Pencil Pot Of The Month – July 2017
Description: A ‘lucky cat’ glass
Price: unknown, bought in the 1990s
Material: Glass
Further information: A glass, made in Thailand, with lucky cats printed on it.
Description: A ‘lucky cat’ glass
Price: unknown, bought in the 1990s
Material: Glass
Further information: A glass, made in Thailand, with lucky cats printed on it.
Description: Officially a toothbrush holder this item makes a great pencil pot, too.
Price: £2.50 in the UK. €2.99 in Germany. $4.99 in the USA.
Material: A stoneware container with a rubberised surface. I bought the turquoise version.
Further information: IKEA’s Ekoln toothbrush holder has a rubberised surface. Sometimes these surfaces can turn nastily sticky over the years. I hope IKEA did a better job than many other companies, but only time will tell. The $4.99 version from IKEA USA is available in different colours.
Prices: June 2017
Description: A plastic container, used to hold pencils, in this case the famous four Fs
Price: not sure
Material: Plastic
Further information: Our twentieth pencil pot of the month is a plastic container that used to be the lid of a fitness band packaging. It is being used upside down, i.e. with the opening at the top. You can see that the writing on the back is upside down.
Description: A note organiser with a pencil pot that can be folded out
Price: £1.49 ($~1.95; €1.75)
Material: Cardboard
Further information: A cardboard note organiser from Lidl UK. The pencil pot part can be folded out, so it is possible to fold it all up in a space saving way.
Price and Exchange rates: April 2017
Description: A mug with a Shakespeare quote – outside red and inside white.
Price: Unknown
Material: Ceramic
Further information: My employer has an Open Day today, so I’m at work [1]…instead of being at home marking the assignments I have to return on Monday 8^/ and have just noticed that the table next to ours has pencils as freebies (we have luggage tags, ball point pens etc) that are presented in a nice mug.
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