My Husband Had A Lot Of Pens Etc

[rowanwitch]

Just started on the stationery drawer, packs and packs of pens, markers etc Dry wipe, permanent, cd pens I didnt know he had bought them. Oh well another thinh I wont have to worry about for years.
Anyone else got a strange stash hidden away....

Mine is embroidery threads I have over a 1000

[mallyh]

buttons ,I cut them off old clothes .x

[rowanwitch]

I do that too but then I card them up and give them to a charity shop they sell at 50p a card

[mallyh]

that's a good idea .I don't know why I keep them lol x

[rowanwitch]

Its quite fun if you have small ones to keep them occupied finding sets while you sew them onto cards

[Hopkirk]

You haven't found his stash of wine yet?

[MallyJ]

I have pens too....collected from hotels, bought, found etc etc...I keep finding them in backsof drawers, forgotten pencil cases, old bags and , of course, boxes. I was a teacher and used to give them to children who thought they could get away with no work if they had no pen and for those who simply had no pencil case as parents haden't supplied them. I don't know what to do with them all but do come across old hotel pens and the memories come back! I am still of the belief that you can never have too many pens!

[rowanwitch]

Found the wine and the beer, still looking for the cider, I know we had some

[Jackdaw33]

I agree with mallyj. When I was a schoolboy I was obsessed with pens, couldn't get enough of them. My mother used to tell me not to waste my pocket money on any more pens.

[rowanwitch]

I loved stationers shops, I used a fountain pen very early and from then on I wanted all the coloured inks. To the dispair of my teachers I liked purple best.... well its blueish miss

[ichkeria]

For ages I was keeping old milk bottle tops even though I knew it was pointless

[rowanwitch]

loads of people fell for that old story, most insisted it was to get some poor kiddie a wheelchair...

[ichkeria]

:-)

[Old_Geezer]

I have a load of pens & pencils, but that's because someone or something keeps hiding them when I need one. Same with DIY tools. Got loads of books too; not to mention old hobbies/memories mostly in boxes.

[rowanwitch]

Bloomin nora he obviously collected calculators too I have found three so far

[Old_Geezer]

I'm fairly sure certain children's TV programmes used to ask for collections of silver paper/bottle tops for charity.

[Old_Geezer]

Just 3 ? Isn't that normal ?

[rowanwitch]

7 pencil sharpeners, six soft white rubbers, 5 compasses, 4 protractors, 3 staplers, 2tape dispensers and a partridge in a pear tree... well I lied about the partridge

[murraymints]

fountain pens for me..learned to write with an open nib pen..went on to be Royal scribe in Scotland.... so still loads of pens..inks...

[rowanwitch]

I wont need to buy cellotape either or string..... He must have collected all this stuff when he was home and I was still working.
36 hb pencils

[rowanwitch]

Yes Minty but yours were tools of the trade, there is a good reason why you would have them. Dave used to print everything on the *** computer