Man duraseal was the shit. Buying back to school gear meant buying a roll of Lisa Frank or Space Jam Duraseal and laminating your books with it. It fucking ruled. I'm surprised it's not something I see in office supply stores anymore.
I'm old.
Edit: If it's because it's bad for the environment then that makes sense and I fully support ditching it.
We used plain brown wrapping paper, the kind that's normally used for wrapping up parcels. Never even heard of this lol.
Claims to be an owl, is actually a kiwi. Really makes you think.
Now I have to slightly correct the accent I read their comments in
Yeah in the USA we used to use brown paper shopping bags to cover our school books. By the end of the year it's be all ripped up and shit and covered in drawings like the cool S.
Hell yeah.
I did those and the local ButterKrust bakery sponsored some plain Jane brown ones that had their name on the back at the bottom in small letters. I was super cool so I scratched out the ‘er’ so mine just said Butt Krust.
I think the equivalent of that in my area were these nylon book socks. We would stretch them over the textbook covers.
idk about commercial names but contact paper/film is still a thing pretty sure?
I think I wrapped my books exactly one year, and after that never bothered. Never did it in duraseal though, I used brown paper bags and scotch tape.
Every year it would either be part of the first class to cover your new textbooks in something, or out would be part of the homework assignment
My partner got us a bunch of Lisa Frank notebooks a few years ago. Shits awesome. My book notes are in the glittery dolphin, recipes in the unicorn, and video game notes in the koala. Also have a big glittery cat 3 ring full of classical piano sheet music.
we had a plasticky thing that you had to neatly fold around the inside of the cover of the book. there was also one that was self adhesive, you pulled the thing from the backing sheet and then stuck it to your book.
and yes as soon as you got your books you had to wrap them up
Not in the UK we didn't. Not sure why you'd need to? These books would be filled before they were ever destroyed and once they're filled they go in a box never to ever be seen again.
It’s for text books that are rented or you want to sell after use
It was also a big thing in Australia. I had a super mario sunshine one despite never having played it
cover their school books in duraseal
At first i read that "durasteel" and i was like "yeah i get that school is harsh place for books but that's little excessive"
