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Deep inside our brains is an ocean of memories, emotions, and feelings that can be unlocked by the correct application of sights, smells, and sounds. Without warning, the theme song of a childhood cartoon or the smell of that one aisle in the corner store by your house can teleport you to another time. It might feel like magic, but nostalgia is a very real phenomenon.
The “Nostalgia” Instagram account is pretty self-explanatory, showcasing content that should be like a healthy blast from the past, both funny and relatable. So prepare for a little trip in time, upvote the images that unlocked some memories, and share your thoughts in the comment section below.
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Because nostalgia focuses so much on memories of how things used to be, both real and imagined, it’s important to keep track of what is a cherished memory and what is a specific, focused-tested set of concepts put together to evoke a specific memory. As cynical as it might seem, politicians, movements and advertisers are all wise to the idea of nostalgia as a method to manipulate people.
The “return to the good, old days” is a common promise for many politicians, and many products will try to associate themselves with potential consumers’ childhoods. Little reminders of childhood do often come with a comforting wave of emotions, just make sure that you don’t let people hijack it to sell you anything.
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That being said, it is a real and verifiable fact that nostalgia can provide a good amount of comfort through times of sadness and uncertainty. Psychologists believe that in certain “doses,” it’s actually pretty important to our mental health. Think of it this way, when current circumstances don’t provide joy, your brain has this nifty little ability to just reach into the past and scoop up things that made you happy before. There might be diminishing returns, but hey, it’s a start.
To maintain the metaphor of nostalgia-as-medication, it is possible to “take” too much. After all, if you feel the past was too good, you might end up longing just to return instead of focusing on the present. The Germans, as always, have a term for this, called “Sehnsucht,” which you can now use as a complicated and pretentious way to talk about longing, desire, yearning, and craving.
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Canadian Cobra Chickens 2 years ago
I'm convinced that if you didn't, you didn't have a childhood. Change my mind.
The origin of “Sehnsucht” (capitalized because the Germans capitalize every noun) is “suffering,” which is ultimately what someone would probably feel if they have trapped themselves in the thought that things will never be as good as they used to be. However, some psychologists believe that over time, this emotion can help a person start to develop and plan out the steps to actually improve things.
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Upstaged75 2 years ago
We weren't really poor but these were standard 1980's "staying home sick" supplies. But with ginger ale instead of Sprite. :)
Piper 2 years ago
Same. And when your tummy was really bad, it was the orange jello and chicken bouillon add on pack!
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TonyTee 2 years ago
Haha I still use vicks all the time, especially for headaches. My father swore by it, he’d of made a good spokesman for the company
Sapna Sarfare 2 years ago
it is the best for headaches... better than popping pills
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Moose Gomer 2 years ago
Somewhere out there is an old Polaroid of me on a couch like that (with the orange flowers and log cabin) with chicken pox
Sapna Sarfare 2 years ago
Vicks yes... otherwise chicken broth... Also, my mom made Maharashtrian style dal and rice... it's called Varan Bhat.. just a bit of lemon squeezed and have it with pickle... this was my get well soon food
August Duet 2 years ago
The nostalgia is strong in this one. Sick at grandma's house watching game shows and soap operas on the same couch all day long. Bring me back.
Lotus Flower in Space 🪷 2 years ago
You forgot the Monkey’s Blood (tincture of iodine) and the gauze.
Colleen Glim 2 years ago
OMG!!! I had that sofa for the first few years of my marriage! We inherited it from my inlaws
Liubliana Puh Calmet 2 years ago
Same in every country, maybe different name/brands but that was the formula if you where sick <3
Christina B 2 years ago
This was totally the childhood of me and my friends, everything right down to the couch...it should definitely be higher
Dorothy Stovall 2 years ago
Poached eggs with torn-up pieces of toast. I HATE eggs to this day.
Fenchurch 2 years ago
Nah because we had the NHS. So it was more banna flavoured antibiotics and cherry flavoured cough mixture. We did also have lucazade and being allowed your duvet on the sofa so you could watch TV. If I want to make myself feel pampered now I drag my duvet to the sofa, even though there are sofa blankets and I have devices to watch TV in my bedroom.
B Jean the Jelly Bean 2 years ago
Not just poor, but because our Parents didn't rush us to a doctor for every sniffle or sneeze! 🤗
Janice Geddes 2 years ago
what does being poor have to do with it? Rich people get colds, too!
Grace Note 2 years ago
In the UK, mine was Heinz tomato soup, lucozade and when I was still very young, Crown Court on TV. Oh! And school's programme, How We Used to Live. I loved that!
Ugh_What_Now 2 years ago
PREMIUM Nabisco? May as well go get a doctors note and have an EXCUSED absence from school fancy britches!
Duuuuuuude 2 years ago
For us it was 7 up. And it wasn't a poor thing. It's just what we did. And it usually worked.
