1. Starting your day with one of these nutritious breakfasts before heading out to school:

2. Keeping your homework and papers organized in your awesome (and essential) Trapper Keeper:

3. Sitting in one of these not-so-comfortable classics:

4. Being handed a freshly pressed assignment by your teacher from the Ditto machine:

5. Getting the perfect sharpened pencil from this:

6. Classrooms and the library decorated with cool-ass "Read" posters:

7. Carrying your lunch in your metal lunchbox — that of course had your favorite cartoon characters on it:


8. The weird taste any drink had when you drank it out of your lunchbox thermos:

9. Eating your vanilla ice cream with a wooden spoon:

10. Signing your DARE pledge to NEVER do drugs:

11. Remembering to just say "NO":

12. Taking your annual hearing test with these:

13. Chewing disclosing tablets so that you could see how good a job you were doing at brushing your teeth:

14. Reading a bunch of books to get your free Pizza Hut pizza:

15. The joy of getting a scratch 'n' sniff sticker for answering a question right in class:

16. And immediately putting your new sticker in your sticker book (if you didn't trade it):


17. Watching filmstrips on one of these:

18. Buying a pencil from the vending machine and crossing your fingers that you got a ~cool~ pencil from it:

19. Bringing in your eraser collection to show off:

20. Storing your pencils and erasers in your prized Sanrio pencil case:

21. Learning how to multiply on a math keyboard:

22. And this was the only spell-checker you needed:

23. Feeling super special whenever you earned a much coveted Weepul:

24. Playing The Oregon Trail during computer lab time...

...and eventually dying of dysentery:

25. Remembering to NEVER touch the middle of a floppy disk:

26. Getting super excited whenever your teacher put on Reading Rainbow:
27. Or when you got to learn how to paint trees and mountains:

28. Watching Win, Lose or Draw — hosted by Vicki Lawrence — whenever you stayed home sick:

29. The excitement you felt each month when your teacher passed out Troll and Scholastic book order forms:


And immediately circling every book and poster on the form.
30. The stress you felt as you carefully tore the sides off dot matrix paper:

31. Walking around to the Ghosbusters theme song and Michael Jackson's "Thriller" during your Halloween parade:

32. Using the Dewey Decimal System in the library in order to find the book you wanted for your book report:

33. The smell of the ink on your circulation card:

34. Bringing one of these bad boys with you on hot days:

35. Trading Garbage Pail Kids cards during recess and lunch:
36. Hanging upside-down on one of these:

37. Getting burned with the seat belt on hot days when your parents came to pick you up after school.

38. And running to the ice cream truck to get a Big Stick:
