

#Trapper keeper binder full#
That’s at least a full ten years before they ever entered my consciousness (Well, and a full five years before I was born, in 1983). To date, some 75 million Trapper Keepers have flown off store shelves. From the start, they were an enormous success: For several years after their nationwide release, Mead sold over $100 million of the folders and notebooks a year. Launched in 1978 by the Mead Corporation (which was acquired by ACCO Brands in 2012), Trapper Keeper notebooks are brightly colored three-ring binders that hold folders called Trappers and close with a flap. Trapper Keepers are way older than I thought: Which brings me to my second facepalm moment: The Trapper Keeper is designed for students, so it can hold up to daily use in school.Turns out, this commercial is older than I am. This is incredibly important to me because as much as I love back to school shopping, I am on a budget! I prefer to spend a little extra on products that I know will last the whole year, rather than paying over and over for the same item. With so many great features and durable parts, I can see the Trapper Keeper lasting my son the entire year when he goes back to school.
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Of course, if you want to use different notebooks and folders, you can still open the binder rings the old-school way.ĭon’t Loose Your School Supplies!: How To Head Back To School In Style With Oliver’s Labels They’re easy to slide in and out of the Trapper Keeper without popping open the binder rings. One of the features that is new to me is the tabs on the folders and notebooks. This makes it way easier to slide papers in and out than folders with pockets on the bottom. Both the folders and the notebooks come with vertical pockets.
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You can add additional folders and even color code by subject. The Trapper Keeper comes with a 2-pocket folder to get you started on organizing your back to school papers. Related: Get Kids Excited About the School Year With Back to School Party Games! Then he can use the daily planner to keep track of homework. Like days off, book fair days, and so on. When school starts, I can add important dates to the month view. Student Planner. As a mom of a child who constantly forgets what homework he has, a student planner is a must! This one has a month view and a daily view.Love the snap closure, so much easier to keep closed! By the end of the first month of school, he had opened and closed it so much that the binder wouldn’t close anymore. Last year, Jake had a binder with Velcro. Snap closure keeps everything secure inside.Inside, though, it seems that the Trapper Keeper has gotten quite a makeover since the 80s! Take a look at a few of my favorite features discovered in this Trapper Keeper binder review. The outside reminds me of my school days, with its cool retro colors and that familiar Trapper Keeper logo. Today’s Trapper Keeper is still the number one name in sturdy, diverse binders, that’s for sure. It’s nice to see that some things haven’t changed. Trapper Keeper was THE cool binder of my day. I’ve always been a little gaga over binders and notebooks.


I remember the excitement of getting a brand new Trapper Keeper when I was a kid! There is just something about a blank binder waiting to be filled that actually got me excited about going back to school. Trapper Keeper Binder Review: A Time-Honored Back to School Tradition One of the items: a Trapper Keeper (or binder). Thanks to this Trapper Keeper binder review, that is one item I can cross off my list. Now he’s going into 4th grade next year and the school mercifully provided their supply list already. When he started 3rd grade, it was the first time I really got to buy supplies. You’d think I’d be relieved, it meant less money to spend.

I think I am one of the few people in the world who loves back to school shopping! Heading out to buy a brand new book bag, Trapper Keeper, notebooks, pencils and so on just makes me giddy! I was so sad when the school supplied all of my son’s needs the first three years. *Disclosure: I received the Trapper Keeper Binder for the purpose of the review. Of course, all opinions are my own!