Su Boddie 2 years ago
We weren't poor: I always caught the flu going home for the Christmas holidays. And we had Canada Dry Ginger Ale. I read instead of watching television. Daytime TV was a mystery until I was in my 30s. (I was 32 when my child was born. I had six weeks to do ... something while he slept.)
Donna Mann 2 years ago
Not Sprite, mom always gave us ginger ale. To this day I only drink it when I'm sick!
Rosecrucian Roeth 2 years ago
VapoRub - yup; premium crackers to go with the soup; the rest nope.
Amber The bear 2 years ago
Nah it’s either ginger ale for a stomach ache and coke for travel sickness
Haley Futch 2 years ago
Sprite and not ginger ale? My mother ruined me from ginger ale because I associate it with being sick
JayWantsACat 2 years ago
I had two major abdominal surgeries when I was 16 or 17. When I had resulting stomach and intestinal issues, my doctor literally told me to drink some flat Spite. LMAO. I still do to this day to help settle issues and pains.
Michelle McCarson 2 years ago
South park did it well...anyone ever see that episode? Where they cured the town's sickness with Sprite and Campbell's chicken noodle soup?
majandess 2 years ago
These are crucial components of my medicine cabinet. I mean, I've added functional things like ice packs, antibiotic cream, and bandages, but none of those really serve these functions. And when you don't feel well, the last thing you want is to have to go to the store and get them.
Fergus Corgi 2 years ago
Everyone uses some form of those things for a cold or flu. The only problem is if your parents tried that stuff when you broke your leg or "accidentally" cut off your brother's finger. 🤣
Jaxine Lexon 2 years ago
nah, didnt have sprite in my household... you got sick, handful of saltines, some peanut m&ms, a damp cool washcloth, small trash bucket by the bed while watching old school disney, and a room temp ginger ale with a straw... ginger ale was cure all in my family, still is!
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
And the Christmas movies! When we were sick we were allowed to get the box out of the attic
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Aitsuki Kitsune 2 years ago
I had Shasta, vhs recording of TV shows, and fever dreams of all the mounted taxidermy in my uncle's living room blaming me for their plight.
Channo Sagara 2 years ago
Sprite cures what? (We so poor we didn't even had em). Campbell's is still my favorite, though.
Janet Howe 2 years ago
I learned to hate Vicks when I was a kid. When you had a head cold, your nose was already raw from blowing, my mother would put the Vicks on my nostrils. Burned like h**l. My mom was good when we were sick, but she had no idea the pain she caused giving us stuff. LOL. We didn't have Sprite in the 50s. We had 7-up I think. And B&W TV.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
I remember when Vaporub used to work. I could bathe in the stuff now and not be healed
Brian Barnett 2 years ago
Your missing the robitussin. That was always the cure. We also breathed in steam from boiling water!
Billy Harrelson 2 years ago
Remember? I still do this. Passed a lot on to my son already. Not so much about being poor either. Just relax and let your body do what it was designed to do. Go to the doctor only if it gets worse.
Marissa Taylor 2 years ago
Lol i liked having the flu as a kid. Back then we didnt have tv in our bedrooms so when we where sick,mom broight the tv in.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Where's the big bottle of Vitamin C? Also when I was a kid we had this purple stuff meant to disinfect farm animals.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
ah, the traditional cure for SARS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyuJc-1eUv4
HalcyonVampire 2 years ago
Did anyone else drink blue Gatorade exclusively when they were sick?
Michelle Smith 2 years ago
Looks right to me, except we had storebrand ginger ale because Ginger settles your tummy
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 2 years ago
We weren't poor, but all of this still applied, plus a cap full of Rock 'n' Rye.
Taryn Bailey 2 years ago
To this day, even just the thought of drinking sprite/7-up/whatever generic version they grabbed is enough to set my stomach to churning. The only time I got those particular drinks was when I had a stomach bug growing up and now, I can't even think about drinking it.
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Lady Snowfall 2 years ago
Ah yes, the shin shredders. If your foot slipped off of one of those puppies, it was immediate blood and pain and bandaids and getting your leg doused in hydrogen peroxide and triple bac.
Once you realize the potential of tapping into the past to draft people’s emotions, you might start to see how it’s used everywhere. You might notice that the Instagram logo is, in fact, a drawing of a Polaroid, despite the fact that 99% of the userbase are probably using a smartphone. But somehow, an old camera seems more special and emotional than the many, smaller and often more powerful cameras we carry in our pockets every day.
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And speaking of social media, you have probably seen how, for example, Meta products like Facebook and the aforementioned Instagram have “memory” functions that will randomly show you images from the past, normally on their one-year anniversary. This could of course be a bit misguided, as many people have documented randomly getting images from an illness or a breakup a year ago.
