mystery memory from primary school - yellow duster bag thingy

ezra_pound

I have a memory of a yellow duster type thing that everyone had in my class in junior infants. We had our name sowed onto it. I have no memory of what it was for.

Anyone any ideas? I'm talking Dublin 1983 or so.

kneemos

Douch.

HeidiHeidi

I'm not sure they were personal issue, but we used to be regularly given yellow dusters - one for each foot - and sent skating up and down the parquet floored hallways of our national school, polishing the floor.

Talk about borderline slave (not to mention underage) labour :eek:

TeddyTedson

Díldó if I remember correctly.

Karl Stein

Glitch in the matrix man.

some random drunk

We had to bring in our own soap and towel (think it was actually a face cloth) in my primary school. We had to have our names or initials on the face cloths.

Are you sure it wasn't a face cloth OP?

shopaholic01

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I'm not sure they were personal issue, but we used to be regularly given yellow dusters - one for each foot - and sent skating up and down the parquet floored hallways of our national school, polishing the floor.

Talk about borderline slave (not to mention underage) labour :eek:

I would have loved that! Sounds like great fun.

mikom

ezra_pound wrote: »

I have a memory of a yellow duster type thing that everyone had in my class in junior infants. We had our name sowed onto it. I have no memory of what it was for.

The roofies worked so.

kneemos

some random drunk wrote: »

We had to bring in our own soap and towel (think it was actually a face cloth) in my primary school. We had to have our names or initials on the face cloths.

Are you sure it wasn't a face cloth OP?

Facecloth.

Definitely a facecloth.

MadsL

Runners bag?

Mine was funky psychedelic blue towelling, with yellow circle patterns, very trippy.

T-rex poster on the wall, shexy miniskirt on Miss Cat my teacher (I **** you not, and a hot little kitty she was, as well as a bitch) ah..the memories...









...f*ck. I'm old aren't I?

ezra_pound

kneemos wrote: »

Facecloth.

Definitely a facecloth.

No definitely not a face cloth. It was a small yellow duster. It would be weird to wash your face with it.

KKkitty

It wasn't for small chalkboards was it?

ezra_pound

http://vickiehowell.blogspot.ie/2013/08/the-mothercraft-back-to-school-cloth.html?m=1

Maybe something like very plain yellow version of this.

What's weird is that we all had to get one-in middle of recession!

kneemos

ezra_pound wrote: »

No definitely not a face cloth. It was a small yellow duster. It would be weird to wash your face with it.

Weird is as weird does.

ezra_pound

KKkitty wrote: »

It wasn't for small chalkboards was it?

Well it could have been. My only memory of anything like that was as a board to roll márla on.

I do know that these cloths were part of he list of things to buy together with uniform.

ezra_pound

KKkitty wrote: »

It wasn't for small chalkboards was it?

More likely this than a face cloth! Best suggestion yet.

Can anyone remember anything similar?

mackeire

Maybe it was a small yellow duster.

Or a facecloth?

kneemos

mackeire wrote: »

Maybe it was a small yellow duster.

Or a facecloth?

Definitely a facecloth.

anncoates

Speaking of dusters, my son started primary school the other day and they have these interactive board things nowadays. I asked the teacher what would she hit the kids with, seeing as there are no blackboard dusters these days.

I just got a blank look.

MadsL

anncoates wrote: »

Speaking of dusters, my son started primary school the other day and they have these interactive board things nowadays. I asked the teacher what would she hit the kids with, seeing as there are no blackboard dusters these days.

I just got a blank look.

Obligatory paedophile joke.

anncoates

MadsL wrote: »

Obligatory paedophile joke.

Noncesense

Micky Dolenz

You sure it wasn't your teachers ball bag OP?

kneemos

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

You sure it wasn't your teachers ball bag OP?

Not unless he was Chinese.

some random drunk

It was a handkerchief for your snotty nose OP!

ezra_pound

some random drunk wrote: »

It was a handkerchief for your snotty nose OP!

It wasn't smooth. It was almost fleecy. And I think it had a drawstring at the open end!

shopaholic01

ezra_pound wrote: »

It wasn't smooth. It was almost fleecy. And I think it had a drawstring at the open end!

So it was designed to hold something?

