School could be a less than fun experience sometimes, and it was always worse whenever someone in your class had much better supplies than you did. While we were stuck with pens our parents took from hotels, or pencils that had been worn down to a nub, all the rich kids got to have these 10 items that made us feel like we were lame.
Man, remember white-out? I just had to scratch out my mistakes with pen.
Even more fancy were those white-out rollers that you could use to cover up entire lines (or in the case of the rich kids, write things on your binders).
How about those "reinforcements" that you could use to fix ripped holes on pages?
Gel pens were super colorful, and super expensive.
These next few things were the Mercedes Benz of school supplies...
White erasers were so, SO much better than those terrible pink ones.
We all looked in envy at that rich kid whose calculator was super fancy and could write letters.
Five Star binders cost like three times as much, but at least they didn't fall apart after like three days.
Seriously, who had the kind of money to spend on zip-up binders?!
Remember the first time you saw a mechanical pencil? I would dream of never having to sharpen a pencil again.
By now, if you haven't seen this incredibly witty and emotional classic film you've either been living under a rock, or are too much of a genius to have ever left the library. But either way, don't worry. It's not your fault. The character drama about a boy genius who is making his way through life in Boston has had an unbelievably strong pull on audiences for the past three decades. Whether it was because of the lovable debut of screenwriters Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, the gripping performance by Robin Williams, or the narrative around a prodigy who has
Christmas isn't like what it used to be. Now that we are all grown up, we have so many more commitments and financial obligations that the holiday season isn't as much fun as it was when we were kids. But really, was it as good as we remembered, or are we just putting on those nostalgia glasses that make everything seem way better then it was? Well, to help us remember, let's take a look at some of the 10 most memorable things from the Christmases of our childhood and see if it was really all we thought it was.