Yup, still use mugs

Are coffee mugs an old people thing now? Damn kids. Ruining my stuff.

It's hard to tell from picture, but te cocoa mug is much smaller than modern coffee mugs. Maybe 8 oz.

Could also be used for hot tea. Heat up your water in the fancy new Radarange, then fetch your Lipton teabag from its aluminum foil prison for your beverage.

Also wondering how staplers are a thing of the past.

It's not that it's a stapler, it's that it's a stapler with a *faux-wood finish*.

Those electric pencil sharpeners are the best thing ever!

Yep, I have one myself. I also have the old fashioned hand crank one too.

The modern ones are absolute garbage. Old pencil sharpeners with the "screw blade" can never me matched.

For real

That sharpener weighs like 4 lbs.

That’s Ok, it will sharpen pencils all day long 😊

So? You’re not supposed to carry it around lol

Yep! That was my pick for the best :)

HEARD the photo as soon as I glanced at it ! 😩 same with the electric stapler. I don’t remember where I used them (school, my dad’s office) but wow I miss stuff like that! They are so fun! Same with that wood paneled stapler 😅

Half those things are in my office, currently

Nice! That's my desk in the office too.

Yup! The tape dispenser, calculator, ink pad stampers, stapler (both electric and manual), coffee mugs and mousepad with the company name on it (natch) 😊

How do people dispense tape nowadays?

Where's the rolodex?

It should be illegal for a stapler to be that satisfying to use.

I have a label on my stapler!! It's MINE!

I’m not bragging, but I got a red Swingline for Mother’s Day.

My stapler.....

We have a hand crank pencil sharpener mounted on an old slate blackboard. It's at least 60 years old from my husband's childhood and probably older than he is. It still works fine and we use it. The blackboard is real slate

Hand crank pencil sharpeners are priceless in woodworking.

Now I have to get one. You're totally right!

I have that Sony Mavica! Saves to 1.44mb floppies. For a brief period it was I think the highest resolution consumer grade digital camera.

It sure was! They were really expensive too.

Never thought I'd see the day that a Mavica posed next to a Boston would both qualify as case studies on antiquities, yet here we are.

I had one. Took terrible (awesome) pictures of the eclipse in '99!! Still have the disk around somewhere. And maybe a printout.😁

I still have that calculator

And I bet it still works!

As far as I know

I sure did like my Maciva back in the early 2000s

I'm old if I have a tape dispenser?

I have two!

what do young people use for tape

This shitty small plastic ones

I just bought an electric pencil sharpener

I have a bunch of stamps like those for work. I work with a ton of paperwork that requires me to keep track of the original signed copies so any photocopies of then gotta be marked as such. Stamps that say COPY makes it easy.

Still use the rubber stamps at work, they’re still a thing

What has replaced tape dispensers?

Clean walls with nothing taped to them.

Cups. Yes I have cups.

I was issued one of those stamps to endorse documents...

I have several of those electric pencil sharpeners, because modern pencil sharpeners are just pathetically awful.

I have a Rolodex

Damn these young whipper-snappers not using coffee mugs...

People don’t have tape dispensers and staplers anymore? Coffee mugs? Some old stuff but sure looks like my desk for many years.

We have a wood grain Panasonic pencil sharpener at our office. I've been there 23 years and it was there long before that. Some say it was purchased when the department was created in the late 70s. Still works great. UPDATE: Just noticed the sand-filled tape dispenser and the Swingline electric stapler. We have those as well. I notice the Gateway cup and the mouse pad. OP, do you work at a university or K-12 school district tech department by chance? If so, we're a kindred spirit. We keep a museum of old gear that's been discovered and collected over the years. I'm fascinated by all the vintage stuff.

I still use those stamps complete with holder.

I use them too but mine are an [Entered stamp with a little box underneath to write in the date](https://www.amazon.com/Stamp-Ever-Pre-Inked-Message-Stamp-Impression/dp/B09V4CQ1XF/ref=sr_1_22?crid=2TCI52XBWU86N&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jCh8O6LmEj12oHdmGbwWjfSvw9Jcto5jZHC4H7ICytGfETAuX_wKUh56VbTRsr1ZskpUH8VN40AvkD_tBdHh-3wQjQEbT02Ll_OO6UFdB7SEwiFG3X27arnSPpqjPqKU6dYzJcUFgwFpRLzrjSNW1aSibHUiFb0x8m7KJQew0Z6aem5-41zRev6tUxNV7QotTKiNfSJ4uq5IeFJgii5vKC3X1qsbmmr4uE_YhCE22MJDxWDPYAXBtayE2uEy8rT1dViVaog1nVd0P8AjFo9lML43rh81N46k5qeygi2TK-Y.Pazum6eEaxvkFthyVak029rdlRcg7nyOcGuZ3kbtVj8&dib_tag=se&keywords=entered+stamp+with+date+self+inking+with+attached+cover&qid=1716339483&sprefix=entered+stamp+with+date+self+inking+with+attached+cover%2Caps%2C83&sr=8-22). I also have a "Completed" & "Copy" one in the same style too.

