, vampire books that are now gracing the shelves of every store in America for kids to read.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane:)
Oh yes, I loved the BSC! I spent alot of my pocket money on them! My parents wouldn’t let me babysit, so I tried to start my own cleaning company….that didn’t work so well. But I did beg my parents to go to Half Priced Books all the time so I could buy more.
Oh how I loved those books!
Sweet Valley Twins/High were another series that I eventually ended up reading. But then again I was (still am) a major bookworm and would read whatever fun stuff I could.
Thanks for the flash back!
Oh, man. Those clothes are hideous – I LOVED that movie! TBC series was definitely what all my book reports were written about in elementary school…
Aw, I loved the Babysitters Club, too! Never saw the movie but it looks really cute. Thanks for sharing — it was fun to think back to that time in my life. :)
oh man. i soo wanted to be claudia with her crazy outfits & how she hid candy in her room. did y’all notice that the babystitters club never really talked about babysitting all that much? (just a random thought.) lately i’ve been scouring thrift shops for the books– they sound like a perfect chill weekend read :)
and also a random plug– there’s this blog, whatclaudiawore.com, which is devoted to claudia and everything babysitters club. my only wish is that she would update it more often.
I loved those books.. babysisters club.. My parents still have all those books.
I think my favorite was Claudia or maybe Dawn.
These are my favorite along with the sweet valley twins.
I wanted to be Claudia so bad- I would wear 2 different clips in my hair and converse that didn’t match.
I want my daughters to read these books and the oldest told me, “seriously mom?”
So I will move on to the younger one!!!
I took them out of the library 10 at a time! I mean how many are there? 60?
I would even get permission to read at the dinner table because I was so into them.
I got to give the author credit- I am still a big reader today.
You are making me want to get the movie to watch with my girls.
haha LOVED the book series! Even watched some of the movies! Brings back memories!
My daughter loved all of the babysitters club, but she never mentioned a movie, will have to call and let her know. Personally for me, it was all about “Tracy Belden” …love those books!
oh gussy,
i really loved nancy drew. i read them all! i did have the entire collection of the babysitters club too. i was an only child and i did a lot of reading!! i haven’t read a good book in a long time. the last good one was, water for elephants, and it’s coming out in movie form with robert pattinson and reese witherspoon. have you seen the trailers??
~tiff
I would about die when I would get my BSC
Package in the mail! The movie is my favorite!
Meee too!!! :) I was such a fan but I got the books from the library, lol! My favorite was Claudia & I had her doll plus the BSC mystery game that I always wanted to play when friends came over to my house! That and dream phone, remember that one “you’re right I really like you!” hahahahahaha oh and American Girl that was awesome! AG has grown so much since the couple books in the mid-90s
i absolutely loved the babysitter’s club. my friend’s and i would make believe we were the different girls in the club. so much fun!
i am also loved the romona series. loved the movie that just came out too!
love this post. takes me back. good memories!
I absolutely loooved the Babysitter’s Club! I also liked the Babysitter’s Club Little Sister books. I loved the movie and show too!
i can’t believe that movie came out in 1995! it doesn’t seem like it’s been that long. babysitters club was one of my faves too! i joined all the clubs so i got the books every month and the extra surprises that came with joining the club! and i seriously used to watch that movie like every day!
thanks for bringing back some GREAT young memories!
I was COMPLETELY obsessed with TBC also! Other book series included all the R.L. Stein novels. So trashy. :)
Love this – the movie was one of my favs growing up.
I also loved the Box Car Children – now that would be a great movie :D
This is hilarious!! What a fun post!
I was just telling my hubby about BSC the other day! Unfortunately, he did not understand my excitement when we passed one of the books in the library…
I’m an ’85 baby, and when I was in the 4th grade, a couple of my friends and I bought a BSC pack from Scholastic – remember those awesome fliers with all the books you could order? Anyway, we waited WEEKS to get our packages from Scholastic, and they never came. So what did I, the sassy 9-year-old do? I wrote them a scathing letter and sent it via certified mail demanding to know where my (and my friends’) order was. They arrived within a week! But yes, LOVED BSC. LOVED. LOVED!
I absolutely loved the Babysitters Club! I had the entire collection and I’m pretty sure I cried when my mom sold them all at a garage sale after I had read them all. haha I remember wanting one of the dolls so badly. Claudia was by far my favorite character and I remember wishing I had the style she had. haha Thank you for bringing back those memories. :)
Your post put a smile on my face. I LOVED TBC! I had the movie and the soundtrack.. oh my. Great memories! :)
Holy guacamole, I lurrrrrved BSC! I’m still sad that I never got a hollowed out book to hide my Oreos in a la Claudia :)
My other favorite book was called What’s the Opposite of a Best Friend? It was about 2 girls, one who was a tom-boy and one who was a girly girl. Classic 12 year old girl drama that was!
Maggie I love the babysitters club! Google a website called Nostalgia Chick she did a nostalgic babysitters club video that Im obsessed with!!
