Today finds me fortifying myself with plenty of caffeine. Why? Because aside the fact that it is too early (so I have been informed) to open a bottle of wine, I have to take the kids shopping for back-to-school stuff. Little One in particular is beside herself with the fact that this year she gets to have a locker and wants to decorate it.
Did you know you can buy wallpaper for your locker?? Neither did I.
Yes, my friends, you can actually purchase a chandelier for your locker. And carpeting!!! You know, when I went to school, our decorating was limited to school rules, as in, “NOTHING ALLOWED”. Sure, sometimes we skirted around that by using a few magnets to hold pictures or taping stuff we liked, but we had to operate on stealth mode, so it had to be small and very inconspicuous. I remember Mr. Profitt walking by one friend’s locker and bursting a blood vessel when he saw the wall-to-wall coverage of her love life. Good times, good times…
Anyway, the sooner I get this over with, the better off my eardrums will be, since I will no longer hear, “CAN WE GO SHOPPING FOR LOCKER STUFF, PLEASE, OH PLEASE, OH PLEASE!!!???”
Trust me, this will take a while. She’s not easy to please. I think she takes after my grandmother 😉
August 21st, 2012 at 12:14 PM
Dang. For 3 out of the 4 years I was in HS, my locker was a quarter that size. I could squeeze every textbook in there, and a couple of folders, but there was ALWAYS something that was going to have to come home with me. We also HAD to have our books covered….usually in a grocery bag. The old-school paper kind. Chandeliers? Heck, our lobby didn’t even have one of those!
Dang. Now I feel old. Where’d you say you put that bottle of wine???
August 21st, 2012 at 4:13 PM
I know! My locker was so tiny, and I made everything fit, and yes, paper covered books, decorated with rock logos and daisies and football teams….
*passes the bottle*
August 21st, 2012 at 6:37 PM
*takes big slug, passes it back* Mmmm…formaldehyde…
August 21st, 2012 at 12:46 PM
I think I survived back-to-school because I had the school official supply list for Mini-me and a requested shopping list for Rocketboy, and I went WITHOUT THEM. Including uniforms!
Mini-me got the magnetic pen and pencil holder with built-in mirror. $5 at Target, I think. I am now a cool mom for buying this for her.
August 21st, 2012 at 12:58 PM
Kind of like this one, but with an added mirror.
http://www.target.com/p/metal-mesh-magnetic-organizer-silver/-/A-13429681?reco=Rec|pdp|13429681|ClickCP|item_page.adjacency&lnk=Rec|pdp|ClickCP|item_page.adjacency
August 21st, 2012 at 4:15 PM
OMG!! She “had” to have a mirror, and a pencil cup AND a dry erase board, and now needs a calendar.
I better be cool mom FOREVER!!! 😀
August 21st, 2012 at 1:41 PM
Ah, I look back on such experiences with much fondness. Fondness, of course, that I’m looking back, not forward.
Nanny, nanny, boo boo!
August 21st, 2012 at 4:15 PM
You had better be running, or serving liquor!
August 21st, 2012 at 4:26 PM
(insert Phyliss Diller cackle here)
Still working on it.
August 21st, 2012 at 4:29 PM
Sigh….you’ll never get it. You ain’t a woman 😉
August 21st, 2012 at 7:19 PM
OK, that one I’ll let pass. Not a woman, not stupid either. 😀
August 21st, 2012 at 6:57 PM
I love the polka-dots!
August 22nd, 2012 at 8:50 AM
Yeah, better than stripes. That would make it look too much like a prison 😉
August 21st, 2012 at 7:10 PM
The chandelier is just fab.
August 22nd, 2012 at 8:51 AM
I admit I was tempted to get one for me… 😀
August 22nd, 2012 at 5:32 AM
The chandelier is double cheesy, but way too cool.
August 22nd, 2012 at 8:51 AM
The things they think of nowadays!
August 22nd, 2012 at 8:26 AM
Things certainly have changed, that’s for sure……
August 22nd, 2012 at 8:52 AM
No kidding! I told my mom and she asked me, “What’s a locker?” I totally forgot she wouldn’t know!
August 22nd, 2012 at 11:50 AM
Wow, it never occurred to me to decorate my locker. The only thing I liked about my locker was emptying it at the end of the school year with Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out”, playing in my head.
August 22nd, 2012 at 1:56 PM
HA! Too right 😀
August 22nd, 2012 at 6:48 PM
I just gotta tag to this post in my next entry because today at work it brought back a memory from my high school locker days!
August 22nd, 2012 at 8:35 PM
YAY!!! 😀
August 23rd, 2012 at 3:33 AM
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