Premium Staples?
This is a silly detail, but being the cheapskate I am it's significant.
Last week I had to buy a package of staples. That's an important event, because staples come in packages of 5,000 staples and normally no one (me included) ever buys them, we just bring them home from work.
Well, I haven't had a "work" to come home from since 1997 and I finally ran out of staples.
That's milestone number one.
Milestone number two was passed when I went to Staples to buy staples and had to make a choice between staples and Premium Staples.
It's a big deal, too, since plain old generic staples cost a buck nineteen and premium staples are three and a quarter.
How much difference can there be? Staples are flat bent wire held together in a strip by glue. This is not -- as the prices indicate -- exactly rocket science.
But, for some strange reason, I bought the Swingline S.F.4 premium staples.
They are worth EVERY PENNY of the extra $2.06 (even after adding on the 6% sales tax on the $2.06)!
They pop out smoothly with a satisfying, crisp click. They have yet to curl up a leg and create an unfileable carbuncle on a pile of papers.
I haven't cursed at my stapler since I bought them.
A small but annoying recurring irritation removed from my life, and replaced by the smooth, sharp click of a premium staple, for only $2.06 (plus tax.)
Rick Carey
Last week I had to buy a package of staples. That's an important event, because staples come in packages of 5,000 staples and normally no one (me included) ever buys them, we just bring them home from work.
Well, I haven't had a "work" to come home from since 1997 and I finally ran out of staples.
That's milestone number one.
Milestone number two was passed when I went to Staples to buy staples and had to make a choice between staples and Premium Staples.
It's a big deal, too, since plain old generic staples cost a buck nineteen and premium staples are three and a quarter.
How much difference can there be? Staples are flat bent wire held together in a strip by glue. This is not -- as the prices indicate -- exactly rocket science.
But, for some strange reason, I bought the Swingline S.F.4 premium staples.
They are worth EVERY PENNY of the extra $2.06 (even after adding on the 6% sales tax on the $2.06)!
They pop out smoothly with a satisfying, crisp click. They have yet to curl up a leg and create an unfileable carbuncle on a pile of papers.
I haven't cursed at my stapler since I bought them.
A small but annoying recurring irritation removed from my life, and replaced by the smooth, sharp click of a premium staple, for only $2.06 (plus tax.)
Rick Carey
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