I don’t even know how to respond to this post. Circa 1985? Er . . . .
well…I was born before then, but I too LOVED the BabySitter’s Club books! Claudia was my favorite :)
Thanks for the memory!
AAaaaah! I loved the Babysitters Club! I was always Claudia when we “played” the books out. I remember being so sad that our local video rental place didn’t have the movie when it came out… hahaha. Those books were the best!
so funny, because i would DEVOUR these books when i was 10 or so. the library was always on my good/bad list because while they had TBC books, they never got any new ones. haha!
TBC was {needless to say} one of my fave series, but American Girl dolls/their books and Little House on the Prairie were faves as well!
such a fun post, maggie!
Sarah-Anne
Never got into BSC, it was a little after my time. I graduated High School in 94′!
Sweet Valley High was my favorite series as a preteen, I remember going to the library every week to get the books. My dad thought I was a little obsessed
YESSSSSS LOVE THEM! I watched the movie the other day! It was awesome! I had the soundtrack too lol I still remember the words hahaha
OH and I had all the books 1-100 and I stopped because I was “too old”! What ever happened to them?! Lol. Thanks for the smiles!
Oh my goodness Gussy!!! LOVED the BSC back in the day! Started out with the Little Sister books, then graduated to the Baby Sitters Club. Was totally a part of their fan club too!! I still have quite a few of them boxed up somewhere to give to share with my girls. I also loved the American Girl books. What a fun post!!
It’s funny that you posted this. I was at my mom’s house for dinner Sunday and ended up in her extra room which has all of the books from my childhood. I went through them all (including TBSC books). I chose a selection of RL Stine and Christopher Pike books (which later became the “Goosebumps” series) and the “Indian in the Cupboard” books to bring home and read again. They are sitting on my nightstand. I plan to read through them all and share them with my girls when they are old enough. Loved them and I always wished I had friends to make a club with.
I LOVE this post. I was a huge fan of the sweet valley high books. Looooved them. Would stay up late with a flash light under the covers reading until 3 a.m. Babysitters club was pretty good too. :)
I LOVED those books!!!!!! I was the neighborhood babysitter and so wanted to have a club like this ; )
These books were my favorites! I, too, started a babysitting club and made my own babysitting kit. What fun memories!!
Oh, I LOVED Babysitters Club! I was born in ’75, but I was so in love with that series!
My other favorites were Sweet Valley High and Betsy and Tacey (sp?)!
This post just made my day… I was obessssssssed! The movie is good, but if you get a chance check out one of the VHS tapes they released, they fit the books perfectly. My sister got me a couple of the VHS tapes from Amazon for Christmas as a tribute to our childhoods,and we sat down with hot chocolate like we were 8 and 10 again and giggled all the way through:)
Ha…yeah I was born about 10 years before the date you mentioned, however I did love the books! Because I was older when they came out, I phased out of reading them before all 60 were written and was way too cool (ok, not cool as much as OUT.of.high.school) by the time they made the movie in “95. I did love the books though and my FAV was “Logan Likes Maryann”. Oh my gosh, I’m sure I read it more than once!
Good times ya’ll, good times.
You know what, I was thinking about the Baby Sitter’s Club this week! Weird! I lived and breathed baby sitter’s club at that age (i was born in ’85 too). Watching the trailer made me miss those years!
Other books I read at that age were Goosebumps and Fear Street. I was on a very “scary” book kick then!
AHHHH!!!!!!! I love love loved the babysitters club. I checked them out 5 and 6 at a time from the library. I was so excited when a new “super special” came out, because they took me more than 4 hours to read. Such good memories.
Also, my sister hated the books because I read them more than I wanted to play with her.
Oh my gosh, I haven’t thought about those books in forever. I loved the Babysitters’ Club!! Those girls were cool! I love anything in a series–Sweet Valley Twins and Sweet Valley High were also favorites. This is making me want to read these books again…I wish I still had them. I used to have a ton!
Thanks for the stroll down memory lane!
My faves, Nancy Drew and any of the weekly reader books that arrived in the mail. Go check out my blog, http://www.myjadiecakes.blogspot.com to see a weekly series I do on childhood treasures every Monday. Don’t you love looking at all these treasures! My stomach does small flipflops. I love it when my daughters take an interest in my childhood treasures!
oh yes. babysitter club lover!! my mom used to call them bubblegum books. haha
xo,
christen
I was a HUGE BBC fan. I wanted to be Claudia, with her artsy-coolness and fabulous outfits. :)
However, my favorite book was Matilda by Roald Dahl. The Westing Game may have been a close second (I still love both of those books).
Uh, BSC, not BBC. :)
I LOVED the Babysitter’s Club!
When I was younger I won a drawing (randomly put my name in a box at the mall bookstore) to get to have lunch with and talk with Ann M. Martin! I still have my Kristy’s Big Idea book- (The one you posted up there- #1) with her autograph and note to me. There are pictures somewhere… goodness I even remember the french braid and bangs I was rocking!
