How can anyone not know...

[kengr]

... what a "PeeChee type folder" is?

The local TV has been running a piece on back to school shopping, and one woman is reading off the list from her kids school and has *no* idea what that oitem is.

*Please* tell me that it's her, not that particular item having vanished from the public's consciousness sometime in the last 20-30 years.

Comments

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

It's probably her. Mind, I haven't bought one in over thirty years, but Mead still makes them.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[kengr]

They were around in 64. I used them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee_Chee_folder

Heck, I cut the reference stuff out of old ones when they started falling apart, so I could stick it someplace useful.

[seawasp]

Having followed the link, I can say that I never saw or heard of them before.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

You're ahead of me on the Wiki article, I see. They were all over in the '80s as well; I haven't had occasion to get one lately. (The next time I'm in Office Depot I may look.) The only complaint that keeps coming up on the Mead site is that people want the classic color and artwork.

[iamjw.livejournal.com]

Never heard of them, but that may be a different country issue.

[seawasp]

I have no idea what a "PeeChee type folder" is. The spelling looks like the sort of thing kids would be making fun of for generations, the presumed pronunciation makes it awfully cutesey.

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

Never heard of them.

[louisadkins.livejournal.com]

I'll be 34 next week and, after having looked up a source article, can safely say I had never heard of nor seen a PeeChee folder, until now. My source article mentioned the company Mead produced these folders; I can say that almost all (or, at least, most) the students in my school(s) had a Trapper Keeper- a different, more expensive Mead product.