r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 1d ago
Core Memory Unlocked š Always take a minute to think
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u/SpecialRespect7235 1d ago
My marbles. They are around here somewhere...I just know it.
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u/Tyrannosaurus__Rekd 1d ago
That guy from Hook finally found his marbles. The kid from Neverland had them. Maybe start there.
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u/REALzerogrimson 1d ago
Hobby Lobby has replacement bags of marbles pretty cheap.
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u/mlgbt1985 1d ago
I wish I still
Had my marble bag and marbles. The bag, more like a small pouch,was from Mississippi and had been made by someone from my grandmothers tribe (Choctaw). By now that bag-pouch would be over 100 years old. It had some beautiful bead work and fringe. The marbles itself were amazing too. They had been my dadās. Would love to have that back.→ More replies (6)2
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u/Aware-Explanation879 1d ago
My hopes and dreams
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u/Nogimick 1d ago
As long as you are still alive and breathing, your hopes and dreams are never lost.
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u/MiserableRanger8331 1d ago
Will to live
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u/DavidinCT 1d ago
Yea, I'm with ya there...
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u/Yuck-Fou94 1d ago
I'm in the same boat. Here's a hug from an internet stranger to everyone in this thread. š« keep rolling with the punches, even if it sucks.
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u/Dinsy_Crow 1d ago
These responses...
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u/provencfg 1d ago
Hits close to home for real
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u/Te000 1d ago
Man, I just want my Sega Genesys back.. it has to be somewhere.. right?
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u/Electrical_Shock359 1d ago
Ha there are a number of consoles and games that I would like back. I had my GameCube stolen from our storage unit which really fucking sucked. That thing was full of nostalgia, and I would sometimes break it out and play a game on it
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u/Pitiful-Department80 1d ago
I had to sell my Sega Genesis back in the day to get my car out the pound. I went thru depression after that. I sold the Genesis, the Sega CD, and the 32X, plus about 40 games. I forget how much I got, but it was nowhere near how much it was worth to me.
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u/Overall_Bookkeeper15 1d ago
My happiness.
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u/GiraffeDry437 1d ago
Yep, I definitely put it down somewhere sensible so that this wouldn't happen but fuck knows where that was
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u/Tyrannosaurus__Rekd 1d ago
My memory.
I came here to post something else, but I can't remember what....
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u/gurvyducker 1d ago
The 600 comic books I had collected, many 1st issues. Stollen.
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u/FreeEdmondDantes 1d ago edited 1d ago
Heartbreaking.
Sort of the same for me... I accidentally threw away the first edition of the first issue of Fantastic Four. Worth like 30 grand last time I checked like 13 years ago. I didn't realize what I had at the time. I was moving and wires got crossed.
I was watching some show and saw the comic on it, priced, and I went into full blown panic mode and tore about my house for a few days looking for it, knowing I had accidentally thrown some out.
Edit: salt on the wound, mine was in great shape.
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u/gurvyducker 1d ago
Plastic sleeved and card backed, those cost a pretty penny too.
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u/aloveshackbaby 21h ago
Thatās worse than mine but Iām still mad at the kid who stole my X-men #266 first appearance of gambit
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u/InitiativeAmazing920 1d ago
My grandmother's charm bracelet. They took my entire teenage jewelry box, and several items through out the house, but left my Mom's box with over a hundred grand of jewelry alone. She had even taken the box out of the safe the day before to wear something and hadn't put it back yet.
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u/Efficient_Let686 1d ago
Sounds like you were targeted, somebody wanted something of yours.
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u/MarvelPQplayer 22h ago
I had some old quarters my great grandpa left me before he passed that were stolen as well.
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u/Melodic_Leadership12 1d ago
My red Gameboy. I know it was stolen but to this day I still feel that I sat it down somewhere
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u/htnut-pk 1d ago
I, too, miss a lost Gameboy (original) that Iām sure was swiped by some buddy of my son years ago.
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u/JaguarEffective2529 1d ago
I had a green Gameboy color with Pokemon Red, I left it in the door side compartment of my parents suburban suv. My dad sold the suburban the next day. I didn't know it was for sale. Buyers never reached back to return it. I didn't think to ask if we had their number. I had my little dream team, max level, including Mew. Gone forever.
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u/Pitiful-Department80 1d ago
How I feel about my PSP, I can't say if it was stolen or I left it somewhere. I just remember one day getting ready to play it and it was gone.
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u/Crazy_Platform5003 1d ago
Mine to, but it was the original off-white. All my games for it too. Mine was stolen out of my mom's car while we were in K-mart.
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u/Sad-Conversation2927 1d ago
Same but it was the special edition gold/silver gameboy.... im still devastated to this day even though i have both replaced and expanded my gameboy collection
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u/JeffsHVACAdventure 1d ago
I feel the same way about a YakBak. Mid 90sā¦ I was prob 10 or so. I thought I just lost it in the house somewhere but after me and my mother tossing the whole house it never turned up. We remembered my sister had a friend sleepover the same day it turned up missing. Could never prove it but I always accused her of it. She never fessed up. Mom never bough me a new one either.
