mystery memory from primary school - yellow duster bag thingy

ezra_pound · 30-08-2013 06:17PM #1

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 · 30-08-2013 06:47PM

Douch.

HeidiHeidi · 30-08-2013 06:50PM

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 · 30-08-2013 06:52PM

Díldó if I remember correctly.

Karl Stein · 30-08-2013 06:53PM

Glitch in the matrix man.

some random drunk · 30-08-2013 06:54PM

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 · 30-08-2013 06:55PM

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 · 30-08-2013 06:57PM

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 · 30-08-2013 06:59PM

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 · 30-08-2013 07:40PM

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 · 30-08-2013 07:48PM

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 · 30-08-2013 07:51PM

It wasn't for small chalkboards was it?

ezra_pound · 30-08-2013 07:52PM

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 · 30-08-2013 07:53PM

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 · 30-08-2013 07:55PM

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 · 30-08-2013 07:56PM

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 · 30-08-2013 07:59PM

Maybe it was a small yellow duster.

Or a facecloth?

kneemos · 30-08-2013 08:01PM

mackeire wrote: »

Maybe it was a small yellow duster.

Or a facecloth?

Definitely a facecloth.

anncoates · 30-08-2013 08:03PM

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 · 30-08-2013 08:07PM

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 · 30-08-2013 08:08PM

MadsL wrote: »

Obligatory paedophile joke.

Noncesense

Micky Dolenz · 30-08-2013 08:16PM

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

kneemos · 30-08-2013 08:25PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

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

Not unless he was Chinese.

some random drunk · 30-08-2013 08:29PM

It was a handkerchief for your snotty nose OP!

ezra_pound · 30-08-2013 08:46PM

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 · 30-08-2013 08:47PM

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 · 30-08-2013 08:49PM

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 · 30-08-2013 08:50PM

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 · 30-08-2013 08:52PM

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

ezra_pound · 30-08-2013 09:04PM

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 · 30-08-2013 09:08PM

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.

mystery memory from primary school - yellow duster bag thingy

Comments