Sometimes, it is the unexpected things from childhood that stick around as precious memories.
This was evident in a TikTok video posted by Karly (@karlywalkerr), which went viral after she revealed the tradition she and her sisters have kept up for over seven years—putting fruit stickers on the underside of her parents’ kitchen cabinet. Since the clip was posted on October 2, it has received over 742,000 likes and more than 730 comments.
“One time in high school, I put the sticker from my apple under my parents’ cabinet,” Karly captioned the video. “I told my sisters about it and we kept it a secret from my mom for years. It’s been seven-plus years and now my parents know, but they love it too much to remove them.” Newsweek reached out to @karlywalkerr for comment via TikTok.
Viewers flooded the comments with their own stories of unexpected—and sometimes a bit gross—memorabilia.
“This is equivalent to me and my bro throwing bologna on my mom’s stairway balcony behind picture frames that no one could reach, and she found it molded years later,” @allyroselucky wrote.
“Wish my parents reacted this way when they found all the fruit roll up wrappers I had stuffed under the couch from months of sneaking them,” @shelbykalei posted.
“I once left a goodbye Post It on my parents’ bedroom desk when I left for my study abroad,” @mantreehill commented. “My mom found it a year later and she sobbed and called me saying how much she missed me.”
Many mothers in the comments resonated with Karly’s video, saying that they would give anything for such an unfiltered memory of their children’s younger years: “As a mom this would make me sob when I found it,” @emily.morgan.o posted. “Just little memories of my babies would make me so happy.”
“This is actually such an unexpectedly adorable little memory collage,” @raeeeeek1993 wrote.
“Why did this make me emotional,” @hukitchen commented.
And one mother even spoke from exact experience. User @nativetexan71 shared that her children did the exact same thing with fruit stickers on the underside of her bar. While she made them remove the stickers the first few times, she eventually “decided to fall in love with it.” Now, her children are in their mid-20s.
If Karly’s parents opt to keep the sticker collage forever, some users offered creative ways to memorialize it more formally.
“Can you put resin over it when it’s completely full?” @comewhatmay__ wrote. “This would be such a neat story for your kids.”
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