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.

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We used plain brown wrapping paper, the kind that’s normally used for wrapping up parcels. Never even heard of this lol.

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#BrownBagGang

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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.

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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.

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Yeah. That was kind of fun

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Claims to be an owl, is actually a kiwi. Really makes you think.

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Now I have to slightly correct the accent I read their comments in

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I think the equivalent of that in my area were these nylon book socks. We would stretch them over the textbook covers.

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we used brown paper grocery bags

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Yeah and it only lasted like a couple months at best

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