Dtp79

ezra_pound wrote: »

More likely this than a face cloth! Best suggestion yet.

Can anyone remember anything similar?

I remember the small chalkboards alright

HeidiHeidi

Oh Christ, I've just re-read the OP.....

Junior Infants in 1983 :eek:

*feels positively prehistoric*

You can definitely discount my floor-polishing theory then, I'm sure that the use of child/slave-labour by nuns must have been outlawed by then.

Golfwidow

The yellow bag was for "cuisenaire rods" , coloured wooden blocks to help count, add, take away etc!!

ezra_pound

Golfwidow wrote: »

The yellow bag was for "cuisenaire rods" , coloured wooden blocks to help count, add, take away etc!!

Oh my god? I think you re right. Holy sht. Well done. Small little brown cubes!

Bizarre that we had to buy the bags and bring them to school and home but not the squares. Well done!

I seem to remember that we didn't use them for ages and then we were suddenly meant to have them in senior infants maybe even though I had brought it to school for all of junior infants and never needed it. My memories are of going wtf am I bringing this. But you've brought back the memories of actually using it.

How did you know? Were you a teacher back in the good ole 80s?

ezra_pound

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Oh Christ, I've just re-read the OP.....

Junior Infants in 1983 :eek:

*feels positively prehistoric*

You can definitely discount my floor-polishing theory then, I'm sure that the use of child/slave-labour by nuns must have been outlawed by then.

I remember doing this alright but only last day of school year. It was fun in my day. Then again my teacher was lay and young but she did wear a crucifix.

kneemos

ezra_pound wrote: »

Oh my god? I think you re right. Holy sht. Well done. Small little brown cubes!

Bizarre that we had to buy the bags and bring them to school and home but not the squares. Well done!

I seem to remember that we didn't use them for ages and then we were suddenly meant to have them in senior infants maybe even though I had brought it to school for all of junior infants and never needed it. My memories are of going wtf am I bringing this. But you've brought back the memories of actually using it.

How did you know? Were you a teacher back in the good ole 80s?

Still think it was a facecloth.

anncoates

Pencil cases maybe?

ezra_pound

anncoates wrote: »

Pencil cases maybe?

Already solved.

Cuisinear rod sack.

ezra_pound

kneemos wrote: »

Still think it was a facecloth.

It was to a facecloth what a fleece blanket is to a towel.

So no. It wasn't a facecloth.

mackeire

ezra_pound wrote: »

It was to a facecloth what a fleece blanket is to a towel.

So no. It wasn't a facecloth.

it was!

ezra_pound

mackeire wrote: »

it was!

Lol

Funny funny ha ha

Golfwidow

ezra_pound wrote: »

Oh my god? I think you re right. Holy sht. Well done. Small little brown cubes!

Bizarre that we had to buy the bags and bring them to school and home but not the squares. Well done!

I seem to remember that we didn't use them for ages and then we were suddenly meant to have them in senior infants maybe even though I had brought it to school for all of junior infants and never needed it. My memories are of going wtf am I bringing this. But you've brought back the memories of actually using it.

How did you know? Were you a teacher back in the good ole 80s?

No! Wasn't a teacher - was in infants in the early 70's !!! I remember playing with them . It was a real treat when we were allowed to have them out on our desks! This really brings home to me how little material possessions we had back then compared to kids today. I think we were easily pleased ! Ah!!!

Golfwidow

Here we go .... Cuisenaire rods!!

Layinghen

Golfwidow wrote: »

Here we go .... Cuisenaire rods!!

What a blast from the past. Started school in the 60's and they were very much part of school life then.

Moonbeam

I have no memory of them at all and also started in the 80's!

anncoates

Moonbeam wrote: »

I have no memory of them at all and also started in the 80's!

Same.

I moved here - to a primary school in Dublin - in 1982 and don't remember them at all.

bodice ripper

I remember them, I would have been in senior infants in 86. We had plastic ones that clipped together.

Smidge

I had one of the "bag" things.
In it was kept your little chalk board and chalk and also your little square of lino that was used at the desk when the mala was given out.
Didnt have the rod things though

iguana

Yeah, I started school in '83 but we didn't have the wooden ones but had small plastic cuboids that stacked together. I don't ever remember taking them home though.