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When people talk about what money can’t buy you there is always a big debate. Some people think money can buy you happiness, whereas others will tell you this is not true. The reason this is so debatable is because nobody really agrees, but something people do agree on is that you can’t buy time. They tell you not to waste time because you will never get it back. Once you’ve gone to sleep that is another day of your life assigned to the record books.
The income tax deadline is quickly approaching and many people are panicking. We all know how much time and effort it would save if we would have everything nice and neat and properly organized.
Let’s face it. Cubicles stink. No one wants to sit down for 9 hours in a makeshift cloth box doing TPS reports. Below are 12 items plus a bonus item to keep you and your neighbors entertained at work.
We are no stranger to cardboardat Samsill. We make the RAW binder which is highly durabletype of chipboard/cardboard. All of our binders had some form of chipboard between the sheets of Polypropylene. We know our way around cardboard, but Chris Gilmour brings cardboard to an entirely different level.
Yeah, you can those blue Bic pens in bulk if you want—a boatload costs about as much as your morning coffee. And all pens are pretty much the same, right? Of course not. Cheapo pens are much more likely to leave ink smeared across your nose, bleeding through your pants pocket, or glopping up your page.
But even cheap pens were state-of-the-art at one time. Let’s take a look at how writing with ink has evolved over the centuries.
The ring binderwas first patented in 1854 and since then they have been used for many things. The binderis the most efficient way to organize all kinds of materials. Since binders come in different sizes, colors, materials, and capacities, they are a universal tool for any type of organizational need. Binders also allow the user to become creative in what a binder is used for. Possibilities are endless when it comes to the many uses of binders.
Samsill has one of the widest, if not the widest, array of binder selection in the industry. There are WAY more than 8 uses for them but here are 8 that others have found useful.
Here are 8 uses for ring binders:
1. Sales pricing books
2. Owner’s manuals or employee handbooks can be easily organized into a binder
3. Organize school materials, homework, etc.
4. Organizing collections: Whether you collect stamps, baseball cards, or other memorabilia, plastic sheets and inserts are a great place to put collections and can be easily placed into a binder
5. Binders can make great scrapbooks or photo albums
6. Easel binders allow for making presentations easy
7. If you have a bunch of recipes lying around, a binder can be used to make a cookbook
8. A binder was originally created to hold loose leaf paper, which is a great place to write a journal, a book, or track goals
These are just a few examples of how binders can be used, but there are many more uses out there. Binders make organization easy and convenient, especially with binder accessories such as tabs and page protectors.
The Binders For Life series from Samsill are great binders to use for any of the 8 uses for binders.
The three ring binder serves as an integral component to any office, home, or educational facility. It keeps papers organized and neat, and presents them in a professional manner. The invention of the three ring binder led to other inventions and innovations related to office implements.
We like office supplies around here at Samsill. Tape is DEFINITLY an office product, and this is by far the COOLEST thing we’ve ever seen done with it!
Dutch street artistMax Zorn has revolutionized the way we usually use duct tape by creating portraits out of them.
Using layers of translucent duct tapes, Zorn creates stunning portraits of pop culture figures like the Beatles and also classic artworks such as Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’.
Zorn’s fascinating works have appeared on buildings, windows as well as street lamps all over Europe.
Three-ring binders can help keep important papers organized. The ease in opening the rings adds to the convenience of separating papers into groups and using tabs to label sections. Three-ring binders are available in different ring shapes and sizes. Each ring shape has a different mechanism and is fitted into the three-ring binder differently. Knowing the difference in the types of three-ring binders will aid you in picking the right binder to meet your needs.
A good friend of mine, Mark from Marketing, is a car enthusist as well as a skier from Monaco. He put a ski box on top of his Lambo but didn’t like the speed limit that put on his car. So he created a DIY aerodynamic kit for his Lambo out of binders. Just another way to reuse old binders!!
I know you are not supposed to put a ski box on a Lambo and I do know that you are an absolute idiot if decide to build an aerodynamic improvement on the car with a some card board and duct tape. I guess that makes me a super idiot! Haha
As Janni will be waiting for me in Monaco tomorrow I decided that I am going to get there as fast as I can after the race. So I decided to design an aero modification that I think will help the drag, creating better fuel economy and most importantly taking away our high speed limit…
Stay tuned tomorrow to see how our modification worked, I must say that with our only option of some card board and duct tape we did a pretty good job! 250km/h+ here we come?
