Fancy Paper

She Devil

Hey girlies, after a long chat last night with my best mate about the good old days, we dragged into memory after memory of our childhood, and the thing we found most endearing and missed memory was that of, swapping fancy paper. Do you remember this? Having smelly papers and swapping them with your friends, you could get them in really cool folders also with envelopes in the sides, that smelt really really good??
We were kids of the 80's so some people people in here wont have a clue what i am on about, but do some of you remember doing this to?

JaneyMc

She Devil wrote: »

Hey girlies, after a long chat last night with my best mate about the good old days, we dragged into memory after memory of our childhood, and the thing we found most endearing and missed memory was that of, swapping fancy paper. Do you remember this? Having smelly papers and swapping them with your friends, you could get them in really cool folders also with envelopes in the sides, that smelt really really good??
We were kids of the 80's so some people people in here wont have a clue what i am on about, but do some of you remember doing this to?

I was only thinking about this a day or two ago! Fancy paper, stickers ( used to buy massive rolls of them from the pound shop) and pogs. I loved pogs. I'm pretty sure I have loads of fancy paper and pogs in a box somewhere.

xzanti

I remember them, we used to swap them in the school yard, I loved them.. You could get all sorts and you'd have them sorted into catagories eg: animals, food and drink, pretty dresses etc... I can still remember the smell of them.. I used to blow all my pocket money on pads of them.. Happy days

There was a thread on them in the Retro Forum a while back... Here.. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055372853

Oryx

Yup I remember this. I was a tomboy though and didnt have a huge collection. I remember a lot of em smelled of strawberry.:) If you got a new really nice notepad for a gift it was happy days, you were everyones friend!

And erasers. We used to swap them as well. We all had dozens.

Jules

/me starts to sings memories!!!

Loved doing that till my mean relation vicky destroyed a load of it.... wagon!

Used to also love when i was a kid my mum and dad would go out on a friday or saturday night and leave us kids at home, it was the 80's everyone did it plus my eldest brother is 10 years older than me. We would get out the big old metal teapot and make pot after pot of tea and a whole slice pan of bread and toast the whole lot and eat it with real butter and then we would play murder in the dark or hide and seek.. ah jesus it was great times...

Twee.

Oh fancies! They were great. It wasn't just the 80s, I had them in 1997 or so!

She Devil

Did you have the folders for them though? They were the coolest with the envelopes ... awww
I wonder does anywhere sell these anymore? i'd love to pick one up for my friend!!!

Piste

I think I'm a bit yougn for this "fancy paper" malarky, but I do remember stickers! I still have a sticker album in my room somewhere, I had loooooooads of sticker and I remember I used to love swapping them!

Peared

God this brings me back.

The big thing with fancy paper in our school was swapping. You would swap the books or sometimes even the single sheets.

Sooo many rows and grudges over called off fancy paper swaps.

Kids these days with their zillion dollar james bond gadgets and prostitute clothes don't know what they're missing.

Glowing

Ahh fancy note paper. Spent endless summers swapping bits and pieces! Kids nowadays are missing out big time!!!

xzanti

Peared wrote: »

Sooo many rows and grudges over called off fancy paper swaps.

.

God yeah, I remember one of my sisters friends parents actually called to our door one day picking a fight with my mother over an 'unfair' fancy swap.. Ffs.. Think that says more about the parent than the kid though tbh straaaaange..

Nothingcompares

this thing REALLY confused me. fancy paper? it was the precursor to the premier league stickers craze imo. bizarre stuff.

Femelade

She Devil wrote: »

Hey girlies, after a long chat last night with my best mate about the good old days, we dragged into memory after memory of our childhood, and the thing we found most endearing and missed memory was that of, swapping fancy paper. Do you remember this? Having smelly papers and swapping them with your friends, you could get them in really cool folders also with envelopes in the sides, that smelt really really good??
We were kids of the 80's so some people people in here wont have a clue what i am on about, but do some of you remember doing this to?

