A few months ago, when I was walking by a fellow prisoner, erh… cube dweller, I noticed that he had a stack of paper that was about 1 foot high. I was perplexed… what was it for? So I asked him, he told me it was scrap paper. I thought that was a pretty good idea. But wow, 1 foot high… hmmm.
So I decided to build on his idea. I’ve collected used printer paper (that is in good shape) in a pile like my buddy’s. But instead of using it just as scrap paper, I decided to use it as a daily log. Instead of staples, I’ve been using a metal clip to hold the papers together in groups of 5. Then when I am finished for the week the daily log represents, I punch holes in them and put them in a notebook folder.
Getting more out of used printer paper
After a month, I’ll start to purge them from the folder and throw them in a recycling bin.
-D
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Yeah, hard to believe, but it’s all true. I take you talking about the guy that had a foot of used paper in his cube…
The log is working great! The papers get a rough around the edges by the time I get them into the notebook, but the system is working great!
Actually I added the log to an Lunch experiment I’m going which even give the papers more value.