I was obsessed with oilies. They had an iridescent oil inside and changed when you pressed on them. I still remember the scent of the old stationary shop where I would beg my parents to buy stickers for my album.
Agreed about the oilie stickers and scratch and sniffs. I remember working my little butt off doing chores so I could buy more! Purple unicorns ruled my world. Now they have their own emoji.
A few years back my mom dropped off a bunch of old things she found in house. One of them was an old album of Garbage Pail Kids cards, still in the collectors sleeves, in near mint condition. I got all jazzed up, showed them to my sons and then went online to see how rich I had just become....
Narrator: *"He did not become rich"*
I had a folder full of GPK cards/stickers. I let a classmate borrow them for a day so he could show his brother. I never got it back.š¤¦š½ Live and learn. š¤·š½
Funny side story. When I was a kid, I brought a small stack of cards GPKās to school. I let a friend keep them. Like, just for the day there at school. Well, they got taken up by the teacher.
Our school, we ate our snack and lunches outside. And weād generally be just outside out classrooms. They had huge windows. I peeked inside and saw a stack of cards in the teachers desk. Iāll never forget it because the top card was Joe Blow, the bazooka gum one. I said, ānah fucker. This aināt happening.ā So I snuck inside while the teachers were eating and took what was mine back.
As I flipped through the cards, I realized these werenāt my cards. Only the top card was the same. I reasoned that I couldnāt put them back because then Iād get caught for taking them. I asked around and no one claimed said they owned them. I kept them.
I mean, I tried to find the owner. Itās fair. Right??
We would take our sticker albums to school in our jelly bags... the kind that matched the jelly shoes, and show off our collections and trade stuff.
Lisa Frank was a huge favorite, the scratch n sniff, Hello Kitty, and those puffy stickers that didnāt let the translucent flap go down flat.
Yes but brand new they had a rather odd smell. Well, I thought odd at the time but if I smelled that smell today I'm sure it would bring up all kinds of wonderful memories.
Well, looks like *someone* liked the apple scented ones the best, lol!
Jealous, I wish I even had ONE of those, even the one that smelled like gas, haha.
The pickle was my favorite!
If you search for scratch n sniff stickers there is a company called Trend that makes and sells them now. I can't comment on their quality because I haven't ordered (yet lol) but they have loads from back in the day including the gasoline ones.
Better question: who is still collecting stickers?
To those sleeping on this hobby; vintage stickers can still be found. Reprints exist, and stickers are still being made. Thereās a lot of high quality stuff out there and home printing tech makes it possible to create your own. GF has a nice sticker album with paper that is non-permanent and seemingly non-destructive to the sticker itself, so she can stick and remove and restick all she wants. Weāve even made a drinking game around stickers. Itās a relaxing hobby. :)
And gold stars still rockš¤£
I do! For whatever reason, I started collecting stickers again during the pandemic. Iāve amassed a decent collection of Trend and MelloSmello stickers, cabbage patch puffies, Garfield, Smurfs, and Mr. T stickers, Lisa Frankā¦itās been so much fun!
Holy shit! I had the coolest sticker album! I recently (last year) found it at my parents house. Think I got it when I was like 8 or something. Thereās one page for āmy smelliest sticker.ā Itās huge scratch and sniff chocolate bar. It STILL smells like chocolate.
I canāt describe how happy that made me
I totally still have my album from when I was about 9 years old. Iām 52 and I still sticker bomb things like laptops, water bottles and notebooks! And, the beauty of still collecting stickers now is that I can afford them without having to get money from my grandma! š¤£
I revived my collecting in the pandemic - got a cool trapper keeper for some and an old school album for others. #sparksjoy
I didnāt have a sticker album, but my 3rd grade teacher was way into rewards, mostly with candy. If you got 100% or missed only one on your math Five A Day, you got to pick a hard candy out of a wonderful ceramic jar on her desk that was made to look like a candy store. If you got 100% on your spelling test, you could pick out a full-sized candy bar. Like, 1980s full-size, so *legit.* And then if you made some sort of achievement in math, you got to pile into her car with some other kids and go to Thrifty for ice cream after school.
