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100 Childhood Moments, Toys, Places And Foods That Have Been Encapsulated In These Images
A single image, sound, or smell is sometimes enough to stop you in your tracks and then transport you back in time to your childhood. Today, we are giving you permission to take a break and daydream about the good old days when life felt simpler and better, and the future seemed brighter.
‘Nostalgia Folder’ is a fantastic digital time capsule that posts vintage photos from decades past, and they are full to the brim with bittersweet nostalgia. We have picked out our favorites to share with you, and you’ll find them below.
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Purple Gurl 3 months ago
yep-and jammed the thing solid until you could get a bent paperclip or safety pin
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Arthur Waite 3 months ago
I'm left-handed, so these scissors were generally impossible. I mentioned this to my Dad, and he gave me a folding knife to use (I was seven). His words: " A gentleman carries a pocket-knife." It's been over seventy years, still use one. Still a gentleman.
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Frogsizedfrog 3 months ago (edited)
Honest question, is/was this a thing in the US or common other places? I am late 30s and Scandinavian and mostly know of making dioramas from American tv shows, we never made dioramas in school. Please don't be mean to me, I really am just curious!
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Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
Old enough to remember sticking your hand into the portal to extract a bottle.
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nicholas nolan 3 months ago
Glad to hear Virginia is making all styrofoam food containers illegal.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 months ago
My childhood bedroom ceiling still has some of these on it! My sister's friend has taken over that room for her online tea-and-journal selling business, but you can still ever-so-faintly see the 35-year-old glow-in-the-dark stars on the room ceiling XD
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Elladine DesIsles 3 months ago
I once had a textbook with my teacher's name in it, from when she had been a student at the same school.
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Sheri Lytle 3 months ago
I remember as a kid, playing bingo with my grandmother, and this is what we used to mark our numbers!!
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 months ago
I drive a 25-year-old Volkswagen Eurovan - thankfully the controls are like this XD My sister has a Tesla and I still am not used to how gargantuan the tablet screen is in the middle. And yes, she uses it while she's driving -_-
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Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
When I was a kid, we just had to imagine, hearing "wah wah, wah wah wah wah" (Charlie Brown)
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Angellou Brown 3 months ago
my dad 'made' a wooden slide with the most unsuitable piece of wood. chipboard. pain and skelves came with that slide!!
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Laughing Orc 3 months ago
I think they still do here in the UK? Need to go buy a KitKat to check!
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Silberwolf 3 months ago
Loved that game. Tried to install it via Steam with my now Win11 OS. Sadly doesn't work. :(
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Gen X Feral 3 months ago
Ya'll definitely never played dodge ball or got flung off a merry-go-round and it shows.
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MalayDragon 3 months ago
I remember New Years Eve 1999 - 2000, As it is summer here in Australia in December my brother and I were outside playing laser tag, when Mum let us know the countdown was about to start, we stopped and got ready, on the stroke of midnight Dad flipped the mains switch to the power to off, and scared the c**p out of the entire family.. Brilliant.
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Elladine DesIsles 3 months ago
My neurodivergent brain just loved these. But there were never enough of the tiny diamonds; I wanted to make the most intricate patterns possible.
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Huddo's sister 2 months ago
My lunch most days in year 12, because I could cook it in the common room during a spare period.
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Angellou Brown 3 months ago
we had the whole imaginex set with the 2 castles the cannons with cannon balls and all the different colours of knights
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wiseass20 wiseass20 3 months ago
Florida student, on a rainy hot afternoon u were miserable, wanting air flow but not wanting the person n front of u to b the 1 to crack their window. As an adult I drove a school bus, told the students to empty last couple of rows n crack windows
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Sara Frazer 3 months ago
Currently sitting maybe 10ft from a shelf of these (I work at a preschool and it's nap time lol)
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Laughing Orc 3 months ago
Aldi still make a version of these in the UK, called Groovy Biscuits. They're amazing.
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Salttypepper 1 month ago
When they came with a toy at the bottom of the cereal and you had to eat all the cereal before you got the toy
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Sara Frazer 3 months ago
I have the Squirtle, Wartortle and Blastoise in my room on my anime figure shelf 🥲 the Squirtle and Blastoise were from my childhood, a few years ago I was in a vintage game and collectables shop, and I found the Wartortle! I almost cried.
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Elrina Crous 3 months ago
I only remember my first boyfriend's home telephone number, which was a landline. It was 34 years ago.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 months ago
Same, I was born in 1982, so I was 18 in 2000 - the early 2000s definitely weren't my "childhood". I did enjoy some of these things during that time period, as I am an irrepressible manchild (wolfchild? womanchild?) and pretty immature, but my true childhood was more the 80s/90s.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 months ago
Same, I was born in 1982, so I was 18 in 2000 - the early 2000s definitely weren't my "childhood". I did enjoy some of these things during that time period, as I am an irrepressible manchild (wolfchild? womanchild?) and pretty immature, but my true childhood was more the 80s/90s.
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