What freaks you out? What creeps you out?
Do nails on a chalkboard shiver your timbers?
How ’bout things that go “bump” in the night?
We’re pretty freaked out by little wooden ice cream spoons. Bleeeech!

Tell us what freaks you out in as many (or as few) words as you like and enter our CREE PEE A DAY Giveaway. That’s right. One freak each day will win a Cree Pee All-Purpose Portfolio. Winners will be picked EACH day from THAT day’s entries. So enter as many times as you like and if you don’t win Monday..enter again on Tuesday! That is, unless the idea of entering more than once totally freaks you out.

Good luck!

Scroll down and learn the history of the Pee Chee, the Cree Pee’s inspiration.

Email us your entry to [email protected]

What’s a Pee Chee?

If you grew up in the western United States between 1940 and 2000, you’ve used (or beat up someone that used) a Pee Chee folder. If not, here’s a nostalgic Skullastic History Lesson for ya.

The Pee Chee All-Purpose Portfolio was introduced in 1943 by the Western Tablet and Stationery Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan. The folder, made of yellow card stock with two internal side pockets, was used for storing loose leaf paper. Side pockets were printed with a multiplication table, Weights and Measures conversion tables as well as an area for your personal information, in case you forgot who you were! Early versions featured drawings of boys and girls hangin’ at the soda shop or wartime images of jeeps and navy ships. In 1964, Mead Paper bought Western Tablet and redesigned the look to feature images of athletes and dancers. According to our BFFs at Mead, the graphic style was updated approximately every 10 years.

These new images of a tennis player, a skier, 3 track runners and baseball, basketball and football players were graphically abused by anyone within arm’s reach of an ink pen. A knife was typically drawn in the hand of one basketball player so he was stabbing the other in the chest. The baseball bat was turned into a battle ax. A track runner’s baton became a stick of dynamite by added a strategically-placed fuse. Once these signature and trademark items were added, students were free to draw, doodle and notate on the folder as they pleased. That’s when the REAL danger started.

Girls often covered each side with hearts, arrows and the names of all the boys in school they would marry or at least go to 2nd base with. Guys would draw talk bubbles for the athletes, filling each with sayings they hoped the teacher (and their parents) never read. Basically, the Pee Chee All-Purpose Portfolio was THE ultimate form of self expression for students too bored in class to take notes, but too filled with good (and bad) ideas to not express themselves. Often what you read on someone else’s Pee Chee was A LOT more instructional and enlightening than anything you found in a textbook! Pee Chees WERE the training grounds for future graffiti artists and poets that needed a canvas that was cheap and handy at all times.

To our dismay, Mead stopped producing the Pee Chee about 10 years ago. Either it lost its geeky cool factor or something else came along to take its place. (Damn you Trapper Keeper!) But for many people, and you’ll find them howling from the rafters all OVER the Internet, the Pee Chee All-Purpose Portfolio was an important part of growing up they wished HADN’T gone away.

That’s where Skullastic steps in with the Cree Pee All-Purpose Portfolio. A fresh take on the 80s classic, designed for the NEXT generation of graffiti artists and poets who need a place to express themselves and let their freak flag fly (while not taking notes in class). The Cree Pee takes a cool new approach to the traditional athlete artwork. And let’s face it…a Cree Pee is a whole lotta fun to destroy! ENJOY!