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AnneofAlamo

AnneofAlamo

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I am a Dry Erase Pen addict! (shh, right now just dealing with dry erase, don't look at the other pens on my desk! stop the ones on the shelf on the bookcase are important).
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The reason is, I use white boards for our family. One in the kitchen on laundry/pantry door for notes, and shopping lists. I snap a photo of it and off to store.
Another in my office for long term To Do lists and passwords for my kids learning games on puter.
I also have a small one I will now use for my daily to do list, when I have a few things to accomplish.
Without a list, I get very distracted and I also love the feeling of erasing it (I actually, cross thru it before erasing).
I write my goal weight on the mirror, and now added my measurements and every week, put the current numbers up there! It helps me!
I have some cool neon dry erase and brilliant reds and orange pens I get because the are so thick with ink!
This desk is made for dry erase!
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I write my goal weight on the mirror, and now added my measurements and every week, put the current numbers up there! It helps me!

Dry erase are cool! so many uses:
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Even a costume for Halloween??
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Are you a white board/dry erase user?
 
Nope. All my needs are met by my iCal calendars synched with DH so we have a total of 5 between us.

I do keep a paper sheet of things I want to get done and trash the older one about every two days. But then again I don't have a flock of children!! My one son and wife have a big white board calendar with 5 colors, well now 4 since eldest child doesn't live at home any more. I used to blanche when I saw what their weeks looked like...
 
we have one of those magnetic write boards that are full of mini iron pieces and you write no it with a magnet pen. The iron pieces stay in place until you wipe across it with an internal magnet. We use it for medical stuff to keep tract of test results and procedures from the previous 12 hours so I don't have to remember them all the time.
 
I've used dry erase boards long ago, starting with when I was a teacher in the second half of the 1990's. My kids liked to write on them when they were younger. Now most of our writing is digital.
 
My daughter has a pen fetish and some of them are dry erase. She has 2 boards in her room and uses them both often as to do lists.

I have one mounted to my freezer. It is supposed to list what is in the freezer so other members of the family don't have to look inside/dig around to find out what is in there.
 
We have one, but don't use it enough (it's magnetic and people have posted a bunch a crap over the top of it). I like you idea of writing on the mirror! Genius. I love crossing out completed items!
 
I don't have any at home, and now I'm not sure why! I love my white board at work and have several with quotes and notes and stuff all over them, and I adore all the bright fun colors! Orange is my favorite! And now after seeing your gifs, I want to be able to write on my desk like that. Omgosh, the possibilities!!
 
We use them all the time. I have a big white board in my dining room (for school work), a small whiteboard on a kitchen cabinet (with a list of language goals for my boys) and multiple mini-whiteboards for individual use for school work. We also have 2 chalkboards. One with weekly chores and one with a current prayer list and bible verse we are memorizing.
 
funny you should mention dry erase... my DD 13 put all kinds of short inspirational quotes on her mirror the other day. I only use dry erase at school when I'm teaching but love it! I hadn't thought of using it all over the house like you do.
 
i have a love /hate relationship with those whiteboard markers - we have to supply them for the kids to use at school among other things (some teachers want them replaced more frequently than others - at one stage, we were being asked to replace them about monthly because each kid had their own personal small whiteboard and they'd do science and geography quizzes and spelling tests etc on them, and maths (and by the end of the year i'm like 'why did they bother sending home their writing books because they've used like 5 pages out of each'?!) but more than that what was getting to me big time is that their white uniform shirts (with blue piping & crest so they can't just be dunked in bleach or soaker) was basically multi-coloured polka dots by the end of first term (b/cos some kids can't control themselves and will draw on whoever is sitting next to them at the time, whether they are their friend or not) & the amount of scrubbing and laundry time got absolutely ridiculous - they are not so 'dry erasable ' from clothing

at home, however, we us them a lot too but without as many laundry issues - there's several whiteboards here that the kids work stuff out on - them i don't have so much of an issue with - and i figure it saves on paper, scrap or otherwise ;-)
 
No, I'm not. I've tried. Office manager at work wanted to buy one for me - a real nice one that has doors - but I turned her down. I just never seem to use them.
 
Not white boards, but almost... We got the girls Boogie Boards for Christmas - like 8 years ago. I had to replace one because a kid at a playdate accidentally broke it. But they are fairly sturdy and we have saved so many trees. I now have an extra-large Boogie Board at work that I use for "transient memos", brain storming, or when it's easier to explain something in a meeting by drawing it out.
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https://www.amazon.com/Boogie-Board...ie+Board&qid=1552615992&s=gateway&sr=8-5&th=1
 
Oh yes, I love dry erase too!! Personally, I do get a little frustrated because I am a lefty, so occasionally things rub off while I am writing them, lol. But you know what. You can just erase it and write it back on!

One of our old fridges, I don't know what it was made of, but it was absolutely perfect for dry erase markers. We got a magnetic pack and stuck it to the fridge and it was perfect for shopping lists and appointments and best of all, Melody's drawings! Our new fridge was very expensive, so we don't allow dry erase on it yet, just in case, our secondhand fridge in the middle did NOT like dry erase, it took a LOT to get it all off...
Seriously though, it comes of skin, it comes off plastic, it came off our tiles, it even came off the walls the very few times she did. So much better than markers or crayons!!
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I have one at work but don't use it often, I am a leftie and everything just smears :( Plus they installed it over a bookshelf and I can only write on the bottom half due to my height without standing on a chair, lol.
A few students like to come in and write messages, sign their name etc.
 
Not me, I am a pen and paper diary girl.
My daughter though loves her white board and (all of the colours) markers to write notes and teach herself school and Varsity work.
She can't live without it.
 
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