Mundane? Check. Pointless? Oh yeah. I must share? You got it!
Today I bought a label maker - I’m trying to be more efficient and using the “Getting Things Done” approach that people who use are obviously too productive to discuss on the SDMB and so I got a label maker. I am so in love with it! I just labeled the label maker - now it says “Label Maker” in a little speech bubble. I just type in what I want on the keyboard and it can make big letters or little letters, and it can underline or draw little borders or do italics or whatever I want! I just labeled a bunch of folders and I can’t get over how fun it is!
A keyboard? You mean it’s not the cheap-ass rotating letters gun kind? Fuck. I’d kill for one of those. I’d label my two gray cats (I can’t always tell who’s who). I’d label the drawer that holds the blank labels. I’d label things like “door” and “light switch”.
On second thought, I probably shouldn’t have a label maker.
I’ve got a label maker of the “type it in the little screen and press print! yay!” variety. It is great fun to create labels for things, but luckily enough, I’ve actually only used it for labeling files.
I have a weird impulse to label the shelves with subject headings a la Library of Congress when we get all our stuff moved in. I don’t know if I’ll have the patience (or the subject index guides) to get all that sorted, though. I can only imagine Acid Lamp’s horrified reaction if he came home to find the library not only sorted, but fully labeled. I’ve already been warned to not touch his art reference books in this regard.
It is of utmost importance to make sure your label maker is clearly labeled. I just glad that there are others who already know this.
[sub]I’ve labeled every label maker I’ve owned. And if I find one the that isn’t labeled, I always am sure to remedy the situation[sub]I need help[/sub][/sub]
It’s a Brother P-Touch. Mine is a 1280 - they have a whole line of different featured ones. Here’s a link. They have them at Office Depot and I assume anywhere else office supplies are sold. They take little cartridges.
I’m so excited about labeling all the cords that go into power strips and such!
We had something similar at the last place I worked. I loved it too. My files were beautiful, and finally, you could tell what was in the 3-ring binders without pulling them out and looking inside.
The shipping department had one that made big labels. It was awesome.
Hey, I thought I was the only one that could get so excited about a label maker. Mine is the model several steps below the one in the link. It was embarrassing how excited I got when I bought it. And it still thrills me almost 10 years later. Even some relationships don’t last that long!
The only downside for me is that the cartridges are pretty expensive. Two tape cartridges are about the same price that I paid for the label maker. If it weren’t for that, I’d label just about everything. But given how much it excites me, I guess it’s worth it.
My academic advisor’s son uses one of these. He’s autistic, and he can type if someone supports his elbow. They use the label maker when they aren’t near his computer, and he just types whatever he wants to say and–bzzzt! His wishes are known.
Oh, and Kalhoun? If you’re going to talk about two identical grey cats, we need a picture to see just how identical they are.
Hi. My name is TimeWinder, and I…am not so fond of my label maker.
I’d use it a lot more, except that it’s one of those little keyboard + print ones, and the tape that comes out of the back of it is IMPOSSIBLE to peel the backing off of. I’ve spent ten minutes at it sometimes, poking away with a fingernail, trying to get it started. Often, I ruin the label and need to try again.
And it’s not just the one cartridge – I’m on my third or fourth one.
Apparently, you need a different label maker, TimeWinder.
What does it say about us that we’re all jumping in here with songs of praise for our labelmakers?
I, too, have one of those P-Touch thingies (different model, same idea). In addition to file folders, I’ve labeled the timer I use for the Christmas tree and the ones I use when I’m on vacation. I’ll be labeling away as I re-organize the basement and garage. I’m sure there will be lots more labeling opportunities. It’s actually an incentive for getting these tasks done.
Back in the late fifties, when the Dymo labelmaker first hit the market, my father was the first guy on the block to get one. He ran wild with his new toy. The day after he bought it, you could walk through the house and see little plastic labels stuck to hundreds of things. He even labeled the cat, sticking the label onto her furry little forehead. Since he couldn’t remember what her name was, her label just said “CAT.”
I have a Dymo that lives in a little magnetic holster on the fridge, and it’s probably the best $30 I ever spent. I’m not really more organized, but I feel so much more organized you wouldn’t believe it. Isn’t that the important thing?
After my last party, I found just about everything in the kitchen mysteriously labeled. “Oven”, “sink”, etc.
