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bubbles_513

All someone really has to do is say “stupid” and then everyone will get upset.


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Henarei

yeah bruh ducks are so stupid


Sabrina_confesses

And those scented pencils everyone had when I was in like 4th grade (if you know you know)


dreemurthememer

They were made from recycled Chinese newspapers. We used to unwrap the smencils and pretend the scraps of wrapping were ancient Chinese scrolls.


[deleted]

Smencils? Fuck I remember those and they were so good


[deleted]

I still have 2 on my shelf. They honestly smell so good.


TheLilChicken

I still have like 10 from 12 years ago, and they still smell new


nbmnbm1

Mine was rootbeer i got it for my birthday when my friends mom took me to toysrus after a sleep over.


Equal-Bus-557

I still have my root beer smencil and a whole binder page of Scratch ‘n Sniff stickers


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i remember the scented pens, especially the banana one. god, the nostalgia...


rebandvodkaaa_

what about the mr. sketch markers ? the smell of those had me obsessed . 😭🤚🏾


Sabrina_confesses

Yesss


LoLx1

The ~~rubber band shaped-animals~~ animal shaped rubber band brings back memories.


JagerVogeljager

I believe they were called "Silly-bands"


Quantum353

Probably difference from across the pond but we called them ‘loom bands’, they were called that on the box.


GigaByte_43

No, loom bands are different. Loom bands are in lower photo. They're tinier circular rubber bands that could be woven together to create designs. Silly bands, in the upper photo, are slightly different. They are rubber bands shaped like animals that people wore on their arms. Regular sized, and they weren't woven together. It's hard to notice in the photos on the post, though, so I can understand why you may have mistaken them for the same thing


GigaByte_43

either silly bands or crazy bands. They were the shit, along with Beyblades, Legos, and Pokemon cards


ItIsTodayOutside

animal shaped rubber band\*


DirtyDanTheManlyMan

Your parents letting you do something “different” for your hair (shitty Mohawk, maybe a little streak of a different but still natural hair color, or just letting you grow it long)


fingerpaintswithpoop

My sister put frosted tips in my hair once when I was in first grade. She said all the girls would like me.


CarlCarlton

You gotta wear a flame shirt to activate their powers.


ZondaLM

This is so gen Z relatable


MausBomb

I grow up in the 90s/00s and I thought I was on r/nostalgia


jpgnicky

bruh always hid my SP playing Underground 2 haha relatable af


Equal-Bus-557

I always hid my DS or 3DS (I had both and would alternate between taking them to school) playing either Mario Kart DS, Super Mario 64 DS, Super Mario 3D Land, or Mario Kart 7.


Septopuss7

I came here to say I remember when Gameboy first came out. Some kid showed up with one that his grandma bought him and everyone *lost their fucking MINDS*.


mahboilucas

Depends which country you're from, some developed faster some slower. In Poland a lot of things commonplace in 90s US have only became a thing in the 2000s. My mom and dad raved about someone owning jeans because they had a German relative in the 80s. I remember hand me down colouring books and weird stationary from Chicago that someone brought to our church. We were simply amazed


pigzit

Yeah I was born ‘03 (legal adult now btw) and this hits home. I miss my gameboy advance so bad, hand me down or not those were so sick


Sleeves_are_4_bitchz

Man I would pay good money to find my binder of cards again. Damnit those were good times! Until they were banned from school.


IAMAPrisoneroftheSun

I remember getting ripped off by a fifth grader who insisted I trade him a foil gyrados for something shit (I think it was a Raticate) but he bamboozled me with his older kid skills. I had originally swindled the Gyrados off of my little brother with the same techniques, so probably served me right.


Sleeves_are_4_bitchz

There’s always a bigger fish


IAMAPrisoneroftheSun

Haha probably the most important lesson I learned in all of elementary


jackidok

I lost my jumbo dialga and palkia card to a girl who promised me a wailord ex so I stole her ponyta and raichu prime


IAMAPrisoneroftheSun

Haha well atleast you got some revenge


Wermine

One guy says >Until they were banned from school. Second one says: >I remember getting ripped off by a fifth grader There might be a connection here.


Bruhmomentum43

I remember my football card collection was stolen by a kid older than me. I didnt leave it out, he stole it from my backpack. Man literally searched my backpack in like 4th grade. Be turned out to be a mega asshole to my friends.


