Banned Substances
Aug. 4th, 2005 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsYesterday when I got off the bus I stopped by the local "office superstore," a Staples. I have been experimenting with the Hipster PDA on and off, and one of the things I noticed is that it doesn't really work for me. It's too damned big. I use 3x5 cards for my Kitchster Organizer, which is a nifty tool, but I wouldn't want to carry it around with me. I needed something better.
I tried using MindBendertm cards, which are little study flashcards, which have been just perfect for organizing stories and things. Each one has an incident, an unanswered question, a character note-- I use different colors of highlighter to alert me to the nature of the card. Even a short story can generate a dozen or more cards. I hesitate to think of what a novel will create. I have another set with my Kanji and Kanas on them. It hit me yesterday: these are just overpriced business card blanks. They have a hole drilled through them so you can use a ring clip, but a binder clip would be just as effective. The hole even gets in the way.
So I went into Staples and asked for a box of 500 blanks. I expected to pay five bucks or so, which would be half of the price for MindBenders. The guy behind the counter looked at me as if I were insane. "You want what?"
"500 blank business cards. You know, plain business card stock. And no, I don't want the ones you put through a home printer."
"We, uh, don't have any way to sell you those."
"You're a business supply place. You sell business cards, right?"
"Yes, but we order out for those. We don't do the printing here. We don't have any procedure for selling cards with nothing on them. You're not going to do anything strange with them, are you?"
"No, I'm just going to counterfeit the cards from Candyland so I can rig the game in my favor."
He laughed at that. At least he had a sense of humor. "I guess you could order a box of a hundred line cards and just not put anything down in the fields. That would be $10.95."
That would be more than the commercially produced flashcards! I thanked him anyway and will have to find a real printshop later.
I tried using MindBendertm cards, which are little study flashcards, which have been just perfect for organizing stories and things. Each one has an incident, an unanswered question, a character note-- I use different colors of highlighter to alert me to the nature of the card. Even a short story can generate a dozen or more cards. I hesitate to think of what a novel will create. I have another set with my Kanji and Kanas on them. It hit me yesterday: these are just overpriced business card blanks. They have a hole drilled through them so you can use a ring clip, but a binder clip would be just as effective. The hole even gets in the way.
So I went into Staples and asked for a box of 500 blanks. I expected to pay five bucks or so, which would be half of the price for MindBenders. The guy behind the counter looked at me as if I were insane. "You want what?"
"500 blank business cards. You know, plain business card stock. And no, I don't want the ones you put through a home printer."
"We, uh, don't have any way to sell you those."
"You're a business supply place. You sell business cards, right?"
"Yes, but we order out for those. We don't do the printing here. We don't have any procedure for selling cards with nothing on them. You're not going to do anything strange with them, are you?"
"No, I'm just going to counterfeit the cards from Candyland so I can rig the game in my favor."
He laughed at that. At least he had a sense of humor. "I guess you could order a box of a hundred line cards and just not put anything down in the fields. That would be $10.95."
That would be more than the commercially produced flashcards! I thanked him anyway and will have to find a real printshop later.
What about shipping tags?
Date: 2005-08-06 06:12 pm (UTC)Staples #4 White Shipping Tags, 4 1/4" x 2 1/8" 1000/Box Item 496241 Model G11041G $29.49
The Staples webpages says they are special order 1 week delivery.