#41

Also remember being well pleased to get one of those pens with 10 different colours:

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And then slowly realised it was unwieldy and there wasn’t really any use for being able to write in green or purple.

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#42

I can’t cope with Smiggle at all, so I’m gonna have to take your word for it.

#44

Yeah I had one, orange and black. Good case.

#45

Bet you got teased mercilessly for having a pink pencil case

#46

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#47

my schoolbag was defaced with the names of the local school gangs so they knew not to steal out of my bag during phys ed class

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#48

wonder if gul made more money selling pencil cases than wet suits

probably not eh

#49

Hurr.

I don’t recall what colours they were. Different times though.

#50

Needs a content warning imo.

#51

Done

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#52

Not only the names of bands, but also album titles and band members’ names.

No idea why

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#53

The cool thing to do was to repack it with all your stationary perfectly fitting, no overflow. It became an obsession for some

#54

Everyone had to have a set like that at my school.

#55

Spent most of secondary school using a laptop bag as a school bag. Absolute nonsense. I didn’t even have a laptop. Could maybe comfortably hold a few folders and such but adding a bunch of textbooks in there and then trying to shove a pencil case at the top before zipping it up? Get outta here. Thanks for listening to my TED talk

#56

BRIEFCASE WANKER

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#57

Kids are the absolute pits.

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#58

I went to a selective grammar school and some new kid would always, always show up on the first day of term with a briefcase.

#59

Ha ha I recall being obsessed with having a really large holdall bag for the early part of my secondary school. No real idea why but I had to have a big non descript one. Maybe it was something us nerds had to have.

Recall having one of those cloth fishing shoulder bags in primary school and loving it for all its pockets.

Remember those puffy cotton weave satchel ones people just yo write on? Feel like @Ruffers would have had one

#60

There’s no question that I would have looked like a complete pillock but i’m comforted by the fact that another guy actually did use a briefcase. That took some of the heat off me and i’ll be forever grateful.

#61

Used to just write weird little thought fragments on all of my stuff rather than bands or football teams or whatever. Did it to my first guitar too, which I still have and which still bears some bits of 14-year-old me’s graffiti.

Also bought what I thought was a really cool backpack in France one summer holidays only to find out that it was apparently a girls’ riding backpack, and my parents wouldn’t replace it because why would you replace a perfectly good bag?

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