Honestly as a librarian I just think the book fair is not ethical. Worst of all the money didn't even go to my library from what I'm gathering at. It went to an organisation that used my space so they can have their book fair.
I’ve been running those book fairs since 2008 and some things have remained staples: the erasers that look like smart phones and the ones that look like Xbox controllers. Also, the “Spy” (uv light) pens are ever-popular as well as finger pointers, like primary classroom teachers use with reading charts, Word Walls and such. The only thing that changes about those things are the colors. For example, we are always given 4 different color variations of the uv light pens, usually black, white, and two others. The prices have remained pretty much the same until very recently. I now have former students coming back as teachers. One asked about the “smelly” erasers. I had totally forgotten about them. They really smelled good. Oh, the chocolate calculators have always been around though. Their scent really lasts for a very long time! And yeah, books. We do sell books.
@@luigi7834 Dog Man and Cat Kid Comic Club. If you don’t know what those are, they are the graphic novel spin-offs of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey. Those are the most popular. Oh, and Jory John is popular with the K-3 set. He has a series of picture books that are good for learning about emotions and attitudes and such without being preachy. The OG is called “The Bad Seed.” For chapter books, historical fiction / adventure books are popular, like the “I Survived” series by Lauren Tarshis. But mostly graphic novels are super popular. For girls, anything by Raina Telgemeier is popular.
Funny that you say that because when ever the scholastic book fair happened one or two men wearing clown masks and other wired shit would arrive in a giant tricycle covered in weird shit, You would see them at local fairs very occasionally. they would ride around the school Neighborhood, park their trike at the front of the school and would drive off after a few days, about just under a week felt like a fair. the tricycle terrified the shit out of me as a kid, it had a fake Decapitated head on the front of it. the book fair was cool Though lots of good memories there with friends.
Yep. Our librarian would make everybody help set up and yell at us. The fair itself was full of shit. For us, it was like a carnival if we were the janitors.
I remember getting some miniature pizza kit, it basically just had tiny cookie cutters to make the crust and tiny pepperoni…. I was so pumped about it but my mom was like wtf that money was for books
I remember in the 1st grade I wanted to buy a captain underpants book but my parents said no so i just went under my couch and found 37 cents. I went to the book fair got the book and paid 37 cents for it. They gave me a 10 dollar book for 37 cents.
I remember wanting the cheat book and then realizing I could just write down the codes, I felt like I was committing some huge crime and was scared that someone would see me
I remember when i had yugioh for gba I found out that you can put rl card in your game by looking at the serial number in the left bottom corner And i would not hesitate to ask anyone who have yugioh cards Basically i was stealing people cards without actually stealing them I even bought a notebook on all the card's i could find
I would go to the grocery store with my mom with a pencil and paper and go to the magazine section and write down cheat codes from tips and tricks magazines. Fuck man the nostalgia is real.
I remember seeing a little girl grabbing a whole bunch of books and the librarian said “how much you have?” And the girl said “14 cents.” I felt so bad for her.
My first introduction to the concept of sales tax took place at a scholastic book fair. I had brought five dollars from home to buy a $5 book, and was confused as all hell when the librarian told me I didn't have enough money.
I stole one of those pens that retracted when you folded them in half in the fourth grade and some girl found out and tattled on me but the librarian was like "oh no I remember you paying for it, cause you did right?." That's the most guilt I've ever felt in my life and had she not been so gracious it probably would have been the start of a light criminal streak. That's why the first part of Les Miserables will always make me cry. Sometimes just giving somebody the silver will cost you nothing and will mean for them everything.
@Eric Kim I once stole a peppermint candy from the store and my older brother saw me and made me put it back. A few weeks later I stole his wallet to buy a peppermint candy. I learned my lesson tho
You brought me back, I remember girls being just the scum of the earth in elementary school. They got joy out of telling on ya, they didn't like anything that was cool, and they acted like they were made of glass (break out crying from the lightest push). I think it mostly stopped after maybe 3rd or 4th grade, but before that they were basically unlikable, moving land mines.
I remember book fairs were a one way ticket out of class, the first days everyone could go but then it expanded to "if you have money you can go" so everyone would pester their friends for a quarter or whatever just to get out of class to buy a bookmark
DashFlash omg, yes, My mom got a hardcover book for me, from Walmart, Everyone was so jealous because the book in the book fair would be a normal cover, not even hard
Why do I always seem to find some of the most unlikely youtubers in the most unlikely comment sections It really baffles me, although this one isnt very surprising. I guess the fact that I dont know youtubers accept the face they put on for videos HmmHmmmmMMmmm?🤔🤔
And then theres kids like me, who couldnt afford shit but still got excited to only get bummed so they just sat there while other kids got to buy stuff.
Scholastic Book Fair Starterpack: -Kid who buys lots of shit. -Parents giving you at most $5 for it. -Stealing those cool erasers. -All the boys going batshit over the latest Diary of The Wimpy Kid book. -Looking at all the cool books that were too expensive for 10 year olds.
My mom bought a nocturnal animal book with pop-ups and a section of how to identify nocturnal animals by their footprints. It's one of my cherished memories. I loved the smell of the books, popcorn, i loved the vivid colors, the games, puzzles, toys, and the excitement!
When I was in about 4th grade the huge bestseller with the girls my age were these quiz books called 'coke or pepsi,' where you could fill in questionnaires with your friends. It was incredibly lame, but one girl bought it so of course we all had to if we didn't want to be left out. And!!!! The three sided scented highliters!!!! And the calculators that looked and were scented like chocolate!!!!! Were pretty bomb.
I know. Whenever a kid in my class would get one, we’d just take it and start writing bad words all over the place. Now looking back at it, it was pretty immature but still very fun
I remember too there was this book with a lego figure and I wanted it so bad but it costed 50 dollars and I barely raised five dollars and the book was already sold so I grabbed a book but it costed ten dollars but thankfully a girl gave my five dollars man I hate being poor.
Bryan Manuel how much is your allowance? When I got $1.50 a day,(1 meal costed about $2) I would just bloat myself with water from the water cooler/fountain and save up.
I remember having a pointer finger and books I loved but I always wanted the drumsticks, highlighters, and a bunch of the other junk. You forgot "Sorry sweetie you don't have enough you've gotta put something back..."
Well it depends how interesting the books are I found lots of interestingly good books and book series at the local library. ( _This message was paid for by the United States Library Association._ )
Jakey, I can't stop binging all your old content because we literally lived the exact same childhood. It's so insane...you describe things EXACTLY how they were, exactly how I thought about them. Love it!
I'm from the Philippines and our scholastic book fairs are no different. It's honestly wild to see that they stayed super consistent regardless of the country they're in. My favorite purchase was their voice recorder spy pens, it sounded terrible but I felt cool having one!
I wish I had the internet instead of buying that book, I eventually did, but I had already used pretty much every cheat code so CCC was virtually useless.
"I'm fat Jesus" is by far and away the greatest pateron shout-out ever, he could throw the whole thing up on Spotify and I would happily listen to it from time to time because it's soo good
Scholastic Bookfairs may have been utterly random shit, but god-damn, don't tell me I'm the only one who always eagerly got the newest Captain Underpants/Diary of a Wimpy Kid book the moment the bookfair started every year.
My best friend and I almost got suspended in second grade for “stealing” from the book fair. Our best friend/bully at the time told us to meet her at the book fair before school started, and she said she bought us these books and those two foot long erasers that look like spaghetti. We walked out and chased by the librarian because it turns out, our friend didn’t actually buy us these things. To this day, Sydney wherever you are, I’m still salty about almost being officially banned from the book fair for the rest of elementary school.
You suxk ass then cus I got away w/ it lmfaoo. I even stole from my teachers desk and stole like 3 $20 bills out of this shitty cash box at a boy scout Xmas tree sale when I was like 6 years old. Since nobody was there paying attention
This is my feel-good video. I watch it any time I have a bad day, and it always makes me feel a little better. I really needed that today. Thank you father jakey
Same, got 1 book fair, and one book order. They were both far apart too And to raise money student council used to sell things like erasers and pencils and random things like bouncy balls and slime, and that was like 3 times a year(and let me just say as one of the few kids who got to work it, it was stressful) So my school was triple cool
I say this 100% genuinely, I used to be so goddamn sad as a kid that we were always too poor for me to get anything that I swore my kids would always get something. We're broke as fuck but they always get as much as I can spare because I've been the poor kid and I know how much it sucks
Sameeeeeee. We werent that poor but my mom NEVER gave me any money for school, not for the book fair or to buy snacks, and when the book fair came around I would always see my friends buy stuff and I was just standing there. Mind you, it hurts even more because I was a nerd. From 1st grade to 6th grade, my lunch periods consisted of going to the library and reading (more like devouring) a book every day. So you can imagine, the book fair with cool new books that I couldn't buy. I swore to myself that if I had the disposable income and my kids liked reading, I would never do this to them. It was a HORRIBLE feeling.
I bought the entire hunger games set from book orders. It came with this dope pin that was a replica of the one Katniss had. It was my way of getting all the newest books. Wish the brought those up through all the grades :(
Our last book fair was the winter of last year and they had a Shigaraki journal. I got it so fast and never used it because I havent been able to find one like it. I love the artwork on it and the gold rim complements the grey and black cover.
They were only $5 for my school. Kids would buy them and put them up in the school hallways with a post it note with their name underneath so every boy knew who to thank
When I was little in school there was this kid who was rich rich. Like new expensive shoes everyday rich. So to flex he bought his dad’s wallet and 60 bucks. His dad’s wallet had around 200 bucks in it. The rule at the school’s fair was you can’t bring more than 100 dollars, so him trying to flex cost him to get nothing at the book fair 😂
When i had my first book fair, my mom gave a one dollar to buy a book with. Me being a naive child, optimistically approached the librarian (who was hosting the book fair) and asked her what books I could buy with a dollar. She escorted me to the sucky five page book section and she said they were all a dollar. I left empty-handed and disappointed.
Hey Jakey, I know you might never see this, but I am so happy to see someone else remembers Lego Island. Hearing you use the music in this video brought a tear to my eye
As a 23 year old woman, i was offended by the fact that i own the exact same fuzzy notebook with the unicorn that you said for the book fair. For your information, i got that in the "business" section at a local staples.
I couldn’t find mine and today (in high school) we had meme day (our new principal is wild if u saw a meme saying “why is my principal on the roof?” That’s my school) and I wanted to dress up as the power of god and anime kid and someone else dressed up as it and I got flexed on
My brother would always buy the latest Guinness Book of World Records book each year when we were kids. He also collected Ripley's Believe it or not books and almanacs as well.
Xy Kiko oh don’t forget FNAF, FNAF infected the book fair like a virus to the point where now the advertisements for it around school basically say “come here we have FNAF”
Ha. I work in a school and we do scholastics 2x a year. The video description was pretty much a modern book fair. nd fnaf? I wish... Then again maybe we dont get it bc its a k3 school. Honestly we get a crap ton of over priced lego books none of the kids can afford.
auddities yeah, I’m at a middle school and honestly our book fairs consist of fnaf books, awful drama books for girls, and books from the middle of a series. It just kinds lame here, although my elementary school was better
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Yo can we get an official release of that end song?
When is the cutoff date for the NakeyJakey Wonderful Amazing but Random Dog Shit Fair?
Nice nod to Lego Island there Jakey. ruclips.net/video/smhukUzP3UI/видео.html
HUGE RELATE
Was that a Madvillainy sample in this video? When you said you’d get Mad Libs. The laughing sample from the track “Do Not Fire!”.
The “alright fine go get my purse” made me lose my mind with laughter bc how could I forget such a liberating sentence
Lol
As a child it was a HUGE relief of tension when she said those beautiful words.
@@A_penguin_from_matmart4928 same😂
“Alright fine go get my purse” is the most nostalgic thing I’ve ever heard
Gcldfvnch I would hear those 6 words but in spanish 😂😂😂😂 I miss the book fair
I still hear this
@@Sira111_ "Está bien traeme la cartera"
my mum didnt have a purse 😥
@Dani Mals it hurts man, it hurts
No ones talking about the erasers that looked like $100 bills
Omg I remember those
Omg i remember that lol
NinerGang 9 9 9 dued I forgot about that until you mention it
The erasers that looked like iPods were all that i remember
NinerGang 9 9 9 they still make them I got one a week ago
the book fair just made me appreciate that the library is free
No Minecraft or gaming handbooks?!
*Impossible perhaps the Library is incomplete*
General kenobi
Hello there
lol not me, i prefer to OWN my books.
Honestly as a librarian I just think the book fair is not ethical. Worst of all the money didn't even go to my library from what I'm gathering at. It went to an organisation that used my space so they can have their book fair.
When Jakey said "alright fine go get my purse" I felt that
Third Reich Gaming 😂😂
We all did
Fucking hell I cried.
Six word
Bruh sammmee 😂😂
When that one kid bought the pointer finger so the teachers pointer isn’t legendary anymore
*that kid was me*
AnUnknownPerson *I was also a warrior risking their lives for that at my school*
That one kid: Bow down to me my faithful subjects, for I am your savior.
I was the one who had the invisible marker to write cuss words and randomly laugh out of nowhere
*i,student 675 shall take the ultimate task*
We really all lived the same childhood in different households jesus
i remember running around trying to get all the shit i wanted first so no one would take it before me
Cunnilingus oh damn
gianna lmao I remember I got my books at the end of school instead of the beginning so Half the stuff I wanted was taken
Ikr
...Damn. ( ._.)
The scholastic fair made me know I was poor lmaooo
Yup same
No doubt! Lol
Yup lol
I feel your pain lol
Same
The book fair just reminded me everytime how poor my ass was lol
Rolf!!! Me too!
Same bro.
Shit was expensive af
Right like a pencil that would brake when you got home was ten dollars
I knew better than to ask for anything so I put the catalog right in the trash
They banned invisible pens in my school because everybody kept writing swear words and pps on people arms
Lol kids did this a lot in my school
Same
Lol we drew on the bus seats
I still have thim
Lmfao y’all must be bored af to be doing that shit
Nostalgia is oozing from this one
The one thing ALL generations will forever have: Scholastic Book Fairs
iDubbbzTV M a K. E a co nTEnT COqp
This is it chief
Mom buy me spy gadgets
Your not relevant anymore
I’ve been running those book fairs since 2008 and some things have remained staples: the erasers that look like smart phones and the ones that look like Xbox controllers. Also, the “Spy” (uv light) pens are ever-popular as well as finger pointers, like primary classroom teachers use with reading charts, Word Walls and such. The only thing that changes about those things are the colors. For example, we are always given 4 different color variations of the uv light pens, usually black, white, and two others. The prices have remained pretty much the same until very recently.
I now have former students coming back as teachers. One asked about the “smelly” erasers. I had totally forgotten about them. They really smelled good. Oh, the chocolate calculators have always been around though. Their scent really lasts for a very long time!
And yeah, books. We do sell books.
What types of books are popular with elementary school kids these days?
@@luigi7834 Croc 2
Do they still have the mushroom eraser pencil sharpener combo?!
@@kylejarmolych No. I had forgotten about those! They should make them again. Mushrooms are popular again.
@@luigi7834 Dog Man and Cat Kid Comic Club. If you don’t know what those are, they are the graphic novel spin-offs of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey. Those are the most popular. Oh, and Jory John is popular with the K-3 set. He has a series of picture books that are good for learning about emotions and attitudes and such without being preachy. The OG is called “The Bad Seed.” For chapter books, historical fiction / adventure books are popular, like the “I Survived” series by Lauren Tarshis. But mostly graphic novels are super popular. For girls, anything by Raina Telgemeier is popular.
