What things make you feel nostalgic?

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bubbletea123

For me:
Babysitter's Club books
Rugrats / Arthur / Recess / Scooby Doo theme tune
Starburst
Tommy Girl perfume
 
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Mayday

Spice Girls
Groovy Chick (I don't know if thats even still a thing)
Glitter hair spray
Mary-Kate & Ashley movies
Impulse body spray
Lipsmackers
 
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Yel

Moderator
Mini Metros
Those big gobstoppers
Shell suits
Slap bracelets
Glow worms
Mouse trap
Gameboys
Double tape decks, and taping off the radio
Sweet secrets
VCRs and having to rewind them
 
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Porkiepies

Turkey Dinosaurs
CK one
Rainbow Brite
Care Bears
Worst Witch
Byker Grove
Spice Girls and O2 impulse
 
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Naysayer

Grange hill, tucker years!
Etch a sketch
Holly hobby
Chocolate arctic circles
The carpenters ( my mum had an album and it was always on!
Anaïs Anaïs perfume
Body shop white musk perfume!

Nostalgic for more recent times when my kids were tiny
Balamory
Boobah
Tweenies
Milkshake ( channel 5 NOT the drink!)
Bear in the big blue house
Barney
Yeah we watched a lot of TV
 
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Anon96

Blackberries
Impulse spray
Hollister

Random one but when I watch a flock of birds in the morning/eve flying together it always makes me nostalgic watching them fly away in the sunrise/sunset
 
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F the dust.

Grange hill
Worzel gummage
Boyzone
Mary poppins
Goonies
Rollerskates
Charlie red
Most 90's pop songs.
 
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K

KawaiiAF

Playing games I can actually hold.
Tamgotchi!
Gremlins
E.T
Fame!
Moon dust
Sindy dolls
T-shirts that changed colour
Benetton
Shipping Kate Moss & Johnny Depp as a couple
Sunflowers perfume
The Big Breakfast show.
Watching shitty cartoons after school on a Friday such as Captain Caveman & Scooby Doo.
Salted crisps with the little packet of salt to sprinkle yourself.
The ice-cream van visiting and picking an ice lolly.
Stray dogs, flipping everywhere! Back in the day where I lived nobody walked dogs. They just booted them out for a while & you'd see these streetwise dogs crossing roads using zebra crossing and finding their own food.
Not having to wear seatbelts.
No speed cameras.
Watching Neighbours after school. Missing school to watch the 1pm Neighbours then going back to school and being the person everyone wanted to talk to, to get the goss
Everyone seemed to have a single budgie in a cage.
I realise ppl were very ignorant to animal needs lol
 
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Oohthedrama

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Kids nowadays should have to experience and endure the dark days that were....
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Dial up internet.
nostalgic in the same way getting your school jabs (followed by a sugar cube!) is nostalgic. Or getting chickpox, or nits
Children don’t know suffering until they experience that moment when SOMEONE PICKS UP THE FECKING LAND LINE PHONE.

-Renting VHS tapes!!
and having to go on a waiting list for that new release before rocking up with your blockbuster card and feeling like a boss walking out with home alone 2 before anyone else, 8 months after it had been in the cinema

-Playing PC games in black and white
-Saga mega drive (echo the dolphin, sonic)
-Buying magazines!!!
-My little pony. Before they went sassy and bad ass.
 
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Oohthedrama

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Porkiepies said:
https://giphy.com/ihVjxokZuNswo

Sugar/Bliss/More....and any magazine that had a "good" freebie like Collection 2000 lipstick or a bright red lip liner.

Smash Hits with the posters, song lyrics and the occasional free cassette tape.
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Yesssss!!!!!!!!!!
Smash hits magazine
with yet another boyzone notebook NOBODY EVER NEEDS.

4 stickers all saying something along the lines of “girls crew” or “WOW” (pre lmfo and omg” days)
And a poster of “the wanted” as the centre fold

Yel said:
Double tape decks, and taping off the radio
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Waiting for a solid hour to get to the top 5, pressing record while HOLDING YOUR BREATH... and the damn DJ talks over the end of song
Same time next Sunday then
 
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Porkiepies

Take That, East 17 and erm Adam Rickett were my poster boys
Stickers were goals especially holographic ones
 
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Highlandcow

Lights alive, anyone have one of them?

Watching The Racoons and going live on a Saturday morning then Live and kicking when it started.

Jason and Kylie.

Hours spent playing solitaire on the PC.

20p mixtures.

Tango adverts.

Collecting Tazos in bags of Walkers crisps.

Having to adjust the wire aerial on top of your TV in your bedroom.

Having a hi-fi in your house, extra points if it was a 5 disc changer.

Argos catalogue.

And Freddos being 10p
 
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Mayday

Porkiepies said:
https://giphy.com/ihVjxokZuNswo

Sugar/Bliss/More....and any magazine that had a "good" freebie like Collection 2000 lipstick or a bright red lip liner.

Smash Hits with the posters, song lyrics and the occasional free cassette tape.
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Yes!
Speaking of Smash Hits...the days when you had to sit through the entire top 10 or weekly releases countdown for the 1 song/video you were interested in seeing. And having to text in to get a song played.
And your favs miming on Top Of The Pops.
 
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Horatio

Cute thread idea. Seems many of us are a similar age, I identify with so many of these.

Magazines were definitely a big part of my life growing up too. Remember "mizz" which was big on the "cringe" embarrassing moments section? each confession would be awarded a different amount of money( between 1 and 50 quid I think ?) I'm struggling to remember the difference between shout and sugar? I remember thinking I was so grown up when I started reading things like this but at the same time magazines like cosmopolitan and more (?more?) seemed impossiblly adult and sophisticated. I miss devoting that much time to reading magazines as much as books, without the distraction of the Internet and social media. I remember so many things I read in them, such a formulative time of life.

I also miss renting videos and what a big deal it was when a big film finally came out. But every time there was serious excitement going to the shop to choose something. I guess losing that is part of growing up anyway but at the same time we are spoilt with a practically infinite choice of films to stream, nothing is special. Same with things like catching a glimpse of your favourite band or actor on TV. We are just so over saturated now.
 
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