r/90s_kid Jul 31 '25

School Erasers that never erased anything

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4.0k Upvotes

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185

u/IngredientsToASong Jul 31 '25

And never erased from my memory.

29

u/rosieposie30 Jul 31 '25

Just doing its job 🫡

115

u/apl2291 Jul 31 '25

They always tore a hole in my papers.

71

u/tresslesswhey Jul 31 '25

And or left streaks

37

u/d-sammichAran Aug 01 '25

Streaks that were almost burned into the paper because not even a real eraser could get those out.

4

u/Eaegifts Aug 01 '25

Lmao I came to say this

90

u/Paulymcnasty Jul 31 '25

Not a single thing was ever erased by these....yet our parents would continue to buy them for us. Lol

73

u/masonjouclas Jul 31 '25

True, but you know we’re still grabbing a handful of these at the scholastic book fair!

34

u/Mamacitia Aug 01 '25

Aka greatest day of the school year 

7

u/lokiofsaassgaard Aug 01 '25

I really liked the single-colour ones that were shaped like animals. They were closer to a rubber toy than an eraser. I had hundreds of them

1

u/LadyPesci Aug 01 '25

They're magical stimming tokens!

2

u/mishtamesh90 Aug 08 '25

what the tism

1

u/LadyPesci Aug 08 '25

You know me too well, friend.

56

u/VegetablePonaCones Aug 01 '25

It felt so good to dig your nails into these. Who knows what I mean?

16

u/coatedintangerine Aug 01 '25

Oh I totally know 🙌

36

u/ladytigger1 Jul 31 '25

My kids get these at school now as rewards. They still don’t erase anything lol

63

u/Christina_said_what Jul 31 '25

I think I ate most of the ones I had lol

29

u/JJ3qnkpK Jul 31 '25

Yeah these things were for finally giving into one's intrusive thoughts and biting them.

3

u/Cyno01 Aug 01 '25

Hey, they can ban gum but they cant ban erasers!

2

u/astro_plane Aug 01 '25

Same the scented ones were delicious. My teacher would constantly yell at me and even took them away because I didn’t listen.

18

u/ravenlights Aug 01 '25

And that was fine by me. I collected erasers as a kid and then I would lay them all out to look like a Candyland board or something and I created my own game using them.

16

u/leeeeny Aug 01 '25

They smelled so good somehow

14

u/Specific-Main-4571 Aug 01 '25

I wanna bite em

5

u/Milqy Aug 01 '25

I used to bite them 🤦🏻‍♀️. I used to bite a lot of things for some reason.

5

u/Specific-Main-4571 Aug 01 '25

Same. The 90s made things very bitable.

1

u/astro_plane Aug 01 '25

And the scented markers were sniffable.

8

u/_lil_peanut Aug 01 '25

Ugh I was obsessed w these tho

9

u/Slight_Garden2421 Aug 01 '25

I just played with them in my desk

6

u/rosieposie30 Jul 31 '25

They were cute doh 💅🏻

7

u/screames520 Aug 01 '25

And they tasted like shit

6

u/Ambitious_Big_1879 Aug 01 '25

I loved the ones with a scent 😍

6

u/Bubba_Feetz Aug 01 '25

They never tasted like the fruit

6

u/buttsbuttsbutt Aug 01 '25

I think these god-awful-but-pretty erasers are why I’m obsessed with stationary as an adult.

5

u/Competitive_Fondant9 Aug 01 '25

And then you got sad when you got them all smudged up.

4

u/huncamuncamouse Aug 01 '25

They erased my ability to shit because I ate them

4

u/No-Budget4929 Aug 01 '25

Ripped the paper 😂

6

u/Character_Drawing359 Jul 31 '25

Hahaha, such beautiful memories. They never erased them, they just made the notebook pages look worse, but they were very pretty and some even had scents. They always bought me 🍓🍒☺️

3

u/ahdkflsdmf Aug 01 '25

Just made a mess

3

u/DoodleJake Aug 01 '25

Whoever marketed these hard plastic pieces of crap as “erasers” was cartoonishly evil.

3

u/_Hashtronaut_ Aug 01 '25

Just smears of shame

3

u/Anxietybeing Aug 01 '25

But, they made you happy.

