I should be outlining the book-after-the-present-one, but I have to sound off about stickers. They are driving me crazy.
I'm talking about those free stickers organizations send in the mail. I can handle the return address stickers--they come from the Humane Society, from Easter Seals, from Cancer Research Funds, etc., and I use them. Trouble is, I get so many of them that I end up pre-sticking blank envelopes in my drawers because I can't stand to throw a good sticker away.
Long ago I bought some really cute address stickers--nice font, nice ink, nice design--but I never use them because something in my frugal nature INSISTS that I use up the free stickers first. So just as I near the end of my free sticker stash, here comes another load in the mail.
The return address stickers are bad enough, but lately I've been getting OTHER free stickers--stickers with cute Christmassy things on them, and postage stamp-sized stickers of roses and angels and Christmas ornaments. Because I can't stand to throw them away (wasteful!), I've been sticking them on the back of envelopes, but I always feel like I should be the sort of person who crochets toilet-paper roll covers when I do it. It looks . . . more quaint than professional. Still, heaven forbid that I toss out a perfectly good sheet of stickers.
I have this tablet of paper on my desk--a big tablet, and I use it to scribble notes on during the week. Every Monday, I rip off the top sheet and start a new page for the new week.
Well, preprinted on this tablet is a little square. The other day I noticed that the little square seemed to be tailor-made, indeed, crying out for a sticker. So I murdered the better part of an hour sticking rose stickers on each little square on each page in my tablet. Now I can't write smoothly on my tablet, because the stickered corners are about half an inch taller than the rest of my writing surface.
I've taken to slapping those cute "Have a happy new year!" and "Hope You Feel Better" and "Thank You" stickers on my Netflix return envelopes. And of course, those ALWAYS get a return address sticker. Can't pass up an opportunity to plant a sticker in a preprinted corner.
Is it just me, or does anyone else suffer from impulsive sticker-itis? Recently I signed up for the do-not-send-me-preapproved-credit card applications list. If there's a "do not send stickers" list, I need my name on it, fast!
~~Angie
