We librarians pride ourselves on our ability to visit booths at conferences with great speed and dexterity and obtain desired items for the students and teachers at our schools.
Here's my list of items procured at the 2013 TCEA conference for our students and teachers:
8 t-shirts
16 stress balls
3 jump drives
2 mouse pads
1 baseball cap
3 lanyards
2 superhero capes
65 pens
1 mini-mister
16 pieces of candy
7 tote bags
17 sticky note pads
and...no books.
Yes, 0 books. And 16 stress balls.
This year, I just managed to squeeze in two visits to the vendor area during lunch. Nevertheless, I did well, I think:
Great pics for the week! And I agree vendors seem to outdo themselves finding innovative pens. :)
ReplyDeletehappy WW!
Especially at a tech conference, I think!
DeleteWhen we go to my husband's trade shows we always come home with a zillion magnets! Stress balls and pens are more useful.
ReplyDeleteYes, and especially free books.
DeleteThe stress balls are so cute and lovely.
ReplyDeleteBest, Synnöve
2013 must have been a massively tense year for teachers. Not so many stress balls given away this year.
DeleteI like strees balls, mine is a green frog on my desk
ReplyDeleteFrogs are my favorite. I covet a green frog stress ball.
DeleteI think it's great that you donate them to the blood center. I've donated blood many times, but I'm always a little nervous. A stress ball would be helpful. :-)
ReplyDeleteYou can not help but smiling when you are squeezing the planet earth while you give blood.
DeleteThat I call a rich and successful harvest... :-)
ReplyDeleteGreetings from Germany
Most of it went into the library treasure chest.
DeleteLove your haul! One of my favorite stress balls is in the shape of a brain, guess it's the speech therapist in me that finds it amusing.
ReplyDeleteYes, I kept my brain, too.
DeleteGreat pictures :) Those stress balls look fun ..
ReplyDeleteYes. Hearts. Smiley faces. Apples. Brains. The earth.
DeleteWhat a haul. And no books?
ReplyDeleteSadly, no books.
DeleteI like the pencil picture ! Looks like a star !
ReplyDeleteAll of them are multipurpose.
DeleteGreat swag!
ReplyDeleteYes, you never come home empty-handed.
DeleteI love the picture of the pens. I have never enough pens! :)
ReplyDeleteThat was quite a swag bag you collected. I pick up every pen that shows up at a vendor table or counter. I do have a couple of stress balls given to me when I was working, but lots of pens!!
ReplyDeleteAh, stress balls are the best! I remember the year our company gave us some...just after they added a host of stressful rules and regulations...lol.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing, and here's MY SATURDAY SNAPSHOT POST
Yes, trying to handle the symptoms rather than the problem.
DeleteI like your clever photo of the pens. Stress balls must be the "in" item for conferences. I find that funny. What does TCEA stand for?
ReplyDeleteIt's Texas Computer Education Association, I think.
ReplyDeleteGreat pen collection!
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