I wish with all my heart I could say that I’ve played world of warcraft before. When I was in junior high, I played a little starcraft on the computer and I actually can’t even remember if that was what it was called. Anyways. I love that world of warcraft (aka WOW) has become a huge phenomenon. I think it’s hilarious. You can really tell something has hit home if people have started creating origami figures. Check these out:

[via Wow Paper Craft Blog ]

We may not carry patterns or cool colored paper on our site, but we do have cardstock and you can use your imagination!

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So, I won’t lie, we are pretty busy around here! It’s the holidays and getting ready for that is always crazy. This post may be short but the product suggestion is important.

Everyone likes to be friendly and helpful most of the time right? But sometimes you come into work with a purpose, ready to own it  and get stuff done. It’s really hard to get stuff in when people constantly drop by to ask about this or that. I know I drive our IT department crazy with little questions all the time. When I saw the cubeguard (spotted on fresh trends btw), I wished I had $19.99 to buy it for every person and I also wished we had actual cubicles (we do the side by side desk sort of thing.)

You can display many messages with your cubeguard- including keep your mouth zipped shut:

You think vacations are defined by cheesy sunglasses and a leather suitcase (feel free to use this one even if you are sitting there, could be funny right?)

They even sell custom cubeguards! This would make me feel less ticked, I do like mountains.

I really feel proud of the cubeguard. I don’t even know how they chose that name. Guarding your cube? from who? It should be called like a cubeseal (sealing your cube from intruders) or cuberope (like the ropes they have at the oscars) or….you get my point.

I also love the idea of having someone come up to talk to you  and they are literally 2 feet from your face and they just have to see that sign. You don’t even have to look at them because your cube is guarded. Okay enough about cube guards. If you want one, get it HERE !

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Recently I came across a blog with a dedicated environmentalist. 365 Days to Go Green He doesn’t seem like one of those people you talk to who are snobby and all about living a “green life,” just someone that is realistic and makes a small effort everyday to do something that will either be better for the environment or to not do something that will hurt the environment.

He hasn’t made it a whole year yet. Today is Day 72 (that’s pretty impressive!) and it looks like he’s not slowing down yet.  Instead of listing all 72, here’s my five of my favorites. (disclaimer: you may see some shirtless images!)

1. Get plants for your apartment! Clean the air, plus it looks nice

2. Use old T-shirts (or old towels) to clean instead of paper towels. (I’m a HUGE advocate of this one. It’s amazing how fast you can go through a roll of paper towels. Imagine the money you could save if you didn’t have to buy paper towels every five seconds.)

3. Reuse paper to write down notes. Use scraps of paper to write down quick notes.

4. Unplug unused electronics at night. I wish I was better at this one! This is much easier to do if you have everything plugged into a surge protector.

5. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. This is a no-brainer. Take the elevator up 2 floors or walk up 2 flights of stairs. Exercise + Green. Those that live on the 22nd floor..you can take the elevator, but take the stairs whenever you can! It’s better for you.

Have any simple ideas to try? Share them in a comment below! We’d love to know how to make our lives greener and well easier. (Plus, shop our selection of green office supplies and make your office more environmentally friendly!)

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I like how you can see an idea on one blog and another blog and another blog. It’s not necessarily the same idea but a similar idea inspired by the first idea. Not that we got that explanation over with, I have been in love with these cute star post it note pictures from the Frugal Family Fun Blog.

She mentioned that her inspiration came from Color Me Katie and her heart sticky notes on the sidewalk.

And now I’m passing it on to you. All of these cool post it notes you can buy from Shoplet.com!

Now go create something and tell us about it!

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Ever notice how many times we all say these cliche phrases?

“It’s a win-win situation”

“Where’s the call to action?”

“At the end of the day, what the customer wants is important”

“Let’s go over the game plan”

“I want to hit the ground running with this project”

“Rather than discuss this now, let’s take it offline”

I don’t know where we get these phrases! But every office around the country is full of people who use them. I don’t believe all “buzzwords” are bad. Sometimes you do want to streamline or optimize a process. I guess we could just say make the process more efficient or faster or better. For some reason when you say streamline little stars go around the word and make it more exciting.

We’ve seen some “buzzword bingo” cards floating around the internet  and we decided to create one of our own- full of phrases we love at Shoplet.com Here’s our recommendations for rules:

1. Print this card
2. Bring it your meeting, preferably hidden  under a bunch of papers so you look important
3. Bring a pen or pencil to mark it. You can even write in cursive over it so it looks like you are jotting notes rather than crossing off boxes
4. If you get bingo, we don’t advise that you yell it. We want you to keep your job. Just poke the guy next to you and point to it. Try to make him laugh and get in trouble instead of you.

You can download the bingo card here on Flickr. Enjoy!

P.s. If you start getting a lot of bingos, you may or may not  be sitting in a meeting at Shoplet.com headquarters.

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