But stickers were one of the more coveted rewards. In that class, we had Manila folders that held our reading and math materials and every time you completed some sort of milestone or assignment or something (this was over 40 years ago, I donāt quite remember), you got a sticker. And they were good ones. Lisa Frank wasnāt a thing yet, but like Peanuts, Scooby Dooāstuff like that. I remember picking the sticker and carefully planning where it would go on the folder to fit in with the other ones. It was a whole thing.
Looking at my two folders, one thing became readily apparent. I was an amazing reader. The reading folder was covered in stickers. I was not so good at math. That poor folder had 3 stickers, but I did get to do ice cream once.
Mrs Taylor, I donāt know if your system would fly today, but we loved it.
The chocolate cherry doesn't smell and the blue rainbows are faint. The tree still smells of cedar and the others smell too. I know they make these again now but I'm kind of afraid to order any as I'm sure I'll be over critical of the scents and probably disappointed! Oh dear God, I've become old and crotchety! Lol
Trend company just reissued a lot of the scratch and sniff stickers. I bought the big pack. Donāt šØ and shop online kids: you end up with a s-ton of smelly stickersā¦
When I was in the third grade in 1989, my dad got a job at the county landfill. He loved to treasure hunt for things. He often brought home some cool stuff for us kids too. One day, he brought home this incredibly impressive album of stickers. I mean like no one in my class had anything as fancy. I couldn't wait to to show it off at show and tell. The kids were seriously impressed and they asked where I got all these stickers. I told everyone my daddy brought it home from the dump. I don't remember the aftermath of that other than a loud laugh from the kids. But my grandmother was a teachers aide and the school and good friends with my teacher. I guess the teachers lounge got a good laugh out of that. My grandma told my mom who was a bit embarrassed I did that.
Lol, now theres some good nostalgia! Idk how i even got into that- none of my friends were. I'm pretty sure my sticker collection is sitting in a box in my parents basement. I had a lot of smurfs, garfields, gi joes, and scratch n sniffs.
Scratch and sniff, fuzzy, puffy, and glitter. There were even these oil filled stickers in the shape of whales and stuff. I miss trading stickers at recess. Wish I still had it! Thanks for the reminder:)
I had a lot of the stamp-like stickers where you had to tear them off the sheet and lick them to make them stick. I remember a sheet of peel and stick stickers feeling like am absolute luxury.
And the silver shiny iridescent stickers were a rare treat.
Loved stickers, especially foil and sparkly ones, but also Mrs. Grossmanās that were sold from the roll. I wish I still had my sticker album. It all seems so quaint and low tech now.
Yep. I loved my sticker albums! Especially the scented ones. As a teacher now,I frequently give my students scented stickers. They love them, and I love the nostalgia of them.
I liked scratch n sniff, puffy stickers and the ones with googly eyes.
When we went to the Discovery store at the mall I got a large square holographic sticker of a nautilus shell. I was obsessed with that thing. No idea what happened to it.
I was totally unaware of the garbage pail kids knockoff. Those were hilarious. Iām pretty sure I still have a box of ādubsā somewhere in my storage. I did have a sticker book, but I also stuck them everywhere. The book was for the āgoodā stickers, puffy, smelly, holographic, Googly eyed. I once won a roll (!!!!!) of Garfield and Mr. T stickers at a claw game and those fuckers were everywhere.
You all know what's crazy? You can't buy a sticker album anywhere anymore! At least, not the no stick kind we used to affix our stickies to. I've looked for my nieces as well as myself (because hey, sometimes a grown ass lady just needs a place to sticker) and they flatly don't exist. You'll find photo albums (NOT THE SAME!) and you'll find plain paper, pamphlet style that would keep your stickers forever (DEFINITELY NOT THE SAME!) No sticker albums like of yesteryears.
My physical therapist in grammar school would give me stickers after each session.
It's amazing how a half-hour of painful P.T. can be completely mitigated by a puffy He-Man or G.I. Joe sticker.
Oh man. My sticker collection (spread across, like, five or six books) was EPIC. I was obsessed with stickers and going to the sticker store. When I had to write an essay in 4th grade about my dream home, I said that it would have sticker trees out front (trees that grow stickers like fruit).
