Store run instructions:

[azurelunatic]

Must, on next thrift store run, look for an old lunch box. The plastic sort, that's usually got a foul-smelling thermos and missing accessories, with the picture on the front all beat-up and nasty.

Mama used to employ fabric and contact paper to cover up the nasty picture (though we got ours new) and after the school year was over, we would use them to hold art supplies, snacks, and toys for car trips and trips here and there.

I think it's a tradition worth continuing, and much better than having Little Fayoumis haul his backpack everywhere.

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[aina42.livejournal.com]

who's that in your userpic? :D

[azurelunatic]

Me and Calico. I was nine or ten, and Calico was one or two.

[waywind.livejournal.com]

My lunchboxes tended to get covered in Chequita banana stickers and such. It used to be that Squeezits would have glow in the dark stickers and stuff, so the lunchbox would be slathered in a collection of those too. And sometimes those "good job!" stickers that teachers would give you. The picture tended not to get too beat-up, dunno why.

[azurelunatic]

Sounds like a typical kid lunch box.

...Narcissa and I were not typical kids.