My Viva towels
I not only use them to wipe up spills, but also to blow my nose (never tears from the moisture), to blot my refilled printer ink tanks and to spread out as a small table cloth as I eat my food at the computer. Now the towels come in 6-inch tear-off sections. So it seems the roll of towels lasts twice as long as before.
My small cassette tape recorder
Not only do I record some speakers at the meetings I attend, but I also record some phone conversations (my grandson’s saying “I wuv you, Gampa”). And using the text-to-voice feature on my Mac, I record certain magazine and news articles for listening to in bed – and in the car on a burned CD – read to me by the artificial person of my choice, and at the rate of speech of my choice.
My label maker
Besides using the label maker for file folder labels, I label all my more costly material possessions with my cell phone number. On my cell phone it shows my wife’s cell number. And it has paid off; while we were walking around a museum, I got a phone call from a person who said something like “I found your sunglasses, thanks to the phone number you had on the attached label.” For that label, I not only used the smallest letter setting, but also cut around the telephone number so no border would show. It sticks to my glasses for months.
My digital postal scale and the USPS website
After weighing a package on my $25 digital postal scale, checking the cost via the Internet, and affixing stamps from my collection of 1-cent up to $1 stamps, I am ready to bypass the lines at the post office and just drop my envelope or package into the mailbox. Even though my scale is very accurate, I enjoy checking its accuracy from time to time, using a 1-ounce weight.
My paper cutter and glue stick combo
My daughter recently showed me how to really fold a piece of 8½-inch x 11-inch cardstock to make an accurate and “professionally” sharp fold. Place one end of the card against the paper cutter’s ruler and fold up the other end. Then press and drag the covered end of the glue stick on top of, and along, the folded edge. Voila!
Mr. Ebsen may be contacted at robertebsen@hotmail.com?
