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Twitter Users Are Posting Things We Haven’t Thought About Since Elementary School, But Will Instantly Remember (30 Pics)
There’s something about school memories that makes them so vivid and long-lasting, it feels like they happened yesterday. The classic ones like leaving home wearing slippers or failing a math exam usually come back in a sweaty nightmare. Miscellaneous memories like stealing a scented marker from your classmate arrive with a flashback. More emotional ones like an auntie picking you up all worn-out after another day at school can be triggered by a sharp valerian scent that reminds you of her.
But the most peculiar thing about these experiences is that they’re both too specific and too weird to digest. That’s why, when Twitter users started sharing their personal flashbacks from elementary school, people came to the conclusion that we all lived in the same childhood.
Pandas, if any of the posts below ring a bell to you, don’t forget to share your personal take on elementary school in the comments. And after you’re done reading this one, keep going down memory lane with some more school nostalgia here and here.
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#1
DemPugs 5 years ago
Don't forget that the ice cream was always so frozen it was like a brick, so spent half your time chipping away at it
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Layla Corman 5 years ago
Dairy products are never supposed to be consumed with a metal spoon. I'm not saying wood is the way to go, but next time try using something non-metal. The better flavor will change your life!
Chris Jones 5 years ago
Ice cream cornets!! They best way to eat ice cream.
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Amelia Nelson 4 years ago
Once I got a splinter from that spoon and I had to go to the nurses office to get it removed.
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Mama Panda 5 years ago
I did this one time in front of my son, who was around 5 at the time, and it scared the c**p out of him. Of course I showed him it was just glue and did it to his hand. Every now and then, we still do this for kicks. He is 17 now and still thinks its cool.
NanZ 5 years ago
Well c**p! How did I miss that? I have never seen it done before! I live under a rock I guess. The good news is that I have a big bottle of Elmer's in a drawer! Do you just smear it on your palms? Or what?
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
Yes, and then let it dry... after a while you peel it off. Loads of innocent fun! Enjoy!
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FatBaby 5 years ago
I had bad luck. I would always get in trouble for something small either the day of or the day before the book fair :c
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Gipsy Kings fan 5 years ago
We didn't have that in the 60's. Instead, the Scholastic book company would send their book catalog to each classroom. You checked off what books you wanted on a form. Some weeks later, the books arrived, in stacks labeled with each student's name. I remember I always ordered a huge stack. I'm 62 now and still have two of the books: CODES AND SECRET WRITING by Herbert Zim, and THE ENORMOUS EGG by Oliver Butterworth (a charming tale about a family who sees an unusually large egg among their chicken's egg -- it hatches into a baby Triceratops!).
Layla Corman 5 years ago
This is the exact reason I volunteer for my daughters book fair for the entire week! I also make sure I have extra cash on hand so every kid gets a book!
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
I was lucky enough to live in New York City as a young child and they used to have RIF (Reading is Fundamental) trucks go around the neighborhoods on weekends. They would give each kid a couple of books and trinkets.
Typically, our earliest memories begin to form at around the time we’re 2 or 3. From this time on, kids learn how to express their inner emotions and make a coherent sentence. However, there are some dark spots in our memory when it comes to the age of kindergarten or elementary school. Scientists believe that childhood amnesia is to blame.
As soon as you become an adult, it becomes virtually impossible to retrieve early episodic memories. It seems quite paradoxical because the human ability to retrieve childhood memories shouldn’t deteriorate with time if the brain is functioning well and one could be described as healthy.
#4
Francis 5 years ago
i sat in a meeting the other day, which was absolutly useless and boring and a colleague and i made one of these :D it was fun
Suzi Gauthier 5 years ago
I love the South Park episode where the boys try to find the secret from the girls.
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NanZ 5 years ago
I am sure that the more vulgar the better for a lot of people!
Load More Replies... NanZ 5 years ago
About a month ago I thought this and I always had one but couldn't remember how to make them and how you used them. I laughed when I did a google search because I realized I wasn't the only one that couldn't remember how to make them! Found it right away! On the Sinners show a guy had one of them.
