What kind of lunchbox did you carry to school as a kid? Mine was metal painted pink with a French Poodle on it and the

[debm55]

Eiffel tower in the background. It came with a matching thermos. Later in Middle school and HS, I used a brown bag. What about you??????

[C_U_L8R]

1. There were several

But the thermos always broke.

[debm55]

3. So sorry, Thank you C_U_L8R.

[AllaN01Bear]

17. that happened to me as well.

[debm55]

22. Yes, the thermos in the kid lunch boxes were not sturdy.

[Tribetime]

65. Ditto....I do remember Batman was one

[LizBeth]

2. The Monkees

[debm55]

6. Thank you LizBeth!

[dhol82]

4. Brown paper bag

[debm55]

8. Thank you dhol82,

[a kennedy]

5. Everyone must have known you were a classy gal way back then eh??

Strictly brown bags for moi.

[debm55]

10. HAHAHAHAHAHHA. That's funny. Thank you.a kennedy.

[Diamond_Dog]

7. When I was in 1st, 2nd, grade

I had a Beatles lunch box!

After a while it wasn’t ”cool” to carry a lunch box, older kids used brown paper bags instead.

I don’t know what happened to my Beatles lunch box … my mom probably threw it away … I bet it might be worth something now. Oh well.

[debm55]

12. Probabley would be. All my Beatle stuff got tossed too, Thank you Diamond_Dog.

[catbyte]

9. I never had a lunchbox.

I grew up in the middle of nowhere northern Michigan and went to a one-room school (K-6th grade.) I lived right across the road from my school so I went home for lunch every day. When I was bussed to middle school to the nearest town, lunchboxes weren't a thing.

[debm55]

15. Thank you catbyte. I would sometimes have my lunch at home even when my lunch was packed. Took me about 15 minutes to

walk home, eat and i5 minutes to walk back to school.Lunch boxes--1,2,3 grade. Brown paper after that.

[quaint]

11. Brown paper bag artistically (hah) decorated by me along with my name.

[debm55]

16. I did that too. It was fun decorating the bags. thank you quaint.

[werdna]

13. Kind of like this one?

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[debm55]

19. I don't what happened. but the link was going off page. Thank you werda.

[EverHopeful]

14. For several years I really wanted a red plaid lunchbox

and finally got one. It was metal and it wasn't a hand-me-down. Felt like the luckiest kid in the world.

[debm55]

20. Thank you EverHopeful. I never had one but it seemed very popular with my fellow students.

[griffi94]

30. I had one of those

[AllaN01Bear]

18. various. brown bagged or cafeteria meals .

[debm55]

21. Thank you AllaN01Bear.

[Rustynaerduwell]

23. Haven't thought of this in nearly half a century. Thanks for the nostalgia. Mine looked like a farmhouse painted red.

The thermos was a silo.

[debm55]

24. Thank you so much Rustnaerduwell. That sounds so cute.

[griffi94]

28. I remember those.

A kid in my class had one. The silo thermos was cool.

[arkielib]

25. Snoopy

Then in Jr. High and High School I also used a brown paper bag. Your poodle lunch box sounds fun!

[debm55]

26. Thank you, arkielib. Did Snoopy have a Woodstock on it?

[arkielib]

44. It did!

Snoopy was on top of his dog house with Woodstock.

[griffi94]

27. I had two.

The first one was red with a plaid pattern. The thermos broke. Later on, I had a Kung Fu lunch box.
The Kung Fu thermos was plastic and unbreakable. Mostly, I brown bagged it.

[debm55]

35. Thank you griffi94. Those sound great.

[no_hypocrisy]

29. Alvin and the Chipmunks

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/gukAAOSwWaRkwWQ8/s-l1600.webp

[debm55]

36. How cute. Thank you no-hypocrisy.

[True Dough]

31. I had this one

It matched my shoes, pants and button-down shirt.

[birdographer]

33. That was mine as well!

My mother loved red plaid.

[debm55]

37. Thank you, True Dough. Very classy..

[EverHopeful]

45. YES!

Best lunchbox ever.

[Delarage]

32. I sported a mixture

Of brown bags and metal lunchboxes over the years... my favorite of which was an OG Battlestar Galactica one.

I need to go listen to Marilyn Manson's "Lunchbox" now 🎸 ... although I never had to use mine for self-defense, thankfully.

[debm55]

38. Thank you, Delarage. Your selection is great.

[FM123]

34. A metal square box with the Archies on it!

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39. Thank you FM123. I liked the Archies. Ah Sugar, Sugar.

[Fla Dem]

40. Didn't have a lunch box.

Lived just under the mile limit that allowed you to eat lunch at school. So each school day we, my brothers and sister and neighborhood friends walked almost a mile home and back to school twice a day. Our house was at the top of a good size hill so our legs got plenty of exercise. Loved that hill in the winter, sledding was amazing. But I digress.

The funny part was that my other friends who lived just on the other side of the hill were over the mile limit so they got to stay in the school for lunch.

Never bothered us though. It was part of life then.

That was the 6 years of elementary. Both Jr High, 7th and 8th grades and High School 9-12 we ate in the cafeteria.

