Meanwhile, we’re making do with this hand-held, 5” long hot dog stapler. Makes putting paper together a bright spot in the day. Uses those standard 3/8” mini staples and comes with a couple dozen, but they’re available wherever office supplies are sold.

Sorry, like lunches, there are no free paper clips, but these 1-1/2” x 1-1/4” steel butterfly clips are dirt cheap at under four cents each, and you can’t hardly get anything for that. You’ll get (50) clips per package, and we’ll send you (2) packages.

From ACCO®, these are the only office supply items equally at home holding marketing reports or bags of nacho chips. You pick from our collection of binder clips, in itsy, 5/8" wide that opens to 1/4”; or bitsy at 3/4” wide opening to 1/2”. In boxes of (12), so you get (36) per order.

Pat got visibly excited when these came in, and so will you. From Helix®, these are slightly larger versions of the wedge-shaped erasers you stick on top of pencils, but these have...(you better sit down for this)...pencil sharpeners embedded inside of them! It's the pencil twofer, or "double Helix." Make perfect, crisp, mistakes and get rid of them immediately. We'll send a half-dozen in stylish white, blue, black and traditional eraser red.

But a foot’s a foot, right? These student rulers are wood, 12” long x 1/16” thick with inches, marked in 1/16” increments, on the side with the metal inset and mm’s on the opposite. Drilled for 3-hole binders, but the little buggers will lose them anyway, hence the supply-budget price.

And carry it, too. This dark green expandable plastic file folio measures 11-3/4" x 9-1/4" with (6) translucent sleeves, including one with a CD/ROM disc holder and a business-card holder, and has slide-out tabs for hanging the whole thing in a file cabinet when you’re not at the meeting. Sleeves have slots for tabs, and you’ll get (26) of these in assorted colors. Closes top and bottom with elastic cords.

When we were your age, our protractors were all just plain clear plastic. You kids today can get them in translucent blue, red, orange, purple or green, but we're going to pick because we didn't get to then. These pretty ones are 6" wide and read from 0-6" x 1/16" on the bottom and from 0-180 degrees x 0.5-degrees bidirectionally along the arc. Include holes for a 3-ring binder.

Bring back cursive writing with this 40-sheet, bound writing tablet for kiddies, with 1/2” blue rules divided by a dotted line to help place ascenders and descenders. Pages are 10” wide x 8” long, and the inside cover has both cursive and print alphabets in upper and lower case. For grades 2 and 3.

You win some, you lose some? No need to keep switching pens when you have this two-headed ball point pen with a black cartridge at one end and a red one at the other. Perfect for those hand-held profit and loss statements.

You get (3) packs of (5) white, 8-1/2" x 11" index dividers with clear offset tabs and reinforced binder holes, plus a place for title, date, #, and detail fields, which you're free to ignore.

Glide Clips are Swingline’s™ way of saying sorry for all the holes their staples have caused. These matte-plastic paper clips are stronger than metal paper clips and much prettier. They measure 15/16" long in assorted reds, whites and blues, and come (15) clips to a package.

School is a tiny bit more tolerable when they can sharpen pencils in these. You get a 2" dia baseball and basketball and a 2-1/2" long football that, as a bonus, sits on a tiny kicking tee.

Organize those loose magazines and brochures. Elegantly designed (slightly assorted styles) with a glossy finish, these cardboard file/holders are sure to please. 11-3/4” high x 3-1/2” wide x approx. 9-1/8” deep, open at the top and 3/4” of the front (or back, depending on how you file them.) They come flat, have easy pop-up assembly and we will pick two for you. 

Good advice for us all, and true of this clear, flexible shatter-resistant plastic ruler from Helix®. Measures 12” in 1/16” (and 30cm in 1mm increments).

Think: holders for handouts, or for table-top displays that will hold 8.5” x 11” sheets for students or employees to take. In heavy plastic from Mead®, they unfold into an easel with a pocket to hold sheets horizontally in front, and a clear plastic window below, to identify the contents. When not in use, they fold up, and have an elastic cord to hold them closed. We’ll pick a pair in blue, aqua or lime green.

It doesn’t stain when you spill your latte on it. You pick from our selection of plastic (polypropylene) three-ring binders with 1-1/2” rings, measuring 11-3/4” x 10-1/4”. You choose berry, lime-ish green, or Wedgwoody blue with 1/16” thick covers, or the thinner, 1/32” cover, in blue only.

Clever little plastic boxes 4-1/2" x 2-1/4" x 1" hold note paper - and dispense one sheet at a time as you open and close the cover. The clear red box is labeled "Mom". They work even better with business cards, so they make great little gifts if Mom has her own cards. We'll send you a bag of (3) with each order. 

This 6" x 8", 50-sheet ruled notepad mimics an iTablet screen, to make you more comfortable writing on actual paper. (Use a pencil, the original stylus.) As a bonus, it has a magnetic strip on the back so you can stick it on the fridge, which you shouldn't try with your tablet.