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  • megoscott
    Founding Partner
    • Nov 17, 2006
    • 8710

    School Supply Boxes

    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.
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  • toys2cool
    Ultimate Mego Warrior
    • Nov 27, 2006
    • 28605

    #2
    Man that's old school i remember having a few of those
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    • slats7
      Museum Super Collector
      • Jun 20, 2007
      • 166

      #3
      Weren't they called "pencil boxes"?

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      • megoscott
        Founding Partner
        • Nov 17, 2006
        • 8710

        #4
        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...
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        • Captain_Slinky
          New Member
          • Jan 1, 2008
          • 6

          #5
          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 :(

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          • HardyGirl
            Mego Museum's Poster Girl
            • Apr 3, 2007
            • 13950

            #6
            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.
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            'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
            Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
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            • ShadowAvenger
              Career Member
              • May 14, 2007
              • 547

              #7
              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.
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