I found one of the folders they came in , in a box in my room about 2 weeks ago..one envelope and one sheet left..
I'm sure i have loads more up in the attic..i had loads and HATED using them.
I have sheet after sheet of stickers too, that i never stuck on anything..never wanted to use them either..

mollybird

oh my god how could i forget the endless days of swapping fancy note paper!! one of my fondest memories. i remember having a folder that i kept them in. and i used to collect soaps too.

xzanti

Yeah as someone else said, kids these days are so spoiled with Playstations and fancy gadgets but I will never forget the joy that those little cheap bits of paper brought me.. I was so proud of my collection :P

Doolee

God yeah, me and my sister had loads of different kinds. They smelt sooooo good and I remember one was called Strawberry Shortcake and I think was a little pad of paper with the face of a cute cartoon character wearing a floppy hat or something...ahhhh the memories.

Tupins

My Strawberry Shortcake fancy paper was my pride and joy. I can still remember the smell.......

Once at school, our teacher found two girls looking at fancy paper during the class and she took the whole folder containg the whole collection of one girls paper and she threw it in the bin! The whole class was traumatised and we spent ages consoling the girl afterwards and donating pieces of paper to her - it was as if someone had died belong to her, it was considered that serious! It was the talk of the school for weeks

I can laugh now but it was that important to us at the time that I can still remember how sorry I felt for the poor girl.

georgem25

I cant believe this was so popular. I had so much of the stuff. Its probably still in my parents attic - I must check when they are taking down the Christmas decorations

rainbow kirby

I remember these... most of the girls in my class (in the early-mid 90s) had them, but I was never into it. I preferred my Premier League stickers.

hazeler

aaahhh... Fancy note paper! I remember those days, we had three girls in our house, and we all had piles of it. It used to wreck my Dads head coz it'd be everywhere and he hated the mess!!

I still have this sheet that Ive kept all these years, its a special one, it cost me two big sheets and two matching envelopes (of a floral Strawberry Shortcake pattern) to get it off the wagon in school. I do think I came out the better of it tho'... The piece is a black and white picture scene of these 80's lookin couple on his motorbike. They have "super cool" leather jackets and her hair is back-combed within an inch of its life!!! They look like they are "it".. how I wanted to grow up to be just like her!!!

I put it in one of those plastic little card holders that the banks used to give out when you opened an account.. Its my pride and joy. I remember she tried to swap me back but there was no backsies... Everyone knew that!!

citytillidie

Nothingcompares wrote: »

this thing REALLY confused me. fancy paper? it was the precursor to the premier league stickers craze imo. bizarre stuff.

Leave them sticker football collections alone.

I collect all for both Mexico 86 and Italia 90

But i dont remember the fancy paper but maybe that was a girlie thing and in the 80's i was too young to be intrested in girls :P

jellie

aw, werent we really weird kids.. funny how 1 sheet of paper could be so special, hehe

Maple

oh my god, i'm in hysterics laughing here! we had fancy paper swopping marathons, it was life and death by times, little girls steely eyed gathered around in a circle bartering like nobodys business.

then i progressed to New Kids on the Block stickers, those sods garnered all my Confirmation money. But I did get that gorgeous B&W photo of jordan in his dungarees.....aaaaah.

linguini

I used to call them fancy pages!

My mother used them as bribes! If she was heading to town on her own and I did the heart wrenching "Can I come?" She would promise to bring me home some fancy pages and that was good enough for me. I'd often feel the "swappers regret" when I swapped with a neighbour who lived near my Gran...she was a wily one...sob!

Such simple pleasure...imagine handing a little pad of sweet smelling paper to any child now...they'd probably hit you with their iPhone!

lady_j

lol, had totally forgotten about my fancy paper collection! The fights I used to get into over unfair swaps!! Also had a fancy soap collection too, tons of soaps shaped like animals...

God I was easily amused

jellie

lol soaps! i forgot about them, i had loads. the body shop ones were particularly special cause they smelled sooo much nicer & when someone robbed one and actually USED one to WASH :eek: there was war!

Silverfish

:pac:


I still have loads of mine!

There's still the faintest smell off the scented ones, 20 odd years later!

naasface

YES YES YES
good times.

lewize20

hi just wondering do you have any fancy paper for sale????????? anyone please?????

borderlinemeath

Monday was great for fancy paper swops if you had got some new stuff in town on the saturday. Roches Stores on Henry St or Easons was the place to get your stuff. And extra stuff on your birthday.

