Fancy Paper

arctic lemur

Do ye remember the craze in the 1980's around fancy paper and its different varieties? There is controversy surrounding it lately.

Pigman II

No but you have reminded me that edible paper was pretty popular back in the 80s.

Ruu_Old

i remember i had some mr.t fancy paper

krankykitty

I was a big fan of the fancy paper all right, I remember some good booklet type ones which had pictures of fruits, and the smell of the corresponding fruit too..
twas a bit of a pointless craze really cos we never did anything with them except swop!

so do tell, what's the controversy?

Rhyme

Wasnt my thing... sister had 'My Little Pony' ones though i think.

Ruu_Old

were kids getting high off it or something?

Misty Moon

It wasn't just for the 80's though - my seven year old niece and her friends are mad into collecting Diddl fancy paper now (see www.diddl.de if you don't know who Diddl is - niece lives in France and it's huge there too, think it's not long in Ireland). I dug out my leftover collection of fancy paper - yes I'm a sad person who kept one of everything - and sent it to her a few months ago. I'm now the most popular auntie EVER because none of her friends have anything like it. I had loads of those ones which were very soft focus, mostly girls with small puppies or kittens, deer and so on. Loved them and did actually use some of them for writing letters I remember. Had lots of Snoopy paper too for some reason, don't remember being a particularly big Snoopy fan.

arctic lemur

Isn't Diddle the mouse? the controversy was in the paper last week that Easons have fancy paper and the slogans on it encourage girls to dislike boys! i know it sounds crap but Marian Finucan made a field day of it

whiskeyman

artic lemur wrote:

Isn't Diddle the mouse? the controversy was in the paper last week that Easons have fancy paper and the slogans on it encourage girls to dislike boys! i know it sounds crap but Marian Finucan made a field day of it

It wasnt just fancy paper, it was a whole range of stationery and some clothing items too.
Some were a bit odd to be marketed at such a young age group tbh.
There seems to be a whole range of this kind of stuff out there and this particular company was made scapegoat for it.
No where near as cool as my Knight Rider lunchbox, A-Team pencil case and Thomas the Tank engine ruler..... those were the days :rolleyes:

Bamboozled

I remember fancy paper. What a blast from the past. I'd a special bag for it so i used have folders of the stuff in a bag. When i usd bring it to school to swap, i'd bring the bag and my schoolbag.

I still have some of it too. Found a folder of it back in Jan when i moved house.

Femelade

yeah i remember having rakes of it, never used any of it and i havent a clue where it is now, i used to collect stickers too but never stuck them on anything, just kept them hiden from my sister. what a waste.

is the controversy about that "bang on the door" stuff no?

Larianne

Yes, I still have some fancy paper. I used to get it all the time for birthdays.

I then pregressed to stickers. I stil have a book full of them aswell.

Siogfinsceal

LOL yeah I had fancy paper lots of it in a bag and it came to school with me so we could swap at break ;-)
then the stickers that had to be the stupidest trend i had a bloody album full of them but they never got stuck on anything!!! do you remember you culd get rolls of shiny stickers in the pound shop there were killings trying to get them before they sold out

Nightwish

I've still got my collection as well as my sticker collection. Also had a collection of envelopes to go with the paper. Some of them smelt funny, like they were overly perfumed. I had some sheets of paper which were in the shapes of various buns and cakes, and the paper smelt like the buns. It was very valuable stuff! For some reason they didn't like us trading it in school even though it taught us the ruthlessness of stock trading.

rubadub

Ruu wrote:

were kids getting high off it or something?

hmmm, I think thats the pages of paper which comes perforated with lots of little logos
I thought this thread was going to be about that fancy watermarked pages.

arctic lemur

Used to have stickers too like Care Bears and you could never complete the album!

miss serena

I totally forgot about the fancy paper craze! I had some with matching envelopes. I wasnt really that into it though, didnt see the point of just having paper. Like stickers that werent stuck to anything. Baffled

Oral Slang

Yeah I used to love fancy paper.. Had absolutely loads of it & soaps too.
I gave it all away a few years ago when I moved out of home. My mam gave it to a few local kids who were delighted it! Had to throw out the soaps though - well any of the loose ones - they were covered in dust.
What a pointless craze!

Siogfinsceal

hahah soaps i had totally forgotten that one- we were very sad werent we! i had lots of fruit shaped ones but you couldnt use them cos the shape went so they ended up as fruit shaped lumps of dust! ;-)