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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 2:04:21 GMT -5
What did you use for currency while you were in school?
In elementary school, silly bandz were used as currency because who wanted anything actually useful? Silly bandz were constantly being traded for favors, pencils, snacks, and such.
In middle school, mechanical pencil lead became the new currency because I guess we grew up. At least it's useful.
Now, in high school, mechanical pencil lead, food, and actual money are used. We actually pay each other in money instead of useless rubber bands like we did 10 years ago.
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Post by ~●ℓєgσℓαѕ●~ on Aug 2, 2017 2:25:43 GMT -5
Real money, 6th graders were selling condoms (am I allowed to say this) and cigarettes to 5th and under and no one ever did anything to stop them.
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Post by Turin not Torino on Aug 2, 2017 4:11:43 GMT -5
In middle school I used to make these woven bracelets with names on them. I had one with my name, and one with the name of the school tied to the zippers of my backpack, which someone saw and commissioned me to make their name. Within a week I had dozens of orders, and one 7th grader (I was in 8th at the time) even had her teacher give her a note to get out of class to come to my homeroom in a different building just to place an order. Initially I was only charging 50 cents a bracelet, but the orders started coming so fast I had to up it to a dollar.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 4:28:46 GMT -5
In elementary school it was usually stuff like colorful/fun erasers and pens, and sometimes cool stuff you made (I once traded my friend a colourful fish craft thingy I had made for an actual Japanese coin he had).
Middle school it was usually these paper clips we had because of French Immersion anyway. We had to try and collect as many as we could by basically ratting each other out for speaking too much English in class. It basically incited a riot, would not recommend as a method. But we did trade them for cans of soda and bags of chips and stuff that the older members of the class (it was a 7/8 split) would go get at the convenience store for us
High school it was basically just real money, or sometimes some "service" or use of your time that you offered. Like one of my friends used to treat me to ice capps (dunno if non-Canadians even know what those are? They're a super sweet frozen drink) at Tim Hortons in exchange for helping her out with her science and music hw
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Post by Splashstorm01 on Aug 2, 2017 4:35:06 GMT -5
I'm not sure if it counts as currency, but those rubber alien things in the eggs were really popular at one point when I was at school.
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#a8d1ff
The Ancient One
Name Colour
pumpkin pie
what if i fall? but my dear, what if you fly?
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Post by pumpkin pie on Aug 2, 2017 6:31:39 GMT -5
Idk if any other schools did this?? But everyone used to take glue and like make balls of glue or shapes of glue and just give it to people and trade it and stuff? Also erasers
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Post by lozi on Aug 2, 2017 7:03:14 GMT -5
Pokemon cards, silly bands were big in elementary school. Mechanical pencil lead and food were around middle school.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 7:11:54 GMT -5
Real money, 6th graders were selling condoms (am I allowed to say this) and cigarettes to 5th and under and no one ever did anything to stop them.
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Post by Northstar3213 on Aug 2, 2017 7:12:26 GMT -5
I used my doodles because nobody I knew could art and they all wanted my doodles xD
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Post by Dawnrise on Aug 2, 2017 12:08:04 GMT -5
OOC: Our school was also run by a bunch of authoritarians, so they banned cheetos and neos (which are little water flavoring things that turn your drink orange). Obviously, there ended up being a huge black market for this stuff and kids would make you trade them pokemon cards, pencil pals, and bok-choy boys for snacks. In middle school we moved on to regular old candy and lunch food. High school was pretty much just money and juuls (don't ask). Rp:
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Post by neb on Aug 2, 2017 12:08:26 GMT -5
Our schools gave out currency for when we did something 'good' and we could buy things. Elementary school it was tickets. They were like little fair tickets so some kid went to hobby lobby and bought an entire roll. he sold them to everyone it was great. In the middle school I'm currently at they give out PAWS. (these weird orange slip things also used to buy food etc.)
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Post by vakarian on Aug 2, 2017 12:08:46 GMT -5
gum feels like currency all the time at my school
people would kill for some 5 gum i guess
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 12:10:10 GMT -5
in elementary school, it was cool erasers. like the ones that were shaped like foods n stuff. p much any eraser that looked like not-an-eraser was cool and the had some sort of value you could trade it for. in middle school, it was silly bandz. in high school, i didn't rlly see that happening anywhere ??? also my hs had upwards of 3,000 students w there being ~760 in my class alone so reaching any sort of agreement like my elementary school (there were like 40 of us in a grade) and middle school (there were again ~40 of us in a grade) was too hard. so it rlly depended on your group of friends and my friends didn't rlly do that. we tended to repay each other for things monetarily.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 12:31:14 GMT -5
gum feels like currency all the time at my school people would kill for some 5 gum i guess I forgot about gum. But gum is used to bribe people at school. I saw someone get out of a detention because his "lawyer" gave everyone a pack of gum. It's a long story.