I had 2 glitter pens taken off me by the teacher cos I was doodling with them - she never gave them back either the aul bitch. :mad:

Asphyxia

Oh! I loved fancy paper, I remember having ones with cats printed on them and rabbits I thought I was so glamorous going around with a small bundle of it.

I also used to love pogs and slammers! They were deadly

RacoonQueen

People were talking about this in work during the week. I don't ever remember having fancy paper. I must have missed that phenomenon.

I collected pogs, coloured pens, stickers and the coolest one CALLCARDS though! :pac:

Rainbow_brite

This brings back so many memories I had an obsession with fancy papers, erasers and call cards. I used to be so organised with those fancy papers some were made up of collections and I used to keep them all together with paper clips. I remember the most common ones were cartoon pictures of food, like one was an ice cream sundae/milkshake and the other was of a hot dog I think and those sad looking girls wearing bonnets with flowers.

Asphyxia

RacoonQueen wrote: »

I collected pogs, coloured pens, stickers and the coolest one CALLCARDS though! :pac:

Oh! Don't even talk to me about Callcards my sister was obsessed with them she had hundreds of them :rolleyes: She used to check all the phone boxes up the street everyday incase one was left behind :rolleyes:

KittyeeTrix

Fancy pages were the business but I always seemed to get screwed when we'd be swapping them and end up with the crap ones

Don't know how but it was always happening whereas my sister who was a year younger than me would arrive home with the best ones from school...

iguana

I'm going to make you all so jealous. I had a pretty mediocre fancy paper collection and then one morning I woke up and there was a whole A4 office folder of it in my front garden. It was absolutely stuffed full of it. I asked around the area and no-one knew where it came from. Then I had the best collection of anyone I knew.

Thinking about this now it was very, very weird as I lived on a cul de sac.

MissFlitworth

iguana wrote: »

I'm going to make you all so jealous. I had a pretty mediocre fancy paper collection and then one morning I woke up and there was a whole A4 office folder of it in my front garden.

So many years after fancy paper and that actually does make me feel a bit jealous! In my school there used to be a thing where the 'big girls' would get too old for their fancy paper and pass on their folders to someone in a younger class. It was such a big deal we nearly had a ceremony for it, I used to be sick, sick jealous of anyone who 'inherited' their folder.

The actual best thing that ever happened to me was going on holidays to Spain when I was little and finding that whoever had stayed in the apartment before me had forgotten their sticker album. Fuzzy ones, hologram ones, scented ones, foil ones, they were amazing. When I got back to school I actually (for shame) took a trip round all the classrooms and showed it to every single teacher

Aishae

fancies!!!! and to think my collection / craze started with a few random fancies a friend gave me. i had reams of it. loved em...

collected stickers at one stage too. and keyrings. but fancies were where it was at! (late 80's - early 90's for me)

RacoonQueen

Jesus keyrings. I had about 20 of them and one key. :rolleyes:

magneticimpulse

Sign of the times in the 80s. Just shows you how "poor" we were, exchanging bits of fancy paper. However it shows you how something so simple gave kids hours of fun.

I remember it would be a huge treat if you got a Speak n Spell or board game from Santa...the rest of the year you had to play with fancy paper.

I think exchange Dinky Cars with the boys thou. I wasnt just dealing in fancy paper haha.

Oh and when you got pocket money you could save up for Fancy notepaper and envelopes to send to your Pen pals in France or Japan. Then they would send back a letter wrote on "French" fancy paper and throw in a few "french" stickers....thats when you really knew you made it in the world of Fancy Paper.

I also remember collecting Panini Stickers in the 80s (i know people here said they did that in 90s, but they were out in the 80s too). I had an official WWF (World Wildlife Fund) Panini Sticker book.

Im sure i bought some Simpsons, My Little Pony and Care Bear Panini's at some stage. Oh and the horrible cheap strawberry chewing gum that used to come with them as well.

I also collected Fancy "soap". So funny, and it was before the Body Shop etc. So it would be cheap pound shop type of soap too with the Care Bears on it etc.

