School days. Did you have a lunch box or were you a brown-bagger?

I had a lunchbox along with the thermos from 1st grade until 8th grade.  The uncool boys, which were all of them except my friend Jamie, all brought brown bags.  Some days we had lunch from the cafeteria.  I begged my dad to make lunches for me instead of giving me lunch money because some of their lunches were just that gross.  He finally got the message when I threw up on my desk a couple of times in the afternoon after lunch.  Anyway, you just gave me an idea for a new question.

I used a lunch box through 4th grade ...

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I brown bagged it 5th through 8th grade (on the days I took a lunch).  I didn't take a lunch in high school (waited until I got home to eat).

Brown bagger.

Plaid metal lunchbox until around 5th grade, then I preferred a brown bag.  My lunchbox came with a little thermos but my mom used it to take coffee to her job.  I had a cup to drink water with my lunch. 

 

  In elementary school, my siblings and I had metal lunchboxes, as was the fad back then. My sister, who is the eldest, had a plaid one. I can’t remember which pop culture designs my two brothers and I had, but I know they were themed on television shows or cartoons. Reading your question reminds me that either here on AnswerMug 2016 to present, or on its predecessor, AnswerBag, 2009 to 2015, a similar question was posted, and I believe I gave a response that included what my brothers and I had on our lunchboxes. I will call my siblings later today to see if they remember.

  By the time I was in 5th grade, and then in junior high school and high school, we ate school lunches, so we didn’t carry the lunchboxes.
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Neither. I was a part of the school lunch program. No lunch box for me.................EVER!!!

I had a very cool Gomer Pyle lunchbox. But I kept breaking the Thermos drink container. I have no idea why that company thought it was a good idea to line the inside of something used predominantly by children with glass.

Brown bags for me.

I never took lunch to school. The school served a late-morning snack and lunch.