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Post by vakarian on Aug 2, 2017 12:32:42 GMT -5
gum feels like currency all the time at my school people would kill for some 5 gum i guess I forgot about gum. But gum is used to bribe people at school. I saw someone get out of a detention because his "lawyer" gave everyone a pack of gum. It's a long story. oh my god what a prodigy
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Post by shortstop on Aug 2, 2017 12:35:10 GMT -5
silly bandz, japanese erasers, and ductape from 3rd-5th
now it's phone chargers
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Post by 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘶𝘯 on Aug 2, 2017 13:30:09 GMT -5
in primary school it was marbles. then the minute we got to secondary school we just stopped. we've used actual money since
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 13:40:45 GMT -5
Our school had Hi-5s. Hi-5s were basically little slips of paper that came in virtually every color of the rainbow. They all had a design (usually a hand, lion (the school mascot) or a pawprint) printed on it along with a space for your name and class. You'd get them when you behaved well and you could trade them out for prizes and trinkets with teachers. Simple, right? Wrong. For years at the school, going on before I got there and still going on now, exists a Hi-5 black market. The Market is used to buy and sell damn near anything using the Hi-5s as a currency. The students assigned different values to each one, and they remained roughly the same throughout the school (with minor changes): -White Hi-5s were worth 1. -Orange and yellow were worth 2 (yellow 3 on occasion). -Blue ones were usually worth what they were marked as. -If a Hi-5 automatically said its value on it (x2, x4, etc) that was it's permanent value. -The older one was, the more it was worth. -Writing your name on a Hi-5 degraded its value. However, having one with another kid's name on it that wasn't your own had a slight value increase, and if it was the name of a kid who had since left the school value increased dramatically. (note that the actual school didn't come up with any of these rules) And so it went. Sillybands, puzzle erasers, pencils, real money, and bracelets were commonly found in the Market. One kid sold her grandmother's necklace in the Market, and it was circulated by everyone for two years or so. Some kids were even "brokers" for other kids with these things. The Market was also against the school rules- an "official" Market was often attempted, but the old Black Market always survived and the official Markets didn't last long. "Hi-5s are not currency," said every teacher in the building, but we all knew it was. The Hi-5 market continues to this day at that school lmao
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Post by Turin not Torino on Aug 2, 2017 13:46:38 GMT -5
Our school had Hi-5s. Hi-5s were basically little slips of paper that came in virtually every color of the rainbow. They all had a design (usually a hand, lion (the school mascot) or a pawprint) printed on it along with a space for your name and class. You'd get them when you behaved well and you could trade them out for prizes and trinkets with teachers. Simple, right? Wrong. For years at the school, going on before I got there and still going on now, exists a Hi-5 black market. The Market is used to buy and sell damn near anything using the Hi-5s as a currency. The students assigned different values to each one, and they remained roughly the same throughout the school (with minor changes): -White Hi-5s were worth 1. -Orange and yellow were worth 2 (yellow 3 on occasion). -Blue ones were usually worth what they were marked as. -If a Hi-5 automatically said its value on it (x2, x4, etc) that was it's permanent value. -The older one was, the more it was worth. -Writing your name on a Hi-5 degraded its value. However, having one with another kid's name on it that wasn't your own had a slight value increase, and if it was the name of a kid who had since left the school value increased dramatically. (note that the actual school didn't come up with any of these rules) And so it went. Sillybands, puzzle erasers, pencils, real money, and bracelets were commonly found in the Market. One kid sold her grandmother's necklace in the Market, and it was circulated by everyone for two years or so. Some kids were even "brokers" for other kids with these things. The Market was also against the school rules- an "official" Market was often attempted, but the old Black Market always survived and the official Markets didn't last long. "Hi-5s are not currency," said every teacher in the building, but we all knew it was. The Hi-5 market continues to this day at that school lmao I really like the Hi-5 concept for some reason? Especially the part about ones with former student's names on it. You basically turned them into collector's items.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 13:54:03 GMT -5
Our school had Hi-5s. Hi-5s were basically little slips of paper that came in virtually every color of the rainbow. They all had a design (usually a hand, lion (the school mascot) or a pawprint) printed on it along with a space for your name and class. You'd get them when you behaved well and you could trade them out for prizes and trinkets with teachers. Simple, right? Wrong. For years at the school, going on before I got there and still going on now, exists a Hi-5 black market. The Market is used to buy and sell damn near anything using the Hi-5s as a currency. The students assigned different values to each one, and they remained roughly the same throughout the school (with minor changes): -White Hi-5s were worth 1. -Orange and yellow were worth 2 (yellow 3 on occasion). -Blue ones were usually worth what they were marked as. -If a Hi-5 automatically said its value on it (x2, x4, etc) that was it's permanent value. -The older one was, the more it was worth. -Writing your name on a Hi-5 degraded its value. However, having one with another kid's name on it that wasn't your own had a slight value increase, and if it was the