GMMore 1981: How Much Do These School Supplies Cost?

(rooster crowing) (creature roaring) (dramatic music) – Welcome to “Good Mythical More.” We’re gonna take a trip down nostalgia lane, looking at some school supplies and how much they’re going for these days on eBay. – But first, we’re gonna take a new selfie face. This one is, a puppy? For me? (both gasping) (camera clicking) (both gasping) Breathe. (Link laughs) Breathe. – Oh, that’s what the puppy does. Man, giving somebody a puppy is a risky thing. – You gotta know they want it. – A living, giving somebody a living creature. – You gotta know they want one, and they’re capable of caring for it. – My grandma was given a poodle. – And she just let it go. – After my grandfather passed away. – She released it into the wild. – No, no, no. – I saw it. – Nicholas was a Christmas gift. – Nicholas is his name? – She named him Nicholas. – Because it was a Christmas gift. – Uh-huh. – ‘Cause of St. Nick is Santa. – And she, and he was a wonderful companion, but I mean, there were a couple of months of like, why did you do this to me? – He was a wonderful companion? Is he still around? – What? – You said- – They’re all dead, Rhett. The grandma, the poodle, they’re all gone. – Oh, that set of grandparents. – Yeah, yeah. – I was thinking about- – Nanny. – Your surviving grandma. – Yeah, you never met Nicholas? – Oh, yeah, the poodle. (laughs) – The white poodle. – Yeah. I honestly thought it was a feral poodle. I would come over and he would just kind of be in the back yard, and I was like, I don’t see a fence. (crew laughs) – So let’s see some eBay ads. I don’t wanna see the price, ’cause that would make it- – [Stevie] No, yeah, yeah. – All dead. – So I’m gonna show you some vintage school products. – Both the people and the dog. – And I’m gonna tell you about them, and then, you’re gonna have to guess the price. Did you guys have any cool, do you remember any cool school supplies that you had that you rocked? – I had a pencil collection. – [Stevie] I had a pencil collection! – And I would even have boxes that the pencils were in. I never used any of the pencils. – [Stevie] Oh, you mean like, it was a pencil collection of yellow pencils? – No, no, no. They were special pencils. Like some of them, one of them was like, it was spiral carved and some of ’em I think were scratch and sniff pencils. It was all types. – [Stevie] Okay. – I don’t recall. I was just barely hanging on to things not falling apart and being able to have a pencil with a lead in it, an eraser that was working. You know what I’m saying? I would’ve been on top of that kind of school supply game. – [Stevie] Well, girls had school supply trends we went through, like gel pens were really big for a period of time, and you were judged based on- – Those are big in our home now. – [Stevie] Collection. – Like Christy loves a good gel pen. – What’s the difference? – It does make you happy to write with them. – [Stevie] They come in just a bunch of different colors and there’s like, I think they’re like milky? – Smooth writing? – Smooth writing. – I like a good smooth write. – You can get a whole set. Yeah, yeah, we got those now. – [Stevie] Okay, I know you’re really waiting for this. Let’s see our first item. It is a vintage Lisa Frank Hollywood Bear Writing Book. You’re familiar with Lisa Frank, of course. – [Link] It’s still, I mean, is it in the packaging or does it have protective plastic- – I do not have that. – Condition, condition new. How- – It comes with stickers. – Of course. – [Stevie] It was popular in the 1880s and 90s. – 1880s? – Wow. – (laughs) Sorry. – Lisa Frank has been going strong. – She’s been around. – (laughs) Can you imagine? – I didn’t know they had that kind of printing in 1880, but now- – Going on historic house tours and there’s like, of course, this is the children’s school desk, and their Lisa Frank binders. And this is what I talk like ’cause I tour houses. Did you know that Lisa Frank is worth an estimated $200 million? That has nothing to do with the cost of this, but it’s a fact I have. – [Rhett] It says no interest if paid in full in six months on $99+. – That’s just an ad. That’s an eBay ad, Rhett. – I believe that’s probably true, but like, why would that get triggered if it was less than $99? – [Stevie] I have seen that on everything. – Yeah, I, there’s no way this is more than $100. In fact… – [Stevie] I remember Lisa Frank folders being popular. – $23.11. – When I was a kid. $23.11? Okay. – We missed this. We had Trapper Keepers. – $41.95. – Ooh, boys. $165. – [Rhett] Should’ve gone with my instinct about that $99+. – But it did move, though? – [Stevie] Oh, was it sold? I don’t know. I had a dolphin scene on a folder. I remember that very specifically. It was multiple dolphins. They were all leaping out of the water. – Happy dolphins. – Now I mean, you know, gender norms aside, I