The 3-ring binder is something that can be seen in schools and offices around the world. This binder is helpful because it gives students and those in offices the ability to organize and store whatever papers and documents they may have. The 3-ring binder is useful because not only does it keep papers organized, but it also helps keep papers protected from dirt or grime.
Hi Altego fans! We are happy to announce another Altego Laptop Sleeve Giveaway winner. For those of you who don’t know we are doing a weekly contest on our Altego Facebook account. We are giving away one Altego Laptop Sleeve to one of our lucky fans each week. The prize winners are randomly drawn from our Altego Brand Facebook fans.
Hi Altego fans! We are happy to announce another Altego Laptop Sleeve Giveaway winner. For those of you who don’t know we are doing a weekly contest on our Altego Facebook account. We are giving away one Altego Laptop Sleeve to one of our lucky fans each week. The prize winners are randomly drawn from our Altego Brand Facebook fans.
CONGRATULATIONS: Rochel Rand-Sidell
Instructions on redeeming your gift card:
• Send an email to marketing@altegobrand.com including the following
o Name
o Address (including country, city, state, zip code)
Hi Samsill fans! We are happy to announce our October Facebook “Like” Contest winner. For those of you who don’t know we are doing a monthly contest on our Samsill Facebook account. We are giving away one $50 cash gift card to one of our lucky fans. The prize winners are randomly drawn at the end of each month. Continue reading »
Hi Altego fans! We are happy to announce another Altego Laptop Sleeve Giveaway winner. For those of you who don’t know we are doing a weekly contest on our Altego Facebook account. We are giving away one Altego Laptop Sleeve to one of our lucky fans each week. The prize winners are randomly drawn from our Altego Brand Facebook fans.
CONGRATULATIONS: Izaih Starling
Instructions on redeeming your gift card:
• Send an email to marketing@altegobrand.com including the following
Name
Address (including country, city, state, zip code)
This story comes to us from the great people over at Co.Exist. Here is an excerpt from their article.
The Amazon is home to more species than almost anywhere else on earth. One of them, carried home recently by a group from Yale University, appears to be quite happy eating plastic in airless landfills.
The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.” The group searched for plants, and then cultured the microorganisms within the plant tissue. As it turns out, they brought back a fungus new to science with a voracious appetite for a global waste problem: polyurethane.
The common plastic is used for everything from garden hoses to shoes and truck seats. Once it gets into the trash stream, it persists for generations. Anyone alive today is assured that their old garden hoses and other polyurethane trash will still be here to greet his or her great, great grandchildren. Unless something eats it.
The fungi, Pestalotiopsis microspora, is the first anyone has found to survive on a steady diet of polyurethane alone and–even more surprising–do this in an anaerobic (oxygen-free) environment that is close to the condition at the bottom of a landfill.
Student Pria Anand recorded the microbe’s remarkable behavior and Jonathan Russell isolated the enzymes that allow the organism to degrade plastic as its food source. The Yale team published their findings in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology late last year concluding the microbe is “a promising source of biodiversity from which to screen for metabolic properties useful for bioremediation.” In the future, our trash compactors may simply be giant fields of voracious fungi.
This is great news for us and the rest of the world. Plastics can be very harmful to the environment. That is why we, at Samsill, take such great care to recycle almost everything, use post consumer content, use as little plastic as possible without degrading performance, and buy our supplies through environmentally friendly suppliers.
We also have the ONLY traditional biodegradable binder on the market. It is one of our top sellers and it is fully biodegradable (meaning it breaks down in a traditional landfill environment unlike most plastics). 2012 is going to be a HUGE year for us because we are introducing quite a few new, full environmentally friendly, products to the binder market.
Like Saturdays INFOGRAPHIC said, this is the beginning of “COLOR DAYS” around Samsill. We are extremely happy to announce our NEW FASHION COLORS FOR 2012.
and be sure to check out our 2012 FASHION COLOR PRESS RELEASE that went out this morning!
Hi Altego fans! We are happy to announce another Altego Laptop Sleeve Giveaway winner. For those of you who don’t know we are doing a weekly contest on our Altego Facebook account. We are giving away one Altego Laptop Sleeve to one of our lucky fans each week. The prize winners are randomly drawn from our Altego Brand Facebook fans.
