Ominous Laughter and Gaity

Ok, as things happen this way ... we figured we should purchase our way to refining our financial empire!  Well, seems like what had happened, although we'd gone to the office supply store primarily to purchase a $40 desk lamp.

By the way, we did get a very nifty neato extendable-armed black lamp - and for $40!  But, then ... oh man!  The extra spending happened kind of by accident.  See, the lamp didn't come with a light bulb, so we had to search around until we found a $10.00 - 5 year spiral light bulb.  After that we decided we might as well walk down a few aisles. 

Next item we came to was a 26 pocket expandable file folder.  It has a durable black clothed case, handle, and plastic dividers with tabs.  We figure this is for sorting out the immediate mail and bills before they get processed, paid and filed.  Then, we got two self inking daters (stamps) to be marking when the bills were received and when the bills were paid.  Yes, we are just this fussy! 

We figured next that the computer software would be fine to note final purchase cost, but that we should have a analysis pad for noting individual items purchased.  Then, we thought we should own a 15" stainless steel ruler for totaling columns.  Next came the ultra-fine mechanical pencils.  Did you know that we'd taken two years of accounting in high school? 

Our next major purchase was a handy-dandy thingie to be carrying paperwork from home, work, and Dr. M's office.  He says, we should pick up mail EVERY day!  It's soft black vinyl and has expandable pockets for files, a one-inch 3 ring binder, a legal pad and assorted pockets for cards, pens, mail, and such.  We liked the simple feminine one.  Then we figured we needed a nice heavy duty hole punch and an extra package of legal pads. 

Next were the desk items.  They had various black meshed angled containers.  Then we added two sizes of paper clips, a variety of bigger spring clips (couldn't resist the fancy gold), two sizes of post-its - regular, and 4 x 6's (we use these religiously at work), 12 sharpie ultra-fine colored markers (hehe - bill paying can be fun!), a stapler and staples, and scotch tape and a dispenser.  Oh, also we got batteries for our work clock and Colorific Gel markers for one of the client's new goals!