I recently read a post by KAT, Idaho’s proud parent of a school-age daughter.
There are funny questions about the availability of medical help for kids carrying backpacks heavier than themselves, the number of 3-ring binders of all sizes littering her closets, and the abundance of other school supplies lingering in her house.
Very few people take on this subject since most of us take the reality as it is without a word of protest. There is no alternative, they think. Even if they would go outside marching with signs protesting the terror of school supply reality, there is not to hope much somebody will help.
Years ago, when going to school, I used one copybook, always starting with the first page during each lesson and tearing it out to have it new and fresh for new upcoming subjects. How did I get away with that? God only knows what smart kids can do to survive school.
My creative use of paper did not end there.
Being always a fan of paper and paper-made things, I won the school competition by constructing a Steam engine model from paper. At my older age, I concluded that paper printing and distributing flyers and papers about communist government activity was a good idea.
The fate of similar Paper addicts followed…
So being an expert on “PAPER, or rather paper addict, ” I can offer KAT advice.
Do not use Ring Binders. Instead of the long selections of Colors and sizes and misaligned rings and Spines dominating your landscape, use a “ringless Binder.”
I devised it as another paper to hold the leaflets. Yes, a Single sheet of paper with a few ties cut into the covers holding any number of pages and not exceeding the thickness of the stack, not even a fraction of the inch like the ring binder spines DO.
No metal rings, parts, heavy covers, and spines. Just a plain Flat sheet of tear-resistant paper.
It is an ECO-friendly contraption eliminating 80% of the material normally used in a ring binder.
It will reduce the stacks of used and unused binders to a few discreet pages in your situation.
I am sure your kids will love the fact that the Ring binders are gone and, no doubt, will finish off the ringless binders very quickly, so there will be no residue left in your closets after school years. They are Eco – recyclable.
Can you imagine? You do not tear apart pages anymore.
You can remove and replace them in quite an orderly fashion. I wish I had one years ago.
And they are Flexible and Soft to the touch.
Jacek
The Paper Addict.