This is the most 00's primary/elementary school thing
I was in elementary in the 80's and still found this completely relatable
@@umphreak9999 nice job matt
90’s too.
@@whatsoperadoc7050 nice job
Look, as long as I get legos and cool artwork I’m good.
Back then, the School Fair was like a carnival coming to town.
Funny that you say that because when ever the scholastic book fair happened one or two men wearing clown masks and other wired shit would arrive in a giant tricycle covered in weird shit, You would see them at local fairs very occasionally. they would ride around the school Neighborhood, park their trike at the front of the school and would drive off after a few days, about just under a week felt like a fair. the tricycle terrified the shit out of me as a kid, it had a fake Decapitated head on the front of it. the book fair was cool Though lots of good memories there with friends.
Yep. Our librarian would make everybody help set up and yell at us. The fair itself was full of shit. For us, it was like a carnival if we were the janitors.
It litteraly was we had rides and shit
That’s where I stole Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark
It definitely was 🤣
We're probably like 10-15 years apart, but the nostalgia is the same.
Same but add different country to that as well
@@lettherebegames8 Guess it's one of those small things that have never changed nomatter the year or place.
So you’re 10-15?
@@ava_a313 do they still do these in elementary schools?
@@georgewhitenotbrown7185 yes
I remember getting some miniature pizza kit, it basically just had tiny cookie cutters to make the crust and tiny pepperoni…. I was so pumped about it but my mom was like wtf that money was for books
Tiny pizza > books
🤣🤣🤣
I remember in the 1st grade I wanted to buy a captain underpants book but my parents said no so i just went under my couch and found 37 cents. I went to the book fair got the book and paid 37 cents for it. They gave me a 10 dollar book for 37 cents.
*S T O N K S*
Probably because it cost them 5 cents when they bought them in bulk.
That’s the most saddest but also optimistic redemption art shit I’ve ever heard in all day.
Their is still faith in humanity.
aww bless the person who sold you that 🥺
LOL
I remember wanting the cheat book and then realizing I could just write down the codes, I felt like I was committing some huge crime and was scared that someone would see me
While all the kid are buying spy gadgets, you're actually becoming a spy mate lol
Learned of the spy gadgets
I remember when i had yugioh for gba
I found out that you can put rl card in your game by looking at the serial number in the left bottom corner
And i would not hesitate to ask anyone who have yugioh cards
Basically i was stealing people cards without actually stealing them
I even bought a notebook on all the card's i could find
I would go to the grocery store with my mom with a pencil and paper and go to the magazine section and write down cheat codes from tips and tricks magazines. Fuck man the nostalgia is real.
I feel this way to the free cheats on the internet. Or when I use a mod for a game
I remember seeing a little girl grabbing a whole bunch of books and the librarian said “how much you have?” And the girl said “14 cents.” I felt so bad for her.
@@aamiwaami lucky
Awwwwwwww :(
Monke is king
One time there's a book that only has 1 left and my friend grabbed it before anyone could, just for her mom to *give it to another kid who asked*
@@Basedhistoryenjoyer BETRAYED BY YOUR CLOSEST ALLY!!!!
My first introduction to the concept of sales tax took place at a scholastic book fair. I had brought five dollars from home to buy a $5 book, and was confused as all hell when the librarian told me I didn't have enough money.
"my brother in Christ your job is paid for by my parents paying taxes"
picky minch pfp respect!
Does any one remember the big erasers that said something along the lines of “Big Eraser for BIG Mistakes”?
bub lmao
I have a gun eraser that says for big mistakes.
My friend gave it to me
@dion! Same
@dion! I'd rub it on my friends
I had one and i gave it to a friend and its just become a running joke between my friend group to pass it to someone when the do something stupid
Does anyone remember buying those 20$ LEGO encyclopedias just for the figure
Not Odin Aye
Totally
Me
Yes
Absolutely, those were the only things I ever bought.
I stole one of those pens that retracted when you folded them in half in the fourth grade and some girl found out and tattled on me but the librarian was like "oh no I remember you paying for it, cause you did right?." That's the most guilt I've ever felt in my life and had she not been so gracious it probably would have been the start of a light criminal streak. That's why the first part of Les Miserables will always make me cry. Sometimes just giving somebody the silver will cost you nothing and will mean for them everything.
@Eric Kim I once stole a peppermint candy from the store and my older brother saw me and made me put it back. A few weeks later I stole his wallet to buy a peppermint candy.
I learned my lesson tho
You brought me back, I remember girls being just the scum of the earth in elementary school. They got joy out of telling on ya, they didn't like anything that was cool, and they acted like they were made of glass (break out crying from the lightest push). I think it mostly stopped after maybe 3rd or 4th grade, but before that they were basically unlikable, moving land mines.
Damn
@TES Enthusiast ...If it wasn't for those... Pesky kids.
What school did y'all go to? The girls at mine always tried to cut themselves with rocks
Man the scholastic book fair was the most magical thing at school. You can say it’s like the Disney or the Universal at school.
bangin video alert
Wait a minute, this aint youporn...
I like dinosaurs
You two should just team up... or dye your hair funny colors, thats cool too
"Yeah my mom didn't give me enough money for the book fair so I got stole some money from my step dad"
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I remember those invisible pens.