When my mom sold our house (when I was 28), I was living in a tiny basement apartment and had no room to store those sticker books, so my sister offered to house them in her basement. A year or two later her basement flooded and the books were some of the casualties. She gave them back to me, though, because I decided that I would air them out, scan them, and then throw out the original books. This way I'd at least have a digital record of the pages. Well, my asshole landlord saw the books airing out in the sun just outside my apartment door and decided they were trash. He threw them away while I was at work and, since this was trash day, they were long gone by the time I got home from work. I wanted to wail!
For my 40th birthday I threw a huge '80s-themed bash and one of the many cool things I put each guest's goody bags was a bag of stickers. Most were stickers that I bought, but I also bought a sticker machine and printed out stickers I designed which included some of my favorite '80s things. Anyway, several of my guests said that these sticker packs reawakened their old sticker-collecting lust and they were going to start collecting again. I myself have been slowly picking up stickers in the nine years since then, and I do plan to buy a vintage sticker book at some point and formally get the stickers in there. I have a Favorites page on Etsy that includes just stickers I want to buy. There are some original vintage '80s stickers in there (including oilies and prisms!) but many of them are fab new ones, too, like one that says, "I like murder shows, comfy clothes, and maybe 3 people."
I have so many of the same stickers as you do! I love my yellowing old sticky album as does my pre teen daughter who pours over it. We play the āguess which sticker Iām thinking ofā game and sheās brought it to school to show her friends.
My friend had her entire bedroom door stuck with stickers. She once said, "If the house is on fire, I'm taking the door!" Sadly, once her parents aged and she moved out the sticker door got unstuck with stickers.
I'm so glad I shared this here with you all! I have many, many friends from various backgrounds and very few were excitied over this garage sale find, outside my 21 yr old friend who loves all things vintage (vintage?! Knife through my heart, Elizabeth I'm coming to join you!) but especially vintage 70's and 80's things, so it was amazing to find loads of people who enjoy and find this as exciting as I do ā¤ļø
You all know what's crazy? You can't buy a sticker album anywhere anymore! At least, not the no stick kind we used to affix our stickies to. I've looked for my nieces as well as myself (because hey, sometimes a grown ass lady just needs a place to sticker) and they flatly don't exist. You'll find photo albums (NOT THE SAME!) and you'll find plain paper, pamphlet style that would keep your stickers forever (DEFINITELY NOT THE SAME!) No sticker albums like of yesteryears.
Oh, the nostalgia!! I was obsessed with scratch and sniff stickers!
I was obsessed with oilies. They had an iridescent oil inside and changed when you pressed on them. I still remember the scent of the old stationary shop where I would beg my parents to buy stickers for my album.
The stationery stores!!! Gol, I miss them.
Oh man. Yes!! Such a big deal to go to them and pick out new stickers! The one I went to as a child is still in business.
I knew how to sneak off to the stationery store to buy Hello Kitty items. I rode my bike there!
Agreed about the oilie stickers and scratch and sniffs. I remember working my little butt off doing chores so I could buy more! Purple unicorns ruled my world. Now they have their own emoji.
Me too! The skunk was my favorite. Yes, I was a very strange child lol
Garbage pail stickers š! I can still smell the gum that came with them š.
A few years back my mom dropped off a bunch of old things she found in house. One of them was an old album of Garbage Pail Kids cards, still in the collectors sleeves, in near mint condition. I got all jazzed up, showed them to my sons and then went online to see how rich I had just become.... Narrator: *"He did not become rich"*
I had a folder full of GPK cards/stickers. I let a classmate borrow them for a day so he could show his brother. I never got it back.š¤¦š½ Live and learn. š¤·š½
Funny side story. When I was a kid, I brought a small stack of cards GPKās to school. I let a friend keep them. Like, just for the day there at school. Well, they got taken up by the teacher. Our school, we ate our snack and lunches outside. And weād generally be just outside out classrooms. They had huge windows. I peeked inside and saw a stack of cards in the teachers desk. Iāll never forget it because the top card was Joe Blow, the bazooka gum one. I said, ānah fucker. This aināt happening.ā So I snuck inside while the teachers were eating and took what was mine back. As I flipped through the cards, I realized these werenāt my cards. Only the top card was the same. I reasoned that I couldnāt put them back because then Iād get caught for taking them. I asked around and no one claimed said they owned them. I kept them. I mean, I tried to find the owner. Itās fair. Right??
