Rolykit pencil box

Posted by gelekoplamp@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 6 comments

Not sure if this was typically a "Dutch" thing, or if it was used globally. I do know everyone in my elementary school had one of these pencil boxes. (Came in red and blue IIRC).

Source of the pictures: https://hoppend.nl/chain_case.htm

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Created by fellow Dutchy Samuel Meijerink. He had significant succes with his products (mostly in the Netherlands). You may also remember the all plastic CD storage boxes with a sliding door or the sorting boxes that 'rolled up'. Very 80's :-D

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Scrounger888@reddit

Our pencil cases in Canada were a zippered pouch made out of either sturdy fabric or vinyl. The vinyl ones usually had cartoon characters on them, like this one.

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Expensive-Day-3551@reddit

I never had a fancy pencil box but I liked the ones that had a little sharpener and eraser that popped out, some other kids had them in 4th grade.

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit

I did have a pencil box in elementary school here in the US but I remember it being tin or metal. I also remember it having a print of some character- either He-Man or Star Wars or something.

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MaartjeM@reddit

I had one too when in elementary school, and many other kids did too. They were quite popular for a while.

Am Dutch btw.

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Spartan04@reddit

Pencil cases weren’t very common at my school in the U.S. and I don’t ever remeber seeing one like that. A few of us, including me, did have pencil cases with a bunch of pop out spring loaded compartments that were realistically more toys than serious school supplies but they were fun.