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Heleen the Feline Panda 2 years ago
I still do this when I forget to bring along my cellphone to the toilet 😬
Other companies do their best to tap into this feeling as well. The Nokia 3310 phone was legendary for a variety of reasons, but it seems its reputation for being indestructible goes beyond the physical, as the company relaunched it in 2017. The phone seems like stone-age technology compared to any random smartphone from the last few years, but people do want to relive that two-tone snake game and the feeling of pressing some buttons.
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Tuesday's child 2 years ago
Not a 90s kid, but I still had to learn this. I barely know my times tabels but I do know how to play 'hot cross buns' on the recorder 😁
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Grudge-holding Treefrog 2 years ago
The metal one at my elementary school had a 2 foot drop at the end. It was very dangerous, but so much fun! (Very few burns because of catholic school dress code)
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Upstaged75 2 years ago
Those plastic jugs of brightly colored sugar water! I never saw them in anyone's home - they only showed up at school or parties.
“Stranger Things” is another case-in-point, where much of the appeal is an idealized image of the 80s, alongside many of the tropes and cliches of 80s children's movies, such as the iconic “ET.” The show was a brilliant move by Netflix, as it managed to both attract gen x viewers who wanted to relive a past era while simultaneously creating nostalgia among younger viewers, a sort of self-perpetuating false memory of the past.
Some specialists have started to develop a concept of “forestalgia,” which is a sort of hopeful belief that in some imagined future, many things will be better. While an idealized future has existed for centuries, the advent of science fiction has created multiple generations who actively think about what the next few decades will bring.
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Audra Sisler 2 years ago
I was ALWAYS taking pictures in high school with camera like this! Such good times! 🥺
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Almarako94 2 years ago
I loved how the series got better with every episode. Not like most shows today
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ƒιѕн 2 years ago
Sugar, spice, and everything nice These were the ingredients chosen To create the perfect little girl But Professor Utonium accidentally Added an extra ingredient to the concoction-- Chemical X Thus, The Powerpuff Girls were born Using their ultra-super powers Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup Have dedicated their lives to fighting crime And the forces of evil!
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Susan Green 2 years ago
That’s why I always hate driving behind logging trucks on the highway.
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Alfonsothenerdyalpaca 2 years ago
Now with grimace’s birthday a lot of people are starting to realize.
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Chris D'Asta 2 years ago
The good 'ol days. Ditch weed and Night Train. Take the train to the city and jump in the pit at a proper Punk show.
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TonyTee 2 years ago (edited)
Wowww forgot about this, now I can remember I was the leader of the bunch quite a bit cause I was one of those goody two shoes kids in class xD So I was always getting a “reward sticker” on the chart, from what I can remember by the time I got to 3rd grade teachers had done away with this, I couldn’t care regardless, was too young to think anything of it. But this just brought back such memories of something I totally forgot about 👌🏼
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Mel The Axolotl 2 years ago
Even now they're all jumbled. Nintendo switch and Xbox have A+B swapped and X+Y swapped, so when I use one for a while then I'm disoriented when I use the other
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Kayla Albert 2 years ago
I would get the paper never had money to order but always circled want I wanted hoping I'd magically get it lol
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David Martin 2 years ago
After seeing all four of my brother's boys growing up, I can confidently say having a young boy that refuses to ever wear clothing actually makes this show 100% accurate
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pug nose curly tail 2 years ago
As my son once said when he was a little boy, "You turn them inside out, and then they jump up and fart."
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Upstaged75 2 years ago
Kids still use these! I tutored 1st graders a few years and ago and these were part of the required school supplies. The kids were more interested in making towers than doing math with them though. :)
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PlatinumTheCat 2 years ago
I must be a 90’s kid in disguise because I get most of these, this is CatDog
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Tuesday's child 2 years ago
This book is really bad once you really think about it. If you brag a lot and your friends get jealous, just rip off your body parts so every one feels good about themselves!
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Chris D'Asta 2 years ago
I worked for both of those companies in the nineties. Also Family Video and Dollar Video.
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Colleen Glim 2 years ago
Dragon tales was the favourite show in my house. 🎶Emmy wished on a dragon scale and that’s what started dragon tales🎶
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PlatinumTheCat 2 years ago
I have nintendogs on DS and I haven’t played it in a while, I’m sort of surprised the DS still works
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Alfonsothenerdyalpaca 2 years ago
The smiley face fries a so mushy. Is it just me or does no one like these?
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Sapna Sarfare 2 years ago
Skeletor.. In India, till 90s. we have the govt run channel called Doordarshan. But we had the best of shows and cartoons. Sunday morning were cartoon time... He-man was one such cartoon show. Since not everyone had TV, our house had the kids come in the morning to see the cartoons and all...
