# What's your single favorite office supply?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-single-favorite-office-supply/948295>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 9, 2021, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-single-favorite-office-supply/948295 "2021-08-09T12:54:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-single-favorite-office-supply/948295/61 "2021-08-10T20:15:17Z")

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Giant post-its. (easel size and 12"x12")  
No real use for them working from home. But they were great for working-from-work. Better than the whiteboards, because they could be moved to the side, taken down, reconfigured, put back up in a different meeting. scrawled on. and then taken away for notes for later.

Love them.

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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-single-favorite-office-supply/948295/62 "2021-08-11T00:54:22Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> Something just doesn’t add up.

Totally!

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-single-favorite-office-supply/948295/63 "2021-08-11T02:40:59Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> > [@digs](#):
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> > But then I remembered the first present I opened every birthday as a kid: **a ream of copier paper**. So white, and so blank, it just _had_ to filled with imaginative doodles.
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> This is me too! I still doodle on any scrap of paper that slips by me.

Try keeping a stack of larger paper at hand, and save the doodles in a file folder as you fill pages (trust me…) Then, when you retire, you can doodle for a living. Redraw your best doodles on archival paper, frame it, put it in a gallery under track lighting and _poof!_ It’s Art!

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**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-single-favorite-office-supply/948295/64 "2021-08-11T03:04:02Z")

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The inkless stamp that creates the word “COPY” in red letters by depositing the top layer of itself on the paper, yet never seems to get any smaller or harder to read. And it has no moving parts. I’ve been using the same one for 5 years, though it only gets a few dozen uses a year.

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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-single-favorite-office-supply/948295/65 "2021-08-11T03:16:53Z")

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Well, currently, my favorite writing implement is the uniball signo 0.38mm brown-black pen. But i work for cheap employers, so i buy my own pens, and don’t use the ones they provide.

So… my favorite office implement is the tape despenser. I just like playing with tape. Mine sits on my desk, and doesn’t wander. And my employer springs for a new roll of tape when i run out.

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