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Nostalgia Niche

by Chris W. Sutton
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I have always been very interested in nostalgia and I am an avid collector. I own things like the old Sears Christmas Wish Books from the 50s and 60s. I have old TV Guides. I have old pictures and books from the 1800s. I have a ton of stuff and I AM A PACK RAT!!!

I would think with all the baby boomers, there would be a lot of people like myself interested in days gone by but that's not what I am finding. When I do keyword research, I find a modest interest and I am puzzled.

Is anyone else involved in the "nostalgia" niche and, if so, are you having any success with it?
#niche #nostalgia
  • Profile picture of the author Anomaly1974
    We had a bunch of them old sears catalogs in a little shack back behind our house. (Yeah, we really did) but when they came out with the glossy paper in the seventies it started leading to some really nasty paper cuts so we had to switch to newspapers ... only trouble was the closest town with a newspaper was over sixty miles in one direction and fifty in the other ... and they looked at us real funny buying ten or twenty papers at a time.

    Apart from that, I do have some traditional artwork I am working on getting up but while it is "nostalgic" in many countries, where I am hoping to open it up (once I get some affiliate software that works and can protect my downloads) the market I am bringing it in to still has a very large market.

    Just my two cents
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    • Profile picture of the author Chris Drinkwater
      nostalgia ain't what it used to be....
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      • Profile picture of the author Anomaly1974
        Originally Posted by Chris Drinkwater View Post

        nostalgia ain't what it used to be....
        Ain't it the truth! I still dream about the good old days when you could buy a nickel candy bar for a quarter!

        (Yes, "Ain't" really is a word. While it is commonly misused and is antiquated by any definition, it is the proper contraction for "Am I not"!)
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        • Profile picture of the author Kevin Riley
          Sutton still has a picture of his first dinosaur.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Taylor
    Originally Posted by Chris W. Sutton View Post

    I have always been very interested in nostalgia and I am an avid collector. I own things like the old Sears Christmas Wish Books from the 50s and 60s. I have old TV Guides. I have old pictures and books from the 1800s. I have a ton of stuff and I AM A PACK RAT!!!

    I would think with all the baby boomers, there would be a lot of people like myself interested in days gone by but that's not what I am finding. When I do keyword research, I find a modest interest and I am puzzled.

    Is anyone else involved in the "nostalgia" niche and, if so, are you having any success with it?
    Maybe your searching the wrong keywords.

    I'm not in the nostalgia niche but look at all the "vintage" angles out there...vintage cars(car shows) vintage motorcycles, I collect vintage fishing gear.

    Maybe granny collects vintage needlepoint

    Same idea, just a different keyword.

    -Steve
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