Reply With QuoteTrapper Keepers died with the 80s.
My coworkers and I usually get small funny gifts for each other at Christmas. This year I planned on getting one of them a kids' lunch box, and another one a Trapper Keeper notebook. Am I an old fogey and nobody makes that stuff anymore? I went to Target and Toys R Us and neither store had them. Before I expand my search, is this totally futile? Have Trapper Keepers and lunch boxes gone the way of my precious eight-track player?
Trapper Keepers died with the 80s.
Lunch boxes have largely been replaced by insulated bags, which are lighter and can be stuffed into a backback when empty.
What was your favorite grade-school lunchbox?
Mine was 'Land of the Lost', conveniently on-line here: http://www.landofthelost.com/lunch.htm
I had this lunch box. And the thermos. It rocked.
I'm also annoyed that Trapper Keepers are no more.
As for lunch boxes, I'm pretty sure I had a Star Wars one, a Dynomutt one and a Casper the Ghost box with a board game on the back (the kind with a little spinner and a dotted path you had to advance on with a penny).
If you're looking for a tin lunchbox, they definitely still make them but you'll have to look around, they're really obsolete as far as actually using as a lunchbox.
My three-year-old, however, insisted on using her Dora the Explorer tin lunch box instead of her insulated rocket ship.
Look at small independent toy stores or here.
Isn't a trapper keeper just a three ring binder with some velco stapled to it?
I had a Star Wars one...I think it had an R2D2 thermos, too...hard to remember. I also had a Dukes of Hazzard one...yeah, I'm from AL.
Yeah, I wanted to get a tin lunch box for my school age kids, but the selection was awful. It's mostly collapsable coolers, as someone else mentioned. You'll have better luck in the fall when all the back to school stuff is out.
Not even sure what a trapper keeper is.
Trapper Keepers seem to go for about $8-25 (depending on the design) on ebay. Might be your only option.
Plus, who can resist this awesome design!
Interesting you should mention this. I had planned to purchase some Trapper stuff for my kid a few years back but was told by her school that they were BANNED. When I demanded to know why, I never did get a clear or sensible answer. My thinking at the time was that velcro closures were better than a snapping 3 ring binder for my clumsy 2nd grader, but apparently the Trapper has a More Nefarious Purpose or something.
Any other parents ever run into this?
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I mean duh. Of course they're banned!
Didn't you see what happened to Cartman's Trapper Keeper?
I remember that one from my junior high days. It was totally rad to the max then, and I'm happy to see that it still is now, too!
I have no idea what a Trapper Keeper is, but I just wanted to reminisce about my Pigs in Space tin lunchbox. I hope my Dad still has it somewhere amongst the clutter.
Man, the Star Wars tin lunchbox must have sold like a billion units, I had it too. I also had a shitty plastic Peanuts one, it brokeded like after a few months.
I had the Pee Wee Herman lunch box. It had a funny little red rubber thing sticking out the back, so you could catapult lunch stuff you didn't care for across the room. Anyway, that's what I used it for.
I am so kidding.
The last lunchbox I ever owned was this Kiss Lunchbox. ($500 WTF?) But I bought it just before my 1st year in Junior High, and after one day at school, I learned that lunchboxes weren't cool post-Elementary school, so I never used it.
I'm dating myself (backwards) again, but trapper keepers first started being banned when I was still in elementary/middle school. I remember them being all the rage, and then suddenly they were banned (though by then I was in 6th grade and had kind of outgrown them anyway). If my perceptions at the time were right, it wasn't so much for any nefarious purpose (though they WERE good for hiding things) as it was for the fact that they had become such a ridiculous status symbol, what with the themes and such. I think kids even stole them from each other.
Thank god for Bill Cosby!
you can get up to 25 bucks for those things?! time to raid my parents' basement!
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