To ask what makes you nostalgic about childhood? (Also a request about an item)

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My children are all but one in secondary school, frankly quite boring independent and want to do their own thing. I find myself almost grieving for their childhoods, looking back through photos and remembering the good times etc.

To get to the point I have become very nostalgic about my own childhood and I am searching up some of my old toys on ebay As they are now considered vintage they are prohibitively expensive.

Some of the things I have lovely memories attached to are:

Lights Alive
Keypers
Sweet Secrets
Diary Milk dispenser thingys at Christmas
Gloworm

Just yesterday I got this sudden flashback to a swimming bag I had in primary school, it was transparent PVC, from Primark and had a beach scene on the front with liquid for the sea (you could squish the liquid IYKWIM) and a plastic beach ball. At the time it was so amazing and I loved it so much that I even stapled the seams together when they split Does anyone know what this type of bag is called (with the liquid inside) I spent ages googling but haven't been able to find it.

My nostalgia is mostly related to items, but what are your items/experiences that make you nostalgic about your own childhood?

Jelly shoes
Gameboys - the old grey ones
Matthew Corbett with sooty & sweep
Sylvanian families
Polly pockets
Pound puppies - I had the mum and babies where they fitted in a velcro pouch in her tummy
Dear diary
Funfax (filofax for kids)
Paying about 20p to get the bus to school
I was desperate for a Mr Frosty but alas never had one!

Cheeky mouse. I loved mine. Forgotten all about it. No idea what happened to it.

Does anyone remember those tiny keyboard pianos.

Thank you op...im goggling and remembering.

Keypers - I still have the little glow bug from the purple one. He doesn't glow anymore though.

Timmy Tears and his correct anatomy that horrified my great aunt.

A La Carte Kitchen. I tracked one in mint condition down when my twins were about 3. The woman I bought it from would probably be horrified that I let them play with it. It got trashed by use which sort of healed the fact mine didn't (my father sold it to the family downstairs for their daughter's birthday after I got it for Christmas).

My Little Pony Dream Castle - I still have the mirror. I got it for Christmas when I was 8 and it was the first present I knew I'd get to keep forever because we lived with our grandparents by then.

Rainbow the tv show is the main one that makes me want to go back. I used to go home for lunch. If my classmates were quiet and we lined up properly and didn't make Mrs Branagan or Miss Elliott send us back to our seats to 'try again' then I could run down the hill and up to the flat just in time for it starting. My Nana would have my lunch ready and if it was warm out I'd have a glass of juice or hot chocolate if it was cold. Then when it finished it'd be time to meander back to school.

I remember the bag as well. Mine was dark blue and had bright coloured fish. The one I had couldn't have been from Primark though as we didn't have a Primark. I had a pencil case with the same gel/liquid fill idea as well.

My absolute faves were:

• Clarks shoes with the key in the sole (totally forgot about them until PP mentioned them!)

• Keypers (I had a pink snail)

• Boglins

• Fraggle Rock

• Round the Twist

• Trapdoor (Don't you open that traaaaapdoor...)

• Polly pocket

• Tamagotchi

• Hair scrunchies, preferably in a neon colour

• Mr Frosty

Playing Kirby in the street. Going off on my bike all over the place and only coming home if I was hungry. What were those neon coloured bead things that you put on bike spokes so every time the wheel went round they made a noise?

Oh and looking forward to getting a Kellogg's reflector for my bike in a box of Frosties

@londonrach - these ones?

This was my fave for a while...

@thisaintalovesong Spokeys? Not sure if that's the official name or just what we called them.

Lala yes! Love one again. How you find that. My goggling found nothing.

My two favourite bands aged about 10/11 - Ultimate Kaos and MN8! I would imagine being their girlfriend

I also loved Peter Andre around the same age (cringe) He was dubbed 'plastic pecs' by my older brother. I went to his concert once and sat on the balcony with my binoculars and afterward I kindly informed my brother that I had seen him up close in real life and the skin on his chest was real not plastic so there!

Sometimes I reminisce over the smell of my lunch box in primary school. Does anyone else remember that smell? The plastic traditional lunch boxes with the handle I mean. After a warm day full of sandwiches and crisps and dilute orange juice in the flask it just had this really distinct smell?! Sometimes we would eat what we left at lunch on the way home, as we used to really rush at lunch time just so we could have more play time!

Pies.... wow, I haven't thought about that smell for years but now I feel like I'm six again!

These kind I mean!

monkey I know I can still smell it in my brain

Lala - they could have been spokeys. No bike was complete without them haha.

My brother had a boglin, it's eyes glowed in the dark. He woke up one night on bed in floods of tears cos he could just see these bright big eyes staring at him... he'd forgotten he'd taken his boglin to bed 😂

Yes remember the smell of lunch boxes. Anyone remember the smell of car rubber seats

I only liked the smell of lunch boxes when they were brand new. But I always thought the smell tainted the taste of my food and drink and I ended up going off packed lunches entirely. I must be sensitive

Yes, remember rushing home from school at lunchtime to watch Rainbow or Pipkins. Then being disappointed if it was Stepping Stones.

Being at home ill meant Teddy Edward or Andy Pandy during Watch with Mother in the afternoon (showing my age).

Orange chips from the chippy on Friday nights while watching Wonder Woman or Monkey

Most of the toys had were hand me downs from my brother so I remember well Action Man with the gripping hand and eagle eyes

The first video game (Pong?) the slowest version of tennis ever

Youthecat just catching up with memories, especially yours the summer of '76. I only remember summers being endless and sunny so that year when I was 10 must have made a big impression on me. I am sure we had rainy summers as well , it's just I don't remember them.

Oh I love this thread. So many things I remember from my childhood.
Jem and the misfits was one of my favourites.
I had a doll called cricket. You put a tape in her back and she would tell you stories and sing to you.
Loved keypers, pound puppies and popples! Think that's what they were called, they were furry animals that turned inside out.

I remember that smell of plastic lunch boxes too. I remember the very watery orange juice we got at school with a digestive biscuit.
I would love to go back.

Oh my word I can actually smell some of these things and remember how it felt to touch that hedgehog pencil holder thingy. I remember getting a Pound Puppy one christmas and something got spilled on it so my dm used a hairdryer on it and it had this really weird burnt rubber smell afterwards.

Pies that smell is exactly why I pay a small fortune for my dc to have school dinners, I hated having to open my lunch box and get a waft of plastic infused Sandwich Spread.

I've been reminded of loads of tv programmes I loved, it was really exciting getting home from school to watch them. Kids TV seems utterly crap in comparison nowadays.

I wonder if anyone would recognise this kids show?

Sometimes I would have to come home for lunch as I needed medication (that's how they rolled in those days) and I would get to watch Tv after I ate. So it was usually a lunchtime when it was on.

All I remember was that it was real life not animated, and had 2 puppet people in it, a girl and a boy, and they would often visit this wishing well in a big garden. I think I remember a big brown gate/door that may have been featured in the intro.

I can't remember much that happened but it has always bugged me what it was! No amount of googling (with my vague and scarce details) has been successful! I guess I will never know without more info tbh!

Oh look a smurf.

There may have been a puppet dog too and an actual human man who talked to them over the gate or I'm just making this up ?

Sorry have only skimmed the thread
How did miss this?
I have my big yellow teapot still. Sadly no play figures have survived. It sits up high in the playroom, nobody is allowed to touch it. I know thats wrong. I bloody love keepers and had the horse as a child.