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### 5. 🧃 Retro Lunch Boxes & Thermoses
Metal or plastic, every kid had a favorite lunchbox — often decorated with characters or bright patterns. And the matching thermos? Usually filled with soup, juice, or hot chocolate that tasted like childhood.
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### 6. 🧮 Math Tools We Barely Used
Remember those geometric tool sets? Compasses, protractors, rulers — all in a see-through case? We rarely used them correctly, but we felt like *scientists* pulling them out.
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### 7. 📝 Scratch-and-Sniff Stickers & Stamps
Getting a sticker on your homework wasn’t just rewarding — it was EVERYTHING. Especially if it was scented, sparkly, or shaped like a star. Teachers knew exactly how to motivate us.
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### 8. 🎧 Cassette Player or Walkman for the Cool Kids
Okay, maybe not *technically* a school supply, but having a Walkman in your backpack for the ride home made you feel like the coolest kid in class — especially with your custom mixtape.
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### 9. 💾 Floppy Disks & CD-ROMs
Before USB drives and cloud storage, we saved our class projects on floppy disks — and felt high-tech doing it. And let’s not forget the fun learning games on CD-ROMs like *Math Blaster* or *Reader Rabbit*!
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### 10. 💼 Homework Diaries & Timetables
Filling out your school planner with colored pens, drawing in the margins, and *maybe* forgetting to write down your actual homework. Relatable?
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### Final Thoughts: The Magic of Simpler Times
These items might seem outdated today, but they represent a time when life was simpler and joy came from little things — like getting the *last unicorn eraser* at the school store or sharpening your pencil down to a stub.
Taking a trip down memory lane reminds us that it wasn’t just about school — it was about friendships, creativity, and finding joy in the everyday.
So dig through that old drawer, find your favorite sticker collection or school photo, and let the memories flow. 📚✨
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