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?

Eiffels thank you!!! Cheeky mouse! I remembered it was primary colours and had a cat, but not exactly right.
Lunch box smell...school dinner hall smell...free milk with dinosaurs on the box.

pies surely you're not talking about The Riddlers. With Mossop and Jessop

Skip its- huge playground craze

Suddenly I've just had a thought of all the things I hated as a child. Namely Tots TV and Wizadora! What nonsense hehe

2Bees I have 6 Sasha Dolls - I collected them as a child - never met anyone else who knew about them!

My Atari 2600. I still have it and the games. Our old high scores are written on the inner box. My mum saved up for ages to get it for me, I'd bugged her for months for one. Even manage to get my son off the Xbox to play it nowdays .

I have two Sasha dolls I love them!.

Sindy dolls, especially my 1970s ballerina.
Tiny Tears, still have mine. She must be 44 now!
Pippa dolls
Girls World.
Holly Hobbie.
Sweet April dolls.
Carrie and Christopher dolls.
Bay City Rollers.

Oh my goodness yes ThisAintALoveSong! Thank you!

I just watched a quick clip on YouTube - the music and the puppets are just as freaky and disturbing even now I'm an adult. It's just the weirdest! Wow that has bugged me for years. Having flashbacks of my dad getting in from work and making me put boring ITV news on!

I had a younger brother, so I remember the haunting sounds of Budgie the little helicopter, Wizadora, Tots Tv and Bertha and the likes! I loved Bertha

I used to hate Charlie Chalk, The Family Ness and Madeline until I was off school for a week (only a few kids shows at select times of the day of course - these spoiled kids nowadays ha) and now I remember them fondly.

ThisAintALoveSong I still have my BumbleLion soft toy from the Wuzzles . I also had a Zipper Cat on roller skates from the Get along Gang (I also still have this minus the roller skates!)

SilverDragonfly1 they must have only stopped polly Pocket in the last 5 years or so as my eldest got a little set about 5 years ago.

Anyone remember these bad boys?

Trendy

Sindy Dolls, Furniture and her horse

Ladybird Easy Reading Books, the ones with the Eric Winter illustrations

You're welcome pies

Cherry flavoured roll-on lipgloss. That takes me back. I can almost taste it

This is a brilliant thread!

Childhood snacks:

Hula hoop shoks! These were amazing
3D doritos

Why did they stop making these!

Salt & vinegar and prawn cocktail quavers

Last year I found a cuddly toy keyper in a charity shop, I was so chuffed! He is the purple tortoise in mint condition, I don't know his name does any one remember? I of course bought him for myself!

I also miss the racoon's cartoon, great theme tune
Proper my little pony
Byker grove, the kids seemed so grown up
Silly putty, it was in a luminous plastic egg
Boglins
Care bears
Wrinkles puppets, they were cuddly dogs
Pound puppies
Watching kids TV on a Saturday morning, why is there none on now?
That feeling of safety and security that I didn't appreciate at the time.

Aliens in goo inside plastic eggs- the goo was horrible stuff and ruined anything it touched!
Polly Pockets- the original ones with tiny figures!
McDonalds Disney happy meal toys- had so many of those

Love this thread!

Degrassi Junior High

Henry's Cat

Ballerina Sindy. I had the blonde one.

Pink and pretty Barbie (I'll never forget her outfit)

The squishy liquid swimming bags

Sticker books from World Cup 86

Getting up at 6.30 on Sunday morning for the Care Bears cartoon.

Proper summers spent with parents, grandparents and friends.

Water fights with old washing up liquid bottles.

Pugwall

Pugwall

Omg I used to love this. I really wanted to marry him or Stringbean.

Do you remember the song they used to sing at the end "there's no reason why you keep hurtin' me"

I had one of those mouse in the house toys!
My friend had a load of those Jem dolls. They were like cool, giant barbies.

My Child dolls.

Anyone else have Poochie? White plastic dog with pink fluffy ears and when you pressed on his sunglasses the stamper under his bum would stamp on paper.

Making 'perfume' by shoving a load of flowrrs in a glass milk bottle full of water.

New kids on the block.

I still have all my old care bears/cousins, and my My little pony lullaby nursery and paradise estate.

I also still have some of those kellogs bike reflectors and spokey dokeys somewhere in my shoebox of memories!

@nowt that is fab