What do you lug home each day?

[Squinchy]

For most, school is back in full swing-Fully equipped with very, very full backpacks. I personally think it is unhealthy for a 100-120 pound (~45-54 kg) person to carry 20 pounds (~9 kg) of books possibly along with an instrument, lunch, and sports gear (if they participate in sports).

So--what do you carry home every day, whether it be from school or work?

[01000011]

Basically everything. My instrument is to heavy and big to stuff into my back pack. But my shoulders should be fine. I'm a pretty big guy anyway.

[DM was on fire!]

Absolutely nothing, since I'm homeschooled. However, I do have a lot of notes if I have a quiz.

[Alex]

Usually either my Maths textbook, my Legal textbook, or my Business Management textbook - sometimes all three at once -_-
My usual books for homework, and sometimes my clarinet, depending if I had band or not.

[Yoshi]

I work by a more different system than most high school students- I use plastic folder-duotangs for each subject, all colour coded, haha. Red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, blue, purple, and a series of clear folders. However, a few teachers of mine this year have forced me to wreck parts of this system by requiring binders, so that could mean my backpack will erm...overload.

I carry every single subject with me, and take textbooks home only if needed for an assignment. I also carry the obligatory silent reading book (unfortunately right now, I'm reading a large hardcover book), a pencil case, a pack of 200 lined sheets of paper, my graphing calculator, my agenda, my cell phone, my wallet, my gym lock, my drumsticks, and soon- my umbrella. The folder system keeps it all lighter than what the weight would normally be for some person.

(Binders suck! )

[Atamand]

Not sure yet, as I'm going to a new school. Last year, I had a binder-type thing, a few folders, a book, two notebooks, a Spanish textbook, a thick math textbook, and some other stuff.

[Zero!]

Like two inch-thick books and like three binders and a really fat folder which makes my backpack weigh like fifteen pounds...

Good thing I take a bus so I don't have to walk with all that.

[Ken]

Usually, my World Lit book, because thats the only book I have this year.

[Flame]

(Binders suck! )

You have no idea how much I have to agree with that.

Any homework that requires a book I do in homeroom or lunch if I can. And if I do have a lot of homework in books, I make it so I just take home the lightest ones.

But in my backpack I always have my Spanish binder, a lot of times a social studies bunder, a calculator, folders, and a sweatshirt. I like to carry as little as possible. (and do as little homework at home as possible. )

[shortin]

Absolutely nothing, since I'm homeschooled.

Ditto! But, not for long because I'm going to college the spring coming up and I'll be lugging school books around then.

[Hpfan36]

I can not wait until they issue out lockers, which will be next week!! Woohoo!!

I have three binders and two notebooks... and quite soon, I will have a geography textbook and most likely a Algebra textbook and a Spanish textbook. -_-

[Lass]

I had two binders, one for algebra and one for science, and I usually have to bring at least one home and sometimes both. Along with those 2 binders there are 2 books to go along with them. Plus a 3 subject notebook for French, English, and History, French book, agenda book, some folders, calculator, pens and pencils, and my vocabulary book. Then I have a book for history and a literature book for English.

Thank God for 6th period study. I get a lot of homework done. If I finish it all then that just leaves any science homework, which is 7th.

[teddymon]

Any homework I may have that given night, and occasionally my baritone.

[Xandra]

Nooothing. Muahahaha.

*Is homeschooled this year, and doesn't have to lug around a fifteen-pound+ backpack this year*

[Sapphire Faerie]

Ahh... I remember the days of insanely heavy backpacks well.

Some of you guys should weigh your backpacks. The easiest way is to step on a scale wearing your backpack, and then take off your backpack, and the difference is the weight of the backpack.