Found some old paper clips and they were much stronger than the ones they sell now. I have at least a half dozen mechanical pencils here on my desk that don't work properly, some of them never worked. May have to go back to the old wooden pencil if my last good one here gives out. And then there is the accounting column paper, try taking one out of the columnar pad without getting the edge all jagged and ripped up. And the lamp on my desk, I'm waiting for the switch to go, as my experience is they don't last long. I have an old antique lamp probably over 100 years old and still the original switch. Back to work now.