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Pencil Pot Of The Month – September 2016

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Description: A high tech pencil pot that comes with a 6510 CPU and a colour screen.

Price: I think I paid less than DM 100 (at that time ~$50; €50; £25), but that was more than 15 years ago.

Material: Plastic, glass, metal, silicon and more

The Commodore SX-64 as a pencil pot

Further information: The empty drive bay of the Commodore SX-64 is not only a good place to store your sandwich when you take it out to do some serious computing at your local Starbucks, it’s also suitable for storing pencils and other stationery.

You can see the Wopex / SX-64 combination in this previous blog post.

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Pencil Pot Of The Month – August 2016

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Description: A pencil pot that looks like a wheelie bin

Price: £2 (~$2.63; €2.35) for a black or a red one

Material: Plastic

Wheelie bin pencil pots
Wheelie bin pencil pots

Further information: Seen in a Tiger store. Tiger is a Danish retail chain. I’ve bought stationery there in the past. In one of his videos TJ Cosgrove mentioned that he is using their notebooks, but I haven’t tried those yet. While in the shop anyway I bought their copy of Google Cardboard for £3.

Some other stationery they were promoting
Some other stationery they were promoting

Price and exchange rates: August 2016

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Pencil Pot Of The Month – July 2016

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Description: A birch pencil pot from IKEA

Price: £15 (~$20; €18) for a set of four boxes

Material: Birch

Further information: A pencil pot made from birch, from IKEA’s Förhöja set. I didn’t see this set on the American IKEA web site, but on the continent it is much cheaper than in the UK (€14.99 vs. £15).

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Prices and exchange rates: July 2016

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Pencil Pot Of The Month – June 2016

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Bamboo Pencil Pot (John Lewis)

Description: A bamboo pencil pot from John Lewis

Price: £5 (~$6.75; €6.05)

Material: Bamboo

Further information: A bamboo pencil pot. The rounded corners are really nice. If you like bamboo: a 2011 blog post included a similar pencil pot, but this month’s pencil pot’s simplicity makes it the nicer of the two pencil pots.

A look at the rounded corners
A look at the rounded corners

Also rounded near the base
Also rounded near the base

Price and exchange rates: June 2016 (These are post-Brexit vote exchange rates)

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Pencil Pot Of The Month – May 2016

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Another month is coming to an end, so here’s another pencil pot of the month.

Muji's plywood pencil pot

Description: A pencil stand from Muji

Price: £2.95 (~$4.30; €3.85)

Material: Plywood

Further information: Except this pen stand there’s also a desk pot and a desk rack available from the same series. All are made from plywood in Vietnam and have been discussed previously.

Price: December 2013

Exchange rates: May 2016

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