Back to School!!!! NOT!!!!!!!!

How long have you been in school I could have been in my 19th year of school if I hadn't graduated from college back in May. From Mother Goose Preschool to Star of the Sea Kindergarten-8th Grade to Gateway High to UC Berkeley. It's been a long ride and I'm finally done for the time being. One thing I won't miss about school is...........school supplies.

Remember when you were in elementary school and your teacher gave you a list of supplies that you needed to have for the school year? It was usually the same list, but you rarely ever used everything they told you to buy. There were of course the generic items like pencils and stuff, but there were other items that I remember too.

Peachie Folders - Do they still sell these things? I never got to buy one because my parents didn't think it was worth paying extra money for a folder, so i got the generic kind. Still, everyone should have seen these folders from one point of their life or another.

Five Star Binders - I'm not really sure what the appeal was for these binders, but I got one =). My parents bought it for me and I was happy because I thought I was cool for having it (I am beyond cool now...shut up). I just remember these were really popular one year and everyone was getting one, or else you would be a loser.

Pencils - There was the generic #2 pencil. Back in the day, there were no electric sharpeners, just hand cranked sharpeners and those little plastic ones. Some of the new kids may have never seen these antiques, so just so you know, we actually had to work to sharpen out pencils. Then came the mechanical lead pencils with the 0.7 or 0.5 lead. These were cool to have because you never really had to sharpen them. But then i would run out of lead because instead of writing, I would shoot the small pieces of lead at other people. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll be happy to show you.

CRAYONS - Everyone has to have had a box of crayons, and everyone has had Crayola. Most people had the generic box, but some had the super pack with the sharpener on the back. Whoever had that superpack was awesome forever...until he lost all the crayons.

Markers - Same as crayons, but not as glamorous. Crayola has a sort of monopoly on the kid coloring supplies. Having the big box didn't have the same aura as the crayons, but still got some popularity.

Erasers - Back in the day, kids used erasers to write again. Nowadays, kids have a new eraser. Kids used to have all sorts of erasers, from cool to weird...And don't forget the extra eraser add-on to the pencils.

Binder Paper - Of course, you had to get college ruled, because wide ruled would get you points off...

Watercolor kit - For art class, I had to bring in a paint set. Of course, crayola wins again. back in our day, you had to mix colors with other colors or water to get teal or pink or grey. Now, they come with them all...lame you have to learn how to mix colors.

Anyways, that part of my life is over. I went over most of elementary and middle school. College may be another post, so we'll see. College was mostly books anyways. All my supplies came from going to career fairs and events...