#5
This Girl Was (indeed) On Fire 5 years ago
This is still to this day my favorite toy. It's a shame I can't find them anywhere now...
Kristy P 5 years ago (edited)
You have not looked online, apparently. I just googled it & there are ALL different ones:-) "waterful toy"
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Catlady6000 5 years ago
Different ways. Usually a lot like a pinball machine. This one looks like the objective is to get the little donuts on the clear little pegs
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Diana Lucas 5 years ago
I had this exact one! Played with it for a very long time until I ended up donating it years ago.
Katherine Due 5 years ago
I have one of these yet...with water still in it full up and it hasn't been filled for at least 12 years.
#6
Elizabeth Tunney 4 years ago
yes. I taped these together at home and wielded a mighty sword in the battle with my brother ( who asked me to make him a sword too)
Alexander Brior 5 years ago
My class was building a massive one of these when a fire drill started.
Karly Codr 5 years ago
YESS and then someone would accidentally hit someone with it and the teacher would take all of the markers
Bored Wolf 5 years ago
I used that all the time to annoy people in front of me when I was in primary
Modern theorists explain that the key to forgetting lies in the early development of the brain itself, because infants are able to recall information for weeks or even months. The amnesia of early events occurs suddenly over a period of two years, and the younger you are, the more likely you’ll forget things from early days. However, the tendency to forget slows down with age.
With every single reminiscence, we make a repetition in our brain that allows us to keep the episode longer in our memory banks. Walking down memory lane every now and then turns out to be an excellent way to keep the precious moments locked in our brains!
#7
Neill Powell 5 years ago
I went to a school in AFRICA and even we had that! wow
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Cassie 5 years ago (edited)
I haven't seen one of those since the Challenger explosion when the school decided maybe it wasn't such a good idea to watch the launches live.
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
I remember I was home from work, sick, and decided to watch the morning news and the launch... Horrifically sad.
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Daria B 5 years ago
We had these TVs when I was in school, and pictures projectors in kindergarten, with teachers reading the story and playing the dialogues.
Load More Replies... Id row 5 years ago
Conversely, it could also be a punishment if the material was boring. We were made to watch hours of Nicholas Nickleby for some reason. I would have preferred detention.
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
Catholic school... Jesus films. He always said "Truly, I say unto you..." I remember them like it was yesterday and it was the 70's! XD
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Prince Maroochy 5 years ago
I always think about Bach when I see those, because the last time I saw one used was when my music teacher in fifth grade showed the class a documentary about him on it.
katboxjanitor 5 years ago
This didn't happen until I was in high school. Our carts had an actual film projector of film-strips to be projected. THOSE were a treat.
#8
FatBaby 5 years ago (edited)
so nostalgic. i remember in 2nd grade, my teacher would use that to show metamorphosis.
Prince Maroochy 5 years ago (edited)
In fourth and fifth grade, my music teacher used it to show us the song lyrics we needed to learn :3
Load More Replies... TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago
More vivid is the sound of that one teacher with all the bracelets as they hit the hard plastic when she wrote on a projector.
Nela Rothenbach 5 years ago
Unfortunately, you're right. Our school can't afford smartboards so we're stuck with these.
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Harleen 5 years ago
We had a teacher who everyone suspected wore a toupee but no one could prove it. One day, he was leaning over to fix the projector and I suppose a few hairs got caught on the overhead part. In any case, he walked away from it. It hung there for a few seconds, then landed with a hairy little splat onto the projector and there it sat, magnified 10X. The room was dead silent. He finally turned around, went "GUH!!!", grabbed it and ran out of the room. I've honestly never seen an entire classroom laugh so hard since then!
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
Oh noooo! Poor guy! Kids can be cruel, but that was funny!
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I got so excited when I was asked to go fill in the right answer! Would have a chip on my shoulder for the rest of the day!
Chris Jones 5 years ago
'Chip on your shoulder' must mean something different in your country - in the UK it means having a grudge or grievance.
