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Source? Index cards without plastic

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

Does anyone have a source for index cards without a plastic wrapper. Back when I was younger, you could get them — and index tabs; which can be gotten in pasteboard boxes — bound in a band of paper.
Perhaps from an office supply source, rather than a retailer? Please leave me a lead in [...]

Low plastic office: pencil sharpeners

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

You can, of course, avoid using plastic pens (even fountain pens) by using wooden pencils. But they need to be sharpened. KUM makes these small, elegant and metal sharpeners that I’ve seen loose in art-supply stores. A nice stocking stuffer, I’d think, too.

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Low plastic office: pens

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Like my shaving, I adopted fountain pens years ago because I prefer the experience of writing with them. Most modern fountain pens — the inexpensive ones anyway — are almost all plastic, however, and that’s not good. Twisting open to refill, uncapping and recapping . . . the plastic fails. So I moved to mostly-metal [...]