To be slightly obsessed with things from the past?

[Sonicwasthebestgame]

Is anyone else like this? Not really sure how to explain.

I'm a bit obsessed with things from the past. For example where I grew up there was a bakery type shop that sold cakes, bread, cold meat etc, I'd go in with my mum most days after school, it closed down when I was in my early teens but I'm forever searching online trying to find a photo of this shop, everyone thinks I'm mad but I can still smell it, I'd love to go in there one more time. I've also got a thing about old supermarkets that have gone I spend hours hunting for photographs.

Same with many old buildings really that have perhaps changed over the years, I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and look at everything the way it was. My house is pretty old and I'd love to see what it was like when it was newly built.

Old retro toys too, clothes I'd wear as a child, just everything about the past, looking at old aerial photographs. The thoughts of things that have been there for a long time.

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Are you happy in the present or worried about the future? There’s some security in dwelling on what you know.

I'd love to be able to go back to the old village shops I walked past and visited as a child. Feels somehow like I didn't really 'see' them back then. Didn't appreciate or take things in.
Now when I come across things from my childhood I take a walk down memory lane and try to see things from back then and feel an aching nostalgia and almost like I want to go back and truly appreciate.
If this makes sense

I love old hospitals...

I'm ok, I don't want to go back to the past, well maybe for a day trip, I'm just fascinated by it.

^I'd love to be able to go back to the old village shops I walked past and visited as a child. Feels somehow like I didn't really 'see' them back then. Didn't appreciate or take things in.
Now when I come across things from my childhood I take a walk down memory lane and try to see things from back then and feel an aching nostalgia and almost like I want to go back and truly appreciate.
If this makes sense^

Oh my gosh this ^

When I was a child we had a little row of old fashioned shops, a bakers, a butchers, a post office selling cards and stationery, a sweet shop. I just want to see it all again.

Oh my god this is me!!!!!

I spent fortunes tracking down a coach built pram for my children the same as one I saw a picture of my nanna pushing!

Old pictures of the way our shops looked when I was a child, and “ooh boys look, that shop used to have a pub there this is it before they knocked it down!”

You should go to beamish for a day out. Its like going back in time. The old dentist is pretty scary!

I'm exactly the same OP!
There was an old sausage and pie shop my grandmother used to take me in. I used to love walking past it. The smell reminded me of her. Then it closed down. I was heartbroken.

I like the village Market too. My grandad lived to buy his smoked fish there.

For me it triggers happy childhood memories.
I love going in my parents loft every now and then to look at my old clothes and toys. I'll have to do that again soon as I haven't in years and now have DCs. Be lovely to find an old toy still in good nick so my daughter can enjoy it.

I’m the same, although not just my past. I love old film and photos of high streets and shops and people just going about their daily lives. I think it’s like the saying “the past is another country, they do things differently there”. It’s both familiar and strange. One of my guilty pleasures is watching YouTube videos of old adverts too.

I am like this too! I would love a time machine so I could wander around in the past. I love looking at old photos of my area and trying to find pictures and maps of things I knew.

Yes, I get you OP.

I had those things in my childhood as well, and I know what you mean when you say it'd be nice just to see them again... but for me that's bound up with the fact that period of my childhood I was really happy, and I feel like that's the period of time that sort of made me who I am, iyswim.

We moved to another part of the country in my early teens and I've never really felt "at home" anywhere since then, so that's probably part of it too.

We lived in a 1930s semi when I was a child, and now I've just moved into one with my own family, which has made me extremely happy. One we completed on this house I bought a book called The History of the 1930s house, which is fantastic, as it shows what the rooms would have looked like decorated in 1930s contemporary style, the materials they used, types of stained glass they used in the doors and windows, etc. It just gives you a sense of place/belonging.

I'm interested in old hospitals too.

Like watching old adverts.

It's not just things from my past but usually things/places I know.

I'm the same. I often think about places from. My childhood in the 90s that have changed

Wow, this is me. Right down to YouTubing old adverts 😳

I could have written your post, op...

Me too! I love looking at old photos and maps from 100 years ago to see how it changed. There's a Facebook group that posts photos of the local area and I can't get enough of it! Just love it. In fact my geography gcse project was about my local area and how it changed and I remember I got in touch with the local historical society and loved it. It's was over 20
Years ago but I still have very fond memories of researching! Not sure why I didn't pursue this is a career!

Yes, I’ve always been like this.

Yes. I love anything ‘old’. Clothes, furniture, buildings... I’m obsessed with vintage and retro advertising, which I know is a bit strange.

I'm like this too, Pinterest is my nostalgic friend. I'm also on a part times type group on FB from where I grew up. I also go on holiday to the same place I went with my parents. Luckily, it hasn't changed so I can continue to re-live my seaside memories with my own children.

@Sonicwasthebestgame I’M ABSOLUTELY THE SAME AS YOU!

I love finding pictures of old High Streets I used to frequent, clothes, toys and books I used to have, TV shows I used to watch... I find it awakens a shadow of something that’s been loitering in my memory and completing it and reliving it is so joyful. Especially things from childhood.

It’s one of the reasons I LOVE whoever has taken the role to make this site...

retromash.com/argos/

Omg those Argos catalogues!!

@Sonicwasthebestgame right?! It’s awesome. I found all the things I’d longed for as a child.

I’m sorry if your Valentine’s evening is now taken up with revisiting Christmas Lists of Yore! 😃

Should I be embarrassed to admit I’ve already spent many happy hours perusing the old Argos catalogues site?

Me too. Like a PP when I see something from my past I get a physical, gut reaction of yearning. Can't really describe it other than that.