26 Trapper Keepers So Cool They Belong in the Smithsonian

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Jun 25, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Ah the Trapper Keeper. There are not too many items in the world which managed to turn the mundane into the most exciting thing you could own, but this company looked at the bog standard binder and said "You know what? This should be cool!", and according to the mark they have left on history, they were completely correct. We were obsessed with these things growing up.

Comparing our own Keepers to those of our friends, collecting them year after year, pretending that last year's simply could not be used again. There was so much attention paid to these things, that at the end of the day it did little more than hold paper. But maybe that is the key here. When you have something that makes you happy, it does not matter what purpose it serves, it only matters that it makes you happy, just as the humble Trapper Keeper did for decades. 

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  • A classic conundrum, you are perusing the pages of the latest shopping catalogue, and suddenly you come across the latest line of trapper keepers. Immediately you begin to imagine to yourself which one of these marvelous prints you would want and would show of your personality most accurately. We would definitely go for the kittens. 

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  • Was it an album cover? Was it a reference to a vacation in a far away land? We will never quite know what the purpose of this visual was, but what ever it was, it was captivating as all heck and kept us visually stimulated for far longer than was beneficial when we were suppose to be paying attention in class. 

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