My best memories are over 35 years old. I grew up in Eastern Germany and times were different. We lived behind the so called iron curtain with low economic power and under the influence of the Soviet Union.
It was difficult to get fruits like banana, oranges or pineapple. We neither weren't starving nor were to poor to get clothes. But all the socialist products and food weren't fancy or tasty.
My mum had many cousins and uncles in Western Germany. Many of them send us so called "West parcels" with fancy clothes, canned fruits, tasty sweets and so on.
Every year we got between 10 and 20 big parcels delivered.
At Christmas Eve we unpacked all the big parcels. It took ages and felt wonderful!
I learned to give things a value. Even a simple chocolate bar had a high value as it was from West Germany, very tasty and rare.
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