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If some one is offering free ink pens do you usually take one?
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yup :thumbsup:
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Don't see why not...though where exactly is this happening?
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That would sound like a good idea.
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Lol yes I normally do. I write a lot and I lose writing utensils, my kids, other people who borrow or use them dont return them etc. But if I have plenty then I will surpass an ink pen although it is hard to turn down lol
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yes and my trash service place, i go to pay in person they have great pens !
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Yes, pens are always disappearing in my house but at least I know that there are least 2 in my purse all the time
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Sometimes.
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Ink free pen? What is that?
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Don't see why not...though where exactly is this happening?
A lot of places have free ink pens for a lot of different reasons.
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yes and my trash service place, i go to pay in person they have great pens !
I went in a gas station a couple days ago (not even in my town) and they had a big promotion with a bunch of stuff with their name on it. They were trying to get people to apply for jobs. Kind of like their own job fair. I asked if I could have one of the ink pens and she said yes. It is an awesome pen!!!
My bank got a new style of pens (in addition to the ones that are sitting in a cup out front) and they are pretty awesome too. I got a few of those as well.
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We used to get pens from the bank and from our accountant. Plus when we each had our own business, we both had give-away pens for people but after a few years, the ones that we still had on hand dried up so we wound up trashing them. Hubby buys Ink Joy pens but I can't use them for a lot of stuff, like writing on freezer tape for foods because they smear easily and once they get on my fingers, it's hard to wash off, so I'd rather regular ink pens, which I'm on the last one that's any good.
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Ink free pen? What is that?
Free ink pen, not ink-free pen.
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Every time! You can't have enough ink pens. Never pass up free items that you can use :)
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Oh, you have no idea how many I've collected over the years! They might fill a museum dedicated to pen styles throughout the decades. I love writing instruments of all kinds [note my profile pic to the left]. From the German Montblanc pen to gimmicky give-away pens and everything else you can think of, including the Sheaffer pen I won on a radio call-in contest in the 1960s and the engraved Cross Pen & Pencil set I received in the 1970s, I have amassed quite a collection.
But do you want to know which pen I like best?🖊️ -- the one that writes at once when I put it to paper!
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I would take one if it was one that I liked. I like the gel and it has to have a fine tip.
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It is an awesome pen!!!
This is my deciding factor. I am a little bit picky about the pens that I write with. If it is a crappy design or difficult to use/grip, then I'll pass. Even though free is free, if I never use it = it's just another piece of junk taking up precious space in my junk drawer.
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yes, they want you to take them and like others have said we always need pens in our house.
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I would take one if it was one that I liked. I like the gel and it has to have a fine tip.
I do not have a lot of luck with gel ink pens. I also don't see those given away often although our bank has some.
This one was just a cool looking pen and it writes pretty good. Glad I snagged one.
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Oops! 1imaginarygirl-you are right. I misunderstood the question.
By the way, I get lots of "free ink pens" at local job fairs. And, they are great!
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I'm pretty sure that I haven't paid for a pen in years. I usually take a free one whenever one is offered (hotels and banks especially). I always have pens on me because you never know when you will need them.
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My husband collected them and every time I find a box and open it to see what's inside it's more pens and pencils so NO I do not take the free advertising pens
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Sometimes....I like blue pens so if it's blue I will for sure, but not always if it's not blue!
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Sometimes....I like blue pens so if it's blue I will for sure, but not always if it's not blue!
I use to but now I prefer black. It just seems more professional looking especially on applications.
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I almost always take free ink pens. I have a good stash of them.
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Sometimes....I like blue pens so if it's blue I will for sure, but not always if it's not blue!
I use to but now I prefer black. It just seems more professional looking especially on applications.
Huh... Go figure.
I personally prefer blue for similar reasons. I am a professional and try to sign any documents in blue ink because photocopies are so much better these days that it is sometimes impossible to tell an original from a photocopy if it is signed in black ink. I sometimes have to resort to feeling the back of the paper to see if there is an actual pen impression or not and even that does not always work. So I have a pretty strict habit (almost OCD) of always signing things in blue ink.
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I sure do. I can't remember the last time I paid for a pen. if they are free, why not take one?
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Sometimes....I like blue pens so if it's blue I will for sure, but not always if it's not blue!
I use to but now I prefer black. It just seems more professional looking especially on applications.
Huh... Go figure.
I personally prefer blue for similar reasons. I am a professional and try to sign any documents in blue ink because photocopies are so much better these days that it is sometimes impossible to tell an original from a photocopy if it is signed in black ink. I sometimes have to resort to feeling the back of the paper to see if there is an actual pen impression or not and even that does not always work. So I have a pretty strict habit (almost OCD) of always signing things in blue ink.
