Manage Your Life
Thursday, December 3, 2009
What grown-up school supplies do you have your eye on?
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I can't possibly be the only one (over age 12) who still gets the powerful craving for new pens and
notebooks when fall starts rolling in, can I? This year my back-to-school wish list has expanded to include elaborately patterned sticky notes, like this
unicorns-and-headphones style from
LeSportsac. (Maybe I should just dig up the O.G.
Lisa Frank stuff and accept the fact that I am clearly regressing?) Side note: When was it decided that all
fancy sticky notes must be sold in multi-size "booklets" with protective "portfolio" covers? Was it because they figured no one would pay $12 for sticky notes otherwise? Have they heard how much
regular school supplies add up these days?
But back to the point:
Do you get the urge to buy yourself school supplies (or, ahem, a back-to-school wardrobe) at this time of year? And if so, what's on your shopping list?More ways to make your home office prettier:
Cute old-fashioned pencil sharpeners
Vibrant binder clips (a d.i.y. project)Off-kilter (but awesome) bookcase
Gorgeous Rex Ray wall calendar
Antique card catalog files as creative organizing solutions
Faux feather pens for funnier note-taking
Retired silverware as memo holders
Wooden office accessories
Colorful staples
Related: unicorns, sticky notes, school supplies, lisa frank, lesportsac, inspirational office moment, home office, headphones, back to school
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Posted by Rowdygirl Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:46am PDT
I'm the same way even now (I'm 47 and should be over this)... I still look at the notesbooks and pens. I still have a serious pen fetish, but at least I can get away with that.. everyone needs pens.. :) The one thing that I always wanted when I was in scholl was a protractor. I never needed one for school, but every year I tried to get my mom to buy one and she wouldn't. :(
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Posted by theresa Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:59pm PDT
I work in an office and order the supplies - I still want to get the school supplies at the store when I walk through. I do have 3 kids to buy for, but I want (need?) something for myself too. Oh well-
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Posted by Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:30pm PDT
I am 12 and going into 7th grade and I love going to the store and getting school supplies. I don't know why but it is tempting to go to the store and search the school supplie section.
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Posted by Kim Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:50am PDT
I love this time of year! Yes there is always a little something for me in the supply bag! Usually, pretty pens or notepaper. This year it was a pink calculator.
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