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| GBC Heat Seal H-4325 Laminator |
Here's how it happened:
Doing my very best to weather'n'wear proof everything in the new Publicity Booth I'm building for my dog club, I found it essential to laminate every single piece of signage, protecting many color photos and newsletters that would otherwise be subject to staining and water damage and almost worthless within a use or two.
Doing my very best to weather'n'wear proof everything in the new Publicity Booth I'm building for my dog club, I found it essential to laminate every single piece of signage, protecting many color photos and newsletters that would otherwise be subject to staining and water damage and almost worthless within a use or two.
I started laminating everything at Kinkos, but even at just $2 a sheet for 8.5"x11", and $4 a sheet for 11"x17", and arranging everything as close together as possible for maximum value per sheet, I quickly ran up an $80 bill! Almost half my allotted budget! And I wasn't even finished. An impossible situation! Very discouraging!
Has put me way over budget, and out of pocket.
Mercifully, a clubmate came over to see the booth-in-progress and offered to laminate the last 15 pieces for free, using her employer's machine. I hate mooching off of employers, but I need them QUICK, so last Tuesday I headed across town to her office to get this job finished. Alas, the first sheet we fed into her barely used, still under warranty laminator got jammed in there and never came out. Project aborted.
Next day she called the company, they said throw the unit away and they'd send her a new one. Not worth fixing, they said! So, she tossed it off to me. John took it apart, removed the jammed paper, and now it works perfectly fine. So I have a $220 GBC Heat Seal H-4325 Laminator, practically brand new, for free!
Of course, I still don't have any laminating paper, so I shopped around this entire morning and discovered Office Depot prices are outrageous! Amazon.com has the best prices, so I spent $55 with them and now must wait 5 days for a lifetime supply to arrive (have to order in quantities of 100 sheets/box). Meanwhile, I need about 15 sheets TODAY if I want to complete my project in time for the booth's debut on September 24th, but my friend is out of the office. Waiting for mine to come in, I'll be cutting things mighty close.
Mercifully, a clubmate came over to see the booth-in-progress and offered to laminate the last 15 pieces for free, using her employer's machine. I hate mooching off of employers, but I need them QUICK, so last Tuesday I headed across town to her office to get this job finished. Alas, the first sheet we fed into her barely used, still under warranty laminator got jammed in there and never came out. Project aborted.
Next day she called the company, they said throw the unit away and they'd send her a new one. Not worth fixing, they said! So, she tossed it off to me. John took it apart, removed the jammed paper, and now it works perfectly fine. So I have a $220 GBC Heat Seal H-4325 Laminator, practically brand new, for free!
Of course, I still don't have any laminating paper, so I shopped around this entire morning and discovered Office Depot prices are outrageous! Amazon.com has the best prices, so I spent $55 with them and now must wait 5 days for a lifetime supply to arrive (have to order in quantities of 100 sheets/box). Meanwhile, I need about 15 sheets TODAY if I want to complete my project in time for the booth's debut on September 24th, but my friend is out of the office. Waiting for mine to come in, I'll be cutting things mighty close.
All this running around, scrimping, saving, canniving, begging, repairing damaged discounted items, just to save my club a few bucks they can well afford to spend, takes much of the fun out of the project and makes me question why I put myself in this situation?
Which is why I think the divine hand graced me with my free laminator -- to lift my spirits and remind me to be ever-joyful. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! And I just found out, my friend has mailed me the 15 sheets I need. I should receive them tomorrow by Priority Mail . . . . . another unexpected gift, and I feel so much better!
. . . . . . . Now, dear Goddess, can you also please send me a servicable professional copy machine that enlarges, reduces, does legal size, and multiple pages? Mine has been broken for months and is unfixable, I can't find another one I can afford that does all I want, and not having it handy really cramps my style. I've made so many free copies for all my friends and clubs for so many years, surely I deserve a free copy machine by now!
Upwards and onward!
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