Comb binding... go to Staples or buy one?

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  1. KrisRV

    KrisRV New Member

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    if you will use it then its worth it, we just never bind that much to get one.
     
  2. TeacherMom

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    very nice ! looks like the handle will make things easy to do too! When you get it pay close attention to getting your points on the right side, otherwise it pops up and flies at yoU! Lol! we had fun when I did that on accident!
     
  3. Andrea

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    I just googled "coupon codes for My Binding" and one came up. This was a while ago though. I looked just now and couldn't find any useful ones.
     
  4. Minthia

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    I won the pink one! It should be here in a few days! I am sooo excited that I can finally bind all my books!!
     
  5. TeacherMom

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    how cool! yeah! You all are makin me want one, but I get to use the church's for free I just have to buy my own bindings.
     
  6. Minthia

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    Sommer, did you ever get your new machine?? How do you like it?
     
  7. crazymama

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    It should be here this evening... we are close to the UPS warehouse.. and are in the last stops of the day.. sometimes they dont' make it here till 6 or 7 at night :( I can't wait, I have piles of things laid out on my bar to bind :p
     
  8. KrisRV

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    way to go Sommer, now I am going to sent my stuff to you to be bind.. ok.
     
  9. crazymama

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    Sure Kris.. send it.. I had fun playing.

    Ok... honest review.. after the kinks at first and an online search to try to figure out how it works (the directions STINK), I'm happy I bought it... it took me just a few minutes to get 3 100 or so page books bound.

    The kinks??? Well first it wouldn't punch the paper... I pulled and pulled on the handle and finally heard a snap (oh the handle has to be set "back" not sure how else to describe this and I wish there were batteries in my camera to take a pic to explain it, but my bat. charger died :( ), after the snap it started punching just half the page.. I picked up the machine messed with the handle, shook it and who knows what else, but it finally started punching... well then I notice that somewhere in all of this, the binding teeth have "frozen up" on the top. Hubby and I messed with it, finally pushed the "3rd level" of them up towards the tall prongs with a butter knife and it unfroze it.

    How did I live without one of these for so long?
     
  10. TeacherMom

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    YOu sound like me when I learned how to bind on our churches binder. the handle has to go back one way you insert the paper then set the length of paper, and snap the paper, then you set the binding up and pull and snap it connects and you slide it off of the stinking up things... is that pretty much it ?
    ?
     
  11. Minthia

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    SO you like it? I got my pink one yesterday and I wanted to know what you thought of your since I think we ended up with the same one. I love mine! I already bound everything I had in my dinning room and I have a stack of things to bind downstairs. Did they send you more than 49 combs??
     
  12. crazymama

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    I didn't count, but I think there is more than 49 there.. sadly most are very small, but that's ok there are some small projects up my sleeves ;) Mommy made handwriting books sound mighty fun.. oh and all the History Scribe/Happy Scribe and other books I have downloaded and are just sitting here in my computer waiting to be made into books ;)

    Tmom.. yeah it sounds like the work the same way.

    I'm still scratching my head as to what was going on with it at first... I was pretty sure it was broken, maybe something was just jammed up inside it?
     
  13. Minthia

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    Most of my combs were the super small ones as well...I figure we can use those for fun small books and such. I did get 1 that was so big it doesn't even work with the machine...I am thinking it must hold 500 pages or something. Not a problem though...my kids used it as a sword. :)
     
  14. crazymama

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    lol.. at least I'm not the only one who's kids found them to be great toys! Reagan used them for rockets.. sadly one had a water landing and I have to go deep sea diving in the turtle tank to retrieve it!

    I got one or two that are HUGE too... I'm sure I might be able to get creative enough to do something with them ;)
     

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