Well, this was a fun one! You know how you pick up pens wherever you go. Maybe from an old workplace, or a conference or a workshop or... high school. And you keep them because they are perfectly good pens. You test them out every once in a while and get rid of the dead ones, but the live ones are still writing well, so you can't throw them away, so you keep them. Mind you, they aren't your favourite type of pen and you never use them. But you keep them... I'm not sure what for... but I keep them. So, today I decluttered pens and stuff... I went through all of the pens and pulled out all the ones I never use, put them in a ziploc bag and they can go off to Value Village. Then there was this old ruler... I've had it since Grade 5. It's white plastic with cm down one side and mm down the other side. I never use it because I have nice metal rulers that have both inches and cm... But I've kept it because... I've had it a long time... 35 years or so. But now... it's sitting in the garbage can... yup, I let it go!!
So, what with one thing and another, I did pretty good in decluttering the office supplies. There's some more space, and that always feels good... But do you ever wonder... why did we ever go to disposable pens? Pens that we can only use once and then throw away? Whatever happened to the pens where you would just get a new pen insert and keep going? I'm not sure when that transition happened, but we sure do throw away an awful lot of plastic with pens nowadays... Do they even still make the refillable ones?? I found one in all my stuff, and I kept it... you never know when it might come in handy....
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