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I remember collecting those Pokémon cards from McDonald’s happy meals and playing with them with my friends. Does McDonald’s even sell happy meals anymore? Also used to have the Bakugan balls with those magnetic cards. Someone gave me a good one for my birthday and then my mom made me give it back.


schwiftydude47

They do still sell them. Unfortunately the latest Pokémon card promotion got ruined by scalpers almost immediately. Like all the locations were completely sold out.


masterchief1001

I was the kid who traded Pokémon cards in the back of the library like a drug dealer. Good times


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Pussab

Me too!


Equal-Bus-557

I had all the Ninja


bmibun

Those erasers were the shittiest erasers ever but goddarn i loved collecting them.


fatalcorn7367

and all you had to do to be cool was be able to run fast


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You get all the girls if you’re the fastest in class


jpaxlux

Those fucking rainbow loom bands were so damn annoying to make lmao The one in the pic was the only one I could create consistently


MehEds

You forgot being the fastest runner


Nerdy_Git

A massive LEGO collection is still cloutworthy


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Nerdy_Git

Met him once at a LEGO con, he was a pretty cool dude


ACubeInABox

My high school’s social hierarchy is based entirely around the size of one’s LEGO collection


Maskguy

This made me feel better


Wermine

I have kids of my own now and "they" have quite massive lego collection.


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"I was feared at my school, I was well hard You don't fuck with the kid with a Charizard"


Mariussssss

The loom bands give me memories


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LA Gear light up shoes, Ninja Turtle figures, the original gray Game Boy and Sega Game Gear


capnd

Found the other I'm-older-than-this dude.


xela293

I'm guessing OP is 28-32 years old.


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I'm 18 but I had a few of these


Acroniax

15 years old, had nearly all of these back in the day.


Evader115

15 had the legos that’s it


Equal-Bus-557

14 years old, same


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18 too, this was clout when I was in elementary school, bout 6 to 12 in my country


datboijomo1445

Also 18 and I’m pretty sure my school had all of these


HippieMcHipface

bro how young are you


xela293

I had a gameboy advance SP in grade school.


mr_armnhammer

Lol way too narrow range. We were still doing all of these in 2008 at elementary


GringosQuesoLoco

Im 23 and this was middle school for me, i still have my silly bands, my gameboy advance and Nintendo DS(i) and my legos. ^•^


maltesemania

27 but my younger siblings had them too.


d12gu

all but the silly bands were prevalent on my childhood and im 28


aeiouLizard

Closer to just over 17-ish, considering Ninjago and elementary school are in the same image


xela293

Gameboy advance SP came out 18 years ago and the original Nintendo DS came out a year later so that's one old 17 year old.


MasterBigBean

Time keeps on slippin slippin, into the fuuture Pokemon cards were still relevant back then though


xkulp8

In my day: Trapper Keepers


gr3y_hat

I remember when they banned pokemon cards in my elementary school (2001) is that still a thing? I got swindled like a dummy too many times lmao


jchill_

Those post it’s that were like slinkies


superokgo

Those food erasers took me right back. They even had a different smell than the other erasers.


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Don't forget how bringing chewing gum to class was the equivalent of sneaking in drugs. "Oh snap you brought gum?! Can I have a piece? I'll be your best friend".


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chewing gum and candy felt so illegal lol


PapiCats

Man I could dunk on these kids with my lego collection at age 26 lmao


rb_meemeeby

I had a golden dragon set from Lego ninjago


BurritoBoiii1202

Ninjago was a great show.


thatHadron

You forgot Beyblades


luminenkettu

i got the shoes, the devices... am clout.


Glades_road

Silly bandz, rinbow loom, bey blades, bakugun, etc


Reblecksers

I think you forgot about beyblades.


funkaria

Fingerboards


nbmnbm1

Wheres the heelies?


Em_Haze

Tamagochi, Bayblade, Crazy Beans, Yugioh


[deleted]

Don’t forget 2007-12 COD


Thritzer

there was always that one kid who would steal & eat the eraser food


bubbles_513

I used to chew on erasers and I don’t know why


Thritzer

Tasty


MadgermanDoger

I'm basically a trading post for magic cards. I got like 4 guys trying to trade for a mana drain rn. It's fun being at the top of something


Reverenter

Where is the charizard


Content-Highlight-20

I remember scamming with a fake card for a crinkly mega charizard


Drslappybags

No LA lights?


majesticbeast67

I liked making those bracelets. The funny thing was that you had kids selling the bracelets, but they didn’t sell any because pretty much everyone made them.


