Are you nostalgic?

[Paul_C_NB]

Do you enjoy researching & remembering things from your generation? Toys from when you were a kid, how much electronic items have changed, things you miss, etc etc?

Is there one area that is your favorite when it comes to nostalgia ?

I kind of like remembering some of the old toys I used to enjoy as a kid. Another thing I kind of regret is throwing away old catalogs, I sometimes wish I had some of them to remember how things were like when I was younger.

[Santa's Helper]

I look up vintage toys or vintage tupperware on ebay all the time! I love to see what is on there and if it's something that I remember having as a kid. My dad used to sell tupperware so we had just about everything under the sun that was tupperware! All of it was green, yellow and orange, so 70's!

[Paul_C_NB]

I look up vintage toys or vintage tupperware on ebay all the time! I love to see what is on there and if it's something that I remember having as a kid. My dad used to sell tupperware so we had just about everything under the sun that was tupperware! All of it was green, yellow and orange, so 70's!

ahhh yes we still have some of that vintage tupperware kicking around, it never dies! :lol:

[CharlestonNole]

Oh yes indeed. I love to look back at the glory days of the 80s. I find the sights and sounds still pleasing. It was a great time.

[Meceka]

Yes I am. I collect vintage glassware - takes a lot of research to know what to buy. Plus, I was history major in college :D

[rodmonster]

am I?

We are in the RETRO section here and lovin it!

and my toy room with items from the 50s to the 80s....
=)

http://www.webguys.org/rodney/images/csite/min%20room%20pic.gif

[singingringingtree]

We found a shop before Christmas called Harpers Bazzar which sold lots of toys and games from my childhood - all in same packing.

They had Fuzzy Felt sets, the face with the iron filings and a magnetic pen so you can create hair styles and facial hair, my first ever school reading books (Janet and John), stylophone (the Rolf Harris one) and loads more.

It was very nostalgic. I was tempted to buy a stylophone - I remember practising 'Moon River' on it all over Christmas one year. Unfortunately shop now gone (victim of credit crunch) but they do mail order so I migh just treat myself.

:))

[Wenceslaus]

Nostalgic to the core. Movies from the 1920s. Sports cars from the 1960s. Eighteenth and Nineteenth century literature. Clothing from the 1940s. I long ago stopped collecting things, though, because possessions eventually own the collector instead of the other way around, if you know what I mean. For the most part, after I finish watching a DVD (most of which I rent), or reading a book (many of which I borrow from the library), I want to move on to something I haven't read or seen yet. If I want to revisit some work, I know where to find a copy.

[trackrebel]

I love watching documentaries about the 40-90s even....I love to see old toys...old magazines...and I´m into records.....the only thing I buy tho is old records...and I´m just starting to do so....but I am nostalgic...as probably most people are somehow....most everyone loves to see things from their childhood

[ScottCalvin]

I collect Christmas editions of Radio or TV Times (TV Guide) I have at least 1 a year going back to 1982 its interesting to look back and see what was shown on TV whilst I was growing up.

I have even recently purchased a A Christmas story edition of TV guide from 2001.

[Annette1990]

I love to look back. It brings a smile to face and takes me back to a time when things seemed much easier. Sometimes I will think of a particular toy, clothing, shampoo, stickers and do a search to see if I can find it. Here are a couple sites I enjoy viewing.
http://timewarptoys.com/
http://www.skooldays.com/categories/toys/

[George Broderick, Jr.]

Some days I really miss my Beany & Cecil Colorforms and my Odd Ogg (half turtle and half frog)...

Comics published before I was born (Nov. 1957) hold a special place in my heart, too... cheesy

[whitney37354]

Oh, yeah. My mom still has the yellow, green, orange, and brown Tupperware too! I have the pink, circa 1993, the year I got married!

[joyful]

Yes I am.
My Dad loved old things and collected old things which I still have some of his items. He loved to have people guess what a certain item was and what it was used for in it's time. I have read newspapers from the 1930's 1940's 1950's that my dad saved. I was raised with an appreciation of generations gone by and how hard people worked.
I guess that's why I'm a genealogy nut. LOL

[Christmasstar]

I just picked up an old Tupperware Noah's ark set (complete) for only $1.29 at the goodwill.

A few weeks ago I found an old young Canada reading series book from 1960. ( You know the "come, Jill, Jill, Come, Jill, come)

I love looking for this kind of stuff, always brings back great memories.

:snowball:

[auntieclaus]

Absolutely, my brother and I were talking about fun playground equipment tonight (now they hardly have anything to play on for fear someone might get hurt!

[Head Elf]

Some days I really miss my Beany & Cecil Colorforms and my Odd Ogg (half turtle and half frog)...

