# School Supplies ALREADY??? GAAAAA!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 28, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-supplies-already-gaaaaa/185013 "2003-06-28T19:57:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eilsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@Eilsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eilsel)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-supplies-already-gaaaaa/185013/1 "2003-06-28T19:57:46Z")
I just got my ds’ report card in the mail AND a school supply list. OMG This HUGE list of very specific things. Now he’s gonna be in 5th grade so I have been thru this before. However, where do schools get off “requiring” BOOK SOCKS? I mean, really. What’s wrong w/a good ol’ paper bag book cover…you remember those, right? You’d write on there things like 2Good2B4gotten or hearts or cars or whatever…school sucks. LOL. We don’t life in a down and out school district either. Our teachers are paid all too well and I don’t understand why we have to buy this junk. :mad: sigh Rant over. as you were… ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-supplies-already-gaaaaa/185013/2 "2003-06-28T20:35:35Z")
oh man…doing the paperbag book cover was tradtion for my sisters and I the entire time we were in school. I can picture us now sitting on the livingroom floor, scissors in hand. My eldest sister always did mine, because I would goof it up and it would look like Charlie Brown did it. I don’t even know what a book sock is, but I’m sad just thinking about that tradition no longer being done. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Eilsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@Eilsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eilsel)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-supplies-already-gaaaaa/185013/3 "2003-06-28T20:38:58Z")
Well some kids do it still but it’s a big rage here. I think it’s actually “Book Sox” … you can find them at AC Moore or pharmacies. They’re these stretchie covers that come in all sizes and all patterns. I loved making my own book covers. Sometimes I’d use the comics if I could get my hands on them…we never got the paper. ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-supplies-already-gaaaaa/185013/4 "2003-06-28T22:37:48Z")
I’m sad about that actually. I was recently looking through things my mother had saved from my school days and found my old brown paper bag book covers covered in drawings and stickers from junior high. I t was a trip dowen memory lane that I was glad to take… sad that kids have factory made book socks now. Kitty ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-supplies-already-gaaaaa/185013/5 "2003-06-28T22:39:29Z")
I seem to remember buying paper book covers, but the cost was negligible. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-supplies-already-gaaaaa/185013/6 "2003-06-28T23:53:44Z")
In Texas we were given paper book covers which were covered in ads for various products – especially bread! – but in California we had to supply our own. I’d have liked to buy pre-made ones in different colors and patterns. ---
**Author:** ![Eilsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@Eilsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eilsel)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-supplies-already-gaaaaa/185013/7 "2003-06-28T23:55:23Z")
I know they sold those when I was a kid but we could never afford that stuff…as it was I had to find a friend from church who would give me their Sunday comics to use LOL. I would always make sure Peanuts was in the front.