Photos That Have Us Feeling Nostalgic About the Past

5. Never Forget Where You Came From

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Our memories abound of opening one of these $1.99 packets with great enthusiasm, eager to discover what was within. Usually you would find yourself pulling out a small plastic perfume bottle smelling of pure plastic and a nail file roughly as useful as sandpaper. Still, your day was utterly perfect when dad or mum arrived home bearing one of these as a gift. These reasonably priced relics were markers of childhood delight and expectation, not merely cheap toys. Opening these packages was an adventure in and of itself, the crinkle of the plastic wrapper, the thrill of finding what lay inside, and the predictable mix of happiness and minor disappointment that followed. These toys offered us important lessons about gratitude and the small pleasures in life even if they clearly had limited lifetime and restrictions. Every child who grew up a few decades ago is familiar with exactly what we are talking about: those inexpensive plastic toys that promised the world but gave minutes of fun before breaking, yet nevertheless managed to produce lifetime memories we still treasure today.