[debm55]

41. Yes, I remember walking home too. but i was K-3 and did it myself. I don't see parents letting their kids do that now.

Gee, they stand with their kids at the bus stop. But times have changed.

[CrispyQ]

42. I want to say Mighty Mouse but maybe it was Micky.

Pretty sure the mouse was flying, though. I loved the little thermos & was so careful with it. When I moved to a different school district I started eating the school lunch. It was a small town & everything was homecooked & good. The lunch ladies would get there in the morning with the kids.

There's an episode of Chopped, a cooking competition show, where four lunch ladies compete. It's really a special episode if you ever have a chance to catch it.

[debm55]

47. Thank you, CrispyQ. I watch Chopped. I will look for the episode.

[GPV]

43. The one I remember was original scooby and the gang in front

of the Mystery Machine. Metal, of course.

[debm55]

48. Thank you GPV. Yes, all metal lunch boxes. Scooby, Dooby Do

[TlalocW]

46. DISCO FEVER!

Google metal disco fever lunchbox to bask in its glory.

I have no idea why we had that. I do have two sisters 14 and 16 years older than me. They may have bought it as a joke for me to use. In grade school, I wouldn'thave cared. By fourth grade, I had a plastic Garfield one.

[debm55]

49. Thank you, TlalocW. I would rather have the Garfield one. But Disco Fever is good.

[OldBaldy1701E]

50. Ah, my beloved lunch box.

It looked like this.



I loved it and I was very upset when it disappeared. That was in the 4th grade. Then, when I was in the 8th grade, I was helping a teacher hang some little things from her drop ceiling and I pushed up a panel to suspend the wire I had when, lo and behold, there it was... hidden in the ceiling of an 8th grade classroom. (Which means we now have an idea who stole it four years earlier.)

[debm55]

51. Thank you, OldBaldy. That is sad that someone would do that. I like the design of the lunch box and thermos.

[Turbineguy]

52. Steve Canyon

big TV show in the late 1950's

[debm55]

53. Thank you. Turbineguy.

[HeartsCanHope]

54. Mary Poppins lunchbox!

I loved, loved that lunchbox! Don't know what happened to it. Had a little container that you put soup into, an Aladdin thermos,
cute light blue handle, (my favorite color as a kid,) and enough room for a sandwich and chips, a piece of fruit, and something for dessert. Didn't carry it in High School, mostly bought my lunch. It was too hard to carry a lunch from class to class. My locker was always as far from the lunchroom as you could get!

[debm55]

55. HeartsCanHope, thank you. Mary Poppins was one of my favorite movies, Love the voice of Julie Andrews. Your lunchbox so

neat. I had the same problem in HS. The lunch room was too far away from the wings I was in to run back and get my bag lunch. I took it in my purse.

[Wuddles440]

56. Even though he wasn't the one tasked (tormented)...

with carrying it, my father was a huge fan of westerns so he selected a Wagon Train one for me. It definitely wouldn't have been my choice, but I still have it as a memory (or nightmare).

[debm55]

58. Thank you Wuddles440. That is funny.

[johnp3907]

57. Snoopy.

Like this one;

https://www.ebay.com/itm/266895435532

Still have it.

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59. Thank you johnp3907. Wow, I wish I had some of my old stuff. Good for you.

[johnp3907]

63. Had to rescue it from the trash!

My dad threw it out when I was a teenager. Glad I saw it!

[mucifer]

66. That's what I wanted. I had brown bag lunches.

[Aristus]

60. I had a bad school-lunch childhood, although everything else was idyllic.

During the 1970's-era of fancy movie and TV tie-in lunch boxes, all the cool kids in school had one, and each lunch box was the subject of lunchtime conversation and oohing and aahing.

During this time, I brought my lunch to school in brown paper bags. My parents thought fancy lunch boxes were a waste of money.

By the time I entered junior high, brown-bagging it was the in-thing to do, and all the cool kids were doing it. Commercial tie-in lunch boxes were disdained as kids stuff.

That's when my parents got me a lunch box; first the nerdily iconic Tupperware lunch box, and later, a cheap, plastic Star Wars-themed lunch box. All the other kids laughed themselves silly at me.

[debm55]

61. Oh I am sorry for you. That is a bummer.

[hunter]

62. My parents, who had more children than they could comfortably support...

... didn't even allow us older siblings brown paper lunch bags.

Past about the third grade we had to make our own lunches too.

There was always food to make lunches with (peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches, anyone?) but we had to be resourceful about how we'd wrap our lunches. We did have a big commercial sized roll of waxed paper we could draw from.

I'd score a regular brown paper lunch bag, write my name on it, and use it for weeks so I could be like the "normal" kids.

By the time my youngest sibling was in third grade I'd quit high school for college and my parents had a little more disposable income. I remember feeling a little jealous of his Six Million Dollar Man lunchbox.

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64. When my mother having my sister, I stayed at my grandparent's house. I forgot my Poodle lunch box at home. My

grandfather wrapped my sandwich in newspaper and gave me a black banana. He put it in a ratty bag that he called a poke, Sad to say , but I was very embarrassed at l lunchtime.