Comments on: Nostalgia Ads http://hypnolibertarian.today.com/2008/10/01/nostalgia-ads/ Just another Today.com weblog Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:50:25 +0000 http://www.today.com/version-2.3.1 By: Black Widow http://hypnolibertarian.today.com/2008/10/01/nostalgia-ads/#comment-32 Black Widow Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:04:37 +0000 http://hypnolibertarian.today.com/2008/10/01/nostalgia-ads/#comment-32 It also seems that a lot of "old" chocolate bars keep on getting launched.....things from the early/mid 70s (my childhood) and when they come back on the market for a while they sell like wildfire. There also seems to be a fairly strong market for compilation DVDs of children’s TV from the early/mid 70s. I guess that the purchaser is hoping that by eating something they used to eat and love as a child, or watch something they used to love they are somehow going to re-live those "happier carefree" times and temporarily escape from the pressures they face in adulthood. Personally, whenever I have eaten an "old" chocolate bar like that it never seems as big now as it did then (maybe they DID make it smaller now to save money or maybe my hands and mouth were just smaller then so everything seemed bigger...) or whenever I have watched an "old" DVD compilation I wonder WHY I was ever so enamoured by the programme :-) It also seems that a lot of “old” chocolate bars keep on getting launched…..things from the early/mid 70s (my childhood) and when they come back on the market for a while they sell like wildfire. There also seems to be a fairly strong market for compilation DVDs of children’s TV from the early/mid 70s. I guess that the purchaser is hoping that by eating something they used to eat and love as a child, or watch something they used to love they are somehow going to re-live those “happier carefree” times and temporarily escape from the pressures they face in adulthood.

Personally, whenever I have eaten an “old” chocolate bar like that it never seems as big now as it did then (maybe they DID make it smaller now to save money or maybe my hands and mouth were just smaller then so everything seemed bigger…) or whenever I have watched an “old” DVD compilation I wonder WHY I was ever so enamoured by the programme :-)

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