Supply Assistant

Even with all the technology we have today, there are certain items that you just can’t replace. Our cellphones seem to have taken the place of our appointment books. It’s easy to understand why: it’s convenient. You can check it on the go, set up reminders, and it’s one less thing to carry. But when [...]

Don’t get me wrong, I love what I do. But there’s a time for being outside the office, away from the office supplies, away from the printer supply and all of the deadlines and customer relations. It can get stressful, sure, which is why it’s important to take a breather every now and then.
Life is [...]

A printer supply can be very expensive. Toner and ink is pricey, but that doesn’t mean you can’t find it on sale. Because you can’t be cheap with your ink; sometimes your printer will take that negative karma and use it against you, printing out the entire web page even though you specifically highlighted only [...]

If you want to know of a fun way to take wind-blown photos of your friends while being inside, spray two cans of Dust-Off, otherwise known as compressed air, at their forehead. Tell them not to inhale, though. It’s not good for you.
Compressed air’s original office supply purpose is to clean keyboards and computer screens. [...]

For Christmas one year, when I was obsessed with office supplies as a child, my grandmother gave me a set of erasers. There was the standard big pink one about the size of my thumb, which was my least favorite, there was a rectangular white one which when rubbed against the paper made little brown [...]

The sound of a bell has long been associated in my mind with the business office supplies I used to use when I worked in Brooklyn as a youth. It was my first job after college. I was a marketing administrator, and everyday at twelve noon the tolling of nearby church bells sounded.
Twelve o’clock was [...]

The people in charge of our country are intellectuals. They have waded through years of school in order to get PhDs and juris doctorates.  They are well familiar with office supplies and file folders. And yet they aren’t doing a very good job at compromising because they put their political ideology ahead of their know-how [...]

I remember all my office supplies, or school supplies, in my desk. That desk nook was where we put our binders and folders and pens and pencils. The dark space was so private, so secretive, so childish, where you aren’t sure what’s proper and what’s improper and you only have vague notions of security. As [...]

I got a new piece of office supply: a tape dispenser. Scotch tape is very handy. It’s great for when you run out of post-it notes and you need to make sure your cubicle neighbor sees something, when it won’t work in an e-mail. The dispenser though, is the real magic.
Out of all my office [...]

I remember how good it felt to have a brand new set of school office supplies in early September. Between freshly sharpened pencils in my clean pencil bag and whole erasers and new binders and unmarked folders, I felt like a butterfly recently emerged from his chrysalis and having alighted upon his first flower in [...]