Do you like finding/buying stuff from your childhood?

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I like it a lot...like when you find stuff on Ebay and you say, "Hey, I had that when I was little!" Like today I was browsing Ebay and found a squeaky Baby Mickey Mouse toy exactly like the one I had when I was little....and when I got older, it got donated to the church and no one even asked me if I wanted to keep it for when/if I had kids of my own.

I've actually bought a lot of stuff from Ebay and antique stores/flea markets that I had when I was a kid but lost....like a couple weeks ago, I found a soft, Puffalump - style rabbit wearing a suit and hat that was close to one I had when I was little, too...only the one I found had a different nose, outfit, and was smaller. I just like doing this cuz it reminds me of being a kid and when I actually felt safe and "good enough" for everybody (like before my parents got their divorce)....I'm not into age regression stuff or anything like that (i.e. using diapers and bottles and pretending to be a baby again), I just like to surround myself with momentos of a happier time in my life.

Does anyone else like to do this, or feel a need to do this?

I've been doing that with books. I've found quite a few on Etsy. Unfortunately, I can't remember the titles of some of my favorites.

The reason I don't still have the toys & things I had when I was a kid is because I outgrew them. I'm practical & sentimental value isn't a useful reason for me to have something. I do sometimes buy SNES games on eBay but they were games I never had that I played somewhere. The way I relive/go back to my childhood is by watching TV shows or movies or listening to music that was out when I was a kid; & that's free unlike buying things on eBay thanx to pirating i think I cared more about TV & video-games than toys as a kid usually

I never buy things from my childhood because that was a very painful time for me, emotionally.

I'm sorry. *HUG*

I just like to read teens' books and listen to songs that I liked to listen to, when I was a teen, but not a child. I also sometimes play old NES games I played in my preteens and teens, online this time. I'd like to buy a cheap Barbie doll once again. That's all. Books I read as a young child are either already exchanged for something else by me or given to my cousins, anyway it would be weird if I read kindergarten aged kids' books now, but my other books - ones by L. M. Montgomery or F. Hodgson Burnett - are still on my shelves; those are for teens as well, they aren't typical kiddie books so I still can read them.

I'm not 'older', but I still own all my childhood stuff.

I don't often look back on my childhood with found memories either Mick. NOT that it was all bad because there were some good things but I remember the bad more easily than the good. I rather focus on my now & future but having a random discussion with someone about something from our childhoods is nice too but it doesn't often happen

I've done this before. I feel like I'm back in time to a simpler time in my life when I didn't have to worry worth a darn.

I would dearly love to, but being 55 years old when I find something it's out of my price range.
I have quit looking at toys on Ebay because it pains me to know that if I still had it, what it is now worth. I suppose that's why I liked that episode of Amazing Stories where the man held onto all his toys and comic books and sold them as a man to make a fortune. (Not that every toy or comic book I owned was worth a fortune. I still have Lionel trains, and they're not worth much.)

I never really bought anything I had as a kid, but I do still like to buy action figures. However, I like to buy them because they're fun to collect and I make YouTube skits with them, like this!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwmxSFom7qE[/youtube]

YES, mostly cause I still like those things lawl. *will never grow up*

Yes, I'm "guilty" of this. Just yesterday I ordered a book I had in my childhood. And I go all ooh and aah over seeing toys/ TV shows/ candy / books from my childhood.

Absolutely. Its been a major hobby for me, collecting the things I had, or wished I had had. I never quite totally gave up liking certain toys, so I still have some of those originals and they are of course especially cherished. But I like toys in general so it doesn't even have to actually be from my childhood to think its cool.

But I have learned along the way, that it is sometimes just the hunting and craving of the items that is most interesting, and at some point you start to amass too large collection that spends all its time in boxes stored away. So if I don't 'use' something, that is periodically take it out to look at and enjoy I either give it away or resell it. I like doing it so much I actually turned it into a small business that I do specifically to earn some income.



This is a pic of some guys I have started recollecting fairly recently. The story behind them is this. As a kid playing with green army men and tanks and such was always a favorite pastime. When I was about 10, my older sister's friend went on a trip to England and brought me back a small set of these Britians Ceremonial soldiers (like you see in parades and guarding the palace in England) a gift. It was the first time I had seen quality figures, fully painted, with moving parts and seperate accessories. They were like the action figures of my time. Anyway, I got hooked on the new style and developed a liking for setting up large scenes. It is enjoyable to set them up in formations and I enjoy the visual ascetics.

When my son was younger, we had a great system going. I made a large table in the basement and would bring out the different types in rotation. I would do the part that I liked, which was setting up a scene. And then he would play with them, which usually meant fighting a large battle and knocking them all down. Then I would set them all up again and the cycle would repeat. Some of what I have is rarer and expensive, like $25-$50 each. A few are $100+. Some have become fragile with age, but I came not to care and if he liked them, onto the battlefield it went. I would even open 'Mint in box' items I purchased. I made a joke about it with myself, calling this principle my 'Prime Directive'. That if something was too valuable to me to actuallly use it for its intended purpose and give someone else some enjoyment then I had my priorities all wrong and needed to give it up.

Its also where my user name comes from.

Not for me really. I still have, and would not willingly part with, a few things from my childhood. But trying to find and buy something today from my childhood (other than maybe finding and getting back an actual item of mine from that time, which someone else has had meantime), seems like it wouldn't mean the same to me.

Charles