Happy birthday, hole puncher! / myLot

San Jose, California

November 14, 2017 12:52pm CST

According to today's Google Doodle, it's the 131st anniversary of the invention of the hole puncher, something that doesn't get used as much these days as it did when I was in high school. It was a necessity for anyone who used ring binders... a one-hole punch would do, and that's what most of us used, although a 3-hole punch made things binder-ready in one step. Do you still use one?

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Manuela Lopes

@nela13 (59367)

• Portugal

14 Nov 17

there are days for everything, well but a hold puncher is very useful sometimes

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Kelli M

@spiderdust (14756)

• San Jose, California

14 Nov 17

Especially if you want to put something in a binder.

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April

@thislittlepennyearns (68211)

• Defuniak Springs, Florida

14 Nov 17

We use one at work.

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Kelli M

@spiderdust (14756)

• San Jose, California

14 Nov 17

I still have at least one. I also have some decorative ones that I use for crafts.

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April

@thislittlepennyearns (68211)

• Defuniak Springs, Florida

14 Nov 17

@spiderdust I used to have a bunch of those ones. They were expensive from what I remember.

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Kelli M

@spiderdust (14756)

• San Jose, California

14 Nov 17

@thislittlepennyearns It depends on how good they are (and how small). I have a few that came from the Target Dollar Spot, back when they still called it that and didn't have anything over a dollar there.