Where are they now?

[bugshaw]

Things you had as a kid.

A large collection of erasers, which you'd wear down regularly. Now I find one eraser lasts me ten years.

What else?

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[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

Stationery.

Used to have stacks of, got it as Christmas presents, bought it when it was cute, wrote actual letters. That you folded up. And put in envelopes.

Do I even OWN any now? Not sure where it would be...

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Ink pens. And cartridges which for some reason I loved breaking and dripping ink from onto blotting paper, to watch it spread.

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

I used to do that with my fountain pen and blotting paper!

I use a rubber in about a year, and I'm fussy over them, quite like white plastic erasers, and, of course, putty rubber for delicate stuff.

But then I am a pen snob too, Edding Profipens, which are disposable technical pens. I love Rotrings but they break so easily and they are so expensive, plus they are very, very rigid, something a little more flexible works better for me.

I use stationary and cards quite a lot too, for thank you's and little notes.

FF

[nmg.livejournal.com]

It was a personal revelation when I realised that blotting paper was meant for something other than having ink dripped onto it.

[leeky.livejournal.com]

Ah, but nowadays you have grown-up erasers. Not those cartoon character-shaped ones that smelled of strawberries and smudged more than they erased!

the detritis of childhood pencil cases

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

Scented pens. Paper dolls. Puzzles. Sweetie erasers. A scrap of rabbit skin. Bangles. Pushit puzzles. Toy cars. Sindy doll shoes. Tiny plastic models of frogs, pigs, owls in different poses. Shells. Precious transparent lego blocks. A battered fossil or two. Picture changing rulers; the best had dinosaurs which showed their skeletons on the turn. Different coloured cartridges for cheap fountain pens that never ran well. Lipsil in a range of revolting scents and colours.

Re: the detritis of childhood pencil cases

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Ha - I think I still have a Sindy shoe (or maybe a Pippa) in a small box of treasures, with a tiny shell and feather and my very own Weirdstone of Brisingamen. And a shrinkydink of a cute mouse in a hammock with a nightcap.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Mine all got chucked out when my dad sold our family home. Though I still have some old teddies and things.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Lego railways. Hm. Now, I may not be an adult, but I have an adult's budget. I'm tempted.

[grytpype-thynne.livejournal.com]

200 felt tip pens. 190 of which have almost run out and the 10 that are left are colours you don't want to use. Downstairs, right now, with accompanying six year old.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Oh, I could only dream of that many pens when I was a kid! I had about 12, I think. (Got more now :-)