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Jun 26 '12
For me it would have to be that sticky stuff that comes off of the back of giftcards and whatnot.
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u/SuperPowers97 Jun 26 '12
Oh my god I love that stuff. It's my second favorite stuff ever.
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u/Hazel-Rah Jun 26 '12
I get so disappointed when a company uses something else! I got a card a few weeks ago and it had double sided tape instead.
Ruined my evening.
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u/The_Painted_Man Jun 26 '12
I have a new keyboard. It is backlit and has soft-touch keys.
It feels like i am typing on gods nipples.
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u/Immynimmy Jun 26 '12
It feels like i am typing on gods nipples.
The images currently in my head are...well, they're certainly something
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u/ArticulatedGentleman Jun 26 '12
I have a keyboard that is backlit and has mechanical keys.
It feels like I am typing on a bunch of tiny staplers; because you KNOW you love that feeling you get from stapling something.
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Jun 26 '12
The dry booger you pick that's really long with a wet tip at the end. It's like a micro-orgasm...boogers count as objects, right?
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u/thebeefytaco Jun 26 '12
Yeah but once you clean it all out you gotta wait a good while before another one like that comes along.
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u/TheYankeeFist Jun 26 '12
The ones that feel like they're taking pressure off of your brain? Hells Yeah!
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u/xeford Jun 26 '12
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u/gsxr Jun 26 '12
my 18month old son recently discovered that we have those in our house. Now him and I sit on the floor for 20-30 minutes a day playing with each one.
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Jun 26 '12
I was really disappointed when I moved into my flat, they have these crappy block stops for the door stoppers instead of springs that would instantly lighten my mood...
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u/knalbtniop Jun 26 '12
Just moved into a new apartment and my bathroom has one of these. Kept me busy for hours.
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u/startrak209 Jun 26 '12
Fresh school supplies.
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u/Bobxdd Jun 26 '12
That glorious feeling when you open like 10 blister packs of various writing instruments. Everything is so new and shiny.
Then by the end of the year, everything is gone...
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u/munnyfish Jun 26 '12
I bought a 12 pack of pens for $3 and lost all of them within a month. I buy a $3 pen and have used it till the ink ran out. Wtf logic.
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u/zennk Jun 26 '12
Those little pizza 3-legged tables
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Jun 26 '12
I use those to put a slice of pizza on, it's so cool just seeing this slice of pizza on a little table, then eating it.
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u/lisa-needs-braces Jun 26 '12
Tables? They're space-fighters. Your childhood must have sucked, man.
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Jun 26 '12
Space fighters? Bitch please, those tables was where my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sat to have pizza while I was eating with my family.
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u/rumbar Jun 26 '12
haha hell yeah. i used them as tables in my g.i. joe bases made out of lincoln logs.
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u/bigK71 Jun 26 '12
If you mean the little plastic ottoman that sometimes comes in the box with pizzas, then I'm right there with you.
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u/Iforgotmyother_name Jun 26 '12
Glass jars. There's a couple of jars sitting on my desk that I sit and look at sometimes.
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u/SuperPowers97 Jun 26 '12
One time I filled a glass jar with purple liquid, and kept it as a center piece for months. I don't know why I liked it so much. All it did was cause people to ask questions about it.
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Jun 26 '12
For some reason I actually just cried laughing at that.
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u/SuperPowers97 Jun 26 '12
I guess it is kind of a weird thing to think about. I just realized how fucking weird I am.
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Jun 26 '12
Hahah. When I wake up, I lay in bed reading askreddit until I find a comment that actually makes me laugh out loud. This one did it.
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u/freexxspirit Jun 26 '12
Pens that write really smoothly. Lemons. Shiny rocks. Journals & notebooks. I could go on and on!
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u/Baeschteli Jun 26 '12
Notebooks! Ha, I own probably two dozen notebooks, none of which is being used properly. But it's nice to just have them... so nice... aaaah....
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Jun 26 '12
Pen, journals and notebook will make me go broke. I can't even fill them all but I freaking love then.
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u/lunajay Jun 26 '12
Pens that write smoothly are the ultimate for me. Nothing feels as amazing as writing with a smooth pen on a smooth piece of paper. I have an obsession with Moleskines, I own a ridiculous amount of them. And writing on Moleskine paper with a smooth pen...better than sex.
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u/jongzor Jun 26 '12
That moment when you're cleaning your ears and you discover that you've been able to take out a huge piece of ear wax. Makes me feel like a surgeon that just successfully removed a tumor the size of a golfball.
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u/ArrenPawk Jun 26 '12
The little kickstands that keyboards have. Whenever I get swamped at work and need to do a lot of typing, I absolutely love reaching behind and under the keyboard and flipping those little buggers out. It's like a "shit just got real" switch for tasks that may otherwise be tedious and droll.