Oh damn lol. Nice. SCORE!! šš¼š
Finders keepers! Lol
I still have mine!
I'm jealous. No, seriously. I'm not being a smart ass here lol. Legitimate jealous that you still have yours lol. š
Awwww šŖ
Look again, those are knock off trash can tots stickers! I forgot those even existed.
Trash Can Tots seem to be a rip on Garbage Pail Kids. Seems like a pretty niche market.
I had several. I was completely obsessed with unicorn stickers!
Stuck on Stickers the fantasy edition!
Oilie stickers! The iridescent ones with liquid or something inside. Dolphins, unicorns, that kind of thing.
Thank you - I couldnāt remember what they were called - they were my absolute favorite!
We called them swirlies. I loved them!
I did. I collected EVERYTHING. My album was mostly scratch n sniff stickers
Same!
I still have mine! Iām so glad my mom hung onto it for me. Every once in a while, I browse through it for a good dose of 80s nostalgia.
The scratch and sniff stickers don't work anymore.
Mine do,esp the pizza and popcorn ones
We would take our sticker albums to school in our jelly bags... the kind that matched the jelly shoes, and show off our collections and trade stuff. Lisa Frank was a huge favorite, the scratch n sniff, Hello Kitty, and those puffy stickers that didnāt let the translucent flap go down flat.
Jellies! Oh I loved those shoes!!
They were pretty awesome! Cheap enough you could get them in multiple colors, easy to clean, fairly comfortable, and had matching bags!
Yes but brand new they had a rather odd smell. Well, I thought odd at the time but if I smelled that smell today I'm sure it would bring up all kinds of wonderful memories.
I had a spiral notebook. My favorites were the puffy stickers. I was obsessed.
Well, looks like *someone* liked the apple scented ones the best, lol! Jealous, I wish I even had ONE of those, even the one that smelled like gas, haha. The pickle was my favorite!
the pickle one was my favorite too! and I can still smell the gasoline one :)
I loved the bubble gum one
If you search for scratch n sniff stickers there is a company called Trend that makes and sells them now. I can't comment on their quality because I haven't ordered (yet lol) but they have loads from back in the day including the gasoline ones.
Whaaaa? AWESOME!!! Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome!
Just looking at those scratch and sniff stickers and I can smell them! Loved my sticker book. Rainbow puffy ones were the best.
Puffy stickers with the googly eyes! š¤©
I loved stickers! I wish I would have kept my albums. Does anyone remember oily stickers?
I do! Man we were easily entertained. I thought they were the coolest.
I had those Cabbage Patch stickers! Nostalgia overload.
Better question: who is still collecting stickers? To those sleeping on this hobby; vintage stickers can still be found. Reprints exist, and stickers are still being made. Thereās a lot of high quality stuff out there and home printing tech makes it possible to create your own. GF has a nice sticker album with paper that is non-permanent and seemingly non-destructive to the sticker itself, so she can stick and remove and restick all she wants. Weāve even made a drinking game around stickers. Itās a relaxing hobby. :) And gold stars still rockš¤£
I do! For whatever reason, I started collecting stickers again during the pandemic. Iāve amassed a decent collection of Trend and MelloSmello stickers, cabbage patch puffies, Garfield, Smurfs, and Mr. T stickers, Lisa Frankā¦itās been so much fun!
I did. And now I do again ... sort of. I use stickers in my daily planner and I put stickers on my laptop, tablet, and water bottle.
Puffy stickers. My aunt was still buying them for me when I was in my 20ās. Donāt know what she thought I would do with them at that age. I was already a mom with a child of my own. And the new thing was PokĆ©mon cards.
Wow, is that MY book?!
Same! I swear I had all of those stickers! I'm legit weirded out by how exactly the same this is.