I, Mark in Marketing, wrote this blog for my personal website but I think it high beneficial so I decided to re-post it here. I do believe strongly in my methods below and I think it could help all! Enjoy! Feedback is ALWAYS appreciated! Thanks!
I love to be busy. In fact, if I don’t have 10 different things on my plate at once I find that I’m not near as productive as when I do. Being busy demands organization. I’ve become quite a “list” junkie. I live off my to do lists and outlook calendars and reminders. Another responsibility that comes with being busy is to take time to stop. “Smell the roses” as they say. Stopping gives me time to reflect on how I am doing in the grand scheme of things. Often my foresight gets shortsighted. I’m thinking only in hours or days in advance. Stopping gives me the ability to look 5, 10 years in advance. It allows me to ask questions like,
“What do I want for my life in 5 years?”
“Is what I am doing now helping me towards that goal?”
It is essential to reflect and look forward. But more than anything it is vital to enjoy where I am NOW. Stopping lets me do that.
I read anINC Magazine article yesterday that had GREAT advice that I am going to start doing each day. It gave 10 questions to ask myself each day to evaluate my day and make sure what I am doing is worth my time. Here is an excerpt. I recommend everyone to find their, “stopping time.” Find time each day to ask yourself these questions. I strongly believe it will help.
Real success comes from the quality of your relationships and the emotions that you experience each day. That’s where these 10 questions come in.
Ask them at the end of each day and I absolutely guarantee that you’ll become more successful. Here they are:
1. Have I made certain that those I love feel loved?
2. Have I done something today that improved the world?
3. Have I conditioned my body to be more strong flexible and resilient?
4. Have I reviewed and honed my plans for the future?
5. Have I acted in private with the same integrity I exhibit in public?
6. Have I avoided unkind words and deeds?
7. Have I accomplished something worthwhile?
8. Have I helped someone less fortunate?
9. Have I collected some wonderful memories?
10. Have I felt grateful for the incredible gift of being alive?
Here’s the thing. The questions you ask yourself on a daily basis determine your focus, and your focus determines your results.
These questions force you to focus on what’s really important. Take heed of them and rest of your life—especially your work—will quickly fall into place.
Think you have the time, dedication and patience to create an artwork like this? First, try and comprehend these numbers. 6 million matches. 16 years of life. Bulgarian artist Plamen Ignatov used that many matches and spent that much time to create this impressive miniature model of the Rila Monastery. Made of wood, matches and gems, it’s now on display at the Museum of Archaeological in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The Rila Monastery is the largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria. It is regarded as one of Bulgaria’s most important cultural, historical and architectural monuments and is a key tourist attraction for both Bulgaria and Southern Europe. It has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Continue reading »
Hi Altego fans! We are happy to announce another Altego Laptop Sleeve Giveaway winner. For those of you who don’t know we are doing a weekly contest on our AltegoFacebook account. We are giving away one Altego Laptop Sleeve to one of our lucky fans each week. The prize winners are randomly drawn from our Altego Brand Facebook fans. Continue reading »
In the past six months we have been doing a big push into social media. We update our sites daily with news from us, the industry, and elsewhere. To stay up on the latest in office products follow our sites!
It is a few days into the New Year and it is about the time when the holiday season hype is over and things are slowly getting back to normal. A lot of you probably made New Years resolutions, as so many people do, but maybe this year is different. Maybe this year is the year to keep your resolution. Whatever your resolution was, even if you didn’t have one, this article could be the difference between starting the new year off right, or wrong. It was quite a paradime shift in my traditional way of thought, maybe if can help you too.
Samsill a huge manufacturerer and supplier of office products in the country. But we don’t make everything. That is why I get excited when I find other cool office products I can add to my collection in my office. Here is a list of some awesome office supplies I am adding to my “Office Supplies Christmas Wish List.”
Hi Samsill fans! We are happy to announce our October Facebook “Like” Contest winner. For those of you who don’t know we are doing a monthly contest on our Samsill Facebook account. We are giving away one $50 cash gift card to one of our lucky fans. The prize winners are randomly drawn at the end of each month.
The city of Dallas recently announced a new effort to become the first city in the state of Texas to add food and drink containers to its residential curbside recycling program.
This week we have two great DIY articles and videos dealing with binders & organization.
We all love coupons! They can save us a TON of money but they can also be a pain. Organizing coupons in a coupon binder is a quick way to sort them all out and find the ones you need quickly. Continue reading »
