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I had the obnoxious orange Tupperware lunchbox, with matching orange milk/juice cup (with lid), orange sandwich box (with lid), snack box (with lid), and a huge helping of shame and humiliation.
I would have killed puppies for a Thundercats lunchbox.
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I coveted that lunch box – I dreamed of having little boxes for all my food that neatly fit into the big box. It’s just so organized!
I remember having a metal G.I. Joe lunchbox (from the '80s cartoon series), but the one I still have sitting in a box somewhere is my '86 Transformers metal lunchbox. Unlike the one in the link, though, mine still has the thermos.
I remember having a beautiful wicker lunch box with a red and black plaid thermos inside. Later I had a metal Holly Hobbie lunch box. I also remember a bionic Woman lunch box, but I think it belonged to one of my classmates.
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I remember having a metal G.I. Joe lunchbox (from the '80s cartoon series), but the one I still have sitting in a box somewhere is my '86 Transformers metal lunchbox. Unlike the one in the link, though, mine still has the thermos.
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Haha, I had both of those too!
The inside of an old metal lunchbox is the oddest smell in the entire world.
It was a hand-me-down from my much older brother or sister who mom and dad took to DL before I was born. Some kids want to see Micky Mouse…not me, I was mad to ride a monorail and a submarine! (yes I DID finally get to go to Disneyland while I was still young enough to enjoy it all)
I had a Donny & Marie (Osmond) with matching thermos, followed by a Nancy Drew. I was very cutting-edge the next year, with a plastic Garfield lunchbox, the very first year they were made.
I had an Empire Strikes Back lunchbox, until this kid at school constantly made fun of me because of it (calling me Yoda, etc.). The only time I ever faced daily, perpetual “harrassment” (I put the term in quotes because it was fairly mild in retrospect, though aggravating and very troubling for me at the time). Long story short: my parents got involved, then the principal, and it turned into a bit of a hoo-doo.
My first lunchbox had Atom Ant on it. Then some kid stole it out of the lunchroom. I found it several weeks later in the woods, smashed with a big rock.
I had a Brady Bunch luchbox when I was in 1st-2nd grade. I had an ecology lunch box in 6th grade. (?)
The Brady Bunch was a metal square one and the the other was plastic, (very ecological, huh?) green and shaped like the construction worker style with the ecology flag on it.
The Secret of Nimh. After I accidentally briefly switched mine with a boy (!) at school who had the same lunchbox, my mom printed out ny name with a label-maker and stuck it to it.
Nowadays I collect odd metal lunchboxes. I have Lenore, the Evil Dead, and Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!