You'd have to be of a certain age to remember pots of white glue, as opposed to twist up glue sticks, I think? If you're as ancient as I am, this might sound appealing — the School Paper Glue candle from Bougies la Francaise, complete with galvanized tin lid: "Reinterpreting the little pot of white glue of your childhood, this vintage candle will take you back to the benches of the school. [...] This intriguing candle brings you top notes of Almond & Peach, middle notes of Rose, Heliotrope & Violet and bottom notes of Rosemary & Thyme." $20 at Hampton Court. Now we need a candle duplicating the smell of the mimeograph, which I think I read somewhere was actually toxic.
Is mimeograph the same thing as what our elem teachers called ditto paper? If so, I’d be ALL OVER that one, haha!
Yes. I think there were 2 types of mimeo machine, and maybe they had slightly different smells? Anyway, I loved that smell, whichever it was.
Maybe it’s an East Coast thing — we called them “dittos”.
We did too.
I’m from California, and we call them “dittos,” too.
I think we called it banda or bander machine/ink – dear god I loved that smell but am tickled that they are doing this candle!
And I have never heard that term, but I see it was used in the UK for a spirit duplicator:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator
I am turning 3X in a couple of weeks, and I think we were transitioning out of glue pots into glue bottles and sticks. Sniffing glue always made me pass out!
We had glue bottles mostly, but I do remember tubs of paste in kindergarten.
Ahhh, the smell of copier paper. And Magic Markers! Not fruity smelling ones either, the basic old black or red ones. I’m pretty sure they are toxic, and they got you slightly high. When I was 8 I really wasn’t thinking of that, they just smelled weird and wonderful.
And a bizarre thing we did with glue. We’d pour a small amount of Elmer’s in the palm of our hands, then spread it out in a circle very thin. Let it dry and then sloooooowly peel it off out skin. Why? I have absolutely no idea other then we were bored and that’s how kids entertain themselves LOL
I remember doing that!
It made a handprint! Plus, it was fun!
We did that with white glue. Some kids made fake boogers with rubber cement.
Oh, man, ditto machine smell. Definitely a buzz.
I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that life is toxic, nobody gets out alive.
Have to Google it.
Plus all the kids in the 1960s ran after the fog machine, which was spraying pesticides to control the mosquito population! !
A truck driving down the road, amazing……..times have changed.
LOL.
OMG yes! We did that too. How did we ever survive childhood?
No bike helmets. No seat belts. We rode in the front seat or in the open back of the pick up.
My mom was a teacher and I used to watch her use the mimeograph machine. A mimeograph candle would have to have a label with purple, slightly blurry ink
What a great idea! I’m old-I do remember pots of glue. And Yes- I seem to have lots of smell memories connected to school- the smell of crushed grass sliding in to base on the playground in spring, diesel fule from our buses, hot cafeteria rolls ( best smell!) ,the smell of mimeograph machines, rubber cement and oil pastels from art class-and that ‘hot iron’ smell of the huge laminator machines , big Xerox machines and those punch cards they were using in the computer programming rooms, in the 60s. Those old machines must’ve put out a lot of heat.
Haha! That would be one weird perfume mash up huh!?
We had pots of glue like that when I grew up! With a spatula to scoop it out. Smelled like bitter almonds and was quite useless. My dad and aunt used to eat it when they were kids.
It might still be around.
I remember paste pots from way back when. There was always 1 kid in class who was eating the paste (ew!).
Reminds me of Ralph Wiggum on The Simpsons: https://youtu.be/TysbdQ4qwEo