We have a trick pencil cup in our kitchen. It’s where I foolishly dash when I need to note something on the calendar, or write down a phone number.
No matter how many times I clean out the pencil cup and refresh with brand new pens in perfect working order, the contents remain the same. It’s magical! I swear it is!
The contents of this chipped mug include:
- two broken pencils
- the stubby end of a peeled green crayon
- an empty smencil pencil case
- a fully functional “color wonder” (clear) marker that only works on special paper
- a dead “stamper” marker
- a dead pen from a life insurance agent you’ve never met (note: It works when you test it, but not when you go to use it)
- three bic pen caps, mysterious as I have not purchased a bic pen since the 90s
- Canadian and Mexican pennies and the odd stray old money coin from someplace in Eastern Europe. We can not been to Europe or Mexico in over a decade.
- a critical piece from a happy meal toy that I finally chucked a couple of weeks ago.
- a petrified gummie bear
- a fully charged Sharpie
Fortunately for my kids this pencil cup works perfectly. The three year old loves Sharpies with a passion. They work on everything! He’s also partial to petrified Gummie bears. The rest of them don’t write with instruments. That’s what cell phones and thumbs are for.
I need a secret pen stash, don’t I? What’s in your pencil cup?
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It’s whats encrusted on the bottom of my pencil cup that scares the hell out of me.
we have the ‘junk drawer’ where the pencils and pens should be – they seem to find their way out with the other socks from the dryer
I haven’t started a pencil mug in my home yet, but growing up we had one in the house. I swear whenever I’m at my mother’s it looks like the same stuff is still in it from when I was a kid.
There is a very cute receptical (cup) for pens and pencils on my desk. There is a white color pencil, a brown marker, adn several mechanical pencils with no lead, and a non-funtioning pen. How does that happen?
That’s the very reason I keep MY pens in MY purse away from others!
I think I have the same cup.
We have a pen cup too. However, they usually disappear quickly too. I usually stash a pen or two in my computer bag, but I’m not telling.
At the bottom, an old clip and a Vegas coin. Don’t know why i always put them back in the cup?
It is nice to know I am not the only one!
I’m laughing so hard!! I have the same cup + 3 one in the kitchen, one in the office and one in my bedroom, they all manage to have pens that no work, coins, crayons and unsharpened pencils!!!
This is the story of the nurse (health care provider). We actually hoard pens for this very reason. : )
Haha! Nice. I guess this is what I have to look forward to as my family grows.
[...] may recall that I have written about the issues I have finding a pen and dealing with pen theft in my household. We have this shameful mug of useless writing [...]
[...] may recall that I have written about the issues I have finding a pen and dealing with pen theft in my household. We have this shameful mug of useless writing [...]
[...] may recall that I have written about the issues I have finding a pen and dealing with pen theft in my household. We have this shameful mug of useless writing [...]