Great memories of the BSC!
oops- I looked it up and it was actually Kristy’s GREAT Idea :)
I was also a big fan of the babysitter’s club! I LOVED the books and remember watching the movie. I found it again recently because the girl who played Kristy is a singer/songwriter now and did one of the songs in that movie Dear John that I really like. Sweet Valley Twins/High was big for me then too, such great books!
i loved the babysitters club too! i wanted to start my own babysitters club, but then i realized i didn’t *really* like babysitting all that much! lol. i also read sweet valley twins. my best friend and i had all the books in both of the series. so awesome to be best friend book worms. we hung out at the bookstore in the mall, bought books with our allowance. totally wish i wouldn’t have sold them at a garage sale for like $5 for the entire box of all my box. *sigh* i know my daughter would love them.
stop the madness! i still have some of these!
I loved the baby sitter’s club! I was born in 85′ and of course me and all my girlfriends were trying to make our own babysitter’s club as well! But what girls weren’t at that time!? Fun flashback gus!
Dude! I was literally OBSESSED with the Babysitters Club. For years I wouldn’t read anything but BSC books. My Grandma started my obsession when she bought me two shoe boxes filled with the first 30 or so books of the series…I still have all of them, plus the coveted Super Specials (I think my favorite one was when they traveled across the US)! :] I’m glad to hear that so many others were just as obsessed as me!
Best. Books. EVER. !!!
This really makes me want to go back and read them again!
oooh! i LOOVED the BSC! i was a member of the club, too! i pretty much would read anything with words, but the BSC, the boxcar children, sweet valley high, chronicles of narnia and the laura ingalls wilder books are probably the ones that come to mind the most. i still always have my nose stuck in a book!
ps – new to your blog and twitter feed. i love your site!
Amatuer! ;) The first book came out in 1986. I was reading Baby Sitters’ Club while you were in diapers!
Aaaaaaand, now I feel a million.
But, yes, it was a beloved series… even to us old folk who are nearly a decade older than you.
ps – “Logan”
xoxo!
I LOVED “The Babysitter’s Club”!!! Thanks for reminding me of TBC!!
Oh my word…. I just had flash backs of TBC book reading marathons. I was totally part of the fan club and read all the books way too fast. I saved every little “newsletter” that came with the books in a binder and made up my very own “kid kit” of games and goodies for my babysitting adventures! I even convinced my parents to give me my own phone line when I turned 13 so I could start my own club. I still remember the moment it rang for the first time…. my dad called to tell me good luck :)
This post totally made my smile and brought a flood of memories!
LOL!!! This was just on a few weeks ago and I totally made my kids and hubby watch it. I was a mid 1984 baby and I saw this movie with my mom in the theater and remember saving all my babysitting money up with walk 18 blocks to get it on VHS only to find out I was literally $2 short so I walked all the way back borrowed $2 from my mom and then walked all the way back…lol so I came home and suprised my mom with it… and no joke watched it till it broke!!! I wanted nothing more than to have my very own babysitters club! I was a total book worm too… I lived two years on a houseboat and I would read all day and night book after book, I was as a 5th grader, into books that had a medical background like “nothing hurts but my heart.”
I Loved Babysitters Club! I actually started out with Babysitter’s Little Sister, and then got to read my older sisters babysitters club books. I loved the series, and had all my books lined up neatly in numerial order :) Thanks for bringing back a good memory!
HA talk about memories! I was born in ’88 but I was still a huge Babysitter’s Club Fan! I can clearly remember wanting to be JUST like them, but I wasn’t quite old enough to babysit at the time. And now I’ve been babysitting for 10 years! (Never did start a club, ha.) I think I missed the movie though!
yessssssssss. LOVED the babysitters club! had so many of the books & watched the TV show. bet it would be so hilarious to watch now!
I always wanted to be Claudia.
She was so awesome ;)
–S.S.
Yep, BabySitter’s Club and Sweet Valley High. Those were the books that started it all for me. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
And the movie trailer! Wow!
Hopefully my girls will love The BSC as much as I did.
No I wasn’t a part of the fan club, BUT when I would get several of the books I’d finish them all in a day or two.
I remember taking a family trip, 18 hours in the car and I think I read 12 of the books.
So funny, just read some more of the comments and I wanted to be Claudia too, and yes, Logan *sigh*.
*Snort*
And I was born in ’79, so they were important to girls for a lot of years.
So happy to see them come back out, hopefully not too much has changed to modernize them. I think I’ll have to start buying them for when my girls are older.
That preview made me want to watch the movie all over again! I loved those books, read every single one of them. At least they were good role models!
Yeah, we totally watched this on my bachelorette weekend… haha!
HUGE fan of the babysitters club! I still have all my old books. If I ever have a little girl (fingers crossed!!) I will pass them down to her. I even think I would still enjoy reading them, especially since I know I still love other teen books (ahem Twlight and Harry Potter).
Those were my FAVORITE books ever!
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