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Chrissie M. 5 years ago
Nostalgic, my a**. At my school, the teachers are happy if they HAVE got a working one of these.
heidi holmes 5 years ago
This was always a nightmare trying to keep up with the teacher to get everything written down before she erased it all and moved on to the next part of the lesson. Or you were mortally embarrassed when you were forced to raise your hand to ask her to wait so you could catch up so most of the time you just let her erase everything and hope you got enough of it to pass the test it was going to be on!
#9
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
I'm still childishly fascinated with gel coloring pens - they didn't exist when I was in school. I am particularly a sucker for glitter.
Troy Currie 5 years ago
These weren't gel, they were just a bunch of different colored ink pens in one holder.
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Moo Moo Futch 5 years ago
What is this about? I never did this and I never saw it as a child in any school I attended in the U.K. in the 80's.
CG2018 5 years ago (edited)
I think it started with a challenge to connect six lines (two rows of three vertical lines each like this | | | ) to create an S:
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Shelley Jennings 5 years ago
We did this in South Africa. We all assumed it stood for 'Stussy' *.. A cool clothing brand that doesn't exist anymore 🤣
Layla Corman 5 years ago
I'm from a suburb outside of Syracuse (Home of Syracuse University...The Orangemen and my alma mater!) I always thought this represented SU and only we made these!
Kara Louise 5 years ago (edited)
STUSSY LOGO https://www.teepublic.com/kids-t-shirt/476019-super-s
Kara Louise 5 years ago
You are all WRONG. It’s the Stussy, “S” of the 80’s and 90s. I’m American and it was on all my notebooks!
#11
katboxjanitor 5 years ago
My first encounter with these was after 1986 when I joined the ranks of adulthood.
Jim Ellington 5 years ago (edited)
The best markers to sniff were the super-permanent ones rich in xylene. You could sit in class and catch a helluva buzz without anyone noticing.
Gipsy Kings fan 5 years ago
Back in the day, markers weren't scented with fruity scents, but still had that delightful marker smell!
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 5 years ago
magic markers! these color changing boring markers they call magic markers today just don't compare to scented magic markers :D
#12
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 5 years ago
Amazing way to completely destroy your collection... the felt collects dust and dirt and just GOUGES the surface of the CD every time you move them... ugh. I never understood why people did this
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
Nooo!!!! I still have all my CDs and don't have any digital music/MP3s
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bruh (still *me*) 4 years ago
I still have nightmares from 3rd grade music class... some of my friends never made it out
Load More Replies... Water Bottle 5 years ago
Did anyone else have to play ukelele also? I had to play it in 4-5 grade.
Marian Carr 5 years ago
Yes! I did that! It was horrific. I couldn't strum that thing if my life depended on it.
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Kjorn 5 years ago
Reason why i didn't pursue music. that was so boring!!!! why not guitar? or piano?
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Matthew White 5 years ago
I used to use them as spy monical's or something to see if there was hidden riding like national treasure.
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Icantdraw 5 years ago
7's. You can't even find out if its divisible by 7 at a glance, unlike the other numbers
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Nicky OldfieldDesciple 5 years ago
I love the number 9 The result of any number multiplied by 9 when you add the individual numbers together = 9. or if a really big number if you add the individual numbers again and again each time until you get to a single number that will be 9 . even if the number you use to multiply by 9 is in the trillions. Try it ; )
Cody Eriksen 5 years ago
Thanks for bringing this back up. 20 years down the toilet in therapy.
Jeffrey Pellegrini 5 years ago (edited)
I always had to go left to right and then down. The kids that did it top to bottom and then right made my head hurt for some reason.
Gipsy Kings fan 5 years ago
I never learned the 9's! I had a little pencil box that had a gizmo on top with a slider that gave answers to the multiplication tables. When there was a quiz, I'd hold it on my lap and use it! :-)
Prince Maroochy 5 years ago
I always felt so smart doing these! I got almost all of them done and of those only a few wrong :)
#16
Water Bottle 5 years ago
Looks like you’ll be living on a deserted island for the rest of your life then
Kirsty Kambites 5 years ago
I used to do this then hate myself for doing it. Especially if the lead broke off or the eraser disintegrated.
