Did you have a lunchbox when you were a kid?

[Deja Q]

If so, what'd it look like? What logo, trademark, or slogan did you enjoy pimpin' around?





Not mine, obviously... I had a brown paper bag.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. Yeah, I had a Wuzzles lunch box.

I still have the thermos. It doesn't hold milk anymore though.

[Deja Q]

2. I had no idea milk was that acidic!

:rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

4. Oh yeah, milk will eat through anything.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

14. I had forgotten all about the wuzzles until now.

I remember I used to like them as a kid.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

18. I also had one of those Wuzzles indoor plastic tent things.

Do they even make those anymore? I don't seem to recall seeing random indoor plastic tents at Toys R' Us. Toys today seem lame compared to what they used to be.

And playgrounds are way too safe. Where's the danger? I like Elvira Kurt's skit about playgrounds. I want a 30' scorching metal slide that spits you out onto gravel or asphalt damnit. None of this little plastic slide that gently brings you to rubberized padded grounding. Fuck that shit.

[evlbstrd]

3. No.

At first, being the first-born, I got to eat cafreteria food. Five siblings later, that went out. But I once packed my youngest sib's lunch in a Kotex box. It was scandalous.

[newcriminal]

5. of course

this was mine

[Iniquitous Bunny]

6. I had a plaid one.

Thanks for the traumatic memory there, too. :(



:cry: I had my Holly Hobby lunchbox for a week in first grade and then it was lost, so I ended up with that stupid plaid thing (with those God awful pickle and pimento loaf sandwiches) my mom found on sale for years.

I should buy a Holly Hobby one on Ebay or something.

[newcriminal]

7. my sister had a holly hobbie lunch box

maybe she stole yours!

[joneschick]

10. LOL, I was going to search for that image!

that was MY lunch box! Myself and three brothers, we each had a different plaid! I may have also had something in black patent leather, but for the life of me I can't remember what images were on it. It will come to me.

[txwhitedove]

15. InqBunny, I lost a Holly Hobbie lunchbox to H.Katrina.....

It was my daughter's.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

38. .

:hug:

[progmom]

50. I had the Holly Hobby one too

[Mojambo]

8. Star Wars

[Blue-Jay]

9. I just had a brown bag. I blame my parents for all my failures since then.

[grannylib]

11. My folks were so NOT into commercialism, it really bugged me as a kid

(when stuff like that seems to matter)...
Never had a pair of Levi's 'til I got a job and bought 'em myself; was always stuck in K-mapart crapola jeans, etc.
So my lunchbox was an old one of my dad's, the kind that had the curved top kinda like an old barn, and I painted it blue with spray paint and stuck pop-art flower stickers on it (pink and orange and yellow daisies).

Got damn near laughed out of the lunchroom. But then, I was the Geek Goddess of the Universe all the way through school anyway, so...

[Dangerously Amused]

12. I had the Disney schoolbus one.

:bounce:






I still have it! :7

[Arkansas Granny]

13. Nope. I brown bagged it, literally.

But I always wanted a Roy Rogers, Dale Evans lunch box.

[Broken_Hero]

16. here was mine

I was surprised to find a picture of it, thank ebay...;)

[mitchum]

17. I had a "Taxi Driver" lunchbox. I bet those are pretty valuable now.

Okay, I lied. It was actually a Yogi Bear lunchbox. And I loved it.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

19. Lunch boxes I had from pre-school to early elementary school...

I had this care bears lunch box, but it was in a pale green color instead of red.


I also had this marvel comics super heros lunch box.

[texanwitch]

20. I had several being the youngest kid.

The only one I can remember is a Man from UNCLE lunchbox.

[smtpgirl]

21. I had a squiddly diddily, disney school bus, julia, the archies

& atom ant lunch boxes

[pokerfan]

22. Man from U.N.C.L.E.

[texanwitch]

23. That's it, still wish I had it.

I was the only kid in school to have that lunchbox.

[pokerfan]

25. Yeah

The flip side had both characters running in such a way that it looked like one of them had three legs. I always thought it looked weird.

[texanwitch]

26. Yes I remember that.

I was a UNCLE junkie, if something said UNCLE I had it.

[pokerfan]

28. Remember this?

[texanwitch]

30. I have all the old novels and digest books.

I now read UNCLE zines wrote by fans of the show, some are few online.

I have other zines I have paid for, don't want to think about the money I spent on them.

[Deja Q]

41. What weird artwork.

Napoleon Solo looks like he's enjoying what he is doing (most people grunt and make a weird face when exerting themselves...)

Ilya Kuryakin looks like he's got a big-ass brain tumor... and look at the size of that silencer! If he goes out for a bang, you're not gonna hear about it! :spray:

The THRUSH diver must've jabbed that dagger in his fun pouch to be makin' that face...

