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[unlimiteddilutingjuice]

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

The Chelsea Girl in my town eventually turned into a River Island, but by then I'd decided I wanted a more intellectual type of carrier bag so I'd started using Sherratt & Hughes ones.

@HeronLanyon
Yes to reinforcing rings!

And eventually Tippex. But that takes so much bloody time, I'm not sure how we had the patience. (I'm definitely a crosser-outer now.)

In the 1980s:
Pencil cases with buttons, which made things pop out, like a pencil sharpener.
Black elasticated plimsolls.
Marbles, for the marble season.
There was a time when yo-yos were popular, and were often confiscated if they came out during lessons.
Watches which bleeped on the hour; also vetoed by the headmistress, when her assembly was interrupted by a chorus of them.

Gel pens
Baby g watch
Pencil case shaped like coke/Fanta can
School planner- would insist I was going to keep it neat then 2 days later id be cutting out pictures from mizz magazine and glueing them on
Jane Norman or fcuk bag for pe
Morgan de toi tote bag for books

Pencil cases with buttons, which made things pop out, like a pencil sharpener.
Ooh yes, I remember these.Funny boxey things with different compartments.

There was a time when yo-yos were popular, and were often confiscated if they came out during lessons.
Were they the CocaCola branded ones? That came with a list of tricks to learn? I think you had to collect tokens to get them.

But I remember having a Gordon the gopher lunch box when I was very small!

The mother of all conkers.

Those solid plastic lunchboxes with a flask inside - I had a my little pony one which would be a collectors item now.
When I was very young we all had proper school satchels too.

I had a muppets one. I was so so so proud.

Omg I just found it on google. It had a yellow Kermit thermos.

I used to have the my little pony lunchbox! But I put it down in a cafe on the way home from school once and forgot it - I was so upset! And mum refused point blank to buy me another.

Now my Dd looses water bottles all the time at school and I suddenly understand my mothers frustration!!

@unlimiteddilutingjuice the yo-yos were indeed coke branded ones, and a select few children managed all the tricks, and got the gold yo-yos!