Growing up and "Adulting " is hard ... and I dont recommend it at all !
As a young'un I didnt have a lot of toys ( I have made up for it 1000 times over lol ) but I did have a memory of two Matchbox cars that were my world for many years , and naturally as you grow up, move, make different friends etc such little treasures get left behind, victims of the parade of life ...
A few years ago I made up my mind to find them , it wasn't hard , they are not rare or anything but the sheer joy of just holding them again , while it did not bring up specific memories they did impart a degree of nostalgia that surprised me
Grabbed them as mint examples in the box still ...
The purple beach buggy .. and the hovercraft .. an incongruous pair but since when did that ever affect a kid