Over on CafeMom, they're talking about the exorbitant prices of school supplies (one mom spends $300!).  It got us thinking: what's the least useful school supplies that we had as kids?


5.  Trapper Keeper:  Trapper Keepers were so cool back in the third grade.  Too bad no papers actually made it into the binder past the third week of school.


4.  Book Covers:  We were required to protect all textbooks with a book cover, often those made with brown paper bags.  By mid-year, the covers were holey, worn, and covered with doodles.  They protected nothing.


3.  Compass:  We could never draw a perfect circle with the compass, no matter how hard we tried.  Instead, it was used to draw flat-headed stick figures and crooked rainbows.



2.  Protractor:  We barely remember even using this thing, and we took geometry and trigonometry.  The sad protractor always ended up as two pieces of plastic in the bottom of a backpack.


1.  Wite-out:  Why don't we just call Wite-out what it truly was?  Nail polish.


What school supplies were the least useful to you?




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