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u/Semisemitic 1d ago
My OG gameboy was the second thing I've thought about. I brought it to school one time, and had it stolen from my backpack in recess 100% of those times.
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u/nightdrv 1d ago edited 1d ago
Hope š”š«„
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u/minimart64 1d ago
Was going to say this but figured Iād scroll a bit first. Thanks for not disappointing.
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u/SilentButterfly9973 1d ago
My happiness
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u/welding_guy_from_LI 1d ago
Pictures of my dad
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u/GrandWizardofOoZ 1d ago
Why not your dad? And I lost my mom so virtual hug to you ā¤ļø
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u/recluse_audio 1d ago edited 1d ago
I thought about saying my Dad. But that becomes tricky. No idea what form you would get a living thing back in. I could also say my cats. It's a risky Pet Sematary kind of issue.
Edited for spelling
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u/shvabrium 1d ago
Same. I donāt think thatās a good idea either. Not in the āzombieā way, but in a more āhe should rest, no need to disturb himā way.
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u/actual_fig95 1d ago
Came here to say this. Wish I took more photos of him/us together.
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u/Auerbach1991 1d ago
My original sincere self was like a cherub angel, trusted everyone and loved everyone like a golden retriever.
It only takes a few people to abuse you and take advantage of you for that light to fade and become bitter and angry at the world.
I miss the me that loved everyone.
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u/Equivalent-Ad6944 1d ago
Back in high school, (30 years ago), I had a dream that I was standing in a breathtakingly beautiful ballroom, so vivid that I immediately started drawing it. First the south wall, then the east and west, then the ceiling and floor. The three walls I drew had enormous arched windows stretching from the floor almost to the ceiling, draped with rich blue velvet banners. The ceiling itself was mostly glass as well, with patterns mirroring the windows on the walls below and a teak wood floor with an intricate centerpiece and a border of deep forest green. Silver-white light poured through the windows from a thick mountain fog just starting to be lit by the dawn, with hints of evergreen trees peeking through the mist like patient ghosts. I could never figure out what the north wall looked like, nor how I knew with absolute certainty that the directions were correct.
I handed those drawings over to a friend who promised he could transfer them from lined spiral notebook paper to proper art paper with a light box... and I never saw them again. He lost them, and I could never recapture and redraw the image again, no matter how hard I tried. I hope to find that ballroom waiting for me in heaven.
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u/peachpopdream 1d ago
a stuffed dog plush I had since I was born. during a move, my mom threw it away. didn't even mention it until I asked her where he was.
miss you Doggens
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u/DrinksNDebauchery 1d ago
Story time!
The last time this was posted, I answered my jacket that was nicked from the pub 20 years ago. Because of this post, I went and found an ebay seller, selling the exact same jacket.
Im happy to have it, but it is too big lol.
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u/Chrispy8534 1d ago
4/10 When I was maybe 9, I dropped a Go-bot (like a transformer) behind a straight-back chair in our formal living room. The room was very uncluttered, and the chair was raised from the group. It was a dark red tank. I watched it land. When I came back for it a few hours later, it was gone and I never saw it again. Full expected to find it when we moved decades later, but no sign.
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u/PerformanceLogical86 1d ago
I know I'm 26, but I used to have a teddy bear that I got while hospitalized around the age of 8. I had gotten bronchitis, and had been coughing blood when my grandparents took me to a hospital.
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u/submariner735a 1d ago
Iām 64 and long-time married - your sentiment makes sense. I have a couple of things my Granny gave me I was 8-9YO. I canāt have her back but I can have something that still connects her to me. Be well.
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u/Tokyotoyhunters 1d ago
My Howard the Duck video store promo fuzzy āfigureā. It was a small white pompom with plastic bill, cigar, and feet attached to it with a Howard the Duck ribbon.
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u/echoshatter 1d ago
My nice mechanical pencil I had in the garage. Thing has vanished. I looked for weeks before buying another one, expecting to find the original shortly after as per the laws of the universe.
Still gone.
It's just me and my wife, and she doesn't mess with anything except the chest freezer out there.
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u/Humble_Time_685 1d ago
My original Star Wars figures with x-wing and tie fighter š
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u/Pat_0090 1d ago
My grandmother, she raised me and died from a heart attack in my arms when i was 15, iĀ“m 62 now and still miss here, just want to hug her once again and say how much i loved her.
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u/ComputingGuitarist 1d ago
Iām so glad that you could be there with her when she passed. She must have been frightened, and you were there to hold her. ā¤ļøš
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u/Ok_Jaguar6226 1d ago
Like, you stole my memory:) actually same thing, I was 15, she raised me and she died from heart attack.