mean, back when this was coming along, were there guys versions of this too? – [Stevie] No. – Because with Trapper Keepers, you’d have like the race car. – I had a Trapper Keeper. – There were like- – I just had a red one. – My dolphin, the ones I had were the most boyish, of course, of the ones you could get. I didn’t have anything that was pink. Like the dolphins were jumping out of a blue ocean, you know, she didn’t- – Yeah, no pink oceans for you, right? – Situation. Also, to clarify, I did not have gel pens, because they were too girly for me. So I just looked at other girls’ gel pens. – Did you have the, I know that we did the protect your books with- – Oh, yeah. – Grocery store bags. – With the grocery things but then you would like draw things on that. And then, there would always be a kid or two whose, obviously, their parents had done it for them, but it was like, they used like wrapping paper instead of grocery bags. And so, it’d be like, oh, that’s a cool birthday-themed math book that you have there. – [Stevie] I recall doing that in high school, in public high school in North Carolina, and it was not cool to have anything that wasn’t just like a brown bag cover situation. It was embarrassing. – And then, when you got to college, you bought your books and then you sold them back to the bookstore at the end of the semester. – Yeah. Do they even do books anymore? Or is it like Kindle? – We had some engineering that were- – Let’s see another one. – This thick. – [Stevie] This is an antique vintage schoolhouse pencil sharpener. – [Rhett] Oh, I thought it was a fishing rod. (laughs) – It looks like, I mean, it looks like it was buried. – Now this is from the 1880s. – [Stevie] I don’t have a date on it, but yes, it is from the 1880s. – Engineering pen. – [Stevie] And it’s got a wooden handle and then spots on the bottom to hold screws. – Now I will say that the $99 and six months installments is not under this one, so this would lead me to believe that this is less than $100. Again, I context clues. – You context clues? – I context clues, on a regular basis. If I can, if something can be contexted, I’ll context it. – I mean, the- – That’s a piece of crap. – Buies Creek Elementary, where we went all the way through 8th grade, my mom also went to that school. – As a high school. – As a high school, and so, our 8th grade classrooms would have these pencil sharpeners in them, and they were, they were very vintage. It was that, and it might’ve been the same ones that are there when my mom was in high school. That’s pretty wild, isn’t it? – You probably used the same sharpener as your mom. Think about that for a second. – Isn’t that wild? I remember the sound it made, and you would, certain people would be given the assignment of sharpening pencils. – Ah, that was my favorite. – For other people. – What about cleaning the erasers? – Yeah, on the side of the gym, on the brick, so there’d be this one spot where it’d just be like, a bunch of chalk on the side of the gym wall? – Did you like cleaning the erasers? If you were given that duty, were you like, yeah, this is, I’m gonna really clean these erasers? – Probably, but I definitely remember being the one to lower the flag. – Oh, I was on flag duty one- – That was awesome. – One year. – Lower it and fold it. – Uh-huh. – I could fold a mean flag. I mean, it was just like a veteran’s ceremony out there, a nice triangle. – They don’t bring, I don’t know if they- – No. – If at a school now, they don’t bring the flag down. – [Stevie] I don’t, I never had that experience. I think we had a flag in the classroom? In public elementary school. – Yeah. We had a flag, we had to run it up the pole every day in the morning, bring it back down at night. – Okay, $109. – $17.85, this is a piece of crap. – [Stevie] $112.49. – [Rhett] Whoa! Link, look at that! You almost got it. – Saved 10%, too. – But you can’t put that on a payment plan. I’m confused. – Yeah. $112. Yeah, but I mean, this vintage stuff, people eat it up, especially when it looks like it’s been unearthed. – Yeah, it looks like it was literally like a Civil War relic. – Somebody bought that and put it in a Applebee’s. Somebody’s an Applebee’s buyer. – [Stevie] Applebee’s? – I think Ruby Tuesdays. – TGI Fridays? – TGI Fridays, maybe. – Ruby Tuesdays is coming hard with this stuff everywhere. – Ruby Tuesdays, no, they got- – [Stevie] No, I think it’s Friday’s. – They cleaned up. – It’s Fridays? You’re thinking about the waiters. – What? – You’re thinking about the waiters in the pizzazz or whatever they call it. – [Stevie] Yeah, yeah, yeah. – Flair. