45 School Supplies That Will Take You Back to Elementary School in the 80s

We were never the cool kids who got to buy school lunch, except on special occasions, so I spent most of my school career packing a lunch every single day. Usually, that involved a brown bag, but for one stunning year in 3rd grade—until I left it on the playground and someone smashed it—I had a Beauty and the Beast lunch box.

I thought that thing was the coolest lunch box I had ever seen. But there was a way it could have been cooler: my lunch box was purple plastic, but the cool lunch boxes were made of metal. I bet whoever wrecked my plastic lunch box would have had a much harder time destroying a metal one.