Laughs in Gen X.

Ha! My DD would want that.

When word art first became popular, a good friend of mine (who shares my sarcastic nature) and I would try to find the corniest ones we could, and send pics of them to each other.

But, hey. I’d wallpaper every room in Rolling Stones tongues if DH would agree, so I shouldn’t judge. :D

I'm an 80's kid, too. We have Castle Grayskull and the cast of characters. This is awesome. Could I get this in a TrapperKeeper?

I laughed out loud at Skeletor.

I used to wear pins in the 80s that had words on them. Some of them were

CHEAP TRICK - I WANT YOU TO WANT ME (which I gave to a friend in Mexico City)

LOST IN SPACE (I thought this described me pretty well)

X-RAY SPECS - GERM-FREE ADOLESCENCE

I can't think of any others at the moment.

I've never had text on any of my walls, except for some posters that I framed when I was in my 20s. I might have had a "YIELD" sign when I was 22, however.

In general, I do not like seeing words on interior residential walls, unless they are extremely artistically done and are not mundane. The only words on my walls are on calendars, and I can barely read them as it is. I do have a framed poster in my bathroom advertising the opening of a bar in Vancouver that I attended - "Matey's Cafe" at Davey & Burrard.

@lars I enjoy your posts. I don't remember wearing pins in middle school or high school which would have been '86 to '92, but I had a Jansport backpack. Every year I put a new patch on it and some had words, all courtesy of Cloth World, now Joann's. 

I'm not likely to have word art in my house but of course that doesn't mean it shouldn't exist in somebody else's house.

I would love to find one of those for my son-he was a child of the 80s also! :-)

ETA: I remember Skeletor, but nothing about the cartoon/show. Now, if you want to talk Bugs Bunny and Woody Woodpecker...

I am watching Inventing Anna (Sorokin/Delvey) the partly fictionalized account of the woman who conned a number of wealthy/society people in Manhattan in the mid teens. (At least partly owing to their own vanity. One woman would not press charges out of humiliation was taken for a few $100Ks).

Anyway she tracks a guy she was dating/using to his own humble beginnings and realizes his own reality is just as banal as hers when she spots a faded LiveLaughLove-type garden flag in his parents' yard.

l pinkmountain I saw that sketch last night!

"Where did you get that sign?"

"We got it at Home Depot! They sell art there too!"

I died.

While going through my late Mother's office, she had a little stash of framed posters, pictures, awards, etc. that she never got around to hanging. I have managed to get most of the stash hung up, but one piece of "word art" I gave to Goodwill. It was a metal cut out sign with fancy decorated letters spelling "FLUSH." Having cleaned my Dad's bathroom consistently during the pandemic, I am finally figuring out why she had that piece . . . I suppose if I ever want such a thing myself again, I can find a similar piece of word art.

LOL! My cousin filled her house with this stuff -- all from hobby lobby I'm sure. The one in the bathroom said something like "Wash your hands, god is watching" or something like that. Creepy.

“If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie and wipe the seatie” is a bathroom sign I remember years ago that grossed me out.

Actually I have found, in a very unscientific survey that the people who I have run across who have signs which give reminders to love, that "nice matters", to always kiss each other goodnight and all that sort of stuff--actually often do need to be reminded that walking around being an

@---le to most people is really not that acceptable.

There is a certain type of person who I will often float a caption over their heads "On you bumper on the expressway, giving the the finger and cursing, at the light blowing the horn when the opposing light is barely red" They need these signs.

I'm a wordie, if there ever is such a thing, so I have probably a lot of word-ish things on the wall, poetry, a sampler with a Bible verse, etc. But something like "wine" or "live, laugh, love" um, well, yeah, ok. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but not sure those words need to be enshrined if you can't remember them, although it is a good motto.

But one can't exactly force such things. If I'm in a bad mood about some struggle or challenge, that sign might irritate me but it also might remind me to chill, I dunno . . . Having prominent prescriptive word art puts you in the hot seat if you have a lot of guests and don't live up to your mottoes! For some folks, whose lives may be short, such signs could be inspiring when placed in public spaces. If you have a lot of wino guests like we do, a sign pointing out where the wine is stored or imbibed might be a good idea!! I have "welcome to the porch" sign surrounded by words of all the things you could do on the porch. I don't mind being reminded of all that!!

@jinx - my in-laws, who live in the Caribbean with with sketch plumbing, have "If it's yellow let it mellow; if it's brown flush it down." This was up during the 10+ years their house was a rental. 

Our favorite ones are seen walking around our neighborhood, majority of retirees but it's not a retirement community, many of them have "Porch", "Home" or "Rest a Bit" adoring their exterior walls. (I'm going to be roasted for this) Do they need a reminder? ;) 

I was in the Air Force and we have lots of 'word signs' on our walls: core values, mission ethos, warrior mottos. I don't think most people have 'Kill them with kindness and a heat seeking missile' in their house.

Jen, omg. Your in-laws’ sign. That’s both hilarious and awful. 😂

I really wonder to whom these wall sentiments are directed, and I am not sure it is really to the homeowner or to the guest. I think to some extent they are meant as some kind of distraction, perhaps, that the behavior you usually see the person exhibiting is not how they really behave. Like "My friend really is not an angry person with volatile mood swings, their sign says so."

I work with someone who has signs like this and one day she came into work with a couple bruises and a scratch on her face and she said right out "Oh I dunno, I was having an argument with my aunt, and before you know it the TV is on the floor busted and the cops are there".

It's kind of like the people with their daily affirmations on Facebook and their pictures on Instagram and such, it's like they are trying to convince themselves of an alternate reality or something. And it isn't the sentiment or the daily affirmation itself, it's that they have to "publish it" in one way or another.

Those facebook/instagram affirmations are how you get unfollowed by me. I can't stand that dreck.

As for the wall sayings, I think most people don't even really care what it says all that much, but mostly wanted it because it makes their home look like something by Joanna Gaines. Unfortunately what it really looks like is Hobby Lobby.

I don't mind graphic posters and prints that are done well (by actual graphic artists), or antique signs that are not replicas.

I would totally love this in a kid's room:

Isn't it strange how you outgrow Morrissey? Although I find myself singing Rusholme Ruffians in the shower on a sort of rotation. (I had forgotten about the intro until I looked it up).

Not quite outgrowing for me. It's just that he's said a bunch of racist and anti-immigration stuff so there's no way I could feel right about displaying anything related to him.* Super disappointing, as I still really love his music.

(*and to that end, now I feel weird even displaying his posters above, so I went ahead and took them down.)

Well yes, he has kind of turned into a nasty old man, which is one of the things that can happen to you when you don't resolve the inner turmoils that you have when you are 20.

I never much liked Morrissey on his own. It was the contrast between the cheerful instrumentals and bleak lyrics that I liked. Once Johnny Marr and Andy Rourke weren't backing him up I wasn't as interested.