Another When You Were A Kid Thread

[RedAngie]

What type of lunch box did you bring to school?

These are three themes I remember having, but I think the designs on mine may have been different.

 

[Disneylover99]

No lunchbox for me. I went home for lunch everyday. On the rare occasion I stayed for lunch, I got a brown paper bag.

 

[kimblebee]

I lived one block away from school so we always went home for lunch. On the rare occasion I stayed, like for a choir practice or a field trip I had an orange Fraggle Rock lunchbox.

 

[E&Cmom]

I had a plain plastic blue lunchbox. I think is was thermos brand. No characters. It opened from the top like a tool box.

 

[Neesy228]

I had several throughout elementary school, but my all time favorite lunchbox was this one:


I think I'm dating myself again...

 

[Grumpy's Gal]

My school didn't have lunch. We had to walk home for lunch.

In junior high, we had hot lunch. I never owned a lunch box.

 

[Queen of the WDW Scene]

This one.
I did go home for lunch a lot though as I lived 5 houses away and I have always been a homebody and liked the solid break from school mid day.

 

[powellrj]

In grade school I went home and in jr high I ate hot lunch or took a brown bag, high school I just always ate school lunch.

 

[makki]

I had a red/black plaid lunch box theme. I never had anything else.

 

[L&Lfan]

I had the Archie one you depicted and also the one with the Disney characters on the school bus.

 

[MIGrandma]

Mine was like a barn, and the thermos was like a silo. At the time I didn’t like it, it was too “boyish”. I wanted a cute girl one. Little did I know I would grow up to marry a farmer someday.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

I think I always had brown paper bag, as did most mates. Yeah we were bad.

 

[MamaLema]

I had a Flintstones one. I loved it.

 

[Mizzoufan]

We hardly ever took our lunch our parents wanted us to have a hot lunch.

 

[msjprincess]

The ones that I remember are

 

[cabanafrau]

I had a red/black plaid lunch box theme. I never had anything else.

The Scotch plaid pattern? That's what I had, and hated. Switched to brown paper bag in second grade.

My mom felt the plaid "would never go out of style". She could not and would not understand it was never IN style with elementary school kids.

 

[cabanafrau]

The ones that I remember are

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I would have been so jealous back in the day.

 

[disney junky]

I had to buy lunch. It as 35 cents and 5 cents for milk. Five cents if you wanted an ice cream bar and 10 for an ice cream sandwich or one of those frozen ice cream cones. As I recall, there was one lunch that I didn't have to buy, I can't remember what is was, but I was allowed to carry my lunch. Brown paper sack. I always envied the kids with their cool lunch boxes.

 

[mamamary]

Everyone went home for lunch my first few years and then they changed school hours so kids didn't have to go home. Everyday we had a short break to eat a snack. Not sure what I brought my snack in but I don't think I ever had a lunchbox. Maybe I just used a paper bag? In HS I just bought lunch everyday.

 

[BrianL]

I only recall a blue plastic Voltron one. I know I had others before that, the metal kind, but I think they were rather generic (animals or some such). I still have the Voltron one. The handle broke off, but it is full of Legos and somewhere in my attic.