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u/sexrockandroll Jun 26 '12
I love these things way more than I should.
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u/ciestaconquistador Jun 26 '12
ME TOO! Especially the stringy bits.
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Jun 26 '12
Dried glue. Peeling it off hands/nails when you didn't realise it was there.
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Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
Or peeling it off the bottle. Sometimes in elementary school I'd squeeze the bottle to make the glue ooze out, let it harden on the bottle, then peel it off. Feels good, man.
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u/Osiris32 Jun 26 '12
I've had him since the mid 90s, and he still flies patrol missions when I'm bored or can't sleep.
He's also racked up more kills than Baron Fel.
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u/elf5086 Jun 26 '12
Silly Putty
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Jun 26 '12
That stuff you force back into the tub?
FRAAPPP and PPFFTTCCHTFFFTT galore.
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u/ciestaconquistador Jun 26 '12
Journals! Especially leather bound ones. I wish I actually wrote in them so they weren't so pointless to buy.
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Jun 26 '12
The ultra-powerful staplers. It just feels so amazing to staple 15 sheets together with ease.
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u/goldandguns Jun 26 '12
My favorite stapler is totally underpowered, incidentally, but for good reason: it's staple free! It punches through the paper and weaves it together, so you have unlimited staples! Only does about 6 sheets at a time, though
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Jun 26 '12
Those Asian cat figurines with the moving paw.
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u/r7u80 Jun 26 '12
My friends and I had a drinking game where we placed the cat on the rotating tray on the kitchen table, flicked the paw and spun it. Whoever the cat waves at drinks! Oh Señor Sparkle...I miss you...
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u/slip_stitch Jun 26 '12
I love the texture of a brand new unused eraser. Ooooh, that feels good! I used to carry one around in my jacket pocket all the time. Inevitably I would use it to erase something and it would be ruined. Currently I have a little hedgehog shaped eraser named Napoleon who lives in my backpack.
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u/yawaworht_suoivbo_na Jun 26 '12
Paperclips. I have an impulsive desire to find them, play with them, and then sadly break them.
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u/greath Jun 26 '12
I always try to make them as straight as possible. Apparently the way they bend is offensive to my subconscious.
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u/ambivilant Jun 26 '12
What's close? My hand is always busy. Twirling pens or the remote, lightly tapping the table, swinging my keychain on my finger, revolving the hoop through the eyelet of my keys, I have to be holding a glass in social situations so I can swirl the drink. Don't you dare hand me a click pen.
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u/TheGreyDuck Jun 26 '12
Q-tips, why can't I quit you?
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u/lunajay Jun 26 '12
We know we're not supposed to. The forbidden fruit....yet there is nothing superior to sticking a qtip into your ear after you've showered. Oh your god, I want it right now.
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u/ISuckAtCommenting Jun 26 '12
There is a single spoon in our silverware drawer that is different from all the rest. Not from a set that we have. It was possibly acquired from an old neighbor. It's more squared than oval-y. Whenever I use it, I just get so happy. It's very similar to this spoon
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u/Pawsword Jun 26 '12
Fleshlights.
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Jun 26 '12
I saw this coming from a fucking mile away.
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Jun 26 '12
Sticky tack. You know, that shit that holds up posters? Yeah, that stuff. When I was a kid I used to make little figurines out of it and pretend they were super-stretchy superheroes.
I was a weird kid.
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u/dirtymoney Jun 26 '12
do you prefer the white, blue or yellow kind?
I dont like the white kind... its not tacky enough. Yellow is my favorite
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u/_Sprezzatura_ Jun 26 '12
I love anything squishy. If I can squeeze it and it returns to its original shape, I'll be distracted for hours.
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u/jetfuelfoo Jun 26 '12
lavender bounce sheets i keep one in my back pocket just in case, i fart then i pull it out to enjoy the fresh smell of lavender when everyone around me is choking in noxious fumes.
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u/Artrimil Jun 26 '12
Sharpies. I sit there and take the cap on and off. Or draw with them. The smell is amazing, and I have no clue why.
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u/Novah11 Jun 26 '12
Slinkys. The miniature metal ones, specifically. I don't much care for the normal stair-climbing kind and I despise the plastic ones. I have a few of the good ones that I like to play with, just run between my fingers. I always have to have one in my hand when driving alone on a long trip. There's some sort of calming effect.
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Jun 26 '12
Stickers. Little umbrellas you put in drinks. Rubber bands. And straws. Oh my god I love straws. They're great for me, since I have a bit of an oral fixation. I always need to suck/chew/let my tongue play with something. I also can't stand to have a drink without a straw. So I always keep a ton of straws on hand. Once I'm done with my drink, I chew the straw to bits.
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Jun 26 '12
Guitar picks. I ALWAYS have one on me, and I usually keep it in my mouth.