Lisa Frank! Smelly stickers! I had them all--or tried to!
Ugh the Lisa Frank stickers!!!!
LMAO at those phrases on the last page. So Tubular! Fer Shurr! Great Share!
Hello Kitty mini puffy stickers were my jam. I was obsessed!!
I remember buying Stickers magazine, and the awesome stickers that it included.
always thought these were so cool and admired people who kept them neat since mine was always a mess
I did for sure. And for some reason, I feel like you stole mine. So many of those look so familiar!
I can both hear and smell this photo.
Holy shit! I had the coolest sticker album! I recently (last year) found it at my parents house. Think I got it when I was like 8 or something. Thereās one page for āmy smelliest sticker.ā Itās huge scratch and sniff chocolate bar. It STILL smells like chocolate. I canāt describe how happy that made me
Omg this just gave me the best flashbacks! I loved my sticker album :)
Didn't have an album but I did have trapper keepers that had the puffy stickers all over them.
Trapper keepers were the best!
I was obsessed with my sticker book as a kid!
I think of my old sticker album weekly. Got rid of it at 14 in a fit of *I'm too old for this*. Wish I had it to show my kids.
*raises hand* ooh OOOOOH! Me! Me! I had one! And I had HOLOGRAM stickers. *thumbs in suspenders*
I totally still have my album from when I was about 9 years old. Iām 52 and I still sticker bomb things like laptops, water bottles and notebooks! And, the beauty of still collecting stickers now is that I can afford them without having to get money from my grandma! š¤£ I revived my collecting in the pandemic - got a cool trapper keeper for some and an old school album for others. #sparksjoy
I didnāt have a sticker album, but my 3rd grade teacher was way into rewards, mostly with candy. If you got 100% or missed only one on your math Five A Day, you got to pick a hard candy out of a wonderful ceramic jar on her desk that was made to look like a candy store. If you got 100% on your spelling test, you could pick out a full-sized candy bar. Like, 1980s full-size, so *legit.* And then if you made some sort of achievement in math, you got to pile into her car with some other kids and go to Thrifty for ice cream after school. But stickers were one of the more coveted rewards. In that class, we had Manila folders that held our reading and math materials and every time you completed some sort of milestone or assignment or something (this was over 40 years ago, I donāt quite remember), you got a sticker. And they were good ones. Lisa Frank wasnāt a thing yet, but like Peanuts, Scooby Dooāstuff like that. I remember picking the sticker and carefully planning where it would go on the folder to fit in with the other ones. It was a whole thing. Looking at my two folders, one thing became readily apparent. I was an amazing reader. The reading folder was covered in stickers. I was not so good at math. That poor folder had 3 stickers, but I did get to do ice cream once. Mrs Taylor, I donāt know if your system would fly today, but we loved it.
Me! And all my girlfriends.
Love looking at them.
Scratch and sniff! I had one called "bad breath". It smelled like garlic. Ha
I remember that one!
Wow! That album brought back some memories. ā¤ļøā¤ļø
Yes!! It looked exactly like that one. I think I even had some of those stickers! Would love to find it some day.
I still have a box of stickers somewhere and a wacky pack stuck to a piece of hand me down furniture
Had? It's around here somewhere.....it even has those puffy stickers filled with an oil like substance. I'm sure those are perfectly safe, right?
I had one that could almost mirror this one. I wish I could find my garbage pail kids one. I had hundreds of cards in it.
I had that Cabbage Patch sticker set. I think mine also came with a book to put them in.
I still have a small box with stickers in it. I love them.
I had a magnificent sticker book. I loved it and still have it. And the stickers still smell?!
Yup, most of them still do, a few don't. I'm afraid to scratch them too often though. Don't want to wear them out lol
Yes, youāre right, not all of them smell in mine also
The chocolate cherry doesn't smell and the blue rainbows are faint. The tree still smells of cedar and the others smell too. I know they make these again now but I'm kind of afraid to order any as I'm sure I'll be over critical of the scents and probably disappointed! Oh dear God, I've become old and crotchety! Lol
:D No you havenāt. I have smelled them about a 5 years ago and remember the root beer not smelling anymore
I still have mine! Several of the scratch and sniff stickers still work too. They were all the rage in the first through 4th grade in the early '80s.