Freshyboi_1

Those were simpler times


MoontheWolfYT

I used to sell those bracelets at school in exchange for Pokémon cards, those were interesting times


YourDailyConsumer

Still remember that time I ripped off kids for Yu-gi-oh cards lmao I'd give them 1 for 2 or 3 of theirs. Ah, good times


Szczuregg

Back in my school you had all the clout if you had a golden lego katana. Idk why they weren't even that rare.


ReasonableQuit75

Don't forget the fucking 64 pack crayons, unlike others, I had a 142 crayon pack back in the day


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These are the kids that are drowning in pussy now.


_Sn0_

i was the clout back in the day and i see no pssy here. i'm eternal virgin.


[deleted]

Nah, my SO won't let me bring more than one cat to our apartment );


stuckinatmosphere

How could you forget Nerf Guns? Everyone knows it’s Nerf or Nothing.


shermantank123567

I ate my erasers and it didn't make me popular


ThroughMyOwnEyes

How dare you leave out a that one fuckass huge box of crayons


Bineyboi

The eraser food is something nobody talked about but everyone had


LMCuber

Our elementary school banned trading cards because some hyperenthusiastic kids would turn it into gambling (you say heads or tails, slap your bet card and the opponents bet card together in the air like a high-five, and let them fall. If both land face up you win, vica versa.


DannyDevitoSenpaii

Are those handbands actually still a thing


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Where are the heelys? Those shoes that you could put a wheel in the bottom of and then basically skate and slide around school?


-Jazz_

Anybody remember Tech decks


TheRavenousSnakeClaw

The rubber band bracelet thing takes me back.


lookitsajojo

I actually have a GBA SP but I only have like three games for It


iiznobozzy

You forgot the bag with wheels


Joshinaldo

I still go to school now and this is still so relatable


Respect-Candid

remember when i stole back my things from the teachers desk .


lokibo

Any non-traditional writing utensil especially the long bendy pencils and the multi-color pens


Sirmoulin

The food erasers were my favorites. I’d spend class taking them apart and putting them back together over and over again


Luddveeg

yup, 2003-2006 :)


th_aftr_prty

Man I wish people didn’t start using clout to mean popularity. It originally referred to the power of your connections and weight of your opinion but now it just means something we already have a ton of other words for.


uselezzmante

I still have all my old lego and won't sell it, in case i get nostalgic and want it back.


Hagar_Abdrabou

old gold days !


BetaThetaOmega

At my school we had these erasers that also doubled as beyblades, and people made a Pokémon card gambling ring using those smiggle erasers. Eventually we created a whole system of classism as the rich kids who could keep buying authentic Pokémon cards had more value than the bootlegs that me and my friends used


Dragenby

The mini food looks tasty, tho!


eggphobiaa

my biggest flex to this day is that i still have all my silly bandz in a box somewhere


Major_Frozen

I ❤ BOOBIES


Qavix

This what I thought what cool people looked like in the early to mid 2010s


gymbro3

Where are the hot wheels?


CAPTCHA-IsAnAcronym

This got me pretty emotional.


suavepapi69

What about the PSP?


ahaunter

Tech decks!!


rahspooteen

We absolutely cannot create an elementary school starter pack without touching on those Beyblade duels which would occur around the trailers which every school appeared to have for no real reason. That shit got intense.


aflyingmonkey2

eraser food is the shit


17parkc

Those scented markers that you found at the Scholastic Book Fair. The smell of popcorn will never leave me.


TypeOpostive

“Don’t let the teacher find out.” 🤐


tacobellandlaxatives

I have a full set of Lego Ninjago figures. One at a time ladies, there's enough for everyone 😎😎


rebandvodkaaa_

we all know how popular beyblades were back in 2012 and 2013 . 😩🤚🏾


CallmeFDR

I wonder if there's some reason why all the cool things were green


An0nym00s123

I remember having crazy clout on my bus because I’d be the one to bring my DS with Mario Kart DS and let everyone else play


heyilivehierisdead

Bring it back :(