^^^ God yeah, Call Cards in the 90s. You used to accumulate loads if you went to the Gaeltacht. Back in the day when you used to have to queue for the telephone box on a Sunday afternoon to ring your parents. Or getting call cards in a foreign country. You really wanted your parents to phone the uncle back home, just so they could buy a fancy call card. It was also a sense of achievement to communicate in say French in a shop and successfully buy a call card (bearing in mind you were only 10 years old and had only taken a few after school french lessons).

Chinafoot

Loved fancy paper. I will always remember the smell of the cherry paper I had.

I have a bit of a thing for stationery in general. If I feel really down I go to Easons and get myself some pens and note pads. Sounds really sad but it makes me happy

Up-n-atom!

Oh my god, this is such a blast from the past! And the fancy paper thing survived well into the 90s...unfortunately for me I never had any, but all my friends did because I never got any pocket money - poor neglected child that I was! Think the memories of it have affected me, I've been known to buy fancy cutesy post-its for friends and was beyond excited to get writing paper to write to a friend overseas - it's all pink and purple with different colour cupcakes:)

I'd completely forgotten about collecting keyrings and callcards - and I did that thing where I'd raid any phonebox I came across for new cards. I really was a sad child:p And pogs, I was just wondering about them today - I can't remember what they were for or what you did with them but I definitely had 'em. Oh, and the soaps too! Always got them as presents, all they did was collect dust!

rainbowtrout

Used to have loads of it. Spent many an afternoon in the 80s sitting on the doorstep with friends swapping sheets of paper. Holding stuff down with stones and rocks and having fights over whether or not a swap was fair.

Just been having a look on ebay after reading this thread to see if fancy notepads still exist. Just bought a lemon shaped notepad to brighten up my desk in place of a boring post-it notepad

Aishae

Jesus keyrings. I had about 20 of them and one key.

me too! even now i have more keyrings than keys. not 20 though!
i had so many keyrings - a lot dad got me from a pot luck thing. so many that i kept most in a shoe box.

i collected fancy soap at one stage - i didnt have looooads but i had butterflies, seashells etc.

one thing i alwys had loads of. and i swap some of it in primary school but i did most of the swapping with cousins: stationary. fancy pens n pencils n funny parers and whatever else i came across. i had a dog shaped stencil most people wanted but i wouldnt swap it for the entire contents of their pencil case

Madame Razz

My callcard collection never really got off the ground but I had a serious fancy soap collection, and a serious bath pearl collection:p. I LOVED fancy paper and pens tho(and still do:o)

In later life the soap obsession has manifested itself as a cosmetics obsession. I'm still stationary obsessed, I was like a child in a sweet shop when it came to picking wedding invites and went way OTT:p

rainbowtrout

Madame Razz wrote: »

My callcard collection never really got off the ground but I had a serious fancy soap collection, and a serious bath pearl collection. I LOVED fancy paper and pens tho(and still do:o)

In later life the soap obsession has manifested itself as a cosmetics obsession. I'm still stationary obsessed, I was like a child in a sweet shop when it came to picking wedding invites and went way OTT:p

I had forgotten about them. I used to love getting them in presents

Madame Razz

I don't think that I ever used one:p

I was obsessed with them tho:pac:

Lia_lia

Fancy paper? Whut? Maybe I'm a lot younger than ye or I lived in France when the fancy paper thing was in fashion! I did swap stickers though.

Aishae

some were like fancy writing paper with cute images in the background... also you know those little notepads with fancy paper inside? (like a watermark dog on the pages for example) and pads shaped like things (flowers or animals, i had a car shaped one)

lorweld

Oh fancy papers- the memories

Myself my friend and my sister thought up a very enterprising idea. We'd spray the fancy papers with cheap perfume. As the smell was different the fancy papers were "exclusive" so we would get better swops. We had to be careful of the distance we sprayed the perfume from the page because if we sprayed too close the fancy papers ended up stained

I also remember us trying to make perfume alas unsuccessfully. We'd pick different flowers and put it in jars filled with water. That business never took off

In later years my late teens early twenties I built up quite a large collection of beer mats!!

Neyite

I still have a grá for stationary. A new type or colour of post-it or nice pen makes my day. And I'm 36.