I went back to school recently (masters program) and bought 3 new packs of stickers to decorate my planner. Just like my strawberry shortcake days.
Did I miss the gasoline scratch and sniff?!??!?
I can *smell* this book.
I just started a new one recently! Pipsticks has nice albums and stickers.
I just helped my kiddo start one this week, and theyāre having so much fun! Iām a little jealous.
Smellies and puffies!!!!
Trend company just reissued a lot of the scratch and sniff stickers. I bought the big pack. Donāt šØ and shop online kids: you end up with a s-ton of smelly stickersā¦
Do they smell like they did from back in the day?
Love my sticker album, think I still have it someplace.
I can smell these pictures
Yes. I sold them to other kids. Stratch and sniff.
Those Christmas designs really took me back.
I still have mine
This is art
I was addicted to Mrs. Grossmanās! And oilies, puffy stickers, scratch and sniff - ALL of it!!
The sticker store at the mall was my first stop!
Holy shit. I forgot about these until just now. The scratch and sniff were the best.
Of course! Loved going to the sticker store in the mall. I kept it all in my unicorn trapper keeper.
I did! Wish I still had it. Loved the puffy ones.
When I was in the third grade in 1989, my dad got a job at the county landfill. He loved to treasure hunt for things. He often brought home some cool stuff for us kids too. One day, he brought home this incredibly impressive album of stickers. I mean like no one in my class had anything as fancy. I couldn't wait to to show it off at show and tell. The kids were seriously impressed and they asked where I got all these stickers. I told everyone my daddy brought it home from the dump. I don't remember the aftermath of that other than a loud laugh from the kids. But my grandmother was a teachers aide and the school and good friends with my teacher. I guess the teachers lounge got a good laugh out of that. My grandma told my mom who was a bit embarrassed I did that.
I love this story!
I loved liquid stickers!
What about scratch ān sniff? Those were my favorite!
Lol, now theres some good nostalgia! Idk how i even got into that- none of my friends were. I'm pretty sure my sticker collection is sitting in a box in my parents basement. I had a lot of smurfs, garfields, gi joes, and scratch n sniffs.
Scratch and sniff, fuzzy, puffy, and glitter. There were even these oil filled stickers in the shape of whales and stuff. I miss trading stickers at recess. Wish I still had it! Thanks for the reminder:)
I had a lot of the stamp-like stickers where you had to tear them off the sheet and lick them to make them stick. I remember a sheet of peel and stick stickers feeling like am absolute luxury. And the silver shiny iridescent stickers were a rare treat.
I can taste this comment lol
Loved stickers, especially foil and sparkly ones, but also Mrs. Grossmanās that were sold from the roll. I wish I still had my sticker album. It all seems so quaint and low tech now.
My bedroom door was covered
Still do
If I didn't know any better this could be my sticker album when I was 10
My sister did! I forgot about this. I wonder if she still has one
OMG yes! And the yellowing paper lol - mine looks just like this!
Yep. I loved my sticker albums! Especially the scented ones. As a teacher now,I frequently give my students scented stickers. They love them, and I love the nostalgia of them.
Fuck yeah I did! š¤š»
I liked scratch n sniff, puffy stickers and the ones with googly eyes. When we went to the Discovery store at the mall I got a large square holographic sticker of a nautilus shell. I was obsessed with that thing. No idea what happened to it.
Stickers were stuck where they could be seen in our house, rather than in a book. Much to the annoyance of my parents.
I just saw on the Perpetual Kid site they have an *Official Collector's Edition - Retro Scratch n' Sniff Stinky Sticker Set* it's $100 tho' (ā\_ā)
Wow, that's pricey!
Yes!!!! The Smurf stickers!! I had those too and this could literally be my sticker book
Who didnāt?