Night Owl 5 years ago (edited)
I never did that and was confused and hated it when I saw that someone else did it to a eraser. I always did my best to keep clean my eraser and to keep it clean whenever possible
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
Yes!!!! I would clean my eraser on my pants... nice clean sharp erasers are the best!
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#17
What's In Your Head? 5 years ago
We didn't have a fancy thing like that. XD They just hung it up on a clothes line...
Audrey Davis _ Student - BuggES 5 years ago
my art teacher made us wait a month until the great moment at the showcase
#18
Matthew White 5 years ago
or when you couldn't move your paddles up or down
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Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
Omg, I loved this, I kept my old computer my son (9) now plays this ^-^
#19
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
How about the potholder loom where you weave together the cotton loops? I got a new one (as an adult) and it's just like I remembered!
Mangle the Fox 5 years ago
i still have trouble getting it started...had to ask my mom several times to help me.
Origami Chik3n 5 years ago
I remember doing this with thin electric wires. We used two wires to make sort of flat "ribbon" like this. And you could mix different colors of insulation to make your creation to stand out. Also, if you do this around ballpoint pen refill, you can make your special pen. Which, honestly, is not that comfy to write with for prolonged periods of time.
#20
Suzi Gauthier 5 years ago
We used to play with a parachute in elementary PE. Everyone grabs an edge, throws it up & runs under. It's probably illegal now, since we did bump into each other, but so fun!
katboxjanitor 5 years ago
I always lost my grip as it went UP, I seemed to be the shortest one all through elementary school.
Laura Pantazis 5 years ago
Everyone seems to have loved the parachute...except me. I HATED parachute day! I thought it was so boring compared to the other games we would play - like dodge ball. Give me a good hit in the face with a rubber ball that leaves a tingly lip any day, lol
Layla Corman 5 years ago
That parachute is HUGE! I do the yearbook for my daughters school and these are always the best pics!
#21
Shelby P 5 years ago
I still use this at work. It is the least complicated picture editing tool and despite it's simplicity you can actually do a lot with it!!!!
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
I became a digital artist after playing with this! Thankfully there's loads of great art apps these days, but some of us started with Paint. :)
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#22
PyroKitty 5 years ago
I still do this! Granted, I'm in high school, but every note sheet has cubes on it.
Dippin Dot 5 years ago
I'm 37 and was just doing it on Friday during a meeting... pretty much ALL of the "doodles" on this (like the "S")
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Avriel Schwartz 5 years ago
I used to draw those all the time. So weird to see that it was a thing other kids did too...
Thomas Es Thomas 5 years ago
I always liked to make ten or twelve sided objects on paper, of varying shapes and cube them. Sometimes I'd draw whole cities.
#23
Janet Salisbury 5 years ago
My teacher made us do that all the time, he said it made our brain more observant
What's In Your Head? 5 years ago
OMG, there's a whole book of these!? I want one! :-O We had "school magazines" (Okki and Taptoe, for the Dutch members here), and sometimes there was a page with this. I loved it!
Debbie Kay 5 years ago
When my son was younger we used to check these out at the library all the time
bruh (still *me*) 4 years ago
I get anxiety reading those because they’re at the doctors office and I’m afraid of the doctors office
#24
Kristy P 5 years ago
We had rubber triangles, not nice foamy ones. I still ended up with a writer's corn on my middle finger. lol
Candice Ravel 5 years ago
We had the hard triangles too and I feel the middle finger corn from the memory, lol!
Load More Replies... Catlady6000 5 years ago
Waaaay back in the day, pencil boxes were basically cardboard cigar boxes with kid friendly art. That was when we had to walk uphill, going and coming, for eight miles, carrying a metal pail with our lunch in it, accompanied by our pet dinosaur
Elizabeth Tunney 4 years ago
they were pencil grippy things. My teacher said I needed to have one because of my handwriting. She also made me hold an eraser while I wrote.. which only made it worse. To make it worse, I had to do cursive. I can’t write well in print ti begin with so why the heck you expect me to write cursive
Toujin C'Thlu 5 years ago
My teachers had me use a pencil grip because I was holding my pencil the wrong way.
