Have you managed to hold on to your old school books?

grahamg

grahamg

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South of Manchester, UK
I've found a treasure trove of my old school exercise books or work books .

I'm surprised so many have survived and I'd completely forgotten where they were (in a trunk or wooden box on a loft above a stable).

No real idea what I'll do with them now (cant put them back where they were as farm liable to be sold in next year or so), but should bring bacl some memories when I find time to look at them.

Has anyone else managed to hold on to any of theirs (or would want to have done?)?

How did they survive :confused:, if you have any?
 

Nope!

I do still have my yearbook, diploma and class ring.

I flipped through the yearbook recently and realized how much better my life has become since those high school years.

Note to self, scrap the ring!
 
last week I found my old Boy Scout handbook in the bottom drawer of my dresser.

A scout is.. trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent.

Wow.. I still remember that oath.
Where's my coffee cup.. :confused:
 

grahamg said:
I've found a treasure trove of my old school exercise books or work books .

I'm surprised so many have survived and I'd completely forgotten where they were (in a trunk or wooden box on a loft above a stable).

No real idea what I'll do with them now (cant put them back where they were as farm liable to be sold in next year or so), but should bring bacl some memories when I find time to look at them.

Has anyone else managed to hold on to any of theirs (or would want to have done?)?

How did they survive :confused:, if you have any?
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Not something I would have ever wished to keep that is for sure!
 
I kept my college books. Primarily because they cost and arm and two legs. I wanted to be a nurse. Some of the science books were over $100. And this is way back when. They just invented the printing press about 3 years before. One English teacher had 4 books on her list of required books. One was a "cheap" paper back-about $30. She NEVER referred to it. I still have it, it's never been opened.
 
I have my mother's high school science book, vintage 1919.
I have my copy of the "Bluejackets Manual" from 1952 (the simple directions for being a sailor, Navy issue).
There is a novel on the shelf that was my grandmother's copyright 1883.
 
About turning them in for $ or selling them to under classmates. For some "unknown" reason, none of the professors used the same books. So for a book I paid $150, I'd get a whole $3, if I sold it back. So I kept them.

I went to a Catholic School. The last days of school, we would use erasers clean the books, and hand them back in. If you didn't have a book to give back, Satan would personally drag you off to hell.
 
Publishers usually make slight changes to textbooks every few years. Just often enough so that it is impossible to use both old and new editions at the same time. I happen to think it's a conspiracy ;), to discourage used book sales. Just my opinion.

I've still got a few old textbooks around. Not many.
 
I kept my year books for years ,until I found my daughter reading them. I trashed them after that and saved myself from having to explain to my son just exactly what did go on in the "smoking area".:redface-new:
 
No, as a math teacher, all my old books were outdated in the 60's because of computers. Everything I learned in several years of schooling could then mostly be done on a hand calculator. Although I wondered sometimes if the kids carried all this power around, did they know enough theory to apply it. I surmised, before I retired, that they had all the advanced capability at their fingertips, but did not understand but maybe 5% of what problems it could solve for them.
 

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