15 Smells That Will Take You Back To Elementary School

1. A brand-new box of Crayola crayons.

It could only be Crayola... not that Rose Art knockoff. Even better if it was the 64-count box with a built-in sharpener.

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If the 64-count box wasn't enough...

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Just imagine what a whole factory smelled like. Remember watching this onSesame Street before school?

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2. Clapping together chalkboard erasers for your teacher.

Remember when your teacher sent you outside to clean the blackboard erasers by clapping them together, against a wall, or on the back of an unsuspecting classmate walking by?

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3. Shavings from the old-fashioned pencil sharpener.

You either loathed or loved having your pencil break during class because of the racket it made.

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4. Pink erasers.

How many holes did you form in your papers?

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5. A pile of construction paper.

A rainbow waiting to be transformed by a pair of safety scissors.

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6. Mr. Sketch scented magic markers.

Who actually liked the licorice and cinnamon-scented ones?

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7. Rubber cement.

When it would dry, you'd roll the rubber cement into little squishy balls and flick them at your friends. If you were a jerk, you'd say they were boogers.

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8. Elmer's Glue-All.

Remember letting it dry on your hands and then pretending to pull off pieces of your skin?

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9. Dittos.

There was nothing like the smell of a warm ditto fresh out of the ditto machine. Kids with their newfangled photocopiers have no clue what they've missed.

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10. Play-Doh and modeling clay.

You silently cursed the classmate who mixed the colors together.

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11. The musty library.

And adding your name to 20 years' worth of borrowers on the card in the back of the book.

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12. Plaground balls.

Used for kickball, dodge ball, and four square.

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13. Scratch 'n sniff stickers.

Nothing says "Job well done!" like one of these on an essay.

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14. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Before they were banned.

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15. That minty sawdust your janitor sprinkled on piles of vomit.

Try not to retch thinking about it.

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