Does anyone have any "office supply fetishes"?

Mine is pencils...number 2 pencils. I must have them. They must be sharpened. I don't feel right unless I have access to them and a decent sharpener.


:freak: <-----that's me.

I NEED more than just blue and black.

Fine point pens feel like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

I've got a whole drwaer full of binder clips!

:rofl:

:loveya:

Behold . . .

:bounce:

:loveya:

I didn't know YOU existed, Golden One!!!! Where doth thy reside, that I might procure thine?

:loveya:

:rofl: :D

...involves traveling the country giving 8-hour CPE seminars on the virtues and appropriate usage of binder clips.

I must have those.

And since I order the office supplies around here, I DO have them. :-)

They feel so... ooky. And that awful wood and graphite dust that they are coated in after sharpening.
Worse than nails on a blackboard.

I am obsessed with alligator clips, however.

That was back in the day...Of course, two pennies would do in a "pinch." :P


:hippie:

http://www.elexp.com/clp_allg.htm

Myraids of pads.

I love office supplies of all kinds, actually.

but they're so damn expensive.

..and therefore: free!



Right? :crazy:

Only the Ph.D candidates get to raid the supply cabinet. The M.A. schlubs (me!) have to buy their own stuff x(

Absolutely. Cannot live without them.

It's because when I do any preaching, teaching or officiating I'm reading from a black three-ring binder.

I'm also a pencil person. I cannot even stand to see someone writing in a calendar with a pen. That's just so wrong!

It is unbeatable for quick hole punching. :thumbsup:

And ultra-fine-point Sharpies, in as many colors as I can get my mitts on. When I quit working full time, I went straight to OfficeMax and bought a pack of each. I don't have to beg an office manager for the kinds of supplies I want anymore! Woo hoo! :woohoo:

Those are my two 'preciouses'...

Isn't there just something about the smell and feel of a new Sharpie? Mmmmm... :9

Nothing specific for me in the way of required office supplies, but I do use felt-tip pens instead of ballpoints to keep me from pushing down too hard when I write...despite the arthritis, I also pound keyboards far harder than is good for me. Fortunately, Mrs R listens to me typing when she's near my office, and yells at me when I'm pounding too much.

Redstone

I beat the hell outta my keyboard--I think its due to the fact that I learned to type on an IBM Selectric (you probably did too) ;-)

but never had), I did computer programming using a Model 33 Teletype as a terminal. Are you old enough to remember those? Cylindrical keys that you had to push down about three-quarters of an inch, with about a pound of force, to activate.

MILES of yellow paper tape with holes punched in it. And the "rub out" key for mistakes.

Redstone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFEUy8NzazE

Kids in the Hall ROCK!

When I worked full time and I couldn't find my pen, I'd quote this sketch, but nobody else knew what I was talking about. :(

(Even home alone, I'll say that as I root around my desk. "My pen..! My pen...!" :rofl: )

as well as tablets of what the Japanese call "genkou youshi," paper marked with squares for writing kanji.

I also like having lots of narrow-tipped pens in my purse and left at strategic points around the apartment. I particularly like the kind that are constructed not to leak on airplanes. I also buy mechanical pencils by the box.

It is dangerous for me to enter Office Depot.

All sizes & shapes, but only the yellow ones.

:rofl:

I was a General Manager at Staples for about 7 years.

Confession: I seriously do not know why, as a retail person, I needed a Stafford black pleather clipboard, a briefcase, a Dayplanner, with calculator and ruler and zipcase and other assorted inserts, and a ream of ivory copy paper to print my resume (oh yeah--that was why) on--but I seriously liked playing with and buying many of the cool things I stocked the shelves with back in the day. I liked knowing what good paper looked like, and handling really classy pens. I still have a little fetish for desk organizers and other things that "pimp my cubicle." I totally "got high on my own supplies". I think working with the tools of different trades every day made me aware of the utility and coolness of the different items--some things are great for work (bulk post-its) and some are totally play: fractal-print folders, flourescent binders, scented erasers: neat, not necessary. If I was back stocking shelves, I'd probably be ho-ing for business machine goodies right now (my day was the switch between 486 and Pentium, just at the cusp of people being aware of the internet and actually being on--I saw 14.4 modems being installed--that's like the silent movies, now). I'd be replete with key-drives and web-cams and you-all know what. Once bitten, always smitten.

My generation has been ruined for life. Damn their aggressive marketing!!!1111

because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...

Oh, that new pen smell. The feel of it as you write! Is there a Pen Anonymous?

Yep.

That's it, nothing else will do!

and sticky notes

...but it has to be black gel ink. :shrug:

I must also have a stapler that doesn't get staples stuck in it every other time I staple, along with lots of unridged paper clips.

They tear up the edges of the paper.

