Would you send your child to school with their books covered in wallpaper

Boscoirl

patwicklow wrote: »

I'm guessing Bertie's kids used up all that big brown Envelope paper that was lying around the house.

Na, they used Sterling



I covered my journal in school with the Labels from beer bottles, teachers didn't like it, kept telling me to remove them to or cover them, eventually they sent a note home to my parents, I was well hard in school :cool:

Capt'n Midnight

I remember one book covered in something plasticy like a shower curtain , but the touch of it's texture send shivers down my spine

Boscoirl

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

I remember one book covered in something plasticy like a shower curtain , but the touch of it's texture send shivers down my spine

Was it that stuff you would put on a window to make it look frosted with lots of rainbow shape ridges on it? I had that stuff one year, it the noise as you put a book away, would send shivers down your spine, as it rubbed off another book in your back. squirming while I am typing this just thinking about it

Capt'n Midnight

Boscoirl wrote: »

squirming while I am typing this just thinking about it

yeah something like that and yeah it was cruel and unusual punishment

Solair

I had that stick on stuff they used to use to on windows to frost the glass like a bathroom window. So all my books just looked blurred!

Tayla

Cunning Stunt wrote: »

And all those free copies your parents got for shopping in dunnes /crazy prices etc. I had a lot of those too.

I remember those, copies only cost around a pound for a packet anyway, parents must have been very stupid in those days, now it's all tokens for hotel breaks and computers for schools!

I used to have that horrible sticky out wallpaper on my books, you know the one with the flowers which were kind of like a foam and which always ended up being picked off the paper :mad:

Skerries

I used to cover mine in comics that I was reading at the time, after a couple of weeks they were in shreds
I remember in secondary we would change the wording on the front of the books so it would have Bitch instead of Peig or Senior Geography became Senior Crap

Neonjack

efb wrote: »

And the same Ann and Barry books passed down about 8 times!

Some of us remember Tom and Nora and Spot the dog.:eek:

Snowie

clear plastic wrap on this side that plastic was indestructible too

efb

Neonjack wrote: »

Some of us remember Tom and Nora and Spot the dog.:eek:

Tom and Nora- were they written in ogham???

Brendog

Mine were always covered in plastic wrap like an elderly persons couch.

Needless to say every year boring class after boring class was spent tearing it off.

cynder

Why does one need a book covered at all, As i recall most school require books to be covered BUT WHY?

mconigol

CardBordWindow wrote: »

I remember some lads in school used to have the fancy clear plastic covering.
Posh w*nkers!

"Contact"

We were so poor we had to read the books in the bookshop and transcribe the details onto rolls of wallpaper. Fact.

fishy fishy

grindelwald wrote: »

Why does one need a book covered at all, As i recall most school require books to be covered BUT WHY?

to keep them in some kind of reasonable condition as you had to pass them along to the trail of siblings coming behind you, or sell them second hand to other kids at the school.

no such thing as brand new books for everyone.

44leto

I am in the market for an ereader, I can't decide which one. But content and for the sheer variety the best is the Ipad, but it weighs to much, I really want the ereader to be light.

But I ask, have school books had their day, is it only a matter of a few years that all the kids will be going to school with just a notebook and an Ipad type device.

Skerries

44leto wrote: »

But I ask, have school books had their day, is it only a matter of a few years that all the kids will be going to school with just a notebook and an Ipad type device.

already happening in some schools here

Tin foil is the best!
You don't need sellotape or adhesive. :cool:

Nothingbetter2d

ejmaztec wrote: »

I have to wrap mine with the internet since I stopped buying newspapers.

he still buys newpapers cos he loves doing the crosswords when he takes a dump.

mikemac1

Bosca lón and my flask
The mammy giving a packed lunch every day

Ann and Barry and Murphy the dog.
Later on they brought in Dusty and Holly, why??

Súgradh, Spraoi agus Sport

The nun would come around with magazines, I think one was called Africa.
They were religious magazines and to do with the Irish missionaries around the world
Very popular with the grannies, they give you the money to buy them off the nun and then you bring them down.

We had a computer and it was called an Acorn and ran something called Riscos
The teacher would let us install games from a floppy disk and there was a code hidden in the magazine so you had to type that to verify you owned it

Rubberlegs

Neonjack wrote: »

Some of us remember Tom and Nora and Spot the dog.:eek:

Were they before or after Ronan and Áine and Bran the dog?? The Fás books.

grey_so_what

It was nearly a religious ceremony in our house that the night before you went back to school the books were covered as they were checked the first day of school to make sure you had all on the list....woe betide the child that didn't have all the books and not covered!...them nuns didn't mess around!!

Still have the log book and bible covered in brown paper with my dad's writing on the front with my name and class number.....

Wonder if bibles are on book lists now?...

rainbowdrop

Never did this growing up in England. Remember coming back here on holidays and seeing my cousins books covered in wallpaper, and thinking wtf? Have a stepped back in time to the 1950s or something. We thought it was very old fashioned even then (late 80s). I do remember making a Mother's day card at school with wallpaper though!

Thanks be to jaysus it's gone out of fashion now. I have a daughter in school and I'd be far too lazy to be wrapping her books in wallpaper every September. Anyway, nobody seems to use wallpaper nowadays, it's all emulsion. We would have to emulsion the schoolbooks with leftover emulsion and do a little feature square of beige-with-cream-flowers wallpaper on the front