Retirement Home for Pens and Pencils Traditional Cache
Retirement Home for Pens and Pencils
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This is the place where you can get rid of some unused pencils that you have lying around the house. There is a companion home for pens across the road.
Where do ink, ballpoint, and felt-point pens go when they are no longer needed or wanted? If the ink in a pen runs out, or the point no longer produces a good line, it is usually tossed into the trash. Before the days of cheap pens when there were ink wells and ink bottles this was not the case; pens were treasured instruments. Even in the early days of ballpoint pens, when the ink ran out, a refill was purchased; pens were not discarded so readily. Now we seem to be inundated with pens, some nicer than others, that we picked up at a trade show or where given to us as a marketing tool. Because some of them appear to be quite nice - even though we know that they are really cheap - we are reticent to throw them out.
Well, here is the place to where that pen can be retired. Leave a pen that you think might like to retire with others pens. And if any pen strikes your fancy take it out of retirement and give it a useful life. How sad! A pen that was never used.
The cache was originally meant for pens only, with a similar cache for pencils. Because the pencils one had to be archived, this one has taken over hosting pencils also.
Please do not use the log book to test a pen. Most of them don't work anyway.
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