18-07-2008 @ 5:02PM
I have the Strawberry Shortcake one. Sadly, the thermos is long gone, so I can't get anywhere near $180 for it.
2I'll never forget the magenta Little Mermaid plastic lunchbox I took with me on my first day of Kindergarten and many years following. Not only did it provide me with a hip-looking receptacle to store my midday meal, it also helped me make my first school friend, who had the exact-same lunchbox.
After I stopped using it around second grade, I lost track of it. My mom probably stowed it away in the attic of my parents' house, or it was sold in a garage sale. It won't fetch a pretty penny as a vintage collectible anytime soon, but I hope that wherever it ended up, someone, somewhere may have use for it someday and cherish it as much as I did.
48-07-2008 @ 6:01PM
I sold the RAMBO one for about $50 but got $250 for a beautiful KISS I found on the shelf at a supermarket for about $5. God bless America!
68-09-2008 @ 10:13AM
I've got a couple of older Peanuts lunch boxes, from the late 60's. I'm sure they are worth something and they are most certainly in great shape (just a bit of rust in some parts of the hinge).
But not $11k worth.
78-13-2008 @ 12:56AM
I can only remember having a red plaid lunchbox. Weren't many choices in the 50s-early 60s. I do however, have my little brother's Yellow Submarine lunchbox, complete with thermos.
118-17-2008 @ 7:12PM
What about a Beatles Lunch Box, Surely it is among th emost rare . . . or are the editors only 30 years old themselves??
13I can still remember my first day of school. It was 1954 and I was carrying my brand new Roy Rogers and Dale Evans lunch box. My Dad had etched my name on it the night before and I was one proud little girl! Today, the lunch box sits on a shelf in my office and I smile remembering those days of an innocent and carefree time in my life.
148-18-2008 @ 8:39PM
My sister still has her Roy Rogers "Double R Bar Ranch", almost mint condition, still has the ORIGINAL Thermos, with the "Poly Red Top". My parents bought it for her when she was in 1st grade, 1957. She really took good care of her things. When her son started kindergarden almost 20 years ago, she let him carry it on the first day. When she told me that, I said, "Are you crazy? That's a collectors' item, probably worth a couple of hundred dollars." That was the first and last day he carried it! I'd love to know what it's worth. Mine was a plain green plaid. I still have the box, but the Thermos is long gone. We never used the Thermos bottles, because we could buy our milk at school (4 cents a day!) and the Thermos bottles were just one more thing for Mom to wash out.
158-18-2008 @ 8:40PM
My sister still has her Roy Rogers "Double R Bar Ranch", almost mint condition, still has the ORIGINAL Thermos, with the "Poly Red Top". My parents bought it for her when she was in 1st grade, 1957. She really took good care of her things. When her son started kindergarden almost 20 years ago, she let him carry it on the first day. When she told me that, I said, "Are you crazy? That's a collectors' item, probably worth a couple of hundred dollars." That was the first and last day he carried it! I'd love to know what it's worth. Mine was a plain green plaid. I still have the box, but the Thermos is long gone. We never used the Thermos bottles, because we could buy our milk at school (4 cents a day!) and the Thermos bottles were just one more thing for Mom to wash out.
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