Comments on: Magic Stapler: Not magic, and not really a stapler

By: Randa

Randa — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:43:00 +0000

Good for you, Beth, on returning such waste. As for the magic stapler, I own one and I love it. It was given to me as a gift for my office and I am absolutely pleased with it. Granted, I wish it were bigger so I could staple more than 4 pieces of paper, but it works very well for my smaller reports. I intend to get more magic staplers to give as Christmas gifts to my co-workers.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:27:00 +0000

I have a different brand of “stapler” that folds the paper and tucks it into a cut. It works perfectly.

By: Environmental Paper Boy

Environmental Paper Boy — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:25:00 +0000

Excellent post Beth! I just discovered your blog yesterday and added to my blog its great.

I cannot stand excessive packaging its so wasteful all the packaging they sent with that little tiny stapler! Amazing. Love your blog!

By: Crafty Green Poet

Crafty Green Poet — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:38:00 +0000

That’s a ridiculous amount of packaging! Good you emailed them! There’s greenwash everywhere

By: Clif

Clif — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:49:00 +0000

Beth, wanted to let you know that I received a graphics tablet that I ordered from Amazon and there was not one bit of plastic in the shipment. I don’t know if this is a deliberate thing by Amazon, but maybe there is hope if such a giant company and big shipper does this.

By: terrible person

terrible person — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:50:00 +0000

At least no one has created plastic staples, the way they’ve, for no apparent reason and with no apparent advantage, plastic paper clips.

(I’m still annoyed about this.)

By: m

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:53:00 +0000

Thank you so much for this post. My stapler is broken and is a pain to use, so I decided to use up the rest of my staples and look into getting one of those stapleless staplers. I’m glad you wrote about them, because now I’m not getting one!!!

By: Clif

Clif — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:47:00 +0000

I worked in electronics for years. We would routinely go through hundreds of connectors, the kind that you find on the end of your TV cable or on the back of your TV, little metal things about the size of the tip of your thumb. We’d order 500 or 1000 at a time and they’d typically arrive in a ziploc plastic bag. Not a big deal. But, within the past few years, every single connector is in its own sealed plastic bag. So, once received, we’d sit down with a pair of scissors and extract each connector from its bag just to save space so we could store them and into the trash would go 500 or 1000 pieces of useless plastic.

Do you ever get the feeling you are like the little boy with his finger in the dike, holding back the flood?

By: Milton

Milton — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:57:00 +0000

I’m a big fan of conventional staples, anyway. In fact, if they try to take my stapler away, I’ll burn the place down, I really will.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:41:00 +0000

Thanks Beth. One of your best posts for me! I had looked at that website and thought about ordering one for the novelty but if it doesn’t even work that’s just crap. Good for you for mailing it back too!