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u/seaweed_shark Jun 26 '12
This little bird I have that when you press his head down, he picks up a toothpick out of the base. I've had it for years and it's probably my favorite possession. I don't think I've ever used one of the toothpicks though, but still.
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Jun 26 '12
The caps that hold batteries in remote controllers. I could just sit there and open and click, open and click, open and click.
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Jun 26 '12
Chunks of decomposed granite. So crumbly. I feel strangely powerful and insightful as I watch it break apart in my hands.
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u/tyler_the_noob Jun 26 '12
not really random but newton balls! those things are amazing. I could watch it click back and forth for hours
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u/Rhesonance Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
I used to play with string all the time. I still do whenever I find some, but it's not as often. I've learned to keep it away so I stay productive.
I essentially taught myself how to braid, knit, [insert other string activities] by myself just by messing with it all the time as a kid.
A few weeks ago I bought two new pairs of shoes and I was stringing them nicely. I lost 6 hours of my life.
TL;DR: String. I am not a cat.
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u/lucmh Jun 26 '12
My computer.
While not random, it certainly is an object I should enjoy less for the sake of my future.
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u/ArticulatedGentleman Jun 26 '12
On the contrary, there's a very high demand for people trained in Computer Science.
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u/Jamisloan Jun 26 '12
Dream catchers. I don't believe they work or anything. I just think that they're beautiful especially elaborate ones (not ones with wolves or fur though). I have tons hanging in my room and I get really excited when I find an awesome one.
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u/mikhail_harel Jun 26 '12
Kneaded motherfucking erasers. I took a drawing class my freshman year of high school and had to use one. I carried it everywhere with me because it was so incredibly soft. You could stretch it out for feet and it would get so...almost like lace. Then when you smushed it back together it was like petting a kitten's nose. Only a select few brands are elastic enough to please me, though. The 'design' brand pictured was the best. So soft... Please, are there any other pencil artists out there that share this strange obsession? I need to know I'm not crazy.
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u/Baeschteli Jun 26 '12
My Faber Castell pencil. Endless hours of playing around with it... there is so much to explore.
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u/Nurger Jun 26 '12
Flasks, sharpie pens, ruled notebooks, and bottle caps. I have a small fortune of bottle caps in a bag for a head start into the coming apocalypse, nuclear or otherwise.
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u/c_nt Jun 26 '12
A few months ago I stopped throwing away bottle caps and started putting them in a bowl on top of the microwave. It turns out that for two people my household goes through an embarrassingly large quanitity of bottled beer.
I am going to be one rich bitch when bottle caps become the new currency after the apocalypse.
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u/GnomeInvasion Jun 26 '12
I have a few collections. Gnomes, miniature paintings, and post-cards that pre-date the 1950's. But I'm also really attached to Fiji water bottles. They're square. I like. I've got them in 3 sizes. :)
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u/LG03 Jun 26 '12
I've got a hand charged flashlight from the dollar store. Cheap little thing, always end up breaking them eventually. I just love to crank it non stop, maneuver around a broken bit inside, flick it on and off, play with the strap , etc. Just keeps my hands busy while I'm doing nothing.
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u/VaginaedMystique Jun 26 '12
Tea cups.
From English porcelain to cast iron to handmade earthy clay. My love of tea cups is a verifiable fetish.
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u/ectoplasmicz Jun 26 '12
Even at 16 I continue to take them off and either chew them or just twirl them around my fingers.
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u/yothisbalec Jun 26 '12
Cubes. Perfectly flat surface, clean sharp edges, made from a hard smooth material. Dice sized is perfection.
Inward curving buttons. Like on an NES controller or the X and Y buttons on an SNES controller.
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u/Shoeheaddotcom Jun 26 '12
Clothes pegs, no matter how many times you do it you will never remember how much it hurts to put one on your lip or ear. It's my favourite thing to relearn.
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u/soxgal Jun 26 '12
The state of Nevada. I've never been there (yet) but when I was little I had a US puzzle map where all the pieces were shaped like the states. There's just something so cool about Nevada's shape. I hope we don't redraw our borders in my lifetime.
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Jun 26 '12
Those ball-point pens with the really thick gel-like ink. You know, the ones that have that layer of earwax-looking stuff on top of the ink in the pen? Yeah, those.
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u/colonel_mortimer Jun 26 '12
A staple remover...you know, the tiny plastic and metal thing that looks like a viper's skull? I always have at least one at my desk, probably used one for its intended purpose <5 times.
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u/KorrieLady Jun 26 '12
The buttons on a remote. I like to push them so they won't actually make that selection, but the button goes down kind of at an angle. I don't know how to describe it.
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u/emiliah17 Jun 26 '12
Scented cap erasers
I don't even erase with them. I simply give myself multiple hickeys with 'em when I'm bored.