Samurai JackOff they were cancer
omfg
I wrote penis on a school bathroom with those once in third grade
Samurai JackOff I only bought those
Lmao someone once grabbed them and ran out the library and the librarian just had their mouth ooen
I remember book fairs were a one way ticket out of class, the first days everyone could go but then it expanded to "if you have money you can go" so everyone would pester their friends for a quarter or whatever just to get out of class to buy a bookmark
I was the loaded kid with all the quarters who would give it to all the kids. The more friendly they were to me, the more quarters they got.
Mighty's Channel that’s why my school would stamp the books to prove you bought them
Diary of a wimpy kid, Percy Jackson,
Harry Potter, Tom gates were my childhood friends
but diary of a wimpy kid will always be a book series in my heart.
Chocolate calculator. I swear that was all I want from the book fair.
lol I bought one of those xD
I bought one and lost it a year later. It lost its wonderful scent after a couple days. :(
Trust me, you don't want it. Mine lost its scent.
Mine smelled like crap
fight me bitch. I got one in 4th
Who else’s classes were always hyped for the new copy of Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
lol every year
Yes! My school library actually got rid of it cause when we went there, we would all run to that shelf, and literally fight for them.
I still am cuz I dont have a life. Can I read it in half an hour? Yes. Do I have tremendously better things to do? Yes. Do I care? No.
DashFlash omg, yes, My mom got a hardcover book for me, from Walmart, Everyone was so jealous because the book in the book fair would be a normal cover, not even hard
everyone's class lol.
remember those erasers that looked like phones and during class you would take it out of your plastic pencil case and flex it to all your friends?
SoapyKat Gaming Y E A S
My little sister just got her first one 😂 I was like awwwwww shitt
or the ones that looked like a mini computer? i had that as my razr's background for the longest time in middle school
Omfg I had a purple and green one I loved, it had the number 8675309 printed on the screen.
This is so weirdly nostalgic
I got mad when I snapped it half
Let's be honest, everyone wanted the invisible ink pens but the first classes that went in the morning always bought them all
Thank you for bringing my childhood back to life
Mother's Basement fancy meeting you here.
Mother's Basement hey how was jojo 5?
Me too. I love the videos
RUclips is a small world...
Why do I always seem to find some of the most unlikely youtubers in the most unlikely comment sections It really baffles me, although this one isnt very surprising. I guess the fact that I dont know youtubers accept the face they put on for videos HmmHmmmmMMmmm?🤔🤔
And then theres kids like me, who couldnt afford shit but still got excited to only get bummed so they just sat there while other kids got to buy stuff.
yeah feeling left out was a huge deal for us kids
In my schools they kinda made you wait in there while kids got to buy their stuff for an hour
Fuck this hit way too close to home
You have touched my heart. I’ll buy you a scented bendy pencil for your birthday.
I remember just having like 5 bucks and buying one of those cheap bookmarks or some crap
Kids who wear AirPods< kids who bought the Guinness Book Of World Records at the Scholastic book fair
Lol
What if I am both of those kids? 🤔
Kids who but the guinness book of world record book fair < kids who bought that big book about games that I own but forgot the name of
What about Ripleys belive it or not
And the gamer edition of it
I call dibs on Sideways Stories from Wayside School and Goosebumps.
I rember the hype the class would get when you would walk by a room and see the big closed cases just knowing it's almost time.
Every single person bought invisible ink pens in my school, and every single person lost them after a week.
id lose my pen too if it were invisible
Turns out it's just a regular pen for a week and THEN it becomes invisible.
I still have one of those on my book shelf but it stoped working like 6 years ago
@Ashley Lam y o u r p f p
@@georgel5812 cuz they’re invisible
Scholastic Book Fair Starterpack:
-Kid who buys lots of shit.
-Parents giving you at most $5 for it.
-Stealing those cool erasers.
-All the boys going batshit over the latest Diary of The Wimpy Kid book.
-Looking at all the cool books that were too expensive for 10 year olds.
Remember being limited to bringing £5 on school trips for the gift shops :O
@@emmahealy4863 €5 is not $5 but still a little
and that one girl who just bought the spy pen and earasers
Don't forget LEGO Star Wars books
I was the kid who couldn't buy anything till the fair was almost over and so most of the good shit was gone
My mom bought a nocturnal animal book with pop-ups and a section of how to identify nocturnal animals by their footprints. It's one of my cherished memories.
I loved the smell of the books, popcorn, i loved the vivid colors, the games, puzzles, toys, and the excitement!
This is how I got access to Shonen Jump magazines. Scholastic basically turned me into a weeb.
Same dud
lol. (btw I love your vids)
I wish mine had those.
Daniel Tran
Same.
Same here.
I actually was setting up a book fair when Jakey uploaded.
All the invisible ink and chocolate calculators we’re gone before I even got there. I’m still mad about it.
Trust me, the chocolate calculators were shit...and smelled like them
They keys were hard to press too
I got both of em, the calculator sucked and invisible ink was a bad idea
Scholastic book fairs AND flash games? Dude youre going to give me a nostalgia overdose one day
Ikr
Yes I love you you listen to the same music as me
Ikr
@@hjw5838 word up?
@@jobelthirty1294 yup.
Best Outro song. Real happy that this was the one I happen to get in. This entire video is so great. Gonna go play Lego Island.