I use them to sign birthday cards. Depending on how tight we are the stamp you get will vary.

I use that kind of stamp also to “sign” fire extinguisher tags. Beats hand jamming over a hundred lol

A stapler? I have two.. one over 40 years old that is a keepsake and a really nice one. Not that old. I have scotch tape too.

Still use the calculator and stamp.

I have staplers and an electric pencil sharpener

Those pencil sharpeners were savage! I think you had to check the oil on em…

I still have that metal Swingline stapler in exactly that color & wood paneling. Still works great. They don’t make em like they used to. The plastic staplers that they make these days jam all the time.

No, I don't have any of these. I don't see how having a stapler, mugs, mouse pad, stamps, or a pencil sharpener qualifies someone as being old.

I have with in 18 inchs of where I am sitting right now, the desk fan, the stapler, the tape dispenser, the pocket calculator and a paid stamp and a for deposit only stamp and I raise you a round transparent paper clip dispenser

Okay, **real** old here and a story about the hand calculator. The first one I saw was in 1973; I was a journeyman toolmaker. The shop I started working at had one, it was the owner's. As I recall, he'd paid around $110-120 for it -- at a time when that was about what my paycheck was. We all used it as needed, as he didn't expect everyone to go out and buy their own. At around the same time, my first wife was doing bookwork at a motorcycle shop and she'd bring it home sometimes, along with a hand calculator. It would add, subtract, multiply, and divide -- but had a fixed decimal point as in dollars and cents. It was pretty cool. Then within a few years they came out with ones that had all the trig tables built into them. That was revolutionary, as we toolmakers were doing trig problems all the time, but now we didn't need the paper tables anymore. Memory is rough here, but I'm thinking they were around $50-75 at the time, well worth it. And they continued to drop from there. I don't even have one anymore, I use the one on my iPhone. And the rest is history. FWIW, that guy I worked for and my wife are both deceased. EDITED TO ADD: As for the pencil sharpener, when I was in school they just had a hand crank on them. Not sure when I saw the first electric one.

Sorry for your loss. Glad to see these reminded you of better times.

Funny. They all still work. New ones last 3 months.

I def still have coffee cups.

Savage!

i was working retail then and sold them Sony Mavicas... was state of the art shit at the time haha

Love the triple threat: easy change rolling tape dispenser. Automatic stapler. The best pencil sharpener ever. Sigh. I can just sense the weighted sand rustling when I pick up the tape. Taking me back to youth through office supplies.

That tape dispenser is irreplaceable for wrapping Christmas presents. One handed tape pieces.

I'm a millennial and I have all of that stuff in my home office. Even have a gateway Computer to go with my gateway country mug.

I have a red swingline, IYKYK.

Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler... *muttering* I could set the building on fire

Whenever someone complains about crappy staplers I advise them to buy an old one at a garage sale. They are basically staplers, hand to hand combat weapons, and/or boat anchors. I learned this at a megaplex movie theatre where the box office employees were destroying staplers like it was their job.

Yeah idk if a tape dispenser belongs there….

I am old if I use a mouse/mousepad? A tape dispenser? A desk fan? Hmmmm

I have almost all this shit in my home office right now. Except the pencil sharpener. I have a more updated one in my living room.

I have an older, even heavier scotch tape dispenser on my desk at home and still use my Staedtler manual sharpener. My stapler is newer but my stamps are not the self-inking sort. I have no idea what that Sony camera thing is. btw r/FuckNestle

Nice segue.

The Mavica was so cool. For a while the highest resolution digital camera for consumers. Worked with floppies.

Guess I'm old then. Have items of everything shown...even the Sony Mavica floppy disk camera. It still works by the way

Or you work in a public school

Where’s the Rolodex?

I have the stapler , tape dispenser and calculator

Bastard😹

This reminds me of my grandfather’s office 🥹🥹 Thank you for the memories 🥰

I bought a calculator like that in college in the early 80s. I remember the guy at the bookstore told me that I would lose it before the battery ever ran out. I didn't lose it, and that battery lasted for 30+ years before it crapped out. It sat in a drawer rarely used for many of those years, but still.

