30-cent folders. Pencil clip art in the weekend ad circulars. Wee Hello Kitty backpacks hanging from the end caps. It’s back to school time, and everywhere you go, you’re confronted with nostalgia in the form of Crayola boxes, kitten planners, and five-subject spiral notebooks.

 You may be too old (and too cool) for a Lisa Frank binder with puffy stickers? Obvi, you indulge in some of the sexier and more grown-up school supplies we’ve rounded up for you. Because you care about organization! Or, you know, because you love the smell of paste and you can’t stop touching those multi-packs of glitter pencils in Target.

These folders tell it like it is, but they’re so cute, you kinda don’t mind that you’ve finally broken down and created a “limbo" file. (Come on—you know you need one.) $6.00

The 8 Days-A-Week Planner has a crazy cute cover, but what’s inside is even better: week-at-a-glance planning columns broken down by the half hour, and a handy “Someday" column for all that stuff you are totally going to do. Just… not tomorrow. $16.00>

Maybe you’re in grad school, or maybe you just like to geek out and underline stuff in books, then mark it with Post-Its. Or you just keep losing your stacks of those #$*&% teeny Post-It notes. Look, really, you don’t need a reason. It’s Post-Its! In a pen! Technologically speaking, that’s almost as cool as a flying car. $11.99

Round out your writing-implements arsenal with a few PhD mechanical pencils. These puppies are the Cadillacs of graphite writing, with a fat barrel, a sinfully cushy finger pad, and a replaceable eraser. $15.00 PATTERNBINDERS.JPG Okay. No one has wanted to say it, but that Trapper Keeper from fifth grade? You’ve really got to stop using that thing. Let us help you into the world of sexy grown-up three-ring binders in gorgeous patterns. You’ll feel better, and so will everyone else. $24.00

Have you ever dreamed of a world where your stapler wouldn’t choke on its own staples just when you least have time to lever out those tiny pieces of pointy metal with a ballpoint pen, shoving them with such force you can actually hear your mother in your head yelling “I know a kid who lost an eye doing that!"? Just me? Well, anyway, this tiny portable stapler can fasten up to five pieces of paper together without a staple, and it really works. Kind of nice when you find yourself somewhere without a stapler. $6.00

Those standard office blocks of Post-It notes are a dime a dozen, and their so-so colors show it. This set of haute sticky notes in their own special portfolio, though, is a different story. $9.00

I won’t lie: it makes tech support workers’ eyes bleed when we admit that we always write down our passwords, usually on a sticky-note we stick right on the screen. But when they assign us passwords like ARX67S88VT9N3, what do they think we’re going to do? In any case, this restrained, classy notebook can help you keep track of your ever-growing number of usernames and passwords, and it has spots to jot down other little useful tidbits, too. $8.00

If you find yourself scrabbling around for a paper clip in your desk drawer, this darling minimalist magnetic hedgehog may help you keep them at the ready. Hey, he doubles as a paperweight, too. $20.00

Do you remember the heady feeling of writing your name on the card in the back of the library back and handing it over for a date stamp administered by a buttoned-up librarian? If so—and if you ever lend out your books—you might love this personal library set, complete with check-out inserts and sleeves, a date stamp, and “reference only" stickers for those books you don’t want to let out of your sight. $24.95

Now that you’re fixed for supplies, you just need that last, satisfying, crucial school accessory: a new backpack to carry around all your gleaming new pencils and notebooks. The Hip Hop Messenger Bag by Ogio can help. With a padded strap and contouring allowing it to be worn across the chest or just on one shoulder, it features internal dividers, a padded laptop pocket, and so many compartments that even the terminally messy can keep it all organized. And check out that brown pinstripe.