Dude this video so random, didnt expect this.
Just like the....scholastic book fair.
The posters.
The posters
Explosive ? the posters.
The posters
Explosive ? The posters
Still have one on my wall
When I was in about 4th grade the huge bestseller with the girls my age were these quiz books called 'coke or pepsi,' where you could fill in questionnaires with your friends. It was incredibly lame, but one girl bought it so of course we all had to if we didn't want to be left out. And!!!! The three sided scented highliters!!!! And the calculators that looked and were scented like chocolate!!!!! Were pretty bomb.
I THINK I STILL HAVE MY CHOCOLATE CALCULATOR OH MY LORD
Bruh some girls in my class still have the three sided highlighters
We still have choco calculators
Omg I have coke or pepsi
I had THAT MCKCKS
Gotta love all those unofficial minecraft novels that all the boys in my class wanted
E s c a p e f r o m t h e o v e r w o r l d
@@thisisbetterthanmyprevious6674 t h e q e u s t f o r t h e. D I a m o n d s w o r d
Minecraft didn’t exist when I had book fairs :o
Bro the most hype thing in 4th grade was the magical pen that you need a light to see.
On god bro
I know. Whenever a kid in my class would get one, we’d just take it and start writing bad words all over the place. Now looking back at it, it was pretty immature but still very fun
FRLLL
There was so much demand at my school that they literally had to make the kids sign a reserve paper and we got the pens a week after the book fair
literally
...anyone remember being that one poor kid who wentvwith the class to go see...but you can only really look amd skim through stuff
Me too buddy..
I remember too there was this book with a lego figure and I wanted it so bad but it costed 50 dollars and I barely raised five dollars and the book was already sold so I grabbed a book but it costed ten dollars but thankfully a girl gave my five dollars man I hate being poor.
Bryan Manuel how much is your allowance? When I got $1.50 a day,(1 meal costed about $2) I would just bloat myself with water from the water cooler/fountain and save up.
Dude I feel this on an emotional level
dont they give you a voucher?
Hey guys I don't mean to brag or anything but I totally have the 2006 Guinness Book of World Records if anyone wants to come over and read it with me
Fr bro lemme get a quick peek at it for a couple....eternities
U stole it from school library na
Yo I got the 2012 one my guy. Wanna trade?
ANYTHING FOR YOU SLIMECICLE
i have that one( i think) or some other year where i was only interested in the worlds fattest man
I remember having a pointer finger and books I loved but I always wanted the drumsticks, highlighters, and a bunch of the other junk. You forgot "Sorry sweetie you don't have enough you've gotta put something back..."
“Who wants some books children?”
*Silence*
“Who wants some spy stuff children?”
*High pitched screaming*
Well it depends how interesting the books are
I found lots of interestingly good books and book series at the local library.
( _This message was paid for by the United States Library Association._ )
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Yes..
It's the Geronimo Stilton books for me 🤭
I bought those mineral stuff
Nothing gets you hyped like “alright fine go get my purse”
*Those were the magical words back in elementary*
The book fair was like a black market for us back then for a kid .
Jakey, I can't stop binging all your old content because we literally lived the exact same childhood. It's so insane...you describe things EXACTLY how they were, exactly how I thought about them. Love it!
Y’all can’t forget the $5 posters
Yah
With the puppies or kittens and sometimes you’d find the good stuff like the race cars lol.
Way to many Lamborghini posters.
The posters for me was like 20 bucks what is this
Still have mine
This is the pinnacle of -American- global elementary school culture
Edit: apparently America wasn’t the only country with Book Fairs
Superblobby EXCUSE ME?!?!? I'M CANADIAN AND WE ALSO HAD THOSE!!!
JM Mislang okay, what about North American elementary culture?
Superblobby good, but what about the European kids?
JM Mislang European kids had scholastic book fairs too? Bruhhhhh
Nigga I’m British and we had thdit
"Mom, I need money for rent."
*"Alright, fine. Go get my purse."*
😌😏😊
Kerra Johnson mom: wait a minute..... kids don’t pay rent.....
KERRA GET YOUR BUTT BACK HERE OR YOURE GROUNDED!!!
Kerra Johnson: THE FUCK YOU SAY TO ME YOU LIL SHIT!
Kerras mom: THATS IT IM PULLING OUT MY STICK NIGGA!!!!
To be Continued......
What?
I'm from the Philippines and our scholastic book fairs are no different. It's honestly wild to see that they stayed super consistent regardless of the country they're in. My favorite purchase was their voice recorder spy pens, it sounded terrible but I felt cool having one!
your videos cover literally everything I never knew I needed in video form
Yes he lived within us
Too bad it's been taking him a month to make new content. Used to be every week or two.
Oh shit dude its cool seeing you here! I used to love watching your stop motion vids back in like 2011.
God the cheat code books. The one thing I wanted from the fair until my child brain discovered the interwebs
Aleczarde I use to go eb games and look at the cheats in the book and memorise them till I got home ahah
I pretty much had a meltdown and felt like some god-prophet when I discovered cheat code central
@@PoliciaCaro foreal yo Cheat CC was the shit back then.
I wish I had the internet instead of buying that book, I eventually did, but I had already used pretty much every cheat code so CCC was virtually useless.
You don't know true power until you were the first one to print out a cheat sheet of GTA games and showed them at school
It’s like a pop up flea market
warrior jack How so?
