question for older people?

Question

what thing instantly takes you back to being a child? As smell maybe? a place?

Answer 1

Smell...... dandelion and burdock.
place....... Beaumaris, Anglesey in Wales.
Thing....... Raleigh Chopper bicycle.
Car.......... Vauxhall Chevette.
TV............ Mary, Mungo and Midge, Hector's House, Deputy Dawg

Thanks for that.

Answer 2

I would have to say the smell of freshly cut grass takes me back to being a child. As a child growing up in the 50's, myself and the neighborhood kids played outside for hours and hours a day. And there were ALOT of us! Back then, five children in a family was considered a small family! There were five kids in my family. Our next door neighbors had eight kids. A family across the street had 13 kids. There was also about four more families with an average of six kids per family on the same block.

We did cartwheels on the grass, ran on it, jumped on it and sat on it as we watched the clouds go by. We especially loved playing on freshly cut grass, so when I smell it, I'm always reminded of my childhood.

Answer 3

Quite often a smell or music. I grew up at the beach and sometimes the sunlight will be just right and I can imagine over the next horizon is the ocean.....though I am in Montana. Music from the 60's will often take me back to a particular moment or feeling all those years ago. Kind of a bittersweet experience.

Answer 4

reading some of the questions on Answers. i like to add a bit from my child hood, i lived in London in the 1940s i spent a lot of time in a
Anderson shelter, and when i smell par fin it reminds me of that time also fried eggs my grandad use to get eggs,and boiled a cabbage, it was a good time for me, i did not no about the war very much, it seemed a long way away i was always getting toys from my grandad, i no now they came from the bombed out house.

Answer 5

The smell of certain sweets - pineapple chunks, sweet peanuts,
red lips, floral drops, pear drops, parma violets.

Watching tv in black and white.

Anemones- I used to buy my mum a bunch every Sunday.

Plasticine, varnished floors (as in school gym) smell of frankincense (from church)

The colour mauve in a soft viscose-like material (my favourite dress)

Long grass in fields.

Lazy hot summer days in the park with juice in Tupperware cups(not had that for a long time...)

Answer 6

The things that remind me of being a kid are: the smell of wet cement and wet grass, the taste of grape koolaid, the songs from the 80's bye tears for fears, whitney houston, paula abdul, queen, oldies music, etc.

Answer 7

The Parkinsons

Answer 8

Going to the fair. The music, arcade games. The smell of candyfloss, popcorn and hot dogs.
I still get excited now and love all the rides and I'm 35.........

Answer 9

the smell of a river. I grew up near a river, and many happy days were spent paddling in the shallows chasing minnows, frogs and polly wogs

Answer 10

Seeing clips of old programmes and hearing old music, heard a few disco tracks on the radio this weel, that took me back to my first school days.