Carol DM
This week brings a new color for Kim’s challenge. We will be painting the site with yellow for a few days. You can read all about it here at this link: Color Crazy Yellow
Sharing one of Dustin’s favorite Hot Wheels cars. He had a large collection of Hot Wheels & Matchbox cars. I would buy one each week when I went grocery shopping. Always a surprise for him, he knew I was buying one, but never knew which one it would be.
They are only a few inches long, but he loved all of them. Thankfully I still have his collection.
Hot Wheels is a brand of die-cast toy cars introduced by American toy maker Mattel in 1968. It was the primary competitor of Matchbox until 1997, when Mattel bought Tyco Toys, then-owner of Matchbox.
©CarolDM
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Question of
Do you have momentos you have kept over the years?
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Are you familiar with these small toy cars?
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Just super!!! Also have such special collection of nice memories, keep a lot of my child & youth pictures.
yellow? aren’t we on orange? so confused…
I also had a large collection of cars for a long time just so they were much larger
We also have similar cars at my mother’s house! It is nice to keep memories
That is cool, I will keep these forever. 🙂
By the time the car phase had passed we had so many of them.
I remember, as a child, when the Johnny Lightning cars were introduced (Johnny Rutherford drove the Johnny Lightning car at the Indy 500 we all wanted to have those cars!)
Dustin had many as well, of every kind you can imagine. Don’t remember that name. I didn’t start watching racing until my adult years, huge fan of Dale Earnhardt.
I really like these small model cars…Very nice photo
Thank you Pam, they are very special.
These used to be my sons favorite cars sets too. He used to play with them all day.
That is a great memory for you.
I remember when I was holidaying with my niece in the US she was going on a collecting spree cars such as this for her little son (lol)
Yes, they were very popular years ago.
I know these cars well, and my son had them too.
That is great, another thing in common my friend.
We need more room for replies on our posts, does anyone else agree?
I used to play with different model toy cars including trucks. I haven’t anything that I have kept as a treasure to back when…
I kept just about everything that was my son’s.
They always remind you about your son. A treasure in remembrance for him.
Yes, I cannot let go. I visit them often as they are displayed throughout the house.
I want to take them with me when I’m gone but I know it doesn’t work like that.
I have kept momentos from my high school graduation, college, weddiing…I’m very sentimental! I cleaned out a box of momentos a few months ago, thinking that I’d empty it…but no. I still saved a few from each event. And I have tons of pictures.
Same here, some things I cannot part with. I often wonder what will happen to it all when I am gone. Nobody to leave it to.
We have at least 20 albums of photos. There’s no one we know that would want them; and so they will be thrown away by whomever cleans out our house after we’re gone. Sad.
That is very sad. But we have to live for the present moment.
True. True. I’m working on it!!
I am so guilty many times of not living in the moment, I have to be reminded often.
I keep toys too…
and then I’ve collected tiny toy cars too …
but not hot wheels or matchbox.
I kept most everything of Dustin’s.
What are they called in your world? Toys? 🙂
Have a great evening! 🙂