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
I saved the mechanical pencils from when I went to community college (around age 40) - it's been a while, and they're sort of brittle and discolored, but so sentimental!
#25
Layla Corman 5 years ago
I'm also extra lucky that I live about 10 minutes from a Scholastic warehouse and 2x a year (Christmas and the last week of school) they open to the public. It is a tradition for us to go on the last day of school as a celebration!
surprised pikachu 4 years ago
and buying those gaming books instead of the chapter books your mom wanted you to read
katboxjanitor 5 years ago
I was in my 30's when I first saw the boo fairs in this format. I used to order a book or two from a little catalog. We had to wait 2-3 weeks for the books to arrive! The anticipation was glorious!
#26
Miranda Panda 5 years ago
I LOVED jump roping!! Double Dutch baby!! The one thing I was good at in school..... :D
Anna roberts 5 years ago
We did double dutch with a very heavy rope on our street because of the concrete, I remember when the kid next door got launched when he missed his jump. Once we found out he was ok, we all just bust out laughing, he never lived it down
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Ally Kaye 5 years ago
Our coach would always say it doesn't even hurt and pick one of us to bee an example. He would do a simple jump and then cause it to hit them on the face. It hurt.
TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago
me and my wife use hump ropes and we’re adults!
Load More Replies... FULL_EFFECT 5 years ago
I meant when it hit the back of the head that was REAL pain
Load More Replies... Cian Thomas McHugh 5 years ago (edited)
The ones without those things on the rope were even worse....... a pure rubber whip going at high speed towards your calf.
Daniel Nilssen 5 years ago
There was a bow in elimentery school that broke my pinky finger with one those
#27
Prince Maroochy 5 years ago
5th I think for me. I always made little flowers with them :)
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Mangle the Fox 5 years ago
my mom still has these! she taught 5th and 6th grade for over 2 decades!
#28
TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago
Same. childhood memories never seem to go far away.
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Gussi Gusii 5 years ago
Dear everyone... you can actually outrun the yeti. How? by going FAST. How? By pressing the F key for fast .
Layla Corman 5 years ago
OMG! I remember this! That gray creature would chase you! What was it for though?
Dianna Siever 5 years ago (edited)
I think it may have been the first endless runner game, albeit skiing. The gray guy was the Yeti.
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Shelley Jennings 5 years ago
Wow played this on an old computer. And there was a cat and mouse game where the mouse has to eat the cheese blocks before the cat eats him 🐁🧀🙀🤣
#29
Tres D 5 years ago
You don't even know how much I HATE the term hit different"! It makes ZERO sense! So stupid!
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
Thank You! First time I've ever heard it and had to read it a few times!!!
Load More Replies... TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago
I feel like that’s when I did my best young self pondering of the universe.
Ty_Is_Bored 5 years ago
In the morning when all you want to do is go back to bed. I would just fall out 'til we got back to school.
#30
Anna roberts 5 years ago
When I was a senior, if you turned 18, you could have your parent(s) sign to say you could write your own absence excuse, so I took the form to my mom who said "You've been forging my name all this time, why change." Could have knocked me over with a feather, I had no idea she knew
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amy torres 5 years ago
i did this once but then i panicked because i knew they didnt look the same and so i erased it but it still left a mark and my teacher saw it and i still got in trouble
#31
Final score:
45points
Gipsy Kings fan 5 years ago
Yes! For many years Pee Chee folders were always the same orange-yellow color, with line drawings of athletes. Why couldn't they have had more variety in their colors or designs? :-)
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Mal 5 years ago
Trapper Keeper was a US school essential. It's basically a three ring binder. You could insert folders, note paper/spiral note books, pencil cases, etc. It held them all together. The covers had all kinds of designs and pictures. Lots of color. They were really cool.
Load More Replies... Layla Corman 5 years ago
Yass!! Trapper Keepers were EVERYTHING! That sound of the tearing velcro/opening them up is unmistakable!!
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
These came out when I was in high school. Mom only gave me a 3 ring binder she stole from her office.
