Do you remember…

by Robyn Wright on September 9, 2012

I have been having fun talking about these notes on Facebook today. Do you remember passing notes in school that were folded like this? For me I think we started using them in junior high and it went all the way through high school (80’s). My friends and I constantly passed notes to each other. Even better was when you had a boyfriend (or girlfriend, whatever your preference) to pass them too and draw little hearts and I love you’s all over them.

I made one (thanks to the help of Terri, a high school friend) and showed it to my son (17). I asked if he knew what it was, it took him a second. He did know it was a note but only because one of his teachers last year had done “back when I was in school” sort of thing and had shown the class the notes. He never has actually seen them “in use” himself though.

What about you? Do you remember these?

Tagged as: memory lane

cassie

awwwwwwww. I’m probably better off with text messages! I got detention at least 2x for notes that were intercepted by teachers in middle school :)

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Ingrid

I remember those days well. It would be nice if our young folk would write on paper sometimes. I still write notes, letters and send cards by mail. It sure is nice when someone takes the time and mail something in their own handwriting to me.
- terrik
  
  I feel like that too, and I need to write more myself.
Rosey

Totally! These were the highlight of changing classes (because you knew you were going to pass a friend who was going to slip you one). Or even better…you ran to another part of the building to give one to someone and had to run back before you were tardy, lol
http://welcome2mydailylife.blogspot.com/ Linda M. Ramos

I remember those notes well. I even have a few still packed away somewhere. Ahh the memories!
@rkosully

Wow, my friends and I had SO much fun passing notes and making all kinds of folded not creations when we were in school. Kids these days are missing out!
terrik

I can’t even imagine what high school would have been like for me without notes from my friends. I had a few friends that I didn’t hardly have any classes with at all, and we’d pass each other in the hallway and exchange notes. I wasn’t good at folding mine like the above, but I wrote all kinds of notes. Yes, I read and wrote them in class. I was an honor roll student and can honestly say that note writing didn’t harm my grades at all.

This was also back in the days when most houses only had one landline phone, so often after I maxed out my phone time I’d end up in my room writing notes to finish up phone conversations.

One of my friends kept almost all of her notes, including the one she wrote me the day she met the boy that ended up being her husband of 20+ years. It’s really something to be able to show your kids the note you wrote to your friend talking about how cute their dad was. Somehow I doubt text messages will be preserved like that.
Tiffany Winner

so sad to think kids have lost the keepsakes of notes, i still have some from my friends in high school and had boxes from boyfriends. wonder if kids still write old fashioned love letters anymore? thismomwins@gmail.com
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tannawings

Yep I sure do remember notes.. and I find it the kids’s loss nowdays they don’t have them- memories, keepsakes, and the joy of something tangible to hold in your hand. I didn’t keep any of my notes, it was so long ago, but I do have a love letter from hubby that when I am ticked off at him I read :)
Ravzie

Of course! I got in trouble more than once passing notes!! The worst was when I was, shall we say, a tad rude toward the teacher….that was a painful experience that taught me not to put anything down that could be used against you, LOL.
Shannon Whitfield

Oh wow. This post actually made me go to the creepy storage closet in our house to search out a shoebox I hadn’t opened in years. It has tons of notes, folded artfully and precisely, just so.. all from my high school years (in the 80′s..lord, do I feel old..) They’re such a treasure of memories! So much time was spent passing notes like this, sometimes with just a few words on them.. sometimes every last space taken up with the sweeping cursive we all learned then (and that our children may never know.) These notes began relationships, divided friendships, broke hearts, made us laugh, got us in trouble.. and I’m so glad we had them! A great tangible reminder of those days that I can now hold in my hand 20 years later!
http://www.facebook.com/nancy.lara.712 Nancy Lara

i used these..fancy folded notes, do you remember the mash games?> i remember the theory of them, but not all the details..i can’t..but i know i loved them as a kid
Lori A.

I remember them! Folded a lot of those. :) I don’t remember how anymore, though.
http://www.redneckrosie.com/ Rose

Oh my gosh. I don’t think I can remember how to fold these. Is that possible? I’m going to see if I can find a tutorial to refresh my memory and show my daughter how to do this. Maybe the teachers will get a blast from the past! :)
GlArthy

my notes were not folded so fancy. instead, because you want an answer to a question, you wrote the note, scrunch it like it was meant for the garbage, then toss it to a friend for a response ;)
MichelleS

Oh mylanta! I remember this so vividly-does that make me old? I always enjoyed doing this. Sad to think that I’ve never gone back to writing people letters after the advent of texting!