Best Back To School Supplies - Pencil Case, Gel Pens

By A Mystery Man Writer

Last updated 14 Jul 2024

Best Back To School Supplies - Pencil Case, Gel Pens

The best part of being a kid? Back-to-school shopping, duh.
Gelly Rolls: impossible to read on white paper, impossible to resist.
Then there were the Gelly Roll's metallic cousins, also equally amazing and inappropriate for note-taking.
One folder to rule them all.
Seriously, you could never have enough rainbow-colored, fantastical-animal-themed Lisa Frank folders.
Remember when the word highlighter brought to mind neon markers, not accentuating your cheekbones?
Basically the Go Go Gadget of school supplies, this Hello Kitty pencil holder had secret drawers and tools that sprung open at the press of a button and it wasn't distracting at all during class.
I don't think I actually ever used a single reinforcement label, but it was best to keep 560 of them on hand, just in case.
If you truly wanted to make sure your pencil pouch never got left behind, you could always store it directly in your binder.
Of course, if you had to keep all your favorite pens, pencils, and erasers with you at all times, you'd need a more serious pencil case. Plus, who could resist personalizing the plastic top?
Soon, the metal loops would be fraying at the edges and the neon covers would be falling off, but, for one brief moment in September, your subject-specific notebooks were fresh, clean, and ready to be filled with knowledge.
Or, you could go with the old-school composition book: way harder to keep open to write in, way cooler to decorate.
Always important to have a back-up (or 10) on hand in case your pencil's built-in eraser failed you.
Then again, if you were really serious about erasing, you kept one of these around.
Unfortunately, not even the most amazing Trapper Keeper could keep up with the deluge of papers that school brought on. Thankfully, binders you could decorate with ease (over and over again, thanks to the clear plastic pockets) softened the blow.
I honestly can't remember what I'd need to divide all my notes into within each binder, but I do remember taking the time to painstakingly label each one of these.
Regular pencils were for the elementary-schoolers. Mechanical pencils that looked like regular pencils were for the big kids.
Does anyone else remember having to pick the tiny lead refills up, one by one, after you inevitably spilled them all over your desk?
When I asked if I would have to use math in the real world, I really meant, Will I get to use this awesome geometry template in the real world, and the answer has, thus far, turned out to be no.
But why do we want children sniffing markers? someone asked in a pitch meeting in the 1970s. His question went unanswered, and we still have Mr. Sketch to this day.
Of course, markers weren't the only scented school supplies. There were also tiny, useless, smelly erasers, too.
But for the truly useless school supplies, see: the pencil that you could also tie into a knot.
College-ruled: so people know to take you seriously.
Somehow, a lump of plastic that was meant to help you hold a pencil managed to be alluringly fun.
Sure, book covers protected your textbooks, but the real point was that they looked bomb dot com.
You'd never be caught with paper you couldn't put in your three-ring binder, thanks to your handy-dandy binder clip that lived there.
Fun to craft with, equally fun to let dry on the back of your hand and peel off slowly.
You knew you really were a big kid when you had so much homework you had to write it down in a planner.
Thank you, index cards, for helping me memorize the parts of a cell. Now if I could only remember what they were. Golgi body?
Traditional white-out was for chumps: This one had zero drying time and was also way too much fun to play with. (I may have never actually used this for its intended purpose.)