Do you remember...your first lunch box?

[Mr. Ected]

First grade: Lake Highlands Elementary School, Dallas, Texas: My first lunch box was vintage Zorro. Truth is, I don't remember being much of a Zorro fan at that age; maybe mom and dad bought the first thing they found:



Can't remember second grade, but third grade brought a new lunch box that happened to coincide with my father's favorite new television show:

[MorningGlow]

1. Oh gods yes

It seems like I had a different one almost every year (wonder what happened to them...prolly victims of my mom's many garage sales)...but these were my favorites:







On edit: And I remember constantly shattering the glass lining of the included Thermoses--I dropped them a lot. :eyes:

[BuddhaGirl]

59. I had that same Partridge family lunch box!!

I LOVED it - and my Tiger Beat mags with the David Cassidy pics :D

[Brother Buzz]

2. Mom told us we were thrifty

[Petrushka]

49. "...and don't forget to bring it home to use again tomorrow & the next day & the day after that...!"

[Brother Buzz]

52. Did you know you could iron a paper sack and make it look almost as good as those store-bought ones?

That is, if you ignore the Purity® store logo printed on the side.


Use it up,
wear it out,
make it do or do without.

[Petrushka]

55. Exactly! And . . . my mom and grandma cut apart and smoothed out breadbags to wrap sandwiches . . .

and our sandwiches usually contained home-made applebutter (or wild blackberry jam)
and farmers' cream-cheese. Other kids---who had peanut butter & jelly sandwiches---
wanted to trade; but when, after finding out that peanut butter stuck to the roof of
your mouth, or that it had turned rancid . . . well, I thought twice before trading again.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. this one was my first

[mikeytherat]

4. Yep. Actually found it in the parents' attic a few years back:

It had been sitting there for about 30 years.

mikey_the_rat

[GoCubsGo]

43. I so want that lunch box!

I loves me some Johnny and Roy!

Here's my first lunch box.

[Xithras]

5. Oh yes

Funny thing is, my mom actually kept it until she retired and moved to Arizona. She called me up as she was packing her house and asked if I wanted it. Nope.

[Kali]

13. I'm getting a 404 from muppet central

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[Xithras]

20. Darn it, They're blocking image leeching.

Here's the same lunchbox on Ebay. If I'd realized it was worth so much, I wouldn't have told my mom to toss it! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400134783969&rvr_id=120462488378&crlp=1_263602_263622&UA=%3F*I8&GUID=433af04912a0a0e202001370ffa54f19&itemid=400134783969&ff4=263602_263622

Fozzie Bear with a banana in his ear! Waka Waka Waka!

Maybe this one will work:

[CBR]

6. Yup...

[old mark]

7. A brown paper bag. nt

[6000eliot]

34. Same here.

Never anything good in it, either. Just a peanut butter or a baloney sandwich

[old mark]

36. Baloney on white bread with mayonaise - sometimes mustard-

and fruit...
I lived on that till high school.

I still love PB&J, but seldom eat it because of diabetes.

mark

[HopeHoops]

8. Yep. Yellow Submarine (1968) - It even came with temporary tattoos!

Too bad I don't know where it is: http://cgi.ebay.com/BEATLES-YELLOW-SUBMARINE-LUNCH-BOX-THERMOS-R8-/270610664900?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f01a70dc4

Starting bid is $1199.00. There are some others in the $400-$500 range, and the one labeled "CHEAP" is only $210.

[bikebloke]

9. Bonanza

..I think.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. Most years I walke home for lunch. Ate in front of the TV watching Bozo's Circus.

I vaguely recall having one of these, though:

[Kali]

11. gotta wonder what this says about my childhood

[BurtWorm]

17. I had one of those, too.

I tried telling people it was from the show Scottishman and the Plaid Wonder. (Not really).

[kayakjohnny]

18. Oh man, that was mine too!

For years and years. I never carried the thermos though. That left more room for the other stuff.

Maybe this explains a few things about the both of us Kali.

