School Supply Boxes

[megoscott]

I don't know what's wrong with me today, I'm terribly nostalgic. Happy Meals made me think of the old printed cardboard school supply boxes...like I had to get one at the start of every school year.

These are apparently pretty hard to come by, which is strange because they were so ubiquitous. I guess they'd get beat to hell, but still, you'd figure there'd be old store stock, or a collector's group, but I can't find much on the net.

[toys2cool]

Man that's old school i remember having a few of those

[slats7]

Weren't they called "pencil boxes"?

[megoscott]

No, when I think of a pencil box it's a shallower, narrower box. These are more like cigar boxes. Deep enough to hold your pencils, crayons, glue and safety scissors...

[Captain_Slinky]

I remember getting one every year, only to never actually use it for school supplies. By the first week of school it was occupied by at least a dozen Jawas and/or Micronauts that I had successfully traded other, lamer toys for.

I miss the complex trading network of Mrs. Manor's Second-Grade classroom :(

[HardyGirl]

I know in the 4th grade we had to get boxes for our desks for that list of school supplies that got sent home. Most every kid in my class had a cigar box. So did I, but unlike the other kids, my mom put cool contact paper over it, so it looked like a school supply box. After 4th grade, it held different things at different times: Charlie's Angels cards, dominoes, Matchbox cars, Bubble gum machine trinkets and the like.

[ShadowAvenger]

I remember having a few school supply boxes in elementary school. They were nothing fancy and I even carried my lunch in them when we ran out of brown paper bags.