 | THESE AREN'T JUST GOOD - - - THEY'RE PRETTY
rating: 5
I really didn't think there was so much to push-pins until my teenage daughter started getting silly over color matching all her stationery and school supplies. Somehow the question of the occasional desperate need for a push-pin came up, and when I proudly displayed what I thought were two distinctly different and versatile types of pins for different jobs I thought she would say something like, "way cool, ya guys got it covered." Instead, she turned her nose up at my push-pins and said something like, "YUK --- what NO COLORS?" But when I said there were 5 different colors she just nodded her head as though I just didn't get it.
WELL - I GOT IT AND HERE THEY ARE! Special - Nice - Pretty and lots of them. Birthstones, all 12 of them. Oh, they work just fine too.
There is much to recommend these push pins:
1] You get 100 push-pins.
2] There are 12 colors included in roughly equal number with both reds and greens coming with a translucent twin to differentiate between Garnet and Ruby for red and Emerald and Peridot for green. Very pretty, nice for parties or just for looking colorful or to personalize. My daughter "borrowed" all the July pins [Ruby] but decided that both the opaque and translucent red could be ruby. Right there 1/6 of my pins vanished and she did not even need them yet. Anyway, I don't need them yet either but they were so neat and special looking that I figured, like why wait till I need them and have to settle with some rough aluminum pin or some standard colors that everyone has.
3] They come in a nice transparent case so they are contained while you can see exactly what you have available.
4] The points easily pierce plasterboard and the holes are small enough to be painted over later if you remove the pin.
5] They work easily and are easily removed and reused.
The only shortcoming is that the 3/8" point may not be long enough if you are using posterboard or any other material that has any thickness especially combined with any weight to the item you are hanging. In this case you may need a longer point. 1/2" or 5/8" are available, but some have a thicker point that may leave a hole too large to paint over so use as small a point as possible.
Getting 100 of these in a hard container for 1 dollar [or a little more at brick and mortar outlets] is hard to beat. However, at smaller outlets they don't always have these gemstones and some manufacturers who also make them, call them "Birthstones" instead of "Gemstones" which they are by the way.
Okay, now we have 3 kinds of push-pins and we are looking for some tasks for them.
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