Is there anything from your childhood that you've held on to and are still a fan of or even borderline obsessed with?

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When I was a child I grew up Catholic and I was always fascinated by stained glass windows and all the candles. Even though I'm not religious anymore, I still love anything stained glass and I buy scented candles like they are going to disappear.

SnowedIn · Accepted Answer

I think there are three things that have remained constant since I was a little boy.

An intoxicating, mesmerizing, enchanted love for oceans, and waves, and beaches.
Ships, in particular ocean liners (not cruise ships, thank you!) and clipper ships.
Architecture.

Love the story about stained glass. That brings back memories. If you haven't been and if you have a bucket list (heck, even if you don't), add the cathedral in Chartres, France to the list. The stained glass there is arguably the best in the world.

Wish4UrB00ty · Accepted Answer

Kind of nature really. Nature and flying! Lol! I love to fly and tried at one point to get my pilots license. Now I just dream about it. But then yeah the ocean and a windy day the mountains and the warm sun beating down on me at the peak. Leaves turning colors the smell of pine needles. I have a noise maker to help me fall asleep at night and I set it to the crashing waves of a beach.

DarkCarousel · Accepted Answer

Music and dance— in the form of ballet, ice skating, or trapeze. I love to watch. It’s captivating and brings me to tears sometimes. And these

dustybiker · Accepted Answer

I’ve never been one to take something on and then loose interest in it, so it’s more that I absorbed all of those interests and keep them with me.  Stained glass is lovely, I agree.

NamerOfStars · Answer

I love stained glass. My mother and I were going to take a class in making it just before she first got sick; priorities kinda shifted after that, and we never got a chance.

And it's not only pretty; I also love it because it's still called "stained glass". In any other context, "stained" is inherently negative; I can appreciate that there hasn't been any big effort to start calling it something more euphemistic. It's also not always religious in nature:

Is there anything from your childhood that you've held on to and are still a fan of or even borderline obsessed with?

Or not completely religious, at least.

petitedollbabee · Answer

If we’re talking brands or products that I still enjoy/buy from my childhood, I can’t think of anything. But if you mean anything that I’ve kept from my childhood that I still enjoy, I’ve still got my favourite blankey from when I was about 5. I can’t sleep unless it’s on my bed. I don’t have to have it in my hands or anything, but just knowing that it’s somewhere on my bed while I sleep is comforting.

Lliam · Answer

Starting at around 3 years old, I became fascinated with dinosaurs. Because of that, when someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would say paleontologist. It made me sound precocious. But, yeah, I thought paleontology meant going out and finding fossils.

I had lots of toy dinosaurs and, later, collected quite a few fossils.

So I still have a box full of some of my toy dinosaurs and I still have my fossil collection.

ArtemisSilver · Answer

Fixing things. I used to have to fix broken things if I wanted anything nice as a poor kid. I still enjoy tinkering even though I no longer need to.

Some things are getting too tiny to fix though. Working on phones and similar micro circuitry is sometimes just not worth the trouble. Particularly when they make design choices that actively discourage doing your own repairs.

TrueConfection · Answer

Clouds Airplanes The ocean (especially waves crashing against the rocks) Birds Girl Scout cookies 😋

Msputiton · Answer

Stain glass windows are so beautiful.  I would say only thing i still love from my childhood is mlp

Sparkie460 · Answer

I have a Christmas ornament that my grandmother gave me when I was 6 years old. It's a boy angel kneeling and praying. I have since named it Aaron after my first son that we lost

DenizLikesTennis · Answer

No, not really. I have kept all the good memories in my mind that I display again and again. Otherwise I let it go. It's time to move forward😔

Coden7 · Answer

Fighter Jets.  I grew up living underneath an Air Force Base. I spent some time away from home and the only thing I missed was the roaring sound from above lol.

NathanDavis · Answer

not obsessed but very fond of, yes... Legos, lmao

DavidRaul · Answer

Actually nope. I have left all the things behind i would do during my childhood. All i did was play sports, so thats still going on

BJP21 · Answer

I still enjoy going through the toy section when Im grocery shopping at Target, and Ill throw the occasional candy bar in to eat when Im on the road.

TCredo · Answer

I was fortunate to grow up close to beach areas and we would go often from when I was a baby through my childhood years. Have always enjoyed it and at times yearn for it.

BLP11520 · Answer

Books, always loved them. I own at least 500 of them.

bulldoglover3 · Answer

Books about the titanic and other historic stuff and one teddy bear

talka20 · Answer

Toy guns n balls Chips floor And probabmy much more

Andres77 · Answer

Libraries. Bookstores, especially antique bookstores.

Christoff92 · Answer

Watching great cartoon shows back in the late 1980's

CubaPirate · Answer

Supporting Leeds United Football Club⚽️

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

Yes there is my comic books loved them as a kid love them even more now

big_ben_007 · Answer

Winnie the Pooh and cheesy computer games

BobbieBoy666 · Answer

Old T. V. show. back in the 1070's 💞

miniskirtcaley81 · Answer

My first teddy bear

Agape93 · Answer

Nope

Rangers · Answer

I miss being capable of feeling joy

Asking_for_knowledge · Answer

My dk

PeterLegg91 · Answer

Leather belts 😂

DiegoO · Answer

Peanut butter

Alex8736 · Answer

rosary beads

krin_m · Answer

Books! Lots of them1 All genre!

LiamJHayden · Answer

Guitars.

Camson22 · Answer

cool

dillydoll · Answer

Me back in 2013

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