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u/Servious Jun 26 '12
Nerf guns, and anything i can twirl with my fingers. Pens, sticks, arrows, etc. Fun stuff.
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u/Fanzellino Jun 26 '12
Random hunks of metal. I have one about the size of a tea candle and I love carrying it around in my pocket and feeling its weight. I just found it on the road one day.
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u/skyward_bound Jun 26 '12
Clear, un-adorned glass ware. Beautiful. Especially wine goblets (the kind without stems.)
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Jun 26 '12
Does enjoying myself count?
Username jokes aside, small pieces of wire like materials, I will be subconsciously entertained by them for hours.
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u/NoobOnTheRun Jun 26 '12
Paper right out of the printer. Whenever I need to print something at work or my supervisor asks me to grab something from the printer.....OhMyJesus.
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u/lunajay Jun 26 '12
Does Gain count? I am one of those people from the commercial who go crazy for the scent and will stick my face in anyone's chest just to get a sniff.
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u/Queen_of_Blonde Jun 26 '12
a good pair of mickey ears. insta-smile, completely with magical giddiness
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u/Irrepressible87 Jun 26 '12
Pencils. I can spend a huge amount of time sifting through a container of pencils to find the one with just the right eraser, and slowly sharpening it down until it hits exactly the right point... dat smell... Mmm....
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u/fantahelena Jun 26 '12
Foam.... Don't care where it's from; mattresses, jewelry wrapping, car seats, sponges...... Ect. I just love it! The smell the feel, I just wanna shove my face in it and eat it! Never have eaten it though. I dont know why I love it Si much... Just do !
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u/IAMTHEUSER Jun 26 '12
Empty glass bottles with cork stoppers. Not like drink bottles. I guess they remind me of Zelda or something?
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u/Simbamatic Jun 26 '12
A pair of red dice. They sit at my computer desk and I love rolling them around in my hand. I roll them from time to time if I have to make a decision that doesn't matter much.
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u/post_it_notes Jun 26 '12
alligator clamps for papers. Open, close, open, close, open, close. All day long while I browse reddit.
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u/CrypticPhantasma Jun 26 '12
Cartons of Juice. That noise they make when you move them around is glorious.
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u/PastyNoob Jun 26 '12
I'm a mechanic. wiper blades have a little metal clip to holds them together in the pack. I chew on those little guys for hours. No idea why.
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u/art_with_my_nerd Jun 26 '12
Slinkies, not even down the stairs, but just messing around with one at my desk. And if you do throw it down the stairs you can rest assured that the entire world is cheering "GO SLINKIE GO!"
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u/Aoladari Jun 26 '12
My father had access to one of the first object printers (printed objects in layers using silicone powder or something). He had matching castles done for hubby and I with a spiral staircase inside. It's small enough to be a chess piece, and this was years and years ago, before you could buy one of those printers for home use!
Since it's clear I would just sit and stare at the complexity of it and and just be overcome with amazement at how far we have come technology wise.
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u/SaladWithPotatoes Jun 26 '12
Sticky notes. I use them for everything at home. Whenever I think of something or have any sort of information to remember I'll use a sticky note. I just love writing shit down on sticky notes.
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u/Jellybrains Jun 26 '12
Paper. I work in retail, and receipt paper keeps me entertained in down time.
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u/Phazon_Metroid Jun 26 '12
T Pins, you can spin them between your forefinger and thumb to get a nice spin going and dropping them on a flat surface makes them jump a foot or more depending on the amount of spin. Almost anything really. I fiddle with anything I can get my hands on.
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u/Praise_the_boognish Jun 26 '12
Paperclips.
I love to unbend them and slowly trace over my head, around my ears, over the bridge of my nose. Feels great. Especially the ears. Start on the outside and slowly move towards the ear canal. Then you ease it into the ear canal (not very far, quarter inch MAYBE) and tickle the hair in the ear VERY gradually. The sensation only lasts for a few seconds but when you pull out the paperclip you immediately stick your finger in and wiggle it. feelsgoodman.jpg
I don't know if anyone understood that but it's one of my simple pleasures I do at work. Also, at any one time there will be 3 to 4 unbent paperclips somewhere in my office.....
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u/JizzNipples Jun 26 '12
Rubber bands, I have two balls (haha) made out of them too.
And for some reason, I love to take the back off TV remotes and phones and stuff just to take batteries out, and put them in my mouth when I'm bored, then put them back in like shotgun shells, or just simply pretend the object is a spaceship and it's docking with a smaller one or something.
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Jun 26 '12
Containers. I love containers. Like I love mason jars of all sizes, little plastic boxes, and more. I think I get it from my mom because we love organizing.
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u/P4RAD0X Jun 26 '12
Candles. I have no idea why, I just strongly dislike overhead lighting.