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Post by mom on Jun 29, 2024 2:44:20 GMT
I don't know if this is the same thing as what you are doing, but when I am missing my mom more than normal, I pick up a package of Pepperidge Farm Strawberry Shortbread cookies and it just makes me feel closer to my mom.
My mom used to buy them as a 'once a month' treat when we were growing up and once a month she'd buy a singular bag and eat them through out the month. We grew up poor so we didn't ever get store bought cookies except for the one bag my mom got for herself.
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Post by malibou on Jun 29, 2024 8:03:45 GMT
As a 1st grader I had my one and only lunchbox. We were poor, and used bread bags for our lunches. It was a hand me down from a girl that lived on my street. It was the Bugaloos, and I was in love!
Back in my early 30s, you know, like last year 😉, I found one at an antiques store and bought it. I keep cross stitch supplies in it. It didn't come with the thermos, but mine didn't have the thermos either, so I didn't care.
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Post by dawnnikol on Jun 29, 2024 10:19:48 GMT
As a 1st grader I had my one and only lunchbox. We were poor, and used bread bags for our lunches. It was a hand me down from a girl that lived on my street. It was the Bugaloos, and I was in love! I never got a lunchbox when I was in elementary school because we were poor, too. I think that triggered me to start collecting them from thrift stores when I was in high school and things were a bit better with money. I ended up getting rid of almost all of them when I went to college, but I refused to get rid of the metal Care Bears one. I pulled it out of a trunk recently and DD tried to steal it since Care Bears are a thing again.  No thermos for me either, but that just gives me more room inside to store things. |
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Post by KikiPea on Jun 29, 2024 10:24:13 GMT
Not really, although I did ask for (and received) a LightBright for Christmas a couple years ago because it was one of my favorite toys as a kid. Other than that, no.
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Post by atomicdog on Jun 29, 2024 11:18:16 GMT
Yep! One of my best prizes is a Panasonic Pan-A-Pet radio my husband found for me. That was the first thing I ever worked hard to earn money to buy - I LOVED it so much! I apparently told my husband about that and he bought me a green one, just like the one I had! We go to antique malls a lot, just for the nostalgia, and I've found few other treasures that I had to bring home. Fun!
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Post by disneypal on Jun 29, 2024 11:42:44 GMT
I sometimes am tempted to buy nostalgic things but typically I don’t. Before I buy something, I tend to think, where will I put it? If I don’t know, then I don’t buy it.
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Post by ellen on Jun 29, 2024 11:43:18 GMT
I enjoy going into thrift shops and garage sales to look for kitchen items. I enjoy using pieces that remind me of the things from back in the 70s. If I see a cool Fire King coffee cup, it’s going home with me. I have a ridiculous amount of Pyrex that I bought before everyone else started buying it. It’s probably good they ruined that for me because it was becoming a storage issue. When we bought our cabin, I was thrilled to have a second kitchen. I was really excited to buy a pack of assorted vintage wrapping paper for $3 at Goodwill this winter - so cute!
I have a tendency to buy clothing that reminds me of things that I wore growing up. I bought two pairs of carpenter jeans from Gap this winter that I love. I am so glad that cycled back into fashion. I highly recommend purchasing a pair of their 90s style overalls too. My nieces and daughters have received Caboodles with packs of Lip Smackers in them because it reminds me of the ones I had in the 80s.
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Post by DEX on Jun 29, 2024 12:39:21 GMT
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 still have my Pfalzgraff naturewood dishes. Every once in awhile I will find some cool serving dish at the Goodwill. My favorite find was my pasta dishes. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 29, 2024 19:11:08 GMT
You mean the sets of Mickey Mouse Colorforms like the ones I played with as a kid that I bought from someone on eBay years ago? 🤔 I don’t normally go out of my way to hunt stuff like that down. But if I happened to find an embroidered Christmas stocking like the one my aunt made for me from a kit when I was a baby and that was thrown out by accident years later, I would totally buy it.
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Jun 30, 2024 1:23:36 GMT
Oh yes! A few years ago I bought one of those ceramic Christmas trees with a light inside and holes for the little Christmas lights. Except mine is white and the Christmas lights are tiny multicolored birds (like THIS). It's exactly like the one my mom had and after DD#1 was born, when we'd visit at Christmas she would always help my mom set it up and put the birds in. (SO I bought her one too, LOL!) I've picked up other things over the years that are nostalgic to me, mostly at thrift/consignment stores but sometimes eBay or the like. Books, certain vintage cookbooks, children's books that were special, vintage pyrex...DH even finds stuff for me sometimes after hearing me wax nostalgic about how special a certain thing was... I am lucky to have 2 milk glass candy dishes -- they were special in two ways: one because there is one from each of my grandmothers (different styles), and two, because I remember getting treats out of them as a child when we visited my grandparents' houses. One always had wrapped starlight peppermints, and the other varied - sometimes it had wintergreen mints (the pink ones, unwrapped), butterscotch discs, or caramels, were the most common. |
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Post by imkat on Jun 30, 2024 18:54:35 GMT
I bought a Mallo Cup a few weeks ago. It's like a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, only with a marshmallow filling instead. My mom loved these, and so do I.
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No thermos for me either, but that just gives me more room inside to store things.
