(By old I mean lost in boxes from when we moved, not old as in before I was born.)
When we moved (6 years ago-ish), I was doing a fantastic job labeling all of the boxes so I would know what was in all of them when it came time to unpack. However, as it got closer and closer to time to have the house cleared out, much of my room was still a mess. I now have boxes, never been unpacked, with labels like “under bed” and “closet floor.” Eek. I unpacked one of those boxes. Reeses peanut butter cups *eyes longingly* and make-up, both of which a threw out.
But the box wasn’t complete devoid of hidden treasures. I found the movie A Walk to Remember. I have to be in the right mood to watch it because even though I’ve probably seen it twenty times and know how it ends, it makes me cry. It made me look back at some of my movies I haven’t watched in years. The Land Before Time series, Hook, Victor Victoria; it was like reliving a small bit of my childhood.
-Eliabeth
Have you rediscovered anything recently? Did this post remind you of something you would want to rediscover? Share your childhood memories.
Ermilia 
I have old TW series like: Have Gun Will Travel, the orignal Walking Tall.
Hi cousin Clinton! Thank you for stopping by the blog.
I’m not familiar with that series. Is it a western?
As cheesy as it sounds, I own all the seasons of Dawson’s Creek on DVD. Whenever I’m home sick, I hunker down and watch episodes for hours. I grew up with that show–going through HS and college at the same time they were. The nostalgia of it somehow makes me feel better. It’s still one of my favorite shows ever and I’m not ashamed to admit it haha.
I only got to watch some of that series, I forget why. I must have been watching it online or something. My “I’m sick – put on repeat” series is The Gilmore Girls. I boycotted it after a certain season end, but picked it back up years later when I got over it. Reba is another one. I’m totally with you on the nostalgia thing. It’s comforting to have something familiar when you’re not feeling good.
Glimore Girls + tang + chicken noodle soup
^healing magic
Aah I love the Gilmore Girls, too! I didn’t watch it while it was actually playing new episodes, but I got into it once they went into syndication and would have marathons. I wanted to BE Rory. Good choice. As for your food choices.. Chicken Noodle is good, but my ultimate comfort food is tomato soup and grilled cheese. Also good on a rainy day.
Thank you! I watched them when they were on until Rory slept with Dean. I was mortified that they made my sweet, innocent Rory and adulterer. I didn’t watch the show for years until I found the first two seasons at Walmart and then friends and family helped me fill in the rest. Now that I’m older and don’t relate to Rory the way I did when I was first watching it, I’m still mad at the writers, but not enough to refrain from watching it.
Oh you and I have such different food tastes lol. I couldn’t gag down tomato soup unless I was starving and even then it would bee difficult. The grilled cheese I would eat so long as it isn’t too cheesy. My boyfriend and I had an odd Jack Sprat thing going when we were in college- he would eat the middle of the grilled cheese and I would eat the crust.
I’m not sure I have a rainy day food. If I do, I don’t have one consciously. For one thing, it only rains about twice a year here.
I still have some of your movies that I discovered while cleaning too.
Which ones?
A Walk to Remember is one of my favourites, so moving!
That was the first movie that got me thinking of bucket list items, but I didn’t actually start writing one until The Bucket List came out. Both movies resonate so well even years after. Timeless classics.
Thanks for dropping by.
At home we have the video cassette of the Disney animation to Robin Hood. It is by far my favourite Disney animation. When I was little, the Robin Hood of that animation was my hero. I used to dress up as Maid Marian and go out in the garden and sing. But we didn’t have own the cassette at the time. We would go to the library, and every single time the cassette was there, I would take it. Anyway, now we somehow own a cassette of Robin Hood, but I’ve never watched it. But I ought to – one day. I’m hoping with both my sisters, like we used to do in the early days …
Awe, I don’t know how many years it’s been since I’ve watched the Disney version of Robin Hood. I remember it well though. I tended to dress up like the Disney Princess more, colored pantyhose on my head because I was so busy growing tall, my body wasn’t concerned with growing much hair. I would flip them over my shoulder and wrap them up in hair-ties. Oh the things I’m so glad have not been committed to film.
