1A metal Strawberry Shortcake lunch box.
Or, perhaps you were more of a Care Bears kind of girl?
2And the matching plastic thermos.
For some reason, juice always had the faintest taste of plastic after drinking out of these bad boys.
3Trapper Keepers for all your papers.
It was the best homework organizer — until the rings broke halfway through the year.
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4And reams of paper to go in 'em.
If only we had a nickel for every time our teacher asked us to pull out a sheet of loose leave paper ...
5Puffy stickers.
The best decorations for your Trapper Keeper and the inside of your desk.
6A collection of colorful erasers.
Even though, it hurts to admit, they weren't very good at erasing things.
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7Plastic charms for your bracelet.
If you were lucky, your mom would let you pick out a new one for your first-day outfit.
8Arizona Jeans from J.C. Penney.
There was nothing like picking out the one new pair of jeans you got for the entire school year. Talk about pressure.
9Plastic hair clips.
They were best worn on top of the headband securing your pigtails.
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10Colorful jelly bracelets.
Getty Stacked all the way to your elbow, of course.
11And jelly shoes.
Getty Okay, really jelly anything was fair game.
12Mr. Sketch scented markers.
We have to wonder whose idea it was to make markers kids wanted to smell all day long.
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13A plastic t-shirt clip.
These genius accessories kept you from looking like you we wearing a potato sack too many times to count.
14L.A. Gear sneakers.
The only acceptable sneakers to wear to gym class.
15A new slam book.
You gotta start fresh for a new school year!
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16Multi-colored pens.
They made taking notes (or more like writing notes for friends) so much more fun.
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