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To be slightly obsessed with things from the past?

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Sonicwasthebestgame · 14/02/2020 16:57

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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BarkandCheese · 14/02/2020 18:45

It’s the wrong time of year really, but this video of BBC Christmas idents is wonderful.

Dylaninthemovies1 · 14/02/2020 19:01

Me too! And I feel a sadness that I’m gettjnf further and further away from those memories

Sonicwasthebestgame · 14/02/2020 19:11

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

I showed dh he laughed and asked why on earth I'm looking at old Argos catalogues. He just doesn't understand!

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74NewStreet · 14/02/2020 19:16

Oh, this thread has made me feel really happy! . 😃

PaperFlowers4 · 14/02/2020 19:27

I recently went to the science museum in London and they have a display of old technology from the 80s and 90s, old computers, phones, etc. Seeing all those bits and bobs brought me right back to my childhood.

coco1728 · 14/02/2020 19:29

Wowzer thought I was only me , I love watching the oldies on Gold too 😊

Wannabangbang · 14/02/2020 19:30

I love looking at and watching programmes about things from the past. I too find it fascinating,

PlomBear · 14/02/2020 19:38

I only ever live in old hospitals that have been converted to flats. It’s my thing. Blush

I did nursing training but I think it’s more the idea of old hospitals that attracts me. The halcyon days that will never come back.

Flufferbum · 14/02/2020 19:56

I hear you OP. I feel like I’ve been here before and since young had the expression ‘old soul’ recited to me so many times. I’m only mid twenties!!! There are groups where you can relive the past? Like Victorian dining evenings, Viking days where you get dressed up etc! I wish someone would open up a world where you can go to different time frames!

whydoihavetogothroughsomuch · 15/02/2020 00:01

I get you op. There are a few things I'm obsessed about from the past and it all looks so familiar I wonder if I had a past life at some point Blush

HavenDilemma · 15/02/2020 00:08

This is me! You just love history! Are you into ur ex too?

Check out Bright Sun Films on YouTube. Also Martin Zero!!

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