everyone has nostalgic games and whatnot, but what are some nostalgic decorations for you? Like picture frames, paintings, Knick knacks and so on?

[Soundstation116]

everyone has nostalgic games and whatnot, but what are some nostalgic decorations for you? Like picture frames, paintings, Knick knacks and so on? Something that the mere sight of brings you back to your early days before the internet singularity?

Mine is this specific cat painting that used to hang in the pediatric waiting room at my doctors office, it was from the 90's I'm sure and everytime I came to the doctor I would stare at it in joy at all the cats on the tree.

The Last time I was ever there they'd remodeled the place and I never got to see it again...

 

[№56]

I had to eat dinner off this placemat every night as a kid and now the names and faces of the first 42 US presidents are permanently burned into my brain, especially Player 1 Grover Cleveland and Player 2 Grover Cleveland.

 

[qwerty]

My grandparents had these oil/water decorations similar to this:

A lot of my elementary school teachers also had those horrible "motivational" posters. Here is an example:

 

[Andy Kaufman]

In the 90s in Germany so called 'Window Colors' were extremely popular.
I actually don't know if they were a thing internationally.
Basically it was DIY window decorations and the colours were transparent.

You would paint them with these bottles on a foil and then stick that onto the glass of the window. Making them was part of a fun and it was marketed as an activity you can do with your kids. So most designs were accordingly cheesy and colourful.

They were hot for like 5 years and everyone got them and then suddenly they fell out of fashion and you stopped seeing them. I remember when I was 5 and it was the 31st of December 1999 and my sister and me made these big "2000" numbers in window colors in celebration of the new millennium. I thought it was a cool idea to mix several colours together but just ended up with a brown sludge while my sister's was actually pretty.

Were they a thing in your country?

 

[zalaz alaza]

80s doors really do it for me. So much so that I am in the process of hunting one down to install on my own house. We intend on painting ours but the plywood/veneer look is more accurate to my memory. I don't know if these are really decorations, but close enough i guess. Here are some fine specimens.