the trapper keeper. raise your hand if you had one. or, i guess i should say, raise your hand if you are old enough to have had one.
it seems as though, in addition to being phonetically pleasing (it DOES roll off the tongue), a trapper divides us into 2 groups: those who used them to their full organizational extent and those who just used them to store a bunch of disorganized crap. in my lunchtime conversations today, it seems as though we all knew one Johnny Turdhead boy who had a terribly disorganized trapper as well as the desk that looked like it had thrown up school supplies and writing assignments stored for the entire school year.
i remember liking my purple trapper, but don't remember being particularly anal with it. however, i typically had a very well organized desk....so i'm torn. my middle-of-the-road status doesn't support my 2 groups of trapper keepers (pun intended).
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I remember using my Trapper Keeper at school. Well, it was actually my sister's. But by then it was unpopular (I was born in '88), but I didn't care. I liked it!
Did you know kids are no longer allowed to use trapper keepers in elementary school? Isn't that sad?
-S
OMG. I wanted a trapper keeper so badly, but we couldn't AFFORD ONE. I'm serious. I was so envious of the girls who would fill theirs with Lisa Frank folders. :)
I totally had a trapper keeper! You can guess whether mine was organized or not... Okay, I'm anal. I'll admit it. Was then and am now.
@S - why are kids not allowed to use them anymore??
I'm fairly certain I had an off-brand Trapper for a few years before my parents finally broke down and bought me the real thing. I may actually still have it -- it had pictures of a green countryside and pink balloons. :) And it was NOT well-organized.
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