Do you buy things because of nostalgia?

Yes... especially at thrift or estate sales. I see something I might have had, I'm usually buying it... unless it is pricy.

Someone was giving away some dishes on Marketplace and they were the same ones I had before I went to Fiesta. I always regretted getting rid of them, cause I really did love them. So I saw the free offer and scooped them up. They were the Naturewood pfaltzgraff design.

Otherwise, it is usually something from my childhood or something like you, something my mom/grandma would have.

I'm getting much better...but yes, I bought so many of my childhood toys on eBay!

I have since re-sold or donated many of them. I'm somewhat reformed.

I do. I've bought some magazines from the '70s (Glamour and Seventeen), but that's all so far. I do have a Pinterest board filled with childhood memories. When I win the lottery I'll buy some of them!

Yes. I bought a replica of the Jack Kramer autograph wooden tennis racquet I learned to play tennis on—the original got thrown away while I was away at school. 

I collect horse books I owned and loved as a child in the same editions I read then, like the Marguerite Henry books. 

I am wanting a Blenko glass classic pitcher that my mother had that I stupidly gave away. '

No to trinkets and knickknack type stuff. That type of stuff, is just not my thing.

Yes to food >> childhood favorites.
Over the years, on rare occasion a chain grocery store in my city will carry an item(s). If I ever see a bag of Wise potato chips or carton of Friendly's fudge swirl ice cream, I buy it.
I could order the potato chips online, but I don't....because I don't need to be eating potato chips. It's more fun to randomly be surprised, if I see it in a store. It's random ebb and flow with it. A store will have it for a few months, then nothing for years....then one random day it will show up in the store again. 

French's fried potato sticks are my favorite childhood snack, and my local walmart carries it. Every now and then, I indulge in a can.

I loved those chocolate orange sticks, when I was a kid.

Back in the early 1990s, my ex and I searched for all the pieces of the Franciscan Apple pattern dishes. These were the dishes that my grandmother had, who I had visited infrequently. I was adopted as an infant, into a cold and unloving family. Anyway, we scoured antique shops collecting these pieces. I had the cookie jar, both pitchers, napkin rings, almost everything. Of the family, my grandmother was the nicest.

I rarely spoke with my sister, but when I had told her that I had proudly acquired most of the dishes that grandma had - she informed me that my memory was wrong. The dishes were the Franciscan *Rose* collection. And to prove it, sent me a picture of all the dishes that were left to her.

I’ve spoken about my adoptive family before here. Just don’t think I’ve told the dishes story. So there’s that.

Yep. I have Barbies, German porcelain bird ornaments and Nancy Drew books. All fond memories from my childhood.

I'm probably too tied to things from my childhood. I had 3 sets of grandparents and a great grandfather. I have all sorts of memories of things we did together and how their homes were decorated.

I have my great grandmother's parasol. My mom and grandmother were having a garage sale. That never sold so they brought it home to me.

One of my grandparents ran estate sales. So the treasures from those sales that I have or that I see now just melt my heart.

One of my grandmother's was a school teacher. I look at older books and just wonder. From her I have the bell she rung to bring the kids inside to start the day or from recess.

My third grandmother had a corner grocery store. I have a couple of working wall thermometers from her. I look at candy cases, penny candy and old cash registers as treasures. I'd work at the store when we were there. I used one of those old registers.

My mom has that frog on her windowsill above her sink.❤️

Her sister made it in ceramics class MANY years ago!

Absolutely.

No, but I have kept things that are nostalgic.

My best friend and tennis buddy had the John Newcombe. As 12-year-olds, we thought he was dreamy, with that handlebar moustache, LOL.

Yes. I came across a cuckoo clock that looked just like a smaller version of my grandmother’s in the Germany pavilion at Epcot. After much hemming and hawing, I bought it. I told my husband I have fond memories of watching my granddaddy wind the clock twice a day for my grandma. My husband now winds my clock up twice a day for me. I still get smile when I hear it being wound.