Cranky Jr.'s Toys!
Cranky Jr!
Homeless guys on State Street!
Your box of labels!
Mr. Cranky’s power tools!
Mr. Cranky!
The Taboo buzzer!
Videotapes!
Books!
The dog!
Your recyclable cans and bottles!
Label all your body parts.
Label your sexual organs in great detail.
Sheesh. Do I have to do everything for you?
I have one too, and I’ve gone through quite a few tapes. I use them to do the ‘words’ for my cards. You know, that I rubber stamp? I get clear tape w/black printing (mostly) and go nuts.
I betcha my labler is fancier than yours. Neener Neener Neener.
Sounds like we need another crafty experience, eh?
My grandfather is an unrepentant Mad Labeler. This goes back to when labelers were letter-punch guns with that stiff red plastic tape. None of these newfangled printer-style labels for him, no. He put his name on everything. Tools, from table saw to leather knife (if there wasn’t room for his name, he just put his initials). His bicycle. The inside of the grandfather clock, so he’s remember how he repaired it. Everything.
The cleverest label he did, though, in my opinion, was in his cars: He made a label with his license plate and stuck it on the dashboard right above the speedometer.
As far as other uses, though, the smart-alecky “label everything!” people actually have a point, but it’s up to me (sheesh!) to point out how useful that actually might be: Label everything in a foreign language you’re trying to learn. On the couch, el sofá. On the bathroom door, el baño. On the family portrait in the hallway, la pintura. Or der Anstrich. Whatever floats your barca. 
We did that once, and it was both hilarious and educational. What could be better?
Three words: Unpack your adjectives. 
I went to a Schoolhouse Rock™ themed party last year, and some guy had brought along a LOT of those colored 3x5 cards, each one bearing a neatly-printed adjective. We had a great time sticking them all over the apartment (“verbose” on the bookshelf, “succulent” on the dessert table, etc.) It was even more surreal fun towards the end of the evening, when people started switching around tags.
Label the front door “EXIT” and all the closets, and the bedrooms, so you don’t accidently go through the wrong door when you’re trying to leave the house.
wonders where she can get a spiffy labelmaker
Make two labels of the same length that both say “Label.” Stick them back to back.
Make a project out of it. The Lever 2000 soap commercials claim that we have 2000 parts. Figure out all of them and then label all on you, send a pic in to the Lever folks.
Oh and be sure to post a pic for us to see too!
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We have a label maker at work. I adore it with all my soul. By now, whenever anyone has label that need making, they call me over. If they let me I would label the individual air molecules in our office. I would label dust, and mold spores and pollen. But they don’t let me. So, go label-crazy and let me live vicariously through you.
Make a label with:
Your name for your keychain
Your name for your PDA
Your name for all of the CDs/DVDs in your collection to increases chances of returns if stolen/borrowed
The battery change date for your remote control
The battery change date for your fire/carbon monoxide detectors
The filter change date for your furnace
The change date for any water filters
The mileage/date of your next oil change for your car (stick it on the sun visor)
A “No Solicitors” sticker on large tape for your front door
Also, if you, like me, can’t stand having open boxes of stuff like biscuit or pancake mix or oatmeal etc. in your closet, put that stuff in rubermaid containers or jars or whatever and use the labelmaker to put the recipes (e.g. 1/2 cup mix + 2 cups water + 1 tsp. oil) on the new containers.
And lastly, this is a big one, my mom and I recently went through all of our old family photo albums. We had worn, often tattered, handwritten notes from my grandma and great-grandma explaining the setting, occasion and people featured in some of the really old photos. Whenever anyone looked at the pictures, they would handle those notes and use them as a reference. They were on the verge of death by age and handling.
With my label maker, we made permanent records, in caption form, of what and who each photo depicted. We put those precious handwritten notes into protective sleeves and added them to the albums as display pieces themselves, so they will no longer be handled. The label maker helped us get the albums well-organized and neatly presented, and has allowed us to preserve that bit of legacy from my grandma and nana. Double score!
The first thing I did when I got my label maker was print a TON of labels that just said “mine”.
I made labels for all of my books that go out on loan – not personal ones, I “loan” those to people with the expectation that they might become “gifts”, but all my reference books at work that oh so mysteriously show up on other peoples’ desks.
“Is that my copy of the HEP Directory?”
“No, that’s my copy of the HEP Directory”
I then stare pointedly at my label until the freak gives it up.
I have labels on all of my Christmas ornaments – ok, not all, but any that have special sentiment or are particularly precious. Not on the actual ornament, but on the ZipLock baggie in which the ornament is wrapped during the off-season. Like “Gold Angel from Grandma’s Tree” or “Santa from Mr. Del’s First Christmas” or “Christmas Mule from Trip to Grand Canyon, 1997”.
The five thousand million little packets of photo negatives that are floating around the house – I haven’t actually done this yet, but it’s on the list. Thank god for the invention of the digital camera.
File labels – not just the file label, but when I add something important to the file, I make a label saying what it is and stick it on the inside of the file, so that I will realize if something is missing. For example, the Gryff’s vet records – there’s one label that corresponds to each record, so that if I go to look for something and it’s not in the file, I see the label and that reminds me that I must have left that particular record in my pet travel bag or something. As opposed to wondering if I ever had it in the first place.
The back of your PC.
(Some IT person at the Attorney General’s office did this…maybe it has something to do with those sodomy laws)
Anyway, like “MONITOR”, “COM1”, “MODEM”, “KEYBOARD”, “MOUSE”, “USB” etc.