Remember when you had a huge selection of luchboxes, and each one came with it’s very own thermos? And you still had room for other stuff.
I’ve been on a quest this week, for something my son can carry his lunch in AND a drink container that fits inside. I found one of those insulated bag things. But I’m still questing for the drink container. It has to fit inside the bag because I’m already pushing it by expecting him to keep up with a lunch bag and a backpack. I found a short thermos for $14.99. :eek: Did I mention, I’m trying to save money with this taking lunch to school, thing? All the other containers look like they would leak if turned on their side, which is what it’ll have to do.
I had Peanuts lunchboxes that my dad eventually used to hold nails and screws. If I’d kept them in good shape and sold them on eBay, I could pay for a cruise to Mexico.
Did anybody else’s metal lunchbox smell kind of odd after a while? Like milk, metal, and the ghost of PB&J sanwiches.
Target had insulated bags last week, though I didn’t notice any that held a thermos. The one I bough holds a drink bottle on the outside. Pretty useless unless you enjoy drinks the same temp as spit.
Mostly I was one of the hot-lunch kids, though, so I didn’t use it much. In 4th grade I got a kick-ass Return of the Jedi lunch box that I used all the way through grad school.
When I googled “domed lunchbox”, one of the top hits was nostalgic candy, which seems to sell a whack of what look like new-but-retro lunchboxes that can be loaded with candy.
So there is a market for these babies outside of ebay if you don’t want to buy something that should be kept in a museum case.
(And, for the record, my earliest memory is of a Strawberry Shortcake lunchbox)
I had a butter-yellow Cabbage Patch Kids lunchbox. They were the real dolls, posed as though they were playing tug of war over a big, blue “puddle”. On white sand.
My brother had a royal blue lunchbox, with Thundercats on it. Lion-O led the pack. He broke it and got a darker blue one, with Bravestar on it. (I barely remember the cartoon. I can hear the tune of the theme song in my head, and I remember he had ears of [the wolf?] eyes of [a hawk?] strength of [a bear?] speed of [a puma?] And my father was fond of saying, “Please, don’t squeeze the shaman.”)
My lunchbox used to get that funky smell after a while, too. Warm milk, plastic, yeasty bread, peanut butter, and a trace of butterscotch pudding.
Oh my GOD, I had the Strawberry Shortcake lunchbox too! It was metal, unlike the much-inferior plastic Princess of Power lunch box that replaced it, after it fell open and spilled my lunch all over the hallway. I was five. It was traumatic.
I wanted a Thundercats lunchbox. thunder, Thunder, THUNDERCATS, HO-OOOO!
I had a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea lunchbox and was an avid fan of the TV series. Didn’t see the movie until a few years later. With Barbara Eden walking around the Seaview in those three sizes too tight skirts and blouses and those stiletto %$@& me pumps. <wistful sigh> I wonder if my mom stil has that lunchbox.
I must have one of these. Does it have some Klassic Klaw photos on it? All the nude stuff Betty did was unofficial stuff for camera clubs not the stuff published by Klaw’s movie star news company.
I can’t remember the early ones. But I remember having an “Empire Strikes Back” lunchbox. I only remember the one side with the snowtroopers in an action pose with a big tripod-mounted weapon. One of the antique stores near my office had a couple vintage ones. I remember the “Convoy” one up on the wall with all of it’s glorious trucker imagery.
I hear the lunchboxes of yesteryear are huge collectibles. Take a peek on E-bay to see if there’s a cool one your little dude can relate to. I have no idea what the cost of one of these little treasures is, but it would be worth a look!
Lunch boxes and Thermoses go together like… lunch boxes and Thermoses. But finding a Thermos can be pretty rough. (Or even a generic “thermos”.) Last year was the Great Thermos Hunt. We found a semi-good lunchbox for Soupo (A metal one? It is to laugh.) but he needed a thermos. (Those “bike bottle” drink bottles with the snap top you get with lunchboxes now? I hate those.)
We searched far and wide for a screw-top insulated thermos. Finally we found some at Meijer. (It’s like Wal-Mart, only not quite as evil. Or as ubiquitous. There might not be one in your neighborhood hillbilly queen.)
A couple years ago we found some hard plastic lunchboxes that actually came with real Thermos thermoses. They were, like, Scooby Doo and Bob the Builder designs. (Actually they were plain plastic and they had stickers on them.) These were also at Meijer.
