Remember These Nostalgic School Supplies That Every ’80s And ’90s Kid Had?

When it came to holding all of your papers and notes, nothing was cooler than the Trapper Keeper. The item was first launched back in 1978 by Mead, and it actually succeeded with temporarily reinventing the binder. (The folders inside were known as "trappers," and the full binder around them was, technically, the "keeper.")

Trappers and Trapper Keepers were officially released to the public in 1981, after plenty of research. And kids absolutely loved them. Some even had fights over the many different designs that they could buy in stores. There was never a school supply that created so much buzz.

Without a doubt, they were extremely successful. According to Mental Floss, over 75 million Trapper Keepers have been sold.

It's impossible to list just one item by Lisa Frank. But for kids — especially young girls — anything created by the great Lisa Frank was worth holding onto. With colorful designs and quirky characters, they were the definition of "cool" for most of us back then.

Lisa Frank Incorporated technically started back in 1979. Lisa, who was only 24 at the time, got her start selling handmade bracelets with popular fictional characters on them. But when she launched her business, the main focus was stickers. The Lisa Frank business immediately skyrocketed after mall chain Spencer Gifts placed a large order for her items. As time went on, the signature Lisa Frank design would be on everything, from pencils to folders. As her slogan correctly claimed, "You Gotta Have It!"

For many of us, trolls were "scandalous." They weren't very cute, and they had a visible butt crack that made them unlike any other toy at the time. For an elementary school kid, that was enough to make them popular.

Troll doll pencil tops were a way to bring trolls to school. Did they interfere with your pencil eraser? Of course they did. But they were still a great way to identify which pencil was yours.

You have to give floppy disks credit — they were around for a long time. Near the end of their run, they became available in a bunch of vibrant colors, which made it hard not to pick up another box of them during every trip to OfficeMax. Standard 3½-inch disks in black were still popular, but these colorful disks were actually cool.

There are much better ways to store data, but nothing screams "final exams" or "big research paper" more than the floppy disk.

Why write in one boring color when you could write in four or more? Multicolored pens were very common for people who worked in an office, but they were also a lot of fun for kids in class. If you were the type of person to take a lot of notes, this pen was a great way to mix things up.

Many pens held up to 10 colors. They're still available today, so it's not too late to reclaim a piece of your childhood.

These may as well have just been toys. When they erased, they often just smeared lead across your paper, which then caused your hands to turn a familiar shade of silver.

But everyone had them — and everyone had to get them when they did their school supply shopping, despite knowing that they didn't work. The dinosaur shapes were especially challenging. Kids, never bring these to a standardized test.

Yikes! pencils introduced kids to the idea that regular, standard pencils were boring. And they weren't wrong. Yikes! pencils, on the other hand, oozed with personality. Even though Yikes! pencils came in all different variations, kids would know one when they saw it.

Even the erasers often looked fun. The one battle was that, as a kid, it was unclear if these fit the standard No. 2 pencil requirement that many Scantron tests asked for. (At least, that was the poor excuse my parents gave me for not buying them.)

CliffsNotes were started all the way back in 1958 by a guy named Clifton Hillegass. They were designed to be a way to help kids study. But they kinda, sorta got a bad reputation, especially in the '80s and '90s, since many kids ended up reading the CliffsNotes instead of the books they were based on.

The notes were written by real professors and teachers, which made them valid. In 2012, CliffsNotes was acquired by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH). While they're still being made, they're not quite as prominently featured in stores the way they used to be.

Back in the day, it seemed like SpaceMaker really monopolized the pencil box industry. Did you know that the first patent for a pencil box happened back in 1946? Surely, people back then had no clue that the SpaceMaker would one day be a game changer.

Nor would Lothar von Faber, who's credited for inventing the pencil case back in 1880. Once people got a SpaceMaker, they could never go back. These days, finding a SpaceMaker is very rare. They're no longer being made, but you can purchase some secondhand cases on Etsy.

Crayola was all about trying to change the game. But nothing was as daring as Crayola Jumping Colors. What made them stand out were the UC3D Glasses that came with them (which was very common back in the '90s. Mainstream 3D movies weren't widely available in theaters just yet, so 3D was still a very fascinating concept.)

The glasses helped your art pop. But according to the commercials, it was so vivid that your art actually came alive. This product probably didn't last solely due to shattered expectations.