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Tuesday's child 2 years ago
But you want to stay in your nice bed and not have to go to school in the cold rainy weather. I know this feeling. Only as my dad was like "ok I'm leaving now" I would jump out of bed and get dressed at lightning speed
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PlatinumTheCat 2 years ago
What 8 year old has an iPhone!?!? I’m 13 and I don’t even have an iPhone
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Lakota Wolf (she/her) 2 years ago
A travesty compared to the original :( TBH, I haven't liked any of the live-action remakes yet.
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TheReader19 2 years ago
I'm going to buy BGT Malakai Bayho's new CD tomorrow; still love CD's and records. Tapes are to much faff.
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Tuesday's child 2 years ago
I'm not a 90s kid,but I was still able to relate to a few of these
TheReader19 2 years ago
Gen X from UK here could relate to a lot of that stuff; the rest reminded me of my kids childhood. Ps 1980 was 25 years ago OKAY
Janet Howe 2 years ago
I haven't had this much fun reading BP in a long time. Laughed my butt off at the comments. This nostalgia is great stuff! After a while, I get sick of all the retaliation, boo-hoo and in-law stories.
the quickening 2 years ago (edited)
Fanta or Jaffa (orange soda) for Finns. ✌️
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I knew most of these (South Africa). We had (have) a lot of american cultural influence.
Eva 2 years ago
I'm a late ish gen z kid and I understand a majority of this stuff, half of it because I went to a poorish, small, private Catholic school for 2-5, now 6-12 I'm in a richer public school, which was a culture shock on its own from the shared Chromebooks and the computer lab to having our own frickin frackin MacBooks.
Michelle M 2 years ago
At the end of the thread, you’ll find a very tiny “Note: this post originally had 137 images blah blah blah.” Click on the 137 and that’s it. It’s in every shortened post. Hope this gets upvoted so that many people can see it.
Load More Replies... Michelle McCarson 2 years ago
This was one of the best meme feeds I have seen in a very long time. This made me very very happy although making me feel quite old. I will be sharing most of these photos
StitchIsCuteAndFluffy 2 years ago
There’s an Alec Benjamin song, called 1994 (when he was born), that describes some of these things! (Also the early 2000s)
the quickening 2 years ago
So 90s is now what 80s was when I was growing up; the cool period of time children wished they'd been born in. lmao
William Neal 2 years ago
HA! I recall ACTUALLY threading the 16 mm Birns and Sawyer projectors in grade school. Absolutely LOVED it. (No, I wasn't a teacher's pet otherwise.) But am ever indebted and grateful for being able to do this.
Moosy Girl 2 years ago
They should make a „57 glorious 30’s memes that you might be too young for” list.
TheReader19 2 years ago
I'm going to buy BGT Malakai Bayho's new CD tomorrow; still love CD's and records. Tapes are to much faff.
Load More Replies... Tuesday's child 2 years ago
I'm not a 90s kid,but I was still able to relate to a few of these
TheReader19 2 years ago
Gen X from UK here could relate to a lot of that stuff; the rest reminded me of my kids childhood. Ps 1980 was 25 years ago OKAY
Janet Howe 2 years ago
I haven't had this much fun reading BP in a long time. Laughed my butt off at the comments. This nostalgia is great stuff! After a while, I get sick of all the retaliation, boo-hoo and in-law stories.
the quickening 2 years ago (edited)
Fanta or Jaffa (orange soda) for Finns. ✌️
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I knew most of these (South Africa). We had (have) a lot of american cultural influence.
Eva 2 years ago
I'm a late ish gen z kid and I understand a majority of this stuff, half of it because I went to a poorish, small, private Catholic school for 2-5, now 6-12 I'm in a richer public school, which was a culture shock on its own from the shared Chromebooks and the computer lab to having our own frickin frackin MacBooks.
Michelle M 2 years ago
At the end of the thread, you’ll find a very tiny “Note: this post originally had 137 images blah blah blah.” Click on the 137 and that’s it. It’s in every shortened post. Hope this gets upvoted so that many people can see it.
Load More Replies... Michelle McCarson 2 years ago
This was one of the best meme feeds I have seen in a very long time. This made me very very happy although making me feel quite old. I will be sharing most of these photos
StitchIsCuteAndFluffy 2 years ago
There’s an Alec Benjamin song, called 1994 (when he was born), that describes some of these things! (Also the early 2000s)
the quickening 2 years ago
So 90s is now what 80s was when I was growing up; the cool period of time children wished they'd been born in. lmao
William Neal 2 years ago
HA! I recall ACTUALLY threading the 16 mm Birns and Sawyer projectors in grade school. Absolutely LOVED it. (No, I wasn't a teacher's pet otherwise.) But am ever indebted and grateful for being able to do this.
Moosy Girl 2 years ago
They should make a „57 glorious 30’s memes that you might be too young for” list.
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