r/MadeMeSmile • u/JudgeJudyJr • Aug 26 '26

Wholesome Moments Adding a dash of customer service

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u/smb3d Aug 26 '26

Folder color didn't matter with my Trapper Keeper!

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u/porsche911girl Aug 26 '26

God now that’s a blast from the past!

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u/Deesing82 Aug 26 '26

RIIIIIIIIIUUUUUUUP

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u/Healthy_Radish Aug 26 '26

The past!?  I still use one to keep track of service records of vehicles I own and also tax years and home repairs.  Pretty easy pickup on Amazon although folders are mostly bland in design still some good ones around if you look hard or pay out the wazoo on eBay.

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u/xdbuttxrfly Aug 27 '26

I was class of 2025 & I used a big ass trapper keeper from 7th grade until I graduated lol

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u/CuteNautilus Aug 26 '26

Yes! My classes were organized by Lisa Frank character or abstract late 90s CGI design.

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u/oh8oh8eighty8 Aug 26 '26

Every time I see/hear Trapper Keeper all I can see in my mind is Lisa Frank 🌈 🐬 🦄

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u/BizzarduousTask Aug 27 '26

Don’t forget the Jazz Cup design! r/jazzcupaesthetics

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u/oh8oh8eighty8 Aug 27 '26

Oh god I forgot about that one!!

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u/Magdev0 Aug 27 '26

My mom bought me Lisa Frank folders. I'm a dude.

I freaking loved them.

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u/Grouchy-Board-7383 Aug 26 '26

Loved those didn't need a million  different folders and binders either, saved so much space in my bookbag.

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u/KiloJools Aug 26 '26

Ooooo look at this Fancy Pants!!

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u/smb3d Aug 26 '26

haha, it looked good in my Jansport backpack that I pitched an absolute fit to get every year. I feel bad for my parents.

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u/GypsySnowflake Aug 26 '26

You didn’t have folders inside of it?

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u/WASD_click Aug 26 '26

Two weeks into the year, I didn't even use the rings. Just sandwiched stuff between the front flap and the first plain off-yellow divider with an empty tab I was supposed to fill with a little paper tab with the subject written on it, butnever did because the only thing behind it was the other 4 unlabeled tabbed divider pages and a mostly unused stack of college ruled paper.

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u/mister_peeberz Aug 26 '26

Oh that's real cute. Meanwhile I didn't even need document storage at all with my Trapper Keeper Ultra Keeper Futura S2000

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u/AikoG84 Aug 27 '26

Mine was jurassic park until it broke, and then lisa frank dolphins.

What was yours?

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u/BurntHear Aug 27 '26

Every single school supply list I ever got said "No Trapper Keepers." I feel like I spent some time wondering about these mythical items and couldn't imagine why they were disallowed. I got one in college and it was so useful! And it did have colors, but it was harder to assign colors to a class after freshman year.

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u/SexySubordinate Aug 26 '26

My 5-star backpack had all the pockets a boy could ever need to avoid colour coding.

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u/ClevelandNaps Aug 26 '26

Someone was fancy, I see. I was so jealous of the kids that had them.

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u/Moto56_ Aug 27 '26

Im definitely in the Trapper Keeper generation! Not knowing anything about this whole folder color system has me feeling old. Specially since it sounds like its on a second generation of humans.

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u/Oceanmap Aug 27 '26

I loved the ones by Christian Lassen with an under ocean scene, a crazy galaxy in the background, and a dolphin or something jumping through the air!

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u/Available_Finger_513 Aug 26 '26

Folder color didn't matter when you just loosely threw papers in your backpack

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u/Imverystupidgenx Aug 26 '26

The first customizable OS we had access to

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u/fixer1987 Aug 27 '26

Tab color on the other hand...

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u/BombedShaun Aug 27 '26

That’s my throw back smell of the early 90’s. Opening up my Trapper Keeper.

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u/Open__Face Aug 27 '26

The T-Rex playing basketball is for Science 

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u/Llama_of_the_bahamas Aug 27 '26

Was it a Dawson’s Creek trapper keeper though?

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u/smb3d Aug 27 '26

Hah, if only! I had the pink/green one with the water droplets for sure, that's the only one I can remember.

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u/thedrunkunicorn Aug 27 '26

I still have the last one I got in the mid-90s. It's in great shape and it makes me happy to look at it, even if I don't actually use it.

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u/djelegal Aug 27 '26

Grab a red one for sex ed and a pink one for intro to anal

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u/MantisToboganJr Aug 27 '26

Was it a Dawsons Creek Trapper Keeper?

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u/smb3d Aug 27 '26

Second person to ask that, haha! Only one I remember was the green and pink one with the water droplets.

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u/Bruja_Sophie Aug 27 '26

You didn’t color code the dividers in your trapper keeper based on subject?