:: one hand on the coffee cup, the other flipping the pages of the Office Depot BIG BOOK catalogue ::
What a coincidence, to stunble upon this thread as I am browsing for desk supplies. But I am easily sidetracked…
Daily planners for 2003
Imprinted promotional pens
The choices of office chair fabrics
Wall clocks
Lateral files (letter AND legal)
Drawer organizers
Labelers (electronic AND handheld)
All-in-one machines
And I want the sample sign on p. 315:
“If you remove the last copy from file, please notify receptionist.”
'Nuff said.
They even have school art supplies (crayons, yarn, markers, feathers, buttons, stickers [3 pages], and tons of construction and tissue papers).
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Ohmygod. Just look at the complete office suites. Mahogany, cheery, cordovan, oak, or simulated granite surfaces. Which to choose?
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Damn, I’m gonna need a cigarette in a few minutes. And I don’t even smoke.
I, too, am an office supplies junkie. I used to think I was weird, but now I realize that…I’m still weird, but I’m not alone. I just had a delivery from Office Depot last week. I always order at least $50 from them so I can get free shipping. I have a 3-hole punch, one of the really good ones; an electric pencil sharpener; an electric stapler; I order my paper by the case of reams. I own one of these. And all this is just for home.
“(Hey, Feynn, they’re talking stationery in here - what’s taking you so long?)”
Featherlou - I’ve been a busy man over the past couple of days… school is about to start and our house is overflowing with brand new school supplies for Mrs Feynn and the Feynnlings.
If I haven’t been at work I have been hunkered down at the table re-grinding and polishing pen nibs, I needed a few fine stubs for myself (doesn’t everyone?) and have orders to make three pens for my co-workers. Yes… everyone in my office will soon be able to experience the joy that is writing with a fountain pen, pens that write like glass on glass I might add.
I even managed to pick up some stuff for myself over the past couple of weeks, I travelled to the Stationary store I used to go to when I was a kid and found all kinds of vintage supplies as well as quite a few colours of ink I cannot find here. The colour du jour is Sheaffer brown which really looks more like copper or bronze… $30.00 worth of ink was procured for myself and Mrs. Feynn. I also have a new pen coming via mail and then there’s also the Esterbrook restoration project… I am just waiting on parts to arrive so I can start using my c. 1940 fountain pen.
And for those folks who write with those other things (ballpoints, etc.) I also found some of the new Parker gel refills that fit their Jotters and other ballpens… they are awesome. There are actually odd occasions when I need something other than a fountain pen and the gel refill makes my old Classic Parker write like a dream.
I have to make another trip to Calgary so I can go to Reid’s Stationers to pick up more ink and probably a pen or two, I still need a Lamy for the collection and some more ink and convertors… I almost need a chaperone when I go in there.
I covet the “mini” binder clip (Stock No. 99010). It is the world’s cutest office supply.
Smooth writing pens, multi-colored
Personalized post-it notes
Staplers that don’t jam (I have an ongoing problem with jamming)
Bad office supply things:
Extra-large binder clips that are malformed, which makes it impossible for my spindly hands to pinch open.
Plastic paper clips. They don’t hold the papers tightly enough.
Pencil cup that is too small to hold the gazillion pens and pencils you have (that don’t work, incidentally).
Hello, my name is pandagirl, and yes, I too am an Officesupply Whore!
OMG! I just can’t get enough. Anything. and if it isfancy colored, gel ink, scented, special shaped, girly, silver, PLATINUM, even better! It is like an overdose!
I have no children but went shopping with a friend of mine that has a second grader and I think I was more excited to pick out supplies than she was!
I can admit the problem, but I don’t think I want to fix it…
Office supply junkies of the world…rise up against the threat of the paperless office!
No more paper–no notebooks, no pens, no paper clips, no lovely colored pencils and highlighters, no gum erasers, no staples…
(Fortunately we all know it will never happen. The more my office tries to move a function completely onto the computer, the more paperwork is generated.)
Just the other day I was thinking of starting a thread on this very subject.
I love having different colored pens and highlighters. And don’t even get me started on all the colors of copier paper! Someday maybe I’ll work in a copy shop…man, that’d be sweet.
Yes, I too have drooled over the Levenger’s catalogue - I have almost bought the Circa notebook system MANY times! Ooh! The 3X5 card system is way cool too! I have yet to succumb to the temptation of fountain pens… but am too cheap. Cheap colorful pens are much fun, tho.
I was so thrilled when I started this job & they bought me a Franklin Planner! With the full starter pack even! Of course now I’ve turned to the Dark Side with my Handspring Visor… I can put a lot more data in it & I don’t have to decipher my messy handwriting. Besides, it’s got the Geek factor going for it.
I’ve been taking advantage of the back-to-school sales - Office Max was selling filler paper 5/1.00 and Target has 70-pg wirebound notebooks for .15 each! (No, I don’t have any kids, either…
Politzania - Come into the light my dear, a nice fountain pen doesn’t have to cost you your firstborn child although there are some pens out there that do.
I have about a dozen Sheaffer No-Nonsense fountain pens and their low price is not indicative of low quality. They all work well, day in and day out and Sheaffer does make a really nice nib… I usually re-shape and polish the nibs to suit my own tastes but they do write well right out of the box. Sadly, they are no longer made but can still be found for about $5 - $7 U.S. if you have the time to look around.
Besides these I also have four Parkers (2 Vectors and 2 Reflex pens), a customised Rotring Art Pen, a nearly 70 year old Esterbrook, and a beautiful Sheaffer Legacy. My wife has quite a collection too, her favourite is the new Sheaffer Javelin I gave her, this is regarded as one of the best economy pens out there as you can get a polished aluminium pen for under $20.00 with a really nice nib. Most people I know can’t believe that such an impressive looking pen cost so little.
So… for under 20.00 you can get yourself a really nice pen, many of those will even come with a lifetime guarantee. Your handwriting should also improve dramatically if you start using a real pen.
Foxy… I am so far past obsessed I don’t even know what to call it.
Damn you, OldBroad, did you have to bring exotic paper into this? I’m in enough pain as it is… I need a couple of lever arch files and some dividers (file dividers! yum!) and I’m trying to convince myself that I don’t really need to go to OfficeWorks, I can just go and buy them at the newsagent. Now, I’m going to have to resist the pull of the art paper shop as well!
I don’t think anyone has mentioned my favourite yet - system cards! And the little card-catalogue boxes they go in - with dividers, too! I put all my microbiology notes on system cards last semester (one card per bug, colour coded of course) and now I have two beautiful boxes of the things on my shelf.
What? Drool? On my shirt? Oh dear… er… folks, would you excuse me a moment…
I’m giving up on Pilot Precise. Every damn year when it gets hot, I leave some in the car. The way they’re constructed, the heat causes the ink to expand and they start leaking. Then I grab a pen and black blotchy ink goes everywhere. I even wrote them about the problem and they haven’t fixed it. Bastards.
My office supply fetish is pretty much limited to pens. I cured any potential notebook obsession by going up into the attic and looking at those boxes of notebooks from college. All filled with cramped writing, scribbled in infinite tedium, almost every lecture ending in a trailing illegible scrawl as I lapsed out of consciousness. I’m just not a note-taking person.
