Would you send your child to school with their books covered in wallpaper

fishy fishy · 28-03-2012 03:38PM #1

and other odd things that we did, that we thought were normal.

prinz · 28-03-2012 03:38PM

Those were the days

Mine were white, with a sort of pebbledash effect.

The King of Moo · 28-03-2012 03:39PM

During the Celtic Tiger years I sent my kids to school with their books covered in decking. Untrue, I don't have any kids. Or decking.

gustafo · 28-03-2012 03:40PM

yep i do all the time...no big deal

DEFTLEFTHAND · 28-03-2012 03:40PM

I had brown sheet paper on mine, kinda of like what you'd find on a chip bag.:p

hairyprincess · 28-03-2012 03:41PM

I tried varnishing them but it didn't really work

Jet Black · 28-03-2012 03:41PM

I won a bible because of it once

. It was covering my sponsorship card in second class iirc.

goat2 · 28-03-2012 03:41PM

i did cover my books with the wallpaper leftovers, it would be one pattern for the english, another for irish books, another for the maths and so on, so at a glance i could pick up books, no fumbling around, if my children did not mind i would of course, it would be more hardwaring than other covers

harmoniums · 28-03-2012 03:42PM

I used to turn it inside out, so the plain beige back showed.

people accused me of having KVI wallpaper from crazy prices.

the joke was on them, I bought all my wallpaper from Michael Guinneys or that other shop on Thomas Street where I got my communion outfit

phasers · 28-03-2012 03:42PM

Nowadays it's more trendy to just paper one side, it's called a 'feature page'

Paint the other side a nice magnolia, it goes with everything

Dravokivich · 28-03-2012 03:42PM

We were so poor, I didn't have any covers on my schoolbooks.

trooney · 28-03-2012 03:43PM

Whatever preserves them to be sold on when not in use anymore works for me.

The Big Red Button · 28-03-2012 03:43PM

We had the wallpapered books all through primary school ... I remember one time, the wallpaper ran out, and my dad used Corkflakes boxes to cover a couple of them.

Nothingbetter2d · 28-03-2012 03:44PM

my brother used newspaper to cover his books.... he still wraps xmas presents with newspaper to this day.

minidazzler · 28-03-2012 03:44PM

My journal fell apart so my dad created a cover out of a Medal of Honour Rising Sun booklet. It was fcuking awesome. My teachers hated it but everyone in the class loved it and thought it was amazing.

spankmaster2000 · 28-03-2012 03:47PM

minidazzler wrote: »

My journal fell apart so my dad created a cover out of a Medal of Honour Rising Sun booklet. It was fcuking awesome. My teachers hated it but everyone in the class loved it and thought it was amazing.

Is a journal a copybook?

Not being a smartarse, just wondering!
(At least; we used to call them copybooks as far as I remember?)

phasers · 28-03-2012 03:48PM

a journal was where you wrote down your homework and teachers and parents wrote notes to each other.

CardBordWindow · 28-03-2012 03:48PM

I remember some lads in school used to have the fancy clear plastic covering.
Posh w*nkers!

Abi · 28-03-2012 03:51PM

CardBordWindow wrote: »

I remember some lads in school used to have the fancy clear plastic covering.
Posh w*nkers!

I had those on mine :cool:

Cina · 28-03-2012 03:52PM

The books were heavy enough as it was for a 12 year old pre-pubescient 5 ft tall schoolkid. Pretty sure they're the reason I've got spine problems now.

token101 · 28-03-2012 03:56PM

There was a kid in my class in 1st class who had wrestling birthday wrapping paper. I think it was the most jealous I've ever been in my life.

harmoniums · 28-03-2012 03:58PM

phasers wrote: »

a journal was where you wrote down your homework and teachers and parents wrote notes to each other.

Yeah and then your parents had to sign it every thursday night to acknowledge that they had perused it for a note from the teacher.

One week I got 5 notes home!
And I was a good nerdy D&D playing kid, not a bowsy at all.
Did I show it to my mother? did I f**k! I signed that b1tch myself and then ripped the page out after presenting it to my teacher on friday.

Friel · 28-03-2012 03:59PM

token101 wrote: »

There was a kid in my class in 1st class who had wrestling birthday wrapping paper. I think it was the most jealous I've ever been in my life.

There was always one who pulled out all the stops

davet82 · 28-03-2012 04:03PM

never ever would i do that to my kids... i still remember Mark Hannigan from third class picking up my Busy at Maths and shouting out 'look at the state of his ma's wallpaer in the jax'

i think i wont post for awhile now, i'm too upset

Tesco Massacre · 28-03-2012 04:03PM

Halloween '91: Mum sent me out in a black plastic bag, vampire teeth, and some strawberry goo stuff that you put on ice cream that I used as blood.

When did Dracula ever wear a black bin liner, Mum? When? Point out the bit in Bram Stoker's novel where he mentions that.

fishy fishy · 28-03-2012 04:04PM

davet82 wrote: »

never ever would i do that to my kids... i still remember Mark Hannigan from third class picking up my Busy at Maths and shouting out 'look at the state of his ma's wallpaer in the jax'

i think i wont post for awhile now, i'm too upset

so funny,

and if you saw somebody with extra horrible book coverings, you'de be saying to yourself....jayses I'm glad I don't live in that house.

:D

kippy · 28-03-2012 04:06PM

Wallpaper, lucky feckers.
Loaf bread wrappers were the style in my place.

token101 · 28-03-2012 04:07PM

Friel wrote: »

There was always one who pulled out all the stops

He was just one of those kids people loved to hate, the Martin Prince of our school.

mcgovern · 28-03-2012 04:08PM

harmoniums wrote: »

Yeah and then your parents had to sign it every thursday night to acknowledge that they had perused it for a note from the teacher.

One week I got 5 notes home!
And I was a good nerdy D&D playing kid, not a bowsy at all.
Did I show it to my mother? did I f**k! I signed that b1tch myself and then ripped the page out after presenting it to my teacher on friday.

They number the pages these days I think, to stop pages going "missing".

ejmaztec · 28-03-2012 04:09PM

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

my brother used newspaper to cover his books.... he still wraps xmas presents with newspaper to this day.

I have to wrap mine with the internet since I stopped buying newspapers.

spankmaster2000 · 28-03-2012 04:21PM

phasers wrote: »

a journal was where you wrote down your homework and teachers and parents wrote notes to each other.

Although that makes perfect sense, I've literally never even heard of that before!

Is that common? Were my schools the only ones without journals?

Would you send your child to school with their books covered in wallpaper

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