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Francis 5 years ago
i bought one a couple of weeks ago and forgot it two days later.. it died :D but it was fun
Prince Maroochy 5 years ago
I loved playing with this! I had two and I loved them. They were the kind that gave you a stuffed animal once your Tamagotchi grew large enough
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your_lesbian_friend 5 years ago
until you caught your finger in the wheels or it got ran over... ouch!
Layla Corman 5 years ago
Or when you face plant off of one and put your tooth through your lip.
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Mangle the Fox 5 years ago
you know gym class was about to be LIT when the teacher pulled those out.
#34
Layla Corman 5 years ago
I had a long conversation with one of my elementary teacher pals about things that they no longer teach (Cursive, reading analog clocks, ect) The thing is that they are teaching them skills that they actually need and "not what we want them to know". It took a long time for me to understand, but many examples later, I understood.
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heidi holmes 5 years ago
I HATED this thing! I always felt so inadequate because my arms are way short and I was chubby in school! EVIL EVIL THING!
Ty_Is_Bored 5 years ago
Yo this one hit different. I TOTALLY forgot about this until this post. I haven't thought about this in years!
#37
Moo Moo Futch 5 years ago
"hi, it looks like you are having a massive tantrum and about to pull the plu....."
#38
your_lesbian_friend 5 years ago
My school still has these everywhere. more comfy than the science lab stools!!
Guy MacGregor 5 years ago
Never had anything but wooden chairs at school. From kindergarten to University
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#41
*Clears throat* 5 years ago
have these exact calculators in 6th-grade science but have real advanced ones in math
Guy MacGregor 5 years ago
What ? I guess it is calculators distributed by the teacher, right ? Never heard of that
Janet Salisbury 5 years ago
They were so tiny, at some point, they were smaller than my hands, and still are
#42
Final score:
21points
Renee Prete 5 years ago
i told my husband just the other night that I wanted one of these cabinets. they're wonderful
Layla Corman 5 years ago (edited)
Or...you can get an apothecary table from Pottery Barn. (Sorry- Shamless FRIENDS reference) *Edit- I would live one as well! So many places to home different little things!
Load More Replies... Guy MacGregor 5 years ago
Hey, I remember seeing this in the first Ghostbuster movie and wondering of it exist in the real world. Looks like it does !
#43
KT Trondsen 5 years ago
oh wow forgot all about this, 128 kids! lol thatd be me with chris pratt haha
Layla Corman 5 years ago
Schooled my daughter on MASH last weekend. She has been playing all week!
Andrea Climo 5 years ago
For anyone curious - the results of this one would be: Apartment, Aubrey Plaza, Librarian, 5, Greece, and Giant Turtle :)
Prince Maroochy 5 years ago
I've never heard of this... someone please tell me the rules! (Also, assuming you choose stuff, I'd pick Chris Pratt, Teacher, 1, Greece, and Beetle.)
#44
Danjal Nyberg 5 years ago
I smashed my little finger in something like this, so hard that I had to go to the ER to have the nail removed. That exact same finger also got smashed in a door.
Load More Replies... Prince Maroochy 5 years ago
We had slots underneath the desktop when I was in elementary school
Ty_Is_Bored 5 years ago
I never got to use these types of desk. We only had the ones with the big opening so we could slide our books in. I once saw a girl eat a whole thing of raw ramen in there. I didn't even know what to say LOL
Alex T 5 years ago
never had desk like this, they had there opening on the front, and it was just a hollow space you could place your books in, the top did not open
Guy MacGregor 5 years ago
Yeah, I've always seen that in the cartoons ! So that was really a thing ?
#45
Final score:
20points
Layla Corman 5 years ago
This game was the BEST! Yes, you died and your entire party died, but apart from fun you learned decision making skills!
Dippin Dot 5 years ago
WHERE!? I have the card game, but I miss the computer version so much!!!
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Janet Salisbury 5 years ago
People still play it today, teachers think of it as learning how hard the Oregon Trail was
#46
Darth Kittius 5 years ago
Omg I thought I was the only one that remembered them! When I ask people about them in high school no one has any idea what I'm talking about
Karly Codr 5 years ago
my school banned them once but then gave up because people would just wear long sleeve over them
Xavier Wescott 5 years ago
My god. I'm getting PTSD just looking at them :D. Those were fricking everywhere when I was young!