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. This one, I feel like is right up your alley. It’s a vintage He-Man Backpack from 1984. – [Rhett] Condition new. That thing’s been vacuum sucked. (laughs) – [Stevie] And He-Man’s head is, like it pops out. – Yeah, it’s like coming out of a pocket. – Oh, it’s 3-D. – This has got. ♪ He-Man ♪ – This has got some IP, you know, I mean, this is. – Yeah, this- – People would get into this. I mean, you’re thinking about buying this right now. I can see it on your face. – Yeah, how much would I pay for this? – [Stevie] You know what backpacks were really cool? The L.L. Bean backpacks that you could get your initials on. Those were the cool backpacks. – We had those. Are you saying they’re coming back… Pack? – No, no. They were cool when I had a backpack. I mean, I still have a backpack. – Were you in high school, when you were in high school, were you a one-strapper or a two-strapper? – [Stevie] Two. – Yeah. – If you have to think about it, you’re a two-er. – It’s definitely a sign of how old you are. – We’re one-ers. – We’re a one-strapper. – ‘Cause you just wanna… – [Stevie] I had a lot of books that one shoulder could not carry. – I love that scene- – Nerd! – In “21 Jump Street” where like Channing Tatum, he goes back, and he’s like, just do the one strap, and everybody’s doing the two straps. I was like, there he goes. – Huh, really? – That’s the cutoff. – [Stevie] Well, rolling backpacks came out in middle school for me, and people- – That’s about the parents. – People carried roller, like rolled rollies into high school, I’ll tell you that right now. – That is not cool. – No. – Because that means that your parents control you. – [Stevie] Well, no, because actually, at the time- – You’re gonna hurt yourself. – It was new. – Three, two, one. – $222. – $385. – [Stevie] Oh, you guys went up on this one. – Yeah, this is “Masters of the Universe.” ♪ He-Man ♪ – This is a big deal. – Yeah, 275. – Oh. Okay, I went over. – Yeah. – 275, not bad, not bad. – You wanna get it? You want it for your- – It doesn’t look very- – Next birthday? – Durable, durable. – [Stevie] Okay, we’re going back to 1900 for this antique vintage school desk. It’s a E.H. Stafford Manufacturing Company of Chicago. – I don’t understand what- – Elgin, Illinois? – Where do you sit on that? – Well, I think… – You sit and then you have to use the next person’s desk. – [Stevie] Yeah. – So this alone is useless. – You sit, and, oh wow. So if you had somebody who was a hard writer, and you were feeling it all the time. – [Link] This is just like a plane seat with the tray. – It folds, I guess, the folding seat, and then, it has an inkwell hole. – Oh. – That’s old. – I’m not sure how much it cost, but I would guess just offhand, shipping’s probably about $133.15, just with that kind of item in that condition. – I don’t know about the demand for this, but I’d say at least probably about 18 people are watching this. Just to see what happens. – 18 people. – That’s our type of comedy. – 18 people are watching this. – Just reading an eBay listing as if it’s things that we can discern. – But hold on, but how cool would it be, wouldn’t you like to just be able to dig into the lives of the 18 people who are watching this? Like what do they have in common? Like let’s do a documentary, and it’s just about the 18 people watching this desk. – It’s an Applebee’s buyer, a TGI Friday’s buyer. – [Stevie] It’s called “Watching.” – It’s just called “Watching.” – “Watching the Watchers.” – Hmm. – They’re too afraid to actually pull the trigger- – [Stevie] Now on TLC. – That’s a cool desk, and it’s furniture, so this is, you gotta watch out on these kinds of ones. – Of course, they might be selling 40 of them. – Yeah, but they’re making a lot of money. – Three, two, one. – $432.10. – $350. Okay. – [Stevie] $699.99. – Yeah, I mean, that’s a good, I mean, you put that in your little house? (crew laughs) and people are like, that’s cool. – You know what’s affordable? What’s more affordable? This t-shirt. – Yeah. – But watch out now. This is not a normal t-shirt. – No, it’s not. – This freaking t-shirt glows in the dark. – Mm-hmm. – You know? If we turned off all the lights here, you’d be blinded by this design. It’d be the only thing you’d see. We’re not gonna do that, ’cause it doesn’t work that well with cameras, but in real life- – In real life, it’s glowing really hard, and then, for some reason, the cameras can’t see it. ‘Cause cameras suck. – If you’re a YouTuber, and you think this would be cool to do, don’t. But if you’re just a normal person, or a YouTuber who just wants to have a normal, I’m marketing other YouTubers all of a sudden. – If you’re a YouTuber who wants to do what? – Have a glow in the dark shirt. – Okay. – It’s not gonna- – Then buy ours. – For your normal life, but not for your content. – Yeah. Right. – [Stevie] How about a mechanical pencil bulk sale? – [Link] Oh gosh, I have an erection. – [Stevie] Ew. (crew laughs) – Look at this. I mean, I have like a mechanical erection. – Okay. – I don’t have an erection. – Can I just bow out now? – I didn’t, it was just a saying. – Yeah, yeah. (crew