happiness is a bagful of mangled brass
July 2, 2006My shipment of fasteners and washers arrived today. How awesome is the Acco #5 solid brass brad? I’m sure they’re wonderful as packed in a case to the stores, but Office Depot threw a flimsy box full of singly insignificant but en masse heavy cardboard-chewing metal into a loose plastic bag, along with 5-8 boxes of washers. The washers for the brads are smartly and securely snapped inside sturdy plastic boxes which survived most of the trip; my roving swarm of brass caltrops managed to chew open only one and a half of them. So I fished the pitiful scraps of cardboard out and just am keeping them in the road-worn plastic outer “bag” they came in.
Hammering them into a script was joyous though. I’m never binding anything differently again. My greeting cards will be sent out hole-punched with a shiny holiday fastener for the lucky recipient to figure out how to undo.
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