A half-used container of Qwik-Sort with little specks of dust suspended in its surface
― not uplifting (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:55 (fourteen years ago)
a little nubby rubber fingertip cover, also for sorting papers
― league of women voters, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:56 (fourteen years ago)
scattered vitamins or otc old meds.
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:57 (fourteen years ago)
cold meds
little worn box of brads with two brads in it
― not uplifting (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)
I once found a bag of mushrooms in my dorm room desk at college!
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)
brads? huh?
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:59 (fourteen years ago)
(Yes, I ate them.)
a pen
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 20:59 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.vickiscardmakingideas.com/uploads/brads.jpg
brads
― not uplifting (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:00 (fourteen years ago)
huh!
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:00 (fourteen years ago)
Spilled sugar packets
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:00 (fourteen years ago)
Napkins.
http://www.electricholepunch.net/wp-content/themes/AnXFactor/images/SingleHolePunch.jpg
one hole paper punch with dirt in the pebbled surface of the handgrips
― not uplifting (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:01 (fourteen years ago)
Single paper clips stuck in the drawer joints
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:01 (fourteen years ago)
a pen's lid but no pen
― not uplifting (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:04 (fourteen years ago)
take out menus?
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:04 (fourteen years ago)
a french fry
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:05 (fourteen years ago)
an old bottle of lotion
― n/a, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:05 (fourteen years ago)
files of documents that no one needs for anything anymore
― n/a, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:06 (fourteen years ago)
a list of function key shortcuts for a program no one uses anymore such as Adobe Pagemaker
― not uplifting (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:06 (fourteen years ago)
haha xp
old kethcup/mustard/etc packets
hand sanitizer
thousands of highlighters
― well in (advance johnson), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:07 (fourteen years ago)
cup of noodles
― rusty flathead screwdriver, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:07 (fourteen years ago)
Keys but you don't know what they open.
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:07 (fourteen years ago)
a pin for a local political campaign with names that have faded from the local cultural consciousnessor a pin for a fundraising athletic event
― not uplifting (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:08 (fourteen years ago)
my previous boss was into having toys for people to play with during meetings so i occasionally find old koosh balls in drawers
― n/a, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:08 (fourteen years ago)
i guess that's not every office though, sorry
― n/a, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:09 (fourteen years ago)
in in similar vein, lots of old rulers from various vendors / politicians / etc
― well in (advance johnson), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:09 (fourteen years ago)
no I feel like there is some weird displaced toy in many desksfor example, the desk my teacher got for me to use had a small dusty Grimace in it
― not uplifting (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:09 (fourteen years ago)
a self-inking stamp that has fallen out of useVOID
― not uplifting (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:10 (fourteen years ago)
there is a "six traits of good writing" checklist self-inking stamp in my drawer
― not uplifting (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:11 (fourteen years ago)
an instructional or motivational VHS tape
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― the deli llama, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:11 (fourteen years ago)
my new office has several old bibles and dictionaries, as well a copy of "robert's rules of order"
― well in (advance johnson), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:12 (fourteen years ago)
handbook for thing that no one uses anymore
old employee manual
― league of women voters, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:13 (fourteen years ago)
some Rolodex cards with mystery names/phone numbers/addresses written in a wavering cursive
― not uplifting (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:15 (fourteen years ago)
abbott let's be real -- we are talking about old teacher's desks aren't we
― league of women voters, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:15 (fourteen years ago)
teachers' desks + the desks at the newspaper where I used to work2003 and my work computer was a Macintosh LC 580
― not uplifting (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:18 (fourteen years ago)
"those Rolodex cards used to be Earlene's, you can't get rid of them"
Ha I just looked in the desk I use as a turtle tank stand and in it: brads, one-hole paper punch, New Mexico elections pin.
― not uplifting (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 23:59 (fourteen years ago)
been in my job about 3 months and i ended up replacing a dude who interviewed me, i guess he left his job because i ended up interviewing for his role instead of a more minor one.
looked in the drawer one day a few weeks back and it was totally empty except my cv was in it, with notes on it. creepy...didn't read it, just closed it instantly.
― HI IT'S RONAN, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 00:06 (fourteen years ago)
below current rate postage stamp
― brownie, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 00:07 (fourteen years ago)
Paper circles from punched holesOne paperclip that does not match standard office supply cabinet paperclips due to size, color, shape, or materialTampon
― thejenny, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 00:07 (fourteen years ago)
Once found an entire, uneaten box of KK donuts. They were so old they'd gone solid. Not a speck of mould on them.
― Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. (Trayce), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 01:56 (fourteen years ago)
Answering machine cassettes
― you are a baby seal (Abbott), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 01:56 (fourteen years ago)
boxes of staples, boxes of paperclips, piles of my old business card that I never really needed to use and is now usless as the address is wrong
― Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. (Trayce), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 01:58 (fourteen years ago)
pencil shavings
― the lubbock babes, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 02:00 (fourteen years ago)
labels for floppy diskettes
― the lubbock babes, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 02:01 (fourteen years ago)
a penny
― the lubbock babes, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 02:02 (fourteen years ago)
three half-used Post-It note pads
― END BRONY CAPITALISM (sean doily), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 02:11 (fourteen years ago)
spare electrical cords, adapters, accessories an instructional manuals - most of which were never used to begin with, and all of which once accompanied devices which have long since fallen out of use.
― Pollbix, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 04:23 (fourteen years ago)
LANYARD
― Z S, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 04:30 (fourteen years ago)
old conference id badges
a key that doesn't fit
-highliters with missing lids, so dried out and useless- a bunch of manky old green carboard suspension file folders, with obscure things written on the tags that could mean anything like VERT and OFF.1 and OLD
― Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. (Trayce), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 04:49 (fourteen years ago)
When I was a kid, I loved playing around in my parents' old rollup desk, which was full of cool old stuff like trading stamps, fountain pens, and postage meters with 13 cent ounce markings.
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 08:36 (fourteen years ago)
A date stamp that can't be set to any date later than 31 Dec 1999
― yes this is the real (snoball), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 08:42 (fourteen years ago)
Treasury tagshttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/75/Treasury_Tags.jpg/220px-Treasury_Tags.jpgseriously, who uses these? They always tear the paper. Maybe they're part of a scheme to encourage the sale of hole reinforcements.http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41hnNzK0k5L._AA115_.jpg
― yes this is the real (snoball), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 08:45 (fourteen years ago)
The desk I was talking about had a desk stamp set to sometime in the late Sixties.
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 08:47 (fourteen years ago)
A huge metal bodied library style Dymo labeller that they don't make tapes for anymore. They are very cool, weigh a tonne, but are totally unusable now.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 09:07 (fourteen years ago)
Backup tapes for a server that was disposed of over a decade ago. Bonus if the tapes are nearly VHS sized but have a laughably small capacity like 250MB.
― yes this is the real (snoball), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 09:15 (fourteen years ago)
In my workplace, when somebody leaves the rest of us descend on his or her desk like hungry seagulls because, due to budget constraints, certain office supplies are a scarce and valuable commodity. When my old boss left, I found a ruler in her desk and my coworkers still come to me and say in reverent tones, "I hear you found a ruler! Can I borrow it??!?!?"
― thejenny, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 13:19 (fourteen years ago)