laughs) Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know the old saying. Oh gosh, I have an erection! (crew and cast laughs) Be careful where you say that. Be careful where you break that saying out. – I can’t stand up. I mean, in school, that is what would happen. It’s like, don’t call me to the front of the classroom, because I’ve been using my mechanical pencil. – I remember one of our good friends, whose initials are W.T., but I won’t say who it was. – W.T.? – Said, he taught, he didn’t teach me, he told me, ’cause I didn’t need to be taught, he was like, he said, if you’re dealing with that particular condition, and the bell rings, and you need to exit, he was like, that’s what your books are for. (laughs) He was like, and you just like- – That’s where you hang your strap. – Just put your book in front of it. – Hey, yeah. – I was like, okay. All right, the book, gotta drape it, like how does it work? You open the book and? Can you use the whole backpack? – Hello, I’m ready for class. (Rhett laughs) All right. Mechanical pencil bulk sale. Vintage, very rare. From the left, we’ve got the S-20- – Stevie just got quiet. – Deep red, 0.5 clip. Now I’m a 0.5 man, but a 0.7 is still, is still workable. S-3 mouthpiece. You okay back there? – [Stevie] Chase is telling me about kids in middle school wearing backpacks forward and I missed something that sounded a little snarky that you said that had my name in it. – Oh, so, Chase, you learned about this, you were taught, as well. – Yeah. – Yeah, yeah. – Chase, we’re doing a show here. (crew laughs) – I’m doing my own show back here. – You just wear your backpack forwards. What I said was, notice how Stevie has just gotten quiet. – [Stevie] Oh, yeah, I was listening to Chase talk about his middle school experience. – Now this is, these are preowned, which immediately makes me lose my interest. – They’re probably not manufactured anymore. I mean, shipping is $31. – But there’s a deep red. – I have a note here that one of the pencils is available on Amazon for 46.14. – Okay. – Just one of them? – $46. – Good God. – They’ve been going up every time. – [Stevie] Also, the answer will blow your mind, I will say. – [Link] This shipping from Japan. – Yep. – These are special. – Ah, there’s like 20 there. – Okay. (spits rhythmically) Very rare. – Okay, three, two, one. $2500. – $2400. – Ooh. – Okay. Maybe it won’t blow your mind. It’s $1,242.52. – Only because you said that. – Mine was 1500, and then I changed it when you said that. – [Stevie] Sorry. – All right. – Ooh! How ’bout this vintage map set? – Ooh. – 1952 to ’54. It’s canvas. – We could get those, the maps that are in our Creative House, I bet you we could- – Those things are nice. – They might be from the ’50s. – They could be older than that, honestly. – [Stevie] Where did you get those again? – A house that Jessie and I bought, the first house that we bought after getting married, in Chapel Hill, in the attic, apparently, the person who had lived there before was like some sort of professor or doctor, I think a professor, not a doctor, I guess they do have charts, but it’s like- – Biology, physiology. – The kinda chart that you would have in like an anatomy class at the college level. – [Link] Like this, a pulled down canvas-backed. – I guess we own these now? And so, then, Link and I used them to decorate. – Well, one- – But I remember- – One of them was on the Mythical show set in the window. – [Stevie] Yeah, when we moved into our first studio, you brought them in- – Did you smell it when they went over there? – And they were like wet and really smelly. – Yeah. – [Chase] Back at the Mythical- – Yeah, we hadn’t- – I aired them out. – I’ve actually still got, I thought about, it’s funny that you were talking about this, ’cause I thought about it like two days ago. We still, I’ve still got boxes of things that me and Jessie put in that attic, we still own that house. I’ve owned it for 20 years. It’s the first house that we ever had, and I still got boxes with our stuff in it, and I was like, next time I go back to North Carolina, I need to like go and get that stuff out of, what’s in those boxes? I think Jessie has a guitar, like her guitar from college? – Huh. – I need to go in there. – All right. Write down the answer. – How many of them are there? 12. 43, 43. (mumbles) Okay. $537.61. – $1343.56. – [Stevie] $2,000. – $2,000. – Whoa! Just a cool 2,000. – Yeah, and they’re not nearly as cool as what we have. – They’re just states, right? Is that just a state? – That cool. – It’s just New York. – It’s just New York. I don’t even care about it. – All right. – There’s 50 states, not 12. (upbeat music) – School’s out for summer, y’all. (upbeat music) – [Rhett] The truth is out there. Get the Invaders from Mythical glow in the dark tee now at mythical.com.

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