General What do you miss most?

[RacheliArt]

We are zocheh to live in EY-Eretz Hakodesh
but those of us who lived abroad and got used to certain things/brands/styles might feel they are missing them...
What is the first thing you'd bring over from your native land?

Also-is there anything you don't miss and are happy there is no such thing like it here?

 

[יופלה אפרסק]

Good question...
I used to ask people to buy me things much more often than now, I guess that's a good thing.. (Remember the days when we had people bring us toilet paper and silver foil and small appliances [with transformers ]?)

I can think of
- triple antibiotic cream
- bandaids
- umbrellas
- certain company shoes that are cheaper /more readily found
- cameras
- some toys are cheaper there, but I wouldn't davka make someone schlepp it for me, only when I fly do I stock up
- everything spice
- deodorant...
- linen, towels....

and I MISS CENTURY 21!!

 

[Sped]

Target?

 

[איש שדה]

Century 21 closed down during COVID​

 

[אוריגמי]

I never lived in the states, but my mother still brings in certain things
the list gets shorter as the years pass and we discover that we can live without some of them
)like parsly flakes)
or that some others are sold here.
I wrote already in a different thread that I just found bug-free Farina here, so that's off the list.

The thing we miss most is family.
our whole extended foamily still lives there' and I wish I had more to do with them.
My children never got to meet their great-great grandfather though he was around when (some of them) were born.
and of course simchas, Chanukah parties, etc

 

[אבן טובה]

Fresh blueberries. pineapples and cherries.Nowadays, can be found here also.

 

[ארישוק]

CENTURY 21
Amazing savings

 

[א.ש!]

Century 21 closed down during COVID​

C21 | Holding

C21 | Holding

c21stores.com

 

[Sped]

zip lock bags, deodorant, oil spray for cooking and baking, bandaids, q-tips, Mrs. Dash
I think since Corona, I learned to mostly manage without getting as much in from Chu"l.

 

[RacheliArt]

The 7-11 Slurpees are making aliyah to EY
As a kid we used to go buy them after school...

 

[אלישבע10]

I wrote already in a different thread that I just found bug-free Farina here, so that's off the list.

Where?​

 

[אוריגמי]

Where?​

a store called Katuf
call 0772277477 to find a location near you

 

[תפארת ה.]

anyone from south africa
marmite!
you love it or can't stand it

 

[RacheliArt]

Graham crackers
Tropicana orange juice

 

[ארישוק]

anyone from south africa
marmite!
you love it or can't stand it

 

[אלישבע10]

Today you can basically get almost everything here, it's just usually way more expensive.

 

[שוקו ציפס]

...or with the wrong hechshers

 

[אם הבנים שמחה!]

We used to bring the whole country any time somebody came.
We have a nerdy picture of us from a couple of months after we got married, posing iwth a suitcase of stuff my mother sent. It had ketchup, rice, whipped cream, tights, deodorant, The Jewish Press, toilet paper, Pringles, and I honestly can't remember what else. There was tons of stuff there. Now when my parents ask me what to bring, I can't think of anything. Maybe only Dramamine and Benadryl. They really have everything here now, and we've also gotten used to Israeli brands of things by now.

 

[רצוני לעשות רצונך]

zip lock bags

there are good ones in Ikea

 

[Sped]

there are good ones in Ikea

but very expensive.