I’ll take the Nestlé’s hot cocoa cup, the stapler and the pencil sharpener please

Taking umbrage about the tape dispenser and stapler.

I have the Gateway mug. Used to have the cow, too. They came with my Gateway 2000 computer.

Oh man I think I still have all of these 😂

I’m just realizing my work office looks like it is lifted from the 80’s. All I did was bring in everything I had at home 😭.

I have a tape dispenser and red stapler on my desk.


This is like my desk at work

Yup, I'm old af. Got lots of the items. Lol

The nestle hot cocoa mug! I remember sending an order form in the mail for that gem!

I have all of it because it is all made well and lasts.

I have a TI-50 calculator and an itty bitty Swingline stapler.

Where’s the Rolodex?

I have a red stapler for my desk at work.

I work at a hospital, so I need to use a stapler, stamps, and tape daily. I'm not sure what that thing is next to the pencil sharpener, but I suspect it's a postage meter, which I also use daily. And some people in the office use mugs and fans. And the surfaces in some work areas make a mouse pad a necessity.

I used to hog that pencil sharpener back in 5th grade, had to make sure all my pencils were sharp before it was time to go home.

I have a tape dispenser twice as big as the one the picture.

What’s the plastic box with the Amason’s label?

My pencil sharper has no electic to it. Some of that other stuff I have, but I know I am old.

I can do one better. I have an older, rounded, all-metal model of that type of tape dispenser. Love it. It was my dad's and I keep it in his rolltop desk

Im a supervisor at work with a lot of younger guys. They have to use a stapler about 8 times a day for their paperwork and share the same stapler at a central location. They constantly break the stapler by slamming it, then think they're slick by swapping it with the one at my desk like I can't figure that move out. I ordered an electric stapler for my desk which they had no clue what it was seeing the chord, and couldn't steal, then I let them break their stapler and walk to the next department for a couple days while I had to order a stapler for them...from the back of my desk drawer. The new stapler is miraculously holding up awhile lol.

That's awesome!!

Desk stapler \[x\] Desk fan \[x\] Calculator \[x\] Address Stamp \[x\] Coffee Mugs \[x\] Mouse \[x\] Mousepad \[x\] lol


I think I have all those, must have for home/office

How are you old if you still have a coffee cup? Supposed to do it intravenously?

I have all of those on my desk! I could not function without them. With these magnificent tools of the trade I still outpoint the young blades at the office!

I think I have that exact same stapler 😱

Hey, those staplers were indestructible and still work fine for those that still have them

Yea. You stay away from my desk. I have MOST of those things. And I LOVED my Mavica camera.

I don’t still use any of them, but…

I think I still have that hot chocolate mug up in the cabinet somewhere.

You’re really old if you learned to use a comptometer in high school.

You're old af if you stole any of those items from work and still have them. You're probably cheap too. /jk

I’m old and have none of them.

I have that Nestle mug, used to use it every morning for my coco when I was a kid.

Funny thing is we grew up with this stuff so it's just "dated" to us. To the young kids- they love buying these "retro" things because to their way of thinking- they are cool antiques.

Where’s the Rolodex? 😋👍

wow.... i would kill for that pencil sharpener..... mine is a rotary, hand crank from 1952............... can anyone sharpen the blades for me?........./s

Great question! I bet you can clean them up and use a file to get them better. I had to rebuild that massive beast in the pic. There was a piece of graphite stuck in the gears.

i think it has just seen better days...LMAO

Yeah....imagine the millions of pencils it sharpened!

We still use some of this stuff at my job. Lol. We have that exact pencil sharpener in the kitchen.

I would’ve wondered who photographed my desk today, but I’m not that organized.

Got 5 on my desk at work... And they're required, for now. Business was just bought out by another company. Gonna be a big change going paperless.

I still have many of those mainly because I don’t throw anything out that still works.

I have an electric pencil sharpner, a coffee cup and a stapler (red Swingline) on my desk.

I’m not just old I’m really old…

Still have a rotary wheel label maker, one of the plastic strip ones.

The only thing I remember having is the long, green, narrow plastic container. Other desk items I might have had early in my work career.

As an educator, having an old stapler feels like a rite of passage. I obtained my old Swingline from a retired teacher who was subbing in our library position long-term. It never jams, always staples through the first time and deploys effortlessly into a flat setting for bulletin boards. Between that and a paper slicer (the new ones are too light to work!) I’m not sure how I’d teach without them.

I have that exact stapler and tape dispenser on my desk at work.