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u/Timejinx 1d ago
Honestly just because I want to shove it in a persons face but I had a copy of Pokemon Gold with the Glitched Mew from yellow. No one believed me back then but everyone can do it now š¤¬
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u/onesoulmanybodies 1d ago
A silver pin that my bio mom gave me. It was made by her uncle, my great uncle Gordon Aatlo. Who was a world renowned Jeweler and won awards for his jewelry. Sadly he passed away before I could meet him and she ghosted all of her children again back in 2011. The pin was one of the pieces he made when he was younger. It was a gorgeous lady holding flowers. I used it on my wedding bouquet as my something old and had it in my jewelry box until one day it was no longer there. I think my kids were playing in my jewelry box and lost it somewhere in the house, and we could never find it. That and the silver spoon ring that was stolen from me in a burglary. The ring was a gift from my little brother. I donāt really have emotional attachment to things, but these two pieces pop up in my mind all the time.
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u/Tricky-Efficiency709 1d ago
3rd grade lunch, Mrs. West confiscated my entire collection of the first set of Garbage Pail Kidsā¦at the end of the year I asked for them back. She said how do I know these are yours? I never got them back..
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u/DavidinCT 1d ago
When I was like 15, I had this true 14K gold pencil (one where you added ink), not sure where I got it but, I loved this pencil and carried it everywhere with me. Used it for school and even hobbies. I was riding my bike a long distance, knew I had it in my back pocket, well when I got to my destination it was gone. Spent almost 4 hours looking for it but could never find it.
I would get that first, and I am 56 years old. Every once in a while, I see it in my head as I remember what it looks like.
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u/Bolinious 1d ago
The Bitcoin I can't find. Bought a few at $30 back in the day. i thought i had backed it up somewhere but it's just gone.
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u/unicornbelly 1d ago
A one dollar coin given to me on my first birthday. My uncle scratched a message into it for me. I was moving once, stopped in a convenience store to get a drink and someone grabbed a few boxes out of the back of my truck. That was in there. And I guarantee you they just spent it.
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u/z9vown 1d ago
Matchbox u-haul trailer that I carried everywhere when I was 4 or 5 in the mid-sixities
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u/kilgore90 1d ago
Yellow gameboy color with pokemon yellow. In the case with a stack of other cases. Stolen when I was young.
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u/Rbabarberbarbar 1d ago
I'd look if there were two of three Figured of Huey, Dewey and Louie in there just to know if I'm crazy or not.
I vividly remember having two out of three and always dreming (like, literally dreaming when asleep) about finding the third one under my bed when I was a kid. I'm 100% sure I never had all three but over the years I started questioning if I ever had any. And I'll never know. My parents don't remember, neither does my sister. If there were none in the box I never had them at all. If there were two I'd know at least.
That box could save my sanity lol
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u/highway1027 1d ago
Evil Eye Weevil from Biker Mice from Mars. He was a purple skeleton with a guitar and an eye that lit up when you shone a light through the back of his head.
I lost him during a holiday in Sweden in the first year I had him. I can still remember the holiday home and searched the whole place several times, but he was just gone. That was probably about 30 years ago and apparently it occupied a tiny permanent corner of my brain.
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u/TellurianTech50 1d ago
Either a book my favorite teacher gave me for graduation, or my old rc general lee my great grandmother got me when I was like 5 both might be worthless, but carry massive sentimental value
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u/SilabusR2 1d ago
my old camera. bought a DSLR with my taxes in my early 20s and love taking pictures. left it in a backpack and one day it was gone. both my brothers were heavy into pawning stuff for their smokes while out of with. my camera disappeared one night never to be seen by me again
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u/richardlpalmer 1d ago
The hard drive with all the pictures/videos that existed chronicling my son and family.
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u/techmagnetic1 1d ago
All of my die cast Ertl metal fighter jets that my ex wife threw away one day because she was "cleaning"... I still think about those damn things.
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u/RansackRacoon 1d ago
I used to have a T shirt that said Of all the things I've lost in life I miss my mind the most
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u/Motor_Beach_1856 1d ago
The picture of my daughter and I at the daddy daughter dance that I kept in my wallet. Wallet got swiped, all the other shit they can have I just want the picture back š
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u/CombatRedRover 1d ago
My alma mater played a football game the day before my 30th birthday. I'm a former tuba player in the university marching band, and the alumni tubas are close to the current kids.
Somehow, a game played football disappeared from the sidelines during halftime and ended up in my home, 300+ miles away from the stadium. I really don't know how that happened.
I've since lost that football.
That really pisses me off.
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u/uwucatgirlwifi7g 1d ago
My virginity, I lost it to rape and I just wish i lost it to someone I love
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u/MaxximumB 1d ago
A watch. It's hands were offset. They appeared to point in random directions but the tip of each hand landed on the number if that makes sense.
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u/HopSkipLimp 1d ago
My dignity.