What takes you back to your childhood each and every time?...Is it a song, a movie, a tv show?...And activity?

Spill it...

For me, it's songs by the group Bread for some reason lol ...If I hear either "It Don't Matter To Me" or "Make It With You", I'm instantly transported back to Virginia and my mom's kitchen or a friend's basement (Raliegh, from around the corner)...




Also the song 'Crystal Blue Persuasion" puts me immediately back in Chicago and my cousin Sissy being in love with my sister's then-boyfriend lol ...I swear I can see the wallpaper and everything.

I used to have a little bottle of perfume that made me think of a wasp nest down at my grandma's boat house.

^^ Was it the scent or the shape of the bottle that did it?

PARADE: Music from the motion picture, Under The Cherry Moon





The smell of honey suckle in spring




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Clearwater Beach Florida

For me it's the look and smell of autumn in the suburbs. TOTALLY sends me back to walking home from kindergarten and first grade, singing Halloween songs and watching my Jewish neighbors celebrate their High Holy Days.

Yep! I'm that old!

Amaxx said:

Imago said:

Shut it Biatch! Or I'll beat U sensless with a feather duster! (why is there no hissy fit emoticon? )

Amaxx said:

Byron said:

Byron's online!!!

The first thing that popped into my head was H.R. Puff'n'Stuff, weirdly enough.

Imago said:

Oh yeah! Having Connan O'Brien as your bodyguard totally scares Me shitless!

Amaxx said:

If they don't bring Masturbating Bear to the Tonight Show, I'm boycotting.

Byron said:

Wow,the first song reminds me of making these plastic key chains that had a four box loop.

Ace said:

That's so wrong on many levels! Yet fits perfectly for his show!

Amaxx said:

One of my fondest memories is M.B. wankin' it on a Toronto rooftop.

Ace said:

Oh, gawd lol ...Yeah, that takes me back as well




but who would get there first?!?!....

Byron said:

I'm afraid to watch the clip. That show weirded me out.

Muse2NoPharaoh said:

What's a four box loop? lol

Byron said:

the scent

ZombieKitten said:

A wasp-scented perfume, huh? lol

Byron said:

really, I have no idea what it was meant to smell like
I couldn't wear it, but I would take a whiff now and then to relive my childhood

ZombieKitten said:

Actually, I read once that the sense of smell is suppose to be the most powerful memory activator we have ...even moreso than sight or sound.

Byron said:

yup totally
when I smell chocolate pudding mix powder I think of the Donald Duck comics I read as we drove through the canola fields in Denmark on the way up to my grandmas house, and pear flavoured anything makes me think of an elephant and a pebbly beach with pine trees. I've worked out the elephant part though - I'm pretty sure there was a picture of one on the wrapper of the ice-cream

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Lammastide said:

Same here! Buying school supplies & new clothes/shoes. Girl Scouts after school! The holidays, and lots of birthdays in my family. It's my favorite season as well.

Amaxx said:

My maternal grandmother's southern buttermilk biscuits

My paternal great-grandpa's matzoh ball soup

70's Minnie Ripperton & Olivia Newton John on AM radio

Elton John's "Benny and the Jets", Aretha's "Until You Come Back to Me" (the very first songs I remember from being a toddler)

Hoola Hoops

Jiffy Pop Popcorn

Desegregation of Public Schools requiring bussing

My mama's collard greens

Daddy's Basie, Sonny Stitt, Art Pepper albums, Mama had Brick, Issac Hayes, and Parliament Funkadelic

Lola Falana, The 3 Degrees, Lena Horne, Dolly Parton

The Mike Douglass, Flip Wilson, and Dinah Shore Shows

Pop Tarts

American Bandstand and Soul Train

Rainbow colored socks with separated toes

Cheese Twists

Badmitton and Croquet (we learned both in the backyard)

Corned Beef and Pastrami sandwiches

The soap operas Days of Our Lives, Another World, Santa Barabara and General Hospital

Now& Later and Jolly Jolly Ranchers candy

Ottensen said:

And alot of things....