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07-25-2021 09:34 AM - edited 07-25-2021 11:10 AM
If you want a new look or to save, get some 12 x 12 scrapbook paper, and cut what you need. I use it for crafting. There's large packets you can get at Hobby Lobby or Michael's and there's more than 1 sheet of the paper. You should be covered. **wink"
07-25-2021 09:40 AM
We also had a small store run by one of the nuns and you could buy book covers with the school name on it-they were glossy and had measurement markings to cut the exact size for the book.
Yet the brown paper bags were always in the majority. No stickers/coloring/words, etc. were allowed except for your name and grade on the inside edge of the bag.
Recycling and we never gave it that name.
07-25-2021 12:06 PM
Yes, way back when, we use to make book covers out of brown paper bags....also had a pee-chee folder to carry homework, loose papers, etc., from different classes.....we didn't use school backpacks back then, we survived with what we had.
07-25-2021 12:19 PM
We used brown paper bags too. Then for art class we had to personalize them with stickers, colored pencils, crayons, etc.
07-25-2021 12:24 PM
We used 'butcher paper' from our local grocery store, around the corner.
I really don't know why it was called 'butcher paper', but it's what I remember calling it.
I believe it was brown (not white).
So many years ago. Gee, where has the time gone, anyway?
07-25-2021 12:27 PM
We used brown paper bags, too, to protect our books. Used crayons (or markers when they became available) to write the book's subject matter on the cover.
Wrote my name on the inside cover.
07-25-2021 12:36 PM
I live in South Texas----
Butterkrust Bakery provided a few school book covers but those quickly ran out so the majority used brown paper bags to cover our school books.............
07-25-2021 01:31 PM
Brown paper bags were the way we covered our school books! I think it was a great way to cover and protect our books and would still do so today if I wanted to cover one of my old books!
07-25-2021 01:38 PM
@SoCal Bred omg I totally forgot about per chee folders. Ours were goldenrod yellow with football motifs on them. Catholic school memory. We also used brown grocery bags.
07-25-2021 01:55 PM
@Flatbush As I recall, the more astute stores started providing paper bags with various book sizes and lines marked out on the paper bags to make it easier to get it right.
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