Ahhh............Sweet Nostalgia
By betsyraeduke
@betsyraeduke (2670)
United States
February 15, 2010 3:13pm CST
Does anyone else ever buy anything simply for nostalgic reasons? Every once in a while, when I am at the grocery store, I will purchase a can of Hershey's Syrup. I don't mean the squeeze bottle, but specifically, I will get the actual can of Hershey's Syrup. You know, the little tin can with the brown label that has "Hershey's Syrup" printed in silver letters and has the yellow lid?..... Yeah, that! I know the squeeze bottle would be more convenient, but I sometimes buy the can just because that's the way my mom used to buy it when I was a kid. Buying the can reminds me of childhood.
So does anyone else ever buy anything for nostalgic reasons only, or am I the only one? LOL
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
16 Feb 10
My hubby likes to buy the Crush sodas in glass bottles when he see's them. He says there's something about drinking it from a glass bottle that is just soo much better.
@betsyraeduke (2670)
• United States
16 Feb 10
Yes, soda definitely taste better from glass bottles!
@AmbiePam (93740)
• United States
16 Feb 10
I don't know if I've ever even seen Hershey's suyrup in a can. I do however sometimes get Coca-Cola in a six pack of glass bottles. Both my parents remember when Coke was sold like that all the time. It's more expensive now to buy them like that, but I have to say it does taste better from a glass bottle.
@betsyraeduke (2670)
• United States
16 Feb 10
Yes, it is more expensive to buy it glass bottles now, and also the bottles are smaller now too! I agree that it taste better in the glass though.
@Latrivia (2878)
• United States
15 Feb 10
In fall I buy a cinnamon broom, because my mother used to buy one and it made the entire house smell like cinnamon. I also went out and bought a Nativity scene for Christmas two years ago, because one of my favorite Christmas decorations was my mother's blue clay nativity scene.
@betsyraeduke (2670)
• United States
16 Feb 10
A cinnamon broom? What is that exactly? Is it a broom that makes the room smell like cinnamon when you sweep with it? I never heard of a cinnamon broom before. Sounds interesting.
@cream97 (29086)
• United States
15 Feb 10
Hi, betsyraeduke. I don't know what the term "Nostalgia" means. But, I am very sure that it means, buying something that brings back memories... I know that I do buy many foods. The other day, I cooked some turnip greens and it smelled like I was in my aunt's kitchen. My uncle was an country man who could whip up a meal in a flash and he cooked good too! My aunt loved cooking barbecue chicken and it smelled like this in her house. I cooked barbecue ribs this week and it had that same kind of smell. So, yes, certain foods do remind me of back in the days of my earlier childhood.
@betsyraeduke (2670)
• United States
16 Feb 10
Nostalgia: from Merriam Webster's Dictionary: "a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition; also : something that evokes nostalgia"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nostalgia
Your aunt's house must have smelled yummy!
