WHSmith trendy stationary around 2000

[jerometheturnipking]

I'm on a trip down memory lane (at the grand age of 32 gimmer) after spotting a young girl in the supermarket yesterday wearing a cross body bag that I had about 20 years ago. It was dark denim - we were cool with our denim everything - and had a little light blue and white puppy with a patch on one eye. Sort of like Blue from Blue's Clues, but not. Does anyone else remember this range? I remember I had a phone case with a tiger on it that said "Easy" underneath, and there were some Mad Cow and Funky Monkey things too. It was cool just after Groovy Chick/Bang on the Door.

Bonus points if anyone has any photos of the stuff because my DH thinks I'm mad, but it's because he wasn't a teenaged girl back then, and Max Power magazine didn't feature it .

Omg I had this stationery! I can just picture it. No photos though



Can't remember the blue dog but I've been using this Bang on The Door mug for 20+ years since I got it with an Easter Egg around 2001!

Ahh! Found it on google, it was called withit. Struggling to post a pic

Was it the David and Goliath range? Some examples here

www.pinterest.co.uk/amberpres88/david-goliath-todd-goldman/

I had a pencil case like this with the monkey on!

I think I'm getting my pencil cases jumbled! I definitely had some of the WithIt stuff - but the dog in that range isn't the one I'm thinking of.

The wee dog looked a bit like one of those Poo-chi robot dogs in terms of the shape - everything about it was sort of squoval.

I loved bang on the door!

Nothing will ever compare to Fido Dido of the late 1980s.

I remember this stuff and it was all phrases wasn't it? Easy Tiger, groovy chick.

Was the dog tatty teddy? I loathed that but it was all the rage at my school.

Not snatch? Is that too far back?

@deadlanguage oh my god that’s just unlocked a memory for me!!!! 🥰🥰

Paul frank everything at that age, filled with smelly gel pens and a bendy ruler.

@MichelleScarn

Not snatch? Is that too far back?

Not Snatch - although I did have Snatch bedcovers, curtains, light shade and paper bin in my bedroom c.1993-1997

Then @jerometheturnipking you must have ruled the school!

I had loads of Bang on the Door stationery. Also those Gul wetsuit pencil cases.

Was it the Chipie range...I can't remember if they sold it in the UK...I used to get it from the hypermarkets in Calais when my parents took me!

I remember bubblegum characters being sold at Clinton Cards.

I've found my people 😂

I loved the bang on the door stuff.

And my Gul pencil case.

@MichelleScarn omg that just took me back to 1994! 😅

Does anyone remember Stationery Box? For those who couldn't afford WHSmith.

Was it this little guy? It's from the Tatty Teddy and blue nose friends collection.

Ok so this is a terrible, terrible, phone sketch but this is sort of what I remember it looking like…

But not tatty teddy, which was different. This one had smooth outlines.

I loved my Stationary Box Rainforest fountain pen. And I had a tin… some sort of brightly coloured print on it. come to think about it, I think my last tin is somewhere in this house.

I have a bang on the door mug I was given for a birthday in 2001.