Comics published before I was born (Nov. 1957) hold a special place in my heart, too... cheesy


Oh I love Beany and Cecil, that was my favorite cartoon. I had a Cecil puppet. I was born in '58 so I know what you are talking about. I'm trying to find a toy from 1963. It is a 2' - 3' stuffed Huckleberry Hound. Red body, plastic face and hands. He meant everything to me (then). He went to the hospital with me when I had my appendix out. My mother burned both of them because she couldn't fix them anymore. I'm so traumatized still.... maybe that's whats wrong with me.

[joyful]

I had a set of Mickey Mouse ears. Looked forward to watching to Mickey Mouse Club every week day at 5 pm. TV was so much nicer in the 1950's.

[sugarplum fairy]

I love the old cartoons. I love to buy newly released DVD's of the old cartoons that were on TV when I was growing up; some even older. What is so great is my children love to watch them too. They are so much better than some of the cartoons that are on TV for kids now.

[MaureenMulligan]

Wow!!! Thank you for sharing the pic of your toy room! What a rush just to see all those treasures!!

[George Broderick, Jr.]

Did anyone else ever send away for their very own Marky Maypo Breakfast Buddy..?

http://www.lavasurfer.com/bchof/hof-maypo.html

He was SUPPOSED to attach to your cereal bowl so you could have a friend at breakfast, but all he ever seemed to do after you attached him (if you could) was topple over backwards and send you cereal flying and your mom into hysterics.

[Paul_C_NB]

Did anyone else ever send away for their very own Marky Maypo Breakfast Buddy..?

Hmmm never heard of that one but that did remind me...when we were kids my Sister and I had these little Pebbles & Bam-Bam (from the Flintstones cartoon) figures that attached to a special cup with a special straw. So what happened was every time you took a sip the fluid went up the straw & it looked like the little character was drinking as well.

[momnan30]

I enjoy remembering, but worry that I'm starting to sound like an old coot when I start waxing poetically about when I was a kid!
It's a fine line around my house!
And if I saved anymore stuff, I might be considered a hoarder and Oprah would have to send someone over to save me!!
LOL!

[xmas365]

I have been very nostalgic for the 80's the last few months, I have bought some t-shirts to "bring back" my youth, I have found The Goonies, Gremlins, Voltron to name a few. I may be a little old to wear them but I feel it is my entitlement to wear what was popular when I was 9,10,11 years old. I was there and was a true fan.

[rodmonster]

I have been very nostalgic for the 80's the last few months, I have bought some t-shirts to "bring back" my youth, I have found The Goonies, Gremlins, Voltron to name a few. I may be a little old to wear them but I feel it is my entitlement to wear what was popular when I was 9,10,11 years old. I was there and was a true fan.
I wear ALL of mine out in public! Keep it Rad and LONG LIVE THE 80s!!!!!!!!!!

[Courtney]

Most definitely! I totally like, miss like, the 80's and junk. Haha! I really do miss the good ol' days.

[SparkleNana]

Nostalgia is good! It is sort of "living history"..... and very cool!

[George Broderick, Jr.]

I was too busy working during the 80's to notice it much... but what I did notice was waaaay outside my "comfort zone" (Boy George and Thompson Twins, anyone?)...

But the Sixties and Seventies... ah, now THERE was nostalgia... I still remember where I was when Kennedy was shot, when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and when Fonzie jumped over all those garbage cans on his motorcycle...

Of course, I ALSO remember a few years later when The Fonz jumped a shark, too..!

[caninemom3]

I am really nostalgic for the mid 1960s when I was little. The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole brings back such memories of when I was little that I get tears in my eyes !! And the Barbie dolls of those days, wonderful. I love looking at old toy catalogs with the toys from that era. I remember getting my first Barbie back in 1964. All these are so precious to me.


:rudolph:

[MsChristmas]

I also love The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole...its a classic and reminds me of when I was a child too!

[gabulldawg]

I am nostalgic! I dont remember the 70's becuase I was a baby,but for some reason I love 70's movies and tv shows and LOVE 70s music. The 80's were not so great for me personally but I love 80's music. the time I look back on with the most warmth in my heart is the mid to late 90's when I became an adult and independant.

[clarebear]

Yes I am. I also love going to old places from my childhood that bring back great memories.

[XmasDreams]

I am a big Retro nut. I post on many forums that are retro based and i collect lots of cartoons on DVD usally bootlegged since most wont be released.

[okcguy1976]

I've always been nostalgic. I think about past happy times a lot. I also enjoy watching to some of the things I loved as a kid and listening to music I grew up with too. And every Christmas I think about past Christmases.

[Retrohal]

Cut Outs!!! Especially a huge jointed Santa on the front door.