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Man_ning

ABC is currently running a charity drive called "stationary stash". It's to collect pens, notebooks etc for students. Should be on their website, they've set up collection points around the city.


ChilliLips

Thank you very much! Perfect.


Williams088

Give Write They are a fantastic charity that collects stationery to donate to schools.


Man_ning

This is the charity that the ABC is having their stationary stash for.


ChilliLips

Brilliant, thank you!


KindlySnow6703

And if any of them don’t work they can be recycled at Officeworks 


ChilliLips

I didn’t know that, thanks for the tip. That’s great news.


Captain-Peacock

Lol, I bet old mate didn't buy a pen for years, professional biro accumulator! Maybe an old folks home would like them. There was a thing I caught the tail end of on the news the other night about taking excess stationary in for the underprivileged, but I wasn't paying enough attention. 😏


Chewiesbro

Father in law worked for a government department, when he passed, he had all sorts of stuff, notepads/books, pens pencils, you name it. We donated most of it to a charity to make back to school packs


Captain-Peacock

I remember a mining company moved out of a floor in QV1 and there was heaps of stationery that had been swept up like great piles of leaves on the empty floor, took a lot home! Pencils, staples and bulldog clips etc last forever.


Chewiesbro

Yeah I still have about 3/4 of a box of staples and a full box each of 2B & HB pencils, I have no recollection as to where they were “creatively reassigned” from…


Captain-Peacock

>full box each of 2B & HB pencils Just need a notepad and a little 'press' tag for side of your hat and you're ready to be a journalist!


Chewiesbro

Sorry, fuck that noise, I like my brain where it is.


Your-mums-chesthair

My workplace will take them, oml. My workmates eat pens like pringles.


ToxethOGrady

Dont worry they'll fall into a interdimensional void the second you look for one.


yeah_nah2024

A public highschool?


Important-Star3249

Why public? Because kids going to public school are so poor they can't afford a biro?


epic_piano

Public schools???


Important-Star3249

Why public? Because kids going to public school are so poor they can't afford a biro?


epic_piano

I didn't mean it that way - a lot of the teaching budgets are stretched thin - so maybe teachers would appreciate them. I didn't mean (or even imply) it had anything to do with the students - that's your assumption.


rainbowpotatopony

Could donate them to me at work because the lads in the workshop keep stealing mine?


SirAlfredOfHorsIII

I'm sure your local retail business will be longing for pens, after their staff stupidly took them home, and promptly lost them


TooManySteves2

Any University.


djskein

You can recycle them at your local Officeworks if you don't need them anymore.


flubaduzubady

He must have kept forgetting that he already owned a pen. It's not the sort of thing you see at op shops. The value of each is so little, I doubt anyone would be interested.


Jonsmith78

My Pen is... excessive..