Who else is this old ?

I had completely forgotten about doing this every year. Makes you wonder what else did we do back then that is not done now?

Yup....every year

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Yep, I’m guilty.

They don't do that anymore? Did they stop using books, or do they get new books every year now?

They just stare at a screen. It’s sad

Done it. I remember the pre-cut ones with glue on the flaps. We had Buttercrust (bread) ads, and other ads, on them.

Speaking of old - I had a slice of birthday cake at my granddaughter's birthday party a few hours ago. It was a "confetti" cake, with sprinkles and candy in it. Holy crap! That artificial junk hit me like a ton of bricks. I've had more energy after a bottle, yes, I said "bottle", of wine. Hopefully this gin will counteract it.

Yes, Sir. Standard procedure.

Yep. When they ran out of the real book covers, we used brown paper bags. The cashier would give us extra bags for the book covers.

The brown bags were always the best little art projects too.

Recess, teacher would ring a bell by hand to tell us to come back to class.
Each morning, pledge of allegiance and reciting the Lords prayer in class. I remember when they added "Under God" to it.

We would flip them pre-cut ones over so they were blank. Then we would draw what we wanted on them.

I remember in elementary school we would take turns praying before lunch. Them teachers were awesome.

This^^^

I definitely did that

I remember doing that and I’m only 30.

When I was a kid, my parents were on a party line. There were no EMS, the police had crash wagons. I remember coming home from school on the bus and seeing men in black and white striped uniforms chained together digging out the ditches. A white man in a khaki uniform sat in a folding camp chair holding a double barrel shotgun. Cigarettes were about 25 cents a pack and gas was about 25 cents a gallon. Snickers bars were a nickel and 12 ounce, glass bottled Cokes were a dime.

I was borne at home. I grew up on a cotton farm in Arkansas. I picked cotton. I plowed mules. I saved scrap iron. One of the happiest years of my life was when my daddy came home from the big war.

My grandmother would sew fabric book covers every year for all of her grandkids that would bring them to her. I had forgot about those. Good memories.

They probably get new books every year to keep up with liberal educators changing biology and history so often.

Yeah. If you did em right, they were skin tight.

How about when the lunch room served"fish on Friday"?

at least you had books. I had to walk up hill barefooted

One thing I remember was making a kite. Two sticks, some paper (even newspaper) some string & flour glue. Old rags tied together for a tail. You could buy a store made 2 stick kite for $.10 & a fancy 3 stick kite cost $.15. I had a kite string break once & the string tangled in the electric wires. The kite flew for 2 days on its own & then it was gone!

Yes.

Remember them well. No bookbags, no cell phones, no laptops, no kneeling...different times for sure.

Would use brown paper bags, funny papers or just regular news paper to protect our school books. Remember you had to sign the book on receiving it, some books were so old, had many signatures inside. Actually had history books back then as well with the same requirements, you owned it until turn in, or payed for it. Never paid for a book, knew it would have come out of my backside. World was a lot better off back in those days!

Done that more than once. Geez, that was a long time ago.

Yep, I am that old.

I did that.

Yep

Not really, same play book back then and as well. Remember the riots, same group of folks , same plays.

well. yes, but my mommy did mine

Me and my brothers and sister did it, I'm only 17..

yep...…….

Yep!

I never could get those dang corners right!

My goodness, aren’t you all glad we have moved past these archaic, simplistic, racist, and white supremacist beliefs?
It is amazing any of us survived such. It is such a good thing that we have advanced to much more pure motives.
Glad we have the “yutes” of today to save us and the planet.

Ok seriously, man this bring a back some great memories. Man I loved the fish sticks.

yep.

got of pic of Oxners school supplies:
His history book had one page...blank.

Yep, I remember those and those big pencils they had us use in 1st and second grade. I also remember carrying a pocket knife as a grade schooler and playing Mumbly-peg. Carrying a pocket knife to school now would probably get you thrown in jail.

Yep, we had them. They had the limes on them to guide your cut and a big a tiger logo with all the businesses in towns advertising on them. Seems like there was a calendar with all the school holidays on them too. These days, my 17 year old uses a Chromebook, and has since the first grade.

Interestingly enough, one of his dual credit courses required us to purchase a book from the college, and it came vacuum sealed in plastic with the thinnest paper I have ever seen, and no comb or front and back, just holes. We had to get a three ring binder to put it in. The other book he had to have was an access code they mailed to us, all this for $380.00.

Retired from teaching 8 years ago and still had my students do this. Went to the local grocery store and they would donate all the paper bags I requested. They had to draw and color something related to the subject I taught on it that way they could easily identify their book. It also showed me who were creative and motivated so I could do a seating chart.

Pocket knives and in high school guns in the back window of trucks.

Our school still allows pocket knives, guns are a no-go though.

...time to go to the lunchroom

We used Piggly Wiggly or Safeway paper bags for our book covers. Anyone remember using Ludens Cough drops for candy in the winter so you could eat it in the class room?

And in the snow?

Don't forget it was uphill to and from school in the Snow

We only had 48 states in the Union. Where did the time go?

BIG CHIEF TABLETS! ......how politically incorrect in this snowflake world.

Remember when only winners got the trophy!

Done it many times.

Yep, on book day I learned to look for the books with the smart girls signed on inside cover because the would write notes/underline in the books before high lighters.

If did n't have your own vehicle, we used to bring out shotguns or rifles with us into the gym locker room after hunting before school and stand them in coaches office corner and leave them there all day and pick em up on way out after the after school practice just in time to hunt last light. Every pick up had a gun rack with some gun in it all the time.

Yep, those were my book covers. My school years were at the end of the guns in cars, they started banning anything on campuses.

Took my shotgun to school a few times. Class of ‘99. My HS is 1/4mile from TMS

me too, but i didnt grow up round here.

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also going to the dentist, and that HUGE metal/glass syringe of Novocaine he kept in the large beaker of blue alcohol, and used the same one on EVERYBODY...

taking lunch to school in a brown paper bag once I was 'too old' to be taking a 'lunchbox'.

learning/memorizing 'times tables' (multiplication) from a single half-sheet card that listed them all, up to 12x12

getting smacked on the palms with a yardstick by the nun for 'cracking-up' /talking in class.

I now use my Kindle reader.

My german speaking ancestors who immigrated straight into Texas had to learn spanish, then english, and now I have to learn spanish all over again to get any help at the grocery store/walmart!

Still so weird to me to hear of nun teachers in Texas

Did it every year.

We used newspapers to cover them too.

Im 33 and remember it. We also used to pray before sporting events etc.

The Taco Villa in my town sponsored our school systems book covers. They all had the Taco Villa logo, and an extra flap that was a coupon you could tear off for a free bean burrito. Teachers had to oversee the distribution so no kid could abuse the system and make off with a stack of free burritos.

Dang mean ol teachers

Not all.

Back seat of a 57 Chevy.

If a teacher takes my burrito coupon, they go into the mean category.

The teacher couldn't take these away from you because they are not candy.

Ours were Ludens

Use to love both the cherry and licorice.

Yep our kids will ne3ver know the sacrifices