I can't STAND fine point pens, they scratch the paper and send me up a wall, plus my writing looks terrible with a fine point.

I make sure they never run out in my staplers - yes INDEED! And if I use someone else's stapler I check to make sure they ain't too low!!! :o

I always preferred the hand cranked kind. It gives ya a good workout and helps just just that perfect sharpening. In the good old days....

I was joking with the wuss comment, btw. :hi:

Boston KS


I won't have anything else.

So sayeth the Bishop of Cubicle 732!!

and these...

I'm HORRIBLE, I tell ya. Just HORRIBLE.

I love spiral bound notebooks, regular notebooks, a certain silky type of paper that I use (made by Carolina Pad International, oh, it's so silky), those nifty click pencils with replaceable erasers, erasers, in general, diaries, journals, rulers, compasses, protractors, scientific calculators (although I rarely need one, oddly enough), you name it. I love it. I also have an array, that's right, I said "an array," of staplers, fine point pens in several colors, book bags, a briefcase,

and...

















wait for it...















a book bag with wheels (like you see people pulling along behind them in airports and at some community colleges. This is no ordinary book bag. My book bag on wheels is fancy. It has metal casters and three wheels on a tri-axis that can climb stairs. That's right. My book bag can climb stairs and looks much like this one:



Beat that. :P

yeah, I got it pretty bad. :D

but that is one pimped-out macdaddy serious wheeled bookbag. I schlepped my books around by messenger bag back in the day, and still have a twist in my back...

but if I knew then what I know now--supplies is not a bad obsession to have, if they work.

got me the one with the wheels when I went to community college. I have loved it too. It saves on some serious back pain. It is easy to lift (the center of weight is just right) and easy to pull along behind. I love it. I wouldn't trade it for anything. If anything ever happens to it, I'm getting another one just like it.

I've been looking for a good rolling backpack for one of my kids. :hi:

the kind that pop up out of the dispenser. And I must have different colors, preferably the day-glo kind. When I find an empty dispenser at work, I go nuts. I hate when someone uses the last one and doesn't refill it!! :mad:

I get to order the office supplies at work, so I get to indulge my fetish pretty often. When I actually go into a Staples or Office Depot I breathe in deeply and literally go "aaaahhhhh" LOLOL

comes over me frequently. And I am particularly crazy about my notebooks & pens. I love the spiral notebooks. I confess to having about 50 half-filled because I NEED one for every instance. Then, I have to have the Black-ink Pilot G-2 07 Roller-ball pens. God, OK, I went to Office Depot today, and I wanted something from EVERY aisle, even when I got to the "break room" aisle and there were family-sized bags of coffee nips.

Tomorrow. *droooool*

I also need card-stock in the 50-pack because the surface is perfect for illustration. I'll go ahead and shut up now.

I don't know, I just love fancy paper.

of scissors.

And the way my boss is behaving, I think I need a supply of 2x4s with spikes.

mass quantities of pens *and* pencils of all sorts, handheld sharpeners. But no Bic Crystal ballpoints. They are the work of Satan. The Bic Atlantis are good, however.
Gel pens and I don't get along for some reason.

And like L. Leftcoast noted, pads of narrow ruled paper, especially the smaller variety

Pads of gridded paper, great for design and simulating the thought process.

I have at least two on my person at all times. It's a habit leftover from high school, when I'd take notes with them in class, and then use then when I was building sets because they mark on wood, skin, and foam as well as they do on paper. Also, just nice to write with.

Cause I love to use it --- !!!

Have one at home in my closet ---

Also, love the really colorful post-it notes, but then I save them cause I like them so much and use paper scraps --

And the creamy colored manila folders --- Aaaah . . .

All I wanted for Christmas was a paper shredder. But, did I get one? Oh.no. :cry:

And I don't mean just regular pens. I mean ALL kinds! the kookier the better!

None of this jive-ass fat-lined shit: that's for wusses. Gimme the college-ruled!

Pilot V Ball extra fine - blue.

pink, legal-size writing tablets.

I love office supplies, especially pens and paper, 'cause I write a lot.

There's nothing more frustrating than collating 25 pages of stuff then not having a stapler that can handle such a packet.

Also, my pink 5mm mechanical pencil and my Pink Pearl pencil ersaer.

to elementary school...one of the happiest days of any year was when I got to go shopping for new school supplies - fresh paper, new pens, new folders, new crayons, a pair of scissors etc. etc. :-)

I merely stand in the doorway of Staples, credit cards in my sweaty paws, a maniacal gleam in my bulging eyes and hiss, "Sarge...want....stuff....all....the.....stuff...." Hours later clerks are hand trucking stuff out to the U-Haul and I'm fixed until ... the next time.

"Hello. My name is Sarge and I'm an office supply slut."