:scared:

[MiddleFingerMom]

23. I bet your lunch was never STOLEN!!!

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E-E-E-E-W-W-W-W!!! I TOUCHED KALI'S HAGGIS!!!!
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I can see it now... all the boys gathered around pumping
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And all the girls talking trash about you for letting him do
that... while secretly wondering who would be the first
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[Kali]

28. ewwww!

don't know if it was the trauma of a plaid lunchbox but I'm one of those wierdos that LIKES cafeteria food. We only got to "buy" once a week. The best brought lunches were strange leftovers from the dinner before, the worst were sandwiches made with that thin crappy lunch "meat":puke:

[MiddleFingerMom]

32. Like Eddie Murphy's inspired "Welfare Burger vs McDonald's" routine...

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...I think most kids who couldn't get caff food really liked it...
and vice versa.
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When I went back to college (around 30 years old), I was
REALLY impressed with the cafeteria food -- the diversity
and the choices and the preparation/taste.
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The people griping the loudest about it seemed to be the
younger students who were away from home for the first time
and didn't have much experience with how difficult it is to
shop for one and self-provide something like all the salad
ingredients that they were taking for granted.
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It had EVERYTHING from classic junk food through a very
impressive salad bar to a wide variety of vegetarian AND
vegan choices.
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Although it was nothing like grade and high school cafeterias.
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[driver8]

33. I loved cafeteria food! Once I got into fifth grade, I bought lunch every day. n/t

[driver8]

27. This was my first one, too! I got it for first grade, and promptly broke the

thermos the first week of school.

I remember being so sad because my thermos was busted...life just wasn't fair!

[Kali]

29. I remember getting my oldest son his first lunchbox and going on and on

about how he needed to be careful with the thermos, only to find out it was plastic and styrofoam like a modern cooler!:wow: :think:

[joneschick]

72. that's the one I had....

although I don't remember having the thermos....probably broke early on. The lunchbox later became a crayon box as I remember...:hi:

[grilled onions]

73. I Also Had This Generic Plaid

As I look at it now it makes me think of bagpipes or a mock checkerboard. But it was not a very popular lunchbox when I went to school. However my parents felt the others too "childish" even though I was in grade school. I think perhaps she was thinking that SHE could use it once my lunch box days were over with. Always thinking ahead were the parents of yesteryear. The Depression made a huge impression on them as they stretched our lunches using recycled bread bags,reusing wax paper bags,lunch bags etc.

[WolverineDG]

12. Peter Pan

with the old-style thermos that could shatter if you didn't handle it properly. Every kid I knew was under a death sentence if their thermos broke. Everyone shook their thermos before opening it to make sure it hadn't broken for some reason.

With all the coddling kids get today, I can't imagine these thermoses in the hands of 6 year olds lasting very long.



dg

[blueamy66]

14. Strawberry Shortcake

My Mom and I searched for it everywhere!

[femmocrat]

15. We went home for lunch.

No lunchboxes needed! :)

[sakabatou]

16. Yup

It was a TMNT lunchbox with Super Shredder busting out of the water. Can't find a pic of it though.

[seabeyond]

19. the monkeys. i lOVED my lunch box. i had forgotten all about it

and your questioned popped answer in my head.

wow

it was sooo much fun. i liked peter the best. quiet, shy. not the "other" one.

[Deep13]

21. Hey! hey! hey!

1974ish. Actually, it was my only lunchbox and I had no say in picking it out. It was before the thermoses had the wide-mouth bottles and before the metal boxes had toolbox latches.

[AngryAmish]

22. This

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[flvegan]

24. First: Kung Fu. In third grade I picked out a Kiss lunchbox.

I'm pretty sure that scared my teachers.

[ceile]

25. Annie n/t

[elana i am]

75. me too

[surrealAmerican]

26. Those are some cool lunchboxes.

I always bought lunch at school, so I had no lunchbox. I did have a "snoopy and woodstock" thermos though.

[MilesColtrane]

30. Na na na na, na na na na LUNCHTIME!

[ChoralScholar]

31. I believe it was this one:

followed shortly by this one (I think mine was plastic, though)

[GreenPartyVoter]

35. I vaguely recall two metal lunch boxes. Scooby Doo and Welcome BacK Kotter (or maybe

that other one was really a coloring book. Been eons and the brain is deteriorating fast.)

[InternalDialogue]

45. I had a Welcome Back, Kotter as my second lunch box.

My first was Happy Days, through third grade. Kotter took me through fourth grade, at which point my pride demanded nothing more than a brown paper bag.

