Coolest 90s School Supplies

It's time for the lucky people to go back to school! I am not lucky, so I can only reminisce and offer to send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils. But if I were going supply shopping, here is what I would buy.

• Trapper Keepers

  Let's just get the obvious ones out of the way. I think mine had the New Kids? Or maybe it was...

• Lisa Frank

  Also file under: obviously.

• Mr. Sketch Markers

  

  I wonder whether the black licorice would be any more appealing now that I am a woman of refined tastes? (Joke! Still gross.)

• Pipe Cleaners

  

  Colorful drug paraphernalia! The stuff elementary school dreams are made of.

• Geometers

  

  These aren't that 90s except for the fact that I doubt kids are using them today.

• Pencil Toppers

  

  I actually think I had a Troll pencil topper, which is kind of horrifying. And then I know I bought a feather one at Claire's after Clueless happened. So yeah. Coolness abounds.

• Scientific Calculator Covers

  

  File under "Late 90s" and also "Total Geekdom."

• Tamagotchis

  

  We're moving into social capital here, but I'm fairly certain that some HomeEc class somewhere used Tamagotchi instead of those crying babies.

• Lunchables

  

  Food of the gods. (Also social capital, especially if you were packing the pizza variety.)

• Capri Sun

  

  Nectar of the gods.

• Slap Bracelets

  

  More social capital (for making friends.)

• Disney Adventures subscription

  

  For lunchtime conversation.

• Pogs

  

  For social dominance.