Back to School kit from your childhood

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I remember:
Grey PE "knickers"
Bringing in your Dad's old shirt to wear backwards as a painting apron.
Everyone being given a tobbaco tin to keep your crayons in

Those hedgehog things with little plastic spines to hold felt pens (only for the cool girls)

Those pencil cases meant to look like coke cans and crisp packets!

Yes I remember the backwards shirts 😆
Also we had those luminous gym bags/swimming bags where you could choose the picture on it - a gymnast/footballer etc anyone remember them?
Oh and shiny new patent leather shoes 😁
And rubbers shaped like lightbulbs

Scented erasers. A 'cool' carrier bag for your oversize items (Sweater Shop or Miss Selfridge).
Fluffy pencil case.
Army surplus bag

Also we had those luminous gym bags/swimming bags where you could choose the picture on it - a gymnast/footballer etc anyone remember them?
Yes! I remember those!
With a space underneath to write your name and school

Blast from the last - a box of reinforcing rings !

And the lick and stick woven ones not self-stick!

Nylon tabards from the Coop for Art and Home Economics.

Moody sticky backed plastic for exercise books.

Cartridge pens. Only allowed for those who'd mastered joined up writing (the honour)

Bang on the Door stationery. I remember having Spider ones.

Then when older, a metal pencil tin that would remain pristine for about 1 day before being covered in scratched initials etc into.

Big chunky lace up Hush Puppies shoes.

Fido Dido pencil cases, files, rulers etc.

What year are all these? 80's?

Mine's mid-80s.

Yep. Mine are mid 80s too

Superdrug did stationery.

Matching stationery, (including exercise books) from Superdrug and finding everyone else had the same idea when you got to class.

Naf naf file binders were the shit

Wrapping your exercise book in wrapping paper, wall paper or (posh) sticky back plastic.

Only the very rich kids got sticky backed plastic.

Wrapping your exercise book

The cool girls at my school would wrap their books in magazine pin-ups of Morten Harket . I was stuck with some terrible 70s flowery wallpaper my dad unearthed from the cupboard under the stairs .

Jane Norman bags for PE, scented gel pens!

Smelly rubbers. I had a huge collection.

We used to wrap our jotters in posters from Smash Hits magazine.

Also after Christmas bringing in cut up Christmas cards to use as bookmarks.

Smelly rubbers. I had a huge collection
Oh yeah! Collecting rubbers was a thing, wasn't it? I had one really cool one in the shape of a burger. With seperate individual rubbers for the bun, burger, lettuce leaf etc..

I remember using my one and only 'Chelsea Girl' carrier bag for my games kit until it fell apart.

In my school River Island was the carrier bag you wanted.
Or JD sports if you were a chav.
I remember a JD sports carrier bag with a draw string type arrangement like a real bag. I carried that around for a bit, in the hopes it looked cool.