[gratuitous]

37. Whoof! Takes me back

The only kid who had the Zorro lunch box was a boy named Lee, whose last name is now lost to the ages. A couple of kids had the plaid lunch boxes, but I don’t even remember their first names anymore. I had the Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel/Squiddly Diddly lunch box, which probably marked me for life (whose bright idea was it to name a kids’ cartoon character “Diddly”?). I seem to recall also having the Get Smart lunch box, and other kids having the Fireball XL5 lunch box (did I go to school with a kid named Richard? Probably.)

[proteus_lives]

38. I think mine was a Thundercats one.

Pretty sure.

[elleng]

39. was a paper bag!

[catzies]

40. Do I! I wish I still had it!

[pokerfan]

41. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

[carlyhippy]

42. I think the first one was a Miss America lunch box

it had Miss America contestant on the front and others on the back and some kind of game on the sides.

[nickinSTL]

44. yep. Space Shuttle

And this was my 2nd:

[triguy46]

46. Yep. 1958 Circus lunch box, with thermos

I broke the thermos the first day of school. Got a firm "I told you so" from my mom.

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[many a good man]

47. Rat Patrol

Somebody stole it the first week. :(

[johnnie]

48. Hell yeah I do!

[Kat45]

50. First was rectangular, metal, red plaid. But my second one

was a black plastic Barbie lunchbox. I believe I still have the lunchbox and the thermos. Wonder how much I can get for them?

[Eyerish]

51. Ahhhh memories of Kindergarten....

I wanted to be Daisy Duke so bad...

[Sebastian Doyle]

53. Beep Beep!

Had a yellow thermos inside, but that didn't last long. Damn glass lined thermos :evilfrown:

[tigereye]

54. red tartan plaid - 1964

I loved the little matching thermos.

[Aristus]

56. How could I forget?

[Maru Kitteh]

57. Jonathan Livingston Seagull 1973. I was a weird kid.

[Amaril]

58. Yep

I remember thinking Julia was the coolest chick ever & begging my mom for this lunchbox. She kept trying to talk me into a Barbie lunchbox, but I was adamant. She finally relented.

[w8liftinglady]

60. Barbie,of course

[Rhiannon12866]

61. I never had a theme lunch box, mine were pretty ones...

The first one was silver, used to fall open at the most inappropriate times. The first day of second grade I forgot to put the top on my thermos and spilled milk all over the place. :(

And sometimes it would fall open when I was making my way to the school bus. We lived on the side of a mountain and an orange or an apple would roll down the hill and into the street. Another embarrassment for a little kid... :blush:

Later, I had a blue one with a pic made of sparkles, but the one I had the longest was square and pink with the handle on top. My Dad once got a call from another irate father when I cracked a big sixth grade bully over the head with it on the bus. I think he was kind of amused... ;)

[Saboburns]

62. I've wrecked a hell of a lot of bicycles in my life

[AllenVanAllen]

63. It was a hand-me-down from my sis,

But it may have been red.

[Broken_Hero]

64. Mine was a He-man lunch box, nt

[swimboy]

65. It's about Time, It's about Space.

I don't think there were many of those.

Imogene Coca was on the thermos.

I know!

[The Midway Rebel]

66. The Green Hornet

With his side kick Kato.

I got my two front baby teeth knocked out in a fist fight after some kid kicked the lunch box out of my hands at the bus stop.

[Rambis]

67. 6 mil $ Man

with inflation how much would he cost today:think:

[LibertyLover]

68. It was a Roy Rogers lunch box

Roy was on Trigger and Trigger were galloping. I think it may have had Bullet on it too.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

69. I yes, I remember it well...

:D Just kidding!

[PassingFair]

70. I googled "Junior Miss" and there it was!

I remember loving it, because I grew up with
3 brothers, and it was the first "girl" thing
I had.


Although, I DO remember that my SECOND lunch box
was a "Time Tunnel" box, because I was in love
with the time travelers....

[bif]

71. Gunsmoke

[AsahinaKimi]

74. Seriously ...

Also the Bento Box;

[Touchdown]

76. SNOOPY!

[guitar man]

77. Scooby Doo!!

Just like this one. I wish I'd kept it, saw one just like it go for over a grand at an auction last year :o

[Seneca]

78. Peanuts, 1973-1974

1st grade.