When it's 50 degrees, we wear sweaters and ski goggles, but for skidoo_chica22, that's tanning weather! —SparkNotes editors

When I was in second grade, my class convinced our pen pals that we have pet polar bears, live in igloos, and ride our snowmobiles to school. I WISH!! Here is how life really goes where I live.

Now that summer is over and your tan is becoming a distant memory, some of you may be tempted to try to keep your color with a few trips to the tanning bed. In the U.S., salons are supposed to require parental consent and limit exposure, but shock of all shocks, most bend the rules. Surveys estimate 2.3 million teens use a tanning bed at least once a year.

Because we've always wanted to be in a PSA, Sparklife would like to offer some unfriendly reminders on why indoor tanning is so 1988:

Summer’s sweaty freedom may be coming to a close, but we take solace in thinking about all the summery things we’ll be happy to leave behind. The beach, for instance, all too often involves creepy middle-aged people staring at you in your swimsuit.  Sunglasses look cool, but then there are all the people who insist on wearing them inside restaurants and stores. And lemonade is refreshing but it… can be too lemony. Okay, there's nothing bad about lemonade. But here are some other things about summer we won’t mind kissing goodbye:

The stripey tan you got because you didn't spend an hour meticulously applying sunblock
Summer retail jobs, and being yelled at because the iced mocha latte you were just asked to make cost four dollars
Showering five times a day