Prince Maroochy 5 years ago
I had a friend who always gave me her old ones, I loved them so much- they were so cool!
What's In Your Head? 5 years ago
We didn't have these in my day, but I can guarantee you that I would have wanted a ton of them if we did. They are cool!
#47
What's In Your Head? 5 years ago
We didn't have these, we used red ribbons instead (like a sash). I felt so stupid with one of those on...
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Suzi Gauthier 5 years ago
My daughter taught me that if you put cheddar cheese on top of Totino's, they taste like school pizza.
#51
Francis 5 years ago
me too! but i forgot about those 'til just a few seconds ago! OMYGOSH!!!
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#52
Final score:
16points
#53
your_lesbian_friend 5 years ago
How about going on coolmath games and playing the actual games... I've never actually done the math on it lol
Audrey the Frog 5 years ago
Wait they had actual math on there?! I thought the title was just to trick schools!
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#54
your_lesbian_friend 5 years ago
I still make them... don't know if I should be happy or ashamed lol
Layla Corman 5 years ago
In the 80s, I would make bracelets like this with the potholder/loom bands. They were super chunky and amazing! I would make them on my fingers at recess. Had a line across the playground!
Sawyer Chapman 5 years ago
I have one of those that's probably over 100 feet long, and it took a year to make!
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Mangle the Fox 5 years ago
4 square! When i was still at my old school, we played that EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
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Mangle the Fox 5 years ago
I still have like 2 left, lost their smell though. As soon as I get out of self-quarantine, I'm going to buy more of them.
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Layla Corman 5 years ago
This as well as "Name on the board" no longer happen. Reason is you can't shame kids anymore. Idk about anyone else, but I never wanted my name (or a check) because I didn't want to get killed at home. So I was good. Smh.
Darth Kittius 5 years ago
The only time I ever got a yellow card, I cried. But I had nothing on the kid who got a blue card and stuck his tongue out at the teacher on the way out
Alyssa Linder 5 years ago
it was the bee magnet in my class, if it went on red My mom came and would be bad the rest of the week
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Ashley Nell 5 years ago
The boys would ALWAYS have these out in elementary school. It was kinda annoying.
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Final score:
12points
Kip The Otter 5 years ago
No, you could not. They were fun to play with though!
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Nelson Nelson 5 years ago
There’s one of these currently sitting on my kitchen counter, curtesy of my daughter.
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Final score:
12points
Layla Corman 5 years ago
Trader Joe's has scratch and sniff stickers for the kids sometimes.
Load More Replies... What's In Your Head? 5 years ago
We had Flippo's, they looked like these! They came in bags of crisps. :-D
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Final score:
12points
Katherine Boag 5 years ago
The one where you are trying to rescue jewish kids from nazi germany...
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Final score:
10points
Bookey 5 years ago
That's an eraser/rubber. you attach it to the bottom of your pencil
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DeathMalice1485 5 years ago
I bought this book a few years back (in my late 20s) at an airport to pass the time. I read it twice. T'was a great read.... but i think this article is aimed more toward 90's kids?
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Final score:
9points
Audrey the Frog 5 years ago
I see this everywhere in nostalgia posts but I have never heard of it until then. What is it?
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Final score:
6points
REDNEKNATION 5 years ago
im 15 and i love this game since i was 5. still love it
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Matthew White (Submission author) 5 years ago (edited)
I sold them easily
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
My son had most of these. Freddie Fish, Spy Fox, Pajama Sam and Putt-Putt.
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3points
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Cian Thomas McHugh 5 years ago
Now I feel like a dinosaur..... I did these quizzes when I was in 3rd grade. You were cool if you got all of them right.
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Layla Corman 5 years ago
Mentioned this in another post- My daughter insisted that having this full series was LIFE, so being a sucker and not being able to say NO to books, I bought them. 4 books in and shes over them.
notyourgirl 5 years ago
you WERE suuuure if you're putting that in caps then you still are XD 🙄
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*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
There was a horse-girl type girl at my elementary school, and she would have a new one almost every day because shE WOULD **EAT** THEM.