name of a kid who had since left the school value increased dramatically. (note that the actual school didn't come up with any of these rules) And so it went. Sillybands, puzzle erasers, pencils, real money, and bracelets were commonly found in the Market. One kid sold her grandmother's necklace in the Market, and it was circulated by everyone for two years or so. Some kids were even "brokers" for other kids with these things. The Market was also against the school rules- an "official" Market was often attempted, but the old Black Market always survived and the official Markets didn't last long. "Hi-5s are not currency," said every teacher in the building, but we all knew it was. The Hi-5 market continues to this day at that school lmao I really like the Hi-5 concept for some reason? Especially the part about ones with former student's names on it. You basically turned them into collector's items. yeah kids would ask other kids to sign their hi-5s before they left lmao one kid had a "raffle" with them and I won somehow I sold many things: your typical erasers and sillybands and Webkinz codes, but also an opera program, paper cube cats that I made on ms paint and printed out and folded, jumping frogs you could flick across a desk that were made out of notecards, cat-shaped erasers that would supposedly give you luck, littlest pet shop toys, etc. I made sure to keep a variety
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Post by 🍁Searipple101🍁 on Aug 2, 2017 14:07:27 GMT -5
In elementary school it was things that were 'cool' at the time, but trends lasted only a month at most before switching. I can't even remember what all there was anymore. For a bit in middle school there were silly bandz and those tiny, squishy animals you got out of gumball machines. Oh, and the more you had, the cooler you were. High school it was just regular money on occasion and then nothing. Like, things were usually done as just favors for free, but occasionally they'd ask for money. Gum wasn't even a thing because the moment you got some out people were on you asking for a piece, same with candy. Then there wa sme who jsut watched it all go down and refused to share my winter mints with people who asked because literally almost everyone was complete jerk any other time.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 15:13:04 GMT -5
I forgot about gum. But gum is used to bribe people at school. I saw someone get out of a detention because his "lawyer" gave everyone a pack of gum. It's a long story. oh my god what a prodigy So my English teacher teaches at the elementary school on the other side of the parking lot during 6th and 7th period. Another teacher, whose classroom was too small for his 6th and 7th period classes, taught in her room during that time. This guy was tossing his pencil in the air, when it embedded itself in the ceiling. The English teacher found it the next morning and, being unhappy that she came in to a pencil lodged in her ceiling, she decided to hold a mock trial. If he was convicted, he'd get detention, if not, he'd get a warning. This one girl that always had gum was hired as his lawyer, payed in snack food. The rest of the class served as the jury, and the teacher was the judge. Ms lawyer won the case by giving everyone on the jury and the judge a full pack of gum. All the judge had to say about it was "Bribery is frowned upon in the court of law." But she accepted the bribe anyways. The vote was unanimous. The ceiling stabber was not guilty, despite the fact that an entire class saw him and there was security footage showing him do it.
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Post by vakarian on Aug 2, 2017 15:21:11 GMT -5
So my English teacher teaches at the elementary school on the other side of the parking lot during 6th and 7th period. Another teacher, whose classroom was too small for his 6th and 7th period classes, taught in her room during that time. This guy was tossing his pencil in the air, when it embedded itself in the ceiling. The English teacher found it the next morning and, being unhappy that she came in to a pencil lodged in her ceiling, she decided to hold a mock trial. If he was convicted, he'd get detention, if not, he'd get a warning. This one girl that always had gum was hired as his lawyer, payed in snack food. The rest of the class served as the jury, and the teacher was the judge. Ms lawyer won the case by giving everyone on the jury and the judge a full pack of gum. All the judge had to say about it was "Bribery is frowned upon in the court of law." But she accepted the bribe anyways. The vote was unanimous. The ceiling stabber was not guilty, despite the fact that an entire class saw him and there was security footage showing him do it. oh my god that's like straight out of phoenix wright,, that's hilarious
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 15:31:18 GMT -5
So my English teacher teaches at the elementary school on the other side of the parking lot during 6th and 7th period. Another teacher, whose classroom was too small for his 6th and 7th period classes, taught in her room during that time. This guy was tossing his pencil in the air, when it embedded itself in the ceiling. The English teacher found it the next morning and, being unhappy that she came in to a pencil lodged in her ceiling, she decided to hold a mock trial. If he was convicted, he'd get detention, if not, he'd get a warning. This one girl that always had gum was hired as his lawyer, payed in snack food. The rest of the class served as the jury, and the teacher was the judge. Ms lawyer won the case by giving everyone on the jury and the judge a full pack of gum. All the judge had to say about it was "Bribery is frowned upon in the court of law." But she accepted the bribe anyways. The vote was unanimous. The ceiling stabber was not guilty, despite the fact that an entire class saw him and there was security footage showing him do it. oh my god that's like straight out of phoenix wright,, that's hilarious Yep. Gum is pretty much exclusively used for bribes though.
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