Scratch & Sniff Stickers

So my son came home from school with some scratch and sniff stickers on his project.  While they did not look the same as the ones that I got when I was in school, the smell took me back to my childhood.  With a sensitive sniffer, I have this acute appreciation for scratch and sniff.  I loved scratch and sniff books when I was a kid.  The markers and stickers, mmmm, I have a special place in my heart for those too.
 
I began investigating scratch & sniff stickers.  There's this whole following out there for scratch and sniff stickers, especially the ones from the 80s.  I found a great site appreciating Vintage 3M Scratch & Sniff stickers from 1974-1984.
 

I thought I had a bag full of stickers, and my sticker book, but somehow I've misplaced it.  I can't believe that I would have tossed it when I moved, but who knows.  (onward and upward) So I thought I would check into how I could acquire some of these yummy scratch and sniff antiques.  I found a bunch on ebay: where else right?  But some are going for over $3 a piece.  Others even more than that!  I was shocked.  There is also a book, which I purchased, but was very disappointed.  It's pretty much a book that they expect you to put your stickers in, printed in black and white as placeholders. 
I will be returning it.

 

They should have made it a scratch and sniff book with color photos, like a Smithsonian special!
Oh well.  I will have to smell my sons scratch and sniffers and remember the good ole days through him.