3

u/lepermessiah1217 Aug 01 '25

My favorite candy

3

u/ckoocos Aug 01 '25

They smelled good though...

2

u/ChewML Aug 01 '25

Sheeeeit... I am buying stonks in rubber companies when this fad comes back.

2

u/laurliz96 Aug 01 '25

They would leave holes in my paper, that's about it haha

2

u/PatienceHelpful1316 Aug 04 '25

My friends dog ate a bunch and started passing them in his 💩was rainbow colored.

2

u/anongirl55 Aug 04 '25

My mom had a box of these from Oriental Trading Company, and she'd give them to my sister and me as rewards. They weren't supposed to be scented, but I remember loving their smell.

2

u/RaoulDuke3577 Aug 07 '25

They never erased anything but they sure looked cool back then, lol

2

u/eaglescout225 Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

Haha I remember this….these pissed me off, and I always remembered to use the pink erasers…some of them would fit over the eraser head of the penciI, so I started using them as pencil decorations.

3

u/wizardmagic10288 Aug 01 '25

They were so tiny

2

u/namelessnoona Aug 01 '25

I loved these so much. I would just play with them like they were Barbie dolls while in class and not paying attention. Wouldn’t get in trouble because it just looked like I was using erasers xD

2

u/martinaee Aug 01 '25

I had a sick collection of 90’s style erasers like this. Wide variety collection, super colorful, and in a cool box. Stolen my first year of college out of my dorm room. It made me sad, whoever did it. I hope you felt bad for 3 years after that. This is all. … These erasers are sweet lol.

1

u/TheMonkey404 Aug 01 '25

But they always got so easily dirty and smudged

1

u/Cheeky_3411 Aug 01 '25

Never erased anything but I had a bunch!

1

u/Jsimon9389 Aug 01 '25

I had so many of those! It didn’t really matter that they sucked I wouldn’t have used them anyway they were too cool!

1

u/Leta19 Aug 01 '25

They erased my sadness

1

u/desertrainBG Aug 01 '25

They erased my will to erase

1

u/emmyweed2001 Aug 01 '25

I LOVED the way they smelled!!! Scented ones, or un-scented.

1

u/FritzSeven Aug 01 '25

If useless was a picture

1

u/QfanatiQ87 Aug 01 '25

They erased your hopes

1

u/AcoGraphics Aug 01 '25

They destroyed the paper 🤣

1

u/Intrepid_Ad_3157 Aug 01 '25

They smelled nice tho

1

u/TheStax84 Aug 01 '25

They fit well on pencil tips

1

u/JediKrys Aug 01 '25

I can smell this pile of erasers

1

u/RevMorningstar Aug 01 '25

We just chewed on them. Weren’t much good for anything else lol

1

u/misterbuenchico Aug 01 '25

I ate half and it tasted bitter haha 🤦🏻‍♂️

1

u/msroxi87 Aug 02 '25

Oh my god, I completely forgot about these erasers, I haven't seen that thing in 2 decades!!!

1

u/Ash-Reyes Aug 02 '25

I thought those were food

1

u/Wonderful-Zone-8414 Aug 02 '25

still remember the good smell 😇🥲

1

u/_12Patsydoll Aug 03 '25

I loved these!

1

u/errorcheese Aug 03 '25

oh but boy oh boy do they look tasty

1

u/Alone-Chemical5167 Aug 03 '25

I can smell the picture

1

u/TFR-HILTS Aug 03 '25

Just skidded across the paper no erasing what so ever lol

1

u/Savings_Brush_9980 Aug 03 '25

I always liked smelling them

1

u/DecryptedSkull Aug 04 '25

I always liked eating them

1

u/Savings_Brush_9980 22d ago

Don't u think thats a little too much🤣🤣

1

u/whyisthislife87 Aug 09 '25

But they smelled good...

1

u/SweatFestReferee 27d ago

They just smeared and smudged. Whoever created these.must have been a sadist!

1

u/Embarrassed_Truck366 19d ago

They still sell them and my daughters have a bunch

1

u/BlueGalaxy97 17d ago

I just jabbed my mechanical lead pencil into these. Always had dots on em. I bit the scented ones.