You should turn it into a girl’s night in, pop popcorn, snuggle down under a blanket together and relive your childhood.
My husband and I love old movies. Grant, Stewart, Kelly… you name it. But if we are going to mention old things, but old enough to be considered a classic, well I have the whole Friend’s Series (some of them on VHS!!!), I also have some seasons of Ally McBeal.
What else? Ah, yes, I don’t have it on DVD, but if there’s a reposition of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air , I’ll watch it 🙂
:O I still remember the entire Fresh Prince theme song/rap. It’s amazing how much his career has expanded since that series. I have The Pursuit of Happiness n DVD and you’d hardly recognize it’s the same actor. If you’ve never seen him in A.I…. you need to. Thank you for reminding me of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. “You know the lyrics to the Fresh Prince theme song” was on the Facebook page for “You grew up in the 90s if…” right before “The Magic School Bus taught you Pluto was a planet.”
I still have some of the Magic School Bus games for PC. Now I have the overwhelming desire to find them and play some… 😀 Thank you for sharing.
I love Disney movies a lot, one of my favorite Disney movies has to be The Lion King(the first one), at home I have it on VHS. I watch it again every now and then, Friends is an awesome TV show as well I can’t get enough of that either. Another movie, not Disney related, that I personally find good is Requiem for a Dream. The theme song of that movie is one of the songs I can listen to for an entire day straight.
I think Ermisenda send me a YouTube video related to the theme song of Requiem for a Dream but I’ve never heard of it except for that. I miss Disney movies, not the real life actor movies, but the good ol’ cartoon classics. We have an entire shelf full of VHS Disney movies that I haven’t watched in… OH LOOK! Robin Hood! (Relates to an earlier comment) Forgot we had that one. Anyway, I feel like cartoons have lost all of the charm they had when I was growing up. I don’t know if it is different where you are, but in the US, cartoons these days are horrible, sometimes racy and inappropriate. If I ever have children, I’m going to have to buy cartoon series from my childhood rather than let them rot their brains on television shows now. I swear, some cartoons are as bad as Jerry Springer. Really makes me miss the Lion King and similar movies.
I agree that the first one is better. Wasn’t there a third one or was it something like 1 1/2. I haven’t seen it, I was wondering if you had. There’s also a movie titled “Kimba” with a white lion that looks like an almost identical rip off, but I’ve only seen previews.
I haven’t seen the second and third one, not from memory at least.
Here is the soundtrack again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFnsv_N2xbE
*oh noes I listened to it again, this is gonna be stuck in my head for a while now ^^*
A reasonably new disney movie I can recommend is: The princess and the frog, I really like it. It’s set in the time of Blues music and they incorporated this in the movie, it’s a really good one.
And yes cartoons these days are so different, I remember the good old days with Scooby Doo etc. right now the quality of most cartoons is appaling but at least you have a channel called Boomerang, at least in Holland, where the older cartoons get shown, it’s a channel I like to watch when I am ill.
Yay you for liking a Disney Princess movie! I had mixed feelings about The Princess and the Frog. While I liked Disney diversifying into a new culture, it felt like they were trying a little too hard to make her stereotypically black. The other Princesses had backgrounds (like the houses and castles) that placed them in a certain country if you looked for it, otherwise they were pretty generic. I didn’t grow up thinking “I want to be the Princess from France.” But, ignoring politics, I loved the movie. I want that green wedding dress; it is my favorite of all the princess dresses (I’m a girl, I judge the dresses :P)
Another aspect of The Princess and the Frog that I liked better than all of the other movies (except Beauty and the Beast since that is still #1) is that there was time for the relationship to develop. I never liked Sleeping Beauty because I don’t believe in love at first sight and even if I were to humor someone and waive the possibility of its existence, I don’t believe in a lasting relationship based on knowing each other for a few hours whether you saved my life and we’re soul mates or not.
Personal opinion.
One movie that I remember watching as a child is The Plague Dogs. It’s an animated movie about a pair of dogs who escape from a research laboratory and try to survive in the wild with the help of a fox. Quite moving as well.
Awe, I want to see that now. Have you ever seen All Dogs go to Heaven? I liked the first one, but the second one not so much.