School Supplies

I have a school supply addiction. I admit it. Always around this time of year, I feel like a reformed gambling addict forced to live in a casino. I get all these daily emails from the office supply stores with promises of $1 items and 20% off! How can I resist?

Pens are the worst. No matter how many pens I own, I always want more. I can’t help it. Pens and different colors of post-its. Come to think of it, it’s the colors that get me, really. Anything that typically comes in lots of different colors – I want it. Binders, notebooks, rulers, index cards, post-its, paper, pens, flags, highlighters, and the list goes on. I get this from my mother, the teacher. In fact, it was one of the best things about being a teacher. I had an endless excuse to get more pens and especially more white-board pens in every color imaginable. Oh, and the magnets too, of course, which were fun.

Now that I’m a writer and I am using these school supplies all the time as real tools to help me create stories and organize ideas, I feel like I’m in heaven. All that’s missing is making money so that I can afford to buy more. I’m thinking next week calls for a series of posts on how I use colorful office supplies to help me in my writing. Fun! Have a great weekend everyone!