Anyone else cover their school books and copies with wallpaper back in late 70's/early 80's?

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If so, what was it like. My sister pointed out to me that we had the same wallpaper that Dougal and Fr. Ted had on their bedroom wall in a kind of yellow and I still have a few copies from school with it. Imagine sending kids into school now with wallpaper on their books/copies. ha !!

I had mine covered in brown paper.

I remember doing this in the late 80s/early 90s!

My parents had recently decorated with (IMO, then and now) hideous anaglypta wallpaper and I spent many a happy hour when I probably should have been working picking the floofy bits off. 😁

I remember this and also remember the PE bag mum had made from old curtains!

Yes. Covered them in whatever was in the house as spare - brown paper (used), wrapping paper, (used) wall paper oddments. Only very posh kids had sticky back plastic.
we had a sewing lesson spent making book covers out of oddments of fabric. They just slipped on like book sleeves.

Yes!! Used to use smash hits magazine posters 😎

These are great, we had a slipper bag that we made as had to wear slippers in primary or the nuns would be outraged. Also remember if someone peed their pants they would be thrown out on the mat.

My 2 dc's had to cover their primary school homework jotters. I used wrapping paper for them. They are 15 and 18 so it wasn't that long ago

I remember using thick wallpaper on my books in the early 90s.
I also remember doing a project on butterflies and using loads of different wallpaper to fill my project with a multitude of different butterfly species

We had writing books made out of plain paper (no lines) with a thicker cover made of wallpaper sample books. I think because they were free rather than green. State primary.
The 70s were very strange. 💁🏻‍♀️

I had my school books covered in posters from magazines - late 70s - can remember having Starsky & Hutch on my school books at one point!

We used bread packaging! As in white sliced pan slightly waxy paper. It was thick enough and the waxiness meant you couldn't mark it!

Both brown paper and wallpaper for text books - work books - early mid 70s - yes I remember this and also the care it took to get the edges sharp. Also to get the name of the book on the spine otherwise you could spend half your homework time shuffling through the books - ha ha

We had to back our books in the early 80s.

I did mine with clingfilm.

We covered ourbooks in a mixture of wallpaper and magazine pages in the mid- late 90s.

Wrapping paper in the 80s for me.

ds(18) had to cover his primary school jotters. We bought a roll of clear sticky back plastic stuff and he cut out lots of pokemon characters pictures to stick on his jotters before covering in the plastic. Some of them looked pretty cool, much better than my own 1970s wallpaper efforts!

I did mine in the 80s. I had some car bears wrapping paper on my french book and we got a new teacher and I remember he went ballistic at me, even though the previous teacher had allowed it.

I used to use pages and posters out of Look In magazine too (anyone remember that?). I completely redecorated the inside of my locker with that kind of thing.

Me too! Robbie's face was cut off where the book folded so all I could see were his eyes, but that was OK.. dreamy 😀

I was born in ‘84 and did this through the whole of primary school, so we’ll into the mid 90’s.

Yup, my mum used to let us pick a roll from the discount bin in a local shop. I picked some very, err, bold patterns. Adult's jaws would drop asking if we had that paper (black background with bright florals) in our living room

That was meant to be in reply to Purple Banana.

Not got the hang of the new site yet!

I used to ask for wallpaper sample books from the branch of 'Fads' in the high street. Or sometimes I would buy 10 sheets of wrapping paper and cover them all so they matched.

We had to embroider our names on our PE top and shorts. Large, on the outside of them, not hidden away on a label.

These are great, how cool were some of you with your Starsky and Hutch and magazines, the nun's would have had our knuckles red raw. Yes we had to have the corners all folded in perfectly. Loved the idea of putting the stickers on and then the clear film bet that look great Fabulouskilljoys

I did in the 90s. Was very pleased with my books that matched my bedroom!

In wrapping paper rather than wallpaper but yes, we were encouraged to do this. 00s rather than 90s though! Totally forgot about this.