Danielle Renee 5 years ago
they're chapstick balls, but i didn't think these were out yet in the 90's
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Final score:
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Mama Panda 5 years ago
This post makes me feel really old. Like farting cobwebs old! Only a few of these things were from my childhood and the rest is from my son's childhood LOL
John L 5 years ago
You feel old....most of these were after my time. For me it was mimeographs (sniffing), carbon paper and typewriters....
Load More Replies... Alexis D. 5 years ago
what about slap bracelets? I had those instead of those bracelet things, that were mentioned twice, btw...
CbusResident 5 years ago
Between gigs, I've done some elementary school subbing, and then you get to relive a bunch of it. But, much as I love the kids, you realize as an adult that there's a distinct smell of a bunch of kids together in a room, particularly after recess. And when some kid is being really obnoxious, you might realize how obnoxious you used to be, b/c you were that kid sometimes.
Randomcthulu 5 years ago
No RL Stine books or Scary Stories to Read in the Dark? Our librarian had wait lists for those
Catlady6000 5 years ago
We need a whole other list. Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, The Black Stallion........Our favorite books and series
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SBW71 5 years ago
Noticed one thing not on the list (and this was more of a girl thing obviously) does anyone remember the safety pins with all the beads on them? Or the barretts with the ribbon braided on them?
Brandon Kienle 5 years ago
friendship pins. We used to put them on the bottom lace of our shoes.
Load More Replies... April Simnel 5 years ago
A lot of these are past my time, but I do remember a lot of them were around from 1974-1983, and then came high school... I was always so mad that I didn't get a proper lunchbox with a Thermos (I wanted the yellow Peanuts one) and had to use a paper bag, and buy milk in the cafeteria.
Full Name 5 years ago
Those plastic lunch boxes with the Thermos in the lid and the big sticker on the front were the S**T!
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Jenica Thomas 5 years ago
I can still smell the chalk dust that used to permeate might schools growing up.
John Baker 5 years ago
I started first grade in 1958. Most of this stuff is well after my time.
Mama Panda 5 years ago
This post makes me feel really old. Like farting cobwebs old! Only a few of these things were from my childhood and the rest is from my son's childhood LOL
John L 5 years ago
You feel old....most of these were after my time. For me it was mimeographs (sniffing), carbon paper and typewriters....
Load More Replies... Alexis D. 5 years ago
what about slap bracelets? I had those instead of those bracelet things, that were mentioned twice, btw...
CbusResident 5 years ago
Between gigs, I've done some elementary school subbing, and then you get to relive a bunch of it. But, much as I love the kids, you realize as an adult that there's a distinct smell of a bunch of kids together in a room, particularly after recess. And when some kid is being really obnoxious, you might realize how obnoxious you used to be, b/c you were that kid sometimes.
Randomcthulu 5 years ago
No RL Stine books or Scary Stories to Read in the Dark? Our librarian had wait lists for those
Catlady6000 5 years ago
We need a whole other list. Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, The Black Stallion........Our favorite books and series
Load More Replies... SBW71 5 years ago
Noticed one thing not on the list (and this was more of a girl thing obviously) does anyone remember the safety pins with all the beads on them? Or the barretts with the ribbon braided on them?
Brandon Kienle 5 years ago
friendship pins. We used to put them on the bottom lace of our shoes.
Load More Replies... April Simnel 5 years ago
A lot of these are past my time, but I do remember a lot of them were around from 1974-1983, and then came high school... I was always so mad that I didn't get a proper lunchbox with a Thermos (I wanted the yellow Peanuts one) and had to use a paper bag, and buy milk in the cafeteria.
Full Name 5 years ago
Those plastic lunch boxes with the Thermos in the lid and the big sticker on the front were the S**T!
Load More Replies... Jenica Thomas 5 years ago
I can still smell the chalk dust that used to permeate might schools growing up.
John Baker 5 years ago
I started first grade in 1958. Most of this stuff is well after my time.
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