As I sit here checking my bank account and watching it subtract by the hundred as I buy textbooks, put a deposit down on a house, buy food, and other things I need for school, I constantly think about how much I took for granted in my years in elementary school. I used to look forward to school supplies shopping getting to pick all new things in whatever color or design I wanted. Your social life in grade school was based on your school supplies you unpacked on the first day of school, and you know you just HAD to get these items to make it that year.
1. 64+ packs of Crayola crayons with sharpener on the box
No matter the situation, you were always the cool kid if you pulled this box out.
2. Mr. Sketch Smelly Markers
You knew that your friend was going to put on dot on your nose when they asked you to, "smell this one!", yet you still smelled it every time.
3. Pencil Grips
Neon, flourescent, sparkly, boring, big, or small; you found a pencil grip or "gripper" on the ground, you snatched it up regardless.
4. Gel Pens
Every girl needed these to decorate their fortune tellers or just to write in signature colors, yet no one acknowledged the fact that they ran out of ink in a few days.
5. Lisa Frank everything
Every girl had at least one of the famous folders, notebooks, pencil bags, pencils, and the list goes on.
6. Push pencils
A product that you always wanted or "needed" yet you lose one little piece and you're screwed.
7. Multi-colored push pens
"Dude try pushing all of them down at once, I swear I've done it before."
8. Colored or the drawing Elmer's glue
"Dries white!" was actually the most false claim ever made.
9. Pencil toppers
Serving no apparent purpose whatsoever, why the hell wouldn't I want a huge piece of plastic on the top of my pencil.
10. Book covers
Whether it was the brown paper bag one that you colored or the stretchy material ones that ended up on your head.
11. Decretive pencils
Sparkly, obscure shaped, color changing, or even mechanical;you had to make school work fun in some way. Oh and don't forget the rad erasers that usually came with them.
12. Color cap erasers
Warning: don't erase too hard or too fast but they do come in a variety of colors so it's okay.
13. 50 pack of Crayola markers
Basically the same thing as Mr. Sketch Smelly markers but plot twist, the black marker smelled like burnt marsh mellow rather than black licorice.
14. Fun erasers
Candy bars, eraser tubes, and any shape you could think of even though the majority of them just smudged your writing even more...
15. Erasable pens
Did they erase ink? Yes.
Did they even write? Barely.
