Sorry, I'm just getting round to introducing myself properly.
I'm Louise. I live and work in Northampton. I'm CIMA-qualified and my company is Figurate Ltd. I do all the usual stuff - accounts, bookkeeping, VAT, mgt accounts, tax, payroll, systems, etc... so no suprises there, really.
Apart from that, I love stationery, gadgets and blogging (my blog is at www.HappyAccountant.com but is really only for hardcore accounting fans and the desperate, given the subject matter Actually, I'm not exactly sure who actually reads it, lol.
I tweet occasionally @Figurate, which is how I found this lovely forum.
I for one will certainly have a read of your blog when I get chance.
Great to have you on board,
all the best,
Shaun.
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I went to your blog for a quick look hoping for an explanation to the "I love stationery...." I'll need to have a proper look later on this evening - in a bit of a rush just now (so why am I on an internet forum?)
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@ Peasie, I will have to expand on the background to my stationery addiction on my blog sometime. But it basically stems from many a Saturday afternoon spent in a well-known high-street newsagent/stationery shop... as a child (obviously before the advent of "soft-play" centres and the like )Working in accounts has given me the perfect excuse to peruse stationery catalogues for spring files and pen pots. (btw, I hope you managed to tear yourself away from the forum)
@Kris, yay! I've found a blog-reader *blush*!! but seriously, thank you!
my sons despair with me when I get into the calculator section in Staples. But I'm of the firm belief that even though we only ever use one at a time one can never have enough calculators.... Or versions of Excel... Or pens... Or index cards.... Or little wire mesh pen / paperclip holders... Or... I should really seek help shouldn't I! Wonder if their's a group like AA for people like us... Ooh, actually there is, it's this site....
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my sons despair with me when I get into the calculator section in Staples. But I'm of the firm belief that even though we only ever use one at a time one can never have enough calculators.... Or versions of Excel... Or pens... Or index cards.... Or little wire mesh pen / paperclip holders... Or... I should really seek help shouldn't I! Wonder if their's a group like AA for people like us... Ooh, actually there is, it's this site....
LOL, I have at least six calculators
@Jymlyn Yep, it's definitely something to do with accounts
Welcome also, and I have to admit that when i go into Tesco for something I can't help looking in the stationery section even though I dont need anything I just like looking at the stationery and thinking of how I would use the items to organise myself starting to think I thing for stationery also
By stationery I was just thinking about paper and envelopes. If I knew it included everything then......My name's Peasie and I'm an.......(whatever the term for it is).
If I never buy a pen again in my life I will never be able to use up all the pens I have already bought. Metal clips foldback clips or bulldog clips. Clipboards. I've seen giant A4 size simple calculators on Ebay I'm after. I was going to get one for my exam on the 23rd but remembered I'm restricted for space at the exam centre so probably not a wise idea. My "lucky" stapler (the one I passed my last exam with) is no longer lucky as the big buttons are now getting stuck.
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Next thing you know it's Staples or Ryman in order to buy magazine files and boxes just in order to organise the excess stationey that you've already bought.
Then, before you know it you're in the home office department at Ikea thinking how much better organised your stationery would be if you had a whole wall of Billy bookcases!
Before you know it you're just doing books to feed your stationery habbit convincing yourself that you can give up anytime you want... Just after that next calculator with the 15 digit display and hard plastic keys.
Just say No alfred. Walk away from that shiny new stapler and you'll be the better man for it...
Sorry, it's just one of those nights. Brains fried from too many numbers.
Have a good one matey,
all the best,
Shaun.
P.S. on that other thread don't forget to be real kean on the MLR if you do go for thatr gig. We had a thread on here a little while back about checking out non EU residents / companies. I know Frauke gave a really good answer but I can't remember which thread it was in.
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Peasie wrote:By stationery I was just thinking about paper and envelopes. If I knew itincluded everything then......My name's Peasie and I'm an.......(whatever the term for it is).
Shamus wrote: Before you know it you're just doing books to feed your stationery habbit convincing yourself that you can give up anytime you want... Just after that next calculator with the 15 digit display and hard plastic keys.
lol, excellent...(although, I now feel like I've joined a therapy group called "stationers anonymous" )
@Adas - oh dear, thx for letting me know I see what you mean - I've just tried to fix it, but it's just stalled - been having trouble with that widget. Will have another go tomorrow.
Peasie wrote:By stationery I was just thinking about paper and envelopes. If I knew itincluded everything then......My name's Peasie and I'm an.......(whatever the term for it is).
Shamus wrote: Before you know it you're just doing books to feed your stationery habbit convincing yourself that you can give up anytime you want... Just after that next calculator with the 15 digit display and hard plastic keys.
lol, excellent...(although, I now feel like I've joined a therapy group called "stationers anonymous" )
@Adas - oh dear, thx for letting me know I see what you mean - I've just tried to fix it, but it's just stalled - been having trouble with that widget. Will have another go tomorrow.
Brilliant although am not an addict, now excuseme while I go and count my pencils
Do you think it's something to do with bookkeepers then? I'm glad it's not just me. Although I do prefer Tesco's statioery department to others. I sometimes go to staples, but I'm a bit tight too and end up just walking around going "HOW MUCH?" or "I woundn't pay that" then hurry home to ebay. Having said that I did buy loads of blue and green boxfiles to fill a billy bookcase, just because the green and blue were the same colour as my logo. This might not strike you as odd until I say no one, other than me, is ever in my office as I meet clients at a local hotel.
Like Shaun, I do find myself lost in theIkea office department (not just because of the layout) but I have a small lodge in my garden and couldn't fit anything else in it. Can't hurt to look though.
I did find a site called furniture@work, and it's great, ordered all my furniture from there (also because I am tight)
your right Kris, Tesco is veryu good for stationery especially in my store they have most of what I need plus you can collect points to and then use the points to get more stationery plus I find find them so much chaper than rymans and some of these other stores. Have you seen the price for a pack of printing paper recently, but in Tesco's much cheaper.
personally I'm spending too much time on Ebay looking at furniture at the moment.
When I move into the offices (nearly a done deal now) I know that staff would frown at me for sitting cross legged on the floor surrounded by receipts so I'm looking for that one special desk that shouts "Buy me" (with a price tag that doesn't make me go "Whoa!").
Looking at twin pedestal partners desks. Has to be at least 5*3 ft and preferably something before the middle of the last century that doesn't fall appart when I sit on it and has lots and lots of drawers to hide stationery and calculators in.
Talk in a bit,
Shaun.
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Actually, I'm not exactly sure who actually reads it, lol.
although am not an addict, now excuseme while I go and count my pencils
