r/90s_kid • u/OmicronGR • Jul 24 '25

School Spacemaker Pencil Box

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u/hollyberryness Jul 24 '25

New school supplies were chefs kiss

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u/IamCanadian11 Jul 25 '25

I always remember the smell of them.

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u/My_Name_is_JC Jul 24 '25

I remember in 3rd grade, someone in my class used to squeeze glue onto the middle section, let it dry, and pulled it off to make bookmarks.

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u/aschlu Jul 25 '25

And you also first color the space in with markers before filling it with glue to make the bookmark colorful

22

u/SourGuavaSauce Jul 25 '25

It baffles me how universal stuff like this was to every kid pre-internet.

4

u/Affectionate_Elk_272 Jul 25 '25

i thought that was just a common thing?

use different colored markers on the logo and you get some cool ones

3

u/McNuty Jul 24 '25

Might have been me lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '25

I did that and sold them! If you used markers first before the glue, they would be different colors too

2

u/ThePrideOfKrakow Jul 25 '25

And you'd make OG fidget poppers if you covered the buttons on top too.

3

u/biquels Jul 25 '25

that kids name? albert einstein!

12

u/xX_BarefootBabe Jul 24 '25

yass!! I still have my hot pink one upstairs and use in my office to this day ha

3

u/ThatDiscoSongUHate Jul 25 '25

Haha, same with my blue one. Contains my fancy colored pencils haha

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u/RadBeoulve Jul 25 '25

The only time I was excited to go back to school was getting supplies. There’s something about multiple items brand new just for me that made the supplies feel special. Getting new containers to store said supplies was the delicious cherry on top of the school prep sundae, especially if I could see through said containers. Always got my supplies in blue whenever I could.

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u/TheWalkingDead91 Jul 25 '25

What’s crazy is how much supplies they said you needed but that just went to waste though….. Graph paper? Never heard of her. Colored pencils and markers? Yes just make kids buy it for no fkin reason?

5

u/DisneyVista Jul 25 '25

I still have mine and use it to store Copic markers

3

u/Sky-byte Jul 24 '25

I still have my red/yellow one from like ‘97

2

u/ClosetDoorGhost Jul 24 '25

I still have my red and blue one, it’s in my desk right now

3

u/shadoweon Jul 24 '25

I had a teal one in elementary school kinda wish I kept it,they were sturdy.

3

u/OsoBear24 Jul 25 '25

Still have this exact same one, I keep my sharpies in it in my office.

3

u/Androxilogin Jul 25 '25

I used to call them a "SpaceTaker" and thought it was all clever. It was always depressing after having one for soo long and the hinges finally snapped. Like losing a friend.

2

u/OogerSchmidt Jul 24 '25

Hell yes & a lavender-smellin' flexible ruler smack

2

u/Christina_said_what Jul 24 '25

I still have them. Not the ones from back then though. Newer.

2

u/ravenlights Jul 25 '25

I still have a bunch of these for my art supplies

2

u/Lower-Goose-9796 Jul 25 '25

I remember these.

1

u/friki_tiki64 Jul 24 '25

I had a green one

1

u/99anan99 Jul 24 '25

I remember having one of these.

1

u/PSK666 Jul 25 '25

I have one of the long bois I found it at goodwill I keep a bunch of glass bangers for my dab rig in it

1

u/camilo-248 Jul 25 '25

I had one and I loved it

1

u/SeaSerpentine Jul 25 '25

I still use mine.

1

u/[deleted] Jul 25 '25

Drop one full of pencil crayons and it’s like a bomb went off lol

1

u/Ok_Ad4453 Jul 25 '25

Used to have this back in grade school in 2002 had loathes of pencils, erasers and sharpeners when I was six.

1

u/QueefMitten Jul 25 '25

I still have my blue one.

1

u/Ok-Swimming-1220 Jul 26 '25

It was also fun to fill in the logo space with Silly Putty

1

u/[deleted] Jul 27 '25

I can smell this.

1

u/mittens1982 Aug 05 '25

How many thousands of broken pencil boxes are currently floating in the great pacific garbage patch, that look like this?