@@spookszn2426 trash they're trying to sell to idiots to make some quick cash
"I'm fat Jesus" is by far and away the greatest pateron shout-out ever, he could throw the whole thing up on Spotify and I would happily listen to it from time to time because it's soo good
When Jakey said “the highly sought after Guiness Book of World Records that nobody could afford” I literally had flashbacks omfg
DashFlash One kid at my school literally bought one, and got a lotta freebies.
Scholastic Bookfairs may have been utterly random shit, but god-damn, don't tell me I'm the only one who always eagerly got the newest Captain Underpants/Diary of a Wimpy Kid book the moment the bookfair started every year.
had every mf book bro lmfao those were my shit
A. Diallo same
right here brother
When i first herd of that, i thought you say it like "diarrhea of wimpy kid" because i was in kindergarten or 1st grade and couldn't read
Same dude
My best friend and I almost got suspended in second grade for “stealing” from the book fair. Our best friend/bully at the time told us to meet her at the book fair before school started, and she said she bought us these books and those two foot long erasers that look like spaghetti. We walked out and chased by the librarian because it turns out, our friend didn’t actually buy us these things. To this day, Sydney wherever you are, I’m still salty about almost being officially banned from the book fair for the rest of elementary school.
Lol I almost thought about doing that
that's crazy to me! y'all were so young and probably wouldn't have been able to make up a story like that. can't believe you got banned afterwards
Lol the librarian at my school would just give us detention for stealing and that was on the rare occasion that she saw us
You suxk ass then cus I got away w/ it lmfaoo. I even stole from my teachers desk and stole like 3 $20 bills out of this shitty cash box at a boy scout Xmas tree sale when I was like 6 years old. Since nobody was there paying attention
I regret not stealing more shit from the bookfair
This is my feel-good video. I watch it any time I have a bad day, and it always makes me feel a little better. I really needed that today. Thank you father jakey
Remember when you forgot to ask your parents for money and remembered when you got on the bus
that was majority of the times
Omg yes I hated that and then I would keep forgetting till like the last day of the book fair
@@moisesm9602 I know! I remembered forgetting to ask my parents for money and I would finally remember after I got on the bus.
@@SilverGaming701 well at least you don’t have to waste 10 dollar on a book that you won’t use for years
@Josip Delacruz one time I found five bucks on the floor and used it to buy a chocolate calculator
My school was double cool. We had both a book fair AND book orders, and yes, they were in the same year.
Same but i never got games
SAMEEEEEEEEEE
Wait. Not every school had an option to order the books you wanted?
Same here! I live in California, so my school could probably afford to.
Same, got 1 book fair, and one book order. They were both far apart too
And to raise money student council used to sell things like erasers and pencils and random things like bouncy balls and slime, and that was like 3 times a year(and let me just say as one of the few kids who got to work it, it was stressful)
So my school was triple cool
I remember buying a solar powered calculator that had buttons that smelled like chocolate... My book fairs were weird.
me too
I remember the times where you wouldn’t be bullied for reading captain underpants
Man those hooks are just childish, but I guess that’s the oiint
I still have the calculator but the smell ran out after all the years,,
Richard Noggin i got the same exact one
Yo that thing was awesome!
I say this 100% genuinely, I used to be so goddamn sad as a kid that we were always too poor for me to get anything that I swore my kids would always get something. We're broke as fuck but they always get as much as I can spare because I've been the poor kid and I know how much it sucks
Sameeeeeee. We werent that poor but my mom NEVER gave me any money for school, not for the book fair or to buy snacks, and when the book fair came around I would always see my friends buy stuff and I was just standing there. Mind you, it hurts even more because I was a nerd. From 1st grade to 6th grade, my lunch periods consisted of going to the library and reading (more like devouring) a book every day. So you can imagine, the book fair with cool new books that I couldn't buy.
I swore to myself that if I had the disposable income and my kids liked reading, I would never do this to them. It was a HORRIBLE feeling.
I love how these videos are about extremely specific things.
"One of these games was really good, the other was Croc 2" 😂
What a croc of shit
Hands the fuck off croc 2
Croc is a really good game imo
YamaAgni i never played croc
Why did this man live the exact same childhood as me?
lol I know, I actually think Croc 2 was what got me to play games on pc lol.
Because you lived an average childhood? Nothing wrong with that, I did too
Jakey is next-level relatable content.
@@davidhollowelljr949 fax
I was homeschooled and he still has the same life as me.
Those "eraser phones" were the only thing I cared about at the Book Fair
i remember some kids would roll up with blank checks from their parents, that was such a flex man
Ahaha I remember this was the only thing my parents would use cheques for .
One day my friend only brought coins so he made the cashiers count the coins. It was like a couple dollars in coins but it was still something.
@@eri7817 My parents would use checks at book fairs, but also for anything else school-related.
