What is/was your favorite school supply?

[NJmaverick]

Which one was it?

[HopeHoops]

1. Little car-shaped erasers.

Those were cool. I never actually used them to erase anything, but they were cool.

[NJmaverick]

2. That's the problem with those erasers

you end up never wanting to ruin them.

[Ikonoklast]

3. New pens.

I must have inherited the 'new pen' gene from my father, but for some strange reason, I just love getting new pens.


And I am extremely particular about the type of pen, ink, etc.

[femmocrat]

4. Crayola 64-pack crayons, with the little sharpener in the back of the box.

I loved those exotic colors..... Prussian blue, maize, cerulean. That was back before they changed the color names.

[suninvited]

5. they changed the color names??

I didn't know that.

[NJmaverick]

7. My mother was cheap

so I was always jealous of the kids with the cool 64 pack with the sharpener.

[Heidi]

12. Mine, too!

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. #2 Pencils

love 'em.

[NJmaverick]

13. shouldn't chew on your pencil

:spank:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. how else do you expect to think

:D

[cyberswede]

8. Trapper Keeper!

That thing was wicked cool, compared to plain old 3-ring binders.

[NJmaverick]

9. What exactly was a trapper keeper?

[cyberswede]

17. here's a TV ad

It was a fancy 3-ring biner that held "Trapper" folders that didn't allow papers to fall out as easily.
It has a sliding lever to open the rings smoothly, and a Velcro flap the held everything shut.

Lori Laughlin expains in the this ad from the 80s: :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP6Ievts6B0

[NJmaverick]

20. damn hard to believe that was an 80s commerical

it seemed so much older

[guitar man]

10. Bic "click" pens

In 5th grade we had a "sport" we invented of modifying them, stretching and adding springs to see how high we could make them jump off the desk. :D

[Chan790]

15. or pen guns...

we used to shoot each other with bic click pens...sometime around 5th grade someone learned you could use it to launch some mother's knitting needle 5 feet and that was the end of that...they banned all "clicking pens or anything containing a spring school-district-wide.

[guitar man]

16. never thought of that

My friend managed to shoot one high enough to stick in the ceiling. We thought we were toast, but Mrs McCracken just made us collaborate and write a story, "The Great Lincoln County Pen Jumping Contest" :rofl:

The regular Bic pens were cool too, if you stopped up the hole on the side and pulled the guts out, they made a neat spit wad airgun :evilgrin:

[Moondog]

11. The protractor / ruler thingie.

[datasuspect]

18. pipe bombs and zip guns

[NJmaverick]

21. did you make your pipe bombs in shop class?

[datasuspect]

23. we had to leave our rifles outside the shop building during hunting season

but yeah.

then dope smoking on the football field.

[madamesilverspurs]

19. Big Chief tablet

[Iggo]

22. Pee-Chee folders.

Brand new fresh ones, ripe and ready for artistic enhancement.

[surrealAmerican]

24. Those erasers that went over the end of your pencil ...

... after you'd used up the one the pencil came with. My erasers never seemed to last as long as I needed them to.