I used to make book covers with Calendar paper or Brown paper bags!
There were a few kids in my class who bought fancy shmancy covers though. 
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I made my own with brown paper bags, too. I loved doing it. LOL, dorky!
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@Andrea: It was my favorite part of starting school!
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@chopsuey119: And buying new school supplies. Heaven.....
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@Andrea: can't wait to go school supply shoppig with my Los!
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@chopsuey119: I know. I was talking to DH the other day about it when I bought my LO some crayons. I always wanted a new box of crayons each year but my mom would not get them for me. So I told DH that if LO asks I will get her a new box every year!
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haha, brown paper bags here!
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I totally did this but I used wrapping paper! I LOVED buying school supplies. I got a new set of pencil crayons every school year!
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I made mine as well. A lot of people had fabric stretchy ones but my parent's weren't about to buy something we could make.
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I used brown paper bags sometimes. But most of the time I used the papers from those huge calendars that my mom would bring home from the korean market. LOL. Those papers were da bomb!
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I used brown paper bags too. I wonder what kids use these days. At least where I live, grocery stores pretty much only use plastic.
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we definitely made our own covers for years! then they started selling those stretchy fabric ones and we were all over that. mine were all bright annoying colors.
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I used brown paper bags too. Then you could decorate/doodle on them.
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We used brown paper bags (which I hated because I always drew on them and I'm a HORRID artist) or the cheapy free ones the school gave us.
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Brown paper bags!!!! I used to draw all over them
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I used to either use brown paper bags, or the local Army recruits would drop some fancy ones off in the office and I would use the white side of them so I could doodle all over them!
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I used brown paper bags too!
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@mrsjyw: OMG. One day I was drawing/writing on my book cover and noticed my dad hovering. All of a sudden he says "Hey yuhboh (wife), YS LOVES jin gyu." I was doodling that I loved this guy I had a crush on! And dad saw! I was so embarrassed!
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yup, i made mine. why did we make it? were we required to? i don't even remember. lol.
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i definitely bought some and made some from brown paper bags. and i had a trapper keeper.
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@chopsuey119: OMG TOTALLY HAD A CRUSH ON A 'JINKYU' IN 7th GRADE!!!! POOHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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Some were wrapping paper, some were brown paper.
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Sometimes we bought covers and other times just used calendar paper.
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LOL! Yep!
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@mrs.bee: I remember trapper keepers! I loved those! I used to also get 5 peechee folders and tape them together, one for each subject.
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Hah! This thread = love. Seriously, I get giddy thinking of taking future kids school supply shopping!!
We used brown paper bags (so sturdy, honestly) and then when those cool stretchy ones came out (that ripped in a week!) my mom bought me one. I thought it was so cool, navy blue with stars..sigh.
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I did. Usually it was with brown paper bags or even wrapping paper.
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Yup, I did. I usually used a brown paper bag. I think I used newspaper from the comics section one year.
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I used brown paper bags too.
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I loved getting new school supplies but we never had book covers. I don't think anybody at school did, it just wasn't a big deal around here I guess. We always just wrote our name on the inside cover so we could tell who the book was being used by.
At the school I teach at now they aren't allowed. Too much of a distraction I guess? Plus we swap books out pretty frequently (every couple of units) so it would be a pain to have to move the covers as well.
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My dad always covered my books in brown paper bags (turned inside out so I could draw allll over them!).
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I remember my mom teaching me how to make them out of brown paper bags
I did have some of the stretchy ones in high school though! haha
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