[u4ic]

24. I wanted the Emergency one!

I spent half my childhood drooling over Randolph Mantooth, anyway! :rofl:

Brown bags were all I had. I ate lunch at home most of the time, anyway.

[RevCheesehead]

27. Hey - my brother had that "Emergency" lunchbox!

I had a Barbie black vinyl lunchbox, way back then.


Today, I have a DaVinci "Last Supper" lunchbox. No shit. Found it at Archie McPhee! :rofl:

[Syrinx]

29. I remember three that I had

I had a Charlie's Angels one, a Star Trek one (even though ST was only on in reruns), and one with the helmets of all the NFL teams on it. I wonder what happened to my old lunch boxes? I'd love to find them.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and one about the Apollo moon landing. (I was into space, football and women, I guess.)

[Oeditpus Rex]

31. Luxury!

We couldn't even afford brown paper bags! We carried bread in our pants, peanut butter in our ears and milk and soup in our pockets!

Lunch boxes. :eyes:

[texanwitch]

32. We are to believe that.

:nopity:

[Oeditpus Rex]

35. Uh... ever heard of satire?

"Who would 'ave thought, thirty years ago, we'd all be sitting 'ere drinking Chateau de Chasselet, eh?"

"Them days, we were glad to 'ave the price of a cup of tea."

"Aye! A cup of cold tea!"

"Without milk, or sugar."

"Or tea!"

"In a cracked cup and all."

"Oh, we never used to 'ave a cup! We used to 'ave to drink out of a rolled-up newspaper!"

"The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth!"

"But you know, we were 'appy in those days, although we were poor."

"Because we were poor!"

"My old dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't bring you 'appiness, son!"

"He was right!"

"I was 'appier then and I had nothing! We used to live in this tiny old tumble-down 'ouse with great big 'oles in the roof."

"'Ouse! You were lucky to live in a 'ouse! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing. We were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling!"

"You were lucky to have a room! We used to 'ave to live in the corridor!"

"Oh, we used to dream of living in a corridor! Would 'ave been a palace to us! We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip! We got woke up every morning by 'aving a load of rotting fish dumped all over us!"

"Well, when I say ''ouse,' it was just a 'ole in the ground, covered by a sheet of tarpaulin. But it was a 'ouse to us!"

"We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground! We 'ad to go and live in a lake!"

"You were lucky to 'ave a lake! There were 150 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road!"

"Cardboard box?"

"Aye!"

"You were lucky! We lived for three months in a rolled-up newspaper in a septic tank! We used to 'ave to get up every morning at six o'clock and clean the newspaper, go to work down at mill, fourteen hours a day, week in, week out, for sixpence a week, and when we got 'ome, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!"

"Luxury! We used to 'ave to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a 'andful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hours a day at mill for tuppence a month, come 'ome, and dad would beat us around the 'ead and neck with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!"

"Well, of course, we 'ad it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of the shoebox in the middle of the night and lick the road clean with our tongues! We had to eat 'alf a 'andful of freezing cold gravel, work twenty-four hours a day at mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got 'ome, our dad would slice us in two with a bread knife!"

"Right! I 'ad to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, 'alf an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down at mill and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got 'ome, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves, singing 'allelujiah!"

"Oh, aye. And you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you!"

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

33. Dukes of hazzard

[Seabiscuit]

34. Yeah - but it was just a plain old red one (early 1950's).

[TheMightyFavog]

36. Masters of the Universe

A plastic one just like this one.

[mikeytherat]

37. Serendipity! Check out my old lunchbox (retrieved from parents' attic):

mikey_the_rat

[arwalden]

39. Does it still smell like stale bread and sour mild inside?

[malta blue]

40. I had that Charlie's Angel one!

[ScreamingMeemie]

42. Raggedy Ann and Andy

and then:

Superfriends:



MrG still uses a lunchbox, but it's boring black. :hi:

[NewWaveChick1981]

43. We had several that we shared...

My sister, brother, and I traded our lunchboxes back and forth. We had these: Batman, Robin, Peanuts, and The Partridge Family. All of them were rectangular metal with a matching thermos. Man, we loved those things! Having that many and liking all of them prevented us from fighting over them. :D

[LaurenG]

44. I didn't use mine much

Lunch boxes smell. I think the milk or whatever was in the thermos leaked and so it always had a funny smell. I switched to paper and took money for a drink.

[Divameow77]

45. I remember having a Rainbow Bright

lunch box. I'm sure I had more then one, just really can't remember them all.

[Avalux]

46. Here's mine - The Banana Splits!

I LOVED that show when I was a kid - haven't thought about it in ages!

[kwolf68]

47. Yes

It was a box with football helmets of all 28 (at the time) NFL teams.

[ceile]

48. Annie lunchbox

It was right after the movie came out. It was metal. I hit many a boy with that lunch box!

[BuddhaGirl]

49. The Partidge Family