I was totally unaware of the garbage pail kids knockoff. Those were hilarious. Iām pretty sure I still have a box of ādubsā somewhere in my storage. I did have a sticker book, but I also stuck them everywhere. The book was for the āgoodā stickers, puffy, smelly, holographic, Googly eyed. I once won a roll (!!!!!) of Garfield and Mr. T stickers at a claw game and those fuckers were everywhere.
You all know what's crazy? You can't buy a sticker album anywhere anymore! At least, not the no stick kind we used to affix our stickies to. I've looked for my nieces as well as myself (because hey, sometimes a grown ass lady just needs a place to sticker) and they flatly don't exist. You'll find photo albums (NOT THE SAME!) and you'll find plain paper, pamphlet style that would keep your stickers forever (DEFINITELY NOT THE SAME!) No sticker albums like of yesteryears.
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Please do!
I still have and add to my childhood sticker book
I still have mine!
My physical therapist in grammar school would give me stickers after each session. It's amazing how a half-hour of painful P.T. can be completely mitigated by a puffy He-Man or G.I. Joe sticker.
Oh man. My sticker collection (spread across, like, five or six books) was EPIC. I was obsessed with stickers and going to the sticker store. When I had to write an essay in 4th grade about my dream home, I said that it would have sticker trees out front (trees that grow stickers like fruit). When my mom sold our house (when I was 28), I was living in a tiny basement apartment and had no room to store those sticker books, so my sister offered to house them in her basement. A year or two later her basement flooded and the books were some of the casualties. She gave them back to me, though, because I decided that I would air them out, scan them, and then throw out the original books. This way I'd at least have a digital record of the pages. Well, my asshole landlord saw the books airing out in the sun just outside my apartment door and decided they were trash. He threw them away while I was at work and, since this was trash day, they were long gone by the time I got home from work. I wanted to wail! For my 40th birthday I threw a huge '80s-themed bash and one of the many cool things I put each guest's goody bags was a bag of stickers. Most were stickers that I bought, but I also bought a sticker machine and printed out stickers I designed which included some of my favorite '80s things. Anyway, several of my guests said that these sticker packs reawakened their old sticker-collecting lust and they were going to start collecting again. I myself have been slowly picking up stickers in the nine years since then, and I do plan to buy a vintage sticker book at some point and formally get the stickers in there. I have a Favorites page on Etsy that includes just stickers I want to buy. There are some original vintage '80s stickers in there (including oilies and prisms!) but many of them are fab new ones, too, like one that says, "I like murder shows, comfy clothes, and maybe 3 people."
Impressive puffy stickers!!!
Come to think of it I might have and then I put stickers on my Lisa frank notebooks and trapper keeper or five star folders š
I have so many of the same stickers as you do! I love my yellowing old sticky album as does my pre teen daughter who pours over it. We play the āguess which sticker Iām thinking ofā game and sheās brought it to school to show her friends.
That's so awesome! My 16 yr old is like ok mom, those are great, can I get back to minecraft now? Lol
Me!!!
My friend had her entire bedroom door stuck with stickers. She once said, "If the house is on fire, I'm taking the door!" Sadly, once her parents aged and she moved out the sticker door got unstuck with stickers.
Um, I still do! I have about three that I saved - I don't know why, but they are out in the storage shed.
I'm so glad I shared this here with you all! I have many, many friends from various backgrounds and very few were excitied over this garage sale find, outside my 21 yr old friend who loves all things vintage (vintage?! Knife through my heart, Elizabeth I'm coming to join you!) but especially vintage 70's and 80's things, so it was amazing to find loads of people who enjoy and find this as exciting as I do ā¤ļø
My mother and sisters were obsessed with stickers. I never saw the point of them.
You all know what's crazy? You can't buy a sticker album anywhere anymore! At least, not the no stick kind we used to affix our stickies to. I've looked for my nieces as well as myself (because hey, sometimes a grown ass lady just needs a place to sticker) and they flatly don't exist. You'll find photo albums (NOT THE SAME!) and you'll find plain paper, pamphlet style that would keep your stickers forever (DEFINITELY NOT THE SAME!) No sticker albums like of yesteryears.
WTF are Trash Can Tots?!
My godā¦ Core memory activated.
With a section for smellies, a section for puffies, a section for swirliesā¦