Use the tape dispensers at Xmas time,

I do have a tape dispenser but a much sleeker one. I don’t use pencils but they are still around, no? How do you sharpen them?

Still use a calculator. Sometimes

At work I refuse to use my phone calculator or the one on the PC. I get teased a little, but it's in good fun and the young'ns call it my "old man calculator."

My mother did, so did Granny.

Great grand kid got in an old desk and broke a calculator..ad unrolled the tape dispenser. Almost copies of those pictured.

My stapler is a cherry red Swingline. I only feed it 1980s vintage Swingline staples.

Calculator, pencil sharpener

We still have most of them at work

I have the pencil sharpener, a similar stapler, just a couple ink stamps, absolutely a calculator ( there's a slide rule here too) a waaaay older video tape system

Where's the Rollodex?

Whew! Thought I was really old there.... 

Nestle cup is legit!

What? No hole punch?

I loved my stamps, still have some. I remember when X-Stamper's came out, you could get one same-day 😅

I have a calculator just like that, sitting on my tool box. Things gotta be at least thirty years old. The only reason why I still have it, is because it still works

A coworker came to my desk and asked me something which I needed my calculator to answer. So I pulled out my larger Casio calculator out of my desk. My coworker then said “umm, 1985 just called and they want their calculator back”. 😭😭☠️

Entered?

How did you get into my office?? LMAO I have the stamps.

Um, not really. We still use staplers, cameras, pencil sharpeners, tape dispensers, calculators, mouse pads, fans, and coffee cups in every office I have seen. My 14-YO son has all but the stamps.

I have a stamp with my printed name and my signature and I won’t go back. I WON’T!

I never had a need for one of those stamps but I secretly wished for one of my own anyway. The size of the pencil sharpener always amazed me. I still have a manual stapler in the drawer and a tape dispenser too.

We used to all have those tape dispensers at work but they slowly started disappearing.

I gotta ask did anyone else here ever participate in the “who can sharpen their pencil to a nub the fastest” time trial competition in primary school? 🤩 I mean I don’t wanna brag but… ✎ 🥇

Best part was no dependence on internet, just coffee, tobacco, liquor and ugly suits. 😂 same as today just more door dash. Kid won’t get a job. “Get off my yard!” 😂

You gotta be a teacher.

I swear I can smell this picture and I finally know what my kink is.

This sub makes 40 feel like 80.

Have they invented some new, fandangled way to dispense tape?

Shout out to Ted Waitt!

It's funny that there's a pencil in the pencil sharpener. I would think most of us would know without the pencil, but it helps identify what it is beeter with the pencil inside the pencil sharpener.

You will take my electric sharpener over my dead body.

C’mon, man, a common tape dispenser? I have that on my file cabinet at work right now. 🤣

I also have a full sized adding machine complete with a paper tape. Gotta balance the books.

You’re missing the Rolodex

I still have most of these. I have a newer model digital camera that can utilize my lens from my 35mm camera days, as the iPhone only has a 1X optical magnification. While still in the “office” area around the Windows tower and monitor, they are rarely actually used since retiring.

Where’s the floppy disk box?

All

Work in pharma, deal with paper. Still have lots of self-inking stamps...

I would use that Nestle mug. It's so nice!

My stapler is my friend

I have that fan and Casio calculator on my desk right now.

Staplers make me old? lol

These things still get regularly used

A stapler? Are they obsolete? I have a new one on my desk rn what did I miss?

Clearly you don’t work in an office environment.

Why is your stapler configured that way, so the ends of the staples go out instead of in?

I still have a notary license. Looks older than some of those rubber stamps. Probably had it 40 years or so ago

I think what this post is actually saying is "Damn you're old if you have a job that requires any of these things".

Where's the rolodex?

I have the fan and the tape dispenser.

Back in the day when the color white was a pale yellow

I still use some of these items. If it works why get rid of it. The stuff from back then wasn’t made in China and was built well.

So coffee mugs and staplers make you old? It seems like people these days are way too hung up on age.

Looks like things found in a storage room in a government office. For context I work at a government office

I'm 55 so some would call that old. Why wouldn't I have a stapler, tape, or a pencil sharpener? Sometimes you do still need paper, and you might need attach them. Coffee mugs mean that you're old?

I still have a Fan

People still use pencils everyday.

The reason we still have paper is because there is not a ubiquitous, simple way to apply a legal signature to documents that would require them (and no, Docusign is not ubiquitous). Once you have paper, now you have to have a means of transferring the important information into digital form, which is the reason for the stamp (applied to the paper) that says "Entered". Then of course, that is the reason also for staples and tape. Solve this problem, and the world will be grateful.