i suppose admitting it is a good first step - i am a stationery junkie. i have every office supply item you could think of and more note cards than i care to admit, spanning the decades (and styles) since i have been able to write. i once had more pen-pals than you could shake a stick at and with twenty plus cousins on both sides of my family, no lack of persons to write to. though i still sit down and compose letters by hand, i simply cannot send enough letters to diminish my stock of stationery paper, note cards and decorative envelopes. i merely get a bigger box in which to hold them. momentary memory lapses increase my chances of buying a new carton of cards whenever i happen to see them at the store.

then there is the matter of other products found generally in the workplace. of course, leaving my job like i did, with the go ahead to take whatever your heart desired in the way of staplers, report covers and hole punches, was really like offering a crack addict more crack*. (hey, but maybe this would be the last time i needed a fix. maybe i would feel so good about what i accomplished with these office supplies that i could kick the habit. not likely.)

so please let me know if you need a certain item for a school or home project you are working on. i most likely have it.

*this is a general statement about the effects of addiction. i do not proclaim to know what it is like to be addicted to crack.