Man duraseal was the shit. Buying back to school gear meant buying a roll of Lisa Frank or Space Jam Duraseal and laminating your books with it. It fucking ruled. I’m surprised it’s not something I see in office supply stores anymore.
I’m old.
Edit: If it’s because it’s bad for the environment then that makes sense and I fully support ditching it.
Man oh man. We had to wrap our books in a type of thick, glossy paper. The books were borrowed from the school, so they expected them back in flawless condition. I kid you not, we even had to take sandpaper and file the 3 “paper sides” of the books to remove any stray pencil marks.
It was run by nuns, go figure.
We used plain brown wrapping paper, the kind that’s normally used for wrapping up parcels. Never even heard of this lol.
#BrownBagGang
Yeah in the USA we used to use brown paper shopping bags to cover our school books. By the end of the year it’s be all ripped up and shit and covered in drawings like the cool S.
Hell yeah.
I did those and the local ButterKrust bakery sponsored some plain Jane brown ones that had their name on the back at the bottom in small letters. I was super cool so I scratched out the ‘er’ so mine just said Butt Krust.
Yeah. That was kind of fun
Claims to be an owl, is actually a kiwi. Really makes you think.
Now I have to slightly correct the accent I read their comments in
I think the equivalent of that in my area were these nylon book socks. We would stretch them over the textbook covers.
idk about commercial names but contact paper/film is still a thing pretty sure?
Hell yeah
we used brown paper grocery bags
Yeah and it only lasted like a couple months at best
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My partner got us a bunch of Lisa Frank notebooks a few years ago. Shits awesome. My book notes are in the glittery dolphin, recipes in the unicorn, and video game notes in the koala. Also have a big glittery cat 3 ring full of classical piano sheet music.
we used like nylon stretchy covers. We called them book condoms.
Every year it would either be part of the first class to cover your new textbooks in something, or out would be part of the homework assignment
It was also a big thing in Australia. I had a super mario sunshine one despite never having played it
Can we just cover schoolchildren in it? To prevent any mishaps.
we had a plasticky thing that you had to neatly fold around the inside of the cover of the book. there was also one that was self adhesive, you pulled the thing from the backing sheet and then stuck it to your book.
and yes as soon as you got your books you had to wrap them up
It was a thing in Australia and I remember if you did it the schools wouldn’t buy the books back. But it was damned if you do, damned if you don’t, because they wouldn’t buy back damaged books either.
I used normal clear tape
