Who remembers scraps?

Oh I remember scraps! We used to keep ours in the pages of a book. At playtime a few of us girls (separate playgrounds for boys and girls in 60’s Scotland) would sit in the shelter and swap. The book would rest spine down on your knees then we’d take turns to leaf through our books to see if you pal wanted to do a swap. .Angels n cherubs were good! And bunches of flowers…simple pleasures indeed.

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I remember having a scrap book but not buying special scraps to go in it. Just cut up birthday cards or pictures from my mother's magazines

Same here.

I've never heard of buying scraps or swapping them either.

merlotgran I made a scrapbook with pictures cut out of magazines of Princess (then Queen) Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, little Prince Charles and Princess Anne. 🙂

My scrapbook contained pictures of Robert Horton and Clint Eastwood cut out from magazines or Radio Times.

I didn’t know about the scraps mentioned by the OP.

I recall the swap sessions as well-my favourites were the pastel coloured angels and cherubs but I guarded mine, wasn't swapping them!

I remember them most in the context of "swap sessions" these were often held on rainy day lunchtime breaks in the classroom. It involved exchanging books, pushing up desired scraps above pages and then some involved bartering with partner when the session finished, usually unsatisfactorily from an exchange point of view, before starting a new set up with someone else.

Was getting hungry then thinking about the ones we got from the chippy.

As the youngest child by quite some way I was given all the coloured pictures which decorated the crepe paper Christmas crackers. I spent hours sticking them into a scrap book. I was also the recipient of all the sixpences from the Christmas pudding, so a good day all round.

I remember having a scrap book but not buying special scraps to go in it. Just cut up birthday cards or pictures from my mother's magazines

Yes, I remember scraps. Spent ages pasting them into a scrapbook. Woolworths sold them (and just about everything else imaginable!). Happy days.

I prefered scraps to sweets - but prefered comics and Britain's farm animals to both!

Yes! Early junior school days, I remember it was a huge pass time, heaving books into school with scraps between pages. My collection was never that good, I was hugely envious of other girls who had sets of angels and cherubs, somehow my pocket money never seemed to extend that far, or maybe I just spent it all on 🍬🍫🍭🍬