I remember I thought I lost one of those checks in 2nd grade and I swear I was scared my life was over
AmyOverby weird flex .. but ok
*Currently using chocolate scented calculator that only works in the sun*
Wavy Stars I thought that was just mine holy shit 😂😂
I still have one but it's broken and doesnt smell
Mine got stolen the day I got it yo 😢😰
Used to have one and lost it watcha gonna do 👏
I bought like 5 of those because I thought it was real chocolate since I was a dumbass :( I was so disappointed when I realized there was no chocolate
Dude. Just hearing the phrase “book orders” sends me back. Nostalgia man
I bought the entire hunger games set from book orders. It came with this dope pin that was a replica of the one Katniss had. It was my way of getting all the newest books. Wish the brought those up through all the grades :(
Good good fucking times. I miss elementary school
Our last book fair was the winter of last year and they had a Shigaraki journal. I got it so fast and never used it because I havent been able to find one like it. I love the artwork on it and the gold rim complements the grey and black cover.
There was always that one rich kid who would bring $50 and buy the Ferrari poster
LOL
LOL
They were only $5 for my school. Kids would buy them and put them up in the school hallways with a post it note with their name underneath so every boy knew who to thank
When I was little in school there was this kid who was rich rich. Like new expensive shoes everyday rich. So to flex he bought his dad’s wallet and 60 bucks. His dad’s wallet had around 200 bucks in it. The rule at the school’s fair was you can’t bring more than 100 dollars, so him trying to flex cost him to get nothing at the book fair 😂
I had a flags poster.
When you were one of those kids who was actually interested in the books
I feel you 😂😂😂
And then u realize all of the books u can read in 2 secs
Yep😅
me😮
Minecraft
I remember in elementary school we would skip class just to go down there
I would tell my teacher that I wanted to buy a book but I would literally just buy 50 bendy pencils
Lucky my school we had to go at recess and if we bought a book we couldn’t play
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Goosebumps, wheres Waldo, and strange hair trolls were what they peddled to me as a kid.
that I'M FAT JESUS line at the end was dangerously smooth
I was the poor kid that walked around looking, but everyone knew I was just a window shopping sunovabitch.
me too ._.
When i had my first book fair, my mom gave a one dollar to buy a book with. Me being a naive child, optimistically approached the librarian (who was hosting the book fair) and asked her what books I could buy with a dollar. She escorted me to the sucky five page book section and she said they were all a dollar.
I left empty-handed and disappointed.
Same
THE LIBRARIAN TOOK YOUR DOLLAR?!
@@epooders Dam, school robbing you of your dignity and your dollar
Bro every time there was a new Diary of A Wimpy kid, everyone would jump on it.
they actually still make those books too
they still make new ones?!.
yeah there's quite a few now
Real talk
@quickdraw they got kind of shit after cabin fever at that point they just started to become cash grabs
Hey Jakey, I know you might never see this, but I am so happy to see someone else remembers Lego Island. Hearing you use the music in this video brought a tear to my eye
Dude you brought up so many good memories! Love this video, glad I found your channel!
Javier Vidana bro you look like sal😂.
Yesss
As a 23 year old woman, i was offended by the fact that i own the exact same fuzzy notebook with the unicorn that you said for the book fair. For your information, i got that in the "business" section at a local staples.
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Those god damn Hand Pointers, people would always flex on everyone who didn’t have them
TΛBBY right! People all fkeded with the money shaped erasers
I couldn’t find mine and today (in high school) we had meme day (our new principal is wild if u saw a meme saying “why is my principal on the roof?” That’s my school) and I wanted to dress up as the power of god and anime kid and someone else dressed up as it and I got flexed on
Bmorr Did you just say meme day?
Yes. We had a meme day last week.
My brother would always buy the latest Guinness Book of World Records book each year when we were kids. He also collected Ripley's Believe it or not books and almanacs as well.
Ugh now books fairs are filled with those sequin books and pillows that have two colors. I miss the old book fair.
Xy Kiko oh don’t forget FNAF, FNAF infected the book fair like a virus to the point where now the advertisements for it around school basically say “come here we have FNAF”
Ha. I work in a school and we do scholastics 2x a year. The video description was pretty much a modern book fair. nd fnaf? I wish... Then again maybe we dont get it bc its a k3 school. Honestly we get a crap ton of over priced lego books none of the kids can afford.
auddities yeah, I’m at a middle school and honestly our book fairs consist of fnaf books, awful drama books for girls, and books from the middle of a series. It just kinds lame here, although my elementary school was better
does anyone remember those erasers that looked like phones or ipods
Yes
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Yes, I had one in 1-4th grade but lost it at the end of 4th grade
And the skateboards and food :D
There’s always that one kid: nO bRo iTs A rEaL pHone
Can we just appreciate how much effort goes into the shoutouts? That's some real love right there.
Y’all remember when they gave you wishlists and they were just there to remind you you cant afford that?
Omg yesssss
@@deezburr yeah
Love that people still remember the LEGO game
Lego Island 2 was the first game I ever remember playing(when I was about 2 or 3).
Mine was Lego Racer I was freakin' addicted to that shit
@rockkiller124 I loved LEGO racer!
jack skullcrack Fuck, that bring back memories. Too bad I could never get past the fishing part
Lego Racing was the shit. Played it at Grandma's house on her beige box of no significance.
I still have my chocolate scented calculator
Was it worth your money?
@@jbprod3874 hell yea
I got one of those. I put it in my pencil pouch, then it smelled like pencil lead instead of chocolate
Xy Kiko same
Me too. Bought it in the 4th grade, 6 years ago.
We all know why you went to the book fair...
To get those books with Lego figures in them!
Isaiah's Junk Lol ik
YES THO
YESSSS
Yeah i remember
Hell yeah