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 did x

😂😂😂 that brought back memories

Yea covered my books in wallpaper from samples, or comics. Smash Hits posters went on my wall, can't remember covering books with them. Whoever mentioned Look In.. I'd completely forgotten about that.

Mum got an old wallpaper samples book from the local decorating shop and we used that throughout our entire school career. I remember being very excited about choosing what to cover the books with

Oh, I remember that! I think it came with the sheets joined with perforations.

We mostly wrapped our textbooks in wrapping paper, but some used wallpaper. Only one teacher made us wrap jotters.

Oh my god I'd forgotten all about Fads!!

We had to cover our books with wallpaper. The worst was that hideous brown and cream flock wallpaper.

For art we had to bring in an old shirt to wear - usually one that had belonged to a dad at some point. Most of us had ones with huge 70s collars on them. 😂

Thanks Mathanxiety you explained it much better than me..copies must be an Irish thing

I changed schools when I was about 9 (early 80s) and at the new school we were told to cover our books with wallpaper. I remember being very distressed about this because we didn’t have any; our walls were all plain white painted. I ended up getting some old offcuts from my grandparents, I secretly thought it was quite pretty - pale pink roses, but it was very dated. Probably from the 50s or 60s.

When we moved up to the seniors everyone started using Smash Hits instead. My mother refused to buy me Smash Hits; but I did manage to persuade her I needed to graduate from Twinkle at that point. I got Girl Magazine which was acceptable, apparently. I think they had posters of kittens in, so I backed my books with those. I wasn’t in the cool crowd.

Yep, at school late 1970's early 1980's.

What a chore covering my books in wall paper. Like taking a part of home to school. If I looked down to quickly at home whilst doing homework it was like it was camouflaged.

Wish I'd had the presence of mind to use wrapping paper - doh !

Brown paper for me or sometimes the parents would spring for one of the various plastic films that were available- some were sticky backed, others you just folded round and then they bounced off!!

As I progressed through school we started buying fancy gift wrap, there was a knack to covering a book just ticking all the flaps in rather than using sellotape, that way we could carefully remove it when handing the book in and reuse the same cover the next year - textbooks tended to come in series so the books would be the same size one year to the next.

Yes! In the 90s and 00s

My books 70-80's were covered in brown paper or copies of Jackie ! 🤓

Yes, I seem to remember woodchip, and anaglypta which was good for colouring in 🤔

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Copies and various other Irish school memories here ^^

Yes in the 90s and 00s. For my school you could only use the brown paper or the clear plastic stuff.

On the late 80s/early 90s, it was a school
rule that we had to cover our books, and old wallpaper was recommended. I wonder if they still do it?

Mananxiety that is great the tin whistle and the old school desks where we carved our initials in. You old enough to remember Peig Sayers...loving all the responses on here..

We had to cover our books too and I never understood this. They had perfectly decent covers already. Pointless exercise.

@BOOTS52 in Scotland we call exercise books/copies "jotters". My jotters were covered in wallpaper or brown paper but later on things that had cool pictures on like doubke page spreads from magazines (which got tatty quickly).

Yes and I left school in 2003!

We had one roll of very 80s anaglypta left from decorating the kitchen which had to do mine and my sisters books for our whole school career. It wore so well my mum sometimes threatened she would take it off and use it the following year 😐

The shirts thing was definitely a privilege marker, my dad wore a uniform and we had no money for going out. Think I had to buy a shirt from the charity shop.

Covering your books was usually the task given for your first homework. I was particularly proud of using atlas gift wrap on my geography book. Years later I was able to utilise my book covering skills working in a library for 25 years Lyfguarding and laminating all the new bookstock.

Yes we had this as well. I used to argue with my sister over who got the best designs.

We had to cover all our books, so it was big job at the start of each school year.

Oh yes, used to like doing it!

Remember one wallpaper that was all white but with a design on it, felt spongy? Spent hours in lessons colouring round it/squashing it. Always bounded back, no idea what the hell it was made off.

Then moved on to sticky back plastic. Real skill to not get any bubbles and you had one shot! With only 4 channels you had to get your adrenalin rush where you could in the 80’s.

Good times.

If the book did not come back after weekend with brown paper on my teacher gave a detention.