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

Abi wrote: »

Was the heating in your school a hot potatoe on your lap, by any chance?

A hot finger in your 'crap' would have been better

:pac:

I was a maverick, so neither my books or journal were covered. I had things written on the covers, though: 'Cool', 'I hate maths', 'School sucks!' etc.

Those squares in the staff room didn't like it, but I did it anyway. :cool:

ah yes - wallpaper all the way. And lazy cover jobs where the old wallpaper wasnt removed -just covered over. Some of my books had one type of wallpaper on the front and then bits of the old wallpaper still stuck on their inside covers...
And all those free copies your parents got for shopping in dunnes /crazy prices etc. I had a lot of those too.

Ha! Yeah, the kids with brown paper on their books were the posh kids and kids with the clear contact paper were either posh kids or the one with pretentious mas. Everyone else had wallpaper (one year felt real posh because it was really thick wallpaper with one of those embossed effects).

Almost everyone had those bright yellow Quinnsworth copybooks. And if you wanted to get someone in trouble, you'd stick a metallica sticker on the front of their book! (We couldn't use pages from a magazine, for instance, I vaguely recall someone trying to once and he was made change it)

patwicklow wrote: »

I'm guessing Bertie's kids used up all that big brown Envelope paper that was lying around the house.

Na, they used Sterling



I covered my journal in school with the Labels from beer bottles, teachers didn't like it, kept telling me to remove them to or cover them, eventually they sent a note home to my parents, I was well hard in school :cool:

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

I remember one book covered in something plasticy like a shower curtain , but the touch of it's texture send shivers down my spine

Was it that stuff you would put on a window to make it look frosted with lots of rainbow shape ridges on it? I had that stuff one year, it the noise as you put a book away, would send shivers down your spine, as it rubbed off another book in your back. squirming while I am typing this just thinking about it

I used to cover mine in comics that I was reading at the time, after a couple of weeks they were in shreds
I remember in secondary we would change the wording on the front of the books so it would have Bitch instead of Peig or Senior Geography became Senior Crap