Well that makes sense. Never thought about some one photo copying my signature. Thanks. Now I have something else I can stress about. haha
I use to always use blue ink. Always. I don't know why I started using black. I like both. I also really like, for non-professional needs, purple. Heck when I was a teenager I probably filled out a few apps in pink or purple. We were allowed to use the pink, purple, green ink pens in high school unless it was like a big research paper or something. I just remember one teacher saying she would not accept anything but a basic blue or back ink. She was a butt. lol
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I sure do. I can't remember the last time I paid for a pen. if they are free, why not take one?
Sometimes when you go to something like the street fairs they have in the fall a lot of places will have free ink pens. And some of them are really cool. I don't just take them like every time I go to the bank because some of those are pretty basic. Although if you need them why not. We have a check cashing place that leaves them every where in town for people to take. I may have a few of those. They leave them on the porch at our church all the time. Like a handful of them. Our pastor uses them all the time.
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Sure I take free ink pens. I sometimes ask when I'm not offered one. I have yet to have someone tell me no.
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sure..love free ink pens...
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Yes, I always take one. I can always use a new pen.
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A lot of times I do, but here is the thing, I have so many pens now, I don't know what to do with all of them.
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A lot of times I do, but here is the thing, I have so many pens now, I don't know what to do with all of them.
If it is just a regular ink pen I usually don't any more. But if they are different or look cool I will take one. Sometimes I will anyway but the regular cheap ink pens I can pass up.
What gets me is when businesses have the ink pens for the taking and employees who have no say in it or didn't spend any money for the pen to be there want to be snarly about people taking them. Like at the bank when you have a cup of them sitting on the counter and somebody takes one.
At the same time it is annoying when you are a cashier and you have ONE ink pen and some person asks to borrow one to write their check and they just stick in in their pocket. And you ask for it back and they laugh and say they didn't know they were taking it. Yes you did. You knew you didn't have an ink pen. smh
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Yes I do. When I used to go to this one specific bank to pay my hubby's truck payment I always took a free pen. There were great pens and I loved the way they wrote.
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Yes, of course I will take it even if I don't like the pen I can always give it to my husband
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It depends on how good the pens are... I like the flex grip pens & buy boxes of them from Sam's Club, so I'm well stocked on pens. But one can never have enough pens, they always seem to "disappear" esp with kids around.
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yes I do and with a thank you.
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Always. Especially if they're purple.
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Depending on the circumstances, I typically do take them. You can never have enough pens! Plus, they usually write much better than classic store-bought ones.
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Depending on the circumstances, I typically do take them. You can never have enough pens! Plus, they usually write much better than classic store-bought ones.
We have a dentist office that is at a lot of promotional things and they have awesome pens.
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Always. Especially if they're purple.
lol Yeah but most promotional pens are either going to write blue or black. Not too many give away pens that write cool colors like purple.
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Yes :heart:
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Speaking of cool shades of ink, I collected a few giveaway mini Sharpies (printed with bank's logo) from my bank about 9 years ago. One was a light purple shade. I'm still using that one, but hadn't given it a thought as to whether they still give those away these days. I just may check that out. :)
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Speaking of cool shades of ink, I collected a few giveaway mini Sharpies (printed with bank's logo) from my bank about 9 years ago. One was a light purple shade. I'm still using that one, but hadn't given it a thought as to whether they still give those away these days. I just may check that out. :)
Hmmm I would like for some place to give something like that away. I love Sharpie's. They have some really cool colors at Walmart but they are really expensive. I use them to write stuff on the calendar and I use different colors.
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I would for sure, I love different pens lol
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Sure, nice to write once in a while.
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If they are definitely free I don't mind taking one. But sometimes they are there to use at that location and shouldn't be taken.
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If they are definitely free I don't mind taking one. But sometimes they are there to use at that location and shouldn't be taken.
I am talking about when they have like 50 pens sitting there for people to take. Yeah the ink pens at the window in the banks are not for the taking although most people do.
And the tellers don't mind people taking them as much when they just take it as when they act like oh I didn't realize I still had it. Yes you did. If you ask them they have a ton of them and will give them to you.
The thing that started this thread they had a table set up and had a bunch of promotional items. I asked if I could have an ink pen. Since I was not interested in their deal behind the table I did not take or ask for anything else although I am sure it would not have been an issue if I had. This was a cool looking pen or I would not have even bothered.
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I usually do because I am always losing my pens.
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i usually take one. Always in search of the perfect free pen.
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i occcasionly get these at work so i just add them to my desk pens
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would luve em
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If something is free- always take it. That's what I live by. (with rare exceptions!)
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Yep
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if it's free yeah, I'll take a couple :)
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I would its just a pen so why not, Even though it does seem strange.
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Yes sometimes